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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-12
#& S4&G STUDIO FIREPLACE.
VISIT TO THE REAL MRS. WIGGS
The Of the Cabbage Patch Annoyed by Too Much Advertising
Correspondent Thru and Shows Her to the
World as She Really Is

were frightened. They did not keep
count but OH consultation afterward
agreed that she must have repeated
the offensive alias Il dozen times,
mo. I'm just Mrs. Bass. she con-
tinued. Its shame to dedicate me
in a book like that and let everybody
know how poor / am. Why, Alice
/ am. knowed her mother when she
was d girl. We went to college to-
gether.''
II thought you had gone to college"
said the leader of the party diplo-
matically. This seemed to mollify
their hostess, who became more like
herself
Yes she went on. people has
been coming here until l couldn't rest.
Why. | don't even have time to clean
the house any more, and she looked
around alphabetically. The state of
the room warranted her assertion, but
the Ohio girl assured her that every
thing was lovely"
My boy Billy is madden than ! am
went on Mrs. Bass. Hes got a gun
now, and he's looking for the flercest
| dog he can find" smile lowered
about her lips and the girls felt at
ease. Billy's purchase of a gun, re-
enforced perhaps by certain dark hints
on his part, have led to the rumor in
| the Cabbage Patch that he was going
! to shoot the actor who represented
| him in the play. This catastrophe
| has not happened, however.
Have you seen the book?'' asked
/ one of the callers.
No, never seen it. Somebody
| brought one of 'em here. but [ ran
! her out with it. You know it started
! with Alice Hegan's niece, who used to
leone around here. I talked with her
some, and she said she would like to
write the things down and sell them
at a Kings Daughter bazaar. She
made five pages of it, but now its
spread like Wildfre.
They say your daughter is very
pretty, said one of the Louisville
girls.
After that Mrs. Bass was as kindl,
as If there never had been book writ
4 ten about her.
She talked for some time. It wa!
4 just like the conversation in the book
sorry they couldn't remember all tn.
bright things.
DO you ever see Miss Hogan an.
more 2" some one asked.
Mrs. Bass face clouded bit. mo
she used to come with fruit AM
things she said, but haven't seel
her for a long time now This witt
: no early visit from Mrs. Hogan Ric
was expected. The parting was cor
1 dial.
t'It seems to me as if Mrs. Rice jus
came around here and wrote exactl
q what she saw and heard" said on
j. of the young women on the way home
. Mrs. Bass is really the author q
s Mrs Wigs Of the Cabbage Patch
q And the others agreed with her.
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ZANGw1LL---NovE AND PROPHET
His Enthusiasm for zonThe Jews Have Waited
dceIt Taies by the Waysde Late Comes

whole personality, it would be well
to look backwards a little.
The Eangwill of Yesterday.
In 1892. when his book, children
Of the Ghetto.' brought him into
prominence. Zangwill was an obscure
Journalist. He had taught for a liv-
ing, he had supported his parents, he
had been the mainstay of a family of
seven. He is SO still; and this quite
simply. without any flourish of trum-
pets or sentimental by-play. In 1893
zangwill, in a shabby suit and cheap
boots, innocent of social amenities, of
public schools and universities. a true
! child OF the people, se1f-educated,
self-made, burst upon London. He
went everywhere and did everything
| He tasted the novelty and freedom of
! his new position with a zest, joy
BUSINESS that left no social or artistic
stone unturned. zangwill met every
! body, knew everybody and was carl
catured In VANITY Fair" He was
vastly interested in his work and in
| human nature. For a time, perhaps,
| his ruling passion, the love for his
own people, his own race. lay dor
mant. He wrote 1.-The Master a few
curtain-raisers, without Prejudice
/ Then he grew weary and retired
from society and from Bohemia. The
/ Dreyfus case, South Africa. with its
menace of the Jewish capitalist, were
in the air. demanding his attention
! For EangWi1l there was no overlook
ing them, nor the problems they in
ivolved. A Jew could not escape his
Judaism. Elsewhere, also. there was
a change. Literature, art. a living in
f1uence in the early nineties, were be-
/ ing elbowed out of the way by {
doubtful policy, a doubtful finance
Instead of kipling, Anthony Hope, LIE
Caffeine, John Oliver Hobbies, Hag
gard, Weyman, Sarah Grand and the
many new names that had arisen, mer
now spoke of Rhodes. DR.. Jameson an6
De Beers. In both movements Juda
ism was represented-by Zangwill il
! the first, by Barney Barnato and sim
: liar shapes in the second. But Will,
q the first movement had promised
boon to Jewry, the second and NOR,
powerful was full of danger. 0
| zangwill the Jew, even the most anti
/ Rhodesian papers spoke with respect
/! the Jewish capitalists of Kimberle
and the Rand, however, were quit
!, another case. zangwill, doubtful
: despairing of the future. foreseein
: a pending anti-Semitic upheava1 tina
! has already produced It's committe
/, on alien immigration, cast about hir
: for salvation and a redeemer. Sue
!. a one was strangely enough. az
! | preaching. In Austria, a DR.. Her;
:. had attacked and found a solution 70
the Jewish problem. Simply stated
, there were two lternatives-fusio
I with the surrounding peoples, or
: new nation. The first was Impossible
? the second Impossible to mediocrit,
but possible to genius.
