The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-05-19
DESIGNING WOMEN.
Jersey Students Who Have
Distinguished Them
selves in the School
Of Applied Design.
MISS KING TAKES FIRST PRIZE
Work of Miss Wbitr.edge, Miss
Day and Misc De Witt
Prices They Receive.

M TT ~
At the exhibition of the work don't by
the pupils of the School of Applied De-
sign for Women 9inJtNew York during
the past week the general public has been
a~greeably surprised at the good work
displayed. while New Jersey may be
justly proud of it's talented daughters.
The exhibition was held in Ortgies' GaA-
lery, 1858 Fifth avehue, and On Tuesday
afternoon a reception was given, when
both galleries were fflledgto o~yeraowing
with admiring friends and cdticserwho
had come to see what the girls could
do" and found that in the field of APP
piled design men must work if they en-
ter into competition with these earnest
students. In he icrowded room it was
not an unusual thing to hear male stu
dents remark I'M an undertone to each
other. T thinkla girl did that.n or 1--WE
will have to work if we get ahead of
that!n
The school was founded in 1892 by Mrs.
Dunlap Hopkins, and in three months
became s-eif-supporting, though hardly
too much can be said of the founders
untiring energy in its success and well
rare The exhibit includes the work of
the students during the year, but the
prizes are awarded only in the competi
uo9. About the last of April a subject
was given by the instructors in most of
the classes, and the pupils were allowed
10 treat it as they chose, but it must be
done within two weeks and without crit
lcism. In fact, the instructor knows
hothlng about it until the work is hand
cd IN TO be judged. In the classes of
winch Dan c. Beard is the nstructor-il-
luStratlon and animal drawing-NeW Ter
sey IS Well represented in the awards.
MISS Mary KIM daughter of Colonel
huIus King, of Elizabeth, captured the
IrSl prize, a scholarship for IS97-1S98. in
the competition for Illustrations. The
prize sketch is called Secret Service
ana depicts a messenger boy carrying a
letter 10 a fair damsel seated on a rustic
bench with her stern parent, while the
sender OF the message is not a hundred
miles away, but deeply concerned over
the tate OF his letter. The subject
Danger" was given by the Instructor to
pc treated broadly in any way. Along
slde the prize sketch is another by the
same artist, which is the best Miss King
ever dld, but by the rules of the school
II was eligible for the prize. as 1t had not
peen done especially for the competition.
II IS a FAMILIAR scene of the Streets of
new YORK and is called ssThe Pace that
Nils by the artist, who has succeeded
IN p~ortray1ng the motley crowd and
plunglng horses with a realistic brush
Inc entire class feels very proud of its
associate and fellow student. especdallv
as THIS is Miss Kings first year in the
SCHOOL After only three months in the
HE class of the Art League Miss Kine
| entered the Sobooi oe -,
for woman ~ s,.e- ppheo Design
being unnecessary to pass examina lions
if the work is satisfactorv .r - -
| this instance EuonS. 40 i was IN
have been pleased with her dil;gant
study, ready percention ana an4.H =.
stinct, coupled WITH nraat,aai ,'lssic m
ton. In her home 1ifa Mis- appnca-
tunate in possessing a sister WITH =
genial tastes +ho,u VIII ION
acter and IL - Is = q nterary ehar
49, anu II is the ambitious dream of
the sisters to do something toga+han !.
| Miss Elizabeth K;na - oeeenei, as
of short storios - - wiling a pook
l,a4 winnie MISS Mary King i'll
lustrates its text. The ability of both
sisters to undertake sucb ,vori, -
| tested. II is . 1ittIa "oiA mas peen
| Miss EJizabeth - y z year ago that
called Love in Roses taking tba ,eaa
ing part when it was nrerontm
Berkeley Ivcaum " was presented in the
Ayeeum IN New York. 1t was
specially adapted as a curtain ra;sar 80
received favorable even a.tton.aA anu
from Mr.. Frobn,an nv .'eiing praise
that the literary gift runs In the fami1,,
as we'll as the admirat;o, -
for Colone, R,,f,,. rs.N " army life,
with Captain Charles St raa"ns cousinship
o. romance connected with a soldiers Iffs
Eaie mace ann Famous and given to West