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ARY 3. 1904 WEDNESDAY, FEBRTU - FERDRCE. Y Sy “Ensemble Playing.” ¥ £ TERHUN [Bong write meriy dircctor of music in the College John the Baptist, New York.] (Copyright, 1904, by Joseph B. Bowles.) S ble playing” is one of the it of a musical education. that he wouid othe INSTRUMENTS COMPOSING STRING QUARTET. ly nothing about, and in ace it sharpens his wits to be obliged to keep in with two or perhaps kpow absolu the second wondertuily touch musi ally three persons at the same moment. The term “‘ensemble’™ means, as the pupil probably knows, “together,” and iterally Cuets come under this head, but the ally accepted meaning of ensem aying refers ' to trios, | i guartets and quintets, and this is the kind usic to which I shall devote our 1 m to-day. 3 of the iost beautiful mposed was written in trio, and much orchestral music has been rear- yan;-ed for the purpose of being played in this way. so there is really no end to the beautiful things one may find in this kind of rese Let the student gather about him a little circle of congenial musical friends, and if ble let there be among the t least one who play: vi one who plays the lin-cello. If he can number among his friends some one who plays the dcuble bass and some one who plays the organ, he is ucky indeed, and the prospect of g sical enjoyment opens wide before = In order to acquire the best results, regularity is as necessary in this sort of playing as in any other. Therefore, let him organize a little club, of which | the avowed -purnose is music reading ! and study. Let once a week regularly, and if they are moved to “study up” their parte by themseives during the week, so much the better for every one. The « string quartet is nary CORRECT POSITION PLAYING DUETS. . made up of a violin, second violin, viola and violincello. The first violin repre- sents the sopramo, second violin the aito, viola the tenor and violincello the bass voice. This is the true and per- fcei form of ensemble music. It is citen difficult though to get together people who play, even a little, on these instruments, ~among c¢ne’s personal fricnds, and a trio, composed of piano, viclin and organ will be found an ideal combination. . An ordinary little reed organ (al- though its tone may not be particu? lurly good, when heard alone) will if in iune, be found to harmonize ex- cellentiy with a piano and violin and the lack of richness in the tone of the organ will not be noticed when the in- siruments are all played in unison. The organ is, in fact, a very great ad- dition, as it jends body and substance 10 the whole and takes the place of @ cello, or “double bass.” It is most necessary, however, that piano and organ be pitched on the same key, for quite often there is a variation 2 whole tone between the two. instru- ments, and if two people attempt to play together under such circum- stances the result is most disastrous. The organ and piano should stand ST RUCT. | the demands of the piano. A little reed organ is easily moved and one can be hired without any trouble— | trigs, if he is careful to study out the STUDIES AND ’\\ = + as near each other as possible, in the room where the musicales are to be held, and as soon as they are in place some one should strike “middle C” on the piano, while at the same time gome one eise tried “middle C” on the organ. If they are not in perfect accord a piano tuner must be sent for at once and the organ tuned up, or down, as the case may be, to suit can even be rented for the whole win- ter at a very small cost. . . . | In case there is no one in the com- | pany competent to play the organ nur; pupil can resign his place at the piano (letting some one else take the piano) 2nd without any trouble play the sim- ple organ parts as they come in the marks that indicate the “stops” he is to use. His training in legato playing will stand him in good stead here, and if he remembers not to “overlap” his | aids the student can have | st place it familiarizes him | wise | | | tte time in studying them all out by | | himself, for when he is playing in the waiting to figure out which “stop” | comes next. o re e Of course, the pupil understands | said above that he would be qualified | tainly not in solo form, without some | | istration and so forth, but my meaning | tones and yet at the same time to hold | one note down until the moment that he strikes the next note, he will have | no trouble, I am sure. It will be nec- essary for him, however, if he is not familiar with the organ to notice the marks of the “stops” (registration marks, they are called), as they ap- pear on the part of the music intend- ed for the organ and to give some lit- trio he must not hinder matters by that I do not mean by what I have to play the pipe organ or, in fact, any organ, to any great extent, and cer- | personal instruction in regard to reg- | is this: An ordinarily intelligent per- music | the members meet | son, adult or child, will, after having | studied the course I have given in| | these lessons, be able to:-apply his | knowledge to the reed organ in such | a way that with very little work on his own part, or with some one to spend a single half hour with him, to | explain a little about the most import- | ant things connected with the mech- | | anism of the organ, he will be able | to play this instrument. very accepta- | bly (both to himself and his hearers) | in conjunction with the other instru- | ments comprising the trio. I have brought in the matter of the organ right here because it is such a very great addition in the playing O'i ensemble music. The student can| ha no idea of the beauty in the| combination of the three instruments ! —violin, plano and organ—until he 5 2 | | | | 1 | ‘ | B i ‘ | [ i ‘ ‘ . 