Evening Star Newspaper, December 23, 1893, Page 15

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1893-TWENTY PAGES. IN LOCAL STUDIOS What the Wielders of the Brush Are Doing. A GREAT DIVERSITY IN THEIR STYLES, But Many of Them Are Doing Most Creditable Work. VIEWS ON SUBJECTS OF ART UST AT PRESENT Washington numbers amongst its talented residents Mr. Howard Helmick, whose work has gained him wide renown. His paintings are realistic, yet are handled with a senti- ment and delicacy which few artists at- tain. Especially i this noticeable in his| representations of| Irish life and char- acter, which subjects he has treated with @race and realism. Mr. Howard Helmick. Much of Mr.Helmick’s work is in “guache,” | 5 medium which is particularly adapted to/ the artist's vigorous character work. Chi. nese white is mixed with all of the colors| and the manipulation 1s identical and pro-! duces very much the same effect and texture | as oil. Mr. Helmick's work with this med-| tum has elicited high commendation from European artists and critics. For the past year or two he has confined himself to small canvases, but it is to be hoped will soon | return to the more ambitious subjects which | have made for him a high artistic record. | Mr. Helmick is also a regular contributot to a number of leading periodicals. i Both personally and professionally there 1s probably no more interesting person in | Washington than Mr. Henry Ulke. He was} born in Silesia, Prussia, where, at the age of eighteen, he received a commission from the Princess Albrecht for a portrait of her daughter, which was completed so satis- factorily that she sent the young artist to the royal court in Berlin, where he studied for three years with Peter von Cornelius, by whom he was engaged to paint the fres- oes in the Royal Museum. Mr. Henry Ulke. Before this work was completed the French revolution broke out, at which time Mr. Ulke left Berlin and enlisted as a repub- Mean, for which cause he was afterward obliged to leave the country. He then came to America, where h@ has since resided. He has painted many persons who have gained prominence in the United States, during the last forty years, nearly all of | his orders being received from the govern ment. Numbers of his canvases hang in| the Treasury, State, War and Navy De- partments, the Capitol and Smithsonian buildings. He has recently finished life- sized portraits of Secretary Carlisle, Secre- | tary Bissell and Mr. Wanamaker. Mr. | Ulke, in speaking of his work, says: “1! know no style. If one can only bring out | nature in ali her beauty and simplicity there is no room for a display of style. That! only leads to mannerisms, in which all a Painter's originality is lost. I was once asked by an ambitious little artist if his work did not resemble that of the master Calamm, to which I made answer, ‘No, it comes nearer a calamity.’ It is not neces- sary to attempt an imitation, each man ghould be a law unto himself. Aspirations cannot be too lofty. There is nothing be- tween me and God but my cap.” Mr. Ulke is also a musician and a naturalist. Mr. EB. J. Miller. Another veteran artist is Mr. EB. J. Mil-! ler. Unlike the majority of painters, Mr. | Miller has never studied abroad, his en-| tire art education being received in this city. In consequence of which his work bears none of the foreign mannerisms of handling end effects which so many of our artists seem unable to resist in Ameri their own work. Mr. Miller's specialty is | portraiture, which he handles with great | ¢leverness. His work is generally in oil although he obtains fine results with both water color and the etcher’s needie. In| answer to the reporter's question Mr. Mil- ler said: “A painting should express a| sentiment and the artist's conception of | his subject regardless of school or system Art is only valuable as it fills this require- | ment. It should teil its own story, and crit- | teisms shouid be given from the artist's} standpoint, not from the critic’s. I do be- ieve in moderate impressionism. An ex- treme in anything is ge: the result @ desperate attempt to achieve notoriety.” | Among Washington's many beautiful stu- dios there is no more charming suite than m. that of Miss C. L. Ran The wails are completely concealed by canvases, ranging in size from the colossal to the diminutive, ani by hundreds of photographs collected by the artist during her tours abroad. M Ransom has studied for a number of years | under the famous masters, A. B. Durand, Kaulback and Huntington, and plainly shows the effect of her training, though | without affecting the mannerisms of any-| one. Her specialty is portraiture and figure | work, although her landscapes and marines | are clever. Miss Ransom is at pres- ent engaged in working up and pre- paring for exhibition sketches made during the summer, many of her best ones being procured at Niagara Falls and the world’s fair. A few of this artist's por- traits are of Gens. Thomas, McPherson and Grant, all of which were exhibited in the Miinols building during the exposition, and jin a broad, fearless manner and is fond of | structure were so built as to revolve upon a) Ohio. All of these were commissions from the government, and their fine execution xetlects credit upon the ability of the ar- tist. Miss