The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 9, 1900, Page 9

i Attacks Made on C. H.| Two Rival Firms Have! THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, JA ARY 9, 1900. GHTING OVER CALIFORNIA AND NEVADA RAILWAY Smith of Denver. i | | | [ AR BETWEEN BILL-POSTERS BALS AT LAST Success Is Already in Consolidated. i MOMENTS OF REST ARE PROMISED SHOP GIRLS Sight of the Agitation Started by the Mothers’ Union of Golden Gate. CONTEST FOR A RAILROAD AFFECTS PROPERTY OWNERS | \gor COMMISSIONER MEYERS IS STILL WAITING. INDICATIONS THAT THE LINE et S TO BE MADE NEGOTIABLE. —_— the Only Available Entrance to Oakland From the North. g effort and en effort ve his suit in intervention al foreclusure procee efforts falle begin; eclared >Ipa nds on w he road, Londs in this su Value Lies in the Fact That It Is ermined at the son © was was ning ges that the of- and Nevada Rail- e void the suit of foreciose in- hicn | ers’ Union of Golden Gate, is years' contest over the title 10| The merry war between the rival bill t , x and Nevada Rafiroad i T et Sa fhila ity SR, spreading. Women who interest & head in Judge Morrow’s court intenaity and bitterness of | themselves in the weifare of their sex | OWENS & VARNEY AND SIEBE & | GREEN CALL IT OFF. St After Losing Barrels of Money They | Conclude to Stop Fighting and Join Their Interests—A | Bitter Contest. ——— | HERE 18 hope for the saleslady their behalf, started by the Moth- sy st | are taking hold of the matter with a de- s fs il e | mination fhiar ioance: ailldos manee jness by the real estate | The law which says that merchants em- fattened their bank ac- | Ploying female help must provide seats : absurdly high rentals they | fOF their employes’ use is recelving their for the use of vacant lots | 8ttention. It is going to amount to some- tine Gosired: 6o ‘epent lhl|nx if the et !n:;\'e lhe‘irs wa,i\;_ A The s : owner | Quiet inspection of the stores of San Fran- 'ruunif.g“‘: l'.ix:rhf’eu:f X:Z&E:)nw in- clsco is one of the things that the crusad- me from a $10 lot, because thers wilt be | €rs contemplate. Any proprietor who is jon between the paste- | DOt treating his lady clerks as the law % and without this competi- | 81d humanity demand will be requested | ‘tals are impossible. to get in line. There will be no foolishness | of Slebe & Green and | about ft. Just one polite request and the have been consolidated Merchant who does not take the hint will of the California Bill learn of his mistake soon enough. and hereafter there wi Tt may be said to the credit of the pro- £ te used in 8 prietors of most of the leading stores of market value of vacant the city that they have no objection to the enforcement of the law, oft have received on which the rival 1 1 0 is suitable for advert Biit Aharei e gy o Lo ifter a serlous relopte. | some who do not take kindly to any in- | ad, and 11" “Slebe, J. Charles | novation that might add to the comfort | of their employes. These are the people | on whom the women have thelr ey | They have chairs behind their counters, | but woe to the clerk who has the temerity | to rest. The seats are for ornamental pur- | poses only and to make a show of com- plying with the law. Girls emg‘loyed in | these stores dare not talk of their mis- treatment. Their mouths are closed with the fear of dismissal. Their ositions would be the price of their complaints. These are the women for whom the Mothers' Union has taken a stand and for the securing of whose rights the la- dies of this city will lend their assistance. These are the women whom Labor Com- sioner Meyers uses as the excuse for his deplorable inactivity. Mr. Meyers is walting for complaints and he knows that girls dare not make them. They H. B. Varney and Len D. s. | and_Len Owens will be Mr. Green will be the but all five are the business. A m said last night two firms which idated during the last 1 $272,000 as the result that has prevailed ey have the whole hope to retrieve liberally in No in- s contemplat- e fact that monop- Siebe George to charge the public |y ed out of them. of a tal of a quarter member of the declared our field of » hoped against hope that he would i N Francisco, San some day realize his duty and perform it. | < presented ameda, San Rafael, In that was their only anticipation of re. wing ul an enswer w e second suit 1 made the dis- which, had mpany, Tow held 5 is an < dismiss the orig- s made in the suit that to intervene, 1 discovered that the re- | {7 nd the war continued with re- road bad h!,{v?.n]:‘ip : During the last