Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-09-19

ton to the plans made by Mr.. d. II. Burn
nam for the new central railroad station
to be erected In this city. a model of which
is now In process of construction I'm the
Mauch shops In Chicago. This model win
be shown in the transportation building at
st Louis md is of unusually large proper
TONS From II 1t will be seen that our new
depot which is to have frontage of TO
feet. will have a Roman facade showing
colonnade of Corinthian columes and door
ways reproducing the arch of Constantine.
1t is to be 40 feet high. with stone roof
elaborated with ornaments on the interior
and will contain immense public apart
ments, waiting rooms, dining halls, offices.
etc.
Mr.. Max Weyl is among the first of the To-
cal artists to repoen his studior after the
summer holidays He has spent the vacation
time with his family on a good old-fash-
Toned farm near Fredericksburg. Va. and
has brought back with him abundant evil
dence of the picturesqueness Of that neigh
borhood. Among the six or eight sketches
which he made during his pleasant exile
great variety of landscape Is to be found
the woodland and the open. the meadows
and the hills. cultivated fields and tangled
by-ways, each with its individual charm.
If one wished to classify MIR. Weyrs work
with that of an established school IL would
be found a difficult task, for it is less sub
tie than that of the Fountainbleau paint
ers, more real than the impressionists. and
more true than that of the old English
1t is vigorous and strong, yet not want
ing in sentiment nor devoid of interpretive
qualities. There is evident in il all the con-
viction of a message, and it Is this which.
to a greater or less degree. creates a work
of art. In these attributes Mr.. Weyl's re-
cent work is well up to the standard, and
never has the painters skill been more
plainly demonstrated than In picture OF
hillside fields under a clearing summer
sky, which is one Of this group.
According to a current issue of the Old
York Transcript, Mr.. Carl F. Weller of
this city spent the latter part of the sum-
mer at Coventry Hall. York. Maine. where
he occupied Mrs Alice Archer Sewall
James studio the walls of which he Gov
cred with fine motifs from the character
istic York scenery"
Mrs. James has spent the summer at her
home in Urbana, Ohio, where she has been
painting some portraits. and. it is said.
picture for the next exhibition Of the So
ciety Of Washington Artists. During the
month of July her Maine studio was loaned
to Mrs. Louise Cox, the wife of Kenyon
Cox, her cousin.
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1t Is announced that all entries for the
coming Carnegie exhibition must be in by
October LIST and all paintings submitted by
the 10th. This eighth annual exhibition
Of the Carnegie Institute. Pittsburg. Is to
be given over almost entirely to the works
OF American artists and none other will
be considered eligible for the three chief
awards of $1,000. $1,000 and $780, respect
lively.
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William Lindsay and his son. residents Of
London. but formerly citizens Of Fall River
Mass. have left 100000 to the latter city
for the establishment Of a school OF de-
sign. and in the same city, anothe.' public
minded man has just organized a free tex
tile school for the benefit Of the workers in
the cotton mills.
It was thought that the acme Of sculptural
horror had been reached in the subsidiary
group Of the Sherman monument, typifying
war, but from recent report 1t seems that
the palm should have been reserved for
the monument which is to be erected to
the memory Of Edgar Allen Poe. This
memorial Is by Jose Charmay. a Spanish
sculptor. and the plaster casts sent from
Paris show two figures bearing mortuary
shroud, out of which has fallen the corpse
of the illustrfous poet. which is seen re-
Ginning on the steps of the pedestal.
Considerable excitement has been caused
in Madrid of late by the announcement
that the authorities of the Church of Notre
Dame del Pillar at Saragosa are Offering
for sale their invaluable collection of
twenty-five tapestries, four of which date
from, the eleventh century. Credence is
given the report by the knowledge that
this church sold some of its jewelry and
plate but few years ago to an English
man and an effort Is being made to have
prohibitory mandates passed similar to
those now existing in Italy.
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A comic law suit has just been concluded
in the German courts between an irate por-
trait painter and an unreasonable patron.
The academician In question agreed to
paint portrait for given sum, but with
out stipulation to Sittings, and when
the time for execution came the sitter abso-
lutely refused to sit, saying that he had
not bargained to assist the painter in any
way. Instead of drawing upon his imagi-
nation and gaining revenge by his wit and
brush the exaSperated artist dragged his
unwilling victim into court, where, to his
amazement, the culprit was declared to
be in the right. Hereafter it Is presumable
that German portrait painters will seek a
subtler and surer way Of bringing sitters
to reason and submission.