C. J. Stevens has also gained promi- nence in artistic circles by means of her brush, in an entirely different manner, however, from the other artists mentioned her specialty being tapestry painting, with which she has most flattering success. At the Columbian exposition much of her work was exhibited, and two gold medals were conferred upon the artist. Her color- ing is very dainty in effect, and her sub- jects are after Boucher and other artists of the same school. Some of Miss Stevens’ best work is found in private residences, so that it Is comparatively unfamiliar to the general public. of Govs. Cox, Huntington and Brough Z| Mr. W. M. Sawyer. ‘The work of Mr. W. M. Sawyer is ad- ditionally interesting from the fact that he is one of the few who, being unable to pursue their studies abroad, have made reputations for themselves by their own unaided efforts. Mr. Sawyer’s style rather tends to the impressionist school, but only to the extent of making his canvas inter- esting and original. His subjects are taken almost entirely from the city and its sub- urbs, one of his most successful paintings being from the banks of the fish pond, with the outlines of the city just showing above the tree tops. Much of Mr. Sawyer’s work is done out of doors, resulting in pearly atmospheric effects, impossible to obtain in the studio. A few of this artist’s best known studies are “Springtime, ‘Daisy Patch,”“October Moonrise”and a charming study of “Burns’ Cottage," with a number of clever marine views. Mr. Sawyer is a regular exhibitor at the National Academy, and expects to hold an exhibition of his work in this city later in the season. Another suczesstul young aspirant for artistic laurels is Mr. Hobart Nichols. He has never studied outside of Washington, but has attained a degree of proficiency which | many older artists might envy. He works | moonlight effects. His stulies are made irectly from nature and are full of poetry and sentiment. A few of his most popular canvases ate entitled “Autumnal Moon- rise,” “Twilight” and “Down the Hillside.” One*of dur best, though youngest, artists is Mr. Frank Waltman, whose clever por- traiture is so well known to the Washing- ton public. His style of painting is broad, without being impressionistic, and his col- oring possesses a luminous quality which is very attractive. Some of his portraits are of John Philip Sousa and wife, Mrs. Veer- hoff, Mr. Hughes, Vivian Burnett and Ho- bart Nichols. Mr. Waltman is at present engaged on a number of ‘traits which he is painting In Chicago. They e all of prominent politicians, and will materially id in establishing the young artist's repu- tation. —_———_ INVENTED THE TURRET. Theodore R. Timby, Now an Old Man, ‘Tells How He Hit Upon It. From the Kansas City Times. Theodore R. Timby, the man who, when a boy nineteen years old, invented the “‘re- volving turret,” which has revolutionized modern naval warfare, is now in Chicago hale and hearty at the age of seventy-one years. While relating the manner in which the invention came to him his strong, clean- shaven face betrayed the enthusiasm and fondness of a father speaking of an idolized child. “Early in May, 1841, I determined to leave my country home in central New York state and visit New York city and Wash- ington for the first time. I was then only a boy of nineteen and wide awake to observe everything about me. After doing the big city I took the ferry boat down the bay for Jersey City, from which I was going on to Washington. It was a bright, clear day,an¢ as the ferry glided smoothly over the water | I stood at the bow and scanned every pass- ing object with minute scrutiny. “At last we came in sight of old Castle William. Somehow the round brick struc- | ture fascinated me strangely. I learned | what I could concerning it from a gentle- man on board, to whom the trip was not a novelty. ven after the queer old fortress pierced for three tiers of guns, had been left far behind me my thoughts were still upon it. Suddenly ig occurred to me that if the vertical center the guns pointing arbitrarily | up stream could be used at will down | stream or at any point of the compass at| which an enemy might chance to present | itself. Of course,in order to do this it woulc | have to be of iron construction. | “This idea clung to me so persistently that the next \day but one after my arrival in| Washington I made a rude pencil sketch of | the revolving turret, illustrating but little | more than the bare principle. By this time | I was full of boyish enthusiasm over what ] | dreamed might prove to be a great inven: | tion. At first I.was at a loss what to do.