7 i | | | CORRECT RELATIVE POSI- i il TION IN ENSEMBLE PLAY- | |, ING—PIANO, VIOLIN AND || | ORGAN. e z <+ has heard them together, and the de- light of being a part of that trio i€ something which, when one has ex- perienced it, is not likely to be. for- | gotten. To return to the music club as a whole. Let the members always choose good music. Not difficult music, at first —the easier the better, until “the per- formers become accustomed to playing together; but let the music be always something that is worth while, and let it be chosen from the different masters, =0 that the players may become famil- iar with all styles. Haydn is the great- est model for the stripg quartet (the piano or organ can always play the fourth part in the quartet, if preferred). Mozart, Beethoven, Spohr, Mendels- schn, Schumann and Schubert have all written exquisite quartets, quintets and trios, and there are other more modern writers,” too numerous to ‘men- tion. Let the choosing of the music fail {to the memaber of the club who is, | musically, the most well read, and let him'always seek to find the music that is most elevating and inspiring, for the | broadening process must go on in this, as in all other forms of musical educa- tion. Each member of the trio (or guartet, as the case may be) must be as con- scientious in his part of the perform- ance as if he were playing a solo. He | must try to grasp the idea of the com- poser, must heed all the marks of | phrasing, and must do his ‘part toward welding together a perfect whole from the three separate parts. Unless each member does this conscientiously and refrains from trying to make a solo of his own particular part, the trio will be the expression of three separate and antagonistic minds, instead of the rep- resentation of one mind, as it should be. In “ensemble’” playing every one must count! Not aloud, of course, but each to himself must keep strict time, and, in trying a piece of music far the first time it will do no harm for one member of the trio to count aloud, untii all three fairly get the swing of the music. ————— The Second—When your first wife wis dying you promised her you never would drink again. He—Yes, I know; but when I told her that I thought I was going to die, too.—Boston Tran- want to go forward. where there has been shown the courage and capacity to | use it. | as an adornment to any learned professor who may so T IConserva!i\'e strength is cufficient to bring such action L'has a remarkable significance. JOBN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor . . IITHE SAN FRANCISCO CALL oo eeees . Address All Communications to JOHN McNAUGHT, - —ree Publication Office ....... «...Third and Market Streets, S. F. FEBRUARY 3, 1904 CALIFORNIA'S ATTITUDE. WEDNESDAY .... HE political prophets, seers and revelators are T busy juggling with a vote not yet cast, in order to figure out and figure in a national administration. We have seen some of these prophecies that put Cali- fornia in the doubtfal column and some that set it against President Roosevelt, It is even said that some Republicans here have volunteered the statement that this State is against the President, and will be so mani- fested when it sends its national delegation. For the satisfaction of outsiders, and for the informa- tion of some ‘n the State, it is well to explain why Cal- ifornia is for President Roosevelt and will give him the biggest majority in its history. Itf the first piace, leav- ing out all questions of public policy, the President is personally popular here. His vigorous sympathy with all things human, and his keen appreciation of California as a peculiar and exceptional region, where beauty and utility combine as nowhere else, have seated him in the affection and good will of our people. Then there are thousands here who like him for the enemies he has made, to reapply General Bragg's famous epigram. But above all merely personal reasons, California supports the President because we need hint in our busi- ness. After a long period of inattention, delay or in- difference, such of our material needs as may be met by the distant administration of Federal affairs are getting attention, and we are prospering. No sensible man can name a single particular in which California can be bene- fited by a change of Pfesidents, but any observant man can ses many ways in which such change now would work our iniury. After a fight that has been so long that those who be- gan it are dead, we are brought near the realization of California’s dreain of an isthmian canal. It is within pur grasp. President Roosevelt has brought it there. His prompt and vigorous action ha$ cut through all the knots tied in the proposition by the railroads and by the cu- pidity and villainy of Colombia. His determination to have the canal is one cause of the virulent opposition to him of the combinations of capital which have interests in rival transportation. He has so far triumphed over his personal and his