few months bill posters began lief until the Mothers' Union took up the en Siebe & Green en- ;i | California Club Joins the Crusade and Its Members Will Make Individual Appeals to the Merchants to Provide Seats for Their Female Employes. The latter is acting while Mr. Meyers is but {t is presumed that it is either over his own inactivity or the idea that it has been suggested that he should take a pre- Commissioner. Shopgirls will not have to complain to the women who have undertaken to help them and It will not be very long before they will be able to take a bit of rest wher they are not busy without fear of losing thelr positions. So much for the agitation started by the | mothers of the other side of the bay. From the aspect of things it appears that their fight was all but won when they adopted the resolutions that hayeattracted the attention of the women of the State, and apprised the Labor Commissloner of the fact that his duty is not to wait but to work. The ladies, however, will not be satisfied with their fight until they have clinehed the victory. They are going right along with their plan of campaign just as though success was not already in sight. On this side of the bay the crusade is in the hands of the California Club, one of the representative women's organizations of the State. Mrs. Lovell White, the pres- ident, brought the matter up at a meeting held yesterday afternoon. Every member warmly commended the Mothers’ Union | for the action it had taken and enthuslas- tically placed their services at the com mand of the union. For the reason tha the club has in hand the preservation o Telegraph HIll it was not thought advis- able to take up the shopgirl subject as a body until the efforts to save the old landmark are completed: “We are heartly in sympathy with th movement in favor of the women clerks,” sald Mrs. Lovell White, “and individualfy. our members are going to use their influ- ence to et the merchants with whom they trade to comply with the law and provide their employes with seats for use ' when they are disengaged. On the theory that with too many irons in the fire none of them get hot, the club did not think it advisable, as a body. to agitate the mat- ter. 1 do not think that our members will have any difficulty In bringing the mer- chants around to our way of thinking.” Resolutions were adopted congratulating he Mothers' Unfon and_expressing the in opposition to the Cali Company. The latter com- lly succeeded by Owens & RUT CANERS 1Sk KISSDN 0 FOUCE DTS Prominent Men Sign| an Appeal. betwe ) the rivals to se- < became so fierce s were paid until the e income from adver- | » such a ruinous condi- | suld not long continue, | msolidation was the natural | ally the only outcome. Installation of Officers Is Followed by Presentations and a Dinner. San Francisco Chapter, No. 1, R. A. M. egular installation of officers last | adquarters In the Post- | street Tem The foliowing were the officers elected and Installed for the en-| term of office: | ot H 'JACOBS WILL TAKE IT EAST —_— | KNIGHTS TEMPLAR BANQUET. | \ ‘ ; | evening a Janies M. Troutt, M. high priest; 4 Charles W. Taber, k. Brainard > Rowley, E. scribe min Harris, | Ssatanl Henry . secretary 3 ame {onaon, captain of the hosi: PERSONAL DISCUSSION THEN IS Char McDougall, principal sojourner: s Thomas L. Henderson, royal arch captain; | EXPECTED. | | Edward J_ Vogel, master third vail; Ernst | | A. Buchse, masier second vail; Gustav | | orfer, master first vail; Theodore | Commissioner Kasson, the negotiator of f B ararith, organist; Edward Gilberts, | reciprocity treatles between the United st the conclusion of the installation cer- | States and foreign countries, will soon re- e emonies G, H. Umbsen, the reuring high | ceive & personally presented petition, in t priest, and Secretary H. Prince were | which the fruit canners of the State and s made recipients of uelicate compli- | dealers in California canned goods have ments from those over whom they ed the authority of their positions past year. Mr. Umbsen pre- d with a beautiful clock by the mem- | f his chapter and a magnificent ; tudded gold watch by his per- | Judge Troutt, the new have united in asking him, in negotiating trea- ties with foreign countries, to give due consideration to the necessity for increas- ing the exports of California canned fruit, which the petition declares can only be done by material r in the tariff bers of igh priest, made the pre- tion speech on behalf of the mem- the chapter and the address ao- | Chamber of Commerce Election. placed on said goods by forelgn countries. This petition was in circulation among the downtown business houses yesterday % tries, except England, the sald tariff| $ | placed on the said goods amounts to more | g — St than the actual value of the goods.” 