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has been interested in, say, display Of
selected Japanese prints in one of the
exhibition galleries he may, by going
down stairs, discover with the as
sistance of a trained curator very
large collection of other prints of the
same character, kept in portfolios and
readily brought out for consultation.
On the lower floor, too, are the offices
of administration of the museum
1t is planned eventually to have on
the same lot, which comprises twelve
acres, a hall or "basilica' for the dis
play of casts, and a building for the
school of drawing, painting and sculp-
ture connected with the museum.
These structures will be connected with
the main building by covered passage
ways.
The installation upon which work has
already been started embraces only a
portion Of the central museum. This
will normally be finished by the sum-
mer of 1909 When the complete de-
sign will have been executed it is too
early to predict. The first obstruction,
at all events has been so planned that
it embodies all the principles which
will be illustrated in the whole group.
The building into which the collections
will be moved two years hence will
have a total floor area of 177,319 feet as
against 74,334 feet in the present build
ing in Copley square. The length of
the elevation on Huntington avenue
will be sol feet. The projecting pavil-
ions, each 94x12S feet, will inclose a
forecourt which is 110x234 feet. The
structure will be removed by setback
of about seventy-five feet from the dust
and noise of the avenue. The cost OF
this first installation will be about
81 600 900
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VERY big idea goes with the
II plans of the new Museum of Fine
Arts 4 Boston. These have just
been published. They have been ex-
pected with great interest in this coun-
try and abroad. They are believed by
those who are familiar with the prln-
ciples Of museum construction TO mark
an epoch in the construction OF build
ings designed to shelter art collections.
They are, it Is no exaggeration TO say,
the outcome Of scientific observation
and research such as has never peIore
been expended upon the preservation
and display of art exhibits under con-
ditions favorable to the comfort OIL
visitors.
So that, although the new museum IN
Boston in physical dimensions VIII not
be the largest of its kind, 1t is already'
before a stone of the superstructure
has been laid, one of the most famous.
1t has been planned to be OF impress
sive size 1t will be unique in its pro-
visions for attaining with the means
at hand the maximum of public use
fnInes. 1t will set standard, so mu-
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scum authorities are agreed. Hence
forth there is little likelihood that any
large American museum of art will be
built without reference to the scientific
studies which were made in prepara-
ton for the group of structures which
will soon stand in the Fenway district
of Boston, hard by Mrs. Gardner's
Italian palace and the new Harvard
medical school.
Not for Scholars Alone
1t isn't easy to make art collections
interesting to everybody. To plan a
museum for scholars is comparatively
simple 1t may be arranged very much
like a library. The principal thing is
to have the exhibits we'll catalogued
and accessible. But to build treas
ure house of the fine arts that shall
seem both comfortable and inspiring to
people who will visit it, If at all, main
iy to get the stimulus that comes from
enjoying beautiful things, that appar-
emily simple purpose involves many
technical difficulties. The deadly "mu-
scum fatigue" the sense of bewilder-
ment that is due to looking at too
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many objects, must above all else be
avoided.
In endeavoring to create galleries
suitable for the accommodation of its
crowds of visitors from every part OF
the United States, the management or
the Boston Museum of Fine Arts has
recognized that there is a new science,
one known as "musaeology." The era
in which museums of art, natural his
tory or other subjects were erected in
a haphazard way has about passed in
Europe and in this country. new
conception Of the museum OF arts has
arisen among experts. They are inter-
ested less in a monumental front than
in a logical exterior, with well propor-
toned and well lighted galleries
through which large crowds of visitors
can circulate comfortably.
Collections Divided
Nowhere has their general idea been
expressed until now it is ahou to be
expressed in an American city. One
of the ideas of the musaeologists is that
the collections shall be divided so that
not all the collections shall be shown
to the general public at any one time,
althougN all are available to anybody
who wishes to consult them. That in
Wives dividing the galleries into an
"exhibition series" and a Study
SERIES" Another generally accepted
idea is that the facts of the circulation
