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to the library's valuoble books and prints.
The course OF study is conducted by the
members themselves, and each in turn as
sumes the charge of single meeting. The
encouraging symptom Indicative of an in
creasing, intelligent interest in the signif-
canoe and welfare Of art.
x
The use which is made of the art reading
room at the Library of Congress is con-
stantly growing. brief given period this
year placed against the same time last year
shows an increase of about six hundred In
the number of readers. On Washlngton's
birthday the records show fifty readers, and
on last Sunday afternoon eighty-five. Many
visitors from out of town have asked OF late
to see the great book of jades. and while
attracted to 1t undou btedly on account of its
published value and rarity, have examined
It's pages carefully and carried away some
thing more helpful than q memory of its
weight. cost and dimensions. The exhibits
recently put on view have also attracted
more than common attention. The Sunday
after the Noyes collection of Japanese
prints, books, ETC., was made accessible to
the public there was record breaking at
tendance, and the interest then displayed
seems to have been continued. And so with
the rare engravings, which seem to belong
more truly to the scholastic side of art, and
which would presumably make to the gen.
eral public less direct appeal They are
carefully examined by the casual visitor,
and diligently sought out by students This
goes to show, In measure, not only the
place that the Library of Congress has
taken In the community and the effective
ness OF the work undertaken by its print
division. but also that the general public Is
not altogether uninterested In art nor to-
tally unappreciative.
The first OF series of lectures planned
by the Washington Architectural Club and
the Washington Chapter OF the American
Institute of Architects, for the purpose of
interesting the general public in the subject
Of architecture. was given last Saturday
evening at Hubbard Memorial Hall by Prof
A. u. F. Hamlin of Columbia University,
New York. Architecture. he said, was the
art of building beautifully, and through 1t
he traced the history of nations. Stereop-
icon pictures were used as illustrations.
and after few words of general introduce
ton many fine photographs were passed In
review. There were excellent examples of
the Egyptain, Assyrian, Greek and Roman
buildings, and OF the classic, Romanesque,
Gothic and Renaissance styles The dis
tinctions were simply pointed out, and the
merits Of each briefly Indicated Few tech-
meal terms were used. and yet much infor-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-03
IN The ERIE BASIN
Where the Canal Boatmep
Spend the Winter.
THEY LIKE THE METROPOLIS
Because Their Children May Attend
Good Schools.
CHANCE FOR SOCIAL LIFE
Scenes Witnessed on the Acres OF
Boats Tied Up on the Water Front
Of South Brooklyn.
Written for The Star

Written for The Star
The colony of canalers In the Erie basin
was much smaller early this winter than
1t would have been had the average level
OF the thermometer been lower by a few
degrees, but still between 300 and $50 boats
were tied up there before February /, be-
sides fifty or 100 tied up elsewhere in the
harbor. Since then more boats have tied
UP and several hundreds of men, women
and children-perhaps more than a thou
sand-are passing the closed season in New
York as usual.
Where Is the Erie basin2 Away down In
South Brooklyn. 1t forms a part Of the
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wealthy East India merchant Of Boston and
former president of the A. T. q s. r. R. T.,
who was minister to France under Harrt-
son and later member of the joint high
commission. Besides William Phillips. alsu
OF Massachusetts,. the second secretary.
there are at the legation two Chinese Sec
retaries and two student Interpreters. Lieut..
Frank Marble, u. 8. N. Is now accredited
to the legation as naval attache and Capt.
Henry Leonard OF the Marine Corps, az
military attache. Capt. Leonard will be
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railroad was spiked down some seventy
years ago.
AT all events. the relative importance of
canaling as q business began to go down
from that time. and today the best friends
OF canal transportation in the United
States shake their heads and admit that the
railroads have practically won the fight.
It isn't altogether so In Canada. where
the canals are still prosperous; II isn't SO
in some European countries-France. Tor in
stance. where the canals are still most inn
portant factor. They have already begun to
spend more than a hundred million dollars
In the state of New York to widen and deep
en- the old Erie canal so as to put ii in con-
ditfon 10 compete, but there are really very
few who feel certain that the barge canal
of the future will be much larger factor
IN the transportation problem than the canal
OF the present has for the last few years.
With the Boatmen In Erie Basin.
That is the opinion of most of the boat
men wiutering in the Erie basin, though
here and there an enthusiast among them
may be found who holds a much more
roseate view.
Some of them even say that canaling I'M
der present conditions isn't half as bad,
and are able to show wealth totaling up
into very respectable figures to prove that
they are right. They will tell you of
Captain So-and-Se who retired two or three
years ago worth $4,000; of Captain This
and-That, who owns six boats and makes
each of them earn a good net dividend ev-
cry year on its original cost of $4,000 to
$500 besides supporting the owner and
his family. They will tell you that much
of the decay of canaling as business has
come from fright and sheer lack of nerve.
Its this way" said one of them to
the writer, recently: There have been
bad years as well as good years on the
canal same as in everything else, but we've
averaged as well as the folk In most BUSH
nesses requiring no more capital than we
do. All the same. though we canalers
have been scared out of our boots by the
railroads for good many years, and
mighty few of us have had the nerve, when
a boat has worn out, to replace 1t with a
new one. i have six boats, two of them
nearly new, but thousands of canalers have
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Harmonious