2 + - > | “Tast year Mr. Jacobs, accompanied by | % >— Ry Morris Marks of Newcastle, Eng., an Eng- § | Jish director of the California Canneries The contr a f rce will be I Presidio Contract Awarded. the from the ng i by the trustees of of the the Rich- This wall n his year the mly | The revenue of Slerra Leone for the past | very- |y d the sum of $56,410, the larg- was 8 ve all one | est ever c ted In the colony. The ex- ere were only two bidders penditure was $505,560. ing the watch was delivered by Vogel, master third vall. Prince’s rémembrance consisted of utiful solid silver dinner service and ered him by Thomas L. Hender- al arch captain, acting as spokes- x the others. e conclusion of the ceremonies 1 nple the entire assemblage ad i to the California Hotel, where a t was awalting the Templars, the | of which was prolonged until | 1e early hours of the morning. | ————— Postoffice Clerks. se San Francisco branch of the United | PostofMice Clerks' Association has elected & officers for the ensuing year: ident; G. W. Michael, H. J. Caveney, secretary and received the signatures of the follow- ing in a very short time: Louis Sloss, California Canneries Company (Limited) | Code-Portwood Canning Company, Cali- | fornia Fruft Canners’ Association, Griffith- | Dunne Company, California_ Fruit Pre- | serving Company, Charles W. Pike & Co., Field Mercantile Company, Johnson-Locke | Mercantile Company, American Trading | Company, Hooper & Jennings, Haas | Bros. and Girvin & Eyre. Isidor Jacobs, managing director of the California Canneries Company (Limited), is circulating the petition. He is about to go to Europe, stopping at Washington on the way, where he will seek an interview with | Commissioner Kasson. The petition, in | addition to the appeal made to the Com- missioner, asks the members of the Cali- | fornia Congressional delegation ‘'to use | their very best efforts with J. A. Kassen, | : to the end that in all reciprocity treaties | financial secretary; J. H. | negotlated by him or about to be nego- | treasurer; G. P. Feely, sergeant- | tiated with foreign countries, the Interest | Durson, J. M. Donohoe, J. | of California fruits may be looked after, Dr. E. ¥. Donelly, execu- | so as to increase the business so neces- sary to the future dewvelopment of the | industry.” { The basis of these requests is the re-| sertion of the fact that “the California | | canned fruit business is capable of im- | mense expansion in foreign conntries pro- vided that a reasonable tariff can be | placed upon the goods by foreign coun- tries; and that the ,rade with foreign RSSCSSSSISSISo N | countries is much restricted by reason of NEW GOODS. | E tive committe e | the excessive tariff, thereby directly in- | juring the industry, as-well as directly in- juring the fruit-growing industry of the | Btate; and that in nearly all foreign coun- | SPECIAL BARGAINS! | LADIES’ CLOTH PLAID WAISTS, value for $2, will Y B el o S R e LADIES’ FANCY STRIPED SKIRTS, value for $1, will be OO B ooiaiinibiBoanncsnranns LADIES' STOCK COLLARS, in all shades, will be offered LADIES" WRAPPERS, value for $2, will be ofiered Bl sriacsihesihtnhts s puspanasnssssss LADIES' GOLF CAPES, value for $12.50, wlll be ISR, <o vis coveniupaghoresabiibns J.O’BRIEN&CO. 11246 Market Street, Bet. Taylor and Mason. | Company (Limited) visited Germany and looked about with a view of enlarging the market for California products abroad. Mr. Jacobs had an interview with United States Minister White at Beriln, who ad- vised him to return to the United States and talk with Commisstoner Kasson. This | was the first intimation that Kasson was | negotiating a reciprocity treaty with Ger- many. Mr. Jacobs and Mr. Marks found | The Reld for Caltfornia fruits to be good | in Germany if the duty could be reduced. | "Mr. Marks, who is now in_this city, said | yesterday to a reporter of The Call: | ““Germany ought to take as much Cali- fornia canned fruit as England does. The ople in Germany have learned to like | f‘f,m call for it. There is some trade there for California canned fruit now, but nothing like what it would be if the de- | sired reduction in duties can be made. The | Auty amounts to just about the value of | the goods. California has a big stake {n the matter. Last year