CHAUTAUQUA, 1885.
Chautauqua is the original recreative and educational summer resort on Chautauqua Lake;
Chautauqua is the center of an elegant and literary social life;
Chautauqua is the first of many similar movements in all parts of the land, and the one from which they have received their idea and inspiration;
Chautauqua is the seat of the world-wide “C. L. S. C.” (the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle), which enrolls more than fifty thousand readers, and provides more than thirty distinct courses of reading and study for persons of all ages and degrees of culture;
Chautauqua is a place of rest and recreation; with grounds, high, dry, perfectly drained, clean, delightful; with three lovely natural plateaus rising from the lakeside to an elevation among the very highest on the lake. The sanitary regulations are scientific and effective. The healthfulness of the place is not excelled in America.
Chautauqua has a charming hotel, the Hotel Athenæum, one of the most elegant and substantial summer hotels on the continent. Its lovely outlook on the lake, its ample piazzas, spacious halls, parlor and dining room render it equal to any hotel outside of New York City.
Chautauqua provides cottage-boarding at all rates, and persons preferring cheap board to that of the more expensive and elegant Hotel Athenæum can easily find it.
Chautauqua is Chautauqua. The name of the ground is Chautauqua. The landing is Chautauqua. The postoffice is Chautauqua. The express office is Chautauqua. It is not “Point Chautauqua” or “Chautauqua Point,” or “Chautauqua Lake,” but simply Chautauqua, N. Y.
Chautauqua is the children’s paradise. Games, romps, bathing, boating, calisthenics, roller skating under judicious control, bonfires, concerts, stereopticon exhibitions, a splendid museum of oriental curiosities and pictures, a useful “hour-a-day” during the Assembly season (if children wish it) of lessons, story-telling, and songs—all these make Chautauqua a most charming resort for children.