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The San Francisco call., 1896-09-27
The Greatest
Of the Modern
Dutch Painters

To sit in Mr.. Israels' impressive draw
ing-room, with masterpieces of old and
modern Dutch art staring down from the
walls in the unbroken quiet of a veil
regulated Dutch household, is have new
sensation of respect and admiration. To
have very little old man, in very shabby
clothes, with very tall and battered silk
hat, come running into the room, shake
you by the hand, point you to a chair,
throw himself into a corner of the lounge,
double up his small person like a jack
knife and peer at you from behind enor-
nous sDectacles with pair of very bright,
keen eyes-that is also part of the expe-
rience when the well-regulated Dutch
household happens to be that belonging TO
Mr.. Israels. Mr.. Israeis has a very high
voice, his gestures are quick and express
sve. If it is your object to ask questions,
your intentions are apt to be frustrated by
the very superior rapidity by which, to be
very colloquial, Mr.. Israels "gets there
first"
His questions in regard to California,
which he naively places south of Ken
lucky, might be appropriate to district
in the very heart of Darkest Africa"
He is cordiality and amiability itself,
however, to the wandering aborigines of
that distant land, and runs ahead of them
to show his studio, with an animation
that is almost like that of pleased school
boy. Between the house and the studio
is long, an almost interminab bic gallery,
like that which divides the Uffizi from the
Pitt Palace in Florence. The walls are
lined with sketches, ghmpses of which
tease US as we hurry along after our active
host, who finally scampers up a flight of
steps and stands in his own lofty studio,
which remains, in spite of its magnifi-
cence, workshop, aud full of suggestive
signs of untIring and faithful labor.
josef Israels was born in January, 1927,
in Groningen, in North Holland. His
parents were orthodox Jews, the father
had small business, but encouraged the
son in a youthful am bition to become
rabbi. So his schooltime was spent in the
study of Hebrew; and his greatest en- JOY
ment was to pore over the Talmud The
poverty of his father was too great, how
ever, and Josef was taken into business,
and relates how, even then, he used to
stop at the great banking house of Mesdag
& Sons to talk to young Mesdag who was
studying art. This friendship has lasted
to the present day, and the two great
artists are never more pleased than when
discussing the merits of the other; the
best Israels in Holland is in the private
collection of his brother artist, H. w.
Mesdag
At last Israels rebelled against his life
The San Francisco call., 1896-09-27
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The San Francisco call., 1896-09-27
BairdPs Life of
L. Z. Myers, the
Great Runner

The year 1882 did not see Myers do any,
thing of consequence until Nav %. when
he varied his programme by entering a
hurdle race of one sixth of mile, that be-
ing the size of the Staten Island Athletic
Clubs old track, or just the circumference
OF the Olympic track. There were ten
hurdles, each feet inches high, and the
course was 1885 yards. To my knowl-
edge it was the only time that Myers ever
ran a hurdle race in open competition.
S. A. Stafford, one of my clubmates and
subsequently champion hurdler, was the
only real competitor with the champion
runner.
AT the report of the pistol they left the
mark with dispatch, rounded the first
curve and cleared hurdle without much
momentum being obtained. On reaching
the long backstretch, however, the terrific
speed of the sprinter began to manifest
itself, and he few over the gates with tre-
mendous bounds that caused the spec
tators to gaze in wonder. Had the hurdles
been higher Stafford might have had some
chance against his world-renowne6 an
tagonist, but though he was one of the
best men In the country at that time he
fell hopelessly ia the rear. The position
in which 1 stood enabled me to get fine
view OF the champions magnificent leaps
as he came down the homestretch like
bird on the wing; and it was found after
ward by measurement that his strides
over those two-foot six-inch hurdles
measured seventeen feet-a respectable
running broad Jump. The time was 371
seconds, and stands on the record books
to-day unbeaten.
On Decoration day, 1882, Myers ran in
the 120-yard handicap given by the Scot
tish-American Athletic Club, New York,
in II seconds. This, and the time made
by Henderson on September 9, 1891, con-
stitute jointly the best amateur records
in America.
On June Myers ran 100 yards in 10 1-5,
and an hour or so afterward stepped out
on the track for an exhibition 400-yard
run. Just why this distance was chosen 1
do not know, except that one curve was
thus omitted, for be it remembered that
the course was only 900 yards in circuit,
or eight laps to the mile. The straights
were each fifty yards long and the curves
sixty yards to the semicircle. The record
breaker stood at the head of the back
stretch, with Waldron five yards ahead of
him: and let me remind the reader that
the latter could run 100 yards in 10N Sec
onds.
At the report of the pistol Myers left his
mark and began travelling after Waldron
with long strides like deer. He swung
around the first curve like some stone
The San Francisco call., 1896-09-27

