a pillared porch, giving it a noble
frontage and furnishing rooms for guests in the upper stories. The
United Presbyterians built a chapel, serving also as a social room. The
Protestant Episcopalians also erected a chapel consecrated to worship,
but later established also a Church Home. The Unitarians purchased and
improved a property fronting on St. Paul's Grove. The Baptists built a
large headquarters on Clark Avenue, the street extending from the
Amphitheater to the Hall of Philosophy, and the Lutherans obtained a
large building near it. In all these Denominational Houses there is an
absence of clannish feeling. No church uses its headquarters as a
propaganda of its peculiar views; and in the receptions fellow
Christians of every branch are always welcome. When some eminent man
comes to Chautauqua, his church holds a reception in his honor, and
everybody who would like to take his hand flocks to the meeting at his
church headquarters. Speaking of receptions, I must tell of one wherein
I was supposed to take a leading part, but found myself left in the
rear. Dr. Vincent announced that at four o'clock, in the Hall of
Philosophy, a reception would be given to Dr. Edward Everett Hale. He
said to me:

Now, Dr. Hurlbut, I place this reception in your
hands to manage. Dr. Hale comes from Boston and is
accustomed to the formalities of the best society.
Be sure to have this reception held in the proper
manner. Let the Doctor stand in front of the
platform, have ushers ready to introduce the
people, and let there be no indiscriminate
handshaking.

I promised to see that everything should be done decently and in order,
and a few minutes before the hour appointed, walked over to the Hall. I
was amazed to see a crowd of people, all pressing toward the center,
where the tall form of Dr. Hale loomed above the throng, shaking hands
apparently in every direction. I rushed upon the scene and vainly
endeavored to bring about some semblance of order. The reception was a
tumultuous, almost a rough-and-tumble, affair, everybody reaching out
for the guest in his own way. It came about in this manner, as I
learned.

Everybody at Chautauqua knows that the bell invariably rings five
minutes before the hour, giving notice that the exercises may begin
promptly on the stroke of the clock. But Dr. Hale did not know this, and
when the five-minute bell rang, he ros