The CaiIer-.Your art gallery is treat
This picture especially is delightful: the
values are so well balanced
Mr. Porkham-'.Thatss right Frame 500.
picture same price"
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to you. but hon't mind If you do laugh:
you wouldn't u you knew more about ca
mailing
Most canalers have families Their
wives and children live on the boats with
them. and OF course the children have to go
20 school. There are hundreds OF canal
children IN the Brooklyn schools every win
ter. and some of them take the prizes too
let me tell you. The canal captains Wife
the mother OF his children is a good aver
age middie-class American woman. and
she likes to have neighbors OF her own
sort
Here she can have them every winter
IN any OF the smaller cities she might have
half dozen. maybe a dozen: in the canal
villages two. or three or none al an ana
she mightn't get along with them very
we'll SHE naturally doesn't mix much with
me women on shore; neither side is agree
able OF course. Here there are hundreds
OF women. and out of the hundreds sho
can easily find number OF Just her sort
Il should say that life is the same I'm
principle among Us canalers as ID is among
other folks. We naturally divide ,lp into
cfiques and sets-secial sets / s3lrposs yn,,
would call then-on the canal. the same az
you folks do on shore My wife has her
special friends among the women living ON
boats in the basin this winter and they
have their tea fights and other parties Of
one kind and another as regularly as any
either women.
Winter Life on the Boats.
You wouldn't think there'd be room on
q eanalboat for anything Of the sort?
OF course you wouldn't. for our living
quarters are a great deal smaller and moro
crowded than yours. even II YOU do live In
a little Harlem fiat. Our big cabin Is only
twelve feet square; rs our living ROOM
Our kitchen is just big enough for a range
and bed room. just kind of recess. you
know. But we get along all right We
have three children, so there are five OF
US. The two little girls sleep on a couch
In the cabin; there's a regular steamer
berth built into the wall OF the living room
for the oldest girl, and then there's the bed
room. Besides, there are two hunks In the
forward part OF the boat. used by the help
In the busy season, and when our grown
son comes homo and stays all night he
sleeps In one OF them.
Hes a high school graduate he's been
to business college. too. and he has a job
as bookkeeper in Jersey City He's
quite an athlete; used to go to the Y. NJ.
G. A. gymnasium regular. ia Brooklyn. win
tiers, when he lived home. for we've win
tered here every year but one for a long
time. That year the canal froze up early,
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Gates among the painters-distinctly a gal
lery picture and a very desirable acquisition.
Mr. Albert H. Chaffee of Worcester,
Mass. held an exhibition of photographs
and water colors at the Shoreham the early
part of this week. The work displayed in.
cluded reproductions of many famous, old
world paintings and views of important
buildings in Italy. Sicily and Switzerland.
1t was data Of peculiar value to art stu
dents and on The educational side found its
chief value. Mr.. Chaffee is undoubtedly
keenly interested in art and sincerely ap-
preciative, and he has brought both en-
thusiasm end skill to bear upon his work.
His photographs are of an unusual order
not the ordinary guide book kind-and in
terpret tho works of the master painters
and builders with much truth and SYM
pathy. In 1899 he went abroad especially
to photograph RophaePs Hours" and
through strong letters of introduction was
accorded both In Rome and elsewhere un-
common privileges. In some instances in
order to enhance their veracity Mr.. Chaffee
has cclored his photographs, but the orig
fnal prints are SO satisfactory that this adj
ditional decoration cannot be counted as
gain. Mrs. Chafee who accompanied her
husband and assisted him with his exhibit
ton, Is q lecturer upon art, conducting
CLASSES in several of the schools and coll
leges in the New England cities which are
within short radius of her home On
Saturday afternoon she gave at the Shore
ham an Interpretation ~of group or.
Raphael's paintings, and on Wednesday
and Thursday evenings she addressed the
Wednesday Club. For the benefit of her
students and the public at large Mrs Chat
fee has issued In pamphlet form series OF
six topic books giving outlines and refer
ences for the study of the history of art.
The one on the art of America is specially
interesting, and while far from complete
shows careful compilation and gives valua-
BILE references to unca talogued articles
which have appeared during the past
twenty-five years in American and English
magazines.
A word might be said right here OF the
Wednesday Club which Mr.. and Mrs
Chaffee's visit has in measure brought to
light. 1t is an organization boasting about
twenty members and a sincere interest in
art. For about year 1t has been meeting
on alternate Wednesday afternoons at the
Library of Congress in a private room,
placed at Its disposal, as a special privf-
lege. by the librarian, in recognition or
earnest and studious purpose. Architecture
has been made the special subject of study
this winter, and free resort has been made
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remembered as one of the heroes of the
siege of Picking during the Boxer troubles.
JOHN ELFRETH WATKINS.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1906-09-05
PUBLIC SCHOOLS OPEN.

