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New-York tribune., 1902-04-06

of some doubt. its weight would have approx
imated thousand pounds and its cost several
hundred dollars.
The first of these rotary aluminium presses in use
was installed by the Brett LthOgraphtng Company
in 1898 and the four years which have succeeded
have witnessed almost hourly advance In the
Improvement of lthography in its highest artistic
function, the duplication of fine paintings.
Good paintings are within the reach OF but few
If pictures have any considerable merit they are
largely sought after by wealthy eonnoisseurs. and
are soon shut from the eyes OF the world In a pri-
yate collection. they become the property OF a
public gallery. and are accessible only for
study by those who reside in large cities
This was great a public deprivation willis
culture confined to the great cities Of Europe
and America, while the passionate craving for
beauty realized in artistic expression had not
vet made itself felt alike on the farm and in the
workshop. But Americans born of European
stock that brought up on the revered treas
ures of their national arts. Once in possession
of bread they felt great need Of something with
held and missing. They needed the stimulus of at
of art treasures put within their reach by repro.
ductive processes.
Such reproduction work, 1t Is believed first
done in this country by the Brett Lithographfng
Company. of New-York City. Its founder. Ar
New-York tribune., 1902-04-06

the last decade America has felt meea
art Great painters IKE rassd ness sEeai an
chanical arts of recent growth Without pop
can be no artistic Craftsmanship. In general
way. the more complex the artisue proauct p, 'n of
wealth and culture. a Navajo blanket or Pueblo
pot are forms of simple art and aG o fortv
thousand pieces. is extremely complex and needs
e apE OF tha to Of Re
in advance of its fellow arts ana cra Is: 10
in its unique character 1t was the m rmsa music
and such looked less to the loCai Atei 1i -
the connosseurs Of EuroDe where the Wagner
and List movement was at its height In Eurqpe'
tronage is one of the most important OF court t
functions 1t therefore of no sInaii lio@iiEic @
found rds recognition at ST. James when the young
Prince and Princess Of Wales built their eountts tb
house sandrngham and furnished IL 1t for e fns
represented their own personal tastes IT WaS Of f
steinways was assembled. As the royal veries
were more and more seen before % 'Tr m,,,e eoof ns
fingered in the selection of their favorlte na
tbs otbep side of he atlantic knew
could buy great logs Of ebony spend thoushuS ir G
money like water into the ceaseless experiments
by which they bringing their nstTuneht fi ste9
could invent the first piano. SECURE in the patron RON
age of one great banker-De Medici. W. Wh pnth tI,.
sscbilds the Drexels, the Morgans the Browns
II was possible for Steinway & Sons TO build up
Sbfn @ mere Sf pamos but with ches duve
duplicate of its fellow mas1erpiece d tn
under these conditions could be the only roao 10
With the recognion Of the ste9way in l piano s,hsd as
iary industry pursued by smaller I houses }es ana ana
ing limitations into the cottage of the wage Garner
New-York tribune., 1902-04-06

resent the first creative art that Europe ever cor
eted from America and imported for mex o"ii "
tistic pleasure ,aa- bonse
In sketching the career OF this pioneer neH fv
among American arts and crafts, the PEI NJ
of its members may well claim @ @atsehoior. nnanv NV
Charles F. Tretbar. the treasurer ofinp OF oit mem
Der of the second generation of StelnWay q fnan
Mr.. Charles II. Stenway the presidentt aru Vice
president and in charge the manuaactfbs ia tbs sales
department. and Mr.. Henry Zegler' tme mel ma
artist of the piano. whose skill has laasfio ard Of
Directors. To these gentlemen should De audeo oIeo
Mr. Frederick Reidemeister the Gashier; I'd az Theo
dore Stenway and Mr.. Theodore CassaDee EDeehard
IineaI descendants. grandsonS of Henry EiiSe
Steinway the founder of the house.
New-York tribune., 1902-04-06

