Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 27, 1916, Page 13

During the Coming Year a of One-Hundredth Anni- versaries Will Be Ob- served—Céntenary of Founding-of American Bible Society—Its Work Broad in Scope. Society to Hold a Cen- tennial Celebration. Centenary of Birth of ‘Charlotte Bronte—Her Sad’ Story — Charlotte Saunders Cushman, American Actress, Born in 1816 — Leutz, Who Painted *““Washington Crossing “the Dela- ware”’—In" the Realm of _Literature — Balti- more, Md., Has Been Lighted by Gas for 100 Years — Other Events RIOTTE CUSHMAN.AS Mrs. HAlLER tization of dramad of independence from Spanish rule de- ering.” Charlotte tlared by the Argentine congress of deputies; the first session of the diet of the Germanic federation, held at Frankfort November 16; the admittance of Indiana to statehood and the initial opening of savings banks in the United States. The progress of education wis accel- erated by the establishment in 1818 of the universities of Ghent and Lie Beott’ Cush- died the following year. and the foundation of the Pennsylvan ~ Charlott man was recently hon- | State Public Library_ at Harrisburg. f l terést deal with the wide expanse of this|position _the society conducted a bt B T R o Univeraity, Bav- | Duving this yoar the French Academy 0 n e!'es . country.. world's Bible congress at San Fran- ink been admitted. with nino other | was reorganized, to compose of forty ‘Accordingly, representatives of thirty- | clsco in August, 1915. While this was B oiets. n the Ball of fame. This | s membove who should be the. Bigh- f five Jocal Bible societies met in New |not part of the centennial celebration, | 15 5 singlilar tribute to the dramatic | est authority on questions of language, NE hundred vears ago to-|York city in 1816 to consider a form |yet it afforded an admirable opportu- ‘day*~—how many! storiées have hung on those few @ fateful words, and what stimulus to imaginatton lies . within thém! of combined action. This convention unanimously voted to form the Ameri- can Bible Soclety with the simple, dis- tinctive object to Increase the circula- tion of the Holy Bible without note or ‘comment. nity for awakening interest. In 1816 the Waldensian Bible Soclety was organized at La Tour, France, and similar societies spread all over Ger- many. In fact, their prominénce was marked enough to incur the displeas- ute to o l.h.l “’o‘thn first actress to_be nguts - ‘The aflldly of Emmanuel Leutz. famous American painter, who dl much to bring American art to the foreground of interest, occurred May grammar, rhetoric and poetry. Two important births occurred during 1816 that may not be included under any of the headings of literature, art, religion or science. These are the births Belmont, famous of August i B sit, He was bnrr‘:“dl;.‘.":““k"e’z; Amgrican financier, and George Henry Men of public the |ure of Pope Pius VII, who issued an urttemberg, and as a o omas, major general in the Unite Yearly, at this time, these words Tise | o rowth of the n.J?:%fi'éyf%?fifi%a‘&f edict against Bible societies on June 20 to Philadelphta, w he 'displayed | States Army during the civil war. up and lead us, In spite of ourselves,|dinot, its first president, wasa philan- | of the same year. youthtul talent a -rmmfl t the | “They both have left strong impres- into the dear departed past to review |thropist and statesman of note. He| Other evidénces of the religious fer- age of twenty: L - sions, each in his line of endeavor, on the bygone events that have been im.|Wwas a member of the Continental Vor which arose in 1816 are shown in portant enough to register a lasting (Jater United States) Congress for five the organization of number of so- the life of this nation. August_Bel- dorf for a course at the Royal & n}ont was born at Alzei, Rgenxnh}’rul— emy. sia, on the 8th of December, He en- Eisirannion. gu (ha wol s I F T i Tve i ThEs esenity e | education: O s o * tered the banking house of the Roth- The deeds of the past and the ideas|signed the treaty of peace after the |Moral and Religious Instruction of the - * schilds at Frankfort at the age of four- which people Nave’ €ontributed to the|reévolutionary war with Great Britain. | Poor, the Divinity School of Harvard Almobt Immediately he began to|teen, and subsequently acted as their total of human knowledge—the