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Perth Amboy evening news., 1909-07-14
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Eastbound train arriving at South
Platnfield at 4:10 p NJ has con-
nection for Perth Amboy. arriving at
4:35 p. M.
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Trying becomes easy when you
ran delegate most of 1t to the want
sf.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1909-07-14

l II you have an ioea that win be .
winner II pushed. use a want ad
Perth Amboy evening news., 1909-07-14
UNDER TAKERS OF TWO
COUNTIES AT DINNER

The Middlesex and Sussex County
Funeral Directors Association are hav-
ing dinner at Seidler Is Beach today.
More than 10000 people in this
vicinity read the EVENING NEWS.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1909-07-14
LINKS. CLAMBAkE
EARLY TN SEPTEMBER

At meeting of Lincoln Engine
Company last night the committee
appointed recently to arrange a clam
bake reported that the event would
be held early in September.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1909-07-14
New Mel

New Members in View.
At meeting of Goodwill Camp,
Woodmen of the World, last night
three applications were received.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1909-07-14

Patronize NEWS advertisers,
Evening star., 1909-04-25

characterizes Walt Whitman as phi
loSOpher not poet.
He is much pleased with picturesque
Washington and finds inspiration in its
pretty parks with their grOwths of flow
ers. shrubs and trees. Ii is so different
from cold Russia, where 1.-The streamlet
flows sorrowfully between the stony
rocks
Yer and humanitarian. in letter to a
friend says of Ezekiel Leavitt:
He Is man of culture and great
literary ability. He has written a num-
ber of remarkable poems and other ar
ticles. He is scholar and a linguist''
A. writer says Leavitt is "a dreamer
of beautiful dreams for Israel and man.
kind. in whom the divine poetry of David
and Isaiah seems to have reawakened
He is an ardent lover of liberty, which
he so forcefully describes in one of his
beautiful Hebrew songs "A Lion s
Spirit in which he declares with joy
choose lions death rather than dog s
life.'
His father Mordecai Leavitt was a
scholar versed in sacred and secular
lore. who could trace the lineage of his
descent through an uninterrupted line of
men distinguished for Jewish learning
and pety. back to the illustrious Rabbi
Moses Isserles of Cracow. the codfier
of Jewish laws and customs.
1t was under his fathers roof tree that
Ezekiels genius sprouted and gave early
evidence of splendid fruition. In the
home of his father gathered many men
noted in modern Jewish literature. among
them the celebrated Pharez Smolensky.
According to the educational system
then prevailing among the Jews in his
native country. he was first made fa-
miliar with biblical. talmudical and rab
bnical literature. and then finished his
regular course of studies.
Young Leavitt was for three years pro-
fessor of Hebrew language and religion
at the Gymnasium Of kishinieff Bessa-
raba. From IAN early age he mani
Tested deep concern in the sufferings and
sorrows of his brethren in Russia. Their
miseries appealed to his sympathies with
the force of personal grief. He has no
Evening star., 1909-04-25

