Evening Star Newspaper, April 10, 1897, Page 23

————— ———————————— ———— BATTLE SHIP IOWA A Floating Fortress and Her Awful Destructive Force, + BSE HER PONDEROUS BATTERIES SS What a Discharge From the Twelve- Inch Guns Means. ee THE ARMOR PROTECTION ——_+ Written Exclusively for The Evening Star. performance of the lowa within the rned for her builders, the phia, a very handsome t the g craft one | ‘d her com ioning two when she will be the most » ship on the active list of the} | apt to pardon with a certain spirit cyricism the application of the ship to those woo: walls that so well In ad, and to think t the heaviest of our modern | i the title; but ndiy craft are warrante the old ship-of-the-line Pennsyl- | vania was designed, with that bristling force of a hundred and twenty guns, she was ed a al monster, and even though that battery of hers would be of comparative importance today, still we shoul! consider the difference between her and the lowa more as a mark of national full-epeed spurt she could cross the Atlantio with ease upon her full supply. Her Ponderous Batteries. The offensive phase of the ship fs com~ passed in her ponderous batteries and her torpedo tubes. The main battery consists of four 12-inch breech-loading rifles and eight 8-inch breech-loading rifles, and the secondary battery consists of six 4-inch rapid-fire guns, twenty 6-pounders, four 1-pounders and four Gatling guns. The four 12-inch guns are housed in two Hich- born, barbette, balanced turrets, and peer out through walls of hardened steel 15 inches thick—proof against the sharpest of center hits; while the mechanisms that turn the turrets through thelr sweep of 270 degrees, load, depress and elevate the guns, rest snugly behind the protection of barbettes of similar thickness. Step into the turret and place your hand upon the breech of either of the guns, and you will find it hard to believe that that cool mass can harbor the possibilities of a scorching blast. Swing out the breech plug and look forward thirty-six feet through that shining bore, till the 48 rifled grooves give a twis perspective that dwindles to a seemin mposstvle passige for the neh projectile, and you will get some notion of the source of that won- derful power of penetration and the origin of that awful force, which, in either of these guns, is equal to raising, one foot in one second, a mass double the weight of the Iowa, crew and all. Impelled by 430 pounds of powder, an armpr-piercing shot or an explosive shell would leave these guns with a velocity of 2,100 feet a sec- ond, and possessed of sufficient force to go undeformed through 22 inches of steel a thousand yards away, or to carry a dis- tance of ten miles or more. From the four smaller turrets, five inches thick, tiring through arcs of 170 degrees and revolving within barbettes three inches heavier, can be discharged by either | of the S-inech rifles a shell of 250 pounds, capable of passing through eight inches of sect two miles away, and with a possible bombarding range of a mile for every inch of caliber. Rifles and Torpedo Tubes. Four of the 4-inch rapid-fire guns are UNITED STATES BATTLE SHIP IOWA. and industrial growth than as a reflection upon randest of our naval fabrications sixty $ Bg0. The First Sea-Going Battle Ship. In six decades we have passed from an age of wood to one of si from depend- | on the free winds of heaven to the | e of power plucked at will from els of the earth, and from the sim- re of the past to the complicated The Io a-going” ded to express s and the capabilt. jer more trying h a water-line | the ence battle a maximum beam of and having an aver- hen ready for sea, she ! mass of 11,410 tons. after S-inch t out of wa- bh without w > main deck. Lik she has an i © Protection. for the hull ed f-foot band of Ha steel four m inches thick, three feet above and four nalf feet below the water itr. and aft for a dist Th this deck two and ass of this . boilers and as human of an enemy < trom to the bow and the the forward and forming a g in the st ne ram. ne belt and up « for a dis ce of ety sides are five inches this casemate armor afforts prot ll forw. aped part of the but so long main int the protective feet of coal, thirty bad » wal ing under the added of great revolving blowers, will the ceaseless glut of tons upon and a ¢ s of flagging fire- meet that greed that the p to their working pr water, bot re ion engines, each im its and each driving one of sixteen-foot screws, consti- ‘opeliing mechanisms of the ship, eighty odd auxiliary engines—hy- steam electric—are ready to rudder, move the turrets, raise nition, anchors and beats, handle provide fresh water end » foul air and draw down every nook nny er words, youd the complement of 490 is @ great aggregation of modern d m almost be said to be a beinz of steel, complete but for the lack- ment which her officers and ply. Great revolving slow- her lungs, and down through the rils of