of the crowds in public places should be
taken into account.
There is, for example, famous Ger
man museum, which has long series
of "cabin.ts" or small galleries, each
of which is entered by a small door
near the outer wall, exactly opposite
another small door. The circumstance
that it is more natural to walk di-
rectly from door to door instead of
around the room causes the crowd
to surge through these cabinets, hard
ly noticing the treasures on exhibition.
Another idea is that for the sake of the
comfort and enjoyment of the public.
the manner of lighting the museum ex-
hibits should be determined by special
lists. Most museums up to this time
have been designed by architects who
have made no careful study Of the rel
ative value of overhead and side light
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scum a place of popular re-ort. The
front, situated upon Huntington ave-
nue., one of the leading thoroughfares
of traffic in the New England capital, is
intended to be sufficiently monumental
but first and foremost to reveal the
nature of the interior. The architectural
arrangement, with projecting pavilions
and an ornamental forecourt, is such
as naturally to draw the crowd in from
the avenue, much as the great door
way of the modern department store is
designed with a view to making 1t
hard for shopping humanity to slip
past The modern theory is not to
keep precious collections of pictures and
sculptures away from people, but to en-
deavor in every legitimate way to lead
people to become familiar with them.
Inside the Building
Once inside the building tie crowd
will ordinarily ascend an easy stair
case to the main or exhibition floor
the building, like most museums, Will
be two stories high-whence from a
central rotunda any desired depart
ment is easily reached, or circuit is
made of all the collections. The visitor
will find seven main divisions: Chi
nese and Japanese art, cE sical art,
Egyptian art, pictures Qncludlne
DrlnISJ, WSSlSTA dlL NOllACA Si'eNAA PiN
tures), library and photograph collec-
tions and collections of casts.
The main floor will contain what is
known as the exhibition series" In
it's galleries some of the most import
ant exhibits of the museum will be
shown under conditions as favorable as
scientific knowledge and artistic taste
have been able to create. No room will
be overcrowded. The collections fur
thermore on the main floor will fire.
quently be changed, so that the COM
1--unity will not get an impression of
sameneSs.
Study Rooms
On the secondary or lower floor, be-
meath the exhibition rooms C each de-
partment, with which it is connected
by appropriate staircases and elevators,
are rooms set aside for study and for
storage of large collections, all the OBJ
jects of which cannot be kept on view
at once. If the visitor to the museum
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ing in rooms of various proportions,
containing different classes of objects,
or the best method of admitting each
kind of light. Still a fourth funda-
mental idea is that each department of
an art museum should be complete by
itself, so that, for example, one can
visit the rooms devoted to classical art
without going through portions of 9TH
er departments. Another thought car
ried out in some European museums is
that the grounds should be beautitied
with statuary and shrubbery, and that
the interior courts should contain OPP
portunity to rest amidst delightful sur
roundings.
Planned by Experts
To assist in including these and many
other desirable things in the scheme
for a new art museum in Boston a
commission composed of officials of the
museum and architects went abroad
some time ago to study leading Euro
pean museums. Practically every i'm
portant treasure house of wo ks of art
on the continent and in Great Britain
was visited by the commissioners, note
book in hand They inquired into the
size of galleries, whether top-lighted or
side-lighted, into Inc color of back
grounds, the extent and disposition of
doorways, the means for rest and recre-
alton, the heating and ventilation, into
all the constructive problems, in short
Upon their return a report was pre-
pared which gives in detail information
regarding tn arrangement of many
Gums.
The question of lighting the exhibits
was regarded as so important and SO
little investigated either here or abroad
that an odd looking experimental build
ing was erected on the site of the new
museum. In this structure physicists
of the Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology carried on experiments for
many months.
Besides these two principal directions
of study many other Investigations
were made during the long period OF
preliminary preparation for the new
museum. These, at last, have beer
concluded and the plans have now been
made public. They show in every de-
tail clear intention to make the mu-
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Charity of Thought

