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New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1910-02-02
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"A "a more to interest in affairs
w N the morning was well spent
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New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1910-02-02
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n TEWAIARK. followed the thirty
mi three days work Of the log
drive with great interest. Grad
ually the men got used to him
and ceased to treat him as an outsider.
The drive went down as far as Red
ding in thirty-three days. The men
worked fourteen and sixteen hours at
times. Several bad jams relieved the
monotony. Problems Of mechanics
arose to be solved on the spot. Orde
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doors in iosT. and the frss Salon eatAlogus
wa publLshsd IN is7s.
In tn long reign Of Louis Nv.
twenty-five such annual salons were held,
tho nAune coming from the great square
salon or drawing room Of vhs Iouvre
Palace In ~ hich the paintings yer. always
hung for thu occasion.
Up to the French Revolution only Royal
AcGdemiciAns and others afflliated with
the Royal Academy might expos but the
Revolution destroyed the privilege. open
ing the dOors % the Salon "a all painters
working in France.
There were annuafSa Ions right through
the stormy First Republic. Under Ma
pCieon they were held every two years.
The Restoration made them annual again.
and Napoleon III. preserved the custom.
Tho Revolution % 1873 had suppressed
the jury Of admission. but II was rees-
tahlished for the Salon % isIs its election
being oonfided 10 the mas Of artists whose
pictures and sculptures had been ac-
Cepted in previous salons. For the prizes
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competition for medals. All such II e
men have their works admitted Nv right
not being obliged 20 pass the Jury of ad-
mission. which - renewed every thr--.
years by election.
the first year. twenty the second and
twenty the third wear, and il ~ on the
favor % these hoTS concours French
artists. who are themselves out % com
petition and consequently supposed Ia
~ impartial. Judging only by their knoWl
edge and love 81 art. that young painters
mus, depend for getting into tn" Salon.
ANY one IL free 10 try The most I'M
known Young American has but IN paint
q picture and send 10. correctly framed
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Before other paintings not single
can" - raised Again no doubt "a pos
sIhle Some paintings are too tad
such - tho first rough sorting
by article I. chapter V Of m" 10y laws
-hey may admit each wear IC1 paintings
ia. addition To those presented in their
own right by artists who are hors con
coErS
Now SUPPOSE that ia" jury has raised
canes and umbrellas for. say. 3p paint
ing II must go back and vut. out th"
overpms
L. there injustice IN the SALON.
Nes, l,"rhap- and II there - II surely
will be found here ~ the problem 81 the
ovsrpiIs
Suppoz" that nv friends rejected
salon raining had i,..en first accepted
IN that overpIus refer 20 the man and
wife and the travelling scholarship rer-
hitting happy residence IN Franc" and
Italy Suppose that tho seventeen inch
waist ribbon had been let IN the same
year Then II Won suppose that the
yeach'- portrait was a worse dAub han
my friends YOU have what looks like in
justice and there ~ NOR" 81 the same
kind
Wives - inancierr and statesmen pant
They hav" splendid studios. they take
endless lessons from jury We-nnerS who
me,.t at their dinners rich folk vino will
order high priced portraits and poli-
iicianr who will proCur" them all sorts ~
favor- - these ladies CrOiIt"S mus, ~.
admitted to ~" Salon They harm no
good artist W on" buys them They
are not even for safe
There are also great ladies' who
lake an interest m arr and arr always
discovering gan,Ises whose daubs must be
hung IN the salon az ono" this year Who
- hurt by their admission' Who - hurt
by the seventeen inch waist rihhons
Evidently only the oy"rpluS 10" paint
ings. without hackers. from tho not COM
polling down n the shaky In merit thar
the jury Jet IN on first voting beyond the
permitted I'm.
Remember that each juryman mas
students Of his own, who run q splendid
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first filing % BesDArd's outlines. Wills
of evenings hs would walk the fIslds or
sit at coffee and hqueus with the master
there was no one else for BeSnard 70 hob
mob with.
