Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-09-01

again the weight of authority un-
doubtedly inclines to Russia's side.
Glimpses Of Holland at the Fair.
Quiet and unobtrusive, like the
modest little pansy, northwest
from the Transportation building,
facing Administration avenue on
the north, stands the quaint red
and green building of Holland.
You will find it just west of the
Burns Cottage, and not quito so
large as some Of the foreign build
lings. However, it is full of the
most interesting things. The
building represents typical house
of Holland of the year 1901, the
iperiod of the most renowned paint
er who ever lived, Rembrandt Van
Rhyn. The interor represents a
Typical old Holland room, with
genuine antique furniture and blue
Delft pottery of that early period,
and a special Rembrandt room, in
which is shown the famous picture
The March-out of Frans Banning
Cocq's Company, or as it is we'll
known all over the earth, "The
Nightwatch," and a complete set
of Rembrandt's other works in
steel engravings and sketches.
You enter O small hallway,
which is somewhat crowded. At
the right is a carriage for child;
this little plush-lined buggy, with
its queer little tires is placarded
two hundred years old. Itis to be
drawn by billy goat or dog, pos
sibly by small boy. The name
of this carriage is "Sjees," and is
pronounced as nearly as we can
get at it, sjase. Above the door
leading into the main apartments
a large picture of Hollands queen,
and just to the right of it, over
another door, is a large likeness Of
our President, a very tactful way
of letting Americans know that
they appreciate the TACT that Mr..
Roosevelt is of Dutch extraction.
The east wing is given over to
the Rembrandt painting. The
picture is fifteen by twenty feet,
and is the largest painting on the
exposition grounds. The original
was painted in 1912, and is one of
the best known of his works. This
painting was originally designed |
for the large hall of the Kloveniers
Doelen (the hall of assembly of
the Musketeers), at that time to be
found on the place where the
Doelen Hotel has since been
erected. According to an old de-
scription Rembrandt's picture rep
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Ilpendam, giving orders to his
lieutenant, William Won Ruyten-
burg, Lord OF Vlaardington, to
direct the march of his company.
1t was hung in the Assembly Hall
under the most favorable light, at
the end of the long wall, opposite
one of the windows. 1t remained
in this place for over seventy years.
AS nearly as can been ascertained,
lit was about 1715 when it was re-
moved to the Town Hall (now
called the palace) in the Dam, at
which time it was cut on either
side to make the picture fit in be-
tween two doors. In the begin
ming of the present century this
picture was transferred to the City
of Amsterdam to the State Museum
in the Trippenhuis. In 1885, it
was placed in the Ryks Museum in
the Rembrandt Hall, where it hung
almost invisibly and quite in
effective for thirteen years, until
at the Rembrandt exhibition it re-
lappeared under the side light in
its old splendor and glory. The
march was to be portrait group,
and sixteen persons paid goodly
sum to have their likenesses trans
mitted to posterity, and every one
of them it was necessary to make
fully visible. There are dozen
or moro other figures in the pict-
ure, some of. them children, which
are placed as accessory figures
where they would produce an
artistic effect. In this manner he
, has given to the scene liveliness
and freedom of arrangement by
which his picture distinguishes
itself from the portrait groups OF
predecessors.
This copy was painted by Hen
t dirk Kleyn, of Amsterdam, and is
+ valued at $4,000. He was three
years in making the picture
While studying the picture, these
| lines of Goldsmith came to mind
} "Embosm'd in the deep where Holland lies
Methinks her patient sons before me stand
Where the broad ocean leans against th
land"
5 After an hour or more spen
, looking at quaint brass lamps
fashioned like our little teapots
perforated bed warmers, one hun
dred and twenty-five years old
l and the remnant of an old oal
! wall, once a bedstead, valued a
$500, you wonder if it is not wortt
while to keep your great grand
, mothers clock and her quaint ole
l bake-oven. ESCALITE.