+ The zangwill of To-day.
ISL Il had drunk deep OF art zangwi
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STORY OF THAT ARTISTIC sWINDLE"
Salient Points Of the shbuding Trust Fraud Boiled Down for
Busy Readers by New Yor Commercial Advertiser.

unless schwab's directors in the
Bethlehem company paid over their
promised dividends To this Schwab's
Bethlehem puppets answered that the
money had all been spent for extend
ing and improving their property, and
that the parent concern must take
care of itself. There is no manner
of doubt that all these details We're
carefully planned in the first place,
that every step, from the issue of the
shipbuilding prospectus in June, 1907,
twelve months later, was as familiar
to the minds of the conspirators be-
fore it happened as afterwar6.
Where are the laws that are to
protect the community against swim
dies of this sort? Obtaining money
under false pretences is an offense
punishable. by statute. There are var
ious forms of this crime, such as the
confidence game and the selling of
| gold bricks, with which the public
is more familiar, but none of them at
their worst can compare with an en-
terprise which sets out to get the
public's money first by selling them
worthless securities and then plan
ming to get it a second time by buying
in at low figures the properties which
! they have sold and wrecked. Yet the
| law has nothing to say on the subject
so far as it's criminal aspect is con-
cerned. The trust promoter can
escape with public odium merely; his
| prototype in the humber walks must
go to JAIL The most that Receiver
| Smith can do is to urge that suit be
brought against Schwab and the rest
/ to make them pay the debts of the
! shipbuilding trust on the ground that
they are liable under the New Jersey
| statute upon the stock which cost
| them nothing. If this is done it will
give some other ground floor" par
| Elephants In recent industrial flota-
/ tons some uneasy moments at least,
/ and, we venture to say, will cause a.
/ good deal of thinking before some of
| the promoting methods of 1901 and
i 1912 are tried again.
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resumes; "of life and politics as UNI
derstood in alien cities-witness my
Mantle of Elijah'-and I was still
thirsting. Zionism was a cup held out
to a man parched, despairing, and
weary of the wilderness. At one
bound I was presented with a people, a
nationality, and the poetry of a great
and prophesied regeneration. What
were the dull jealousies of European
politics to the statecraft which should
fulfil the prophecies Of the Old Tesla
ment? What were the hopes of the
alien peoples among whom I dwelt,
whose art and philosophy I had eX-
hausted to the risen hope of my own
new-awakened race? A race descend
ed from warrior-kings and prophets
from the builders of sand-buried cities,
whose inscriptions are indecipherable..
| to the most learned, whose temples
! whisper of gods before the God of
Zion; a race to whom Moses is a mod
ern and Solomon dispatching
as near as the latest hotations of
Messrs. Wernher. Belt & Co.?
ITO gather the scattered remnants
of this people from all the four COR
ners of the earth, the Benz Israel, who
are the flower of your Indian army,
strange yellow Talmudists from China,
! Delvalles and Toledanos from Cura-
Gao and Colon, Cohens and Lewis from
/ Whitechapel and New York, ban
/ doliered brigands from the Caucasus,
ringletted horse dealers from Galicia;
to gather this chamelon-like, this uni
versal race into one strong and i'm
pregnable unit Joined by a common
God. by the same Hebrew speech
wherein it's prophets and laW-livers
! once held converse with the Almighty,
here was a purpose greater than art
greater than the parochial politics OF
the world empires Of the west. :
And so l have ceased to be a novelist
and am become a Zionist. Yes, ]
: believe in Justice he concludes; "it
: tarries by the wayside, it comes late
) it comes later than human suffering
!, but still it comes
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VISTA THRU OLD STUDIO SUITE.

