LONG BEACH, SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.
To accommodate the growing circles of the C. L. S. C. a regular Chautauqua Assembly has been established at Long Beach, Southern California. This locality, after deliberation, was chosen as being central and accessible. It is twenty-two miles from Los Angeles by rail, on a splendid ocean beach ten miles long, where tourists and invalids may enjoy surf bathing the year round, with all the accommodations of civilization, in a mild climate, tempered by the ocean in winter and summer. Six months ago Long Beach was little more than a sheep ranch. Now it has a great hotel, and lesser ones, forty cottages, and over a hundred tents. Artesian water is brought three miles and delivered in iron pipes on many streets. On the 21st we had a regular field day, and good audiences. At 10 a. m. a lecture on the “Chautauqua Idea” was delivered by Dr. Clark Whittier, of Riverside, and other speakers. At 3 p. m. a regular Round-Table was held by Rev. S. J. Fleming, of Ontario, California, and a masterly lecture by Prof. G. F. Bovard, of the University of Southern California, followed. At this meeting a committee on permanent organization was formed, and Dr. Clark Whittier was elected president. Plans are made to organize, if possible, a C. L. S. C. in every pastoral charge, school district, mine, and Y. M. C. A. in the seven southern counties of California. We mean aggressive work on the borders of the great Pacific.