Evening Star Newspaper, March 31, 1900, Page 14

14 THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 1900-26 PAGES. Wind-up| PAIN Of Jas. B. Henderson’s Clearing Sale of 10c. to 50c. WALL PAPERS c c. At ¥ of the we have left a lots and Paper—most mbrace many de- rs which sell regu- They must be closed ow and Saturday night, and will go for 3 and 4c. pe. Friezes reduced proportionately. A few lots of Pressed Papers low as 25¢. a roll. ee This is positively the last call, as we * Open up Our New Spring Stock ocning. April 2, when we place oe ee are not y. Comparison ty considered, ered in Washington. enderson, 933 F St., 2%, Jas. B. Start the b > FIRE LTT |[] ata the kitenem range with Coke, » ||] | and see now quickly it ignites! ||} | | 1 makes a red-hot fire in ttle or | { t | | |) Coke Is a fuel that saves money. 5 nd a trial order. 40 bu. Ce oke, uncrushed. .. .$2.90 40 bu. Coke, crushed. .....$3.50 \ Washington Gaslight Co., > 413 roth Street. mh26-28d T 5 ea A lh lh lh nal Mle ae ee LEPHONE SERVICE At Rates Within the Reach of All. THE hesapeake Potomac Telephone Company Is now fu-nishing telephone service from $3 a month up. It ts no longer necessary for The Small User and the Man of Moderate Means to pay the max mum rate. Service can now be ob- tained at rates varying with the amount and class Of service rendered. ae and Mileage Charges Dispensed With Excepting in a few remote sections of the city, Schedule of Reduced Tiessage Rates. For measured service, with metallic circuit and dong-distence equipment: s Extra No. calls. No. partjes on Mne. calls. 23 4 ‘700. So 82 «$6 6 cents 800 55 47 41 5 cents 900. 59 Bi 45 4 cents 1,060. . 62 uM 48 4 cents 1.200 es eo a 4 cents 1.500 7 6 e 4 cents 1,800. 88 3 72 4 cents 2.000 a s 3 4 cents Above 1,000 calls may be contracted for in 100 Jote at $3.00 per hundred. No charge for incoming calls. For full particulars call or address Contract Dept., 619 14th Street N. W. Telephone: Nos. £45 and 1893. the Good. 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IT CURES COUGHS: ES ee —cures them pitickly and leasant effectively. = to Syiup, see htties 15¢. g Cough ' WILLIAPIS’ Bs Cor. 9th and F Sts. = i A fe3-s,t.th-24 ae | encccmaniieems cic ammo rn amon No “lussed” SKIRTS Ladies’ Dress ie Bra Tren Trunks, $8 up. ample protection to the skirts, being long enough to hold them without folding. Hand riveted throughout, cloth lined, sheet- steel bound. Contains tray for hats and an extra one for skirts or dresses. Strong and durable, ‘36-In. size, $8 up. Small size, $6.75 up. BECKER'S, Seateh Gezstale, 202, ‘Swiss an Watches a jalty. A AHN, 0a5 nw. —if you own one of these Drees Trunks of 1328 F St. 10° 75° ' DISTRICT SEWER SYSTEM EFFORT TO COMPLETE IT WITHIN THE NEXT FOUR YEARS, Senator McMillan Hopes to Secure the Necessary Legislation at This Session. Senator McMillan is especially advocating before the Senate committee on appropri- ations three propositions which he hopes to see begun by the present Congress. These are for the completion of the sewer system of the District, a filtration plant and a municipal hospital. Senator McMillan’s plan for completing the sewer system of the District involves the idea that this entire plan should be carried out within at least four years in- stead of allowing it to drag over a long series of years, as would be the case if appropriations were made on the basis of the average amounts allowed for that pur- pose during the past ten or fifteen years. Twenty Years at Present Rate. If this rate of appropriating money were continued it would be twenty years before the system is completed, and by that time there would probably be additional needs growing out of the extension of the city. During the last two or three years Con- gress has materially increased these ap- propriations, but they are still too small in amount to allow the completion of the work for many years to come. To complete this work will take, it is believed, between three and four millions of dollars, but there are no figures in the possession of Con- gress sufficiently exact to allow the au- thorization of a continuing contract for finishing the work, which is the plan under consideration. Data From War Department. It 1s lHkely that the War Department will be called on in the near future to give data on which a continuing contract can be based which will insure the completion of the work within a few years. Senator Allison, chairman of the commit- tee on appropriations, has shown a liberal spirit in dealing with the question of im- proving the sewer system of the District, as have other members of the appropria- tions committee, and it is believed there will at least be a beginning in the present Congress of a plan to settle this question, which has been so long debated. It is expected that a plan for providing a filtration plant for the Potomac water used in the District will be before Congress in a short time, and an effort will be made to begin that work. ART NOTES. The annual exhibition of the Scciety of Washington Artists is now in progress at the galleries 1020 Connecticut avenue, and will continue until Saturday, April 14. The collection embraces a wide range of sub- jects, and, while there is nothing remark- able in any individual instance, a number of the