The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-05-20
WAS PULASKI AN ARTIST?
A Portrait Signed by Him at the
Columbian Fair.


A Wonderful Handkerchief-Fou
Thousand Dollars Day is What
the Fair Cost One Visitor-other
Fair Notes.
The worlds fair correspondent of the
New York Times says:
A small crayon picture of a gallant,
with an Elizabethan ruffle about his neck,
stands against the wall in the yet unfur-
nished room in the New York building
occupied by State Executive Officer Nc
Naughton.
do you know who that ISL" asked Mr..
McNaughton of the New York Times cor
respondent.
Count Pulaski, if the name at the bot
tom of the picture is any indication"
''That shows how much people know
about New York and New York's early
settlers, - said MIR. McNaughton disgust
edly. "That's picture of Henry Hud-
SON"
"How does the name of~Count Pulaski
! happen to be at the bottom of it,"
THAT is q mystery. l haven't been
able to find anybody who could explain it.
When the demand for New York colonial
relics was at its hight thought we ought
to have picture of Hudson, and | started
out to find one. There was none at AL
bany, and | then remembered that as a
boy had seen at the old governors house
in New York very old picture of Column
! bus. l thought there might be one of
| Hudson eXtant, too, and | saw Mayor
Grant at the city hall, but he knew none
| In rummaging aroud the city hall found
an old painting of the discoverer in the
office of the commissioner of public works
| That is copy of it. That picture in the
! New York city hall is very old and very
| dim, and it took Anthony several, weeks to
! secure good photograph of it. We then
sent 1t to Sterry at Albany and had him
! reproduce 1t in crayon. When the paint
ing was frightened up we found at the
bottom of it the name Count Pulaski
have made every effort to find out
whether Count Pulaski was painter, but
nobody seem to know.
Moreover, it is claimed by savants that
no picture of Hudson exists. That picture
| is certainly of him, and in studying up the
! subject l discovered that one of the most
intimate friends Hudson had was named
| Jacob HondiuS, and that Hondius was
painter. Therefore there must have been
picture of the explorer made, and for all
we know this painting may be by HondiUs,
and Pulaski was only the owner. In any
| event we will give it place Of honor in
the building, and this ought to be done,
considering that we have selected Sept. 4,
the day Hudson sailed UP the Hudson
| river, as New York's fete day."
WONDERFUL HANDKERCHIEF.
You will remember, says an Inter
Ocean writer, that the other day
1 told you l was hunting in the Woman's
building for a wonderful handkerchief.
Yesterday | saw it. 1t is wonderful.
! This handkerchief was embroidered back
in the sos for Empress Eugene. 1t was
done by two women, who were paid only
30 cents week during the months it took
| to complete the work. From being
obliged to use microscopes to do the work
they became blind. The drawings for the
design were made in Rome al cost of
81 200, and were destroyed Immediately
| after the handkerchief was finished to
prevent duplication. Though two women
became blind in doing the work, the value
of the handkerchief seems to have in
creased only one-half the price of the
! work done by the designer; 81 500 is the
amount of the insurance carried.
1t was not given to Empress Eugene
finally by the manufacturers. 1t was con-
| sidered too wonderful to be hidden away
in any private collection, and was sent to
the Paris exposition of 1855, where it re
ceived the first premium. 1t was again
given the first premium at the London ex-
position of 1862. From London it came to
this country and was purchased by an
uncle of the present owner, who is a Miss
Helen Williams Of Louisville, Ky.
THE OWNER A vIRGINIAN.
Miss Williams is Virginian by birth,
her parents in the old days being very
wealthy slave owners. Though Virgin
ians and slave owners they were repub-
licans They finally through conscientious
Scruples, and before the emancipation
declaration, and at a great financial sacri-
fee, liberated their slaves.
The handkerchief is about eighteen
inches square. 1t is fastened with pins at
the corners to a red satin cushion.
Though it is nearly forty years since the
intricate work was done the color is pure
aud white as if finished but yesterday.
The material which holds the remarka-
BILE needle work is a sheer silky linen-so
thin that the color of the satin is plainly
visible through it. Around the edge first
is a narrow lace work, which, on exami-
nations, shows continuous line of natur-
ally posed serpentS, with tails entwined
and heads meeting. They are in pairs,
and four of them on each side of the
handkerchief. Next to this there
are tropical flowers and trees, and
among them all the animals known to
gasping out their last breath in the en-
brace Of the deadly boa constructor, ele-
plants are bending stately palms, Loop
al Is are leaping for their prey and ALI
gators are creeping lazily along. The in
ner border has a Hunt in the Tropics"
Arabs. yelled and unveiled, with nantes
and without them, with guns and with
spears, and dashing madly through the
forests after game. Then through all the
design is an interlacing of fine vines and
tiny blossoms. For the design, the action
expressed in the drawing is life itself.
Men and horses are really excited over
the hunt, and every animal and serpent
seems to move as you look at it. The en-
broidery seems beyond the skill of
human hands. Every hair on the
horses, the scales on the serpents, the
teeth of the open-mouthed animals, the
texture of cloth in the Arabian mantles,
the features and expressions on faces, the
spots on the leopard, the brides on the
horses, everything is plainly visible, made
by those tiny threads. In the center of
some of the flowers in a space Of a quarter
of an inch are houses, trees and shrub
berry, with the windows and window
panes plainly visible. Each thread stands
out as a part of the design.
One could have studied the handker-
chief for week and found something
new. 1t is not yet on exhibition. 1t will
be the last of next week, so Mrs. Bates
who kindly went into the depths of I'M
packed goods TO get it for me-told me.