e. Heisser, M. E. Chant and Rhoda
Casterlin. Later were enrolled Misses
Mary Rogers, Ethel Bartholomew,
Lillian Cherry, Mary Judd, Mabel Nc
Grory. Pauline Kruger, John Rich,
Topper, and Harry Curtiss.
Robert. Koelller Worked There.
Robert Koehler, the present director
of the art school, inherited the studio
as we'll as the post of Mr.. Volk. Mr..
Koehler was fresh from Munich and
it's art atmosphere, and in self-defense
he set about gathering about him all
of the people of cOngenlal tastes that
he could find, and this circle naturally
had strong German leanings. When
Walter Petzet was in Minneapolis he
arranged frequent musical evenings In
cooperation with Mr.. Koehler and
these were given in Mr.. Koehler's
studio.
Some of the advanced students Of
the art school and others who had
passed out from the school felt the
need of a sketch class, and one was
organized on a club basis and met in
Mr.. koehler's studio every Monday
night. The model was always a good
one, illustrating some noteworthy idea
in costuming and some very profitable
work was done In the club, which was
maintained for about three years. In
addition to this sketch work there was
E. monthly concours in composition
This Work1was done outside, but was
criticized by the regular critic, Mr.
Koehler, before the class. The sketch
ing was followed by a social hour and
admission to the club could only be
secured by a unanimous vote of the
members. who considered personal de-
SRA bility as we'll as ability.
The leader in the Studio club was
Frank Choteau Brown, now a pros
porous architect in Boston. Among
the active members of the club We're
the Misses Charlotte Long, Margue
rite Mead and Agnes Harrison. Mrs
w. w. Folwell, Ed Hewitt, Hilleary
MURRAY and Ernest Anderson.
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London Mail.

You expect to get justice!" and
Zangwill laughed. The absurdity of
any such Utopfan expectation tickled
him. He was addressing a young
writer, whose first book had just re-
ceived extremely unfair notice in a
prominent weekly. THE man ex-
poets to get justice!" he exclaimed. In
one phrase he had formulated his
philosophy. Not that he is without
hope-nobody is more hopeful; but
or even that ordinary fair play upon
which your average Briton counts
and builds, Zangwill regards as myth
tcal--a fable. OF all ultimate good,
an ultimate purpose he has no doubt,
here his faith is enormous and I'M
fortnight justice-the very notion
made him laugh.
Waiting 1000 Years.
1--WE Jews have waited 1000 years
for justice" he says, growing graver
and more formidable-for gravity
makes his powerful face a mask of
iron. Two thousand years!' he re-
peats. Justice has played at cat and
mouse with us; has given us hope and
taken it away again; has given us
open air and equal rights. then pen
ned us in a Ghetto. We are an eter-
nal prisoner, sometimes out on bail,
ted. In every country we have passed
from an Elusive freedom to captivity.
The two went hand in hand. My
father was a captive in Russia; in
England I am out on bail. My
son--but ] have no son. Read your
history and you will learn something
about us, and. incidentally about my
self. In Angevin, England, we dared
4 exist-consult your Ivanhoe'; then
we were massacred and driven out.
Cromwell let us in again; tomorrow
we may have to cross the seas. From,
Spain we were driven to Venice and
Amsterdam; Disraeli's ancestors fled
to the one place, Spinoza polished his
lenses at the other, and founded d
new philosophy between whites. The
French Revolution gave us new
hope, but Liberte, Egalite. Fraten-
mite could not prevent a Dreyfus case
And you---you ask me to believe IL
Justice, the prompt and even-hande6
Justice of a freeborn Englishman
impossible! We get a breathing
space, a generation, two generations
enough to acquire an illusion of Sc
curity. The old wounds are forgot
ten; our children face smiling flu
t11re-and then the bomb explodes
bad lesson. To-day it is Kschinei
Yesterday 1t was Dreyfus. before tina
bismarck and his reptile press. an,
SO backward to King John and heav
en- knows who. No." Zangwill finishes
"the fountain Of justice is in ourselves
and we must take what Is withheld
from us. Thus I believe in Justice
and that is why am a Zionist.