attached to string and swung around
powerful man. head. This brought him
into the first homestretch, and to my as
tonishment he ducked his head and ran
down Waldron, passing a timer stationed
at 130 yards in 1314 seconds. Let the reader
who understands the significance of time
reflect upon that. Another curve and
thirty yards more and Myers had reached
go yards in 26 seconds, with his clubmate
falling to the rear at every stride. Thus
10 yards had been covered IN 121& seconds
to this point, as one can figure for himself.
From that mark the runner was entirely
alone and pushed himself along by sheer
will power, as can testify, for 1 stood on
the homestretch and observed even the
expression on his face as he made for the
tape Although very tired he was by no
means an exhausted man.
The time was 435S seconds, and still re-
mains the best ever accomplished on a
circular track, it having been beaten by
Downs In trial on straightaway, but
only fve-eighths of a second, eight years
after. The time for $50 yards remained,
the best on record for SIX years, and then
Sherrlll beat it only one-fifth of second.
Let it be noted that the last 15O
yaAOSB dlOAe anu AROUND curve,
was run in 175s seconds. 1t would
take pretty fair runner to do that in one
burst of speed under such circumstances.
l consider the whole performance as the
most meritorious for anything around a
quarter of mile ever accomplished by
the champion.
On July 1 OF that year (1S82) Myers ran
in the 600-yard scratch race at the Ameri-
can Athletic Club games on the Polo
grounds. At 440 yards, the champion
being far in the lead, he was Joined
by Harry Fredericks, the mile cham
pion, who coached him 10 the fin
ish. The result astonished even his
friends, for he had covered the full dis
tance in III 2-5. This time has never been
surpassed by the amateurs or professionals
of the world, though two have equaled it,
exactly, strange TO say, in England and
America.
Four days after, on the Fourth of July
Myers ran In half-mile handicap. Ii be-
gan to rain before the race, but as it was
a soft. gentle shower, and the atmosphere
was invigorating, he decided to start. The
track was eight laps to the mile, the same
as the Manhattan track, but in fine condi-
ton. At $50 yards Myers took the lead,
but on account of the rain eased up and
made no attempt at time, and when in
formed that he had run in 1:56 he was a
most astonished man. L never saw a man
run in such magnificent form.
GEORGE D. BAIRD.
The San Francisco call., 1896-09-27

Indeed, even among workers OF a high
degree of intelligence we frequently see
the feshy part of the thumb or even the
thick outer edge of the hand used in GER
tain smoothing manipulations that could
be far better performed by the tips of the
fingers. The possession OF the thumb and
fingers is what gives man physical superb
ority over the brute creation, and IL is the
power to use the fingers skillfully and in
telligently that distinguishes the crafts
man from the laborer.
With the general use of machinery and
the decline of handicraft is disappearing
more rapidly than we could wish that fine
type of American workingman that was so
frequently met in the earlier years OF this
septury-keen, thoughtful upright, squar-
sag his opinions as be squared his joists
In woodworking, making them fit the
truth: working into his life and character
something of the harmony and shapeIiness,
the adjustment of part to part, of form to
1sa that his skillful fingers wrought in the
waterfalls with which he worked, match
inc his beliefs as he matched his ed es
tr11ine them by eye and square and skill
tr,Itonch. brain and hand working together
a. produce accurate and delicate re-
'uTsv' Bv and by, when labor-saving machin-
erv sh all have more nearly superseded the
human worker; when our meals shall be
cooked. our m achines operated, our books
written, our pictures painted and our
nianos played by machinery-a condition
of things not so impossible or so far on as
one might suppose--our needless fingers
NAV disappear as completely as our toes are
disappearing. If, as Psychologists tell us,
mem bers and organs of the body degener-
ate and disappear by reason OF disnse, we
The San Francisco call., 1896-09-27