her ventilators the fresh air n to feed her vital flames and the t watch them, and, again, up h her smokestacks and her open S go the exhalations, Through a sys- tem of miles upon miles of piping pulse the nergies for her numerous parts, and back to her botlers and throbbing pumps ne exhaust for revigoration. From y_eell and every compartment come * of communication, and to and from ‘very position of importance run nerve- ke wires that put the guiding brains in with @ perfect knowledge of every of her great organization. From her four great eyes look into the night ‘th the penetration of thousands upon thousands of candle light, while maay oth- ers of milder giow brighten her interior. Down in her bunkers are stored some 1,78) tons of coal, and, Itke a racer, she cannot stop to feed upon the way: but, Instead, must gnaw away at the fat that hes been Stored about her vitals; and, it is estima- ted, upon that allowance she will be able to cover @ distance of 7,400 miles at @ com- fortable ten-knot jog, while at a continued | ing, placed on the main deck, shielded within armored sponsons and further protected by heavy splinter bulkheads of steel, while the two remaining, protected only by fixed segmental shields, are placed upon the after bridge deck, where they com- mand a very wide are of fire and would be particularly serviceable against torpedo- boat attack. From these risles and the smaller rapid-fire guns of six and one- pouncer denomination could be maintained | a perfect storm of explosive sheil, before | which the lighter parts of a foe would yicid like reeds before a storm, and through which it would be impossible for a torpedo boat to approach near enough to inflict in- jury—if seen in time. From any one cf the four torpedo tubes, two of which are on either broadside, mass of 126 pounds of gun cotton could be sped on its errand of destruction, and no ship yet fabricated could withstand the sone of that shock if the blow were fairly placed. Source ef Command. below the pilot hous2, behind and he fe 1 main turret, is the com- t, within whose narrow compass d whose curving walls of ten- the captain can control the mar- forces at his command and guide ship into action. Within this citadel his and upon its walis are speaking: b<@ telegraphs, electrical buttoas and teli-lales of all sorts, besides the steering Just atove ng to} and be! inch stee Veious his of gear, all leading below through a seven- inch armored tube of steel on their sev- erai missions of cemmunication and re- sponse. There before him he can read the speed of hi ip: Know to a nicety the angle of th idder; read his orders an- Ww the pointer that tells the distance of the approaching foe, and know the readiness of every division of that great organism below him. Thus safely howsed he wilt take his ship into action, and he that would question him there and challenge the henor of our flag must come With a 000 foot tons and more be- fore those walls will yield. At the captain's command the mi: machinery begins to turn, and present when the great engines are making a hua- dred and evolutions a minute, and the two rh the water aft’ with all the energy of 11,000 horse power, the ship a moving mass of 11,410 tons, is Tore- ing her way along at sixteen Knots an hour. To stand in her way then means to take 2 blow of 130,000 foot tons from her murd+rous ram, before which the thickest armor would bend like grass before a gale. As a last resort, with her own guns incap- able of further fire, the lowa might strike such a blow, but it would conferm better with her captain's own notion of glory to bring his vanquished into port rather than to send her inevitably to the bottom. Destructive Force. No single mind can compass the awful powers of a modern battie ship; and only a falnt notion of what the destructive force of her guns can mean can be had from the shattered fragments about our proving grounds. There we sce great masses of baticred and broken armor, but e amiss the bruised and bleeding bodies nore Fr that must form the unavoidable accem- paniment to tangled steel work, blazing decks, and the wholesale havoc of ob- ng parts construction of the Iowa was au- zed by act of Congress, approved July On the llth of February, 189%, ‘k was awardei to William Cramp & Sons, and on the Sth ef August follow- her keel was laid. She wa3 launched on the 28th of March, 1896. The contract called for a speed of sixteen knots an hour, with @ promised bonus of $50,000 for every additional quarter knot. As a result, the contractors have won $200,000 over and beyond the contract price of $3,010,000. ———__ A Benediction. om an Exchange, Sweet Spirit, Heavenly Dovel do Thon descend, And gently bend Above my Lady-of-all-loveliness; S Her, all time, bless. t tine she wakens to a day of care, Ou be ‘Thou there! And when her weariness and pain in- crease, Give Tho thy peace. Go Thou tm guise of ali things bright and tar In Kindly atr, In ‘glory of the changing pageant Of cloudy sky, a In splendor of the sun Shafts, as they pass Across the grass, In form and hue and breath of beauteous flowers, To cheer ber hours, Whene'er the burdens of her ‘sorrows press, Soothe er distress; pas nes Aad when the ‘ts dying weat, Give Thou thy rest. ——_+0-2-—__—_ ‘Things our Seughters marry.