1 CHAUTAUQUA ENTERS NEW PHASE Permanence of Parent Institutlon of Chautauqua iVlovement Now Definitely Established. Over Quarter Million Dollars Being Spent on Plant at Chautauqua, N. Y., This Year, Making Single Year's Developraent In History of the Moveraent Since 1874—New Entrances, Public Buildings, and Residences, Ali of Permanent Construction. City of Tents No Longer the Type to Represent the Chautauqua Idea. NEW developments which are going on at Chautauqua, N. Y., in buildings, approaclies and transportation facilities fllfifer greatiy from the prevailing no tlon of a chautauqua as a transitory thing. Brick paved highways, doublé track interurban car lines, entrances of brick and concrete in good architec tnral design, landscape treatment on a broad scale, educational buildings in comprehensive groups, hotel rooms with steam heat and other like conven lences, private residences costing a for tune to build do not grow up around an enterprise of fleeting character, yet ali these things are takhig sliape this spring at Chautauqua. The fact is that the parent institution of the Chau tauqua movement. on Chautauqua Lake, has wlthi:i a decade passed into a wholly new phase, the "city of tents" giving way very fast to a city that "has foundations." Electric light and power plants, gus mains, water supply and sewage systems, paved sidewalks, 1 ''' =^ ~ I [K iwttei ==a PACKARD ESTATE ON CHAUTAUQUA LAKE, ADJOINING CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION GROUNDS. THIS PALATIAL NEW RESIDENCE WILL BE OCCUPIED BY ITS OWNETtS THIS SUMMER. BOTTOM SECTION OF CUT SHOWS MODEL OF THE GROUNDS. year -round office buildings of Are proof or slow burnlng construction are amons the things that one by one have supplauted the earlier makeshlfts. Over a quarter of a million dollars is just now being expended to x >resent the as sembly to 191G visitors in ita new character as a permanent institution, definitely come to stay. The Chautauqua assembly at Chau tauqua, N. Y., will this summer offer to the vlsltor's vlew two Important and strlking improvements In two ap proaehes—the water gate or pier, where will enter the visitor coming by steam boat from otlier points on Lake Chau tauqua, and the land gate, where will enter the visitor comir.g by trolley from any direction or by motorcar over the excellent bigbway which connects with the great east and west thorough fare at "Westfield, N. Y. Chautauqua'» New Land Gate. The general highway improvement is the most estensive enterprise now un der way at Chautaxiqua, N. Y. This has been secured by generous co-opera tion with Chautauqua Institution on the part of the State of New York, éhe county of Chautauqua and the Chau tauqua Traction Company operatine the electric railroad from Jamestown to Westfield. It comprises a modem passenger station, doublé tracking of the trolley line, a new brick paved highway and important changes in the Iboundarìes of the Assembly enclosure. Plans were made In 1913 by the State for the Improvement of the highway. A magnificent new state road is now open through May ville to Westfield, connecting with the great roadway east and west, known to ali automo bilists. The line of the highway at Chautauqua was changed and stralght ened and paved with brick. This change has made possible the addition of a considerable acreage to the lot and park gpace of the Institution. It in volves also the doublé tracking et the trolley line, the laying of needed switches and the construction of a new and complete station. The plans for the station building are by Freeburg & Fidler, architects, of Jamestown, N. Y. There will be a doublé track in front and a switch to the rear for freight, bag gage and express. The building will be 56 by 225, built of red brick, stone and concrete. The design will harmonize with the present permanent Institution buildings, with red tile roof and wide, projecting eaves. The outside passen ger platform will be 28 by 72, so ar ranged that outgoing and incomingtraf fic may be separated. On the inside will be the Institution ticket office with in coming and outgoing passes, the ex change office, news and candy stands and the rest room for ladies. Toilet rooms, inside and outside, will be provided for both sexes. Adjoicing the traction ticket office will be the baggage department with checking and transfer offices, the freight de partment and the express department, ali to have ampie platform gpace for i loading and unloading. Work has al j ready been begun so as to assure coni pletion before the season opens. The cost of the strutture will bc some S3O,- ; 000 and incidental improvements by the Traction Company perhaps SIO,OOO j additionr.l. The Institution has expended for land and buildings and for the improve ments made over $40.000. The special piece of brick highway has cost the state and county $17,000, while the Traction Company expenditures, as just indicated, will aggregate at least $40,- 000. For a quarter of a century the water gate was the principal and almost the only entrance to Chautauqua, and it will be remembered for its naturai pie -1 turesque beauty by every one who has I visited the assembly during the past forty-two years. More recently, since the development of the electric railwav • and since the automobile has become so important a factor, the roadgate has received the larger share