The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-08-29

it is not easy to point to any surviving
member as pre-eminently httedfte follow
them in the office of president. The
choice would probably fall on Mr.. Watts.
but that he is aged and somewhat of a
r~ecluse; and Sir Edward Burns-Jones'
voluntary separation from the academy
excludes another who might have been
regarded as a suitable nominee. The
position is one requiring a many-sided
man. The President of the Academy
must be not only an artist of nnquestion-
able attainments, but a man of the world
and a man of business, ~tactful, free from
crochets, and able to manage a body of
men by no means all possessing the quail
fcations demanded in their chief
Tt will require no ordinary care and dis
to decide which of the Acade-
micians most nearly fulfllls these condi-
tionS. The election will not be hurried;
1t is not likely to take place before Mo-
syember. and in the meantime rufnor will
be busy. AT present the choice seems to
rest between Messrs. Alma Tadema,
Fldes, O~rchardson, Poynter and Prin-
sep, but nothing is Known with amy GER
ta4rty.
An interesting suggestion is made in
reference to the annual winter exhibition
of the Academy. This is that the com
ing exhibition should be devoted to the
works of the two lately deceased presf-
dents, a proposal which will he extremely
popular, and which il carried into effect
viii draw nearly as many people to Bur-
hngton House as do the summer exhi-
billions. The winter exhibitions, devoted
Chiefly to the old masters, are never a
financial success, bur this of 1867 would
be- an exception if Leighton and Millais
fill the catalogue
Tommy Connef6 the champion mile
runner of the United States, will contest
his first race against F. E. Bacon, the
English professional runner, on October
3, at Ballsbridge, q suburb of Dublin. Con-
nen Is in fine condition. He is training
for hisgeom1nS races under A. G. Dowl-
ing. president of the Suffolk Athletic
4 4 INF RnGfnn M Xxx Il
Miss Clara Barton. President of the
American Red Cross Society, and her
party of aides will sail from Liverpool
for New York on the steamer Seryia on
September !. Miss Barton and her as
sistants do not intend to return to
Turkey, and the money and tools and
supplies which remained to be distributed
when the party left Turkey nave been
placed in the hands of the Consuls at
Sfvas and Diarbekr and of Prof. Gates at
Harpoot. The four expeditions sent out
by the Red Cross Society covered the dis
tressed territory between the Mediterra-
mean and the Black Sea- visiting about
three hundred villages and furnishing
permanent relief to probably. two hundred
thousand persons in the form of materi-
ais, implements, cattle, horses and mules.
The agents of the Red Cross Society often
purchased cattle from the Kurds, who
never made any raids after being visited
by representatives of the society. Every
thing was simply loaned to the peasants,
and each article SO loaned bears the
Rec Cross stamp, SO it could be recover
ed if it houl be stolen by the kurds.
Miss Barton directed the work of her
agents from Constantinople. During
her stay in the Turkish Capital she met
Izmirlian, the sGregorian Armenian,
Patriarch, since resigned and Mgr.
Azarian, the armenian ~ Catholic
Patriarch, but was not presented to the
Sultan. Sir Philip Currie, the British
Ambassador, and all of the Ministers,
called upon Miss Barton, who is held in
the highest esteem in Turkey. Miss Bar
ton has received the decoration of an
Armenian order, founded in the twelfth
century. but has not heard of the decora-
ton conferred upon her by the Sultan.
An interesting scene occurred at Bud
pesth, where Miss Barton stopped on her
way bach to London A hundred Turks
who are employed at the exhibition now
in progress at Budapesth, learning that
Miss Barton was in thereby, sought her
out and crowded about her and kissed
her hand and raised it to their fore
heads. Though endeavoring to make her
stay in London very quiet, Miss Barton
is receiving a great deal of attention.
Among the saloon passengers booked to
sail from Southampton on the steamer
st. Paul on August % are Judge H. W.
Bragg. j. H. Chandler and family, Bron-
son Howard. General Francis Walker and
William Rockefeller and family,