stones|His other public office was the direc- | establisheq by Unitarians, tract socl- on which the present and the future are built—command interest through their intrinsic-as.seilas their relative value. The year 1916—it will be found —ushers in o' number of centenaries which possess, such a twofold worth, In gauging their importance in uni- versal progress . it nmiust. be borne In mind that the werld in 1816 was just recovering froi the great Napoleonic wars, and mueh of thé emphasis laid upon religioh. during- that year may be APoHined To the réaction yhich the na tions weré inevitably experiencing as a result of them. =0 torship of the mint at Philadelphia from 1795 to 1805. # * % John Jay, the‘second president of the American Bible Society, was another statesman who shaped the destiny of the republic. John Quincy Adams, one of the first vice presidents of the so- clety, lost no whit of his interest in its affairs after he became President: of the United States. Richard Varick, the third president of the soclety, like his two predecessors, was a personal friend cties in Philadelphia, Baltimore and Hartford, the Presbyterian board of missions——these are only a few of the organizations which had their ineep- tion in 1818. Other fields, though paled by the prominence given to religious thought, Were mot totally unproductive in that year. Genluses Wwho were to shine in the future in different branches of art came into the world at this time, the best known of these belng the widely read English novelist, Charlotte Bronte. The mere Etory of Charlotte Bronte can give no idea of the undying inter- est and exceeding pathos which marked agent at Naples. In 1837 he settled in the United States as American sentative and became a naturalized American citizen. He married the daughter of Commodore Matthew Perry. paint historical subjects. His first im- nt work, “Columbus Before the Counell of Salamanca” was purchased by the Dusseldorf Art Union. In 1860 Leutz wes commissioned by the United States government to decorate a stair- way in the Capitol. His large compo- sition, “Westward the Star of Empire Takes Its Way,” {s well known. His best known work, “Washington Crossing the Delaware” 1s a large canvas contalning a score of life-sized figures. It is owned by the Metropoli- repre- = = * In the Iater years of his life August Belmont found time to serve his coun- try in numerous capacities. He was charge d'affaires of the United States legation at The Hague in 1855 and American minister at this post until 1858. During the civil war he was an i a o Museum, 1n New York. The paint- | energetic ‘supporter of the morth an 2 life. The gentle little English ., (it s predicted that a-paralleliem to|ot Georse Washington. The influence e e s 1o anibor of Ten T or died in Washington July 18, 1858. | o¥eriod 2 wioon® ;:fl::::x;x:nn::c;::‘:: he religlous yigor of 1816 will ocour|or tnese men at once commanded the [suffered more disappointments in her The most notable literary creation to P e B afiter. T Hhould maeh aa owbnt ATOPSAN | confidence of the people apd this con- |career than were ever compensated for n 1618 was Percy Bysshe Shel.|and financiers. He died In New York in pass wit The coming ;:::'-’ 1t :‘:ufi fdence has been maintained by a long | DY, the success which met her lterary Alaster; or, The Spirit of Soli-|1890. Beem true that history is not only able|line of distinguished Americans Wwho |ord en s aatrs ae T et ook to repeat itself, but to do so with elock- Hke regularity. the awakening 100 It seems as though flew through the air and have succeeded them as officers of the society. In 1852 demands for Scriptures be- her intense nature as she reflected them in her novels were in themselves the very cause of the professional interest which she awakened among her co- Lrias UOINOT, LLD, TIRSTPRESIDENT His two sons, Perry and August Bel- mont, have also been prominent in the national affairs. Perry Belmont, who makes his home in Washington in the » magnificent expression of the poet’s own restless, tameless spirit wandering among the solitudes of na- ture in search of a lovely dream maid- AT PIBLE SOCIETY . O e reaty. ™An. | winter, has been a member of Congress o rond .t AYMIEH af IMa ROCIALY (eug- |tamporary ierat] TIERK S Sther motable work was Leigh Hunt's 3nd Tnitea 'States minister to” Spain. scattered seeds of religious fervor |Scsted that time was ripe for an agd- . “Story of Rimini” Tt may also be rec| (%, CHHL banking house in New over all the nations. All kinds of so- ;lncn in kthe s mru_e hrtluse in * * called fn this connection that Lord ZS Bead Of T8 prominent in financing cleties éprang frem all kinds of creeds, | New York, coverns thfec quariers of| gorn April 21, 1816, she passea her Byron lefe his native land in, 1816 and| ;;/"New York subway. :,'3"3‘;3.