political enemies, and has gone, with purpose and energy both magnificent, straight toward accomplishing his purpose. For this he is accused of be- ing a Hotspur. of having too great speed, of giving too little consideration to obstacles. Does any one believe that we will get a canal if he is displaced and his accusers get into power? We have seen in the hundred and fifty years that the world has been discussing the canal how easily it is obstructed, and how unforeseen the obstacles imposed by those who oppose it. It must be built by a President who acts quickly in emer- gencies, and sets a face of flint against impediments. The canal cannot be dug with a boiled carrot, for.the ob- stacles removed with a lace fan. The situation for California is serious, and the State appreciates it. The stake is so great as to justify every thinking man here. regardless of his politics, in/voting for President Roosevelt, and our convictions on the sub- ject are so definite and strong that we believe he will get the greatest majority ever cast in California. Our people don’t want to stand and mark time. They They want every resource of the State put in commission. They want every avenue to the world’s markets opened to their surplus. They see the key in the President’s hand and they want it there, Properly qualified authorities of Germany have decided after due deliberation that while the red necktie is not revolutionary or reactionary it certainly is undignified far forget himself as to wear it. The judges are to be commended for their mildness and discretion. A red necktie when worn by anybody except a pugilist is posi- tively an incentive to crime. ¢ BRITISH ARMY REORGANIZATION. HE Royal Commission authorized by the Govern- ment of Great Britain to make investigations into the conduct of the War Office and submit their ad- vice upon the question of a reorganization has exceeded even the hoves of Chamberlain and reported back a scheme for radical change. When their plans for army reorganization are authorized by Parliament, and the about, the office of commander-in-chiei of the army will be abolished and an army council, framed upon the Ad- miralty model, will take the high place of authority. A new office of inspector-general will be created, whose tenure shall be five years and whose duties will be strictly those of reporting upon actual facts concerning the efiiciency of the military service. The Secretary of State for War is to be elevated to the same degree of au- thority as that enjoyed by the First Lord of the Admir- alty and made responsible directly to Parliament. The promulgation of such a radical change in British army administration by the Conservative Government The constitution of the army counci! aims at nothing else than décentralization and the separation of the administrative and the execu- tive heads in the conduct of the War Office. That it is intended to be a compiete break from the old order of things is patent both from the nature of the changes recommended and from the very significant passage from the report which says: “New measures demand new men; we therefore attach special importance to the ap- pointment of military members not too closely con- nected with existing methods, and who, therefore, are not likely to be embarrassed by the traditions of a sys- tem which is to be, radically changed.” When the South African War Commission had sub- mitted its unsavory report of scandals in the army ad- ministration of that time, Chamberlain was credited with the announcement “that the Government would not dis- solve until the lessons of the South African War Com- mission’s report had been applied and the War Office re- organized.” The report of this Royal Commission is de- signed, then, as a vindication of the existing Government 4from the palpable weaknesses of :war administration which were brought out by the investigations of the War -Commission last fall. Furthermore, War Office reform is at present time excellent material for election purposes. Our embalmed beef scandals had nothing of the material for political handling t! ri can war scandals possess. The zeal of the Government to revolutionize the War Ofiice may not be taken as wholly ingenuous. It will be remembered that the investigations of the South Afri- can War Commission showed that there was a woeful lack of co-ordination between the diplomatic doings. of o Vs SR . j the misguided missionary and the artful bandit. hat the South Afri-| the Government and the movements of the War Office. Sir William Butler, who had béen stationed at the head of a division in South Africa just prior to the breaking out of hostilities, testified that his unceasing warnings to the home government to respect the strength of the Boers drew only a sharp reproof, and a hint that he was to tend to his own knitting. When Sir- Redvers Buller was appointed to the command in South Africa before the opening of the war the only way that he learned of the acute stage reached in negotiations with Kruger was through a chance remark by lLord Salisbury. From all the facts of the case it appears that the change advised by the Royal Commission cannot be con- strued into an affront to Lord Roberts, the present com- mander-in-chief. He must simply bend to the institution of a new order of things, which has come to supplant the old and manifestly incompetent administration. An