Morning journal and courier., 1891-05-09
THE FLEETING SHOW.
Some of Its Facts and Fancies.

Written for the JOURNAL AND CoURIER.l
 MAY SEVENTH.
 The soft May breeze was redolent with sweets Tossed from the blooming boughs the air was
 pierced
 With liquid bird d-notes,-all was fair and pure AS God had newly made snless world.
 But oh, tho human sorrow! broken sobs; Fast falling tears; hearts aching with their loss; Arms aching for their love; heads bowed with
 grief,
 Where long, slant sun-rays lay like golden bars Across thy open grave, Oh precious friend! SOME ITEMS CONCERNING WOMAN AND HER
 WORK.
 The architect of the Woman's Building at the Columbian exposition will be Miss Sophia G. Hayden of Boston, teacher of drawing in the Eliot Industrial school
 For this building two hundred thousand dollars was appropriated and the commit drawn by women who had had special training and experience in architecture, the selected design to obtain for it's author prize of one thousand dollars, and her appointment as architect of the building, with expenses while making the working drawings in the office of the bureau. of con- struction.
 Miss Hayden took the full four years' course at the Institute of Technology in Boston, and was the first honor student She is said to be the only woman who holds the diploma of the Institute, though several have studied there in shorter courses. She has also had some experience | in an architects office. General Francis | A. Walker, president of the Institute, says | that he considers Miss Hayden competent to construct railroad bridge, if neces- ! sary She has prepared herself very l thoroughly for her profession, studying the l question of contracts, mathematical draw | ing, the strength of materials, heating and | is in Italian renaissance style, with colon made, broken by center and end pavilions | Another Boston girl, Miss Lois Howe, a niece of Dr. Samuel G. Howe, sent a plan which gained the second prize of $500. Miss Howe studied for four years at the | Museum of Fine Arts and then took two years' special course in architecture at the Institute of Technology. She is now em- ployed as draughtsman for firm of Bos- ton architects.
 The winner of the third prize in this competition is Miss Laura Hayes of Chi capo, now private secretary to Mrs. Potter Palmer, who suggested that the plans for the Woman's building should properly be drawn by a woman.
 Miss Minerva Parker, the young Phila delphia architect is almost burdened with business. She has just completed large factory, several houses for the Overbrool Improvement Company and is at worl
 upon plans for handsome residences sht
 has beside the contract for the new build
 ing to be erected for the New Century
 Club.
 The planning of homes, as well a
 their decoration and furnishing seems
 very appropriate and noble avocation fo
 women. As usual, however, the wome,
 find new and pleasant path to success
 they are followed in haste by numbers O others who stumble and fall therein Mis- Parker, who has added to inherited abilit, most thorough study of her profession says that it is a surprise to her to sec wo men try to take up architecture as busi ness with out adequate preparation. needs most careful study, thorougl mastery of every detail, earnest and lovin E devotion to the chosen work, else tn worker fails lamentably.
 Here are the names of prize winners il 3 other lines of endeavor The first prize o
 three hundred dollars, offered by tn
 American Economic association for tn !, best essay on 'sWomen Wage Farmers, has been awarded to Miss Claire De Graf = feureid, of Washington, D. 0. Miss D :, Graffeuried was for thirteen years teach f CT, and always deeply interested in educs a tional and social questions. In 1886 sh was appointed to the position she no' holds in the United States Department c 6 Labor, and her studies have brought he f into intimate acquaintance with the 1T
 dustrial conditions of the country. Lai = summer she spent month in London il d vestigating the conditions of labor there l. She is one of the two writers who in 1Se s divided the prize offered by the same Al sociation for an essay on "Child Ls 5 bor," and her paper on the "Need s of Self Supporting Women" has bee Il published among the series of 'fUn |. versity Studies in History and Politics.
 The second prize of two hundred dolla, e offered by the Economic association, WI @ awarded to Mrs. Helen Campbell of Ne IT York, whose biography of Anne Brat ia street, 'the grandmother of American Ii T, erature," has recently been published. l. For the two, hundred dollar prize o 1t fered by the Cosmopolitan for the be st article on Methods of Making Farm-li w Attractive there appeared contestal
 from nearly every state in the Union.
 was won by Miss Jennie Hooker, farr