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her teacher Mrs. Young-Kretchmar
She left St. Aloysius choir to go to fresh
triumphs in New York and to study with
Max MaretZek. The last service she sang
in st. Aloysius was memorable one: In
the words of one who heard her that after
noon, "she sang Ike an angel" Everybody
cried, from the choir clear down to the al
tar. After going to New York she soon
went into Duff's Opera Company, and
created the part of Josephine in "Plnafore.
But Eva Mills was more of lover or
home and friends than she was of fame
and fortune. and while here on visit 10
her mother was easily persuaded to take
the soprano part in All Souls Church quar-
tet. Mr.. and Mrs Sherman and Mr.. Wild
rey of the ST. Aloysius choir were already
there, and when she Joined them the old
choir was complete, excepting the tenor,
who was Mr.. Witherow, and who was
familiar figure in that choir for many
for eight years, going frequently to New
York and Philadelphia to fill concert and
operate engagements. She held undisput-
ed sway here for many years, and had she
chosen to remain in opera would have
made a brilliant star, to say nothing of
the fortune. Typhoid fever came on her,
while still in All Souls choir, and she was
She resigned her position, and could never
be induced to take another one.
The next soprano of prominence at st.
Aloysius was Mollie Byrne, who married
Dominick 1. Murphy. Never was there q
sweeter voice Sweeter woman. livery
body loved her. and her greatest ambition
was to sing like Eva Mills. She sang there
buried from there after one short year Of
married life. Her place among her friends
has somehow never been quite filed.
K. S. BROOKS.
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iOIh man. WHO came MIS- ENretcnmar.
here as clerk in one of the de-
partments. She had an excellent method
In singing, and with fine natural voice
no wonder she has left such a good
impression behind her. She sang soprano
In the First Congregational Church quartet
under the direction of DIR. Jno. =. Caulfeld
Mrs. Caulfeld was the contralto This was
during the early days of DIR. Rankln's
pastorate of that church. Mrs Butts re-
manned there for many years. When she
left here she was a widow, and went to
Brooklyn. to be leading soprano in one OF
the largest churches there.
1t was during the time that he was
ganist and director of the Congregational
Church choir that DIR, Caulfeld organized
the Philharmonic Society. This chorus was
composed OF nearly all the singers in Wash
ington. and did a great deal of excellent
work. Mrs. Caulfield was frequently a So
loist at the society's concerts. but has
given up singing for so many years that
very few of our present singers know that
she ever was prominent contralto. One
or the most important concerts the old
fhlharmonic gave was THE Creation" in
Old Lincoln Hall Charlie Ever was the
manager, and had Parepa, Zelda Seguin,
3. {. Campbell and tenor who was a
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commodities that are set before them in
calm, truthful manner. Honest advertis-
ing, therefore, Is the style rather than SEN
sational screaming of wares. The space
that is usually filed elsewhere with ire
mendous displays of densely black marks
is now given over to clever arrangements
of words that tickle the fancy while in
structing the ad. reader. There Is, in other
words, literature of commerce growing
up in the development of this new epoch
of advertising that is as distinct from the
old style as the present news columns of
The Star are different from those of twenty
years ago. To the study of this literature
and to its betterment and it's general
spread, the ad. writer proper Is devoted
Washington has a large number of men
who are exceptionally clever in this line of
work. Occasionally, from the wilderness
of New York and Philadelphia and Boston
and even sometimes from out of the vast
ness that contains Chicago there comes a
man seeking for light. He is shown the
files of the papers, he Is shown the ad-
vertisement of today as compared with
that of five, ten, fifteen years ago, and he
is then told that this has been done in ad-
vance of all the rest of the country, and he
goes away convinced that this Is indeed a
great place, and that it's ad. writer's are
mighty clever folks.
There Is scarce business house in this
city that does any very large amount of
business that does not employ an ad
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Its kind to be established in America, the
prototype of scores of bureaus that are
now doing successful business in all sec
lions.