| Then came the thought that I would enlist | the interest and influence of the great and/| powerful members of Congress. “The fame of John C, Calhoun, then in the United States Senate, had made his name) familiar in every country town, and, guided | by vome freak or fancy, I determined to seek an audience with the eloquent south- ern statesman. “So I took my rough sketch and a card, upon which I had written my name, and went = Bien United States Senate, with a heart beating like a triphammer. Almost to my surprise, and without delay or question- ing, the Senator at once responded in per- son and gave me an attentive and patient hearing, carefully examining the crude sketch. How eagerly I waited for his ver- dict can scarcely be understood—at least, save by an inventor. But the verdict came all right. He not only acknowledged its originality and possible importance, but asked me if I could not produce something better in the way of an illustration than the rude sketch which I had submitted. “I told him I would do so in a day or two. When I went down those stairs—well—I walked on air! The following day I went to Baltimore and hunted up an ivory turner. He agreed to make me a model, which he did by aid of the drawing and personal sug- gestions as I stood by him and watched my conception take material form under his skillful chisels. “Without loss of time I returned to Wash- ington and again sought Senator Calhoun He received me in as kindly a manner as before, and, after a close scrutiny of the lit- tle white medal, which I have always care- fully kept and now have, he sent for Sen: tor William G. Preston of South Carolina Then they introduced me to other Senators of their acquaintance. Without an excep- tion they all approved of the probable prac- ticability and importance of my invention | and suggested that I submit it to the chief of ordnance and chief of engineers. “You may be sure I acted upon this ad- vice. Mr. Bumford was then chief of ord- nance. He gave me a fair hearing and apé| proved, as did also the chief of engineers. of my conception. “These, however, were all what lawyers would term ‘strict opinions.’ In short, they | were not binding. A year or two later the invention came to the test of a professional | opinion. A mixed committee from the army | and navy was appointed to pass upon the device. Gen. Bankhead and Col. Thorntor | of the army and Capt. Smith of the navy were its members. The two latter reported | against its adoption on account of its cost, | it Gen. Bankhead was decidedly for it. | ‘Although Jefferson Davis advised me not to patent it, I filed my caveat at the patent | office January 18, 1843. Nineteen years later or in 1862, I secured broad letters of patent. | covering not only the specific device, but | also the principle of its operation. “The part which it played in the civil war especially in the operations of the Monitor is familiar history.” The fact that John C, Calhoun and other | leaders of the confederacy gave the first aid | and comfort to an invention which wrought | such terrible destruction to the cause of the south will furnish food for thought to those who are fond of studying the laws of com- pensation. ————+e Their Only Chance. From Puck. Fangle.—‘‘Corbett and Mitchell hard time finding a place to fight.” Cumso.—“"Yes. They may have to join rival foot ball teams to get a chance to do each other up.” have a | once. UNCLE SAM’S MONEY Fiber Paper on Which the Treasury Prints Its Notes. ——— Hf IS MANUFACTURED BY CONTRACT So Far No Attempt Has Been Made to Imitate It. REMARKABLE COUNTERFEITS O PAPER IN THE world is finer or more carefully made than that on which Uncle Sam prints his money. It costs him 43 1-2 cents a pound, being turned out on a con- tract basis by a firm at Dalton, Mass. This concern manufactures bank-note papers in enormous quantities, not only for the gov- ernment, but also for sale to bank-note companies and engraving companies. Much of the product also is shipped abroad. The bank note engravers use such paper for currency which they print to order for foreign banks and nations, particularly in South America. The most artistic engraving of this kind is done in the United States. Bank-note paper is em- ployed for fine engraving, too—that is to say, works of art. But Uncle Sam requires one feature in his money paper which distinguishes it from all other products of the manufacture—that is to say, two bands of peculiar fibers, which appear on the back of each bill. They do not show on the face, being only contained | in the outer layer on one side as the sheets come from the mill. This idea was origin- ally patented, and years ago the privilege of employing it was paid for by the govern- ment. However, the use of it was discon- tinued in 1877, because the people who own- ed it demanded an exorbitant royalty for permission to utilize it. Recently the pat- ent ran out, so that the treasury was able to resume the plan without having to pay a cent. Formerly only a single band of fibers was used, and in the issue of United States notes of 1869 the ingenious scheme was originated of placing it on the left-hand side of de- nominations under $20 and on the right-hand side of the higher denominations. The ob- ject of this was to beat that enterprising gentleman, Pete McCartney, who had de- veloped a fad for washing the ink off of small bills and printing big ones on the blanks thus obtained, so as to secure the real government paper. Because such a thing as this is possible, and for other rea- sons, many experts assert that fiber paper is or very little use. There are several ways of imitating it, one scheme being to print from an engraved plate on the surface of the paper lines and curliqueues resembling the nvers in appearance. ‘The money paper of the treasury is com- posed almost wholly of linen. There must be some cotton in it, because otherwise it would be too hard—what the printers call “metallic.” The raw material termed “stock” comes from all over the world. It is select- ed with great care. The manufacturers go into the rag market and pick out the best linen rags they can find. These are clean- ed, boiled and reduced to pulp. The purity of the water employed in making the pulp has much to do with the quality of the paper produced. How It is Made. When the pulp is of the proper consis- tency, it is transferred to a tank, from which it is pumped on to the paper-making machine. This machine is seventy-five feet long and automatically performs all the processes required for transforming the crude material thus prepared into finished sheets. To begin with, the pulp runs upon a wire cloth, which is agitated laterally, the surplus wa‘- being thus drained away. The wire cloth is an endless band. it passes the pulp on to blankets, by which it ts taken up and carried along through var- ious processes of drying, sizing, trimming and separating into sheets. ‘The fiber is in- troduced by a patented apparatus into the pulp when it first goes upon the wire cloth. The paper for Uncle Sam is made under | the caretul supervision of a government agent. It is turned out in sheets measur- ing 5 1-4 inches by 13 1-2 inches—that is to say, exactly big enough for printing four notes or certificates. A contrivance at- tached to the machine registers automatic- ally every sheet as it is run out. Afterward the sheets are counted, and the reckoning must agree with the mechanical register. All spoiled sheets are turned over to the superintendent of the factory, to be reduced to pulp again. The good sheets are shipped to Washington, addressed to the Secretary | of the Treasury. They go to the division of loans and currency, which has charge of them and is responsible for their safety. In that division the sheets are examined and counted, after which they are stored away in strong rooms in the sub-basement of the treasury building. As much care is taken of this blank paper as if it were a: tually money already. Each day the bi reau of engraving and printing sends in a requisition for one day's supply than this quantity is never furnished The amount represented ly a day's supply varies somewhat an 1 it may or may not be used the next day. ‘hese th pend on the current demand for } in the bureau of engraving. ‘he paper is conveyed thither in a big wagon resembling a safe on wheels, which is employed for transferring money betw: the printing establishment mentioned and the treasury. The official in charge of the bureau of engraving and printing gives his receipt for the number of sheets received by him. The paper is first “wet down,” after which the backs of the notes or certiticates are prin ed—four on each sheet. Then the sheets are dried thoroughly. Next, they are wet and receive impressions of the faces uf the bills. Again they are -iried, anc a third wet- ting is followed by <he printing of the serial numbers on them. J3eing agein dried, they are now entirely finished, except fer the seals. ‘The seals are not put on until they have been returned to the treasury. The sheets of notes, which have heen counted and recounted, are sent back in the shfe- like wagon to the c‘lice of the treasurer of the Uniled States, in the basement of th treasury building. ‘There the seals are prin ed on, and the nilis are itnally cut apart by machine. One of the oiicials of the depart- ment showed to a Star writer the other éay four $2 notes in a single sheet which he had preserv They were his own prop- erty. As a curivsity they would doubtless have a value equal to many times their face. He «did not propose to spend thein, but, if he attempted to do so, they would certainly excite considerapl2 surprise. More Difficalt to Imitate. The fiber paper used by Uncle Sam is much more difficult to imitate than the water-marked paper on which the Bank of England relies for the protection of its currency. To make a water mark, all that is needed is what the paper makers call a “dandy roll’—that is to say, a roll of wire cloth which has the water mark in raised characters, Passing over this, the pulp receives the marking in the process of its transformation into paper. But there are other reasons why it is not easy for a counterfeit Bank of England note to cir- culate. The lowest denomination is £5, or nearly $25. In Great Britain a trades- man on receiving one of these securities almost invariably makes a memorandum of the number of {it and the name of the person from whom he takes it. Thus a system of registration is established, which is the best possible protection against for- gery. Nevertheless, the first bank note ever counterfeited was on the Bank of England. It was the work of a young dry goods clerk. He was in love with the daughter of an ambitious woman of the middle class, who wanted to make a rich match for her girl. To convince her that he had means, the young man manufactured a batch of notes and placed them in her hands. Her funds running short one day, she spent one of them. It was discovered to be a forgery. In those days such an offense was punish- able with death, and the ingenious youth was hanged. Every Bank of England note is watched from the time it is issued until it is finally destroyed. A separate entry of its number and amount is made in a book kept for that purpose at the great