—Life. THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 1897—24 PAGES. IN THE CHURCHES ' The congregation of Zion Baptist Church, located on F street southwest, is preparing to celebrate the paying off of the debt on the church by a dinner to be held the latter part of this montii or the first part of May, to which leading Baptists, laity and clergy, will be invited. As a recognition of the ef- forts of the pastor, Rev. W. J. Howard, in paying off the debt, the congregation pro- poses to present him with a purse of $200 with which to send him to the Christian Endeavor Convention at San Francisco. At a meeting of the local Methodist preachers Monday morning a committee was appointed as follows, to arrange for a union service on the afternoon of Good Friday: Revs. Hugh Johnston, Joseph B. Stitt and Alexander Bielaski. The ser-. vice is to be held at Metropolitan Church and it is expected that both Bishop John F. Hurst and Presiding Elder Wilson will be present. Rev. M. C. Dolan, one of the clergy of St. Aloysius Church, opened a retreat on Tues- day afternoon last for the pupils and grad- uates of the Convent of the Visitation, and is to close it today. Father Doian recent- ly returned from New York, where he con- ducted a retreat at the Church of the Im- maculate Conception. Several changes have been made in the Central Union Mission, as a_ result of which every branch of the work has been placed under the immediate control of the one superintendent, Mr. W. C. McMichael. The Bible training class closed Its sessions for the winter last Sunday and the mem- bers will, for the most vari, engage in the Gospel wagon work of the mission, which begins this season the first Sunday in May. A Persian missionary, who is. now in this country studying theology, Rev. Mr. Shah- bash, has been in Washington for the past week or two collecting funds for the missionary cause. He has been heard at several of the Baptist churches. The Christian Endeavor Society of Be- rean Baptist Church gave an entertain- ment Fricay evening last under the direc- tion of the president of the society, Chas. Brown. The eastern conference of the Lutheran Maryiand Synod is to be held Tuesday, May 4, at the Church of the Reformation in Baltimore. Among the Washington min- Ts who will take part in the exercises, with their topics, are the following: Rev. L. M. Kuhns, D. D., “The Pastor's Relation to the Congregation and the Public:” Re’ Samuel Domer, D. D., “Unemployed Min- “Vacant Congregations,” Rev. Jno. Bowers: “How the Pew May Help the D. E. Wiseman; “Synodical ment,” W. E. Parson, D.D.: “Has jastern Conference a Mission,” Rev. J. G. Butler, D.D., and “Our Duty Toward Present Reform Effort: Rev. Stanley Billheimer. The first vice presidents of the chapters composing the Washington District League recently met at Haniline Church to discuss the spiritual work of the league, which is in their charge. The rector of Epiphany Church, Rev. Dr. R. H. McKim, clesed a series of Lenten sermons this week on “The Fundamental Doctrines of Christianity.” On Easter Sun- day there is to be a special effort made to raise $1,800 with which to pay off the float- ing debt of the church. Rev. William G. Cassard, appointed to a chaplaincy in the navy this week and who Was accredited to Maryland, has been re- siding In Washirgton for more than a year past as the pastor of Twelfth Street M. B. Church, 12th street and Pennsylvania avenue southeast. The appointment of Mr. Cassard was entirely unexpected to his congregation, and in consequence no inin- ister has as yet been suggested as his suc- cessor. Rev. Jos. T. Foley, one of the assistant priests at St. Paul's Church, hag returned from a month’s vacation for the benefit of his health. Rey. Mr. Z. Vall Spinoza is acting as as- sistant to Rev. Richard P. Williams, rector of Trinity P. E. Church. Rey. Mr. Spinoza is a native of Spain, though educated at Oxford, but was until recently rector of a parish in St. Mary's county, Md. The annual meeting of the Methodist Preachers’ Meeting of Washington and vi- cinity teok place Monday at Foundry ‘hurch. Officers were elected for the en- suing year, as follows: President, Rey. W. » president, Rev. cretary, Rev. Alexander s Rev. W. R. Strickland, executive committee, Rev. Drs. J. 3. He Chapman; vi Sdtt, Hugh Johnsten and Luther B. Wil- son. Mrs. Phoebe Hearst has increased her do- nation to the trustees of the School for Girls of the Episcopal Cathedral by $25,000, ringing the total amount up to 1,000, w pla are being drawn for the school, he others not being satisfactory. At the request