So 1t is not strange that the eyes of the
mercantile America are today turned upon
this city. as never before, and that its
newspapers are scanned by business men
in the most remote cities. To the merchant
as well as the housewife the advertising
columns are the most interesting part OF
newspaper. To them the daily pabulum
of current events is nothing when COM
pared with the clever presentations of
ad. writer's who never lose an opportunity
to arrest the attention. 1t is safe to say
that the advertising columns of The Star
have quite as large and as faithful Glen
tele Of r .aders as the other columns. This
has come to be true in the new era that
has so recently come upon the mercantile
world of Washington, the days of appre-
citation of the value of what is now known
as printers INK in business.
The Star, like many other papers that
are given to artistic advertising, has 10
system of enormous displays of gaudy
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young protege Of Parepa- What a glorious
performance 1t was! Charlie Ever was at
that time the director of the Unitarian
Church choir, at the corner of 9Th and d
streets northwest, used as the Police Court
for many years after the new church was
built.
Prof. Colliere. father of Lucien Colnere, the
professor Of languages here, was among the
first singing teachers of Washington. He
came here as an old man, with white hair,
but taught very successfully for some
years. He then retired to Catholic mon
astery in South Carolina, where he spent
the remainder of his life
The First Prima Donna.
as a singer of any one excepting Mrs
Young7Kretchmar She had music born in
her, and when first heard in St Aloysius choir
she was a little child, bubbling over with
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Scarcity of Camphor.
ON the London Telegraph.

T
Camphor is becoming scarcer and scarcer.
The Japanese government has placed still
further restrictions on its export from its
dcminions, ami the officials who have re-
placed the Chinese in Formosa have re-
ceived instructions to do the same with re-
spect to that island for the present. This
will seriously interfere not only with
many medical compounds, but with the
manufacture of smokeless powder, into
which camphor largely enters. Japan,
therefore, appears to have suddenly jumped
into the position of the universal arbiter
Of war conducted in accordance with the
latest scientific discoveries, as 1t practical
ly controls the supply of camphor, and thus
of the smokeless powders, which are now
extensively manufactured throughout Eu-
rope.
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vate mercantile interests have been
somewhat overshadowed by the great
interests of the government centered
here, has come to be known as the
home Of the best of American adver-
Using. 1t is indeed astonishing, and
the more SO. as the result has been achiev-
ed during the past five years. Such an
awakening of interest in this vital question
or how best to voice the wares of the stores
has never been witnessed in any other city
or the land. Merchants who ten years ago
Vertising are today regular patrons of the
newspaper columns, and those who a de-
cade back We're spending only few hun
dred dollars year for spasmodic adyertis-
ing are now annually laying aside thou
sands for this purpose, and have in their
employ hish-salaried men whose duty is
solely to study the best methods of writ
ing their ads
And in still another branch of this WON
derful business does the capital city lead
the world. 1t is the home of the ad. writer
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his words 1t is one thing to secure a
great run of trade fora day or a week,
and it is another thingsto satisfy the peo-
pie who accept bargain chances that they
their next needs. So the lad writer is to-
day more than ever before the pilot Of the
business house. An ingenious advertise
ment may turn the tide Of trade. and
transform dizziness intd prosperity. There
fore, there are some high salaries paid by
Washingtons merchants to the CONNER
cial architects who devise their announce
ments.
One of the achievements of the Washing
ton ad. writers has been, to persuade some
OF the firms who had fallen into the habit
OF keeping themselves before the public
by some staple arrangement of words, or
by Well-known cut, announcing one spe-
cial commodity, to alter their course and
ADOPT the new style of crying their wares
through the newspapers in a constantly
changing scheme of words. A notable in
stance of this is in the case of the VIM. NJ.
Gait d Co.'S flour concern, which was for
merry represented for years in the columns
OF the papers by a picture Of a flour bar
rel. Some months ago the manager of the
establishment was induced to try the plan
OF having his ad. written up attractively,
olHer1nG each day. He was at first skepti-
cal. he did not believe that it could be
has been chatted about in The Star so en-
tertalnlnsiy, and so cleverly, and with
out repetition, that the housewives, the
folks who buy flour, now make a point
oaiiy 10 seek out this particular advertise
ment instead of taking for granted the old
time cut of barrel. These flour ads have
attracted wide attention outside of Wash
,hston, ana are often reproduced as excel
lent specimens of the ad. writer's art.
