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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1905-10-24
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\ PHILADELPHIA Oct. a. I
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3 Steamship company. fell In
4 front % a train az the Fifty ,
\ second street station Of the ,
4 Pennsylvania road today The ,
h body wawA ground 20 piecea. ,
b Clyde was about &c years old, ,
= and owner OF the Goughacre i,
4 stable OF running horses A /,
= few months ago he married ,
4 Mrs. bloomfield McIlvaine. ,
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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1905-10-24
Couldn't Find
Her Clothes

Monday night was one OF jollIfl-
cation for number OF Seattle's
fallen women. as well as those visit
ing from neighboring cities.
The reason for the celebrations Is
not known. but, as a result, several
of the unfortunates were booked at
the police station.
Marble Montell. proprietor OF an
Everett house OF III repute. was ar
rested for being intoxicated. when
appfehended, she was but partially
dressed and could not explain what
had become OF the rest OF her cloth
Ing. Too much intoxicants had
made her H. and she was taken TO
the Wayside hospital.
Belle Collins and Ellen Miller
were also "pinohed" for drunken
ness and put up $40 bail.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1905-10-24
FIRE IN HOTEL

The Western hotel. log Washing
ton. narrowly escaped destruction
by fire on Tuesday afternoon when
an alcohol lamp In Room 9. oceu-
pied by Miss r. NJ Hill. was over
turned. setting fire 10 the carpet
and other furnishing in the apart
ment The fire department soon
had the flames under control. The
room was Quilted.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1905-10-24

HONOLULU. Oct. 24-The ship
Ernest Reyer, from Newcastle, is on
Diamond reef' with a good change
Of floating.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1905-10-24

4 VALLEJO. Cal, Oct. a.
4 The Russian cruiser Lena. in ,
4 termed at Mare Island for 13
4 months. leaves az noon on /,
4 Thursday. where she viii coal
4 and try TO get away on Sunday. !
h En- route 10 Vladivostok she
will make fast trip and hopes !
4 TO reach that port before the ,
h ice forms.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1905-10-24

Jos p FAVNAo AN AssVRlAN PEpoLER. IN JEALOUS
SHOT LoTrlE NoHoLEs. WIDOW, WHO
MARRY HIM
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1905-10-24

MOSCOW. Oct 2i.--strikers dam
aged eosduits today ana some por-
TONS OF the city Is without water.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1905-10-24

VALLEJO. Cal. Oct. 2f.-Judge
Gear. counsel for Commander
Young. of the bennington. was be-
fore the court-martial board at
Mare Island all morning. summing
up the evidence and will likely con-
elude late tits afternoon. He as
serted that no evidence 10 show that
Commander Young had neglected
his duty had been introduced.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1905-10-24
Sensational Escape of Boy
Who Swears to XIII Father


"In xiii my father sight"
-Irs a case Of one Eoingir
PATRoI.MAN CAMERON.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1905-10-24

vou wit FIND WHAT YOU WANT TO KNOW
1sRsELY TOLD EVERY DAY IN TIE STAR
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1905-10-24

The Pioneer One Cent
Paper of the Northwest
Los Angeles herald., 1905-02-26

tion, are more than valuable in esta blish-
ing habits which will tell in after life.
There are a few hints and cautions
which cannot be impressed too strongly
upon the would-be feneer, and these must
be borne in mind and constantly observed
if she would excel in the use Of the foils.
The first Isl Never lose your temper.
No matter what your adversary may do,
keep your temper, and smile IL you can.
Keep your eye upon your opponents
right hand and arm rather than on the
tip of her 20. The arm will indicate the
direction of the next move fraction of
a second or two before it is taken, and
you will then be able TO meet 1t.
Always play 10 win, whether you are
acting on the offensive or the defensive,
and play up TO the best you know aud TO
the best that is In you.
Be sure that the button Is firmly fixed
On the tip Of the foils. and try the button
every time there 10 breathing spell In
the bout An unprotected point may do
inealeulable damage.
Pay attention to your shoes, aud see
that they are not worn 50 smooth in the
Los Angeles herald., 1905-02-26
THE FENCING
GIRLS REWARD