THE HAGUE, HOLLAND. Sept. LIN
passing through the great galleries of Hol-
land one is struck not only by their
wealth but by the great number of men
who have contributed to it and by the
shortness of the period in which they
lived and labored. The great names
Rubens, Rem brandt, Franz Hals-are
stars of the first magnitude; but even
without them, what country could mar
shal a more dignifed arrayP
They seem to have been born all over
Holland, toward the end of ;he sixteenth
and the beginning of the seventeenth CEN
tury Alter that glorious period there is
q gradual diminution of force and at last
com pIete extinction and darkness. The
classic period in France brings to life a
pale, initiative classic period in Holland.
1t is onlT in the present century and in
the latter half of it that there has been
q kind of Dutch Renaissance, that has
brought forth any number of strong and
virile masters of the brush. The origin of
this latter-day activity is not difficult to
md IN the wonderful group of French
painters who settled at Barbizun, in the
forest of Fontainebleau, and started a
modern revolution in art. 1 speak, of
SNNASCi VI lAOSS ASu Known dS -IQe SCuOOi
OF $780," jean Francois Millet, Daubigny,
Corot, Rousseau and Diaz The pioneer
IN Holland, the Dutch Millet. is Josef
1sraels, and, unlike Millet, he has sur
vived a terrible period of humiliation and
defeat, and has reaped a long harvest of
prosperity and success.
He has studio in The Hague, that most
picturesque, naughty and aristocraric lit
tie town, and another in Scheveningen, by
the sea, where he may make studies of
the hardy fsherwomen, renowned for
their rough beauty and their size and
strength. from his own windows. On the
edge of the canal called the Koniginne-
gracht is :he town studio. a small street,
with Irregular red roofs against the light
and cloudy sky, leads to it and empha-
sizes the dignity and reserve of this row
OF tall resid ences, the polished windows
of which reflect the great trees that line
the canal, and the water that is polished,
too, like the windows, and is as clean and
unsullied.
lsraels does not surround himself with
an impregnable wall of mystery and i'm
portance; he lives quietly in his big house,
full of pictures, hung with rich tapestry,
but is ever ready to receive with cordialIty
the art-students or art-Iovers who break
in upon his hardly earned peace.
The first thought, it must be confessed,
upon meeting Mr.. Israels is one of aston
ished inquiry: "How can such little
man paint such big picturesP
The San Francisco call., 1896-09-27

walls can easily be explained, for they are
all students. But why certain men and
certain women always select the same
car to ride in on their way to and
from San Francisco; why, going fur
ther in this matter of habit, they
always occupy the same seats, might
be an interesting question. Still further
than this, they are always found in their
respective places on the ferry boats, at
certain hours, and in certain groups or
small com munities, and where they will
be is fixed with the certainty that attends
the placing of the pieces on a chess board
at the beginning of game. 1t is respect
fully suggested that, IN the elements of
certainty OF the movements, associations.
ETC., of its people. there is no other COM
munity on earth like this. If any one has
failed to locate the town one word will
place it, and that one word is Berke.
ley.
Only during the period of the A R. u.
strike have the human clocks of Berkeley
been known to run down. Then the
domestic economy of all Berkeley was dis
arranged. The crowds which, pendulum
like, swing back and forth at regular in.
Iervals ceased to viDrate. The phenom-
email variations in the old-time clepsydia,
the Irregularities of the sand glass or the
inaccuracy of the sun dial never caused so
much trouble as the suspension of Berke-
ley's human time-markers. But, so won-
derful is the force OF habit, that, when the
local trains resumed their running, after
the strike, every man and woman who
had been madly chasing after electric
cars and charging in crowd on the creek
route ferries at once dropped back into
their fixed places in trains and boats and
were again themselves.
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hlolted there in 1862. 1t was q
somewhat theatrical arrange
ment, painted with hitherto
undreamed-of frankness and
power. The storm is over, the
clouds are being blown in tat
ters and shreds of mist from a
calm sky, the sea is almost
quiet, but the wreck shows the
spot of the late catastrophe.
On the shore the horror
stricken people have gathered,
men and women and children,
not daring to look at the body
that has been washed ashore
for fear of finding a brother,
father or a husband.
English art-lovers fought for
the picture and crossed the
Channel to see the artist and to
order more. In the magnifi-
cent collection of Mr.. Forbes of
Garden Corner, Chelsea, there
are at least forty Israels.
From this time Israels has
never swerved from his own
deal. VAN DYCK BROWN.
The San Francisco call., 1896-09-27


