The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1874-04-24
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WHAT l SAW IN BALTIMORE.

come now, Mr.. Baker, to the last of the
proposed series, and the most difficult of
all, for to crowd into one letter, or half
dozen even, the wonderful changes that
have taken place in the city since ran
about its streets, when it contained pop
ulation of only about 10000, is task to
which am entirely unequal, and which l
will not presume to undertake. / must
therefore limit myself strictly to reference
TO those things which interested me most.
And, by the way, Baltimore is now, as it
was fifty years ago, as noted for its hospi-
tality as it is for the social amenities of its
people and while its population is now
computed by hundreds of thousands, its
citizens are as kind and unassuming as
when it was nothing more than q Dor
ough.
In the first place, before saying word
about anything or anybody else, gratitude
demands that l should record the kindness
of Mr.. James Stump and his family, No.
304 N. Howard ST., who furnished my
friend Clark and myself such comfortable
quarters and sumptuous living during our
stay Off week or more in the city. He
was whole-soulcd Confederate during the
war, repeatedly ran the blockade, and many
comfort and blessing did he carry into
Richmond during the darkest hours of the
struggle, at the risk of his life and sacrifice
of his property. He left his business to
take care OF itself to accompany US wherey-
er and whenever we wanted to go, and ney-
er lost sight of us in his attentions till he
saw us safely on board the magnificent
steamer that bore us down the Bay. As
my friend Clark says, may he ascend the
hill of prosperity, and never meet friend
coming dOaon."
But let me hasten on to a narration of
portion Of what we saw, for to attempt to
give little of this would require more
time and paper than have to spare. The
Peabody Institute is great thing for Bal
timore, with its splendid library and lee
ture room, but its chief attraction to us
was Rnehart's Statue of Clytie, made in
Rome little more than year ago, and
presented to the Institute by Mr.. John w.
Mccoy, of Baltimore. Clytie, believe,
was goddess or something less ofheathen
mythology, and represented us having been
deeply enamored with Apollo, who, she
had the misfortune to discover, was in love
with her sister, She is represented
by the artist as standing in that pensiye
attitude she would naturally assume on
| learning the secret 50 fatal to all her hopes
of happiness. II is the most symmetrical
| piece of statuary ever beheld, and eclipses,
| in my opinion, Barbee's world renowned
"Fisher Girl"
Accompanied by DR.. Virdin and other
gentlemen from Hartford, we visited the
State Normal School, under the superin-
tendence of Prof. M. A. Newell, which we
were gratified to learn was in o healthy
and most prosperous career. 1t is yet in
its infancy, but has now $50 pupils in train
ing for educators whose influence is doubt
less destined to be felt to degree that it
will be difficult to appreciate. The school
is divided into about six departments or
grades, each with its assistant teacher, and
all seemed to work with perfect regularity
and order. To number of abstruse prob
lens propounded, the whole class would res
pond promptly and correctly. l thought
while contemplating the noble work this in
stituticn was designed to accomplish, that if
Mr.. Sumner and his co-adjutators would
pay it visit, it would seal their lips upon
the subject of the Civil Rights Bill, one of
the first effects of which would be the ut
ter humiliation Of all such Institutions in
the South, without bringing an iota If cor
| responding BoOu.
During our stay in the city MI Clark
and myself visited his friend and former
acquaintance Prot. Woodward, who is at
the head of the Maryland Institute of De-
sign, where we saw n number of superior
specimens of art, and were kindly receiv-
ed and entertained by the Professor, who
is very genial and pleasant gentleman.
| fright here l will make depression by
giving it, as my opinion, as far as my Oh
servation goes, that artists and musicians
are rarely like other men, being apparent
ly more thoughtful and morose, and not as
cheerful and social. 1t affords me pleasure
however, to say that both Prof. Woodward
and Mr.. Clark are exceptions to the rule,
if it be rule.
Among other splendid works of art exc
cuted by Prof Woodward's own hand, we
saw life size portrait of Henry Clay, the
last ever taken from life, and another OF
the Prince of Wales, taken at his home in
England. That of Mr.. Clay was as life
like, it seemed to me, as it was possible to
impart to canvass, and have no doubt the
other was equally accurate. The Professor
is doing noble work in his department OF
Fine Arts, as he has some six hundred pu-
pills under his general superintendent,
whose skill and requirements will rebound
to the benefit and honor of the city as well
as the State.
Although am not willing to acknowl-
edge that l am gerry old, must admit that
visited more than one place in Baltimore
the changed aspect of which looked like