1t has often been said that sportsmer
are not as a rule very ready with the
pen Yet in the following passage from
The Field how clearly are the salient
facts of the case made to stand out:
"In October last a case was before the
magistrates at Swansea, In which the
defendant, whose dog, it was alleged, had
worried certain sheep, should be kept
under control or destroyed, under the
provisions of the dogs act of 1S71.'-
Punch.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-30
THE ART OF CONVERSATION

Do people so greatly change? Is
sprightly conversation a lost art? Was
there a time when everyone in society
was gifted verbally? One of the chap
ters of the revised edition of Manners
and Social Usages" is devoted to "Soci-
ETY. Small-talk," and contains the OBJ
servation that while there re persons
who gain the reputation of being most
agreeable people, because they can talk
sympathetically to anyone with whom
they are brought into juxtaposition at
dinner or other social function, ''there
are other deficient in this gift who can
only say Really and Indeed
''These Really Indeed and oh peo-
ple," the writer affirms, "are the despair
of the dinner giver." But these people
do not constitute new species. Lord
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, in one of his
essays, more than half a century ago.
complained that "Humming, having
and drawing are the three graces 81
our conversation
To prepare for talking one must
gin by thinking. A man or Won
who is interested in people, in eN
or in books should have no diff
in finding subjects of conversatb n
in making observations likely
we'll received. The best talkeEl
urally, are people of culture, ~
ture may be acquired out of q O
we'll as in. The days of thI(1I
salons are gone never to ret
habitues of the salons were1l
women picked for their bp
mind and speech, or for 4 VIII
trait that made them int NfII
society. But not all of III
equally gifted, and some d III
better listeners than talkei II
a refuge for the individual III
society, but without hope
ing as a talker-let hiT
pathetically to others III
he will not lack appref Ul
kee wisconsin. lIlI
'Ts 1t quite safe II
said one woman.
YES" answered. III III
doesn't concern vol
peat it, but she will
her."-Washingtop stnIxvartThr.
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"Is 1t quite safe II
said one woman.
YES" answeredH
doesn't concern yo =
peat it. but she will
her" 6
Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-30
A TREASURE HOUSE
FOR THE MULTITUDE

Boston's Million Dollar Art Museum Will Be the
Outcome of the Most Elaborate Scientific Research
and Observation Ever Expended on Such Building
The New Science of "Musaeology" Demands Care
full Consideration of the Comfort of Visitors
Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-30
THE JUNCTION POINT
OF THE TALK TRACKS

Story of the Evolution of the Telephone Switch
board-This Summer Sees Its Thirtieth Ami
versary-First Crude Device for Connecting the
Avenues of Speech Contrasted With the Intricate
Apparatus Employed Today
Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-30
Mid Year Stock Reducing Sale
,ful Of Bargains That viii Tran1orm Proverbially
Quiet Month Into One OF the Busiest of the Whole YeG
July Buyers Opportunity

HARVEST of extraordinary savings is the out
look for prospective buyers during this great
mid-year stock reducing sale. We propose
starting the second half of the year 1907 with
good o1d-fashioned cleanup of our entire
The Cairo bulletin., 1907-08-29
ELECT DIRECTORS .
AND OFFICERS
CAIRO OIL AND MINERAL COM.
PANy COMPLETED oRGANlzA-
TON AT MEETING LAST
NIGHT.
SECURE MANY LEASES
Machinery Will BE Secured and Work
OF Boring For OIL viii Commence
Soon at Unity.

The stockholders Of the Cairo an
and Mineral Company held 4 meeting
last evening al the Commercial Cluh
and completed the organization OF the
company by the election Of directors
and officers,
Dirccors were elected as follows;
Egbert A. Smith, George Parsons,
Jesse f. Miller. E G Pink, } d Ma
gee, " b. Huette, all Of Cairo. Or.
! A. NJ Gibbs and George Hodges 81
Unity; nr WI q Rife Of villa Ridge,
Cnicers were elected as follows;
President Egbert A. Smith
Vice President e. G. Pink
Secretary Jesse t. Miller
Treasurer James ii. Galligan,
A large number OF leases have been
secured on land near Unity aud the
work OF getting machinery on the
ground preparatory to boring for oil
will be undertaken at an early date.
The Cairo bulletin., 1907-08-29
BARBER JOHNSON
At HIS TRICKS
Ro8s AN OLD SOLDIER OF $4.25
FOR A Sl4AVE-VicTiM MAKES
COMPLAINT TO POLICE.