field of activity Mr. Leavitt is supern-
tendent of the Hebrew School of Wash
ingion at 5th and l streets northwest. and
he is constant source of inspiration to
the children under his tutelage in the
classroom and in the Sunday school of
the congregation of Above Sholom Mr.
Leavitt is also editor and publisher of
Jewish monthly.
Ezekiel Leavitt's activities in Washing
ton have already attracted the attention
of public men and women, who highly
commend his work for the human up
lift. He came to this city last January.
yet in that short time his influence for
good has permeated many homes. As
superintendent of the Hebrew School of
Washington he gives instruction to many
children, and in addition to teaching
them the school rudiments and the He
brew language. he also instructs them in
the principles of the American govern
ment. and takes great pride in giving the
scholars lessons in good-citizenship.
Among his friends and admirers here
who are watching with interest his lit
erary efforts are Representative William
Sulzer, Judge Henry NJ. Goldfogle. an
other representative from New York;
Prof. William r. Vance, dean of faculty
of law, George Washington University;
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can millionaire, nameess till he reVeals
himself found him after the Dieppe cpl
sode, sore against government, world anu
the Paris dealers who failed to rescue
him. ~
Come with me-" said the American. Il
have spent great sums on art that turned
out bogus; and the laugh must not De on
me alone When we have picked out
enough fakes from foremost American
collections / shall invite them to a new
museum of my foundinG-The Museum of
False Antiques and Counterfeit Art ob-
jects.''
..Their histories should go with Them
said the other There is Jan Steen l
would like to see again, painted by
lovely girl artist when | myself was
happy. careless art-faking boy"
1t seems that his then employer paid the
lovely one to fake Flemish drinking
scene Alas. she delivered 1t perfect, to
the signature Jan Steen. 1872. traced
from the Rotterdam catalogue. Splendid
production said the willy dealer. ITS
a shame not to let you sign it. Paint out
Jan Steen. and put your name over 1t.
"Goody, goody!" sang the fair one. I'm
no longer an old master" But an anony-
nous letter informed the American Gus
toms that a work of the Holland school.
worth $4,000, was to be passed through
as the pot-boiler of an unknown modern.
So they were lying for it: and when they
had removed signature and layer of paint,
revealing Jan Steeh, 1872 they soaked
the dealer 80 per cent fine and 70 per cent
duty. a total OF $4,000.
THUS authenticated. he sold his Jan
Steen for $4,000" laughed Eiina. I'D
give 800 for 1t myself, for sentimental
reasons"
Another of his girl friends worked up
the most famous Bouguereau in America,
Venus and the Loves"
1t was genuine Bouguereau. three feet
high. but the dealer. turning II over,
found an unprecedented triple hem all
round. The economical. grand. old paint
er had tackled large canvas on to a
small frame. Doubtless he had begun
large. but found he was giving them too
much for their money.
..If a Bouguereau three feet high sells
for $S.O0O a Bouguereau four and half
feet high and a lot wider ought TO be
worth Sl2.0OO." concluded the dealer, any
how. He untacked the canvas. spread its
white hems fiat and tackled them round
a large frame at their extreme limit. And
the cheap but capable girl painter com
pleted" the composition on the white
margins.
A noted Constable in America has a
similar fancy feature. Cleaned out of a
London warehouse cellar with other mil
dewed ruins. signature obliterated. paint
rubbed off. edges rotted, the diiapidated
object was secured by Paris dealer for
$30-the value of its genuine old frame
and canvas possibilities for "restor-
ing" enterprise
In the hands of a Constable specialist
1t thus became again the mellow master
piece IL might have been, and Constabes
are so raSe that the swell New York COR
respondent sold an option on 1t by descrip-
ton and cabled Rush it.'
K
While it was being boxed for shipment
the clerk and cashier of the dealer stood
admiring. Suddenly the clerk said:
Look at the reflection of the bridge in
the water"
II see IT. said the cashier: what
Evening star., 1909-04-25

armor in the Metropolitan Museum of
New York is of his work
From tub of blackish liquid he would
fish out rapiers, poignards. pistols, and
ask clients to admire the patino of the
centuries. Randcar, a dealer. bought at
Havre the two suits of jouSt armor now
in the Museum of Artillery, Paris. In the
lot were detached pieces Of Gothic ar
NOR. Later, Randcar came on others in
consignment Of junk from Italy. At
the forge Gauvin so modified and added
10 the samples as to produce A complete
suit of the Gothic armor. Out of pure
deviltry. however. he left on every genu-
inc scrap its ancient hall mark-so that
the harness bears a bewildering number
of old forgotten makers names, Italian,
German, French. You can count them
for yourself at the Metropolitan Museum
of New York.
In the Metropolitan. Elina hopes to
worship before another historic fake, the
ed damascened. bought by Horace Wal
pole in 1172, by Sir Richard Wallace in
1868 insured by him for 500 Oo0-and to-
tally destroyed by fire III 1865.
With some mashed and discolored bits
of iron Paris dealer bought from the
insurance company the valuable salvage
its certificate of identity for the ruined
bits. Gauvin did the rest. His produc-
ton, not glded or damascened, passed to
the Splitter collection. Then after fur
ther restorations at the order of an
American''-who was that American?-it
passed to the Metropolitan.
Erudte great ladies of Philadelphia.
Chicago and Detroit hide your precious
window panes from Monsieur Mayence.
You know what / mean: rot that OF
Chambord. on which Francis | scratched
his 'Souvent femme varie,'' but the one
you bought from the unfathful chateau
servant In Normandy. After the battle OF
Argues, Henry w passed night in that
Norman chateau. and in souvenir OF
hand-me 6own-quick romance. scratched
on a little diamond-shaped pane OF the
second story front. ''Dieu gard de NAL ma
mie-Henry. Sep. ~. 15S9.' The family
regarded it as a patent of nobi ity until
1900, when the proprietor found his serv
ant selling it to the Detroit lady
1T is not the real one" he said in
excuse.
Where is the real one?" asked his
master.
Il sold it to another American lady"
wept the servant.
In the future kindly give me half the
proceeds said the chate ain.
According to the Bohemian of the art
business this scheme has been worked to
untold millions. Hard-up mobiles sell the
contents Of their historic chateauX to
American ladies-not once. but ten times
1t is done by automobile picnics to the
feudal village. entertainments at the cha
teau admiration for its treasures, por-
traits. tapestries, furniture, silverware
porcelain-"and what a pity he must sell
it! He's too proud to marry for money!"
These .'hommes du monde are the for
mdable rivals of the dealers. They enter
tain lavishly in their Paris houses. A
sad old countess calls your attention to
the real Sevres service. THE poor fell
low is trying to sell it for S6.000.' A
find, q find! Write out the check. Cha
teau and town house are sold out four
times year and replenished.
There Is not enough real to supply the
demand.
America has bought a third of the gen.
uine tapestries Of France-and at what
Evening star., 1909-04-25
FIRE FIGHTING THAT WINS.
New York's High Pressure Service
Arousing World Wide Interest
From the Technical World.


