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ME white marble building at the
intersection of Chestnut and
Jumper Streets and facing Penn

intersection of Chestnut and
= Jumper Streets and facing Penn
Square. in Philadelphia. that for
seventy three years was used Tor com
age of United States money is Slowly
crumbling away. Doors and blinds are
rusting on their hinges, and the exterior
of the structure is weather-beaten ana
dilapidated in the extreme.
Standing as it does surrounded by
scores of sky-scrapers in the very heart
of the busiest section of Philadelphia,
the great classic City Hall drawing at
tention from its Ionic lines the old mint
is but relic of its former self Added
to the various agencies of destruction
provided by nature. has been the be-
foeging and blackening of its once white
walls, by the great swirl OF smoke ana
coal dust which has filled that Vicinity
since it became necessary to substitute
bituminous for anthracite.
But this is not for long, for the old
mint is to go. The ground upon which
II stands Is too precious to hold semi
ancient relic only three stoiies hieh' y
realty company has bought building and
land. paying 81, 10000 for it, and on the
site is to be erected a modern sky
scraper. with it's hundreds of offices and
improved appliances and conveniences.
The old mint has unique history.
For more than half century 1t was
by far the most important money max
ing institution on this continent, and 1t
is estimated that during its period of
service nearly s2,00O.o0o,OO0 issued from
it's walls.
The subject of national mint for the
United States was first introduced by
Robert Morris, the patriot and financier
of the Revolution. AS head of the
Finance Department, Mr.. Morris was in
structed by Congress to prepare re-
port on the foreign coins then in circu-
lation In the United States. On the 18th
of January, 1882, he laid before Con-
gress an exposition of the whole sub
ject. Accompanying this was plan for
American coinage.
But it was mainly through his efforts
in connection with Thomas Jefferson and
Alexander Hamilton that mint was es-
tablished In the early history of the
United States. On the 18th of April,
1880, Congress instructed The Secretary
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the Lord Lieutenant's Lodge If the young
countess will let her. In that case the
government may find out which was in
the right when the Grosvenor Street
house got repaired-the erratic Georgina
or the men who worked for her.
A Devoted Mother.
The elder Countess of Dudley may be
imperious and trif1e near" when IL
comes to money, but she is considered
an extremely nice woman nevertheless.
She has never been foolishly fond of So
ciety; she merely has coveted place
and wishes to hold it. Her devotion to
her children is proverbial, and Lady
Dudley's several daughters and military
sons have certainly never been known
to show any dissatisfaction with the
determined methods of their beautiful.
mother.
The Rev. DR.. Newell Dwight Hills.
o. Brooklyn, is being much entertained
by the London clergy. both established
churchmen and nOn-conformists, during
his visit of several weeks here He is
seen much in company with the Rev.
Frank w. Gunsaulus, of Chicago.
A Coronation Incident.
The Countess Komiss, who lives in
London at the Savoy Hotel, is Chi
cagoan by birth. and she is feeling much
elation over one incident of coronation
day in which she was the principal
party. Countess Komiss, with true
American enterprise, sent the King
telegram Just after the important cere-
mony, congratulating him on the sue
cessful outcome Of the day. She signed
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pretty children. When in London they
live in modest house in Carlton
Gardens, for Lord Dudley sold the old
family mansion in Park Lane to a South
African millionaire. am told Lord
Dudley thought Park Lane becoming
vulgar" The earl is, like his wife,
young and popular. He has been the
head of the Dudley family since he was
in his teens, and his abilities have been
tried both in South Africa and in public
affairs at home. sNow that he is lord
lieutenant, Earl Dudley can give his wife
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contractors averred that Lady Dudley
made them do everything over twice,
claimed the privilege of changing her
mind every day, and altogether made
herself unendurable.
The late earl went in for art" heav-
lily, and the pictures, jewels. and curios
he collected were sold after his death
Georgina. Lady Dudley, imbibed from her
husband a craze for the decorative. and
everyone says she will try her hand on
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Thanks From the King the Countess kois AN Amer
lean Subject for Her FeIctahons Upon His Coronation.
Gorgeous Garments in Purple and Crimson Seen in Lon
don Shops One Of the Gayes Seasons in Years Promised
The Queen Sets Fashion in Gowns Of White Liberty

