THE HELENSBURGH NEWS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1884
SHANDON
ENTERTAINMENT AT THE HYDROPATHIC
During the past week the visitors at the Shandon Hydropathic Establishment have enjoyed a round of excellent entertainments.
Dr Moxey, the popular elocutionist, and professor of that art in the Free Church College, Edinburgh, gave a very attractive reading on Monday.
Laurence Gane, Esq., barrister, Middle Temple, London, gave a lecture on ‘Charles Dickens’ and the subject, which is always a popular one, was treated in a critical and appreciative spirit by the learned lecturer.
But literature was not the only source from which the visitors were amused, and the physical side of life’s enjoyments was exemplified by swimming matches, and the different styles of swimming, given under the guidance of Mr Stanley Priestley.
Shandon People and History 