But before we arrive at Zionisr
and the great change it has wrough
In Zangwill's work and outlook, inJhi
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-12
A CORNER WITH ARTISTIC "pRoPERrlEs"

In Mr.. Volk's studio was organized
the least known and one Of the most
interesting clubs of Minneapolis,
which had a home in the building for
more than a decade. This is the Sky
light club, a mildly bohemian organ
ization OF a purely social nature, made
up Of men of aesthetic and literary
tastes. According to the reminis-
cences of member. the men first
consulted in regard to the project
were Walter Tiffany, j. S. Bradstreet,
Burt HARDWOOD, w. c. Whitney and
perhaps some others. When 1T was
decided to organize a club a consider
ably larger group, based wholly upon
camaraderie. was hidden and this has
been maintained with additions since.
Once d member is always member.
and the club list includes such names
as f. c. Gale, DR.. Burnside Foster.
F. l.. Washburn, John Crosby, e. S.
Waters. j. r. Vanderlip, Roy Herrick,
the late DR.. Charles Bell, Major H.
L. Leonhauser, Herbert Putnam, W..
G. Edgar DR.. Fl. H. Holmes, DR..
Richard Burton, Hart Lyman. F. J. f..
Woodbridge. Russell Bennett, F. F.
Wesbrook, G. e. Van Barneveld. Cass
Gilbert. Harry P. Robinson, W. r.
Appleby, w. B. Packer, T. S. Jones,
w. H. Hinkle. Franklin Crosby, Karl
De Laittre and DR.. H. Mel. M orion.
Home of the sl1ylighters.
The Skylighters enjoyed the hospi-
tally of MI. Volk SO long as he re-
NAMED in the city, and after his de-
parture Simply moved to the other
side of the building into the studio of
another of it's members. Burt Har-
wood. After several years of gath
ering in Mr.. Harwood's rooms he took
his departure also and was succeeded
as a tenant in the quarters by the
club, which had begun to feel de-
sire for club home. and was too
deeply attached to the building to va
cate willingly. The two commodious
rooms were fitted UP attractively, but
with a masculine absence of ornate
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-12
FIRE BOAT
On Wheels Will Be Used to Overcome
Stubborn Blazes.
philadelphia Reeor

Philadelphia Record.
Chief Yates of the Schenectady fire
department is the inventor of a new
piece of fre-fghting apparatus, which
will soon be put to the test in that
city. A local paper describes 1T as a
fireboat on wheels. IT consists of
big monitor, such as is used on board
the fireboats of the large cities, but
in this case it is mounted Oh two
wheels. so that 1t can be pushed
wherever it may be desired by a
couple of men. The nozzle has the
additional feature that a curtain or
shield of water is projected therefrom
In all directions making perfect en-
velop around the fireman who may
occasionally be compelled to go to the
machine and direct Its operations AS
rule. however, after it has been
placed properly, 1t needs attention
only once in a while, when the direc-
ton OF the stream has to be changed.
A similar piece Of apparatus is In use
In some Of the departments, but that
Of Chief Yates is said to be a great
Improvement over all Of them 1t will
take an active part in the review OF
the fire department of Schenectady to
be held at an early date.
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Cincinnati Enquirer.

The successful production this au-
tumn of the play founded Oh Mrs.
Wigs of the Cabbage Patch"-neatly
characterized by Mrs. Gertrude Ather-
ton as David Harum's widow-has
again brought into notice the woman
whose philosophy Of cheerfulness has
found SO many readers turnout the
country.
1t is the irony Of fate however, that
the book which has given so much
pleasure to others should have robbed
the original Mrs. Wigs of the peace
of mind and good nature which ell
deared her to the public.
While her bright savings have
brought money and fame to the au-
thor, Mrs. Alice Hogan Rice. as we'll
as to the publishers, the dramatist,
with Mrs. Wigs as a book or play,
Mrs. Mary A. Bass, the original sage
of the cabbage patch, is living in her
former poverty. What is worse, she
is SO harried by droves of visitors that
life has been a nightmare to her ever
since 1t was discovered that she was
the woman whose ideas and stories
were reproduced in the book Her
home in the Cabbage Patch COOL Hill
| street) has been the Mecca. of so many
| admirers that she is about as dlrh-
! cult to see as a moose in the Maine
woods
| A correspondent. however. succeed
ed recently in interviewing the -rea
Mrs. Wigs. She reached the PatcE
| in company with two girl friends
without difficulty, and SO accurately
was it described in Miss Hegan's bool
/ that the visitor felt on familiar grounc
at once. Mrs. Wigs house was east.
lily discovered, but when they knocked
/ there was no answer.
The reporter asked half-groWr
girl who was passing:
rs this where Mrs. Wigs lives
1 A scowI was the only reply. Evi
IDENTIFY public opinion in the Cabbag'
i Patch sympathized with that goot
4 woman in her troubles
4 Inquiry was then made at near
4 by grocery. The owner of this wa
more communicative.
