. Book of the Royal blue . daily boat schedulewill be maintained. A regular course of lectures will be aneducational feature of the (hautau(iua, andif desired the pursuing of the regularcourse of study of the Chautauqua Liter-ary Scientific Circle, completing the sameat your homos, graduating and receivingthe regular Chautauqua di|iloma. Luringthe season which opened formally on May;-!0 with api)ropriate services the Chautau-cjua programme began. From that date until the middle of September the studiesin connection with the Chautauqua LiteraryScientific Circle will be in jirogress. Therewill a
. Book of the Royal blue . daily boat schedulewill be maintained. A regular course of lectures will be aneducational feature of the (hautau(iua, andif desired the pursuing of the regularcourse of study of the Chautauqua Liter-ary Scientific Circle, completing the sameat your homos, graduating and receivingthe regular Chautauqua di|iloma. Luringthe season which opened formally on May;-!0 with api)ropriate services the Chautau-cjua programme began. From that date until the middle of September the studiesin connection with the Chautauqua LiteraryScientific Circle will be in jirogress. Therewill also be a non-denominational campmeeting, for which the very best talentwill be secured. The intellectual and moral influencewhich will , removing as it does theobjectionable features which seem an una-voidable accompaniment to so many excur-sion places, coupled with all the attrac-tions of this famous resort, make theChesapeake Chautauqua unusually attrac-tive and leave no doubt of a phenomenalsuccess in the CllESAIKAKE CHACTAUl^lA AT NICHT. LORD ALLENS DAUGHTER.* BY MRS. E. W. LATIMER. IN the year 1836 I was assistant, thougha mere boy, to the resident engineer on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad whowas stationed at Harpers Ferry. Therailroad bridge was then under construc-tion—the same which now unites the Bal-timore & Ohio with the Winchester &Potomac Road. The piers and abutmentsof the new bridge had already been raisedhigh enough to support the superstructure,but they wanted strengthening, for thespring freshets yearly brought down largemasses of ice and heavy logs of floatingtimber. Huge fragments of blasted rockwere therefore loaded on rude scows anddaily sunk round the foundation of eachpier, making what engineers technicallycall riprapping. My chief, Tom Floyd, the resident engi-neer of that section, spent much of thewinter of 1836 in Baltimore, leaving me—a youngster of fifteen—to watch the workand get the contractors to push it was lonely
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