\ stationary fire engine sucking ver1-
table rivers of wlter. now hurting these
with tho impact of cataract clear to the
roof Of a forty-story skyscraper now
turning deluge from sixty to a hundred
and eighty streams against burning
city block now shifting out a confiagra-
ton which on the wings of a fifty-mle
an-hour gale threatens an entire town
with destruction and now conquering
two. four or six fires that may have
broken out at the same time in widely
separate distrcts-such device is the
hgh-pressure fire service the wonderful
new fire-fighting machine which is going
to revolutionize our fire-fghtinS methods
so that within five years not fire en-
CINE will be seen within the heart of any
of our first-class cities.
Although at present the new system 10
i'm operation in only a single district in
the borough of Manhattan, not In a gen.
GRAFTON has an invention aroused keener
world wide interest among those intrusted
with the conduct of municipal affairs.
From almost every big city i'm the United
States, from every country in Europe.
even from far-off Japan. engineers have
gone to Manhattan to view for them
selves the almost incredible performances
of the new device For aside from eco
nomic features. so vital that before long
they will be felt by every householder
in the country. the new system means
no less than that hereafter our cities
any of which are today at the mercy of
a Baltimore or San Francisco fire. will
be rendered absolutely Confiagration
proof. Ahd perfect is the new device
I'm even every theoretical requirement OF
the ideal modern fire-fighting contrfvance
that it is safe to say its principles will
remain in for all time to come, at
least as long as water remains the chief
reliance for on,4erins ccnfaSra lions.
Evening star., 1909-04-25
THE HOLY ARK WITHIN THE TEMPLE

and Psychology" says:
Psychology is d science describing and
explaining mental phenomena. There is a
close interdependence between the sci
ences of education and psychology. the
purposes of education still supreme in
determining what is to he taught yet
depending upon the results of psychology
to show how and i'm what order the diff
ferent subjects shall be taught. 1t is the
business of the psychologist to Investigate,
the duty of the teacher to know. what
has been found out and to apply such
knowledge as 1t fits his own peculiar con-
ditions. The teacher needs interest III the
mental life of his scholars from the point
of view of Interpretation and apprecia-
Evening star., 1909-04-25

rs Superintendent of the
j Hebrew School of Wash
ington Forceful and Mag
netic Personality-Was
Obliged to Leave Russia
Because He Refused mot
to Think" of a Family
Renowned for Educational
Attainments-A Professor in
His Native Russia When
Twenty-four Years Old-His
Published Writings Have
Been Well Received.
Evening star., 1909-04-25