For any girl and all girls the folls of
fer a way to physical and mental deVel-
oprnent second to none. The girl who IS
slow in her movements. slow to arrive at
conclusions, nervous and unsettled, given
10 jumping at every sound. and on the
lookout for trouble all the time, just put
a foil in her hand, place her before her
opponent, and after the first few lessons
she will begin to wake up, her step will
quicken, her perceptions brighten, and
you will hear her say: "Oh, yes, see,
In a bright and interested way ten times
after for once she has said it before.
OF course, II is not all Of II so easy as
It looks. Like all other things worth
while, things that tend to develop ones
mental and physical attributes fencing
calls for an earnest and undivided atten.
ton. q dogged determination to succeed
and a patience and perseverance in prac-
tice which cannot help but develop and
Improve the general character. Like all
other high class sports. fencing has an
educational value. And the lessons Of
Eelf-restraint and self-eommand, instant
thought. followed BY instantaneous ac'
Los Angeles herald., 1905-02-26

solely, and not to move the elbow or arm.
This will prove decidedly firing for the
first few days; but it must be persevered
in. The tired and aching muscles may
be massaged with little sweet oil after
the lesson.
Now begins the duet, or the duel les
son.
First comes the salute. with the foils,
for fencing is polite accomplishment.
Standing in correct position, with the
heels pointing slightly toward each other,
and the toes pointing outward at about
an agile of 40 degrees, the foil is first
raised straight up, touching the fore
head, and then both foils are clashed,
crossing each other at about the level OF
the face. simultaneously both fencers
warn the other ZEN gardew That is, be
on your guard; the game commences.
Now begins the thrust and the parry;
and those two must usually be taught
simultaneously, although they may each
be praeticed separately. The aim of the
one who takes the offensive or attacking
side is to make the point OF her foil touch
the breast pad of the other, preferably in
the region of the heart When she sue
ceeds she cries ''rouehep that Is,
touched. The aim of the one who takes
the defensive part Is to guard against
being touched, and at the same time try
to touch the other herself.
There is recognized series OF moves
which ara usually gone through seriatim
Los Angeles herald., 1905-02-26

ticed, but the girl who intends eventually
to fence exhibition bouts would better ac-
custom Herself to the regulation foil from
the start.
First, the question of correct carriage.
If the fencer does not stand correctly
she can never hope to gain any benefit
whatsoever from the sport. Her thrusts,
lunges and parties will be miracles of
awkwardness instead of miracles Of
grace, and she will develop a slouchy
style that is the reverse of attractive.
Shoulders down" should be the slo-
gan of the girl who would stand with
grace. Our grandmothers were told to
throw the shoulders back, and so earnest
were they in following this direction that
they often stood so straight that they
bent over backward, to use phrase that
used to be current in the last century.
This threw the abdomen all out Of posi-
tion, and led to the so-called high stom-
ach-really a protruding abdomen, which
characterized the last generation.
shoulders down and chest high" will
inevitably hold the abdomen In place.
and give pliancy to the body that will
make for grace in every posture.
Now grasp the foil with loose and
yet a firm hold. Loose enough not to
cramp the fingers, and yet firm enough
so that 1t will not fly from the hand at
the first movement Make the point Of
the foil describe circle, being careful
to make the movement with the wrist
Los Angeles herald., 1905-02-26

sole that they are likely to slip. Men
who fence habitually prefer spiked shoes,
but a pair Of heeless shoes, with CORFU
gated rubber soles, will serve very well
indeed for the girl fencer. A slip when
fencing is dangerous in the extreme, and
no amount of caution is too great or too
much trouble to take to avoid such eatas-
trophe.
The mask. the foils, the chest pad and
the gaunteted glove, this latter to protect
the wrist from any possibility of being
prlcked, there being several large veins
and arteries in the hand and wrist which
would bleed freely upon even slight
prick with the point Of a foil, can be
purchased at any sporting goods store.
The chest pad is best made of leather
and thickly padded.
The length and weight of the foil must
be determined by individual preference;
but safe guide is TO take foil that
will touch the floor when held with the
hand on level with the waist line.
The basket foils are often selected for
beginners, especially when only the wrist,
hand and arm movements are being prac-
Los Angeles herald., 1905-02-26

by the pupil; but in combat they are used
in any sequence which the style Of play
may suggest. The thrust is delivered in
varying ways, and each thrust has its
own particular parry. Thus there is the
thrust in tierce, in quatre-the third and
the fourth positions respectively--and
these are parried according TO rule.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-02-26

One of the simplest and most effective
parties is done with the defensive foil
suddenly turned downward on the oppos-
ing blade, thus beating down the attack.
Unless the opposing foil is grasped firm
~ and correctly this will disarm your
adversary, and this should be practiced
often.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-06
Booker Washington's Eulogy of Lee.