the dispatch. Dora NJ. Komiss. an
American Subject"
Almost Immediately came reply
from Lord Knoilys. saying that he was
commanded by the King to thank "The
American Subject" for her kind mes
sage.
Latterly, Countess Komiss has resid-
ed in Brooklyn. Mass.
Lady Aberdeen has been appriscd Of
the fact that at the great meeting OF
the International Council of Women to
be held in Berlin in 1904. Mrs. May
Wright Sewall, of indianapolis. will "ab-
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that while glad of the money for her
charity work. she could not think of
meeting such people as those who gave
the funds.
Georgina. Lady Dudley. has been rath-
er before the public of late because of
certain lawsuit. Her house in Gros-
venor Street was done over, and the
wicked man who did" charged Lady
Dudley s50.o0O for his work. Her lady.
ship thought this rather high. and the
courts brought about compromise. The
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Mr. E. B. Thompson has been occupy
ing his spare moments of late in the
making of negatives about the city from
which to make a set of Washington Ian
tern slides TO- prospective customer.
II is somewhat strange that with all the
beauties OF cur city and the multitude of
historic places within it's limits.
there has never been really first class
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one of the proudest social positions in
the islands. Great things are expected
of this clever girl who knows how to
make hats. She has certainly had fine
social experience already, entertaining,
as she has, so lavishly both at the lit
tie house in Carlton Gardens and at the
various country seats of the Dudleys.
The Dowager Countess.
Speaking of the Dudleys. 1t is impos-
sible to omit mention of that most i'm
portant member of the family. Geor-
gina, Countess of Dudley. Twenty-Five
years ago this lady's picture was in de-
mand in all the shops as the likeness
of one of the most beautiful women in
England. She is the dowager countess.
of course, mother -in-law to the pres
ent Lady Dudley, and, for wonder,
excellent friends with her. Georgina.
Lady Dudley, vehemently declines to as
sociate with "the new people from the
colonies" and to appear in promiscuous
circles of "the smart SET" She clings
to the real aristocracy." Once when
she had consented to allow her name
to be used in the extortion of money
for charitable purposes from some pros
porous but recent millionaires, she was
asked to receive the purses and thank
the donors. She refused on the ground
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London. Sept. 6.


Rachel Gurney, has not always
~ been favored of Fortune. She
who is the new mistress of the
loro lieutenant's lodge in Dublin. and
therefore first lady in Ireland. trimmed
hats once upon time, as apprentice to
a London milliner.
Lady Dudley and her good-looking hus-
band, the new lord lieutenant of Ireland,
afford English nobility one of its pret-
tiest romances. 1t is the old story of
love and poverty. which never ceases to
. be interesting. Lady Dudley was we'll
born, although not of such titled stock
as Earl Dudley boasted.
Of Ancient Quaker Lineage.
The Gurneys were an ancient Quaker
family of bankers in Norfolk, and the
father of Lady Dudley was very wealthy
until his daughters grew to be young
women. Nisfortunes came when Rachel
and her sister, Lady Troubridge. she
who prites plays, were. respectively,
seventeen and nineteen years old. Their
mother, Mrs. Gurney, brought the two
girls to London and sought to exc out
the modest living which her husband,
still in Norfolk. managed to give her, by
placing her daughters in a milliner's
shop. Mrs. Gurney, you see, accepted
her altered circumstances as final She
did not hope for the change of luck
which eventually befell her children.
Luck came first in the person of Ade-
line, Duchess of Bedford The dowager
duchess bought a hat one day OF an
exceedingly pretty girl who happened
to be Rachel Gurney. The Dowager
Duchess of Bedford, by the way, is sis
ter to Lady Henry Somerset, who is
Just about to visit America on behalf of
her temperance work.
Rachel Gurney Adopted.
Well, the duchess bought the hat and
wore it, continuing meanwhile to think
of the charming girl who sold it to her.
She looked into the shop another day
and still another, asked a few leading
questions and discovered Rachel Cur
ney's story. Thereupon she determined
to adopt her.
So, to make long story short, the
Gurneys concluded they could support
one girl if the other were well pro-
yided for, and permitted Rachel to be-
come the legally adopted daughter OF
Adeline. Duchess of Bedford. Lady
Trcub-idge's marriage was indirectly the
result of her sisters going into the
naughty Bedford family The late duke
was devoted to the child whom he found
III his old age He did much for her
and her family
A Dowerless Bride.
1t was. however. as comparatively
dowerless bride that Miss Gurney came
to the young Earl of Dudley. Her position
in society was secure, her beauty and
charm universally recognized. She was
and is known as particularly vivacious
and attractive woman with a great gift
for entertaining. Lord Dudley had
money enough and to spare. He mar
ried the girl with whom he happened
to fall in love. People wonder some-
tir1es now whether Lady Dudley makes
her own hats, Just to keep her hand in,
you know. They are very good-looking
hats, at any rate, and If the lord lieu
tenants wife chose to set up a milliner
shop in Dublin. doubt If much would
be said about it. To "go into trade" is
thought such very smart thing these
days.
Lord and Lady Dudley have three
The Washington times., 1902-09-14
By CHARLES E. FAIRMAN.

