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,
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.