The schools of this city opened
last Monday with the following as
signment Of instructors:
w. ]. Mosher superintendent,
Jessie Short principal of high school,
Artie Skoog Latin. Mary Feeley
German, Lena Keller eighth grade,
Mrs. Della Pratt assistant in eighth
and seventh, Miss B. Steff1en sew
enth, Anna Plapp sixth. Edna Nc
Ardle fifth, Clara Keinholz fourth,
Edna Westfall third, Margaret Lar
kin I'd, Anna Willard second prima-
ry, Frances Everett first primary.
The manual training and science
positionI remains untitled. Former
Supt. A. J. Jones, who is here on
his vacation, will teach the high
school science work for two weeks.
The enrolment will be large.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1906-09-05

costumes, RUDE appearance being
one of the designs rugged up by
Manager Lauterbach.
In view of the sharp contests for
the Redwood county sweepstakes
premiums for blooded cattle it is an
ticipated that every one of the four
classes in division B will be filled.
and that first and second premiums
will be carried off in every instance.
The pens will be located on the
vacant lots at the corner of Mill
and Second streets, and will be ar
ranged in the most approved man
ner.
The street Examinations are going
to be the finest ever. They will be
electrical in effect. Chairman Grapp
o: that committee has just returned
from Waseca, where he got some
iieas, and the result is that there
will be four or five electric arches
on Second, Washington, Third and
Mill streets, and these arches will
have colored incandescent lights for
the night illumination. The sockets
and lamps have been ordered and
the work of constructing the arches
will commence in a short time. In
addition the arch on the corner of
Second and Washington, built last
year, will be reset, and in addition
will be strung with a myriad of
electric lights. The night illumina-
ton will be show in itself.
Secretary Gales has been busy
during the past two weeks in get
ting the ladies of the city enthused
over a proposed floral parade. and
now practically every lady in the
town is interested, and the prospects
for a monstrous floral parade on the
third day of the fair could not be
better. Carriages and vehicles of
other kinds, have been engaged, and
styles and forms of decorations are
being designed by groups of ladies,
each of whom propose to make the
best showing in the ride about town.
In order to make this the more
perfect the agricultural society has
authorized a queen of the parade.
The queen will be selected by popu-
lar vote. The voting will be per-
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1906-09-05

mitted up to o'clock on the after
noon of the second day, and every
person in the state will be given
permission to register their choice
at the price of only one cent per vote.
In this contest it is hoped that every
township and village will have a
young lady entered and the people
of Redwood Falls pledge to give
them all fair portion of the votes
from this city. The queen of the
parade will receive a valuable me-
mento of the occasion probably a
diamond ring, while the two ladies
receiving the next highest votes will
be given maids of honor stations,
with suitable prizes. A special
vehicle will be decorated for the
queen and her maids. Get busy,
girls, and get the boys to register
their preferences early.
President Aune was instructed to
engage the Thompson building, just
vacated by E. A. Pease for the
poultry, farm produce, dairy and
horticulture exhibits. The culinary,
domestic, plants and flowers and art
work departments will be at the
court house. The cattle exhibits
will be as mentioned above, while
the horses, swine and sheep stations
will be announced later.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1906-09-05
SHOT WHILE HUNTING
Arthur Gibbs Receives Fatal Injuries
While Hunting in Company
With His Father.
His Widow a Bride of Last May, and
a Graduate from Redwood
High School.