of the Lutheran Church Extension Union, Rev. L. M. Kuhns, D. D. has consented to conduct regular Sunda preaching services at the Brookland Mission of the union. A novel feature in connection with the Toro mvention of the general Epworth League will be a bicycle corps, composed of members of the Washington delegation, now being formed by th retary, Mr. Frank T. Israel. ight Rev. Bishop Talbott, Protestant iscopal bishop of Wyoming and Idaho, is to preach at St. Michael’s and All An- gels’ Church tomorrow evening. annual meeting of the Fourth an Chu he following trustees 3 rge W. Babcock, lamson, vice pres- rt C. Bollinger, secretary; Wm. treasurer, and Charles J. Wil- The pulpit of the Walker Memorial Bap- ist Church, Madison street northwest be- n 14th and 15th, has been declared va- cant, and the congregation is now looking for a minister to ‘succeed the late pastor, Rev. I. W. Bryant. Rev. L. D. Herron, who died on Monday of this week, was a supernumerary preach- er of the Baltimore Methodist conference, and has been for s years in charge of the Bladensburg Mission of Douglas Memorial Church. ‘The Bladensburg Mis- sion has proven quite successful, and con- sequently the work there will be continued. The Protestant Episcopal Chapel of the Good Shepherd, at 408 H street northeast, has increased to such an extent that a building in the rear of the chapel is about to be fitted up to accommodate the new- comers of the Sunday school. Two new rooms on the third floor of the building oc- cupied by the chapel have been fitted up, and there is to be an extra service on Sun- day afternoon, so that it is expected that by these means the overflow can be cared for. The Christian Endeavor Society of Union M. E. Church gave a very successful “flower reception” on Wednesday evening in the lecture room of the church. Word has been received in this city that Rev. W. W. Van Arsdale, formerly pastor of Fifteenth Street Church, has arrived at Hagerstown, Md., and taken charge of his new church, St. Paul’s, and that he has been warmly welcomed, notwithstanding the congregation were opposed to his ap- pointment, because they wanted another minister. “The Bishop of Oxford’s Riddle” was the title of a recent sociable given by the Young People’s Society of the Luther Memorial Church. There were twenty-two answers required for a correct solution of the riddle on the part of each person, and as a result of the contest the first prize was awarded to Mrs. C. E. Paul and the booby prize to J. E. Garrett. At the coming convention of the Protes- ‘tant Episcopal diocese of Washington there will be applications from two of the chap- els of the diocese to be separated from the churches under whose charge they are and erected into full-fledged parishes. They are the Church of Our Savior, at Brook- land, Rev. John T. Crowe, rector, and St. Margaret’s Church, Rev. Richard Lewis Howell, rector. Both are now within the limits of St. Paul's, Rock Creek parish. Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church has elected the following as officers of the con- gregation: President, J. A. Hirth; secre- tary, Henry Germann, and treasurer, B. E. Emmert. The Ladies’ Aid Society of the church has contributed $1,000 to the build- ing fund of the congregation. A feature of the celebration of Haster at the Church of the Advent, Rev. Edward Marshall Mott, rector, will be the appear- ance of a new reredos of quartered oak, handsomely carved, the gift of one of the ladies of the congregation. Douglas Memorial Methodist Church has sold a lot belonging to it on H street north- east, the proceeds of which have been placed in bank as the nucleus of a building fund. It is proposed to erect a new house of worship when the times have improved, as the present church is adequate to the needs of the congregation. ‘The congregation of the Assembly’s Pres- byterfan Church recently held an election of officers, and as a result the following Beter Dubant, George #. Willisias, homes er Dul rge F. P. Keene, A. L. Sturtevant, Dr. J. E. N. Rob Small, A liamson and James A. McElwe: | ineans, Sidney A. Fitch and John M. Foster. The annual meeting of the eastern dis- trict of the Lutheran synod of Missouri fs to be held May 12th-to 18th, at Emmanuel Church, Baltimore. The most important feature of this pothering will be the cele- bration of the fiftieth anniversary of the organization of the synod. This district includes all the states of the synod along the Atlantic coast, and it is expected that there will be present about three hundred delegates. As the Missouri synod ts the largest Lutheran botly in the United States a good deal of interest attaches to its gatherings. Washington will be represent- ed by delegates from the three churches— St. John’s, Trinity and Christ. A very enjoyable entertainment was given at the North’Presbyterian Church Tuesday evening. Those who took part were: Prof. Theodore I. King, Mrs. Brackett, Miss