the export of Cali- fornia canned goods to Great Britain amounted to $3,000,000 in round figures. The German importation would be as much | if the duty is lowered to the proper fig- | ure. The growth of the California canned goods trade in Great Britain indicates | What can be done. Last year the total | was 630,00 cases, As against 335,128 cases in 1868 and 95,817 cases in 1894 Mr. Marks will call on Commissioner Kasson with Mr. Jaocobs and the latter will present the petition of the canners for consideration. , S e — Beat a Lame Horse. Walter Melnor, driver for the San Francisco Matzo Company, at 1240 Folsom street, was arrested yesterday by Officer W. T. Hooper and charged with cruelty to animals. Meinor was driving a lame horse up Larkin &treet, beating the poor beast unmercifully at every step. It was necessary to remove the animal In the horse ambulance. $1.25 30¢ [5¢ $1.00 $8.50 | ta OR THE FUN ROM THE WEST Gift to the Memory of Lawton. SHAFTER SENDS A CHECK COLONEL FREEMAN MAY GO ON | THE TARTAR. SEEEE Yesterday afternoon General Shafter sent on to Adjutant General Corbin at Washington a draft for §5494 50, the com- tributions to the Lawton fund from the people of this coast. The amount men- tioned does not represent the amount the contributions will finally make up, for there is a sufficient sum reported now on its way to General Shafter to make the final total $10,121 €8, and there may be more | even after that. | Of this amount $5965 was secured by the | efforts of the citizens’ committee * that | took such a deep Interest in the matter, and $1350 is due to the efforts of Mr. | Michels of the firm of Greenebaum, Wetl | & Michels. The remainder is due to the | personal efforts of General Shafter. Tt is | considered an excellent response from the | people of this coast, and General Shafter | has expressed much satisfaction over the result. i OAKLAND, Jan. 8.—Mrs. L. A. Booth | of Pledmont to-day handed over $100 to | Colonel O. F. Long for the Lawton fund. The money was rajsed In Oakiand and following Is a list of the contributors: G. W. Hume §25, Taft & Ponnoyer $. Ed- | 'HONGKONG MARU ARRIVES FROM ISITIC PLATS Passengers Landed. Ship Quarantined. HARTFORD TO HAVE HER TRIAL SHE WILL GO OUTSIDE ON A CRUISE TO-MORROW. | e Chilean Ship Hindostan Springs a Leak and Puts in Here in Dis- tress—Another Overdue | | Arrives—Notes. and the shopgirl. The tation {n | still waiting for complaints, although it | | pet by | cannot be said he is not agitated—what | about is one of the secrets of his office, | } —— ‘The Toyvo Kisen Kalsha's steamer Hong- | kong Maru arrived from the Orient via | Honolulu early yesterday morning. Sho | paratory course in the dutles of a Labor | prought up thirteen cabin and eight sec- ond class passengers, besides fifty-three ! Chinese in the steerage. Though she had neither freight nor passengers from | Honolulu, she had to join the Algoa in | quarantine. Quarantine Officer Kinyoun | 1s taking no chances and not a vessel that | comes from Hawali will be allowed to | doek until every .rat aboard has been killed. The rodents are more to be feared | than a man with the plague. The latter can be guarded against, but once a rat gets ashore with the bacllll there is nc telling where the disaster will end. Lung Kal Chew, the prominent Chinese revolutionist, was a passenger on board the Hongkong Maru, but stopped off at Honolulu. He had discarded his Chinese garb for Caucasian clothing and was traveling under a Japanese passport as B. Kashibara. | The bark Albert came in from Honolulu | | yesterday and was sent to join the Hong- kong Maru and Algoa in quarantine. The | Falls of Clyde, which arrived from Hilo, | | was not quarantined. ! | The Hartford was the center of attrac-| fon on the front yesterday. The his- | toric old ship looks llke a yacht, and | with her formidable battery of modern guns would be able to give a good ac- count of herself in any company. She | | will probably go to sea to-morrow on u trial cruise, and on ber return will fit out for the voyage to New York. Yesterday | the apprentice boys were given a sall | drill, and the way in which they put a full working suit of canvas on the sioop of war made the sallors on the British | merchantmen give vent to many marks of approbation. The French bark General Neumayer, | which it was feared had gone ashore near the Horn in the October storms, reached port early yesterday morning. The vess:l { was 186 da, out from Swansea and per cent reinsurance was paid on her v to proceed to Fort Mason to