The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-13
ART STUDENTS IN GOTHAM.
HOW SOME BRIGHT GIRLS GET
ALONG IN NEW YORK.

While Studying Hard They Manage
to Have Very Good Time-Some
of the smartest Among Them Are
From the south.
New York, March 11.-"Resolved, That
we cooperate by cooking on one stove;
that we wear last springs clothes; that we
pose for each other instead of hiring a
model; that we walk to save car fare;
that we buy drawing paper by the mile
instead of by the yard; that we purchase
pens, pencils and paper at wholesale; that
we live on Chinese fare dealt out in Amer
lean ralions; that we save the pennies,
hoping that the dollars will take care of
themselves"
These were some of the resolutions
adopted at a mass meeting of art students
of New York city. held a few days ago in
a prominent hall.
The reason was the great fall in the
price of drawings and the increase in the
number of art students. AS the supply
of artists went up the demand upon in
dividuals went down. Result: Poverty!
DAl plb SluuGllASt hlS tI6 ldSl people Ill
the world 20 allow themselves to be floor
ed by such a trifle as lack of funds, and a
| meeting of art students was called TO con-
slider the ways and means of overcoming
the difficulty in the art market. The result
was the adoption of the above measures,
duce his or her expenses by at least one
third and possibly by half.
| When girl comes to New York or
goes to Paris to enter great art school il
| is always with the idea that it is jolly good
fun roughing it, If drawings are sold at
ALL it is only because it is pleasant to see
ones name in print and because it is good
practice TO see how the work comes out. -
The money received for the pictures is
| something either to be refused or regarded
| as Superfluous-a souvenir to be put away.
| treasured, laughed at and kept for ever!
Once in great city and all these opin-
ions change. Wants multiply. The de-
| mand for drawing is found to be limited .
| the art student finds that art work is very
| much like any other branch of industry.
| long and hard. Soon the art student gives
up and goes home, unless he is blessed
with energy and perseverance and the de-
" bCCOhlC al ARTIST ANYWAY.
1t was a collection of these artists who
made up the mass meeting above referred
| to- and the committee on ways and means.
| adopted the above rules. They mean a
| great deal in economy to the young man or
| the young woman who has never tried
them before, and by their assistance tho
art student who have breasted the gale
until March are willing to face il out IN
til June when the vacation time comes.
In one of the large apartment houses in
Upper New York. where the number of the
| street is higher than the rent there live
| number of students who are co-oDerat
ing on the one-stove plan. They have
| hIred nine flats, or three floors. for there
are three flats on floor in this house.
| on the top floor is installed a studen =
| with mother-the rarest thing in student
art life in New York-and this mother has
kindly volunteered to do the cooking
for the nine flats. She supplies meals AZ
so much per head, each meal baine
charged at % cents. Each group of stu
| dents pays for the rent of the fat The 90
| operation is doing well up to the nrese,t
| date. 1t has existed since the hfst OF the
| year. In the top Nat is studio which
| they share in common.
AS general thing, however the art
| student can be found in the chean 49,
ing-house. for it is here she gets The r,,os.
for her money, both In comfort and in M
terial things. She gets light, heat ana
good fuel, all for 50 or Sc per week ,rhis
sum she can generally realize with bar
own drawings. So that after a few weelrs
in New York she can make things 90 rtea
ly without calling on the exeheo,,er =,
home, thing which an art sttdent
above all others, hates to do.
The reason for the panic in art c,rc,os
this year Is the great falling Off In ~
price of art work. year ago all students
worked for 81 per column. This was s.ree.
ular column rates. and no one Thought
of drawing under It. 1t was the lowest
price. An artist with any reputation at