Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-12
Thirty American Residents.

John Q. Wood. the American consul in Ven
ice. is a Yankee from Maine. with modifi-
cations acquired in Honolulu, and he has
the genuine Yankee energy and intelli-
gence. His wife. who was Harriet God
dard OF Boston, is a prima donna known
to the opera stage as Errichetta Goddard
and has made a great success. She has
sung in all the principal opera houses of
Italy. and is now playing the leading
roles at the famous San Carlo at Naples
Mr.. Wood tells me there are only thirty
citizens of the United States residing
here. and among them is DIR. Horace
Fletcher, the advocate of -f'FletcherZ-
ing food. He leases the PaIazzo So
bante, the Grand canal where his
family lives. but spends most of his time
travelling and lecturine on his hobbies.
August Won HartZ. a naturaliZed citi-
zen. who is the manager for the Stand
ard Oil Company for Italy and Africa,
has very attractive palace on the
Grand canal, which was once a convent
but has been modernized. The Standard
Oil Company employs sixty ..meh here and
does d very large business.
Mr.. John Humphrey Johnston of New
York city, an artist owns the Palazzo
Contranini della Zaffo. with rare
Italian garden, which belonged to an old
noble family.
Mr.. James AmOry Sullivan of Boston
has the Villa Lamura Asolo. where the
son Of Robert Browning. the poet used
to live. Mr.. James Wheatland Smith OF
Holyoke, Mass, rents an attractive palaZ-
20. Mr.. John G.. Leech of Philadelphia
has the Villa Anneta. at Lake Garda.
Mr.. William Henry Merrick of the same
city. his wife and daughter, and Mrs.
Elizabeth Smith. a sister of Mrs Mer-
rick, make their home here
The Rev. Thomas j. Braitsch of Phila-
delphia, Catholic priest, is studying at
seminary at Padua. Henrietta Garden
Macy of Nantucket, Mary Bougoff Ger
rard of New York, Alice Hastings OF
Boston. Walter Francis Brown of Provi-
dence, all artists, are also on the list.
The Protestant Church. in which all de-
nominations unite and which is chiefly
supported by Enslishmen and Americans
has for its pastcr DIR. Robertson a stern
old Presbyterian. OF Edinburgh, who sup
PIGMENTS his administrations by acting as
the correspondent of the New York Her.
aid.
Cost of Living Increases.
live in. AS in Rome. Florence and other
| Italian cities rents and fcod, the wages
| of servants and every necessary Of life
have gone up tremendously Apartments
| on the Grand canal which used to rent
for 1850 francs year are now held at
| : 600. and there has been an advance
al -, per cent within the last three or
flour years. The values of property and
! the prices at which the palaces and VIII
| las are held are also from 30 to 100 per
cent above what they were ten years ago
| These advances are due i'm a measure to
| the demand and also to increased taxa
| ton But, everywhere else i'm the
world, the fundamental cause of the in
/ crease is the universal increase in the
wages of mocha mics and laborers and the
/ prices of everything that is produced by
/ human hands in the shop, on the farm
| or in the factory.
| Az cynical artist remarked the other
| day: People pay. more nowadays fol-
| everything except pictures But that is
| not true The prices of pictures. statu-
airy and works of art OF every sort. even
| photographs and post cards. are much
i higher than they used to be, and the
ctirio dealers demand the most extraOrdi.
nary prices for everything they have fol