form part of | the garrison there. | Troop G of the Sixth Cavalry, stationed | Mr. at the Presidio, secured the son of | Sommer, chief clerk to the Roy Som mer is the new soldier. He has been | brought up among the troops and would have joined the service lomg before this if his Par(‘nls had not objected. He | particularly enamored of the cavalry arm. | A college chum, George Hart, enlisted | with him, and both are going to try for commissions. Both boys are about 19 years old. The contract of Acting Assistant Sur- geon T. A. McCulloch, who is now at Be- nicia, having been annulled for 11l health, he has been ordered to proceed to his home In this efty. | The detachment of men from the hos- pital which was to be sent to Honolulu on the transport Tartar will go down there on the next mail steamer instead of on a transport, as it is the evident Inten- tion of the Government not to have trans. ports put in at Honolulu until all danger of the plague has passed. The Tartar will stop at Guam Instead of at Honolulu. PARTNERS MAY COMPROMISE. Troubles of mHTln’\e;,r Bredhoff & Schulz May Be Settled To-Day. son F. Adams $5, T. L. Barker %, e C.1 There was a promise of a sensational Pardee 85, L. A. Booth $5, R. D. Fry of San Frangisco. 35, Anson Barsiow §2 50, Heron & | tUrn in the copartnership quarrel of Hil- Holoamb $2 50, B. B, Bowles $2 50, B. B, Tay- lor $2 50, F. C. ens 32 50, James P. Taylor §2 30, Charles W. Kellogg 3250, A. P. Brayton §2, Willlam J. Bowman $2, John J. Coughlin §2, Mrs. Shafter Howard $2, William H. Friend $2, A. Hollywood §1, cash without names $15 50. i General Lawton's body is coming here on the transport Thomas, which is report- ed four days out from Manila. Prepara- | tions for its reception will soon be under | way,. but so far but one thing has been | decided upon, that is that General Shafter | himself will accompany the body from this city to wherever the Interment will | be held. The Thomas should reach here | somewhere .buus Fe.hrua‘ry L ! WASHINGTON, Jan. 8—The Lawton home fund is attaining noble proportions, and General Corbin is of the opinion that there is now in sight about $85,000. The ! contributions turned In since noon on Sat- | urday, or reported, amount to $18,976, mak- ing the grand total at noon to-day $67,409. | General Corbin says that in addition to | this it is reported to him that there is a | fund of $10.000 in_San_Francisco and an- other of $6000 in New York not yet turned in, and there is no doubt that other sums will be reported. Colonel Freeman of the Twenty-fourth Infantry, commandant of the Presilio, wiil probably be one of the passengers on the Tartar when she leaves here to-mor- row. There has been no order to that ef- fect issued so far, but there is pretty cer- tain to be one before the vessel sails. | Should Colonel Freeman go on the Tar- | tar the command of the Presidio will de- | volve on Major Cowles of the Seventeenth | Infantry, who IS now in command of the casual détachment there, he being the se- nior officer under Colonel Freeman. As he is a casual officer, however, it is not likely he will hold the position longer than it takes to bring some other officer from elsewhere. Rumor now connects the name of Major Rucker of the Fourth Cavalry, but his assknment will probably 1est upon the result of an application for a transfer and exchange sent in by him and Major Rogers of the Stxth Cavalry. Major Rogers was a captain in the Fourth Cav- alry, and he has but recently been pro- | moted to be a major in the Sixth. He has been with the Fourth, however, ever since he left West Point. and when he Wwas promoted to the Sixth he immedfatoly - Sub-tieasury _for ho later ma.ried commenced negotiations ~ with Major taaranc. me to it. The | Farren, the actress, w Rucker to_trade places. Major Rucker is | 078! an;'tdo s and Tater the forsersmeY | Lorda Derby, and with this canvas he willing, and if the change be made !t Is | giscovered. | immediately attracted great attention Rellyg he il DI SR et the e ————————— | among the critics of the day and the rticul ot e ls'gt‘i‘;fiem‘ F nnd}é. form part of the pres- On a Trip. !tl!h(nnnb\e world of London. It paved the | ent garrison, and there is now no fleld of- ficer of cavalry with them, Second Lieutenant Harry B. Clark, Third Artillery, has been ordered to pro- ceed to iort Baker with the detachment of Battery D now at the Idio. The order was executed ter: . Second utenant Harry L. james. ird Artil- , who was at Fort Baker with a de- ent of Battery B, has been ordered | case to the