edict has gone forth that foreigners are not wanted in Macedonia, the land of buncombe and brigandage, of It is a matter of regret that the Macedonians did net go a step further and order foreigners out of the country. We might then have been able to curb the pernicious sphere of activity of some of our people who are never happy until they are interfering in somebody else’s business. T awful circumstances, destroyed nearly six hundred people, a majority of them women and children, is taken for a text by Rev. Dm Parkhurst of New York. If anything could add to the gloomy horror of the calamity, this sermon has done it. He said: “The fire that burned those six hundred people was God’s fire. Fire is one of the ways by which he works. God is love, but that is not all there is. of him. He is a loving father, but not a doting old grandfather. He is enough of a God to have some respect for himself. We hear so much about God’s Iove, so' much I mean that is said in a one-sided way, that we come to consider, by and by, that God is noth- ing but a mush of concession; that his fondness for peo- ple has 'melted out of his character all respect for’ him- self. With such a light thrown upon a certain side of God’s character as is shown by disasters like the one we have been contemplating, 1 am sure we are all of us tak- ing things too easily. The people who went to that the- ater were taking things toe easily. The result shows that.” Is there any wonder that people do not go to church if that is held to be doctrine? The falling off in church attendance and the spirit of indifference to the pulpit message began when the reason of man traced the prin- ciples of justice as they exist in the creation back to the Creator, and tock out of the idea of a supreme being the savagery which it had inherjted from idolatry. It dawned upon men that cruelty and torture which no human father would inflict upon his children for any possible transgression counld not be visited upon man by a wise Creator, Ieavini out the element of affection. It is not strange that we read with horror of the slaughter of their subjects by African rulers, who wan- tonly, and for their plcasure, and to enforce respect for -their power, have men and women slain in their présence, until their campoody is a shambles. But is the attribute | of the God of the Christians given to him by Dr. Park- | hurst deserving of any more respect than that of the | African ruler? Supposed to have power over the human heart, \\'11_v| not instruct it against theater going, if that be wrong, | and not wzit until hundreds are crowded together and | then burn them, to indicate the divine self-respect? If a| human father manifested his seli-respect by burning his children,. he would be called a monster and hanged. Does any preacher hope to arouse and sustain an inter- | est in the church by represegting God/to be a monster, surpassing any human criminal that was ever brought to bar? In the eruption of Mount Pelee, thousands of devout people were destroyed while humbly worshiping in church, for it was a holy day. To what would Dr. Park- hurst ascribe their destruction? Was that also a willful reminder of the divine self-respect? Or was it for the purpose of showing that the Creator is not “a mush of concession”? If he use fire in a theater to destroy those who think he is “a doting old grandfather,” could he not restrain the elements which kill his devotees in a church while at worship? If not, there appears another divine attribute, in the form of entire indifference to those who obey him, associated with such intense hatred of those who disobey that it can be satisfied only by burning them to death. It is pitiful that the church should destroy its useful- ness and abdicate its high mission by such preaching. When people go to church in ctowds to hear the preach- er extol the virtues of a man who tortures his children to death by fire, they will go in crowds to be told of a God who does the same thing. \ e e £ < The House of Representatives was visibly agitated a few days since by the assertion that American green- backs have become nests for innumerable deadly germs, because of the indiscriminate circulation of the currency among the inhabitants of our insular possessions. If Congress is looking for a remedy just circulate the paper at home, and we will warrant that it will travel fast enough to kill everything in or on the fiber. We will make things fly wherever the greenbacks are. % —_— The officers of the Board of Trade have rendered their annual reports, which bristle with enthusiasm for the commercial suctess of San Francisco for the past year and hold forth glittering promises and prospects of greater triumphs for the year now passing. And the best of them all is that we are mounting to prosperity and great community wealth not upon the failures of others ‘but by our own energies and well directed activities. The Thibetans, offending no one, threatening no on: and 3ublimely innocent of any thought of molesting any one beyond the borders of their own dominions, are greatly incensed at the British invasion and the insolent arrogance of British invaders of Thibet. We will prob- ably soon read of glorious British victories, but nothing of the gigantic crimes of a national thief in this country of the Far East. A HORROR SERMON. HE Iroquois Theater fire, which, under the