Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-03-29
HIS PRIDE AND PET.
A MANY MILLIONAIRE WITH A PHI
LANTHRoPIc HOBBY.
B,ue pays In Art-He Gave Up $4,000
Job--A Tale Of Tall Hat-Tbe Baehe-
Ior's Room--Morc New Papers.
Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch !


forty or City were admitted, when it would
be closed again until there was room in
side for more. Hurrying along the street
came rather short man. neither thickset
nor thin. with keen gray eyes. shrewd
and kindly face, beardless except for n
short chinner." He seized the situation
at glance; rho s,or,sa % those
on the outskirts OF the throng; III icy
YOU in at the back door" Then he started
at a dog-trot down an alley at the side OF
the big building, followed by hundred OF
SO men. ~
The man with the gray eyes was Charles
Pratt. and the building, of course. the IN
dustrial institute which he founded and
which is his pride and pet. Lat up ateyery
window, looming huge through the dark
moss 1t was on Impressive monnment 70
the sacacity which has made Mr. Prattone
Of the richest men in the country ana tne
generosity with which he uses his wealth
rs the waiting people at tho door testified
10 his unerrlng Judgment in gauging
"long-felt want" which would appeal TO
public interest.
Within. the halls and passages were
crowded to suffocation. All the processes
of instruction were going on. There were
thousands Of students. thousands OF visl-
tors. There were boys and young men
laying bricks. doing csrpenter-work'
sketching, painting, plumbing, WOOD
carving There were women and girls 10
ing most of these things and cooking,
dress-making. and hat-trlmming besides.
There were rooms full of splendid casts.
books. collections of minerals. curioslties,
fabrics, art objects, samples OF stuoSh1
workmanship in every branch on exhiDl-
ton. -
Two great buildings, one behind the
other. are already in use. Another larger
than either is coon TO be built. All the
classes are full to overlooking. The best
experts obtainable are teaching them. ne
completed plant will cover not lots but
| acres and extend six stores into the ar.
Yet Il is only three or four years since
ground was broken for the first building.
BLUE THE COLOR.
These are blue DAYS in art ; not because
pictures are drug in the market, for that
| Is n plaint that has been heard before;
William Nj. Chase is not the first splendid
PAINTER whose works have been sold Tor
The blueness ia altogether a matter OF
paint. Take look at the studios and see
what prevailing blue tone they see.
| There's The clever newcomer, Aug. tranzen.
Nearly every picture Of dozen he Is snow
| ing Is blue; mostly light blue. In one the
ais and an old. faded blue blouse, from
which all the other tints are shaded down
leonard OchtInan has q land and water
scape in which everything, trees, SKY,
Grass. water, is Of a deep, dark color. re-
| calling the blue dye-tub Of New England
farm woodshed. George II. Bogert AFFECTS
a pale-greenish blue. Fred host has
round half dozen OF blue pictures.
Chase paints IN blue when he. feels
| like it. apparently, but that is not often.
| His speciality is the bright and vivid green
| of yo1n0. clOsely-croppcd grass and iresn-
| lv sprung. sunligbtcd foliage. Craziest OF
all tho blue men, though, is j. II. Twacht-
man, who has been showing whole room
| full Of oil paintings and pastel in the weak
| est, palest. thinnest, most watery blue, III
which everything is so haZy ana inulstlncI
| that it's hard to tell tree from good IN
tention without scale diagram. Twacht,;
| man is very clever artist. though, and
| his blue pictures are only case OF simon
| saws thumbs up. Being in the prevailing
| tone. they have been much admired.
| The older men, who have an acquired
| reputation 10 sustain, are above such al
| fectations. It's pleasure, after surfelt
of light blue and dark blue to see one
| of Inness's splendid sunsets, Tlch IN poetic
effect OF careful figure bit by Winslow
| Homer or DE Haas sea piece.
1 PINE APARTMENT.
The multiplication OF bachelors, apart
mont houses Is responsible for the Dache-
| lor's room. which you will find nowadays
| AZ often out of the apartment house as ia
| n. The bachelors room is not half bed
| room or a three-story back. 1t Is fine,
! SPACIOUS apartment which is supposed not
| only TO show glance that its occupant Is
| a man, but TO give some evidence OF the
| trend of his tastes. If he is artistic the
| fact is expected to declare itself In the
| fine yirilIty of the choice OF proof
| etchings he has made; water-colors are
| held in moro favor by women. III ne IS
| musical his fiddle AMI banjo, piano. and
| flute proclaim it. Oftener than either,
| however, one sees an arrangement ike
| this: Above the mantel crossed folls, with
| a pair OF fencers' masks; upon the man.
| tel two pair of boxing-gloyes: On
| long, unbroken side n panel OF oars or
| paddles. fsh-nets, and rods, with mounted
| deer-heads a. climaxes; upon the door
a rawhide Navajo shield, hand-palnteu
bv some copper-colOred impressionist
| with a whitewash-b and pot OF red
ocbre: upon another wall an arrangement
| of guns of all nations. swords aud pistols;
! a bronze of the Louvre gladiator; o lariat
in coil, q lacrosse OF tennis racket: minor
trifles of q sportive hue; no pictures except
possibly some old-line engrayings OF hunt
ing scenes.
The effect Of all this is rather confusing
| at best; it becomes eomlcal when the
| bachelor occupant is soft-handed SVEN
who couldn't shoot barn door at ten rods
and never pulled stroke ore in bis llfe.
LIVELY scoTCHMAS.
do not know any one who enjoys Ire
more than Andrew Carnegie. HIS livery
| demeanor is an exception To the pomposity
| Il calf mazda YniliI0unlreQ. HlA
| well-wrinkled face. with its frame OF gray
hair and whiskers and its twinkllng eyes Is
as CHEEKY as boys and his wiry little BODY
seems to know no fatigue. lie thinks no
thing of crossing the Atlantic IN mid-winter
to keep an appointment in New York, Pitts
burg, or Edinburgh. To the three cities he
has made gifts aggregating millions OF doi-
lars. The new music hall In New lorh
| which was built for young Damrosch's con.
| certs manly by Carnegie's money is one OF
the most splendid buildings of the sort 10
the world. Mrs. Carnegie, splendid, tail,
| Well-rounded woman, with plenty OF brains
and common sense but no pretenslons 70
| beauty, is his constant companion upon his
travels and their fine pride. IN each other
reminds one irresistIbly OF the romantic
| story of their unsupported wooing and the
wedding which was surprise oevery one
TALE OF TALL HAT.
Doctor said to skilful physician
whose reputation has travelled good
way out of New York, why do you al
ways wear a tall hat? 1t isn't becoming TO
=" / know it." said the doctor. but I'll
tell YOU how it was. A few years ago,
when was younger than am now, at
tended the sick child of a garrulous
daughter of the Emerald Isle down upon
1.-The east side. The child recovered and ]
presented my bill upon the last visit. 30
much as that p said the mother, as named
A sum about one quarter of my usual fee.
'Howly saints, hear till the mon why,
for that money l cud "a had doctor WITH
a plug hat When went home took on
nv sloueh hat and have never worn one
since, except at Grand Army parades."
he GAVE Up S26, 900 JOB.
Hero is a picture of q man who gave up
a salary of SIS, 900 a year and an honorable
and influential post because he didn't want
TO be bothered with the work. DE IS about
five feet two or three inches high, stout
rather than fat OF build, energetic ia move
mont. His head is large and well deyel-
oped; his close-cropped hair Is gray, his
ewes keen, twinkling, and blue, his face un-
wrinkled and innocent of beard except tor
small Bardwell Slote chin tuft. This Is Mr.
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