McCalman, Mrs. Ramsdell, Mrs. Wilson, Miss Bowen, Miss Bessie King and Messrs. ‘Finckel, Moran and Clements. The sum of $225 was raised to be used as the start toward a fund to re- model and enlarge the present house of worship. At the ciose of the entertainment a magnificent floral piece was presented to Mrs. May Ramsdell as a token of apprecia- tion of her services in arranging the pro- gram. A teachers’ class has been formed among the teachers of the Epiphany Sunday school. It meets for an hour every Thurs- day evening and 1s taught by the rector of the church, Rev. Randolph H. McKim, The newly appointed- provincial of the New York-Maryland province of the So- ciety of Jesus was in Washington recently, and while here visited Georgetown and Gonzaga Colleges and St. Aloysius’ Church. The Sunday school of the Fourth Presby- terian Church has elected the following officers: Superintendent, Frank L. Middle- ton; assistant superintendent, James A. McElwee: secretary, Harry E. Johnson; brarian, W. H. Stevens; organist, Mrs. J. W. Holliday, and musical director, J. A. McElwee. The trustees of the Lovely Zion Baptist Church, Rev. S. Geriah Lampkins, pastor, have leased the Palace Park, 14th street, between T and WU northwest, at which church services will be held ‘during the summer months, commencing the first Sunday in May. Services are being held at the present at the Cadet’s Armory, O street near 7th. —.—__. THE HOMING PIGEO: Can Make a Mile a Minute When It Flies With a Tail Wind. From the New York Journal, The greatest ambition of the fancier is to have pigeons that will fly 500 miles in the day. The performance can, it is stated, readily be done on a favorable day, and many fanciers in and about London ac- complished the route from Thurso, in Scot- land, in July last, the winning bird flying 501 miles, with an average velocity of 1,454 yards per minute for the entire distance. These 500-mile performances for the day are quite common in Felgium, and the dis- tance has also been covered in America. The rate at which the homing pigeons fly sometimes 1s almost incredible. With a strong tail wind birds have accomplished more than sixty miles in the hour. But even when the conditions are not favorable some of the reccrds are remarkable. Birds are liberated in the south to fly 200 miles into the north of England, with the wind blowitg at the rate of upwards of a mile a minute dead against them; and yet dozens of the birds will b> in their lofts under 400 minutes. If the day ts such that the birds cannot see their way, but have to feel it, and the wind bloweth from the quarter that Is neither good for man nor beast, then the winning bird’s velocity is reduced to about 700 yards per minute, and a bare 5 per cent of the liberated birds come home the same day. ——_—_ er Followers of the From the Woman's Journal. One day through the primeval wood A calf walked home, as good calves should; skew, ves do. Since then two handred years have fled,, And, I infer, the calf is dead. Calf. But made a trail all bent A crooked trail, as all ¢ But still he left behind his trail, And thereby hangs my moral tale. ‘The trail was taken By a lone dog that passed th p next day t way; And then a wise betl-y Pursuvd the trail o'er val and s flock babind him, too, -wethers aways do. And drew the As good by over bil and pods a path was Through the nade. Ard many men wonnd in and ont, And dodged and turned and bent pout, And uttered words ‘of righteous wrath, I ise “tWas such a crooked path; But still they fol ‘The first migratic wt—do not iaugh— f, And through this wi Because he w: e, od turned again; a road, with his load, Where many 2 poor Tolled on beneath th And traveled some thre Aud thus a centuzy ai They trod the fou hatt of that calf. pas: don in swiftness fleet, road ecw a villaze street, And this. before men were aware, A city’s crowded thoroughfare, And soon the central street was this Of a renowned metropolis. And men two centuri Trod in the footsteps of Each da: Followe and a half t calf, a hun the zi; And o'er his crooked journey went ‘The traffic of a continent. A hundred thousand men By one calf near thre ore lod uries dead, They feilowed still bis crooked way, And lost one hundred years a day For thus, such ~everence is lent To well-established precedent. A moral lesson this 1 nt teach, Were I ordained and led tu preach, For men are prone to go it lind Along the paths of the mind, y follow In the heaten trac out and In, g th And still their parse pursue, To keep the pat! hat others do. But how the wi @ old wood-gods Who saw the fics If: laugh, noval wall! Ab! many things this tale might teach— But [am not ordained to preach. eo Had His Hands Full, Too. From Puck. Critic—"Do you believe in the maxim: “The art is to conceal art?” Artist—“No; I find the great art is to sell art.” a “I play poker with the old man and make leve to his daughter.” zi “Ts it a winning game?” “Well, I expect soon to hold a hand that will beat his.”"