“,.”’:,... ..,:;':,‘.,,‘,,‘:_ "",‘:‘:; mands. In this }:lnn brick bullding |esTly life in the little village of Ha- bexan his exile in Italy and Greece. held everywhere with a view toward spreading the influence of Christianity, - e JU ) A s rhaps the most notable expression of the year—in fact, the one which has are the records of the society’s issues of Bibles and testaments during the century. Throughout the whole of the ninety-ninth year of the society, issues from the Bible house have averaged sixteen volumes every minute of the working hours. worth in the west riding of Yorkshire, where her father was perpetual in- cumbent of the parish for the last forty years of his life. She was one of a large family, of whom three, herself, Anne and Emily, were destined for an u “The Professor,” Heights” After much travéling about these man- “Wuthering ‘Agnes Gray.” and Anne's scripts reached a publisher who was impressed and Charlotte was informed that a longer novel would be gladly considered. She responded with the pertinacious suitor, but who had bean discouraged by her father. After less than a year of married life she died on the 31st of March, 1855. Another name of prominence in the artistic world which came into being in 1816 is that of Charlotte Saunders George Henry Thomas, famous civil war general, was born in Virginia {July 31, 1316. After his graduation from the Military Acadamy he served in Florida against the Seminoles. At the outbreak of the civil war he gave his adherence to the Union, notwith- The famous Elgin marbles were pur- chasea by the British Museum just 100 Gears ngs. These marbles receive their hame from the Earl of Elgin, a British diplomatist ang art collector, who re- moved these celebrated sculptures from Athens, In doing o he aroused much to the | y s 3 yre” i scus: nd was censured as a van-|standing his sympathies and assocla lived and pros xm = eentury and the Bible house also are Bt\lfllafl indisputably permanent place in the ’;Tl%‘i;‘;i?xaxdi‘é’%n El)lr:ide:nd ko S:::Per::n e e 3'.1. 5?\‘-‘5!‘5 Were expressed as to the|tions with the south. In thoihhlnlu ot il continues) Mwith sver-widening |the problems of the o o omg | ierary world. At the age of ten years . She was born in Boston, Mass., afd |srtistic value of many of the Dleces. | Murfreesboro he commanded the center, scope to carry on it religlous work— | SCHIPtUres. Lol O e e e | Pavani iy HaRoof M to the Clergy Far descended from Robert Cushmar, one | The marbles are still on exhibition in|and at Chickamauga he commanded the 18 the American Bible Soctety. Brinted B ariean Indians, eight are. In , where the bad food Bines it in May, 1816, the Bible Soctety has followed tongues of the islanders of the Pacific, four have their unique home in Latin the single &im of Increasing the cfr- America, six are intelligible in Afriea only, and the’five leading languages of and drastic discipline were -held countable for the death of two of her Younger sisters. In “Jane Eyre” Char- lotte afterward gibbeted this school 3. Meanwhile the other sisters’ novels were published and floated mainly on the wave of popularity which “Currer Bell” of the founders of Plymouth colony, who was reputed to have preached the first sermon ever delivered in - New England. left -wing, where the great st took place for the repo: 10; Chattanooga, out of which the ememy had been maneuvered. the British Museum. At this same time, Giovanni Bat- tista Belzoni, the Italian explorer of tian antiquities, removed with " 1 re- . er father, a West India merchant, | gfeat skill the colossal bust of Rameses | The record of Thomas’ wonderfw under the di i kS ” inspired. However, “Wuthering ] tr sistance for upward of five how Hation of s Seipturse 118 $20tts | Burowe, namely, Frenan German| In her enriy mlIhood ohe Cns am. | Helghts” continues to stand alone as a | gec, And 17t ‘3,'“::'“5{.