pictures would be notable and wor- thy of important positions In any exhibi- tion. Its tone as a whole {is dignified and convincing, and is entirely free from cer- tain eccentricities in color or treatment, which oftentimes tincture the exhibitions in some of the larger cities, wherein vaunted originality is often proven to be af- fected and imitative. * x x Mr. W. W. Christmas, who spends much of his time in his country studio, has been Gevoting his attention of late to the study of landscape. Mr. Christmas {s best known, however, by his marine work, and he has on his easel a large sea piece, which is near- ing completion. He also expects to have ready for the exhibition in the early sum- met an unusually large canvas showing a rolling stretch of water, in which he will endeavor to demonstrate the anatomy as well as the spirit of the deep. co x * Mr. Edwin Lamasure is another artist who finds it of the greatest importance to live in the country, where everything need- ful for picture making is ready to hand. Mr. Lamasure has been spending a few ja with his parents in Washington, look- ing up certain commissions and other busi- ness matters; for an artist must live if but to paint. * x & Juliet Thompson's many friends will ned to learn that she is still quite iously ill in Pennsylvania, where she nt to spend a short season for rest and reation. Mi * * Mr. Wells Sawyer and Mr. Hobart Nichols are two of the local painters who are not represented in the present local exhibition. The former, in serving the government, is almost continually on the move, so that he could at best have time for the merest im- pressionistic sketches such as he might see from the windows of a Pullman, but Mr. Sawyer is not an impressionist. Mr. Nichols is also, for the time being, in the embrace of the government octopus. He is fortu- nate, however, in being consigned to Paris, and probably.is not bewailing his lot. Mr. W. H. Hilliard has decided to become a resident of the capital. He has fitted up a businesslike working studio in his newly acquired home, 2100 19th street, where he has been engaged for some weeks in assort- ing and remounting a large collection of pictures and studies made during his artistic wanderings in the four quarters of the world. They embrace sunny bits of the glowing orient, quiet green stretches of Holland and Belgium, sympathetic scenes in rural France and sketches of the more uncompromising austerity of the northern and western sections of the United States. Mr, Hilliard is well on in years, but is hale and vigorous, and tells with great pride of the days when, in company with Corot, Rousseau and Daubigny, he struggied to portray the beauties of the forest of Fon- tainebleau. * * ox The dissatisfaction in artistic circles with the award for the equestrian statue of La- fayette, proposed to be erected in Paris this year, with the contributions of American school children, will not down. In fact, it may be said to be increasing rather than subsiding, and there are people a-plenty who aver that the work when completed will be far from acceptable, either to the Parisians or to art lovers in this country. This fear would indeed appear to be justi- fied by a review of all the circumstances of the case. It is to be hoped, however, if even the worst in that respect should come to pass, that the statue when put up will be more successful and satisfying as a work of art than is the “Lafayette Dollar,” issued in aid of the fund, and sold at the modest price of two dollars each. The least that can be said of this effort is that as an example of coinage it is creditable neither to the government that minted it nor to the cause for which it was issued. * x * According to the annual report of the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, that institution received gifts and bequests last year to the value of $350,000. Some of the items making up this sum were the following: Oil painting by Turner, repre- senting the Grand Canal at Venice, pre- sented by Cornelius Vanderbilt, $100,000; collection of coins from Joseph Durkee, $50,000; cash from Charles E. Tilford, $25,- 000; silver vase, from Robert M. Grinnell, $12,000; cash, (name of donor withheld), $20,000; magnolia vase, (name of donor with- held), $10,000. During the same period the whole amount paid out for the purchase of art objects was only $7.285.27, while sala- ries and wages amounted to $83,400.01. Fuel, lights, stationery, printing, postage, gener- al supplies and repairs required $33,763.97, and other expenses amounted to $10,982.48, making the aggregate outlay for the year $140,440.82. Among the items of receipts given, not including the gifts and bequests referred to above, are the following: From admission fees, $4,763; from annual mém- bers, $19,730; from special funds, $55,513.31; from the city treasury, $95,000. In- the company of all these imposi , figures, showing receipts and expenditures, the sum GUMPTION. INE does not have gumption till one has been properly cheated.” Persons of gumption are using Ivory Soap, women who have trusted themselves too near the precipice of false economy and who can now appreciate the true econo- my in a soap made of pure vegetable oils and other high-class ingredients, but made in such quantity as to bring the