Johnson's barber shop on Ohio
street, Just south of the Planters
house. was heard aom again yester-
day az police headquarters, and il the
story Is true, Johnson is still keeping
"a robbers roost under the protection
.of a striped pole and a BARRIERS Union
card The case brought to the notice
of the police yesterday seems to indi-
cate that Johnson has grown bolder.
or mere desperate in his rascally on.
.erations. for II is alleged that he
charged 1925 for shave, whereas
his former charges were from rs
cents to s2.25. IT is believed that hi
charged s425 yesterday because he
needed the money and saw what he
believed TO be good chance TO ges
it with small risk OF being sent to the
penitentiary
The complainant in this case was
an old man named A. ! Stewart. who
is employed At Nordman's mil ia Mis-
souri, He is veteran OF the civil
war and a pensioner ani he came TO
Cairo 10 collect his pension money
He had $40 or more aud took a few
drinks MS so many Of the veterans DO
these days. Then he wandered down
the leyce aud into Johnsons shop TO
get a shave He is not certain as
to what he got. bat says all ne asked
for was shave Doubtless according
to Johnson's story h. got shave ami
a hair cut aud "A shampoo and a face
aud hair tonic. aud mus
tache dye, and neck scrub and foot
bath and 2 stomach waliop and his
ears manicUred--and any number Of
other things Cor an Of which Mr.
johnson bad his Union Gard ca
prices Of course.
Bat hc an this "a Il nav when
81, war; bsndcd Johnson O - bin H.
get - cents back When Stewart
Protested. johnson coolly a7d firmly
ulofmed him that his bin was 1926.
Stewart left the place in high dudeeon
and after taking few more drinks
Tcnt 20 police Headquarters and made
Complaint He was given lodging
here to sober up aud viii be given
.hauce to tell bis story again today
The Cairo bulletin., 1907-08-29
TO ORGANIZE COUNCIL.

In his article on "Vaulation,
published in the Fraternal Monitor
Of June LIST, 1907, Abb Lands, the
wei known aetuary, says: Il am
reminded of that paper by receipt
from the Mutual Protective League
Of the report Of its actually giving the
1906 valuation statement of that So
ciety The officers and members are
to be congratulated upon the show
ing made, and can we'll be proud Of
the position at the head Of the pro-
cession in relation to valuation
Many societies have had valuations
made. and many have published the
results of valuation, but very few in
America can show a surplus over re-.
serve requirements as does the NJ
p. L."
II may be well to state In this con
nection that the Mutual Protective
League is trying to organize coun-
Gil in Cairo through the efforts Of its
deputy. Habeeb Saliba Some facts
and special features of the society
can be found in an advertisement in
this issue.
The Cairo bulletin., 1907-08-29
SHOE AND LEATHER FAIR
Opens in chieago-5ig Manufacturers
Of Canada and Europe Are in
Attendance.

Chicago. ILL.,, Aug. 2S.--Thc second
annual national shoe and leather fair.
for which preparations have been go
ing forward for nearly 4 year opened
in the Coliseum toda; under most IA.
yorabie auspices. 1he exhibition. as
its name implies, Is devoted TO dis
play OF shoes a4d other leather pro
ducts. The present exhibition is by
far the Target affair Of its kind ever
seen in Arderica. Several hundred
of the United States
Canada end Europe are represented
The manufacture OF shoes aud
otbsr leather products ig shown IN
III il stages. a special exhibit con
sists Of great variety OF shoes. rang
Ing In price from the simplest ana
cheapest to the most expensive and
Inclusive il styles. Tn" use Of loath-
en- in the automobile ministry Is also
shown
The Cairo bulletin., 1907-08-29
NEWS OF RIVERS
AND STEAMBOATS,
COL. VANCE SAYS ALL IMPROVE
MENTS PLANNED FOR OHIO
RIVER WILL BE MADE.
ENGINEERS FAVORABLE
Now Engaged in Locating Lock No.
u 26--caIro and Memphis Packet
viii Resume Trade Next
"Wednesday.

| Col John r, Vance president OF the
Ohio River Improvement association.
has made statement in which he ex-
lpressed his satisfaction with the sur.
| vey work AMI report OF the engineers
appointed by the government and the
result Of the hearing at Pittsburg on
August ~ The Colonel says. The
friends of river improvements may
rest assured that not only will Lock
and Dam No ~. for which tile money
has been provided be built, but that
on other locks and dams required to
give nine feet Of water from Pitts
burg to Cairo will be constructed, and
this river. the greatest freight pro,
ducing inland water system In the
world, viii become the most import,
ant. factor in the country in supplying
the markets Of the world with the
products of IT'S factories, its mines
ana its farms Ii will be the work
shop of the world ! am advised that
The engineers are actively engaged inl
the work necessary to fix the exact
site for Lock and Dam No 26, and
that the location Of the dam will ba
determined upon in short time
Then will follow the securing OF
rights Of way, the preparations OF
plans and specifications and the adj
vertising for bids and letting Of CON
tracts for the work
The Cairo bulletin., 1907-08-29
S. c. SMITH, FIREMAN OF FIRST
TRAIN ON ILLINOIS CENTRAL
MADE RUN FROM CAIRO
TO WINDY CITY.
TWO DAYS. ON THE WAY
Natives Of Illinois Gave Train Wide
Berth Fearing It Would Leave
Track--Lay-overs in
Cairo.

