Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-08-08


and women examining with earnest interest
the contents OF the cases. These people.
generally speaking, belong apparently to
the middle class. whose work occupies their
daylight hours and to whom the evening
opening of the reading room and exhibits
is real boon. Great interest by both
day and evening visitors Is manifested in
the models of the Washington Of today
and of the future, made to illustrate the
park commissions plans which Is in itself
a significant fact, and moreover an earn
est of the possible realization of the 'City
Beautiful"
Miss Susanna Gutherz is still at Bar
Harbor. where she has been the guest for
the past month of Mrs. John B. Hender-
son. During that time she has painted
one or more portraits and executed some
1lustrat tive poster work.
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Another of the landmarks in the old art
quarter has fallen into the hands of the
Philistines and will soon lose it's identity.
The old house on 17th street opposite the
War Department so long occupied by Mr..
Harold Macdonald. Mr.. r. LeGrand John
ston, Miss Sands and Miss Burdett has been
sold and it's tenants obliged to find other
quarters. Mr.. Macdonald, Miss Sands and
Miss Burdett have taken studios in one of
the old houses on the north side of H street
between 18th street and Vermont avenue,
which seems in every way equally suitable
and attractive, and where they will prob
ably be permanently settled within the next
fortnight.
None would applaud the march of prog
ress more enthusiastically than artists were
destruction of their own haunts and holy
places which follows in It's wake. Not long
ago the artists of the western world were
obliged to band together and protest
against the laying OF railroad through
the forest Of FontainbIeau; and more re-
Gently, at the unwilling of monument to
Onslow Ford in st. Johns Wood, London,
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema felt called
upon to appeal to the people to aid in pre-
serving as 1T is today that section of the
city which for so long has been famous as
the home Of artists and men of letters
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Miss Hattie e. Burdett made lately an
attractive little illustrative sketch in pas
tells which was peculiarly appropriate to
the season. On a grassy hillside, behind
which big, round, jolly moon had just
appeared. six little elfs are seen dancing.
hand in hand, around the magic circle.
while to the right, seated on the turf, the
piper Is playing merrily. 1t is truly mid
summer nights dream" which through its
artistic Interpretation must prove eenu-
inely attractive to the grown-ups as well
as to the little believers in fairy lore
Three books recently issued have for the
local public an artistic as well as liter
airy interest, owing to the fact that their
illustrators are. or were, at one time to be
counted among the Washington artists.
Mr.. Felix Mahoney. who illustrated 1.-The
Senator's Sweetheart" by Rosseter Will
lard. Is the cartoonist for The Evening
Star. and may, therefore, still be num-
bered among the resident workers; but Mr..
George GLIB, the author Of 1.-THE Love of
Monsieur" and its debonnaire frontispiece.
has transferred his allegiance to Philadel-
phia, and for Mr.. Charles Livingston Bull.
the principal Illustrator of Jack London's
Call OF the Wild" one must turn to New
York. All three show clever and admir-
able work, which reflects real credit upon
the city where they learned the a c's Of
art and began their artistic careers.
Already 1t has been proposed to have
the large figure symbolizing Colorado, which
August Zeller has executed for the st.
Louis exposition. put In marble at the close
of the fair and placed in the capitol at
Denver. This figure is of woman with
well developed muscles, wearing a helmet
and manifold drapery and holding a pick.
signifying the states great mining inter-
ests It has been described as a Serious.
studied and imposing work.
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Marble busts Of Ralph Waldo Emerson
and James Martineau were unveiled In the
hall Of the Passmore Edwards settlement,
Tanstock place. London, on July 16, by
the American ambassador, Mr. Choate. and
by Mrs. Humphrey Ward the novelist, re-
spectively.
Mr. Choata is reported to have seriously
suggested that q statue OF Queen Victoria
be erectsd In Washington. forgetting, a.
some one has aptly said. that even monu-
mental charity should begin at home.