f information needed by everybody. All over the land people who could
not come to Chautauqua kept in touch with its life through the _Herald_.
More than one distinguished journalist began his editorial career in the
humble quarters of _The Chautauqua Daily Assembly Herald_. For two
seasons the _Daily_ was printed in Mayville, though edited on the
ground. In 1878 a printing plant was established at the Assembly and
later became the Chautauqua Press. Almost a generation after its
establishment, its name was changed to _The Chautauquan Daily_, which
throughout the year is continued as _The Chautauquan Weekly_, with news
of the Chautauqua movement at home and abroad.

Visitors to Chautauqua in the centennial year beheld for the first time
a structure which won fame from its inhabitants if not from its
architecture. This was the Guest House, standing originally on the lake
shore near the site of the present Men's Club building; though nobody
remembers it by its official name, for it soon became known as "The
Ark." No, gentle reader, the report is without foundation that this was
the original vessel in which Noah traveled with his menagerie, and that
after reposing on Mount Ararat it went adrift on Lake Chautauqua. "The
Ark" was built to provide a comfortable home for the speakers and
workers at the Assembly who for two years had been lodged in tents, like
the Israelites in the Wilderness. It was a frame building of two
stories, shingle-roofed, with external walls and internal partitions of
tent-cloth. Each room opened upon a balcony, the stairs to the upper
floor being on the outside and the entire front of each cell a curtain,
which under a strong wind was wont to break loose, regardless of the
condition of the people inside. After a few years a partition between
two rooms at one end was taken down, a chimney and fireplace built, and
the result was a living room where the arkites assembled around a fire
and told stories. Ah, those _noctes ambrosianae_ when Edward Everett Hale
and Charles Barnard and Sherwin and the Beards narrated yarns and
cracked jokes! Through the thin partitions of the bedrooms, every sneeze
could be heard. The building was soon dubbed Noah's Ark, then "Knowers'
Ark," from the varied learning of its indwellers; and sometimes from the
reverberations sounding at night, "Snorers' Ark." Frank Beard was a
little deaf, and was wont to sit at these _conversazioni_ in the parlor
of the Ark with his hand held lik