of visitors, yet it has had nothing to suggest the real character of Chautauqua. It has been like the railroad approach to many a town, a back door entrance, ) crowded and comfortiess, without char acter or convenience. The change in the highway and trol ley line has made available to the In stitution a tract about 4.000 feet long, varying in width from 10 to 300 feet. or nearly thirteen acres, and brings the total area withìn the enclosure np to about 200 acres. The new sectlon is laid out into eighty-eight lots and into park ing. The lots thus made available for lease are somewhat larger than the older Chautauqua lots. Two of the new streets formed are named Harper and Massey avenues. to commemorate services to Chautauqua by Dr. William R. Harper of the University of Chica go and the Massey family of Toronto. . in this extension about two acres have j been added to the present playground park, and the naturai beauty of a stream and ravine at that point will be enhanced by planting trees and shrubs. A pìa::a near the station has also been reserved for park use. The planning of this addition has been done by George Y. Skinner, a specialist con nected with the New York firm of Samuel Parsons & Co., landscape archi teets. The Chautauqua High School, the In stitution Garage and car parking place, the excellent Chautauqua golf links and the industriai center comprising repair shops of varlous kinds are lo cated west of the Chautauqua enclosure on the highway and trolley line. Chautauqua's New Water Gate. Second in importance to the improve ments of the land gate at Chautauqua, now under way, is the construction of the new pier building, on the site of the old wooden structure, which was torn down last fall. The Miller Me inorial I>ell Tower, erected in memory of the late Lewis Miller of Akron, 0., co-founder with Bishop John H. Vin cent of Chautauqua Assembly, is an impressive enhaucement of the naturai charm of "the point." The new pier building, whieh will cost about SIO,OOO, -vviìl be anotlier added ornament. The new pier building will be a two story structure of 40 by 100 feet, with concrete columns and red tile roofing. The first floor will contain the Institu tion ticket office, steamboat ticket of fice, waiting roonis, check room, bag gage room and refreshment booth. The second floor will be entirely devoted to a covered promenade. A most attrac tive building is promised by Green & Wicks of Buffalo, the Institution archi tects. For the past two years there has been a marked improvement in this entire section of Chautauqua, in ground, park and cottage betterments, to which the ' new boat landing and water entrance 1 t will give final emphasis. Summer Schools Growing. The growth of summer schools , 1 throughout the country is being large ly .shareJ by the pioneer summer . schools at Chautauqua, N. Y. This ' year's addition to the Chautauqua Sum mer Schools on College Hill will be in the form of two sixty foot ends add ed to the sides of the rectangle already well defined. When completed ali the classes, comprisiug 3,000 students, will j be provided for in this building, with 1 the open end of the quadrangle toward the lake and "the old chestnut tree" ! a venerable Chautauqua landmark in the center, j It is to be hoped that friends of popular education will come forward to make possible in the immediate fu ture <he »mpletion of this unique ; , group ot buildings which will serve as classrooniß. laboratories and dormi tories. The Chautauqua Summer Schools themselves are unique in having ai ways been self supporting. They are the oldest summer schools in the cotu*- try and serve as a place for study on bror.d lir.es at a small oxpcnse. New Music Studio at CHautauqua. The interest in orchestrai and choral music at Chaatauqua which has made the Chautauqua Music Week one of the annual music events of America af fects also the Chautauqua Summer School of Music. Each year sees some improvemcnt in the facilities for mu sic study at Chautauqua, and this year a new practice studio will supply a greatly demanded addition to the plant of the music department. The new building will occupy a posi tion on the slope south of the Shcr wood Memoria! building, which ali vis itors remember, and will conform in style to the architecture of the College Hill group. The Packard Estate at Chautauqua. The first really pretentious countrv estate to be built 011 Chautauqua Lake has been laid out by Mr. William I). Packard of Warren, 0.. a member of the Packard Car Company. 011 a large tract adjoining the Institution ground . on the north. Landscape work has been under way ali winter. Mr. Pack ard is the son of the late Warren D Packard, one of the pioneer summe • residente of Chautauqua Lake and on of those influential in the developmen of Lakewood sevcral years ago. The propertv whlch Mr. Packard has bought lies bet .veen the Chautau qua Traction Comnany's line and th»> ARCHITECT'S SKETCH OF SUMMER SCHOOLS BUILDINGS OF CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION, CHAUTAU QUA, N. V., AS THEY WILL APPEAR WHEN COMPLETED. ABOUT HALF OF THE GROUP WILL BE USED l i 1916 BY THE 3,000 STUDENTS OF THE SUMMER SCHOOLS AT CHAUTAUQUA. m\ìmm a emi POPULAR EDUOATOR Impartii Oiscussion of Vita! SÉjeots in World Grisis. Chautauqua Institution, the pioneer in summer assemblies, summer schools and home reading courses, maintains its leadership in popular education by a rare combination of intellectual train ing, stiinulating platform events and healthful recreation. Its public pro gram again offers at a time of world crisis imi)artial discussion of vital sub jeets by authoritative leaders of pub lic opinion. More significant even than the in •• '• • • . , : .