Alphonse Brett received his training In one OF the
leading Parts Hthographic houses and established
the Brett Lithographins Company In this country
in 1874 Since that date the work of this concern
has been almost exclusively in the field OF fine color
reproduction, and the continued efforts or us
craftsmen to excel along this line have met with
marked success.
The fac-simile OF oil and water color paintings
the production OF which the Brett LithOgraphins
Company makes a special feature. enables the art
student to have I'm his home and to become famil-
lar with the work OF the masters OF modern and
classic painting.
A wide circulation has been given to some OF
these fac-similes OF paintings by the Art Inter
change Magazine. the beautiful art studies which
are part of each issue being the work Of the Brett
Lithographing Company
The corps OF artists employed by this house who
employed on this work of reproduction are all
specially trained men. and the most painstakinS
skill and required 70 insure the perfect
suit obtained. So successful they In copying 20
the most minute detail. the original painting, that
when copy and original have been hung side by
side. similarly framed. the artist himself has been
unable to determine which was the product OF his
brush, except upon close examination of the sur
face.
The exercised in the class OF work by this
company is such that recently when engaged upon
the reproduction OF the well known OIL painting
by Granville Smith. The Country Doctor
New-York tribune., 1902-04-06
AMERICAN ART INDUSTRIES
THEIR PROGRESS IN THE PAST DECADE
HAS BEEN PHENOMENAL.
AMERICA H.s AssrMrr.ArEp THE CRAFTS OF MANY
PEoPIIEs-EURoPE is BUILT. THIS CoUN-
TRY rs ONLY NOW BUILDING. so THE
CRAFTSMAN FINDS SUPERIOR
Opportunities HERE.


within the last ten years America has entered
anon a genuine and widespread Renaissance of her
Arts and Crafts. Art like religion, is the work or
the human race a unit. When country sue
reeds in laying hold this precious heritage OF
civilization and re-creating 1t for her own special
uses she experiences renaissance Of all her crafts
Tn every direction and becomes in her turn pro-
6uctive.
Such renaissance has occurred in all our skllled
labor. Our iron work, our bronze, our ules anu
terra cottas wood carving. our glass our golo-
euaithe' ana sfversmiths' work, our weaving, o,-i
printing and lithography-to take the It1!eS -
amples-have each been carried forward ete, iito
rive art wrought with perfection OF craItshdiI-
shin that frequently surpa the work Of Europ-
Our bronze castings are larger InaI 0 F,ronesn
abroad. our pianos are @ @oeote. e. az ,n,,[b that
pianos: cast iron work IS as nne as IN IiCr NJ ' @
al a fef IN point of skin and ere rapidly
reaching into original creation in the domain oi
Not untiI a review is actually made of the con
dition of our arts and crafts does one recognize
she nniyersalitv The solid foundation Of national
activities upon which the artistic manufacture mas
Our present superiority craftsmanship is built
upon four national advaniages-ths sgperlordfy f r w
salient for machinery: the general olnuslon ~
eah and tRs inform desire Of ali our
people rich and poor. TO possess the pest oi
keen observer has remarked that that the the
more unmixed the biz blood 3 81 any ~ p peoRis Rereas
the ef4orescence of decorative art is likely TO re-
IreG sun ron aon me ms Not oniv have ali the most
energetic daring and rescurcefui OF each OF me
H in each several people, craftsmen of widely dif-
ferent trades have been brought side by side at
the bench in the club
In the system of compound levers which moves
the hammer Of American grand piano, that
lever which gives the thrust to the hammer IS
known the Jack; that which receives the ham
srer permits a repea-ed stroke is the nal
ancier while the round nut which slides on the
balancier is known the Waltze-names LETT by
the English. French and German artisans VINO
united in American piano manufacture. Nhere
names were thus interchanged processes or handl-
craft underwent similar fusion Nay more, many
O process laboriously worked out by one INDUSTRY
snd natnfullv held a guild secret in its European
home became the long sought improvement in a
widely different craft Worhmen better fed. bet
ter housed. more successful. found their invention
cuckened and their imagination stimulated by the
Ffizes of a new and prosperous civilization A
universally diffused wealth offered ready market
for invention. The Centennial found nation
of inventors and nachinists. The Columbus Ex-
,csition found the richest nation on earth with
e secure patronage of large fortunes ready to sup
port and reward any art We chose to develop
New-York tribune., 1902-04-06
THE USES OF PATRONAGE.