most 3 —_— William Jennings Bryan, it is announced, is losing casté in the home of his friends and is as a prophet de- must be sinking into William’s inner consciousness that if he had tried for less he might have obtained more. Our Democratic friends are very susceptible to inertia spised by those that know him best. Slowly the thought | o Such Is Greatness. He had been on the force but a week and in consequence had a proper sense of the importance of his position. Woe betide the unlucky ecitizen who dis- obeyed his sharply and pompously ut- tered “Move on.” “A record I will make in a week” was the one thought that possessed the bluecoat. ‘“My worth shall be recognized.” Upon the corner of Market and Ma- son streets he spotted a little knot of citizens, evidently from Siskiyou Coun- ty, engaged in admiring the beauties of the Phelan statue. “Out of this: keep a-moving, you haymakers,” he cried, and the knot of art admirers moved. “Out of this,” he again cried a few minutes later to another erowd that had gathered to admire a display in a haberdasher’s window; “don’t block the sidewalk.” | “It's great to be a cop,” he solilo- | quized, gayly swinging his long club. “There is no man better than a good one.” Then with chest expanded to its | utmost limits he strode over to where | twe men were standing in earnest con- versation. “Keep a-moving. there, you,”. said the new officer, prodding both of the men sharply in the back with his club. Now he is out in the fog of the West- ern Addition, patrolling long quiet streets, with ncme tu disturb him or | interrupt his cogitations on the sub- ject of greatness. One of the men he had prodded was Police Commissioner | Hutton. Equine Wisdom. A well-known physician in the Mis- sion who died recently had a passionate love for clams. Every afternoon after ! finishing his calls upon his patients he would drive to a saloon on the way home and partake of a dish of the bivalves and a glass of beer, believing | that the refreshment gave him an ap- petite for his dinner. There was a watering trough in front of the saloon and his horse would slake its thirst while its master was within getting up an appetite. When a young physician succeeded to the old doctor’s practice after his death it puzzled him greatly that the horse every afternoon between § and 6 o'clock i would make for the same saloon and | whippings and checkings had no effect in detefring it from its purpose. It would slake its thirst at the watering trough, wait patiently for a few min- utes and then willingly start for home. One afternoon the saloon-keeper came out during this performance. “Say, doc,” said he, “why don’t you come in and have a glass of beer and som clams, like the old man used to do The mysterious conduct of the hors was thus suddenly explained. Its mew | owner took the earliest opportunity of selling it and buying one that knew nothing of the old doctor's love for clams and beer. A Stitch in Time. “Is this where one swears to a war- rant for the arrest of an insane per- son?” he asked the clerk of the Lunacy Commission. “It is,” replied the clerk, pulling out of a cabinet an official looking blank. “Want one?” “Yes,” was the response of the visitor. He raised his right hand and swore to a statement that to the best of his knowledge and belief one George Wil- | | liams was not possessed of his senses. He gave the address of Williams, the names of his relatives and other data required by the clerk. “What's your name?” asked the clerk when the warrant had been completed | and was ready for the signature of the one making the accusation. “George Williams,"” responded man, . “Any relation?” asked the clerk. “I am the man,” was the surprising answer given to ‘““About every three years I get ‘looney’ and have to be ‘sent up’ for a few the months. Which cell will T take?” An hour later he was a raving maniac. . . Alameda County Pleasee. As evidence that The Call's policy of giving full recognition to Alameda County news in its regular edition is received with appreciation by the pa- pers acrcss the bay, we are pleased to read the following from the Niles Her- ald: “In the effort to belittle the east side of the bay in the hope of building up the west side, the San Francisco dailies have for years been in the habit of is- suing two editions, one-with a subur- ban page for circulation in Alameda | County, and another with it left out for general circulation. In this way one away from home buying a paper never received a line of Alameda Coun- | ty news. “All efforts of Oaklanders to stop this practice had failed, but now comes the new management of the San Francisco Call and does entirely away with the change. Every paper of The Call for any given day contains exactly the same matter, and Alameda County date lines will be read wherever the pa- per is read hereafter. Of course the change will be adopted by the others in self-defense, but The Call deserves the .credit and whatever financial gain there is for the course it has taken.” Life, the Harp. Thou instrument of many strings For men to play on, slaves and kings, Lct me but keep thee. life. in tune, That fall what may, night or noon, Still in the heart shall sing for' me One clear and constant melody. Too clamor and the strife Of living quench the notes of life: Too ort they lose their customed n al sequences to stray. et ever stealing back they fall