‘,','0.’.‘:"},:,';:.‘? T oL o ed "t * Eatiand and |against tho concentrated efforts of the ° until the: - !talian, Spanish and Portuguese, be- ous to have a school of h monument of Intensity, a thing apart, % ced in the British Museum. enemy after the eral right was tries and the islands of seven seas,|sides Bulgarian and Esthonian,’ nd [Tn order to assure greater independence i Doy cuttivated COREraItc voles and 3 through nime home and twelve foreign encies ninety-nine years it has Tobued xo!.&:u Bibles. their way into the presses as well. The distribution of Bibles by 1,800 colporteurs and twenty-one agencies for herself. She planned to acquire a proficiency In languages and became .4 pupil at the Pensionnat Heger in Brus- unforgettable, passionate, haunting in its grimness, its gray melancholy. After this first taste of success Char- 1ac P Science in 1816 was not advanced by any remarkable discovery or invention. A nhumi of events of small signifi- a finely cultivated contralto volee and decided to help her mother and sister by going on. the operati¢c stage. routed forms one of the most remark- able events in the history of the war. After this he was given command suc- pass, however, which | cessively of the Army of the Cumbers e o e the. Awarican Bible So- | throushout the world has been success- |gels. She was recalled from Belgium |1otte lost all of the companions of her o ““’n.‘m‘...‘:. ‘an indication that the |land and in Tennessee. As a reward sty Bonihe with sertatn features of |ful in Teaching all classes of peoble.|by the death of her aunt, who be. ! YOUth, the two sisters and one brother ntific world was not standing com- |for the heroic action which he dls- ey Pasment of the thirteen original | The United States army, seamen, desti- |queathed her enough money to enable having died. She was left alone to| In 1835 she successfully avpel.rldxt I ot By tima. Dlayed in the battle of Nashville he otomies Phe wildermess of Amecrica | tute Sabbath schools, the poor and iso-|her to reconsider her plan of life. Ac-|console the’ declining years of her|the Tremont Theater, In Boston, But| g fmaore will have been llghted by|was promoted to the rank of major Was an asylum for oppressed lovers of | ated, immigrants, inmates of public cordingly, she returned to her friend father, who was fast becoming blind fner volce falled her and she entered a6 for & contury Upon the sdvent of | gemeral in the army and tendered a the Bible, and Tt fs not & mere coinci- | institutions, hotels, steamboats, rails M. Heger and passed a year in his|in the desolate home at Haworth. played Lady Macbeth |ihe new year.. In Phitadelphia the firat |vote of thanks by Congress. e BBl A I ot 8 e oolne) | road cars—all have been recipicnts of |school, where she undoubtedly widened | She then completed the new novel, |the drama and pave e e e Yo lighted by gas in 1810;| During the remaining months of the A e L D I e v osion, | the supPly of Bibles from the society. |her intellectual sphere by reading | “Shirley” and in the following winter |the same year. In order to Increase | /oo™ plates were first used in book | war he contributed materially to the 5 tne" population spread ® westward * many books on French literature. The | visited London and met Thackeray, to [her experience she became a stock | pinting: the first iron ships were con-|overthrow of the Confederacy by orc many people settled in regions without * % Cxperiences in Brussels were signifi- |whom she had dedicated “Jane Eyre.” [actress, but s6on Tose to the first place | ktructed: travelers were able to pass| ganizing ralding expeditions, one of cHureipr Dreacher jto keep afresh In | The preparations for -the centennial| %t ] Afecting her later novels. =~ |The following year she repeated her |and was given leading parts. She aft- |from New York to Philadelphia be-|which resulted in the capture of Jet- ir the ‘spresence. | of tne mociety’s organization have been |a volume of poems appeared by Cuorrer, | Richmond and was tonsideranly e |erward managed and played at the |tween sunrise and sunset—a speed |ferson Davis. Christian men dseRded the PrmanSNt | proceeding with good results. The|Ellls and Acton Bell, names which dis- 3 deemed quite remarkable; the electric telegraph with index and