DQUARTERS 200
UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHAPEL 200
SOUTH RAVINE 220
MUSCALLONGE 220
JACOB BOLIN GYMNASIUM 220
ATHLETIC CLUB 230
BOYS' CLUB HEADED FOR CAMP 230
WOMAN'S CLUB HOUSE 240
RUSTIC BRIDGE 240
POST OFFICE BUILDING 250
BUSINESS AND ADMINISTRATION 250
GOLF COURSE 260
SHERWOOD MEMORIAL 260
TRACTION STATION 260
ARTS AND CRAFTS BUILDING 270
MILLER BELL TOWER 270
SOUTH GYMNASIUM 280
A CORNER OF THE PLAYGROUND 290

The Story of Chautauqua

CHAPTER I

THE PLACE

JOHN HEYL VINCENT--a name that spells Chautauqua to millions--said:
"Chautauqua is a _place_, an _idea_, and a _force_." Let us first of all
look at the place, from which an idea went forth with a living force
into the world.

[Illustration: John H. Vincent (1876)]

The State of New York, exclusive of Long Island, is shaped somewhat like
a gigantic foot, the heel being at Manhattan Island, the crown at the
St. Lawrence River, and the toe at the point where Pennsylvania touches
upon Lake Erie. Near this toe of New York lies Lake Chautauqua. It is
eighteen miles long besides the romantic outlet of three miles, winding
its way through forest primeval, and flowing into a shallow stream, the
Chadakoin River, thence in succession into the Allegheny, the Ohio, the
Mississippi, and finally resting in the bosom of the Gulf of Mexico. As
we look at it upon the map, or sail upon it in the steamer, we perceive
that it is about three miles across at its widest points, and moreover
that it is in reality two lakes connected by a narrower channel, almost
separated by two or three peninsulas. The earliest extant map of the
lake, made by the way for General Washington soon after the Revolution
(now in the Congressional Library at Washington), represents two
separate lakes with a narrow stream between them. The lake receives no
rivers or large streams. It is fed by springs be