The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-05-04
STUDY IN ART.
Paintings and Artists Clev-
erly Criticised at Woman's
Club Social Yesterday.
MRS. BENSON HoNoRED
Club Resolves to Call Play
ground in Little Italy
"The Mary Ben
son Park"

Members of the Jersey City Woman 8
Club met yesterday afternoon in Has
brouck Hall for the last social until next
October. There was first short busl-
ness session, during which reports from
officers, chairmen and committees were
read, resolutions passed and delegates
appointed to the State Federation, May 10.
Mrs. Hudspeth-Benson reported for
Town Improvement. reviewing the Little
Italy Park situation with much salts
faction. She said that now all they had
to do was to go to work at once with
| grading and she was sure when summer
| came there was not a band in the city
would refuse to go there and play. she
pictured the adjacent streets as asphalted
filled with dancing children and thought
not only that every club woman should
| give a donation, but that every church
| should donate at least one Sunday col
| lection to the cause. She also emphatl-
calIy expressed her thanks to the city
officials, especially the Board of Finance,
| after which the following set of resolu-
! tions were unanimously adopted
In view of the fact that through the
efforts of one of the departments ol tills
| club, and especially by means of the I'M
1 tiring patient and ceaSelesS work OF the
| chairman of that special department. it
| has been made possible for a playground
1 to be provided for the children OF that
| part of our city known as Little Italy"
| and in this manner section OF the city
| made attractive and beautiful, which has
| heretofore been a detriment to civiliza-
| ton, and an unpleasant sight to all good
| citizens. as well as the means of giving
i strangers an erroneous impression of the
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| Resolved, That the club most heartily
| expresses to the Town Improvement
| Department land it's efficient chairman,
| Mrs. Hudspeth-BenSo through whose
! individual effort so much has been ac
| complished for this much needed breath
ing spot, the heartfelt and sincere thanks
of this organization; and be it resolved
Resolved, That the Jersey City
Woman's Club pledge itself 10 work
enthusiastically and untiringly for the
| further success of this project, which
through the action of the Street and
| Water Commissioners and the Board of
Finance of the city, has now been assured;
and that each member give for the adorn-
ment of the grounds a plant, shrub or
other contribution to make this children's
| playground pleasure to the little ones
1 in that locality; and be it
| Resolved, That this club most heartily
thank the Board of Street and Water
| Commissioners, the Board of Finance and
! the Mayor for their kindly attention to
| this suggestion from the chairman of
the Town Improvement Department of
| this club and that the thanks of the
club also be given these officials for their
| recent action in deciding to purchase land
| for the purpose of a public park for the
| children; and be it also
Resolved, That this club do petition
! the Board of Street and Water Commits
sioners to have this playground known
| as ''rhe Mary Benson Park, that in this
| way there may be perpetuated the name
| of the one woman whose untiring energy,
1 and indefatigable patience and industry
! in bekalf of part Of the population too
young and too ignorant to help them
selves, has secured this great improve
ment.
And that each member of this club
shall use every endeayor in her power to
| bring about the adoption of such name
for the park in little Italy" which
will not only be a great Improvement to
our city, but which is sure to make glad
| the lives of great many of these little
ones
The delegates appointed to the State
Federation were Mrs George w. Case,
Mrs. George Eveleth, DR.. M. F. De Hart
and Mrs. A. ]. Newbury, delegate by
| virtue of her office. The matter of the
delegates to the Biennial Federation in
Milwaukee was left in the hands of the
| President, as it was hard to determine
just who cared about going West on
June 2.
The social was in charge of Mrs. Henry
Harrison, Chairman Of the Art Depart
ment. who prefaced the programme by
saying
II heard a witty chairman of one of
our departments say at the end of her
term of office, that she felt somewhat like
the Iriskman's famous horse, who learn
ed to live without eating, but had the mis-
fortune to die when he reached that inter-
esting period, for just as she had learned
how to run her department, her time ex-
pired. This shows that there seems to be
a screw loose in our constitution, which
might be tightened by a little amendment,
and If we could then adopt the civil SER
vice reform, and retire officers only for
cause, our club would certainly run
smoother, and probably do better work.
Then after dwelling a few minutes upon
what the Art Department had done, she
4 drew the following sketch for next year. S
work.
9'The Art Department will try to con-
stitute itself a general information bureau
for these current art events In conclu-
sion let me read to you a partial list of
the ladies who have promised to give us
papers for next year:-Mrs. Otto Grouse,
Art Students League; Mrs w. F. Tur-
liner, Reproduction of Pictures; Mrs.
James Erwin, Modern English Paint
ers'; Mrs. ;. w. NFcKelvy, Modern
American Painters; Mrs. Frank Hall,
Comic Art; Mrs. w. T. Burleigh, Misses
Lacy, Liotard and others.
Miss Gertrude Bushfield not only made
the first speech of the afternoon, but her
initiation speech before the Woman S
Club 1t was upon "Old World Treas
ures in New World Palace and was a
vivid description of Mr.. William c. Whit
ney's Fifth avenue mansion. In describ-
ing the hall she said
"The entrance is through two wrought
iron gates from the Gloria Palace Italy
The entrance hall is of white marble with
carved staircases leading up on either
side to the grand hall. These staircases
f are copied from an old Grecian railing,
, and one of the newell posts cherub, was
carved by ga famous Greek sculptor The
grand hall of white marble with its mas
sive staircase is lighted by stained win
dows from an Italian church of the fif-
teenth century. Upon the other three
sides of the hall hung six rare old Gobelin
tapestries The. subjects of all are
NEUROLOGICAL. and the largest represents
Diana pleading before Jupiter. do not
! wonder that the gods in Olympus gel
angry and implore Jupiter to hurl forth