prices. A Beauvais STORY of Psyche'
tBoucher) brought at the Leclerq sale in
suite, at the Cronier sale in 1865, fetched
from $4,000 to 100000. and two Don
euiXote Gobelins panels tCoypeD fetched
$40 0o0-ai are in America
The agents scour the little country
towns, where in middle-ofass parlors used
to hang faded Aubusson. Flemish and
north Italian tapestries" says Elina
First they bought up the best, then the
least damaged: now they buy anything.
to the last rags.
They not only replace rotten borders,
but entire ruined squares from genuine
scrap material The smaIl-szed remnants
serve for upholstering high-class fake
furniture
The great fakers-for small pieces-buy
originals at exorbitant prices and have
them copied. One whose works are all
over Amerca-in collections of Travelled
rich ladies who take pride in having "a
few good things''-paid $1,000 for an ad-
mirable little screen designed by Boucher
He bought it ten years ago. Every year
since then he has had it copied twice.
thread for thread from scrap tapestry
of the same epoch. Each copy costs him
500, and he sells it for S1,2Jo
How many Americans have been willing
to pay S2j,0O0 for a superb Beauvas tap
estry. old-time wreckage from the glorics
of Chambord, perfect but COR small cor
ner eaten by rats?
1t Is said that Mr.. j. Pierpont Morgan,
buying In person. was taken in by this
gigantic joke-and that our joking Elina
was salesman
THE corner may become slightly differ
ent in tint" they told him honestly.
keep ii in shadow while the threads
are fading Otherwise the tapestry would
be simply unprocurable. Think, ii Is
from Chambordr'
They say that the royal romance Of
Chambord seduced our greatest collector
to buy something with an imperfect cor
ner. From time to time. in London.
where he kept it. he would look to see the
corner changing tint
II was a bit of azure sky. 1t ought TO
pass to pale blue. Was ii changing? Yes.
but it was getting darker,
1t was getting darker than the sky
around it. darker than the tones of all the
tapestry around it.
Its the tapestry that's fading. not the
corner" flashed across our great col
lector's mind. So they say that he said
nothing but just rolled 1t up with his
own hands, tied it with string. and. taking
ii out one night in the coupe. threw II
over Westminster bridge into the Thames.
1t was from Chambord true enough
the unfading corner. All the rest was
built UP round H. and an equivocal phras-
ing of the receipt in French would permit
the vendors to claim this interpretation.
Had he kept II a few years ii would
all have toned together" says Bone
mian of the art business. That corner
was left slightly pale on purpose. The
built-up mass round ii was from old ma
terlal The. threads turned in the remak-
ing, made first bluff at fading; but IL
would not have continued.
He need not have been so hard on
one poor piece of tapestry" he concluded.
There are others.
STERLING HELLO.
Evening star., 1909-04-25
They told the tint might change

terfeiter would be too careful. And who
will notice il, anyway
Has any one in America noticed it? Ex-
anime any large-sized Constable to which
you have access. Elina says he will give
lecture before 1t, using the handrail as
the text.
On the other hand Elina confesses him.
self abashed by the vast quantities of
genuine masterpieces cornered in America.
Here comes in the possible surprise for
Europe.
Elina will give away our fakes, to
please the man who pays him: but, per-
sonally he will be concerned with the
whereabouts in America Of famous paint
ings and other art objects supposed to be
still in Europe,
l do not refer to Italian old masters.
smusgled out of present-day Italy against
Evening star., 1909-04-25

Russia. The work was written by his
friend. Gen. Daniel Mordowzew. pro-
fessor of history and literature at St.
Petersburg University.
Speaking of Ezekiel Leavitt and his
works Dr. Louis A Alexander SAYS:
Hearing him lecture with ease and
fluency in classic Hebrew. as l had the
opportunity at the convention of the
United Zionists.' one would imagine that
Isaiah had arisen and addressed his ma
tion in Gods chosen language.
In his appearance he is slender. pale
and intellectual and looks like sorrow
full edition of John kendrick Bangs"
Leavi,t, in his little book, Education
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Importance Are there any others?
They despise Elina for not keeping the
money he has made, for his periodic
lapses into art loving. If they kept him
near. they needed him. Because. just as
a Bohemian may have wider culture than
a laborious artist, so Elina Is an ency-
clopeda to wealthy, sordid taking busi-
ness men. He knows oscure Russian
go dsmiths capable of fabricating weep
ing Iphigenia's earrings, to be planted
in Tauris He has the confidence of art
artisans of Aubusson to repaint ruined
tapestries in their spare hours. He knows
tipsy arInor forgers of Vienna; but We're
you aware that there are armOr forgers
in these days?
Gauvin was such; and, being dead. he
may be mentioned, because much Of the
Evening star., 1909-04-25

whom Augustus of Saxony bought it for
IL 900 sequins in 1853.
Its departure for Dresden was several
years delayed by futile pretexts of the
monks. during which time rumors of
fraud already circulated; that to keep
the original the monks were having three
copies made. The most successful would
be passed on to Dresden.
Time passes. All Is forgotten. But
now. suddenly. there are discoveries that
might well confirm the contention of an
American millionaire mine owner that the
legend is true; that he bought the or'gi-
nal Madonna from the San SistO monks
few years ago. replaced in their church
by the second best of the old copies of
1854.
THE priceless Raphael of Dresden that
has awakened divine revertes In count
Evening star., 1909-04-25

