Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-27
WASHINGTON MUSINGS.
The Presidential Family Beyond the Sound
of the Sols in the White House-A Capt.
tai BnbbIe-A New Corcoran Art Gal

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!FRoM STAFF CORRESPONDENCE
WASHINGTON. D. C.. April 25-The Pres-
dent is still absent on his royal tour. and the
White House is Ienanrless. Mrs. Halford's
death has thrown a funeral pail over it, Mr.
Halford aId his daughter are grief.stricken.
They we're very near 10 the President and his
family, and it seems always impossible that the
Harrisons should be enjoying the satisfaction
that comes of being liOnized and guzzing and
gOrmandizing while the HalGords are in tears.
What disgusting exhibition is made in
honor of he President. The worst of 1t is he
seems really like it. Is it possible that we
are q nation OF the worst 1unkeys and tuft-
hunters in the world? 1 dare say from having
been very obscure spectator Of the progress"
of quite number of the so-called royal per-
sonages of the world. that such scenes as have
attended the progress of the President and
his train would be impossible in any place but
the United States. Harrison has been small in
many things, but nothing that he has done has
seemed to indicate So great lack of real
breadth and dignity as this. Nobody but q
petty politician elevated to high Office could
permit or enjoy such treatment as though he
heTo Huu IHSLedu Ol an dLtOEuey
from one-horse Hoosier town. But if we
think this of the President, what must we
think of the people?
OF ALL the many speculations solids and
bubbles. that have endured or burst in the Vi
cinity of Washington, syndicate IS just now
engaged in booming one of the most novel that
has been devised. The inducing Of Cleveland
TO buy country home In which ne never lived
was not marker to it. An old citizen, OF a de-
scendant of old citizens, by heritage or other
wise, was possessed of hundreds of acres of
worthless land about five miles out of the city.
lt was away from the railroad and not availa-
BILE for one of those little manufactured vii
lagos that are the result of judicious booming.
1t had pretty view however and the owner,
being man of inventive fancy. conceived the
scheme of new "Chautauqua," not hesitating
to crib the appellation of the Western New
York Association. He called the place "tIlen
Echo" possibly because there is not an echo In
all that region, and the institution which
he proposed TO establish. the "Glen
Echo Chautauqua." Judicious gifts of
lots and stock to doctors of divinity
gave the scheme tone of learning and respect
ability. wealthy company syndicate
has been organized, and the thing seems to be
great 60. A tremendous stone amphitheater
is almost finished, beautiful granite. castel-
lated building for school of philosophy is on
the way. cottages and tents will be provided
for the patrons that are expected to come, emil
nent teachers have been employed and lee
turers engaged for the instruction of all who
choose to study and listen, more than the
"ChautauQua Course" is promised. the Con-
cord and Pennington schools of philosophy are
to be transplanted to Glen Echo. and, alto
gether, it is one of the prettiest schemes to
boom corner and other lots that has been
known in this region. Lots have jumped from
S25 an acre to TO- Is and 70 cents a square foot,
and the dealers and dominies are in high
feather.
IT WILL interest all the world to know that
we are to have a new building for tie Corcoran
Gallery of Art, which is so great an attraction
for every visitor to the capital The present
structure. enjoyable as it is is one of the worst
lighted galleries in the world. 1t is impossible
to get good light except by an accident Of the
atmosphere. Mechanical art will not accom-
plish 1t. The trustees have Just purch ased an
acre and half of ground across Seventeenth
street from the War Department. and over
looking in some measure the pretty park
known as the White Lot" and here is to be
built, sooner or later, an ideal gallery. The
standard Of the works in this gallery has been
greatly improved of late. Old fogy ideas seem
to have passed away, and the most of the
recent works purchased are of the most ap-
proved realistic school. AT the recent Seney
sale the gallery secured good examples of the
work OF DiaZ, CaZln, 1sabey, Rico and Alexan-
der Harrison. none Of whom had been previ-
ously represented in the collection.
IHAvE often spoken in these letters OF Max
Weyl as one of the best landscape artists in
America. He Is hero as well as an artist
For score of years, amid disbursements
which would have turned almost any other man
aside from his ambition. selling a picture now
and then. hanging on TO living by the eyelids,
he had faith that he would yet be appreciated
He waited for the education of those who
should have been his prompt patrons, one
might say. 1t remained for obscure American
friends who knew the value of his work, and
later for wealthy and titled foreigners..who were
admirable connoisseurs. to make him known
and appreciated. His time has come and he is
on the nigh tide of prosperity. At a recent ex-
hibiton Of works of local artists he was award
ed the 500 prize for the best picture. The
Corcoran gallery has just purchased land
scape from him, and he has liberal order for
large landscape from the Metropolitan Mu-
scum of Art at New York. l don't like to
speak of money in connection with fine art but
may say TOR the encouragement of Pittsburg
artists who languish in the inferno of the un-
appreciated that Max Weyl has sold within the
last two months upwards Of $1,000 worth of
pictures.
ANOTHER instance of a young American
who has risen with more rapidity to position
approaching fame. A few years ago e.. s.
TruesdelI was photographer in Chicago. He |
had an ambition for higher art and began to
paint. He travelled a very rough road in Paris |
for several years. assisted occasionally by his |
brother, the well-known Washington corre- |
spondent, but he stuck to it and his picture of |
the las. Paris salon was highly commended by |
Albert Wolff, the great art critic. 1t was |
awarded medal and now rests IN the Corcoran |
Gallery 1t was purchased within the last two |
or three days for the sum of 81 500. 1t is |
large canvas with pleasing landscape,a pretty |
shepherdess and remarkably life-like flock of |
sheep. These successes and others do not |
crown the market with fine artists, however. |
There is plenty ofroom left. EVIL.
WHY KIPLING SUCCEEDS.