To Messrs. Woodward & Lothrop belongs
much of the credit of having Inaugural ted
the new era of advertising They were
pioneers OF liberal expenditures in this
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hind pair Of green goggles. You may
know exactly what you are doing, but no.
body else does''
The merchants of Washington are not
winking at anybody from behind such an
tiquated distractions. They are today
leading the country for their sensible APP
probation of the value of an adequate pre-
sentation Of their claims upon the favor of
the public in some good medium. 1t may
astonish even Westinghouse, although
they know full well how the newspapers Of
this city have improved liz this respect dur
ing the past few years, to be told that
there are more columns of advertisements
published each week day in the local
papers than any other similar number of
sheets in the country. That is to say.
Washington Is at the top notch in the
amount Of its mercantile literature.
Nor is this all. 1t is now an acknowledge
ed fact that the advertisements printed in
this city lead the country in their quality,
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Interested In the Emblem.

From the Chicago Mail.
"A friend of NINE said the floor walker
asked me the other evening to go and call
on some friends of his who had lost the
head of the family the day previous. He
had been an honest old laborer with the
pick and shovel. While we We're with the
family an old man entered who had work
ed by his side for years. Expressing his
sorrow at the loss of his friend, he glanc-
ed about the room and observed a large
floral anchor. ScrutiniZing it closely, he
turned to the widow and i'll a low tone
asked
"'Who sent the pick?'"
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an Anecdote of leasing.

From Harpcrs Round Table.
Observation-Disclosures has been frequently
a characteristic of men Of fame. 1t is
to be supposed, no doubt, that their minds
have been so wholly absorbed by great
matters that the smaller, more trivial
things of life have been considered I'M
worthy of their attention. Among men of
this stamp who have suffered in this way
was Lessing,ya famous German writer of
plays and books of criticism. Leasing dis
covered at one period Of his life that he
was being robbed of his ready money by
some person in his home. and, unable to
determine who the culprit was. he put the
servants Of his household to test by leav-
ing handful of gold upon his breakfast
table one morning.
Meeting a friend he told him what he
had done.
THAT was risky" said his friend. How
much did you leave there?
Dear mel" cried Leasing. Il quite for
got to count"
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cellence Of its work. 1t was Instituted by
The Star under the charge of Mr.. VIM. A.
Hungerford who was originally in the en-
ploy of Woodward & Lothrop, and then
had charge of their advertising business.
He has made a study of the art of adver-
Using as thorough as though he We're
physician who has gone through the human
body to understand every bone and muscle.
He has now associated with him in The
Star bureau Messrs. George W. Miller and
Clarence C. Archibald, both of whom are
unusually clever young men in this line of
work. The functions of this establishment
are peculiar. 1t is not an agent in the sense
that it places the ad. of the merchant in
any certain papers. in the hope of earning
a commission, but it is the hired agent of
the merchant of the firm, simply for the
purpose of writing and arranging its ads.
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IN the country. Among these are Mr..
George H. Lewis, who is in charge of the
advertising columns of the Saks store; Mr.
filny Moran, for many years one Of the
pillars of the Hobinson-Ch store, and
who handles all of its ads; Mr.. Orrison, who
takes care of the interesting announce
ments of Woodward & Lothrop; Mr.. VIM
G. Kent, who. devises Mr.. Lisner's allure
ments that are printed in the daily papers
for the Palais Royal; Mr.. Gus Nordlinger
who secures trade for Eiseman Brothers
by his ingenious pen pictures of their bar
gains; Mr.. Abraham Kaufman, who looks
after the advertising interests of S. Kann,
Sons & Co., and Mr.. Isaac Cans one of the
oldest of ad. writers, whose talents are very
valuable to Messrs. Lansburgh, and who is
president CT the Ad. Writer'S Association
In addition to these bright men, who
have served to make Washington such a
cepter for advertising business, there are
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Mrs. krctchmar's Pupils.
During the next fifteen years many wo-
men-pupils of Mrs. Young Kretchmar-and
whose husbands were prominent in the
politics of that time, were heard in ST.