Into the ::‘m through all. instrument of many strings wves to play on, and for nm. —Atlantic Monthly. Economy. ‘William Archer, in the Fortnightly Review, tells an amusing story of the economy practiced and necessary in the early days of the Norwegian Theater at Bergen. It was in 1849, the clerk's query. | i ‘ | [+ - when Ibsen and Bjornson were creat- ing the national drama. A& lady had been engaged for the part of “second old woman™” when it was discovered that her elocutionary powers were im- paired by the fact that she- had lost one of her front teeth. Impoverished 'ag she was, the management came to the rescue and bore the expilise of the necessary dentistry. Wheu she retired, however, after two seasons she had to leave the tooth behind her, the | example of the dentist's art being the property of the theater. The man- agement was too peor to part with it! \ American Counselor. The ever ready Marquise de Fon- |tenoy is prompt to find American | genius everywhere. She says: { *Among ihe factors. in the present | imbroglio between Russia and Japan, |which at any moment may develop linto full-ledged war; there is one that | has unti! now escaped the attention of ithe public, although familiar to. the State Department at Washington and to every foreign diplomat who has ever been statioried at Tokio. - It is the former Vice Consul General of the United States at Yokohama—a shrewd and able lawyer named De: | nison—an expert in international law, and who, for a number of years past | (indeed, ever since he quitted the ser- | vice of the American Government), | has been the legal adviser to ‘the Gaimusho, or Department of ‘Public His activity is by no Affairs at Tokio. means restricted to thé mere legal af- fairs of the department. His counsel is sought by the Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs and" his subordinates: as. well as by the other members of the Cabinet, about all sorts of mai- | ters, and he is, in one word, the prin- cipal foreign adviser of the Japanese | Government.. It speaks volumes for | his honesty, -for his-tact and for- his i shrewdness that he should have suc- ceded in wholly: winning their con- | fidence, that he should have been able | to dispel altogether that innate dis- | trust which the Oriental invariably en- | tertains for the European or Amer- |ican, and that he should have exer- | cised his ‘delicate functions, with so much care as to avoid exciting the }]valousy which so highly sensitive a | people as the Japanese might natural- | Iy be expected to feel with regard to | the idea that they were dependent upon foreign judgment and experience for their statesmanship.” Answers to Queries. TWO THOROUGHFARES—Reader. “(‘Ily, The width of Broadway, .San Francisco, is 82 feet east of Larkin street and 68 feet wide west of Larkin. | Golden Gate avenue is 68 feet wide. | e Srn e | COMMISSIONER OF LABOR—Sub- | scriber, City. .The salary of Carroll D. | Wright, Commissioner of Labor, is $5000 |a vear. He has a chief clerk who is paid $2500 a year and a disbursing clerk . who is paid 32000 a year. The salary of F. V. Meyers, in charge of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, whose | office is in San Francisco, is $3000 a year. WEALTHY MEN—M. F. J.,, Oakland, Cal. As it would require much more space than this department can devote to any one answer, it cannot publish the names of the wealthiest' men of Chicage, New Lork and Philadelphia. If you will go to the Oakland Free Library and examine the World Al- manac for 1902, pages 135 to 146, inclu- sive, you will there find a list of the men of the United States, arranged by States and cities, who are reputed to be worth a million and more. DRESS—Edna, City. “If a girl's pet- ticoats are longer than her frock, that is a sign that her father loves her better than her mother does,” is an old English phrase, which originated no one knows when. What frock and | petticoaty have to do with paternal | love is not known, except that it shows | the mother in such a case is negligent of her daughter’'s attire, and that the | father may love her as much as he | pleases, yet be unobservant of the | rights or wrongs of female attire. | THE FIRST FLAG—A. T. S. D IR | City. It is generally believed that the | first American flag—the Stars and | Stripes—was made about the middle of | 1776 by Betsy Ross, wife of John Ross of the Continental army, at 239 Arch street, Philadelphia, but there has been & question raised in to the iden- | tity of the flag made Ly Mrs. Ross. The first flag she made for General Wash- ington was, it is asserted, made in June | or July, 1776, while the design of the | Stars and Stripes was not adopted by | Congress until June 14, 1777. It is be- | Heved that if Mrs. Ross made a flag for General Washington in 1776 at his suggestion it was the grand Union flag adopted by the Continental army in January'of that year. It was made up of thirteen alternate red and white stripes and a union of the crosses of St. George and St. Andrew. While this was an American flag, it was not the flag of the United States of America, and a demand for such a flag was not created until after the Declaration of There is no record of any United States flag before the de- sign adopted by Congres in June, 1777, but it is possible that Mrs. Ross, who was a T, made the first one —_——— Special information supplied daily to B N