—Life. ——_—~+2+—___.. “Want” ads. in The Star pay because they bring answers. Ss ART AND ARTISTS! The exhibition of the Society of Wash- irgton Artists, held at the Cosmos Club, has been the art event of the week, and the attendance has been, as usual, very large. It ts difficult to tell until after the clese of the exhibition exactly what the result may be, but at the present writing the indications do not point to a great financial success, Whatever the sale of pictures may be, the expenses of the ex- hibition will be more than covered by the sale of catalogues, and the society runs no risk of losing by it. Exhibitors must remove their works from the Cosmos Club on Monday next, any time between 10 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. Those who fail to do so are Notified that their contributions will be removed and stored at the exhibitor’s ex- pense. The exhibit of sculpture was not placed in the club rooms until the first of this week, and was not in evidence on varnishing d: Two of the exhibitors, Miss Daisy King and Mile. Jane Hoyack, were omitted in the previous meniion of the work in this department. Miss King is represented by an elaborate figure group called the “Children’s Hour.” Mlle. Hoy- ack sends a striking bust ef Gen. W. G. Veazey. There was one change made on varnishing day that is not noted in the catalogue. An effective portrait by William H. Coffin was substituted for his large figure study entitled “Karma.” * * ox It is seldom that Washington art lov- ers have an opportunity to view such delicate and appreciative work in black and white as is found in the drawings now on exhibition at Veerhoff’s. They are from the studio of the late William Ham- ilton Gibson, the artist, author and nat- uralist. He knew and loved even the most inccnspicuous forms of plant and animal life, gnd painted them with a happy com- bination of scientific accuracy and artistic spirit. One finds among the drawings dainty sprays of flowers with suggestive bits of landscape used as backgrounds, his little wood interiors being particularly at- tractive on account of the skiliful han- dling of foliage. Mest of the work is ex- ecuted in gouache, though there are sey- eral crayon and pen and ink drawings. A fine specimen of the artist's work in the latter medium is a study called “Bird Cradles," showing a supple maple bough bearing a nesi suspended from one ecf its swaying twigs. In crayon there are sev- eral masterful sketches on tinted paper where the darks are massed in an effective manner and the high lights touched in with white paint. While his reputation will always rest on the illustrations in black and white which he made to ac- ccrpany his books and magazine articles, the few landscapes in color which are ex- htbited show that he was a colorist of no mean lity. His autumn wood scenes ere notably effective and “harmonious in color. The exhibition will remain open throvgh the part of the céming week. * * * It is aanounced that the collection of paintings by Thomas Moran which has been exhibited in New York ard Chicago will be on view at Veerhoff's in a few days. A novel feature of the collection is the verses that have been written by Miss Edith Thomas in descripiion of each of the pictures. Thomas Moran is a very rep- resentative American !andscapist, and one who has confined himself very largely to the scenes of his native country. * * * Mr. W. H. Holmes, who has been con- nected with the Field Columbian Museum in Chicago for severai years past, is still pleasantly remembered here, and his many friends are glad to note that he has identi- fied hirnself as actively with the art Chicago as he did with that of the <i At the recent Arche Club charming water color from h ed “Childhood,” was awar mention, a brush, en- ied honorable * Tho large picture which Mr. Jules Dieu- denne is now working upon coniains two figures seen under a lamplight effect. A ed in black stands beside the lit- ¢ which a woman is sitting, y giow from the lamp on the table falling upon her white dress. Mr. Dieudonne has handled this pleasing effect of color and light and shade in a skillful manner, and his creatment of the ground ts equally good. The desigas the pieces of oid Gobelin tapestry e room is hung appear kground, and the interic mptuous style th has been working back- upon a ad sven against a yellow back- has been s it with es- patour of the @ classic out- he face is broad having been of color. “Cupid's ck,” another c with which the artist has been busying himself, is full of genuine pathos, * In the coliection “cf pictures shown at Fischer's this week Mr. R. Le Grand Johnston is seen at his best, aiid a visit to the gallery gives one a breath of summer and transports one into sunny fields with grazing cattle, or into shaly woodland paths, Mr. Johusten is n So successful as when painting sunshi and secures great brilliancy of color, as such a picture as his “Old Willows” testifies. This is an extremely effective study in gre and so intense is the color as to s sZest the flowing sap and the abounding life in ali the luxurlant vegetation. ‘The yreat bril- lianey of coloring which he ob:ains is off- set by the loss of other qualities equally prized. Often his canvases do not seem aneous, and his pictures are ightly lacking in artist It is but fair some- feeling to say, how- his work are that the standard maint tion is of very e and sentiment. x 2a excellence, There is an extremely nice sense of the mystery of night in his large canvas sho ing a flock of shenp being driven ac moonlit field, the ue oun’ which are iost in the distance. 