Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-07

of ships the world has ever known, lined
up just as II they were going to the naval
review at the jamestown exposition, from
the coracle used by little Moses to navigc tie
the bullrushes to the most recent type Of
Atlantic greyhound owned by the steam
ship trust. Every ship in the picture Is a
effects are from sketches made by Mr.. Mil
let while spending Sunday as a 'tripper'
at Atlantic City.
Mr.. Millet has made up for the lack Of
size and has got ahead of old Tintoretto by
painting series Of annexes, as you might
say, or colored supplements to his great
picture in the form of q series of panels
representing the development of commerce,
and they are fine 1t Is the most ambitious
and artistic decoration ever attempted in
government building, for the government
proposes to use Mr.. Mllets art gallery as
a custom house. a subtreasury and for
other ofncial purposes 1t will cost a mil
lion and half dollars; it was begun in 1902
and was half built when 1t received it's bap-
tism of fire on that Sunday morning in
FEBRUARY, 1904; but the fire couldn't burn
| 1t down and it cost only $17b,O 600 to cut out
the burned stone and replace it with new
Messrs. Hornblower ard Marshall expect to
nave IT ready to occupy during the present
summer.
The Walters Art Gallery.
The next building in Importance is the
gallery which Mr.. Henry Walters is erect
! Ing for his incompatible pictures and
ceramics, undoubtedly the finest private
collection in the United States They have
| been exhibited In his residence for many
years and his public-spirited generosity
| has opened it to the public several days in
the week: but he has SO many rare curios
| and works of art, for which there is no
room, that he is now erecting an archi-
tectural gem, like the library Of PIerpont
Morgan In New York. The architects are
Delano and Aldrich of New York; the
building Is comparatively small, but 1t Is
exquisite in design. perfect in construction
and Is intended for the benefit of the pub
| lie. Mr.. Walters Is the richest man In
Baltimore. He. controls the Atlantic Coasa
Line and the Louisville and Nashville rail-
roads. His fortune was inherited from his
father, the late William T. Walters, who
bought up number of small railways in
the south. rebuilt them and improved
them and united them into a compact sys-
tenn without any scandal question as to
the honesty of his management.
There are many artistic new business
blocks In the burned district, built Of ordi-
nary brick and of simple design, four an
five stories high. Reinforced concrete has
been used with great success and has been
found less expensive than stone or brick.
Every form of fireproofing has been tried
and the experience of the Baltimore build
ers will be Of great value to other cities.
The Evening News has a substantial and
appropriate home on conspicuous corner
with broad window opening upon the
street through which the public is per
great moral engine. It is a complicated
affair, a curious collection of wheels, inter-
locking one with another, which seem
gifted with intelligence. When they re-
volve through some invisible force every
afternoon they contribute to the entertain
ment and the edifcation of an intelligent
populace But they look and act very
queerly. The spectacle is like cutting
away the conventional facade of human
being and setting a pane of glass where
the waistcoat ought to be, from the tropc
of Cancer to the tropic of Capricorn, so
that the action of the heart, the lungs, the
digestive apparatus and other organs OF
the man would be exposed. You can't see
the soul or the conscience of the thing,
for those parts Of a newspaper are usually
invisible. And you can't see the brains,
for they are hidden in the upper story,
just as they are In q human being. But