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The San Francisco call., 1896-09-27

fer. "William the Silent and Margaret of
Parma "Hamlet and His Mother"
and Aaron Finding the Bodies of His
Two Sons" etc.
His first success, after many years of
toll, was picture of weather beaten
sailor who, with child in his arms and
another at his side, is going to visit the
The San Francisco call., 1896-09-27

the pale classic pictures 1t was
necessary, according to his mas
ter, to exhibit. All the while his
color-loving eyes wandered TO
the crowded streets of the Ghet-
to, swarming with life; the ori-
entail beauty of the women. the
coarse type of the Jewish fish
wives, the stores full of bric-a-
brac, the markets full of oranges
and apples and the contrasts of
vivid lights and dark shadows.
He exhibited his classic
shades and met with encourage
ment. Then came a trip to Paris.
Here he still did more classic
art in the Atelier Picot and
later in the Beaux- Arts under
the great master Paul Della
roche. Millet had just left the
studio, an accident that cost
Israels a delay of years in find
ing his own kingdom in which
he was to rule. In this period
he painted Biblical subjects
and historical scenes, as he
had been taught by AIRY Schaf-
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grave OF his wife. This picture now hangs
IN the national gallery at Amsterdam.
Slowly prosperity began to show itself to
the artist, who, undaunted by an avalanche
OF adverse criticism. went on painting the
Id yls and tragedies of the sea and shore.
The "Shipwreck" created an enthu-
slasm for his work in London. 1t was ex-
The San Francisco call., 1896-09-27

There is a town in
California in which
it is possible to set
clocks with accuracy
sim ply by observing
the movements of
ce r t ain perso o n s.
There is no element
of joke in this asser-
ton, for it is abso-
lutely true. Il is
worthy of notice be-
cause men and wo-
men go wandering
up and down the
The San Francisco call., 1896-09-27

Really" Hypatia
sa i d, W h N l pro
pounded the query,
Will the com in g
man have fingersP'
"your questions are
growing positively
fantastic. You will
be asking next if the
CO m in g man will
have a head |"
1t seemed to me, in
view of certain trends
of the age, that Hy-
The San Francisco call., 1896-09-27

and surroundings and with the consent of
his parents went to Amsterdam where he
lived in that picturesque place known as
1.-THE Ghetto" where you can shake hands
across the street from opposite wind ows.
He went every day to the studio of the
fashionable painter of that time, Jan
Kruseman, and painted, in duty bound,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-03
IN TELLER'S INTEREST.
Dubois, Shafroth, Mantle and Toyvne
Are Very Active.

Are Very Active.
CHICAGO. July 2.-The Inter-Ocean
prints the following:
Senator Dubois and Congressman
Shafroth and Towne and Senator Lee
Mantle have been very active confer
ring with the different delegations al
ready here, in the interest of the can
didacy of Henry NJ. Teller.
Yesterday afternoon Senator Dubois
was closeted with Senator Blackburn
for considerable time. but he later re-
fused to discuss the matter. The Teller
men were also in conference with the
leaders in other delegations.
Dr. H. S. Taylor, member of the
Populist national committee and a
man very close to Chairman Taube-
neck, appeared at the Sherman house
and stated that the Populists would
in all probability nominate Henry NJ.
Teller, but that they would not take
up Bland or any other man who has
been affiliated with the Democratic
party at present.
The Teller men are simply waiting
for something to turn up that will give
their candidate a show as a dark horse
and it is understood, have received
much encouragement at the hands of
several oelega tons, who, while they
could not support Teller at the start,
might go to him in case of an emer-
gency as a compromise candidate.
That bolt will come they fell sure
and that will be their opportunity
Hon. Charles S. Thomas and the Colo
RADIO delegation will reach here Friday
night or Saturday and it is stated will
push Teller tor all they are worth
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-03
SILVER TIDAL WAVE.
EDITOR JONES GIVES HIS OPINION
ABOUT 1T.
He is of the Opinion That it Cannot
and it May Recede as it Came.

CHICAGO, July 2.-Charles S. Jones
editor of the Post-Dispatch, of ST
Louis, has arrived in the city to take
a look at The skirnish fighters and tc
leave a few advisory thoughts at the
Bland headquarters.
THE duration of the silver tidal
wave" Colonel Jones said to a Chroni-
Gle reporter, cannot be measured at
this time. 1t may recede as it came
but whatever Of its distant future it is
dominant today and will be when the
election is held. 1 was talking with
Chauncey NJ. Depew in St Louis wher
he was at the Republican convention
and he told me that New York would
give Mckinley a majority of 100000
and that would illustrate the difference
between silver and gold. 1 told him
hoped he was correct. I said 1 wished
sincerely New York would get into the
solid Republican column and stay there
and not be a bother to the rest OF the
people outside of New England. The
great south and west and central
states will be able TO take care of the
country handsomely and it will under
take to do it this time"
Colonel Jones will work for the nom
inatiOn of Bland