tion of their mental states. The teacher
must learn To understand the individual
desires and ambitions and characters OF
his pupils: for without this sympathy
there is interest, and the work is
necessarily routine Psychology offers
general recommendations concerning the
best ways to gel girls and boys to study.
to observe, to attend. to understand re-
member and apply knowledge. 1t gives
help on how to form habits. develop
power and capacity. 1t forces tho teacher
to consider the physical conditions, IL he
wishes the best mental results"
Evening star., 1909-04-25

parties: il is the fact of the expedition
that is capital, though 1t begins in heroic
disputes and ends perhaps, in laugh on
Europe.
Because fake art has reached its high
point: and. more frequently than Is sup
posed. America may be enjoying the
originals while Europe cherishes the cop
les. Fake art has not always stuck
America. and Elina is not It's high priest.
but it's Jester with work in the nature of
the foofs revenge.
You have no idea how this mysterious
Joker is feared alike by honest Paris COL
tectors. crooked dealers and the govern
ment that has again warned him from the
louvre. where he would show up only the
false Turner of the Groult collection.
Elina affirms that there is 100000
worth of fake art in the Louvre; and 1t
was as much to silence him as TO avenge
the tiara of Saitapharnes that 1t laid
him by the heels at Dieppe last February
for smuggling.
The French government has paid S4O.-
COO for the gold crown of that non-exist-
ent ancient Sythian. on the advice of its
experts and collectors of the eminence OF
Count Wilczek and Baron de kothschild;
but the despised Elina knew more than
they. He knew who made II.
X
If he, then, mas sao UP ioi M isi
mont Morgan as 10 the embroidered Span
ish carpets he believes to be royal, there
are others. A second edition OF his OBJ
long velvet treasure that formerly cover
ed tha steps of a throne" sown with
fieurs-de-lys in relief was caught entering
France during Elina's brief career as Gus
toms expert counsels 1t came. as did
"Anterior to the eighteenth century, II
passes free" said the expert. 1T is pure
Louis Kill"
Pure nineteenth century" said Elina;
and. cutting the threads of heur-de-lys.
he turned over a printed page of Paul
and Virginia" that served as stufhng and
TO give relief to the flower.
His real name Is Mayence. The Ap "ri'
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the law. Their case is notorious. Their
princely owners always hang up copies
in their place. to fool the government.
But there are others, says Elna.
Concerning one such, two Raphael ex-
perts-men who never work for sales
will be ready to embark for America on
his call by cable.
1t is no less than the world-celebrated
Raphael Madonna of Dresden Hstori-
cally, Raphael painted 1t in 1913 for the
Convent Of San Sisto, at Plaisance, from
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less throngs of pilgrims!' exclaims Eina.
What if it turns out fraudulent, while
the real hangs unworshiped in American
1t is hard to estimate the character of
such a man.
art.
Elina is Bohemian of the art busi-
ness.
So they are all against him, true ar
fists, true Bohemians. true business men,
in particular the art taking branch whose
essence is to be art dealers OF the first
Evening star., 1909-04-25

Rabbi Abram Simon, DR.. l. NJ. Cagano-
wiz of the National Museum and other
men of influence.
He met his wife. formerly Miss Eliza
beth Wiseman, in Boston, and married
her there. She is a graduate of Rad
cliffe College. the women's branch of
Harvard, and the degree of 4. B. was
conferred upon her at that institution.
Ezekiel Leavitt was cordially received
at the White House by President Roose-
welt January y. 1909. Col. Roosevelt
asked about his impressions of the United
Evening star., 1909-04-25

transparence, what reflection. You see
the bridge itself. upside down"
''Yes, but it is not the same bridge,
the clerk whispered. 1.-The handrail Is
different
And so it was. The "restorer," paint
ing in the missing bridge, had modified its
handrail, but neg g'ected to modify the
handrail of the original reflection.
Don't tell the old man. New York says
rush it." advised the clerk. 'And, say.
why it's proof of genuineness. Con-
stable made the mistake himself. A coun-
Evening star., 1909-04-25

T the moment when
the salons open.
We have news that
Elina is going to
America. A dis
gruntled million
aire is paying him
TO give away fake
art in great Ameri-
can collections.
MY details are
merely illustrative.
often from third
Evening star., 1909-04-25

He Jewish colony
of Washington has
been congratulate
ed upon the acces-
sion to its num-
bers OF a man of
rare spiritual at
tainmentS EZe-
kiel Leavitt. poet,
dramatist. novel
ist. publicist and
lecturer.
In his DreSent