financial institution referred to. When it turns up again at the bank, whether it has been out one day or twenty years. it is entered again in the proper book and ‘place. As the notes come In they are laid | | aside, and, after being kept five years, they are burned. Formerly all of Uncle Sam’s paper money was destroyed by burning in an air-blast fire of great heat. But Congress, perceiv- ing that the stock reduced to pulp would be valuable enough at least to pay the expense of destruction, passed a law de- creeing that the process at present followed should be adopted. So, nowadays the old notes and certificates are taken to the bureau of engraving and dumped into an iron cylinder, five feet in diameter and ten feet long, in the cellar. The cylind is partly filled with water and chemica! and heated by steam, which boils the erst- while precious contents for thirty-six hours, at the end of which the money is reduced to a mud-like pulp. There are two of these cylinders, and while one is stewing away the other is ready to receive fresh sup- plies. The masses of pulp thus prepared are heaped into a pit below, from which the moist material is carried upstairs again, passed through a machine that transforms it Into sheets a quarter of an inch thick, and dried in that shape. In this form it furnishes valuable paper stock. But it will not do to make more money out of, because it is discolored by inks and further injured by the action of the chemicals used in the macerating ap- paratus. However, the paper makers are glad to buy it at $20 a hundredweight, dry. Any one else can purchase it in the moist state, when it contains 80 per cent of wa- ter, for one-fifth that price. The manu- facturers of paper would not purchase it in that shape, because the freight for so great a weight would be too high. Those who in- vest in the pulp for the purpose of making it into busts of Abraham Lincoln, repre- sentations of the Washington monument, ete. employ their own molds and make their own estimates of the value of the origina) money material composing their wares. National bank notes are not de- stroyed at the bureau of ae Lip hllps 2 They are chewed up into minute fragments in a sort of tub with revolving knives beneath the office of the controller of the currency, under inspection by persons appointed by the banks to superintend the operation. No imitation has thus far appeared of the fiber bands now used in the distinctive paper of the treasury. But then, you see, counterfeiters nowadays are not exhibiting much activity in this country. The difficul- ties in the way of successfully reproducing the elaborate and beautiful engraving on Uncle Sam’s notes and certificates, together with the incessant activity of Chief Drum- mond and the sleuth hounds of the secret service, have discouraged them. Only one really good forgery on a United States se- curity is now known to be extant—namely, the $2 note with the head of Hancock whic! caused some alarm about four years ago. ‘This has reappeared in a new and slightly improved edition, showing that the en- graved plates are still in criminal hands and undiscovered. Efforts to Secure Counterfeit Plates, The difficulty of getting hold of the plates of a counterfeit are so great that the gov- ernment will ordinarily grant full pardon to a forger who will give up such dangerous material. To catch a person in the act of “shoving bad bills is not usually an achievement of any important consequence. The chances are a hundred to one that he does not know anything about the source from which the counterfeits were originally derived—that is to say, who manufactured them. He merely enjoys acquaintance with a saloon keeper perhaps, who furnishes him with the stuff at 60 cents on a dollar. That is the usual rate, and allows a reasonable margin of profit. The saloon keeper pays 50 cents on the dollar for his supplies, but he himself is not likely to know the forger. Between him and the latter there is again an irtermediary. To weld together links in a chain of evi- dence that will connect the shover with the manufacturer is all but impossible. That it 1s accomplished in many instances affords the best possible fllustration of the skill and cleverness of the government detectives. They adopt various disguises, and expose themselves to all sorts of perils in the pur- suit of these dangerous criminals. Such men are desperate in proportion to the risks they run, which are very great, the legal punishment for counterfeiting being only less severe than that for deliberate man- slaughter. Months of persistent effort may be required to ferret out a gang, and during this time the faithful agent of Uncle Sam may be obliged to frequent the lowest haunts of the vile, striving to win his way into the confidence of the forgers. Much of the counterfeiting done in this country is performed by Italians, who are bound to- gether by oaths of secret organizations, such the Mafia, and who hesitate at nothing. Back of the manufacturer of false money stands the “promoter,” who is almost never caught. He supplies the capital. A man who did business of that sort in a large way was well known for many years to the po- lice in New York city. They could not lay hands on him, because no evidence could be got against him that would convict in