TSHE vacation period is fast draw
ing to a close, and the MEM
i bers of the Camera Club are
commencing TO develop the neg
atives made during the visits to the
mountains OF the seashore. Many of the
members have taken with them only the
handy pocket -kodaks, and are relying
upon the chance of making enlarged neg
atiyes from some Of their small mega
tiyes for more serious exhibition work
II is really wonderful what attractive
pictures of high pictorial merit can be
made from enlarged negatives from some
of the kodak films, and this fact is being
appreciated more and more each year
The making of an enlarged negative en-
ables the amateur to select the most ef-
fective portions of the small negative,
and to change the negative in the after
manipulations so that the subject is pre-
scented with such notifications that the
strong points of the picture are empha-
sized and the unimportant features kept
subservient TO the real motive of the
picture. OF course. this work must be
done In an intelligent manner, for the
enlargement of picture that is really
worthless only makes the errors more
noticeable when the enlargement has
been made
DR.. William P. Herbst, the president
of the Camara Club. has returned from
his vacation at Monroyia, Nd, and has
brought with him some very interesting
negatives made in that peaceful farm
ing region, which seems TO be an ideal
place for anyone seeking complete
conditions of rest and the best OF coun-
try living.
Mr.. w. F. Peabody and Mr.. H. p.
Simpson, have spent their vacation at
Raleigh Springs, Va, where they Sc
cured some very attractive negatives of
the scenery In that vicinity and in the
valley of Virginia. Since their return
they have reported to their fellow-club
members that the section is all right for
landscape work. but that they found
the sheep In that section wholly un-
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Academy will open the eyes of many
amateurs throughout the country, and
that disposition to support such ex-
hibitions as are tabooed by the per-
sons who have opposed the last Phila-
delphia salon will bring into favorable
notice many exhibitors who have here
tofore taken but little notice of any
thing but exhibitions of purely local
nature.
Individuality in advertising is some
times found among professional pho
tographers. although the majority are
content with the usual showcase dis
Play at the entrances to their studios.
Out In Illinois, which by the way is
the only State which boasts OF col
lege of photography. one of the pro-
fession has hit upon the novel method
of keeping the public informed that he
Is In business by sending to every
family where there is a newcomer a
silver dollar of the coinage of the year
of birth Of the child II during the year
the newcomer is not duly photographed
at the studio of this enterprising artist.
on the birthday anniversary a suitable
birthday card is sent and some circu
lars of an advertising character ac-
company this second reminder. There
is no doubt but that this Is a more
tactfnl and effective method of adver-
tising than that which was adopted by
photographer in a small town in
Pennsylvania. who advertised that on
certain day he would make portraits 5
of all single women above the age of
forty free of charge.
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lARY CHATS OF LONDON FOLK AND FASHION

