The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-05-08
BUILDINGS THAT HAVE STOOD FOR TI1IRTYFIVE
YEARS COME DOWN QUICKLY
American System Of Selecting Jurors Rouny Scored By Sidney
Steadman London Banister Spurious Works Of
Art; News and Notes From Chicago.
Especial to The Free Press

atmosphere to the flat district where
the May lst moving vans are numerous.
Some persons, presumably the aspiring
ones, have sought homes in "Hich
street" and "Iiill street and those who
have bumped the bumps during hard
times are leaving 'Hillock Avenue, y
some of them to 'Bitter Sweet Place
Others of lugubrious tastes live on
"Cemetary drive and others, perhaps
the adventurous, live on alaska
street or Panama street. with India
and Ceylon near at hand. In lieu
of suburban life, houscholders in the
outskirts have "Plum street" and "Pear
street" One of the main thorough
fares for the hmrying feet of clerks
in the morning hours is Rush street
and ''many are the dear ones" who
cross Jordan Court" The discovery of
the Standard Oils title in Crooked
street" was made when the assessors
ran. down the ownership for taxa
ton purposes.
ii Spurious Works of Art
The spurious works of art for years
not only have been sold but sold in
wholesale. quantities to dealers, col
ectors and institutions throughout the
SUCCESSFULLY that the best judges of art
as a result of an inquiry of the lead
ing art collectors Of America. Shocked
why the art worldeof the United States
and Europe. is. aglast. w. NJ. R.
French, director of the Art Institute
of Chicago, made the disclosures, in
defense off, genuine art works. For
many years, it seems, the most discri
minating purchasers of painting and
as most reliable critics have been
grossly deceived by dealers assisted
by clever painters. Not only have the
uncompleted works of recognized mas
tiers been finished but even their indi-
vidual style has been initiated so sue
cussefully that the best. judges of art
have been imposed upon. The works
that ,,have been most successfully and
persiStently coliI,terfeited are those
of three great .inasterss of American
landstape painting George Times, the
elder Homer Martin and A. H. Wtant,
all of whom are dead Even the i'm
mortal name of the great Whistler
is said to have been forged on spur
ious paintings, as well as those of
Henry w. Ranger, ]. Francis Murphy
never turned out more than 1900 of
1000 painting, 10000 'sCorots'' have
been sold in the United States. Turn
er, it is asserted, produced something
like 1000 pictures; but many times
that number have been sold to art
collectors who believed they were buy
ing the real thing It has been es
timated that counterfeit paintings have
been disposede of in the United States
to the amounts Of mot less than $780,.
OO0 IA large part of the counterfeit
ing isss charged to1tan Englishman from
Il western state, Hwho went to New
York poor and today is wealthy as the
result of his nefarious woyk.
American Is Illiterate
"America is illiterate," quoth w.
Lutoslawski, professor of sociology and
logic in the University of, Cracow. Rus
sian Poland, when he reached Chicago
on ibis years leave of absence to study
conditions in the United States. "In|
my stay in this country ] have been
most impressed with the utter disre-
SpecI VI ledlHlilg lIlIt prevails, he
added eXplanatorily. "To your bust
ness heads You pay large salaries
$4,000 a year. To your professors,
you pay $4,000 or perhaps $1,000. IT
is because you have no knowledge,
no thinkers that YOU have among you
thousands of false teachers" He mo-
destly advised the United States to-
treat her foreign element as guests
not as citizens. ut is not this coun
try's destiny to assimilate all the ma
tions of the world" he said "YOu
should strive to keep pure blood of the
founders of America. 1t is the blood
of Washington and Lincoln that isl
the true strain of America Would
you have it become mongrel?" And
this from an advocate of democracy.
As to the faults of this country, heI
said: sWhat America needs is Fl
thrashing. You are all to proud too
full of conceit. You worship the ma
terial, YOU .scorn the things that are
higher than the material. Business
is everything; learning is nothing.
Why, even China, of its kind. has a
higher type of civilization than you
have"
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