a court of law. The shovers are the small fry of the business. They receive a tip that at a certain time and place something in their line will be available. No specific commu- nication is made to them on the subject, beyond the giving of a direction. The minor criminal goes to the place indicated— it may be in the back cellar of a tenement house—and a package of “stuff” is handed out to him through a small opening in the door. In return he hands over the requisite amount of cash in good money. He sees nobody, and, if he is caught passing the counterfeits, he knows nothing. Supposing that he steers the police to the cellar where he got them, the disbursing agency has vanished. Even the disbursing agent is not acquainted with the engraver or with the promoter. He gets the “coney,” as it is technically called, from an inter- mediary. termediary, the latter denies the charge, and there is no evidence against him, for it is certain that he will have nothing of a compromising nature in his possession. The only person who has knowledge of the engraver is the promoter, who pays him for his work, and attends to’ circulating the | boodie. Even aided by the testimony of the engraver, it is difficult for the law to con- vict the promoter, who keeps no criminat- ing evidence about him in the shape of plates or counterfeits. He is nearly al- ways a man of great ostensible respectabil- jity, enjoying excellent repute in the com- munity where he lives. Yet it is he who maintains the industry of counterfeiting. Secreting the Plates. Earth is the favorite hiding place of the counterfeiter. He never keeps his plates near him unless they are in process of man- ufacture, A building may be searched, but a spade will make a concealment that is beyond the power of police to discover. Usually the plates are wrapped in oilcloth or covered with wax to prevent corrosion. A tale ts told of engraved steel plates for perhaps the most dangerous counterfeit ever made, a note for $100, which are at bere buried beneath the tracks of the ng Island railway. On the whole, the counterfeiting business cannot be said to be remunerative. Those engaged in it seldom get rich. Once in a while a forger makes a good strike without being detected or punished, and retires to a life of temporary honesty; when his mon- ey is gone, he returns to the business and its dangers. The highly skilled counter- feiters of the world spend the best part of their lives in jail for long terms. Never- tneless, there are exceptions. One of the most notable of these is Charles H. Smith, who executed the most remarkable series of counterfeits ever known. His work puz- zled and alarmed the treasury for twenty years, and probably cost the government upward of $1,000,000. He escaped punish- ment by giving up all the plates and other material in his possession. Brockway, a plate printer, who acted as his accomplice in these crimes, was imprisoned for a few years; but he is now at liberty and lives in elegant leisure in Brooklyn, enjoying a small fortune which he accumulated be- fore he was caught and sentenced. Smith never made any money out of the business. Having made a first misstep, he was thenceforward at the mercy of the peo- ple engaged in promoting the counterfeit- ing industry. They could not get along without him, and he was obliged to do whatever they required of him by threats of exposure. His wife was the daughter of a bank president in New York, and during the entire period of his criminal career he led _a life of the utmost apparent respecta- bility. The way in which he was finally caught was very curious indeed. Brockway was already known as a person of imita- tive propensities. Mr. Castlear, until re- cently chief engraver for the treasury, sug- gested to the office of the secret service that Brockway should be watched. On several occasions he was seen to enter a house in Brooklyn at 42 Herkimer street. Obviously it was worth while to find out who lived there. With this end in view the Brooklyn direc- tory was gone through from the beginning, commencing at A. Finally, the searcher was rewarded by finding the address, “Charles H. Srrith, engraver, No. 42 Herki- mer street.” Then the whole secret was out. Smith was the man who had been ex- ecuting the wonderful series of forgeries described. The house was raided and the men were caught in flagrante delictu, with freshly-printed notes actually hanging on clothes-lines in a room to dry. Smith is now employed at his old trade of bank-note engraving, at which he earns $100 a week. Probably he finds it more comfortable to live on that income than to lead a life of dread at the mercy of criminal employers. RENE BACHE. If he should “squeal on” the in- | THE BOWLING LEAGUE Great Increase in the Interest Taken in This Sport. Tnament Now in Progress Shows What a Hold It Has on Px jar Favor. Bowling has unquestionably come to Washington to stay,and the Amateur Bowl- ing League of the District is no longer a doubtful experiment, but already an assur- ed success, When the league was first organized in the beginning of the fal) there were many who predicted its ultimate tailure, and many who thought that it would never play out its tournament or finish the sched- ule which it kad begun. But with the be- ginning of the second quarter of the games