A peculiarly sad accident occurred
near Echo last Saturday, which re-
suited in the untimely death of
Arthur Gibbs of the town of Posen,
Yellow Medicine county.
Young Gibbs was hunting ducks
in company with his father and the
hired man, the party taking along
blanket and crouching low in the
high grass surrounding the slough,
to avoid arousing the birds. The
younger Gibbs was in front of his
father and called out to him, "You
shoot first, father" and in response
Mr.. Gibbs senior ranged his gun at
the passing birds and fired, immedi-
ately afterwards being Mortified to
discover that his son had risen from
his low position at the moment the
gun was discharged, and that the
result was almost instant death for
the son, the shot penetrating the
brain and removing the upper part
of the scalp. No charge of negli-
gence is due, the accident arising
from one Of those mysterious coin
cidences which are the occasional
experiences of human life. The
elder Gibbs is entitled to general
sympathy with his unfortunate con-
nection with the fatality.
News of the tragedy reached here
next morning, and Fay Shaver,
brother of the widowed Mrs. Gibbs,
drove with his mother to the Gibbs
homestead near Echo. The funeral
was held on Monday, DIR. Givler of
this city, who united Helen Shaver
and Arthur Gibbs In marriage last
May, officiating.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1906-09-05
MINE HOST KAHLER.
Takes Possession of Hotel Fountain and
is Now Catering to Public.

Henry Kahler came down from
Browns Valley on Monday morning
of last week and in the two or three
days that followed all necessary ar
engagements were made with Joseph
Fountain for the transfer of Hotel
Fountain to Mr.. Kahler. The latter
remained here and took formal pos
session of the hotel property on Sat-
urday, Sept. LIST. Mrs. Kahler came
down from Browns Valley on Thurs
day, and was extremely pleased to
get back to Redwood Falls, the
place where she has always been
DESTROYS of spending her declining
years.
Mr.. Kahler will keep the hotel
property up to the standard set by
Mr.. Fountain, and will probably
make some improvements from time
to time, according to his idea of
conducting the hostelry. He, like
the various sons which he has in the
hotel business at other points, and
all of whom he drilled into the bust
nsss of catering to the travelling and
boarding public, is extremely popu-
lar, and will undoubtedly be able to
see success from the start to the
finish.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fountain are not
certain as to what they will do in
the future. They have carried on a
very successful business here and
probably will leave with over 81, 900
as money made in the venture. MIR.
Fountain would like to return to
Montevideo and get control of the
Riverside, the popular hotel at that
place, and it is possible that he will
realize his ambition. Both Mr.. and
Mrs. Fountain are experienced hotel
people who can easily continue their
success in the hotel world.
Messrs. Quarton & Barnes, o. l..
Dornberg and a third party, who
does not desire his name made pub
lie, conducted the negotiations that
brought about the transfer, and all
of the parties interested seemed to-.
be satisfied with the transfer.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1906-09-05

charge the arrangements for the
county fair to be held in Redwood
Falls Sept. 26th, 9th, and 18th, was
held at the First National bank last
Friday evening, and the directors
were pleased with the reports of
progress made all along the line.
The free attractions have all been
signed up and it is probable that
several more than those now on the
list will be scheduled before the fair
is opened. The Redwood band will
furnish music thruout the three
days, and will appear in different
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1906-09-05
BIG FLORAL PARADE
aides of the City Will Make Showing
on the Last Day of the
County Fair.
lueen of the Parade to be Selected by
Popular VOte-GirIs Should
Get Busy.

A meeting of the chairman of
he different committees having in
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sQuisstivos. Lus e.scsricA, y banos.
san JuIto 81. al lAdo de La Ma
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y muchos grabados magnifcus
y laminas en- dolores.
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.odo aquel que 10 lea pucda cola.
prenderlc. POI medic do este librc
interesantc Sc han salvado muuhas
vldss, y salvara ain muchas mhs
por muy cercanas Cue sc hailcn re
10 sepultara.
Este es un tratadito en- cl cual AZ
'escriben todas las enfermedsdes
que atacan al sistcma humane y los
medios de curarlas.
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para los Hispano.Americanos d
mas bien para ls raga Espnhols
pOr OK Professor L. G, COLLINS,
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lemora, pues ha sido tai ls acogids
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