Morning journal and courier., 1883-10-26
NEW HAyEN's FILMS AND GREEN
Descriptions, Historical Items and An- ecd0teS of Persons and Things Con-.
 Bected Herewith.
BY HENRY HOWE. Copyrighted 1888 by Henry Howe.l TN TWENTY FIVE oHAPTERs-CHAPTER K l

Copyrighted 1888 by Henry Howel
 IN TWENTY FIVE oHAPTERs-oHAPTER K.
 IndIvIduality and Sentiment Of the Elm
 Advent 10 Our City Of Two Valuable
 Young EngIishmen, John E. Lowell
 and Robert Bakewoll-Sketch Of the
 Latter-kEls Portraits of Our Films
 FFiendship 0f Professor SsIIimaa for
 Him-How He Taught the Writer Per-
 spect1vs-His Kim Portraits in the
 College Lfbrary-CaPtaiR Basil HaII-
 The Robert Baksvven Elm.
 Each elm has an individuality as varied as that of humanity, each affecting us with diff ferent emotions On the inner row at the south end of the Green are two young elms not over thirty feet apart and not much over that in height which are totally different. One has a round, massive head with wealth of foliage, a crown of deep rich verdure, a luxuriant little fellow laughing under his good living. The other is all airiness and delicacy and the foliage thin and light in hue. If let alone our elms would send out down on their trunks and main branches in- numerable little branehlets filled with leaves, that would soften the outlines of the rugged limbs and greatly enhance their general beauty.
 Much is to be got out of an elm. It is full of sentiment and it's moods vary with the passing hour. In certain lights it will often appear thin, deficient in foliage; in others rich. full in foliage with delicious meeting of shade into shade. The state of the atmosphere, the condition and hue of the sky, with the changing clouds, the time of day and one's point of view are the ele- ments of these varying impressions. Then ons's own spirits is another element to come in. To enjoy fully tree g flower or good company one must have sound digestion and be at peace with earth and sky.
 In the ' o'clock morning sun the line of trees on the west side of the lower Green stand out each in its individuality to be stud led. In the o'clock afternoon sun those oR the east side At high noon both sides are uniform walls of foliage. dull and uninterest- ing in the full glare of sunlight, between which people are seen hurrying home to din- ner hot and nervous. No landscape is inter esting at noon day. ''Nature," said Willis, morning and evening"" and we will add serves out her more sublime drinks only af- ter nightfan.
 The true wealth of 8 city is alone in the quality of it's people, More than half cen tury since there came to us from old Eng land two highly valuable young men, John E. Lowell and Robert Bakewell The first is yet living among us and verginR on ninety years. A handsome, rosy-cheeked, 1.-the, compact little fellow he was, who did the thousands of the rising generation whom he taught among us much good The other, Robert Bakewsll, came to teach the students of Yale and the young people of the town the art of pencil drawing. He was 8 rare acquisition inspiring among us love of the beautiful at 6 period when little else was thought of thaA the coarser humdrum acqui- sitions of living He was a lovable charao- ter exceedingly gentle in his ways and al- ways spoke with hesitation. 8 habit grown as we thought through excess of modssty. In many respects he impressed as did the poet Percival by his shrinking delicacy.
 He was She son of an eminent English ge- ologist, served his time in the banking house of the poet Rogers and then after little venture in Mexico came to New Haven one summer day in the year 1928 with letter from his father to Professor SiIliman The latter, ever on hospitality bent, happened that day to be entertaining Captain Basil Hall of ''the Royal Navy" and lady, pre- sumably also of '.the Royal navy" by iaunt to East Rock The famous captain was then on that noted tour of his through the United States, the result of which was book that made young America squirm Like most Enslishmen of the period, he had no faith in Ca church without bishop nor a State without king;" but as the poor man was kind hearted and ended his days in lu- natic asylum, 1t is not worth while to enlarge upon his mistake Mir Silliman was an es- pecial friend of young Bskewell's father and at once took the son into favor, finding em ployment for him in Illustrating his scientific works and entering his name in the College catalogue as it's teacher of drawing. So close was his friendship that for forty suc- cessive ThanksgivinRs he was an invited guest at his table That procession of tur- keys, as we may say, carried him from youth to old age until the period hsd nearly ar rived when he should no more eat We mo- tice him here because he made accurete DOT traits of our most valuable elms, the only person probably that had ever attempted to do 50. Besides, it will please some now among us who in their early days were pu- piIs of his, as was the writer, and who must, ike him, hold his memory in grateful re- mem brance We remember that in sim gle demonstration of ten minutes duration, by means of strings stretched across his study room, he taught what to many seems DO difficult, the subject of perspective. And all there is of 1t is. first. that across eysry picture is an imaginary line called the hor- izontal Iine, which line must be at the height of the eye when the picture is drawn; and second, that every parallel line must have the same vanishing point, which point must be somewhere on the horizontal line a as the photograph demonstrates, where all the horizontal lines of the buildings, doors, windows, cprniees, etc, above the camera run down, and all below it run up And if the street is sufficiently long everything on both sides in the extreme distance will vanish in a mere point This with eriai perspective is all that it is necessary for the landscape draftsman to know By this last is meant the indistinctness and dimln- ution in size, which distance gives to ob- iects
 Framed in our College library are DOT traits of two of onr famous elms which etood in front of Battell chapel. taken by MT. Bakeweli. of which we shall speak in full elsewhere Among the tree portraits by him gas that of he elm on the upper Green halt way between the New Haven House and inc State House, taken in it's youth, and which he predicted would be come one of our most noble and expansive trees, and 1t has, It was one of line that ran across the Green from north to south, seme of which were removed hay ing been on the site of the State House This tree has of late years been crowded around with other trees This will not only mar it's perfect development but so
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