In his address at the Virginia day exer-
cises at Hampton (Va-) Institute recent-
ly Booker T. Washington paid a high
tribute to Gen. Fitzhugh Lee. He said:
The black citizens Of Virginia and Of
the south do not forget that at this hour
one of the noblest and one of the most
generous of Virginias sons has recently
been taken away by death. Gen. Fftzhugh
Lee was a type Of the southern man who
was generous and just to the negro and
in whom my race had the greatest faith.
We hope that the future generation will
produce scores of other Virginians of his
kind. In proportion as such men are pro-
duced, in the same proportion will peace
and good will be maintained between the
races"
He also appealed for more frequent con-
ferences between leading white men and
negroes, declaring that it was largely
through such cooperation that apublic
sentiment had been created within the
last six months which has nearly blotted
out the crime of lynching. 1t is matter
of the greatest encouragement that where
as in 1904 there were 205 lynchings in the
south, during the past six months there
have been only thirteen. In November
there was not single one. and not one re-
corded for the month Of April.
Dr. John Graham Brooks of Harvard
University also spoke.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-06
The Daily Vision of Wonder.
ART NOTES

An extraordinarily interesting collection
of students work from the Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts was placed on
exhibition today in the hemicycle of the
Corcoran Gallery. 1t is the same which
was shown at the st. Louis exposition, and
II covers, in time, period of six or eight
seasons 1t is distinctly a school exhibit
ton and yet II is very different from the
usual students show. Each exhibit bears
on It's frame a label designating in what
class IL was executed and under whose di-
rection. but none is signed. and credit or
discredit thus rebounds to the teacher rath-
er than to the student Some are undoubt-
edly by men and women who have by now
arrived" others by those well toward
their destination, and all by persons of
mare than common ability. 1t is, however.
primarily an exposition of methodist prac-
tical demons tration of the way painters
are made" in one of the largest and most
Justly famous schools of art in this country.
Entering the hemicycle one is directly i'm
pressed by the apparent absence of aca-
demic work. There are. to be sure, drawings
from the antique and from life, paintings
of still life and portrait studies, but even
these are not of the stereotyped order, and
the work of the composition class Is as
unique as It Is delightful. This last is dis
tinctly the feature OF the exhibition. 1t
has been done under the direction of Mr..
Henry ]. Thouron and Mr.. Henry r. Poore,
and ii is extremely praiseworthy. Lining
almost completely the gallery's semi-cir-
cular wall are pictures, painted in oils am
bilious in subject. striking in effect. which
are the output of this class. Unfortunately
their titles are not given. but in most cases
they speak for themselves. Here is a val
iant little tug with a small boat in tow
breasting heavy sea; to the right is a
scene in a flower market and to the left
an elaborate scheme for a mural decoration.
A little beyond is realistic picture of a
brick house In the poor quarter of city
from which some ones household goods are
being elected. There are circus scenes,
glimpses OF the crowded thoroughfares
tragedies, mirth, pathos, toll and pleasure
al vSr.orsly r'ctured-srggcsted in a mas
terly fashion not told in detail. The work
is moderate and conservative; the extreme
mannerism OF the so-called impression
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-06