Aloysius. Mrs. S. S. Cox was a delightful
soprano and great favorite; Mrs. Delano,
whose husband was Representative from
Massachusetts, and Mrs. f. Joy Morris,
whose husband was afterward minister to
Constantinople. Miss Emma Campbell was
also often substitute during Mrs. Young's
absences. She is now Mrs James X. Red
dngton, and well known-but seldom sings.
These were all pupils and substitutes for
Mrs. Young.
Prof. Samuel Carusi was o0e of the ear
Hest piano teachers here. He was Mrs.
John P. Caulfields fsther, and uncle of
Eugene Carusi of this city. He was also
one of the handSomest men in old Wash
ington Prof. Sherman was his pupil, as
was also Leo Coyle. The lattcr's sister,
Miss Emily Coyle, was quite talented
musician, playing the piano at early
age. singing later on, and stiIl later taking
house on N street, is still devotee of
music and a member OF the most exclusive
musical clubs in the city.
Mrs. DIR. Pope was then. she was in
later years, the friend and helper of musi-
clans. and the best music the city had in
II was heard at her house. Hardly has
there ever been a musician OF any ability
In Washington but has been heard there.
She died in February last. Her musical
library was more extensive and valuable
than any other in the District.
Miss Sophie Schmidt had one of the
sweetest voices ever heard in Washington,
and she was we'll known among the older
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matter OF space and artistic ad. writing,
and SO the list might be enlarged until it
covers every firm that has any title to sue
cess and prosperity in the last ten years.
Lansburgh Brothers, Saks & Co., Robinson,
Cherry & Co., and so on through the list of
the stores, all have come to see that in the
midst Of the terrific competition that marks
modern trade the only salvation is a wide
open policy OF notorlety ana publicity. No
goggles here! an a..
AS already stated, this new era has been
marked by a high development of the art
of ad. writing, until lit is recognized as a
distinct branch Of literature. Trade papers
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mcnt given witbnGt the asking by a music
loving people, the masses of whom have
been educated to love of the artistic
rather than the gauze and tinsel of sound.
But all this, in a measure. at least, has
been overcome. The very best that the
world can give, unsteady, now comes to
Washington because its people have shown
an ability to appreciate and willingness
to support the best of everything. This
more than anything else, demonstrates
the rapid strides made by our musicians
during the last twenty-five years.
1t is the purpose of the writer in this and
subsequent article to give some account
of many of those who have been prominent
In musical circles here
Away back in 1859, at the opening of ST.
Aloysius Church. which was the fashiona-
BILE Catholic church here 1.-THE Creation"
was performed, under the direction of Mrs.
Cecilia Young, which was the most i'm
portant musical event chronicled In Wash
ington musical history up to that time.
The organ in this then new church was
not yet completed, SO Mrs. Young en-
gagged an orchestra. the only ore then in
the city. 1t was composed of the Marine
Band. with the addition of all the outside
players, she could get, making fifty in all.
Then she had a chorus of $50 voices, and
the soloists were Mrs. Young, soprano;
Mr.. French tenor and Mr.. John Dawson,
basso. The oratorio was magniflcently
given.
OF Mrs. Young. afterward Mrs. Kretch-
mar, and her singing too much canot be
said. She came here from Baltimore in
1853, and went at once into st. Matthew's
choir as leading soprano, taking the place
of Mrs. Blanchard, afterward Mrs. John
F. 'Coyle. who resigned. Mrs Young re-
manned at st. Matthew's little more than
a year going in October 1880, to st. Alloy
sius. where she remained about fourteen
years. In 1878 she went again to st. Mat
thew's. where she had charge until Mr..
Garnon's time.
To those accus stoned to hearing Mrs.
Young-kretchmar no other voice has ever
seemed so satisfying. Besides Mrs. Young
kretchmar there was at st. Matthews
Mrs. Callan, the alto. who has long since
given up singing, but is still living in
Washington, and Mr.. Crouch, the bass
who wrote Kathleen Mavourneen," and
who sang though he loved the music
and loved the words. He is very old man
now. over eighty, and was, at last ac-
counts, still teaching in Baltimore. DR..
