Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-02-21
TIE loan exhibition
BUT LIGHT IN THE AFTERNOON,


BUT LIGHT IN THE AFTERNOON
EVERY ARRANGEMENT HAS BEEN
COMPLETED.
! To-Day the Large Building Should
BE Crowded by visitors From
the City and Out of Town-A Glancs
Through Some of the Exhibits.
The great loan exhibition for the
benefit Of the City Hospital was in the
pink of perfection yesterday afternoon
and last evening, and the thousands
Of objects OF interest and art were to
be seen to the very best advantage,
AS upon Monday, a few belated en-
tries were made, and as these cannot
| appear in the printed catalogue or sup
plement, they have been properly
ticketed by those in charge Of the
various departments. The attendance
yesterday afternoon was not as large
as had been anticipated, but last eve
ming the admissions were numerous
enough to be satisfactory, and the
management have high hopes of big
crowds to-day and this evening, and
during the remainder of the week.
The restaurant, yesterday, did an ex-
cellent business, both at noon and in
the evening, and this feature of the
enterprise promises to be very remu-
nerative. Admiral and Mrs. Dewey
will visit the exhibition at II a. N.
tomorrow.
A careful and detailed inspection of
the exhibit impresses one with the
good judgment, are and taste exer-
cised in making the displays. The
artistic effect achieved has been very
good, and the entire exhibition appeals
to the culture of visitors with peculiar
force. This is particularly true of the
Art Gallery, where consummate taste
and good Judgment has been shown,
but is almost equally apparent every
where, and those who had charge of
the work of arrangement, or who
actually did 1t, are deserving of the
greatest praise. The collection 81 a
whole is a match, in interest, value and
oSOPS, ~ ~ -
and the visitor cannot help a regret
that in a few days the great display
must be broken up and the entries
scattered again throughout the city
and neighborhood, perhaps never again
to be brought together. This fact and
thought should impress every n with
the Importance Of availing of the
present opportunities, for after the
coming Saturday evening it will be
eternally too late. And, in addition,
there is the cause of the City Hospital
to be benefited, and it is a most
worthy one.
Sunday morning the Register pre-
scented some idea of the beauties of
the Art gallery. This morning the ex-
tensive department of Pottery and
Glassware will be rapidly sketched
with a view to giving some impress
sion of it's extent and the varied ma
ture of the display made therein. The
entries number nearly three hundred,
comprise almost every object Of beauty
or utility within the whole range of
the glassmaker's or potter's arts, and
date back from a few years to five
hundred, this latter distinction being
achieved by an old Spanish cup dug
up at Santiago. Mrs. Thomas Nc
KEENAN,, of Washington, Pa, exhibits
a silver sugar bowl, part of a set buried
during the Revolution, Mrs. w. H.
manufacture, 200 years old, Mrs.
Hardness a spoon-holder from Wales,
dating from 1900, Mrs. Samuel Hill
dreth a sugar bowl two centuries old,
Mrs. M. E. Brown a silver and pearl
lorgnette worn by James Robbins
Chamberlain when he came over with
Lord Baltimore, Mrs. Margaret Grit
fifth a picture of Lafayette, a souvenir
of the dinner given in honor of the
Marquis in this city in 1924, Mrs. N.
E. Whitaker a miniature of Samuel
Houston, dating from 1898, Mrs.
Amelia Woods an extensive and inter-
esting collection of china, most of it
very old, Mrs. J.. w. Grubb has a very
interesting old china platter, dating
from ITS, Mrs. Louis ]. Bayha a trio
of exhibits from a century to a cen
fury and a half old, and Mrs. ]. c.,
Hupp a very fine collection of the
same antiquity. Miss Lucy Kyle has
several pieces of Aztec pottery, of un-
known age, and Mrs. z. NJ. Hildreth
a very interesting relic in the form
of a cut glass cream pitcher, formerly
owned by Mrs. Cruger, while Mrs. w.
S. Brady has a tumbler and wine glass,
and Mrs. E. l.. Nichol a sugar bowl
and salt cellars, owned by the same
lady. The Misses Cummins have three
handsome specimens of Japanese and
Chinese ware and a number of articles
on view, and Miss Sarah j. Bates a
colonial plate which belonged to the
Lynch family. of Lynchhurg, Va. Mrs.
w. P. Heiskell has a very notable coll
lection, numbering many pieces,
among them a Japanese PLAGUE 500
years old. Mrs. w. H. Hearne is also
one of the largest exhibitors, her dis
play being of much interest.
Of modern pottery and glassware
there are many splendid specimens,
lockwood being especially strong.
Some glassware of early Wheeling and
Wellsburg manufacture also attract at
tention, two pieces from the last
named town being loaned by Mrs. T.
c. Moffat.
These are but scattered examples,
and are simply referred TO that some
idea of this single department may be
formed. 1t must be seen to be appre-
ciated, however.