They wiggle painfully up tiny elevations
that are flights of stairs leading to elevated
railroad stations They dive into bits OF
burrows that look scarcely big enough for
ants and are really subway entrances.
The Dream Of a Mad Poet.
And ali this weirdly funny panorama Is
set Id a scene of such wild beauty that 1t,
too, seems indeed to belong to a planet
other than the earth. Set pike on pile
mass on mass, frontier on frontier the I'M
counted tons of marble and granite and
metal uprear themselves like the dream Of
a mad poet.
A man must have something of the poet
In him to see this city of New York as 1t
really is. Without that he will see only
what his too we'll broken brain tells him 1t
is Yonder slender Assyrlan torches. stand
ing a hundred feet high and spouting curl
ing white smoke across the facade
of an ivory temple hung giddily between
heaven and earth, are only two iron steam
pipes to the work-a-day brain. The ivory
temple is the granite superstructure on a
life insurance building, full of actuar.es and
ledgers and mortality statistics instead of
curled high priests.
italian Palace on a Golden Cliff.
Northward the eye, If 1t is left alone, will
see a snowy Italian palace standing on the
very brink of three hundred foot cliff of
golden yellow rock. Pale and perfect 1t
juts in dainty, sharp outline against a pure
Venetian sky. "Ah yes" says the meddle-
some brain, that is the addition that is go
ing up on the So and So Trust building"
So it is and so it isn't 1t Just depends on
whether a man looks at his New York right
or wrong.
How many, or how few, look at It Alright?
Whoever tries to grasp this monster of a
pile in his vision realizes all at once that
looking is not seeing.
tits hard to see New York from height
or surface Even the camera staggers and
suuints helplessly. AS soon as it tries to
catch more than a circumscribed spot of
our Babylon in it's bright eye 1t ruins all its
reputation for truthfulnesS.
Swing it out over the cliff edge of a sky
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lists is not evident, but the canvases them
selves are literally no more nor less than
impressions. They convey adequately the
purpose of the painter, but they go farther.
At a distance they tell their story, but at
close range they become meaningless mass
es of color. No one shows any finish. few
exhibit conscious construction, and yet al
most all are vigorous, significant and true.
Some even are powerful and impressive.
Notably one of Polish funeral procession
In which heavy color Is used and a big,
solemn feeling made to pervade the canvas.
In action many are fine There is one of
some women hanging out clothes a
windy day which is marvelously breezy,
and another of an accident Detailing a
stage1team on descent which Is strikingly
vigorous in action. And yet, according to
tradition. this is method which would
take the student up by the roof rather than
into the door of art. 1t is. according to
the sages. beginning at the wrong end. 1t
Is teaching the students to put down what
they think rather than what they see. But
Is 1t wrong? Great art lies not in repro
ducing what one sees-the camera can do
that-but in registering a thought or a
feelng-it Is not the work of q copyist
but of an interpreter. To attain a height.
therefore, one must learn how to find indi-
Vldual expression. To make picture one
must learn detailed facts and forget them.
He must grasp his subject as a whole and
be able to subordinate detail to the CEN
trail thought. And 1t is this that the stu
dents of the Pennsylvania Academy seem
ingly have done. They have gone through
the drudgery of elementary study, have edu-
Gated their hands and their eyes, and in
the construction of these compositions are
finding themselves. They have learned the
a, b, c's OF art, but they have still to learn
the X, Y, rs. In other words. such work
without preparatory study would be I'M
profitable. II not impossible and as a final
ty would be without value AS IL is how
ever. 1t is interesting and charming. II
shows strong individuality: 1t cultivates
originality and a pictorial sense. and II
broadens the mental vision. Many will find
1t attractive and all thought provoking.
The still life class. under the tutelage OF
VIM. NJ Chase, also makes an admirable
showing and is of special interest. In the
ca nvases placed to its credit the plainness
of the subjects and the direct manner OF
treatment are particularly worthy of note
Curiously enough, in every instance they
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-06
Seen Daily From Upper
Windows of Skyscrapers.
AN AMERICAN BABYLON
TRICKS THAT THE BRAIN PLAYS
ON THE EYE.
By the Exercise of Imagination Mar
velous Illusions Present Themselves
What the Camera Shows.
Written for The Star.

Going mountain climbing, Ell? BY Jove.
l envy you. I'd just like to get up above
the earth Il bit myself and get a horizon
Well. goodbye. and good luck / get out
here"
The speaker popped out of the passenger
carrying rocker that they call an express
elevator in New York. popped into his office
on the twenty-eighth floor, and sat down
at his desk behind a thick crystal wall,
through which he looked over three bays,
three tidal rivers, one roaring strait, seven
islands, four boroughs of the five that make
the metropolis of New York, four other big
cities and more than twelve towns, nine
counties and two states.
Constant contemplation had made him
obliv.ous to the eagle sweep of vision that
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-06
atchins a scene that is yet to bef