higher court Wa mer, Bredhoff & Schulz last night. Schulz was prepared, by advice of his counsel, George D. Collins, to descend on the prem- ises on California sireet and arrest the members of Morse's patrol who might be found there on the ground that they were violating the injunction in favor of Schulz. But the affair took a turn that may lead to a comé:romlse to-day. Other- wise the assets of the concern and the good will under the order of Judge Dain- erfield made yesterday will be sold by ohn Dunker, who has been named as a commissioner by the court. William notice advising all parties doing business with the firm that all letters and remit- tances must be sent to room 21, Cracker building., which is the office of Schulz’ attorney. In the meantime Judge Dain gerfield made .his order that Dunker should sell the property of the concern within five days. Since the first proceed- ings there have been propositions for a compromise. Attorney Collins said last night that a compromise might be reached to-day. Mr. Coilins also said that Schulz held assets of the firm amounting to $5,000 in casl The outcome of the entire matter may be two concerns, one headed by Schulz and the other by his present partners. —_————————— In the Supreme Court. The January term of the State Supreme Court began yesterday and the Justices | have a large number of cases oa the calendar to consider. This morning two habeas corpus cases will be heard. One is that of Hugh Buchanan, an i the asylum at Napa, who sceks his release | from that institution. The other is that of Bernard Ward, who was <onvicted of embezzlement. Pending an rppeal of his i( offered bail on one charge, and now he Leeks to com- pel the lower court to accept ball on an- other charge of the same nature. e, A Robber ard Forger. John L. Baggy, a longshoreman, was ar- rested yesterday afternoon by Paliceman Knight and booked at the City Prison on charges of robber and forgery. He is ac. cused of stealing a check for $50 from Nicholas Uddfouk, cook on lightship No. 70, on the wates front, which he presented at the ayment after CEief Postoffice Inspector Robert Munro has gone to Arizona on business for the deps stment. He will be away about two weegs. In his absence the duties of his offce will be performed by Postoffice In- ~sfactor Erwin. Ladies’ tatlor-made sufts, far capes, cloaks. léCredit. M. Rothechild, 334 Post st. | oped talents for Schulz yesterday sent out a | mate of | PAINTER IN ORDINARY TO GEORGE IIL Copyright, 1899, by Seymour Eaton. THE WORLD'S GREAT ARTISTS. Contributors to this course: Dr. John C. Van Dyke, Dr. Russell Sturgis, Dr. A. L. Frothingham Jr., Arthur Hoeber, Frank Fowler and others. XI.—SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE. Nature seems to take pleasure in be- stowing her gifts when it comes to the | matter of esthetic endowments me In the and where t 4 deve ¢ things whose ¢n- v would se 0 dis- 'm ever aspiring to a love t capricious manner ast expected a il or a taste for the refined. h the reat Englishman Thomas Lawrence. He was the son of an Innkeeper, who wandered about from pillar to post, now in one town, then in another, never successful, and content when his iittle boy showed a precoclous talent for drawing to set him up on the bar and have him, at the age of 5, make oal sketches of the customers. With very rare exceptions men who achleve distinction In art begin at an early age the labor which s so intimate l a part of their lives, since, as with scarce- | 1y any other professional men, the painter never for a moment ceases to think of his own work. In order to accomplish great things in art there are many prelimina matters to be considered, and such que: tions as technique, drawing, composition | AR R : ; [ d | % ! ; : ! ; + ! mense fancy to the young ma he had himself, his Queen and the Princess Amelia painted by Lawrence and he went s6 far in his favoritism as to insist by a royal edict on having him made an ciate of the Royal lemy when d his majority, a he ugh by institution he was not ¥ eligible until the age of 24 Three years later Lawrence was elect= ed full emician and twelve months afterward he was made painter in ord nary to his Majesty. He was now the most popular portraft painter that L. don bad known since the days of Van Dyck, w that prince of the brush had his studio constantly filled with the most brilliant set of hionables from tha King down. Unhappily, however, the pat- ronage of royalty is not always an u mixed joy or entirely conducive to tru artistic advancement. The