In isolating the causes for the blossoming OF the
arts and crafts in America. the very recent but
enlightened patronage OF our wealthy acd cultured
classes Is given as the most prominent Within
New-York tribune., 1902-04-06

and the cabin of the frontiersman, until the nrst
great American art craft should be piano making,
and the one great musical instrument OF America
become the piano.
New-York tribune., 1902-04-06
PIANOFORTE MAKERS.

The presence OF the Steinway piano among the
Arts and Crafts in the present number OF The
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-27
BE Remembers the Poor.
CBy the Associated Press)


London, June 25.-6 p. NIT is His
Majesty's wish that the arrangements
for the dinner to about 100000 of the
poor of London July 5th, shall be pro-
ceeded with. Before tomorrow morning
over half a million invitations will have
been sent out The dinner involves the
employment of over $500 stewards, an
army OF walters and $500 musical hall
entertainers. All the arrangements are
in the hands of SiR Thomas Upton.
The King spent a quiet day and the
lack of unfaorable developments was
regarded as greatly in his favor.
1t was practically decided this after
noon that the Prince of Wales will re-
view the colonial troops, probably next
week. They will then return to their
respective countries.
A favorable factor mentioned by sew
eral of those at the palace today was
the Kings adaptability to the severe
regimen involved.
HE is an excellent patient" said
physician who had just seen one of the
members of the royal family. He does
everything he is told and does not worry,
unlike many royal personages. This con-
ciderably helps the doctors in their eff
forts to pull him through"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-27
TODAY THEY PRAY FOR TIE KING
tory of Gypsy Who Told Edward he Would
Never Wear the Crown
CBy the Associated Press.1

London, June 25.-Tomorrow has been
officially appointed a day of intercession
for the King and in every parish church
in the United Kingdom special interces-
sorry services will be held. Catholics,
Non -COnformists, Jews, SalvatiOnists
and other religious bodies are all arrang-
ing special prayers, while in the camps
of the colonial and other visiting troops,
be they Mohammedans, sun worshippers,
Brahmins or fire or fetish worshippers,
whether from China, BOrneo, Fiji, Cen
tIal Africa or Hindustan, or from the
Indian reservation of Canada the usual
hour of prayers finds them supplicating
their deity in behalf of the King
The authorities of st. Paul's Cathedral,
by request, have arranged n solemn SER
vice of intercession for the Kings re-
covery to be held tomorrow at noon.
Only ticket holders to the postponed
Westminster Abbey coronation ceremony
will be present.
The only features of the coronation
decorations, etc, escaping demolition are
the illumination devices in London and
the bonfires which had already been laid
on three hundred hill tops throughout
the United Kingdom. These, for the
present, will not be touched, in the hope
of using them to celebrate the Kings
recovery.
The story OF the King and the EPSON
Gypsy is being retold. According to this
Gypsy who was supposed not to have
known His Majesty's identity told him
that he would rise high, to the throne
itself, but would just fall short of his
ambition at the last moment and would
NOT ba crowned king -
The same seer told King Edward that
he would be so unlucky on the turf that
even if one of his horses was going to
win a race it would fall dead at the
winning post. This prediction was full
filled in the case of Counterpart in 1885.
Later. at Hamburg, palmist is said
to nave foretold that the King would be-
come i'll as he started for his corona
tion
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-27
A VERY WARM PLATFORM
Fusion Ticket in Nebraska With
Democrat at Head,
HARMONY AFTER A STUBBORN CONTEST
Mr.. Bryan Expresses Himself as Pleased With
The Accomplishment of Fusion. Min.
neSota Democrats Nominate
|. A. Rosirg
CBy the Associated Press }