Carmichael was the tenor, and had voice
that matched the others.
The First OrEanist.
The first organ.st of st. Aloysius was DIR.
Perebeau. fine musician and well-known
and well-liked by every one He was
very intimate friend of DR.. Pope. Prof
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NAiN - cAAhs' Ivy ca AASiS
been ready to recog-
nize the value of
liberal appropriations
for newspaper space,
and his ads. are to-
day among the most
attractive that are
written, and cover
space that ten years
ago would have been
ridiculed by the trade
as ruinous. Seaton
Perry, whose estab-
lishment was once
one of the most con-
sentative Of the local
houses, is now we'll
to the front in the
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types that arrest me
eye by brute force,
as it were. Here lies =
the secret of t h e
great reputation of
w h | C h Mr.. Bates
wrote. The theory of
the advertising that
is now the vogue is
that people who are
sin cere readers of
the advertising col
umns, the people who
are scanning them to
b e informed rather
t h a n seekers after
pure amusement,p pre-
fer to be told t h e
truths about t h 9
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pay the various
newspapers for ad-
Vertising space. The
firms make the con-
tracts with the pa
per, and the ad.
writer's of the bu-
reau undertake that
these contracts shall
make the greatest
possible return by
making the adver-
tisement most at
tractive. The ranks
of the city's ad. writ
ers include some of
the brightest devisers
Of attractive an
nOuncements known
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happiness and de-
light at being al
lowed to sing in the
chorus. Here she
sang for many years.
AS she grew Older
from time to time a
solo was given her
In the mass. She was
dubbed 1.-The little
prima DONNA" The
name stuck to her
until she was offered
the position of So
prano soloist. She
took this position as
a very young girl,
and at once proved
berSalf worthy of
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as well as their guam
tity. Charles Austin
Bates, a recognized
leader in authority
on such subjects, in
q recent paper in
Printers Ink, said
that the advertise
ments in The Even
ing Star surpassed
all others in America
for artistic excel
lence of presenta-
ton. And so this
town. which so many
are in the habit of
regarding as a "slow
coach" in matters of
business because pri-
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the Or lNplaCe OF the
ad. -writing bureau,
the place where men
of clever attachments
d e V i s e ingenious
ways of catching the
attention Of possible
buyers. and Of con-
vincing them that
the. goods mentioned
are the very things
they have been look
ing for. In this re-
spect The Evening
Star is the pioneer of
the country, for the
ad. bureau that Is
connected with this
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Harry Sherman, then
a young man and an
experienced organist,
followed him and re-
manned there about
eighteen years. An
alto, so well remem-
bered in this choir,
was Mrs. Donnelly,
the wife of Ignatius
Donnelly of Shake
speare or Bacon
fame, and who was
in Congress at that
time. She had a
cry sympathetic
voice, rich in quality.
and was an excellent
musician, which made
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in the best possible form. There is q great
distinction to be drawn between an ad.
writer and an advertising agent. The
former is an architect, while the latter is
a commission merchant.
The bureau is hired by the sixty firms
get the full worth of the money that they
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L"o yOuIi6 ui6tl Ill
the same line who
have established sue
cessful bureaus SIM
liar to that connect
ed with The Star.
These are Messrs.
James Albert Shat
fer, who was for
merly with The
Stars business de-
partment, and Fred.
McC. Smith, who re-
ceived his advertis-
ing training in con-
nection with the
High School Review,
which he made quite
profitable during his
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uCNotSu 10 the inter-
,ests of clever adver-
Using are in existence
today in numbers.
FiveEor ten years ago
they would have
been considered the
most remarkable of
: freaks. The Evening
Stars ad.-writing bu-
reau is, as noted be-
fore. the leader In the
country in point of
priority of establish
ment. 1t Is also high
in the estimation of
professional ad. writ
ers and advertisers
in Tho roaffar nf ov
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down the old-faSh-
toned barriers be-
tween the merchants
and the buying pub
lie than any other
act. Staid old firms
gave the new COM
ers a short shrift.
They predicted that
such extravaganza
in advertising would
ruin the house. That
the others were
wrong and that
Woodward & 10th
rop were right was
shown by the fact
that their business