The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-10-08
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR

: A gift of two thousand dollars in aid
Of the Russian Night School Of Baltimore
has been made by the Baroness de Hirsch,
widow of Baron Hirsoh, famed for the
philanthropic use he made of his immense
wealth. The object of the school Is to
teach English to the Polish Jew immi-
grants who have located in Baltimo ore.
The school was started in 1889 under the
auspices Of the Hebrew Literary Society.
Starting in one room with thirty Russian
Jewish Immigrants, it developed until
upward of five thousand persons received
instruction.
The scholarship in American history at
Barnard College offered by the New York
Chapter of the Daughters Of the American
Revolution has been won by Miss Louise
Winthrop Koues of New York The
scholarship is known as the Mrs. Donald
Mclean scholarship, in honor of the Re-
gent of the New York Chapter.
Miss Leonora jackson, the young
American violinist who has just won the
much coveted music prize known as the
Mendelssohn Stipendium, formerly re-
sided in Chicago. She was sent to Berlin
bysMrs. Grover Cleveland and other ladies
then in Washington in order. to study
music under Joachim. This Is the first
occasion upon which the prize, amount
ing to 1900 marks, has been won by an
American.
A Paris despatch says: Mrs. Navarro
Mary Anderson), accompanied by her
husband. has arrived here, where she will
remain during the winter for the purpose
Of cultivating her voice under leading
teacher. In ansinterview she.said.sh did
not intend to become Lublic singer,
though she would not be averse to occas-
ionally making an unprofessional appear
ance. She did not imagine that her voice
was phenomenal one, but it seemed to
be worth cultivating.
The women of Bloomington, ILL.,, oper.
ated the street railway system Of that city
and Normal for charity one day last week
and the result is neat addition to the
fund in the Bloomington Benevolent AS
ISOLATION. The cars of the thirteen miles
of the electric system were all elaborately
| adorned with the national colors, flarine
business signs and strings of Chinese
lanterns. On each car was woman con.
ductor and q chaperon, each wearing a
natty yachting cap Of white duck, with a
rosette and blue feather in the side, and
each having an appropriate ornamental
badge. Only cash fares were received
and the women were not always punctili
Gus about returning change. Many fnef
were paid by those who were detected in
| the crime Of walking, riding wheel OF
driving in carriage. There were trolley
parties and band concerts all over the
city and at Normal, free races at the fail
grounds and a Venetian water carnival
on the lake.
Commodore Rush r. Wallace, whe
stands at the head Of his grade, will retire
for age on the 7th inst, and open the
way for promotions down the entire line
He is now in command of the naval sta
tions at Newport, and his successor, it Ii
expected, will be Commodore Albert
Kautz. Commodore Wallace entered the
navy from Tennessee in May, 1862, and
reached the grade of commodore Nov, II
| 1894. He has had stotal sea service Of
nearly eighteen years.
Kurt Dewischeit, young German
Shakespearean scholar, has been carrying
out the theory preached by DR.. Eduard
Engel, that the early quarto editions Of
Shakespeare were pirated editions. print.
ed from shorthand notes taken in the
theatre. Herr Dewischeit has mastered
the early English systems of shorthand
to learn one is as much as most men care
| to undertake-and is demonstrating in g
German periodical that the system used
was that of Timothy Bright, who was
horn in 1880