Erie, Pa, June 25.-For the third time
in twenty years Ex-Governor Robert E.
Pattison, of Philadelphia, was nominated
for governor of Pennsylvania today by
w. Guthrie, of Pittsburg, was the unani-
nous choice of the convention for lieu
tenant governor. James Nolan, of Read
ing, was nominated by reclamation for
secretary of internal affairs. The
platform makes no reference to national
question, which indicates that the cam
paign will be made strictly on State
issues.
Pattison appeared before the conven-
tion and made a brief speech Of accept
ance.
Sixty delegates were elected, but State
Chairman William T. Greasy rulcd that
Philadelphia county was entitled to only
20. The chairman's ruling was sus-
tanned by the Credentials Committee and
also by the convention. During the de-
bate on this question the spectators in
the galleries interrupted John NJ Gar
man, of Luzern. With Kisses and jeers.
The police were called in by the SER
geant-at-arms to restore order. With the
exception of three, all the Philadelphia
delegates voted for Congressman
Kerr, of Clearfield, and left the hall af-
ter Pattison's nomination.
The platform declares, that every de-
partment Of our State government is
honey combed with profligacy, dishonesty
and a reckless disregard of constitutional
and moral obligations; that the powers
of government are prostituted to the
purposes of public thieves; that consti-
tutional restraints and commands, the
sanctity of law, the obligations of official
oaths and the demands of common hon
esty are thrust aside by the substitu-
ton of a higher law-the demands of an
insatiatc greed of public plunderers for
money money, more money; that shame
lessIy and openly the votes of legislators
are bought and so persistently and con-
stantly that market values for legisla-
tors have been established by settled
custom; that the apparent Indifference
of our people to these outrages embold-
ened the corruptionists to such an extent
that the last session OF our legislature
out-heroded Herod in it's infamies and
that all men pronounce it the most cor
rupt legislative body that ever convened
in any State of the Union; that its very
organization was founded on the purchase
of venal legislators with money and
Mace and that it closed it's session with
the browning infamy of that most stu
pendous franchise steal shocking the
moral sense of the entire country; and
that the selection of a United States
conator waS accommodated in q carnival
of corruption and bribery"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-27
UNDER MASK OF A MAN.
A Tar Heel Girls Long
Masquerade.
for Six Years She 6uIled the People Of BsIti
more, But The Woman She Manies
Gives Her Away.
s------ @
(By the Associated Press.)

Baltimore, June 25.-For six years a
person supposed to be young man and
known as Herman c. Wood has lived
in this city, working about grocery
stores. On June 18th Wood was mar
ried to Mrs. Ernestine l.. Rausch a wild
ow, owning a grocery store. Today she
reported to the police that she had dis
covered her so-called husband to be a
woman.
On being visited by the Police Wood
reluctantly admitted that he was of the
feminine sex, that six years ago she had
gotten into trouble at her North Carolina
home and had gone to Baltimore, donning
male garb and living ever since as a
man.
During her residence here the mas
duerading young woman has mingled
freely with men drinking, smoking and
joining in their sports without her sex
ever having. been suspected. She is now
under arrest.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-27