•••': ■. " • :•: : • :• • '-.••• •• v '' ' ' '• ' : • i .< . " ■ : -m- W:-: ■ • „ ' : \ » . x • , • # ' ' '/■. , ■ ' ' i f ~~ "fW ì 1 w 1 m .. iW * V 4 m %■ %wk % v . : Il § jTH£_eOflr L^A<o^£[] I _ . • v *%. ; M. , ' j|y ' 1 1- "T!T ; ~"" " ■ . ' % ;'jl> .''' : £.rr:fe&. _.... j. -"" T/v£" £2.£ V/9T/OH j-. .• » j SCMOOL ' • 1 ■ NEW IMPROVEMENTS AT CHAUTAUCJA, N. Y., THE FAMOUS "MOTHER CHAUTAUQUA.'* lake and along the north boundary «f the Chautauqua Institution enei» sure. From this particular point there is an unexcelled view from Mayrille on the north to Long Toint on the south, arni it is undoubtedly one of tlie most de sirable residence sites of the entire lake region. The house is to be three stories high, of brick, stone and steel construction. red tile roof, absolutely fìreproof. It is set in a grove of elms, which surround it 011 ali sides but one, that facing the lake. Direc-tly to the south of the resideuce gardens are planued, terminating in a wild growth of shrubbery, threaded with ti*ails leading to the doeks and boathouse. to an artificial waterfal'. a lily pond, tennis courts and vegetatile gardens. A cottage for the gatekeeper and ten ants is «ow under construction. and other buildings will adjoin this cot tage. The landscape work has been done under the direction of Mr. H. L. Avery of Cleveland. Eighty-four full grown trees, inostly elms, ha ve been trans planted by Mr. Herbert L. Hyatt of Cleveland, forester, who has trans formed an uninteresting, bare hillside into a well wooded slope. A great quantity of small planting is also be ing done. The Fackard residence when coni pleted will probably represeut an ex penditure close to $175.000. dividual aildresses by notable raen are the series of one week each on cur rent politicai, social, economie and re ligious problems. Topics for sucb dis cussion are the defense of the nation. the Americanization of our foreign in habìtants, the church in its task of re making a war cursed world, the eleva tion of American business to a pro fession, with professional breadth of training and professional loftiness of ethics; the messages of art and an tiquity to modera practical life and taxation in the light of wisdom and justìce. Eac-h of the eight weeks from June 29 to Aug. 27 is devoted to some one major interest, that of Aug. 7-12 being music, with the well known Rus sian Symphony Orchestra engaged to supplement the regular musical re sources of the lustitution. The names of many educatore and public mcn of the first ranlc appear in announcements just issued. Eight preachers of na tional reputation will give the eight Sunday morning sermons, and there are many other religious exercises. Larger Hotel Accommodations at Chautauqua. Anion? the many exeellent boarding liouses at Chautauqua, that erected this winter by Mrs. A. J. Lewis and known as the St. Elmo will eommand attention. It is a handsome and eom modious new strueture and by its ar tisstic bleodin? iato the general archi tecturai seheme of the centrai plaza is a rt>al ornament to the place. It will ccntain many steam heated rooms with private baths, Mrs. Lewis has shovrn very positive faitli in the future of Chautauqua. Hotel Athenaeum is building an ad dition to it.s servici© equipment. Sev era 1 boarding houses and private cot tages are being built or enlarged. Fenton Home For Methodist Deacon esses. In addition to projects already well under way at Chautauqua. N. Y., such as a new pier building, new traction station, new school buildinss and board ing houses, there are expectations con ceruiug a home for Methodist Deacon esses provided for in the will of the late James Fentoa of Buffalo, N. Y. This his executor liopes to build this spring at an approximate cost of $25.- 000 to $30,000. The construction will be of brick and stone and will be a most desirable addition to the new Chautauqua buildings of permanent type. The year 1916 is clearly to go down as extraordinary for physical growth at Chautauqua. The Chautauqua Sumrner Schoola offer something over 200 eourses in theìr catalog, just iasued, and list over a hundred instruetors, many of them prominently connected with great uni versities during the college months. With lts altitude of 1,400 feet, Its twenty rnile lake and the dimute for which the reglon is famous, there has always Jbeen at Chautauqua the great est variety of outdoor sporta and recre ations. The list now includes golf, mo toring, tennis, roque, bowling, gym nastics, track athleties, saiUng, row ing and flshing. Somewhat amuslng to note, the prospectua for the year, just issued, indicates the pltching of horseshoea aa one of the pastimea that arouse most enthuslasin nmong sub stantlal business men and dignilied membera of the professions. It la only a step back to boyhood after ali. Un der almost ideai conditions for health, convenience and enjoyment, at a place like Chautauqua every member of the family tìuda a satisfying home for the euminer.
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