to be played, on Tuesday night, the success of the league was not only apparent to all, but there are few now who will not admit that the league is not only here for this year, but that it will become a permanent institution in the city. For some years past the Columbia Athlet- ic Club has taken a considerable interest in bowling, but the sport has never had any following in any of the other clubs, until last year, when the Carroll Athletic Club put in a bowling alley and became interest- ed in it also. This fall, mainly through the efforts of the Columbia Athletic Club, al! those interested in bowling throughout the athletic clubs of the city were called to- gether, and the scheme of forming a league and holding a tournament during the win- ter was brought forward, meeting with the approval of ail those most deeply interested. Accordingly the organization was perfected, the Columbia Athletic Club, the Carro!l In- stitute, the Young Men's Catholic Club and the Washington Athletic Cluk becoming members. rhe Young Men's Christian As- sociation had no room to build an alley, and so did not enter the league, although some of its members were desirous of do- ing so. ‘The rules of the newly organized league were modeled after the rules of the New York Amateur Bowling League and are esy sentially like them. ‘The first game was played at the Columbia Athletic Club on ‘Tuesday, December 5, the schedule being so arranged that games should be played on ‘Tuesday and Friday nights, with the ex- ception of Christmas week, when no games will be played, from then on until Friday, February 2, when the tournament would close. The games are played from night to night in regular rotation on the alleys of the various clubs, each club playing one game with the home club on each night. Last Tuesday the clubs entered on their second quarter of the schedule, each club having up to that time played on the alleys of all the other clubs, and played two games against each of the other clubs. The clubs are represented in the games by five Players and two substitutes. Six regular prizes will be awarded: First, the cham- pionship trophy to the club winning the greatest number of games; second, the Ed- ward Voigt medal to the player making the highest single score during the tournament; and the third, fourth, fifth and sixth prizes to the players respectively making the highest averages tn their own team, who have bowled not less than eighteen games im the tournament. Besides these, Parker, Bridget & Co. offer a handsome overcoat to the player making the highest individual average during the tournament. The interest which has been manifested in the games so far has been more satisfying, and now that the tournament is a quarter of the way finished, it is rea- sonable to predict the league a great suc- cess. The games so far played have showed @ great many things in their true lights, which were disputed at the ot course it is impossible yet to pick the win- ner, but the Columbia Athletic Club are the end. They have larger confident of success in tl had greater experience and had a number of men to pick their team from. Certainly, if they play as they did last Tuesday for the rest of the winter, winning three straight games, their chances are very good. Now that all the alleys have been played on the points of excellence and the de- fects of each are pretty well known. The Columbia Athletic Club, perhaps, have the best all around alley, with the Carroll In- stitute second. The alley of the Young Men’s Catholic Club was just put in this fall, as was that of the Washington Ath- letic Club. The alley of the latter is ex- cellent, the only trouble being that it does not have a long enough run. The numbers at the contests have been extremely large, often as many as two hun- dred representatives of the various clubs being present to cheer their fellows on. Bowling is a splendid exercise, both for arm and eye, and one in which a man must keep his head cool and his hand steady. Nervousness is fatal. The scores of the clubs up to date are as follow Won. Lost. 8 . A. C.. 1 7 The officers of the Bowling League, which has had such a good start, and from which so much ts hoped in the future, are Jaco- bus S. Jones, C. A. C., president; Rup) Lehman, Y. M. C. C., vice president; Ed- ward Voigt, C. secretary and treasurer; executive commitee, William M. Dove, C. A. C.; Sydney Y. Smith, C. A. 3eorge S. Livingston, C. 1.; Albert F. Schulteis, Cc. L; John R. Lansdale, Y. M. C. C.; John » C. Scere The W. A. and Edward - A. chairmen of the bowling committees at the N. A. four clubs are as follows: Carroll Institute, Edward Voist; Columbia Athletic Club, Jacobus S. Jones; Washington Athletic Club, Edward N. Richards, and Young Men's Catholic Club, Ruppert Lehman. egress A aanste Handling Cigars and Tobacco. It is perhaps not generally known, says Pharmaceutical Era, that tobacco is more susceptible to injury from climatic influ- ences and contact with foreign substances than any other plant known; more partic- ularly when manufactured (either in plug form or in the shape of fine cut, or in the cigar itself) tobacco will take up and ab- sorb any foreign flavor, scent or character, which will entirely change its aroma or taste. 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