1 mal studies he is, of coursz, following up a congenial vein, and his many little ca: vases, such #s the one called “Resting, which portrays a Jersey cow chewing her cud reflectively, are especially pleas “Young Cattle” is the title of his raost pertant animal picture, and it is a very well handled piece of work. Among h paintings where the landscape itself plays the principal role, his “After the October Rains” and “A Gray Day” are the most thoroughly satisfactory. * * * ‘The srowirg membership cf the Public Art League of the United States seems to indicate that the day when it will wield an important influence in the art life of the ration is not far distant. The object of the league is to rromote the passage of laws by Congress requiring that before the purchase or adoption by the government of any work of art. the design or rodel of the same shall be submitted to a com- mission cf experts and approved by them. It will be seen at once that while it is na- ticnal in its scope, the citizens of Wash- irgton have reason to be especially interest- ed in the movement, as almost all the works in seulpture and painting purchased by the government find a permanent home in this city. The organization already num- bers among its members not only artists and art lovers,but many of the leading men in literary, scientific and business circles in all parts of the country. Those in sym- pathy with the movement may become members by communicating with the cer- responding secretary, Mr. Glenn Brown of 918 F street. * -* Those members of the Washington Water Color Club who desire to exhibit at the ex- Position of the Carolinas, and those mem- bers of the Society of Washington Artists who have signified their intention of exhib- iting and who desire to show other works than those now at the Casmos Club, are re- quested to send their works before 6 p.m. on Monday, April 12, to Schimdt’s branch febel giving the tide of the work, the price, if for sale, and the name and ~ of Spauw cee .laundri low dip noonday tion this compare laundry or want it same. aS phone. You may drop uS a postal. You may bring the laundry bundle yourself. Peek Ae There is as much ps difference between Yale finish and the careless work turned out by other tween a penny tal= You can’t ques- Doesn’t make any difference whether your small. You may tele- YALE LAUNDRY, F. H. WALKER & ©0., 514 10th St. 1104 14th St. *Phone 1092. es as be= and the sun. when you results. is large : We just the ed Among the pictures exhibited this week nos Club by Washington artists led “Lilacs” or the “Harbinger ich ———— UNIVERSITY NOTES Colambian University. Enosinian Society, class I, The had for discussion at its last meeting the question, in its Messrs. ‘Resolved, That the Dingley present form, should be adopted. Hoover and Biscoe were on the tive and Beatty and Jones on the n For class I the question was, That there should be an educatior qual- tion for voters in the United Staty the affirmative the speakers where Robinson and Q. Harian and on Rogers and R. Har- lan. The Bee for class I as edited by Miss Ross and fer class II by Mr. H ‘er, and the News for class I by Miss Biscoe and for class II by Q. Harlan. Mr. Jones was the critic of the evening. The base ball team defeated the Mary- land Agricultural College Wednesday after- n, making the third consecutive victory this seascn. This afternoon at 2 o'clock cn the C. A. C. grounds, 17th and C streets, On Mess! the negative Messrs. a game is scheduled with St. John’s Col- lege nine. Mrs. J. H. Gore of Stockholm delivered Tustrated lecture yesterday afiernoon versity Hali for the benefit of the p fund for women, under.the au- Society of Columbian Women. seta Sigma Fraternity met sume control of the Nicaragua cana The speakers are F, W. Crist, R. T. Oll- ver and T..H. Biackford on the affirmative end H. F. Bright and W. U. Varney on the negative. John M. Spellman, president of the senior class, called a mecting for yesterday after- noon to consider arrangements for a class banguet. William Jennings Bryan will address the students at 7:30 o'clock Monday evening in the main lecture hall. Admission is by_card only. “phe series of art lectures by W. O. Partriige of Boston, heretofore