the last three years and at the presents
amounts to being not only the Secretary
of War but the Secretary for the Colonies
at the same; who has done the most ex
hausting and most responsible work of
any man in the administration He has
done that and done it absolutely disin-
terestedly Nothing can come to Root in
the way of reward save that which is
implied in the knowledge that he had
done something which hardly any other
man in the Union could have done as
well as he has done He has done all
that with the certainty of attack, with
the certainty of misunderstanding, with
the certainty of being hampered by ig-
norance and worse than ignorance so
that he could not do the best that was
in his power, only the best conditions
would allow 1t was all Abraham Lin
coin could do, incidentally He has done
all, Taft has done it Wood has done it..
These three men have rendered that SER
vice / can do nothing for them. ! can
show my appreciation of them in no way
save the wholly insufficient one of stand
ing up for them and for their works, and
that l will do" (Long and continuous
applause.)
On President Roosevelt's return to the
Somerset this evening he was escorted
to the Algonquin Club House. where a
banquet was given in his honor by the
commandery of Massachusetts naval
and military order of the Spanish Ameri-
can war.
The President made an address. strong
ly defending the course of the army in
the Philippines. Later he attended a
banquet in his honor given by the In
ternational League of Press Clubs. At
midnight he left for New London.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-27
What the Medical Journals Say.
(By the Associated Press.

10y the ASSOCldJ6Q PreSS.J
London, June 25.-The British Medical
Journal says:
Should the Kings symptoms pursue
the course they have hitherto followed
there is good reason to hope for His
Majesty's restoration to health. Owing
to the nature of the affection and the
character of the dressings used, it is
inevitable that his convalescence should
be somewhat prolonged but we believe
il no complications arise that there is
no reason to fear his recovery will not
be complete The condition of the parts
as to assure the surgeons that the alb
scess was due to one of these unex-
planned infammations which occur with
remarkable frequency in the neighbor-
hood of the vermiform appendix and that
it was not due to any organic disease
of more serious nature or to any malig-
nant growth as rumOr has suggested"
The Lancet while declaring it is i'm
possible to disguise the seriousness of
the Kings condition, says:
at is our joyful privilege to be able
to contradict fatty some of the sinister
rumors which have been prevalent for
the last As hours throughout the world
His Majesty is suffering from peri
typhlitis and nothing else. Unfortunately,
the symptoms of perityphlitis may be en-
tirely masked, and this it was that pre-
vented the operation from being apparent
until yesterday"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-27
A Democrat Heads the Ticket.
(By the Associated Press.)


Grand Island, Neb., June 25.-AfteT
twenty-four hours of almost continuous
session. the Democratic and Populist
State Conventions completed a fusion
ticket this afternoon with a Democrat
at it's head Five places on the ticket
were allotted to the Populists and three
to the Democrats. They were as fol-
lows;
Governor-W. H. Thompson, Hall
county, Democrat.
Lieutenant Governor-E. A. Gilbert,
York county, Populist.
Secretary of State-John Powers,
Hitchcock county, Populist.
State Auditor-Charles Q. Defraxil,
Jefferson county, Populist.
State Treasurer. N. Lymna, Adams
county. Populist
Attorney General. M. Broad, Lam
caster, Democrat.
Commissioners of Public Lands and
Buildings-B. G. Bremen, Douglas
county, Democrat,
Superintendent of Schools-Claud
Smith, Dawson county, Populist.
While the contest over the head of teh
TICKET was SplFIIeu, SLuoUolh anu o.
times almost bitter, in the end, the ut
most harmony apparently prevailed.
Five different men, including William
J. Bryan received the unanimous NOM
ination of one or the other of the con-
ventions for Governor before both bodies
finally agreed on one man. After ad-
journment had been taken Mr.. Bryan
expressed himself pleased with the sue
cessful accomplishment of fusion, say
ing he would lend his entire effort in
support of the ticket.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-27
The Operators Make Gains.
(By the Associated Press

Roanoke, Va, June 25.-An official
statement furnished the Associated Press
today by the Norfolk and Western Rail-
way Company shows that out of a total
of forty six coal operations in the Poca-
hCntas fields, 43 are mining coal. This is
gain of several operations over last
week. There was more coal loaded yes
terday than any day since Friday of last
week and the indications are that to-
days output will equal that of any day
since the strike was declared. Two small
bands of marchers are reported today.
But little notice is being given them by
the men who are at work.