flattery t finds its vent through the cour tongue is not unlikely to percolate the end of the painter's brush. Be s that Lawrence did full justice to the phys fognomy of his royal sitter and did hesitate to smooth over h ortcomi in a physical way Beside it was also the fashion at that epoch to draw the At not tre P et eseet et et eteiec @ * * : + ® + 3 - L4 * the underwriters. Of the other overdues t the A. G. Ropes from New York had to put into Port Stanley with her rudder ¢ - post twisted; the Musselerag from Ant- é werp is comimg via the Cape of Good = ¢ b § Hope. having lost a suit of sails and had @ 2 her bulwarks damaged and decks swept : | oft the Horn: the Canrobert from Ham- | ¢ ) ¢ burg put Into Valparaiso short of water; | g b the Blackbraes from Newcastle, Eng., put | | ¢ into Port Stanley with tho loss of a suit | ¢ of safls and with her steering gear dam- | & 1 aged; the Emilie Gallule from Swansea b put into Rio de Janeiro partially dismast- ¢ . ed, and the Simla from Cebu for Puget | Scund put Into Hongkong dismasted and | ) with her decks started. All the ships that ) ¢ have arrived and are now due have had @ A a fearful time of it during Octobe: . )+ |, The Oceanic steamship Company’s Aus- | | b4 tralia sails for Honolulu to-morrow. Over L 4 elghty cabin passengers have been booked | ¢ already and freight has been refused & ? | from the day the vessel reached port. L d The Chilean ship Hindostan came into | % ‘ ! rt yesterday in distre: She sailed & : | from Port Biakeley for Valparaiso on Da- b cember 8 with 1,082,606 feet of lumber, val- | ¥ . ued at $§10,772. Soon after leaving the | ® | Seund she’ sprang- a leak, so Captain b Walsh decided that it was better to put * in here for an overhauling. The Hindo- | ¢ o stan was built in 187 and is owned by b 5 M. B. Peede of Valparaiso. She is loaded £ b ¢ on owner’s account. @+ iroroeoeieseieg 0004000004040+ 0000 000000000 sde0e0e® SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE. and the mechanical manipulation of the pigment must be settled early in the ca- | reer, so that the mind is left free to cope with the more important and greater at- tributes. Otherwise the man is continu- ally- hampered with distressing detafls and worries that preclude mastership. So, in looking over the list of the world’s great artists, we find that most of them were well equipped at a time when mod- | Law- | ern men are still at the schools. rence drew creditably vears old, and, although he had no in- truction, he seemed to get at his results by intuition, as it were, from the first. Later he went for'a while to the schools at the Royal Academy, but he did not linger long there, and it may be said that | he practically earned his living from the | time he was 10 years of age. | Thomas Lawrence was born in Bristol, | England, on May 4, 1769, where his father | at that time Kept a hotel, although he came of people in fair soclal standing. But | the father of the palnter was a sort of | ne'er do well and of a roving disposition, | so that he went from Bristol to Oxford, | thence to Bath, following the fashionable | world, trying to find sitters for his little | boy, who was considered a phenomenon | with the chalks, and who drew @nybody | willing to give up a few shillings for the work. The lad was good looking and re- | ceived a great deal of attention, which did | not turn his head, however, and he had a | certain vogue even at this early period ! among prominent people traveling thither | for the baths or amusement. mains, done at this time chalks, an old portrait of the Duchess of | Devonshire, which still hangs in Chis- wick House, in the room in which Charles when he was 10 There re- | Fox died. Then, as all through his carcer, | he was a faithful worker, applying him- n 1787, he came to London for the first time. He was now In his eighteenth year, and Is.described as being handsome in | person, with bright eyes, regular fea- | tures and long, brown hair falling over his shoulders in curls. He took rooms m Lelvester Fields, near Sir Joshua Rey- nolds, whom he little thought he was one ; | day to succeed as president of the Royal Academy. The genfal Sir Joshua was very friend- Iy to the young man and gave him much kindly advice. At first he was carried away by the prevailing classicism of the day, for it was a time in England when | it was the fashion to dress modern heroes | up in Roman togas and pose them before great columns and curtains, on marble | benches or in the environment of the old Caesarian times. with an