The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-02-27

Of tie CITY Hospital Loan Exhibition
Opened Yesterday.
IL IS A YERITABLF TREAT
10 30 Accorded the Opportunity q
sssing the valuable Art Treasures
Collected in the Hawlsy Building.
Tho Attendance Monday pisap-
pointingly Small, Owing 70 the
RiEor Of the Weather Conditions.

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The second week of the City Hospital
Loan exhibition opened at the Hawlay
building yesterday with a very slim at
tendance. The unpropItlous weather Is
thought to have kept many away who
would otherwise have attended. Then
there were many social functions occur
ring last night that kept many away.
The admission to the art gallery has
been reduced from fifty to ten cents.
This will enable one to see. the entire
exhibition for thirty-fve cents-a PAL
try sum when the beauty and rarity Of
the exhibition is taken lnto considers
ton.
II d thought a misunderstanding pre-
walls on the part of the general public.
The Loan In no way resembles church
bazaar or festival. There is NO lottery
DREAMING of prizes, or candidates COM
peting for watches, It is bona fide
exhibition Of fine art, curios, relies and
such things as are seen in the big art
museums In the larger cities. And right
here II might be said that few Of the
art galleries Of the metropolitan cities
contain a more valuable collection than
Il ON exhibition in the Hawley building.
The exhibition embraces six distinc-
i've departments, each of them a COM
pIete show in itself and well worth q
dly's visit. Every exhibit ig numbered
and catalogues are supplied to enable
you to understand and distinguish each
article.
The beautiful Japanese temple and
the luxurious Turkish smoking Groom
sim remain objects of attention and
they receive much favorable comment.
The former is a construction Of beautI-
full design. made of rare and costly
nuslins, NIL OF imported manufacture.
inside there is much to attract the wish
: tor besides being a cozy place after
stroll among the other exhibits. The
Turkish smoking room is a3luxuriously
appointed place and is favorite resort
for the male folk. 1t is presided over
by a bevy of the gentler sex, whose only
object and aim seems to be to make one
happy and content. Cigars are dis
pensed here at prices to suls any purse.
couchus, dvans and tete-a .tetss abound
and ii may be considered, all in all,
veritable haven of rest and comfort,
The pottery and glassware depart
med contains multitude Of ancient
and modern specimens Of the potter's
ard glass-w workers art. There is
Japanesc PRAGUE thru, the history OF
.whIc., has Leon traced back 500 years.
How much older 1t is cannot be stated.
1t has BEEN broken two or three times.
bus Il has bcen glued together and still
remains au object of beauty as well as
antiquity. Their thera is "a storied
urn. and milk pitcher made as long
ago us 1916, of silver dollars. A cut
glass punch bow! manufactured by the
old Crelg Ritchard glass works. OF this
city. is another article taken at random
from this department.
The hooks, relics and curIos depart
ment contains manuscripts bearing the
signatures Of many Presidents and ear
lier statesmen of our country. An an
Client poster announcing a production
Of DThe Stranger" at the Theatre
Royal, Covcnt Garden, on Saturday,
June I, 1877, is one Of the interesting
objects Of this exhibit. It announces
the last appearance OF Mr.. Remble, In
this character. A land grant to Samuel
Hathaway, bearing the signatures of
Richard Henry Lee. then governor of
Virginia, and a copy Of the Declaration
Of Independence. yellow with age, are
other objects that attract the visitor.
This exhibit literally teens with old
books, faded and musty with age.
The war relics exhibit contains every
thing from petrifled peanut to battle
Scared American Tag, puuctured with
bullet holes. The appointment Of Joseph
Updegraff as major of the Ninth regi-
ment Of infantry, with the autographs
Of Abraham Lincoln and Edwin NJ.
Stanton appended, attracts much COM
ment in this department. A powder
horn containing the following inscrip-
Il0u OH II 10 hhuLuGE luNSLGAAAo SS1SSS'
"Samuel Hitchcock, His horn, 1778 A.
D." This powder horn was made and
used by Mr. Hitchcock during the Rev.
Olutionary war.
The art needlework exhibit contains
everything that would delight the fem
inlne mind. Some of the finest specI-
mems Of artistic embroidery that It ever
falls to ones lot to see, are here.
Dresses of many periods. infants
clothes and sampler are few Of the
Articles that can be seen in this exhibit.
In the art gallery the connoisseur
fnds everything that can be desired.
One can never regret the time spent
here in rapturous guze at this beautiful
display of paintings, etchings, brOnzes,
pasteIs, mosaics and crayons. There
is also q beautiful collection of bronze
busts and statuary representing various
physiological and historical char
acters. Words are Inadequate
to give description Of some of the
classic paintings that grace the walls Of
this exhibit. Lovers of the beautiful In
art cannot afford to miss this Opportu-
nifty to witness the finest display Of
L.. kY,g,