Romance in the Life of the New Lord Lieutenant Of Ireland
and His Lovely Wife-From Miliner's Shop to Peer
age-Lord Dudey's Mother, Georgina Also Remark
able Woman and Famous Yet as Beauy-Sty1es in
the English Capital = = = = y
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CURRENT GOSSIP OF THE
KODAK AND THE TRIPOD

used to the familiarity of the photogra-
pher, and that their efforts to secure
negatives of flocks of sheep have 1ecn
far more valuable as means of Sc
curing plenty of exercise than in addi-
tions to their stock of negatives in which
they wished to present pretty land
scapes ornamented with grazing flocks Of
sheep.
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sheep.
One of the best sets of negatives
showing the different changes and
the progress of the work at the White
House has been made by one of the
lady members of the Camera Club. and
although the negatives were made for
the purpose of keeping a record of the
work there has been quite demand for
prints from magazine writer's who are
ever on the lookout for illustrations
FOR their articles on the changes which
are constantly occurring in this city.
In the recent report of the United
States Consul at Tamasui, Mr.. James
w. Davidson, the consul, calls atten-
ton to the lack of interest shown by
the American manufacturers of pho
tographic supplies in advertising their
products in foreign countries Mr..
Davidson states that we are far in ad-
vance of other nations in our photo
graphic supplies, and that with the one
exception of Photographic plates we
can successfully compete with all of
the foreign nations in their own fields,
but that there seems to be no effort to
introduce our goods abroad, and for
this reason, while there is preference
for American products. there is great
difficulty in finding them in foreign
markets. Mr.. Davidson is an cnthu-
siastic amateur, and since his residence
at Tamasui he has organized a photo
graphic club in which five different ma
tionalities are represented in the club
membership.
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The dog the-manger policy of some
of the prominent amateurs of the coun-
try has finally had the result of dis
gusting the managers of the Pennsyl-
vania Academy of Fine Arts, and now
for the first time in five years Phila
delphia will omit its annual photogra-
phic salon. 1t is probable that this ac
tion on the part OF the Pennsylvania
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set of Washington slides prepared. Dur
ing the Pan-American Exposition there
was a great demand for a set of Wash
ington slides for use on that occasion
which was set apart as day for the
District of Columbia, and an effort was
made to borrow the set belonging to the
Camera Club for that occasion. Unfor-
tunately the Camera Club set was then
in the possession of the American Lam
tern Slide Interchange, and. although the
Camera Club was anxious to loan the
slides, and the Interchange willing TO
take them out of the circuit and send
them to Buffalo, through some error or
for some unknown reason the slides
failed TO reach their destination in time
for use on District Day. There has al
ways been a great demand for COM
plete set of Washington slides. and, al
though the club set COMPRISES hundred
slides, it seems, upon looking through
the collection, that not half of the places
Of interest in the National Capital have
been included, and there is good money
in store for any enterprising amateur
who will prepare and place on sale
comprehensive collection of Washington
lantern slides.
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Dora N. Komiss. an
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io:4i q. m. sEABoARD FAST NAIL
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| YTAzI0k CORNER OF sIxrs u 81
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MATT ExPRESS-Pullman Sleeping CaIs Wash
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and Niagara Falls daily. except sunday.
1880 A. n for Elmira and Henovo daily, cx-
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With through Buffet Sleeping Car and Coaches
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a:S p. u. DAILY for Erie; for Rochester.
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day. with Sleeping Car Washington to Rochester.
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s:l5. $50. 7:15, 1.i5. 1000 10: 40, .135 p. u.
and l2:lG night. On Sundays. $50. 40. I:50,
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md at the station, Sixth and B Streets. whers
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road Cab Service.
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schedule in effect May is. 1909.

Schedule in effect May Is. 1907.
Leave Washington, New Jersey Ave and C st.
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WASHINGTON SOUTHERN
RAILWAY.

Fer Richmond, Va, and points South. Vie
Alexandria and Fredericksburg. Leave station.
ttn and streets. 4:30 4 NJ, 3.s5 D. m, daily
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iantic Coat Line ard Florida; 1O:4I q. m,
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Newport News. Old Point Comfort. etc; 1851
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mond only Pullman or parlor cars on all
above trains. Accommodation for Quantico, 7:4o
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