Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-08-21
UNDER MUsIC.s CHARM.
Wor1d-Famous Scientists Listen to the N
rine Band In the White House Grounds.


PEN PICTURE OF SOME OF THE DISTINGUISHED
PERSONS COMPOSING THE AUpIENcE-How THEY
LOOKED, DRESSED, cHArTEp AND GENERALLY
ENJOYED THE coScERT-rHE PROGRAM PLAYED.
Fine music, handsome ladies, appreciative
gentlemen, beautiful scene, even the respect
full boughs of the fine old trees all united TO do
honor to the crowd of distinguished scientist
in the White House grounds early last evening.
By direction Of President Harrison concert was
| rendered to the American Association for the
Advancement Of Science, the American Micro
| scopical Society, the Association OF American
Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations,
the Association of Official Agricultural Chem
lists. the Society for the Promotion Of Agricul-
tural Science. the conference Of American
chemists, the Association Of Economic Ento-
mologists. the Geological Society Of America
and the international congress OF geologists,
and the Marine Bands attractive program
served to cover the green lawn back of the
Executive Mansion with thick sprinkling Of
world-famous scientists.
ArPrARASoE OF THE THRoNa.
Thoy sat about ON the benches or stood to-
gether in little groups and talked big words
at q rate that frightened even tho vulgar little
birds that have not gone out Of town for tho
summer into an awcd silence. The scene was
much like that at an ordinary Saturday con-
cert, only the faces were strange and there was
degree of indifference or eccentricity as to
dress on the part OF some Of the distinguished
gentlemen that precludcd ANY superstition that
1t was gathering OF idlers who had nothing
but their clothes to engross their attention.
There was scarcely man in all tho crowd who
was not an interesting figure in the world Of
science. Strong. intellectual faces, deeply
marked with the lines OF thought and study,
were everywhere.
One of the most striking figures on tho lawn
was a little old man with hair that was almost
white and a smoothly shaven, sharp-fea,urcd
face. shaded by an immense plug" hat that
wildly reminded one Of Senator Evarts. He
walked slowly about, looking at everything
with pair Of deep-set gocd-natured blue eyes,
his manner plainly betokening that this wss
his first visit to Washington and that no was
very much interested in every thing he saw.
He was DIR. Edward Murphy, long time MEM
Der ot the Association for the Advance ment OF
Science, and an onlooker rather than q partici-
pant in the learned discussions.
Over west of the bands stand Commodore A.
E. Douglass of tie New York Yacht Club who
as scientist and sailor Is known all over the
world, stood under the trees talking to DIR.
Morse Of the State Department, Pot Otis Mason
Of the National Museum and Miss Mason. The
commodore is tall, hearty-looking gentleman
of some fifty years, with closely trimmed
white mustache, clear gray eyes, and he always
wears a suit of dark blue. He is getting bit
old for active yachting and has become even
more enthusiastic in the collection OF stone i'm
plements than he is on Yachting both OF which
''fads'' his fortune enables HIM TO follow to the
full bent of his taste. His collection OF ancient
stone implements is conceded to be the dain-
test and in some respects the rarest IN the
country, every specimen in the collection be-
ing absolutely perfect. He will not have an
imperfect specimen IN his cabinets. He is one
of the kindliest men in the world and his gold
bowed spectacles seem to glisten with coed
nature His collection OF friends is even larger
than his collection of Indian arrow heads
MR.. PRANG OF ''PRANa's."
The man who has brought more pleasure to-
the hearts of the children and pretty girls of
America thar any one else in the country. with
the possible exception of Santa Claus, was
among the scientists. He is the man who makes
'Prang's" Christmas cards and valentines. In
appearance he is tall, rather stoop-shouldered
man of about ffty-tive. whose gocd-natured
face is almost covered with a Sc. of thick, griz
zled whiskers. Mr.. Prang wore dusty black
slouch hat and a suit Of black clothes that did
not fit bit too well. A large share of his i'm
mense business is the making of scientific Illus
trations- He has done 30 much of this kind OF
work that he is almost scientist himself and
he attends all the great scientific gatherings.
Walking with Mr.. Prang was another famous
man of German extraction, who is as widely
known in his way as the acknowledgements
is in his. He was Paul Carus the editor OF the
great Monist Magazine and the leader of the
modern monist school of philosophy in the
| western world. This system teaches that every
thing material and spiritual alike, is made Of
one primary substance. That instead OF three
score and more Of elements there is but one
and that it in its various forms composes every
| thing that exists. The man who advances this
| theory, which would revolutionize the science
and philosophy of the world, is a rather UNDER
sized, heavily-built, specialized man with a
heavy beard and rather long hai- that are black
as coal, a ready smile and O strongly marked
German accent.
REMARKABLE TRIO.
A remarkable trio Of gentlemen who stood
talking together was composed OF Prof. Alfred
Springer, the widely known young physicist;
Prof. Edward S. Morse OF Salem, Mass, and
Prof. Jacob Jastrow. artist, wit, writer and
psycho-physicist. Young as he is, Prof. JAS
trow is regarded as the leading disciple of the
brand-new science, 80 far as the western world is
concerned of psycho-physics. To this youngest
Of the sciences he has devoted most of his life
though he has found time to paint pictures and
writes wonderfully graceful scientific papers be-
side. Prof. Morse, a tall cheerful-lOoking man
with pointed blonde beard, a straw hat and
black alpaca coat, is director of the Peabody
Museum at Salem. 1t Prof. Morse and
Prof. Mendenhall who went to Japan and estab-
selves lasting regulations.
Prof Wiley of the Agricultural Department
in suit Of white fannels: Frank IaFlesche
the ethnologist of the National Museum, and
Assistant Secretary OF Agriculture Willetts were
among Washlngton's contributions to the re-
markable Cssemblage. Exchanges Director W.
c. Winlock of the Smithsonian and Prof. Or
mond Stone. the distinguished Virginia astron-
omer, walked and talked together. Prof. Stone
| who looks like a prosperous business man with
his closely trimmed gray mustache and we'll tit
ted light suit of clothes is in charge of the obser-
| vatory OF the University of Virginia, which was
built by the northern harvester millionaire
| soon after the late war. Ex-State Geologist of
| Indiana E. I. Cox. tall, gray-bearded man of
| fifty five or sixty, one of the oldest biologists
| of the country, and his handsome daughter
were a center around which many of the geolo-
| gists gathered.
AwoMAN WHO HAS DONE GOOD WORK.
| Mrs. Carl Barus, a slender dark woman with
piercing black eyes, who for years worked side
by side with her husband in his laboratory in
the Smithsonian Institution, as he tried to
| wrest from nature the secret of rock formation.
was the center of distinguished group of
| scientists who knew of her work with her nus
band. For weeks at a time thew stroye to re-
| produce artificially the heat and pressure OF
the inside of the earth where rock is formed.
Thomas Mehan, the Philadelphia botanist, a
! stout, gray -whiskered man in a straw hat who
| looked like prosperous farmer, paid his I'M
divided attention to the music. He is prob
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