clockwork was invented by Sir Francis Ronalds. ‘Historical ized by a host of admirers. While a guest in London she met Mrs. Eliza- beth Gaskell, who afterward wrote her Walnut Street Theater in Philadelphia and accompanied Macready on his American tour, winning a great repu- After the close of the war he com- smanded military districts in several parts of the country, his death occur- an fch would surely follow when the centennial committee of the board of ‘were outw! Light came guised the identity of Charlotte, Emily managers has had frequent meetings and Anne Bronte. These poems were a 1 opn. when the Idea of a gensral Bible dis- - ined by all de- nnnlm was adopted. Local Bible ties dld effective service for a time, but diffculties of communication showed that combination only could and correspondence with denominations of the country, and the spirit of the oc- caston is spreading in the thurches and among the friends of the soclety. At the request of the Panama-Pacific ex- failure, with the exception of Bmily's, which alone revealed a true poetic genius. Each of the girls came for- ward with a novel to dispose of, each of which subsequently received flat- tering notice. h blography; Arnold and others. Harriet Martineau, Matthew In the year 1852 she worked hard on er new novel, In that “Villette,” which i published the following year. that 1y, the year 1816 was a dull enaries of notable events forth humanity’s laurel this yéar. The most interest- ing of these which did occur, however, ring at San Francisco, where he com- manded the military division of the Pacific. A large bronze statue was erected te his memory in Washington shortly tation in tragedy. In 1845 she fulfilled a successful engagement in London and Few call acquired a wide repertoire of classical ome. will roles. It has been said that her are the law same year she was married to Arthur in France excluding Bell Nichols, who had long been her forever from French soll the family of Napoleon Bonaparte; the declaration THE BANKING LAWS construetive use in the banks he visits and of assistance to the bankers in ting unsatisfactory conditions, advising and assisting them in the way Charlotte’s con. Hatne erine, and her most commanding, Meg WOMAN IN GOVERNMENT SERVICE IS AN EXPERT IN © Miss Adele M. Stew- art of the Office of the 5 f th - throll:r ?Nominc‘;or Tod the Tederal reserve act st her S '&’}“CY bl B o e e o ot om Problems in e Finance Have No Ter- | s sas srsew under nor aicee. rors.— Twenty - Two Years in the Service. after his death, and the circular park which incloses the statue is called by his name. novel was called were Lady Macbeth and Queen ok to the great majority. It is wholly doubtful if there are a dozen women throughout the country who comprehend these complex, although invaluable, measures of surveillance over and assistance to the banking in- terests of the nation. Theré is, however, in Washington one her immediate direction. more than 7,600 United Stat. As there are national banks in_ the which are required to 01 on the call -of the con- troller of the currency not fewer than five times a year, and as they are ex- amined twice a year—and in addlition to all of this have many special ex- aminations—the aggregate reports and the correspondence - relating to the work comprise a large volume of bu of it the service of experts. From. the examiners’- s is to gained the knowledge. of the. actual condition of the banks. This division handles all spondence with ex- aminers, all routine matters connected with the work of the latter, which in- cludes their expense accounts, salaries and the making up of their assign- ments—in short, everything pértaining to the work of the corps of bank ex- aminers, who are constantly on the road, sent out by the United-States Treasury to protect the interests of every private citizen who avails him- selt oruhena}f of thd. I&flonu banks, as well as to guar e moneys of to indicate to the world thal the untangler of bank kno N [ETSAL Sovs o the outsider would seem to be the g-r e nerve-rackis into 6 nation’s business could she has applied herself especially to the legal phases of the work. To her is conceded by the chief of the division and her office associates as com- plete and thorough a knowledge of the na- tional bank act and its numerous and complex ramifications