4 ..Why, bless you, young ladies'" n
said, you can't see Mrs. Bass. Ihere,
& been ten thousand people here to Sc
her since that book was printed. She,
s 81 grove 'fa1s ! sns sz'ASp ! ~
Il Finally, however, the girls chumme
. with a woman who was persuaded 7
. Introduce the party to the widow
{, This time the visitors were admit
, ted by the famous apostle OF cheer
: fitness. There was an awkward paus
and at last one Of the young wome
! asked, hesitatingly:
t so you are Mrs. Wigs 2?
t Mrs. Wigs! Mrs. Wigs! Mr.
i Wigs! Mrs. Wigs! Mrs. Wigs! Mr.
{ Wigs! Mrs. Wigs! Mrs. Wigs! Mr.
!, Wiggsi Mrs. Wiggs!'' The name we
elected SO vehemently that the caller
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ness. They embodied a mans idea of
a comfortable and restful den.
The Skylight club early manifested a
fondness for celebrities and it became
quite the rule for the members to In
vite there any visitor whom he wished
to extend courtesy to insure him a
pleasant evening. On the long roll
of distinguished guests may be men
toned Sir Edwin Arnold, F. Hopkin-
son Smith. DR.. Henry Van Dyke,
Ernest Thompson-Seton Cheiro,
Burton, Holiness Anthony Hope, Paul
ID Chaillu, DR.. N. D. Hills, and r.
Marion Crawford.
The existence of the club will be un-
interrupted, altho it has no definite
plans for new quarters.
The Harwoodian Epoch.
One of the most interesting periods
of the history of the old building was
the three years when it housed Burt
Harwood's classes, in which some
splendid work was done. The pri1-
cipal class was an evening life class in
which the students were almost with
out exception serious workers. study
ing art for a definite purpose. An
unusually large proportion have given
a good account of themselves in their
subsequent work. The enthusiasm
and inspiring qualities of the class di-
rector, Mr.. Harwood,w supplemented
by the brilliant work of his assistant,
MRS. ina h. 6dIDeF, ana Ol fAllule
Okerburg. who modelled in the studio
and criticised at times Among the
first Harwood students were Albert
lowering, on the staff of Harpers
Weekly; H. N. Marchand, a frequent
contributor to the Harper publica-
tons and Munsey; M. l.. Hays, also
doing illustrating in New York;
Stokkestad, a man of brilliant prom
Use, who died in New York when
scarcely beyond his student days; G.
L. Bartholomew, T he j GU Is
cartoonist; Fred Bartholomew, Will
liam Hazel. Ralph and Fred Wright
James Macleod, Mrs. Margaret Tay-
lor Mrs. E. H. Center, now doing art
leather work in Chicago; Misses M.
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When Mr.. Koehler abandoned his
downtown studio for his model studio
in his quaint Nuremberg house in
Wash burn Park, it was taken by Alex
is Fournier, who sub1et the big back
room, with its wide fireplace, to the
Art league, another Bohemian club,
formed thru the efforts of Mr.. Koehler
and Allan Smith, a stained-glass de-
signer. who took a lively interest i'll
his fellow craftsmen and in local art.
The, Art league did some public work:
giving several exhibitions, most of
which We're led in the studio building.
Once a year the league held an auc-
ton sale Of sketches by members that
was an. event of interest. The league
includes musicians as we'll as artists,
and music always forms a. part of the
entertainment of league meetings. In
the palmy days of the league it held
frequent open meetings attended by
the ladies, but for year or two the
league has been rather inactive. ow-
ing to many losses in the membership.
1t gave up the control of the big
H. n. Gausta for several years, altho
the club continued to hold it's meet
ings there.
Mr.. Fourier, from his first tenancy in
the building, held the right to the front
rooms, but sublet during his frequent
and long absences, and for three years
the tenants were the Misses M. e.
Heisser and Elizabeth A. Chant, whose
Saturday afternoon at homes, cheered
by Russian tea, were only rivaled as
social magnets for all artistic folk by
the famous Saturday night meetings
under the Harwood regime, when in
terested friends were permitted TO
foregather after the class work of the
week had been finished and to remain
as long as they pleased. 1t was at
the Harwood class that Russian tea
was introduced, and also where dicker-
ing for secondhand Russian metal
work was learned by American brio
a-brac hunters.
Martha Scott Anderson.