Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-10

| about through the stimulus of prizes Of
fered by the mill-owners to the overseers
and ope- atives who made the most improve
ment in their homes in year. The prizes
Tor the overseerS were two in number, of
$50 and $50, respectively. and for the oper-
atHeS ten, ranging from $50 to $40. A lit
| tie over a year ago the original Compel tion
was announced, and after recently making
the first award the mill-owners were so
gratified by the result that they renewed
the offer In speaking of the continuation
OF the scheme one of the operators is re-
ported to have made the following signifi-
cant statement: This is business, not
philanthropy A man who lives among
neat. clean surroundings is superior intel
lectually to one who is used to filth and
squalor. He is more orderly in his habits;
he takes better care of his machine, and he
turns out better work.
The much talked Of autumn salon is. in
spite of the croakers, to become a fact 1t
is to be held in the galleries on the ground
floor of the Petit Palais, the first of next
| month, receiving days being October 10 to
10. Every effort has been made to insure
the success of this exhibition, and it is be-
lieved that it will prove a worthy rival Of
the old-established spring salon.
The entire collection of casts of German
sculptures promised by the kaiser to the
Germanic Museum of Harvard University
has now been received and installed but
Will not be open to the public until after
November 10, when the gift will be for
mally presented and accepted. Baron Won
Sternburg, the German ambassador, will
make the presentation speech as the en-
percrs representative, and President Eliot
the speech of acceptation.
The directors of the Boston Museum of
Fine Arts are apparently sparing pains
to secure every advantage for their new
building on the Fenway. A few months
ago the fact that they had sent we'll
known architect abroad to study the plans
of foreign galleries was chronicled, and
now it is learned that to further insure the
perfect appointment of the new gallery they
have had a trial gallery of wood erected on
the proposed site after the projected plan,
in which the lighting can be practically
demonstrated The walls and partitions of
this temporary structure are all movable
and both side and skylightS are provided,
so that many combinations can be tried
with comparative ease. This is a four
thousand dollar experiment, but it ought
not to be considered too costly for the
question is an all important one, which has
been rarely solved satisfactorily.
The president of the board of commerce
of Detroit has asked that city to raise by
issuing bonds. $4,000 for the perpetual
maintenance of the Detroit Art Museum
appealing to the people to release it in this
way from the necessity of private charity
and urging it upon them as a wise invest
ment. If our national leg:sla tors could be
induced to see things in this light it would
not be long before the chimerical national
gallery scheme would take tangible form
Owing to the perishable quality of paper
made from wood pulp, upon which the ma
Jority of our modern books are printed, a
number of French illustrators and collec-
tors are endeavoring to secure the passage
of a law requiring that two copies Of each
work shall be made on a more durable pa
per, and shall for safe keeping be deposited
with the minister of the interior If the
accusation brought against wood pulp pa
per be true, as it probably is-that it will
not last one hundred years-this is meas
ure which should be at once strongly urged
in every country.
An International competition has been in
stituted for a design for the Casino of
Madrid, which is to be erected at cost not
exceeding 100000 An award of $4,000 is
offered and the competition is open until
December 10