as is posSessed by any 6ne. To equip herself fully for Eromotlun to the position she now olds she took a night course in law at the Washington College of Law, raduated with honors, and her work as included . the. passing upon legal questions relating to the national bank act, as, well as the constantly recur- ring problems connected with the more recent federal reserve act. the office of the controller of the cur- rency ‘has had greater experience T' more universal success in this d(qeu work than Miss Stewart. Many tim during recent years, in the abserice of the chief of division, she bga erved as by the national bank act, as amended, and by the federal reserve act, as cre- ated. A number of young men in the bu- reau of the controller of the currency h banded themselves into a night class for the study of the national bank act in particul nd bankigg laws in general.. It speaks well for the regard, pracpal cand, professional, in which iss Stewart is held that she was ask- ed to be the Instruoctor of this class. Intolerable. GEORGE LUKS, the New York paint- er, attended a studio’tea’' in Wash- ington Square last week. Mr. Luks, like all consclentious art- ists, gives no praise except sincere praise, and hence pralse from: him is valued.. None fell from his lips, how- ever, at the studio tea in guestion. The host, a rich sculptor, Snajly led Mr. Luks to a statuette of a dancing faun and said, desperately: “Come, come, Luke, admit that this is at least tolerable?” *“My dear fellow,” the artist drawled, ‘what is your opinion of a tolerable of m-pnrfln‘“ existing evils and work- L In‘ out of difficult situation: acting - chief, ~ perft e duties, hases of the work of administrative and expert, with assur- |the Stewart is familiar ance and efficiency. - She has won rare experience in hafd- liny the serious conditions ‘which are constantly arising and she knows how to advise when trouble im- pends and a bank turns to its’ an, the contraller of . curceliay; £ helj er knowledge o T ence in handiing’ alécn tsation have dorie’their share many & fime in setting upon - its ‘feet mofe than ome banking Institution which has been tottering perilously near the brink. in advancing the financial stability of the nation, so materially strengthened The Optimist. HARLES F. MURPHY, the Tam- many leader, praising .optimism, sald: 2 “When I am looking for cheery, bracing optimism, 1 often think of the street musician playing ‘Christians Awake' on a cornet in the midst of a driying snowstorm on Christmas day. “The snow fell, the. wind, blew, and : the musiclan, standing in a deep drift, tooted awany when a’lady passed. *The man looked down at ‘his shabby sttire and said to himself proudly and optimistically: > ness; bub ba la expected 10 be of pe-|in this deep tion the work connected with the bank examiners’ reports to the office of the cantroller of the currency. Miss Stew- art’s personality belies the difficult role #he is ably filling in the federal service, for, instead of wearing a severely judi- elal mien, she is pleasingly tranquil in and graciously courteous of wnu having nothing in her ap - - The bankerd of America represent the highest type of the intelligence of the country. They are men of brilliant initia’ive and of infinite resource, and ably and rapidly though the govern- ment can invent laws for their guid- ce, they are so constantly altering nking conditions that the govern- ment has: ever to be on the alert to aéx;’ its rulings to meet the constant- 1y changing requirements. t'. The controller of the curreney, while primarily guardian. of the . people's funds, is at the same time anxious to be of assistance to the nation's banks. Under his management, the office is constructive and upbuilding in its in- tent, although carefal to severity in In no division of the federal service |its watchfulness. The bank examinet a hundred clerks, of whom Miss Stew- | arise more unique situations or more | of today is not only the federal auditor is ‘dean. Bhe has earned her place|complex and puszling problems. Butland the critic, mor is he . pegv-. siguation. st be .adjusted. and th to ferret u.-:x;mb!mfiofl.mnonu VLA The mass of work entailed by the ex- amination of the naticnal banks of this ¥ | country is handled by a corps of half 1t's only my shoes that’ ‘h.ay lfl‘!,ll“ at u: SROW, e e