catching a scene that Is yet to bef
There are other curious things besides
tricks of the camera to learn when one
tries to photograph New York either from
a height looking down or from below look
ing up. Gaze toward the top of a sky
scraper, and high up you will see little
figures standing along the roof. They seem
few feet high. If one were pressed for
an estimate, he might guess that their size
is four feet or so. Climb out on the roof
and the shoulder and arm of the bronze
!. monsters suffice to shut out whole fed
eral post Office, once considered an almost
stupendous building.
Little caves and lodges that seem just
big enough to afford perching places for
swallows, when viewed from the street,
turn out to be wide paved aerial courts
large enough to furnish safe promenade
for half hundred people. Round w.n-
dows that look like ships port holes from
below prove to have sills two feet wide and
half a ton of glass In them.
Does the Eye See Straight
Looking up at one of these up-thrusting
! giants, the eye sees building standing stir
| and straight, aspiring toward the sky as
| true and fair as plumbline and level can
| make it. But is that what the eye really
| would see If the meddling brain were not
| behind it to prompt and mislead it?
| The camera pointed toward the noun
| tain top of roof from the street does not
what really should be there, according to
the rules of perspective thin, slanting
converging mass, leaning away from the
behoder. If a human eye saw 1t that
way how the owner would scurry to find
an oculist or a brain specialist! Yet the
truth is that only such an eye would be
seeing the thing right All others have
been lied to by the brain till they have
lost all power of independent conception.
Architectural engineers say that sky
scraper is only a bridge standing on end
The camera proves the truth of 1t. Here is
a photograph of of the towers of the
new Williamsburg suspension bridge over
the East river 1t is made of open steel
work. practically skyscraper without the
floors or the stone skin. Look up at 1t
with the eye, and the meddling brain per-
sists in repeating SO nsistently that this
is a perpendicular steel structure that the
poor eye cannot see the resemblance to
bridge at all But point the camera up
right toward the top and 10! there Is your
bridge plain can be!
Tragedy and Comedy Swim By.
The workers IN the skyscrapers cannot
glance through the windows at any minute
without seeing tragedy or comedy Of life.
One moment they may look downward into
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-06
Betty Warden, a Song.

Written for The Star by G.. n. Doing.
Sweet Betty Warden, must the sun
Go down tonight upon your wrath?
VIII that cold frown upon your brow
Forever shroud my lonely path7
Can roses bloom and wild birds sing
While that Clark cloud obscures my skies7
While loves sweet hopes lie whitening
And tears unshed bedim mine eyes7
Sweet Betty Warden, natures smile
Has warmed the earth to springtime bloom.
viii not your own my heart beguile,
Dispelling all Its wintry gloomf
Let your sweet lips breathe one kind word,
One smile to cure my sorrowing;
Then hope as buoyant 40 q bird
Would heavenward rise on ishtest wing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-06

, the street, and in the shadow OF the pile
that shelters them they will catch glimpse
of a swarm gathering like buzzing gnats
on summers evening. Presently black
wagon rushes to the spot. Something MI
mute and unshapely is lifted in. Off goes
the ambulance with its load Of agony-and
the watchers in the skyscrapers have looked
down on a bit of human largely from
place as far aloof from all nearer knowl-
edge as II they were the gods gazing down
from high Olympus
On the glowing band Of the river a ferry
boat, heeling heavily, swings perilously fast
with the tide. Suddenly tugboat appears
from behind a steamship, hurts herself at
the heeling craft, and in cloud of ghostly
steam the two, locked in a fatal hug, drift
out and are hidden by the outflung cornice
Of another skyscraper. The watcher in the
heights turns to his work ae, n. In the
river q hundred may be fighting for their
lives.
A fire engine, beautiful golden toy, rum
bles like plaything under his eye. For all
he knows, 1t may be bound for a fire in his
own structure. The people of the sky
scrapers are hardened to the thought. They
have long since ceased to wonder what the
diminutive toys could do If their sky par
Tors were wreathed In fire.
They listen for moment; a faint faint
sound of the engines rumble passes, telling
them that the peril is not theirs. In the
next block others in high places may be
cut off at that moment. The calm unSee-
| ing gods of the skyscrapers Ore not moved
| by the thought.
| Unseeing, unheeding, apart and indiffer-
| ent, they sit on their crags until 1t is time
| to descend and become again part of the
human life below