announced, has been postponed on account of sickness. ness. Next Saturday afternoon, at 3 o'clock, the Women’s Anthropological Soctety will listen to papers by Miss Millicent Shinn on “Beginnings of Art and Letters,” and Miss Sara E. Wiltse on “Study of Ange ‘The Society for Philosopnical Inquiry, at its meeting or Tuesday afternoon of text week, will discass a paper, “Philosophy of Symbeiism,” presented by Mr. Steele. Protessor Frank H Bigelow of the school of graduate studies. has had published, by the weather bureau, a paper of eighty- seven pages, endtled “Storms, Storm Tracks and Weather Forecasting. Professor C. L. Fassig of the school of graduate studies has returned from a year’s leave of absence spent in Berlin studying meteorology. Georgetown University. ‘The school closes Wednesday, the Mth, for the Easter holidays, and studies will be resumed the following Wednesday morn- ing. Right Rev. Robert Seton, D.D., rector of St. Joseph’s Church, Jersey City, and pro- thonotary apostolic, will deliver the third lecture in the special course about April 21. His subject will be “‘Traveis in North- ern Africa.” Following this lecture in the same course, “An Evening With the Graphophone” will be the subject of a lec- ture by Daniel O'Donoghue of the senior cology next Wednesday. “amined t= logy next “ The. Law School Debating Socie*y, at its last meeting, selected John P. O’Brien of Massachusetts, Maryland and Jean P. des Garennes of ‘the District of Columbia as the debaters to represent the society bate with the New York University Law School, which will take place in New York The question is yet to Literary and Deb«ting tomorrow evening and » and protection. Paul iilion + Smith will be the principal So- arry Dawson, the fi sity team, who wW game with t with one of Jimm is ra st baseman of the is hit ots, have distance nd Kincaid. for the q@ > half, and will meet, to b held y teams will also be the mile and the ott un. The make-up of on mate: He i arter aud yet & though en are in training. | Frank Smith of the law department, the | hereulean shot putter, who r Mott Haven last season, is in the Penn: meet. The b: | are very over | made s far } AN the that have been H “din viet and the mes » been close and e ng, and a the blue and gray team is stronger this season than it was last. pla a University. Devotional services have been held every Friday evening during Lent in the dormi- tory chapel. Examinations in French, English and German for candidates for degrees in the course of philosophy were held Thursday, The university’ library has received from | Cardinal Gibbons an Atlas of Mercator, | | the edition of Hondius, probably published in 1627, and a pra seript, which dates back to about th teenth century. The Easter recess began yes ing, and will continue until Wednes | April 21. The rector has gone to Ne England to spend vacation, and will at Worcester, The vice rector has also gone to New land, and wil ch at Fitchburg on Sunday. versity has receiv from the of State, and also from the of Justice, several valuable for the library. has been broken for the exten- of the Scholasticate of the Paulist Fathers. ‘ather Deshon of the Paulists and + McMahon of the cathedral and of w York, and Father Becker of Ohio visited the university this week. Howard University, Prof. Warder is conducting some inter- esting experiments with the X-ray, special regarc being paid to the transmission of the rays through various chemicals. Booker T. Washington, president of Tus- kegee Industrial School, adéressed the stu- dents Tuesday afternoon in Rankin Memo- rial Chapel on “Industrial Training and the Needs of the Race. The C. E. Society will hold a missionary meeting tonight. The special subject for consideration is Cuba. Prof. Warder will conduct the services. The mock congress at its last meeting discussed the bill providing for woman suf- frage. No vote was reached, and the dis- cussion will be continued tonight. The Giee, Banjo, Mandolin and Guitar Clubs will give a concert at the Metropol- itan M. E. Church in the near future, and are rehearsing an elaborate program The Theological, Literary and Debating Society at its meeting this week held the quarterly election of officers. Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, who was to have addressed the students on Thursday of this week, was compelled to postpone the address until next Thursday afterncon at 1 o'clock. National University. The commencement exercises of the uni- versity will be held at the National Thea- ter May 31. The address to the graduating classes will be delivered by Senator John M. Thurston of Nebraska. About sixty- five students will be graduated. W. W. Miller of New York, who grad- uated in "91, is delivering a course of leo- tures on corporation law on Saturday “Phe sos court will adjourn for the year meot on the 15th instant. ‘The final examinations will be held about the 18th and 19th of May.