New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-06-20
WHAT SOME MEN ARE DOING.


never again take office. want liberty to attend TO
my own afairs-that ia ALL" had supposed that MI
Whitney the contented OF all the Cabinet OIL
GERS with his lot Possibly he holds these views his
transfer to the Treasury would not be so easy task
Henry c. Duva private secretary of President
bepew OF the NewYork Central and his brother Guy,
have recently been active In forming the New-fork
Walking Club" They frequently take long trarnps
across the country and evidently enjoy that method OF
exercise and recreation quite much as some other
people enjoy rides the Central with free passes They
talk enthusiastically about the good walking they re-
Gently had along the Delaware River and the enjoyable
time they spent at Delaware Water Gap laying great
stress on the latter Their forming the walk
ing club has been unexpected and they find great num-
bers OF young in New-YOrk and Brooklyn who en-.
gage in this sort OF exercise in preference TO bicycling
which take it is simply buying big wheel and then
walking.
Why dill the Erie Railway Company establish an ex-
press company OF its I" asked Mr.. John " Abbott
general OF that road who said that the
new departure suggested by the idea nov prevailing
In the general that tho road directly
serve H patrons much better and more economically than
through other agencies TO whom Its express business has
heretofore been subet At any rate. be the Erie
Express is already fact II has established
elegant Offices in important section o. the city ana
apparently means to accommodate every class Of the
public az rates low II not lower than those heretofore
prevailing. one important innovation AMI decided
improvement OF this service ia that Of checking
passen,e baggage the Erie directly its actual
destination in each city without the Intervention OF third
parties. who sometimes irresponsible and almost
always duatory baggage-carters
asked Mr.. Mitchell. manager Of the Tiffany Glass
Company, what he attributed the recent marked de-
vcopmcns in the OF coloed glass There several
causes" he replied The Cen.enuial Exhibition gave
an impetus to everything pertaining to art and no form
benefited more than that which employs coored glass
II has been found that not only it beautiful and useful
for home decoration but that it Is art especially
adapted 10 the preservation OF memorials While glass
is of the most fragile of substances it has proved to
be one Of the enduring Glass Of the twelfth and
thrice nth centuries to- day in perfect
ditOn 10 color design and Inscriptions hen 1t was
first made. Marble and granite have been the materials
most employed heretofore in memorials Of the dead or OF
The tendency is to colcred glasses
largely FOR such purposes and &c decorate our
churches rather than cemeteries Memorials are
moreover properly associated with religious sentiments
AMI this natural is finding expression in this
form OF church decoration. memorial window IN a
church cathedral at TO keep alive the
memory OF the dead. to express the gratitude OF the
donors the church. and TO offer in some suitable in
scripton the consultations Of religion to those who
mourn"
Many Of our first artists" Mr.. Mitchell continued
have made elaborate designs for execution IN coloreI
glass. The Tiffany Glass Conn any have executed many
windows from designs by OF national re- equation ~
artists besides Mr.. Louis {. Tiffany and those regularly
connected with tie company. For instance, Mr. Malt
and Armstrong is represel ed by windows the Berk
Icy Memorial Church near Newport T. l. In -
stephens Church. Lynn Mass. there are wndo ~ do
signed By Mr. Frank Met. In tho Presbyterian
Church ~ Engewood. \. j.. there Is an important
window by Mr.. VIII H. Low; EliAu vedder's work
is TO be seen 10 the windows OF the Episcopal Church at
Pomfret Conn. We have also placed ia 81 Panls Epis
copa Church DO Milwaukee Wisconsin, reproduction OF
Gastayc Dores great painting Of Christ before the
Ptttorium.
had seen this last namel window recently aud OBJ
scrvaton OF had led to the inquiries wis making OF
tue Company r. contains about Two hundred nearly Ne
size figure. which with the exception Of the faces
hands and feet have done coored glass alone.
Tie for.. Shadows folds OF drapcr-- and those in
Vulnerable sAales aul ,aretics ~ tint wnich 1--WE life
and vIvActy paintings are rendered IN this worN by
means - the inequ. and notifications o. tone iAat
are c,u.uc4Ois features OF modern glass In ms way
tie tran.lucencc OF eoornd glass, which is OF its most
agreeable qualities loses nothing. as II newt Dly wond
II the surface should DE paiAel Besides. the c0lJret
glass is better able resist the zorro linz influences OF
o atnos phere To which painted Il iss Is constantly ex-
posed There other differences between the purely
rporel and the painted 81 ss, sail Mr.. Mitchell. ID ex
pauatioa though The tern stained gas Is lndi'crim
cl.s are incorporated when glass is n its soluble
state The design Is carried out by blending together
e.e, ~ glass the colO> Oi which are necessary 10 pro
duce the desired effect and tint 80 pant - used except
Oh faces hands and eet where for obvious reasons IL Is
desirable In lautel glass the design Is produced by
cuor- laid The Hat surface OF the glass, which may or
NAV not be colorrd. This Is af'erward fused Briefly,
coor glass il practically the sod or genaine material
while PAINTED glass IS a This expresses their
relative art valCcs"
Mr. Mitchell showed me cartoon about to he
executed IN glass taken from Raphaes Il. Cecilia
His company II probably the largest in the country aud It's
work the ambltio yet offered in America 1t en-
ploys at tbs time between 100 and 200 men besides
enjoy the advantages OF corIs o. designers AMI art
lists whose names prominent as those nave
already mentioned and everywhere guarantees OF
art work The company makes cOloTed glass
Its speciality AMI deserves mach credit for ae develop
meut o., the Many improvements by This house IN
It's manufacture have led To the higher appreciation %"
this form OF art The cost Of production has thereby
been es-ened that windows Of pure coloed glass are
no longer expensive but within the limit Of those
moderate circumstances TINS has naturally popularled
the art until am told there Is scarcely anew house
nat OF any size does Hot contain stained glass IN
one form or another and in liberal proportions.
The marvellous glass of the twelfth ana thirteenth
centuries" .aI Mr.. Mitchell vhch is still to be seen
uo,afvl tie Cathedral. of Chatrc-. Rouen, and -tras
burg is ,o'orcd glass. Tue German glass OF la;er
t,rod , tainted glass. and painted glass yet LARGELY
prevails m Germany. En- land and France. IN act'
ro continued enthusiastically, the revival OF col rel
GLASS mos ir~ OF the established use Ol painted
,.a.- b-inu Ia this country. For thr rst time III
many ce1fifr- the colorcd glass made and Used IN
America rDachrs does NOT ell"i IHe p'Itoc' Sl'''
az the pas ages of which have slch hhe e&aLIpes
,.l in the Norman Gothic churches OF France.
Now that Governor Hi has cleared h' desk" OF the
pending legislative bills it Is hoped that he vii give
little study 10 the of the two Young men. Poole ana
Font mo serving lie sentence IN 'in- sing Prison
cha eed with Il murder which was ably not "a
,nurder: which crime there proof they ever com
mitted; VINO were tried by lxcd jury, and con-
demucd by judge who died shortly after & soitening %
the BRAN. The attention OF Mr. Cleveland when Gov.
erucr was called L this notorou, ease ~ injustice ana
he PROMISED u evidence could ue produced That tue Jury
recommended the PRISONERS 10 mercy, tiat No WON'T
plrlon them. Mr. John spark clerk OF inc court ~
i,ruernl sessions supplied this missing Ink AM nave
-. Inc cerfln.nlh IArlnM lLcrk HruWLs nlnl..