s G. Smith, who was born 30 miles
from Cairo, III but who now lives on
| a farm near Paris Tex asserts that
he was the fireman ON the first loco
motive that entered the city of Chi.
eago, His age has clouded his mem.
Tory, but he believes that the year was
1855. The engine was attached to a
special train on which officials OF the
Illinois Central rode.
Smith was living ia the rural dis
tricts OF Illinois when construction
work on the track opened Being a
stalwart farmer lad with plenty OF
muscle and endurance, he easily got
a position with the steel gang The
building OF the railroad was pushed
with great vigor AT the conclusion
of the construction work Smith was
offered the fireman's position on the
engine which had been selected to
draw the first train over the new line,
Naturally, he accepted. as the pay
justified the risk The Illinois Cen
trail had imported from England the
engine and the engineer came across
the seas with it. Wood was the fuel
that fred the boilers
The trip from Cairo to Chicago
was advertised remarkably well for
that day ana time Curious throngs
were gathered at the Illinois stations
all the spectators. how
ever. preferred d long-distance rather.
than close-range view of the loco
motive Scarcely any one APP
preached nearer than 50 feet. 1t was
the general impression that the en-
CINE would explode or jump the track
long before Chicago was reached,
But not an accident married the
initial trip.
Two days were reqrired for the
train to cover the distance between
Cairo and Chicago
Smith remained in the service Of
the Illinois Central two years, The
employees of the railroad looked upon
Chicago al that time MS village and
generally managed to secure thi!r
lay-oyers ia Cairo
The Cairo bulletin., 1907-08-29
TO WELCOME TAFT
Republican Leaders Of Denver and
Colorado Arc Preparing FOR
Gig Reception.

Denver Colo. Aug 1X--Thc Re
H biican leaders ~ Denver and Of
Colorado ia general arr preparing n
rfi'sing welcnne for secretlry Of
War Taft Nr Taft Is 10 De here brit
iof one lax agi if present plans are
esiricd ont IL viii be a busy day for
nih Apong tle features 81 the rf5-
'm af auanFca will hc a public r.
ton at The Repuhi4 e. ciub. a Inn
rcd automobile trim % Fort Iogan
end reirln and a public address To b.
delivered cn she capitol grounds.
after leaving Denver the Secretary
~ war uili 60 % Yellowstone park
Tor q fcr days II rest aad recreation
'''.'re prccelius On his Journey 70
Seattle
The Cairo bulletin., 1907-08-29
Local and General Notes.

The river marked 209 feet Oh the
Cairo gauge last evening showing no
change In "a hours, but the tendency
Was 10 decline.
Rising rivers were reported yester-
day from points above here as fol,
lows Louisville III. Evansville o3,
Mt Vernon OF. Nashville OF Padu,
cab o.
The Sadie Lee viii resume her
trips between Cairo and Memphis.
commencing next Wednesday, leaving
Memphis for Cairo at noon on that
day
The spragne arrived AT New Or
leans Monday with thirty barges Of
coal and is on her way up with
empties.
The Dick Fowler was in and out
yesterday from and to Paducah She
had fair business.
The Stacker Leo arrived from st.
Louis al 2 i. m yesterday and was
here till : b. IA. adding freight She
added 80 tons here for Memphis and
way points.
The Jim Wood went south yester-
day with fourt empites. She brought
mp four barges of logs for the Chicago
Mill and Lumber company and a
barge Of lumber for Joppa.
The John Wood came out from st
Louis with one empty and returns to
lay with coal
On the rise in the Ohio river at
Monday 90 boats and loo
5arges containing 10000 tons Of coal
eft that place for Memphis and ether
southern points.
The Woodruff is below Louisville
N her way to Cairo pulling snags
The Cairo bulletin., 1907-08-29

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