price within the reach of the very poorest family. Indeed it is the very poor who most need it, for they can least afford the extravagance of common soap. conrmant y THE PROCTER & GAMBLE CO. CINCINNATI THE BEST LAXATIVE. Hunyadi Janos A Pure Natural Aperient Water, ABSOLUTELY ODORLESS, and therefore free from all the offensive smell often found in Aperient Waters. RELIEVES DISORDERED STOMACH, CURES CONSTIPATION. The ONLY Aperient Water bottled at the Hunyadi Springs, ANDREAS SAXLEHNER, Sole Prop., Bud apest, Hungary. total of $7,235.57 paid out for art objects looks rather insignificant, doesn’t it? * x x Mr. Robert Reid sailed recently for Paris witn his mural decorative paintings for the United States pavilion. The sub- ject selected for treatment is “America Awakening to Knowledge of Her Strength and Resources.” The car is twenty feet long and eight feet wid is the central figure, that of a woman lifting a streaming veil. Before her are two female figures representing Electricity and Stear:. On the right is a group of laborers around a forge, symbolic of Manufactures, while Education is represented by a young woman and a boy reading a book. A negro under an orange tree, with a background of cbt- ton fields, stands for the South, and a young woman and®child carrying fruits and, flow- ers, with an Indian holding some ‘maize and a pumpkin and kneeling beneath an apple tree, are to symbolize Productiveness and Agriculture. * * * The success of Mr. George Gibbs as an illustrator and writer is a valuable object lesson for the student. Mr. Gibbs began his artistic career in Washington a few years ago. There was no particular promise in his first efforts, but he possessed a vigorous constitution end a capacity for hard work. He started in to master his profession with that spirit which is necessary to succ any other pursuit. He entered the Cor- coran School of Art and the ‘Art Students’ League, and between times found him busy in his studio. He was employer and em- pleye, and there was no shirking. S illustrative work a matter tively recent knowledge. It ble; a series of drawings for a publication. He then secured an order from a large publishing house for a series of drawings to illustrate juvenile stories of ad- venture. This led him to study marine and naval life, and it is i of work that he a pesition. Mr. Gibbs’ work is for any particular cleverness, or individnal mannerisms, but sincerity and trut ume of sea ta hich has been favorab! reviewers and is in its * s . received by t ond edition. ‘The Brooklyn Institute has secured pos- session of the Tissot collection of paintings, representing incidents in the life of Christ. ‘The amount publicly subscribed for the purchase of the collection was only two- thirds of the sum necessary, but the im- mediate ownership of the collection has been made possible by several Brooklynites who have agreed to advance the money to enable the institute to secure the pictures, retaining a lien on them for the amount of money advanced. The price to be paid for the collection is $80,000. * * The twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the Art Students’ League of New York will be celebrated about the mid- die of May. One of the features will be an exhibition of the work of the school from its beginning to the present time, in which many artists of note who have graduated from the league will be represented. A banquet and dance will also be features of the celebration. * Of the two prizes “which are awarded an- nually by the Society of American Artists the Shaw fund prize of $1,500 goes to Mr. Irving R. Wiles for his picture entitled the “Yellow Rose,” and to Mr. W. Elmer Scho- field the Webb prize of $300 for the best landscape in the exhibition for his “Au- tumn in Brittany * * * Miss Margaret Statlemeyer expects to visit Washington in the near future for the purpose of executing a number of commis- sions for miniatures which she has received from people prominent in social official circles. Miss Statlemeyer is a Maryland girl, and her work is not unfamiliar in Washington, although she has for some time had a studio in New York. Her miniature of Captain Sigsbee which was shown here last week is a good example of her skill. * Philadelphia is proving ite importance as an art center in the number and character of the exhibitions recently held there, those now in progress and the promise of more to come. At present a small collection of pictures by Birge Harrison is on view at the Academy of Fine Arts, and will con- tinue until April 1. At Memorial Hall is the Willstach collection; the annual ex- hibition of the work of members of the Philadelphia Sketch Club ts now in progress. he Photographic Society presents a collec- of excellent photographic studies hy F. Holland Day of Boston, and che ic Club has an exhibition of paintin; and sculpture by its members. nA oe peer ss - p, a stag party is a party of y—""Then stagnation would be a na- tion where there weren't. any women, wouldn't it?”—Philadelphia Record. Asmali leak will sink a large ship. 10,000,000 Welsbach Lights, in nightly use, yield 600,000,000 candle power light. THE SAME LIGHT COSTS ! Produces light at XY the expense of the tip burner and ¥%& the cost of the incandescent electric light Sold Everywhere Price 50 cents