The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-06-07

K[RAM|C ARTISTS MEET.
Plans for a Club Exhibition
Of War Sketches in
December.
THE SEASONS PROGRESS
Jersey City Artists Who Won
Distinction in the Ma
tional League.

TIE Jersey CitysKeramic Art Club hele
its closing business meeting andsreeepiioA
for the season Yesterday afternoon IN ms
kindergarten room of Hasbrouck lhsti'
tute. There was an excellent attenoahcs
| and considerable business was TRANSACTED
The meeting was opened by the president
Miss Post, and the minutes of last meet
| ing were read by Miss Wightman, the
secretary. 1t was voted to give the an
nual public exhibition the second week IN
| December. when each member has piedSeo
| herself to paint at least one cup ana
| saucer which will be placed on sale lor
| the benefit of the club. Last year these
artists exhibited bonbon dishes. The SUD
| iect for the October meeting will be war
| sketches in china and for the November
meeting water color sketches. These will
| OF course be painted during the summer
months.
Mrs. Fannie Rowell Priestman, who at
tended the National League meeting as
| delegate. reported that as Miss Post had
| been elected a member of the National
| Advisory Board the Jersey City club
would be well cared for. She also spoke
in the highest terms of Miss Posts ex-
hibit at the National League exhibition
held in May at the Waldorf-Astoria. say
ing that the1Jersey City Presidents decor
| atIons of the two Beleek bowls, compes-
| ing her donation, were the most beautiful
and original designs submitted. and
| would, it had been officially stated. go
| down in the history of the League as
having received honorable mention as
such. Mrs, Priestman, who won the dia-
mona medal for the most original design
noA et =
for a cup and saucer, passed ner prize,
| also a photograph of the cup and saucer,
ro,,na tha .,nb for examination
iouiiu the Siup ~
Miss Helen Lewis Hibler, who is a Drill
| Han elocutionist and who was also a
- ~ :. whou uaa;4od
suesl ~ we ciuo' no. d inelioei, leei
'.Dorothy's Mustn'ts," by Ella Wheeler
wilcox foiloved nv a narodv on the same
~, ~ n p;rns rhiah +raats of
alI 49,
4Mustn IS from an artists point OF view.
| AS an encore Miss Hibler gave an extract
eron, ..Tha ~ yv;+ha,,4 = co,n+rv,, hx
= wa "l.iou' a Couns' ~
EdWaId Everett Hale, which brought
! tears TO the ewes of more than one lady
aN.~I
III the auuiehee' SO wen oiu the elocuiioh-
list handl her subject.
Aeter th;s. nama tba axh;h.eior ~
-
psacques containing paintings Oh ola Jer-
S6y lily sites ana the awarding OF une
medal which vas won nv Miss isabelle
ar Tsssaa. .I.s aS.Ssaat
w. Aiis' "isn suo'ee.
vas the old 'sTlce Tavern" on Bergen
> "a f.laySvnod avena,As directly onnosite
80 ~ -
the arinory. Inc piacque was ihdeed,
beautiful. having a unique border of dais-
les judiciously, yet carelessly, placed
round The edge ,fhe old place has quite
a history. TO use the artists own words.
O April 2e. 1857. Peter Stuyvesant
bought from John Winner the plot of
ground living between the old Winner
homestead and the Dutch Reformed
Church. ON this tract stood the tavern,
which in later Years was kept by old
| DADDY TTce' Mr. Stuvvegaut opened and
Kent ira slch for some time.
This tavern. in conjunction with the
bon,estead was q andmark at The time of
ne war If 1919 Al the time of the rip
nacanae ana Tyler TOO, election. in 1910,
Il was the rolling Mace for Bergen Town
y shi YES nj n,ior ~ ms time had been fre-
qnenliy u seu n,itt, aaeea I5st when me tay.
uowis4p ~ ~ - moi dein6teiv known
in $500 ~ L,,;iSgno W. NOT I,sed as s,,ch
.no y r55suues 3 ho,,f the lime the Old
III iop., - ~ $500 - into ayistenee
Wasilisston IJSr III af r,hicb stili
pssr. - n Ea,va laii Rsick ubinh At 4he
e.. of tic erection was very expensive,
was cnosen dor Inc 5ro ~ norona ratavesv
ern, while stone, WHICH was corrnpai a'as ~
cred gooq enough LOT 1l Ia 3i deso,ted h,,t
still Keeps green al AZ S9SS u ha"fs Oa