aggravating regularity and lack of character that in these days it is dif- ficult to account for. There was stiltedness in the pose and a pomposity that did not escape being ridiculous. This custom pre- vailed as well in France and may be said | to have culminated with the work of the | painter David. Thus it was that Law- | rence's first effort was a commission to | paint a plcture cailed “Homer Reciting | His Poems to the Greeks.” |/exhibited in 1791 and was not a success. {The year before, however, he had exe- | cuted a portrait of the beautiful Miss | way for many subsequent commissions, | for it was the portrait of the vear at the | | exhibition. The opportunity was most fa- | yorable for Lawrence. Galnsborough had died two years before, Sir Joshua was old and nearly blind and Romney had but a small following. The King, George III, took an im- in colored | self with great enthusiasm, and presently, | Features were painted | The work was | | features in a conventional manner, to give regularity tothe nose, to make the eyes shapely and to give archness to the mouth. All this Lawrence did to a more or less extent, though happily the merit of his work rose above these minor blemishes. Befng suecessful, Lawrence now started |in on a more expensive style of living. | He took a house at 24 Old Bond street, which he fitted up handsomely. He charged 3) guineas for a head, 60 for the half length and 120 for the full figure. In 179 he took a house in Plecadilly and three years later he again moved, this time to Greek street, Soho. For thirty years his work went on uninterruptedly, his fame increasing and his prices ad- vaneing to formidable figures. In 1514 he was charging 100 guineas for a head and 400 for a full length; but although re- celving these large sums he was never free.from financial cores. The money that came in seemed to flow out in some ex- traordinary way that has never been ac- tcounted for. There had been some scan- | dal, rumor having connected the painter's name with that of the Princess of Wales. He had exe at Montague House, where he emained as a guest for some time. A committee was appoint- | ed to examine the charges, and their pro- ceedings were known as the “delicate in- vestigations,” .by which, however, Law- | rence was fully exonerated. In 1514 the Prince Regent commanded him to paint a series of the princes, generals, statesmen and diplomatists of the allied armies, which new fill the Waterloo Chamber at | Windsor Castle; and in April, 1814, Law- rence was knighted by the Regent. It Is interesting to note that the Ameri- can Academy of Fine Arts, which had been éstablished in New York in 1516, two years later elected Sir Thomas Lawrence an honorary member, in return for which he presented it with a portrait of West, | the American president of the English | Royal Academy. Other homors, perhaps of a more substantial nature, folowed, for the King of France sent him in 1525 the Cross of the Legion of Honor, and he was elected to the Academies of Flor- ence, Venice, Rome, Bologna, Denmark and Vienna. It was not until 1819 that | Lawrence went to Rome, then the Mecca | of artists, and here he studied for the | first time the works of the great masters | in the gallerfes. On his return to London in March, 1820, West having died earlier n the month, he found he had been elect- ed as his successor president of the | Royal Academy. He lived for ten years to enjoy this distinction, dying suddenly on the 7th of January, 1830, from ossification of the heart, and he was buried In St. Paul's Cathedral by the side of Sir Joshua Reynol Lawrence’'s best remembered works are portraits of women and children, whom he drew and painted with a delicacy and grace which few men have excelled. One of his finest is of Lady Gower, with her little daughter, which now hangs at Staf- ford House. This, with many others, is widely known through engravings. He | was an intimate friend of Mrs. Siddons, the great actress, whose portrait he paint- ed several times, and of her niece, Fann Kemble, whom he also painted, and whic |13 one of his best canvases. Although throughout his life Lawrence showed l?ll lack of preliminary training in an acad- emic way, and one may pick flaws now and then in his drawing, he was singular- 1 ly gifted and was a workman of a high : order, with a delightful appreciation of | eolor and an abiding sense of grace and | beauty. He remains one of the notable roup of the early Englishmen whose like drea: Britain has not produced since his eath. s Nz New York City.