Do you think that this boy, who had
passed no time in the French schools
and mighty little in American schools
lacked influence in the National Society
Of Fine Arts the next autumn
Now We have H. Every student in the
oolony-eGcept cranks eaten up with
vanity and geniuses. both working in
their corner'-will tell you the Salon
secret il 20 gain the favor thus Of some
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his failure 10 pull the wires? Wires can
10 pulled Once | saw them pulled Ivy a
savan'aan inch waist ribbon.
handsome young American he mar
red la,.r frowzy rich widow and retired
from work Was AZ the portrait Of the
sWee'est peach that ever came Ia Paris
from NJ Louis One smile from that
supNriailve glrl 80 impressed the famous
master under whom the nincompoop
was studying hat he swelled up. took
brush mIy-d SKY blue paint and himself
panied m IN" ribbon eirdle on the por
trai'
W hen | see il I'll remember. he said
simp,y
he Wa m tho jury Of admission
The PARIS salon
Men from every country ~ the world
toll and sacrifice, risk. compromise.
promise and Jockey for the opportunity
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pion"ers. restrained hy no artistic tradi
rlpn- should pick oIt and admire the
masters destined 10 rule the art Of the
future before thew had realty been recog
nlzad by Frenchmsn?
Now for the jurie- All through the
reign 81 Napoleon III the salons re-
inclined under Government control. In
1872 IN" jury 81 admission was elected
only 10y French artists having obtained
AZ least a medal or a priS de Rome. In
1870 its election came to he confided "a
members ~ tho Institute. nfioers of the
legion n Honour, artists having obtained
medals and priS De Rom" men. but in
1851 tho republic finally decided TO in
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kind Of proportion. This il something
that the jury Of admission does not tell.
The rejected simply come with their push
carts and no more il said about IL.
How many American artists and art
students there are in Paris IL not really
known: hut the census taEen by Miss
Laura McProud showed the names ofi7tS.
Had every one Of them sent 70 the Salon
one in ten would have got in. Az GER
tainly not half sent. the proportion 10
reduced. and the Americans who get
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the Government instituted a special jury
taken only in part from the jury Of ad.
mission.
Between 1883 and 1897 the annual Salons
took an extraordinary development
Paris commenced to 10 regarded Ne The
uncont"stcd centre Of tho worlds art
Now at this moment strange thiDS
happened
The theories Of Courhet and the Fon.
taInsbleAu and Barhizon schools had not
vet become popular even In France
MeisSonier. whose works had 10 H.
seen through a ntcroscope, was the "a.
vorite % the court. Bouguereau had
jus; made name. and GArhtne had
acquired fam" II would have been only
natural. therefore that the first Americans
To- come To Paris should turn 20 thess
popular masters. Was Il not extraordi.
nary then that these young American
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% uAint while IN ParIs and -ubm.' thsir
products to thos. redout 'abi" masters Of
tier destiny the Salon jury,
What do they ask OF the jury Recon-
'r"r dation. favor, No. only IN" prlvIleg"
. framing their lest works A. their own
.,l"n-" and hanging them On IA" salon
walls where they help swell IN" Golfers
o. mo society - French Painters by
air. --lon prices charged the publ"
N'H are these Jurym"n'
N'a' - tho SALON.
i.,rug the Reralssanc" IN Italy. 80
v"a~s ago great nobles patron7lnG ART
" rzv threw open their galleries n" ~"
Z .I.~ admiration. but It was IN Franc"
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t-rT-r. no longer LOUIS XIV must have
tIri.ad over m hIs grave
On January p. ISsi. therefore. the mass
- French artists already admitted 10 the
salon were permitted 10 eject ninety
members 81 close corporation, ninety
c.lebriti-- "a whom they had confidence
The-. ninety constituted the first COM
mItt.,e ~ the society of French rtists. with
capital Of 2n01nO francs furnished by
49, shares ~ IGp francs n share. The
original committee ~ ninety became
the fret committee 81 the new corpora
tion. with power 70 rcnew lie membership
and generally TO run the annual Salon.
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great Paris master Last year nearly
100 Americans acquired IL by the simple
act Of painting in q way which the great
ones liked.
IL il the same even in Central Africa
Recently a German and an English firm
sent clocks 20 sell in toe Dark Continent
The English clocks were as good a. the
German clocks. but they would not sell.
while the German clocks sold wonder
fully
Why was this injustice'
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the Africans explained
They had their standard
Remember that this salon WHICH -
many want To enter - the French Salon
though al times newcomers seem To
overlook the fact The French pundits
have their ideas Of painting The sure
way 70 gam their favor - Ia win their
admiration
Now and then Il can ba done 10y show
ing them different way To paint The
CHOICE il noble. but extremely risky
Certain Spaniards. like Sorola aud Iu-
Ioaga. have. arrived a. II Certain ltal-
ans. now old timer la Gandara and Boil
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Into tho New Secession Salon -heg,in
independent. hut now very closed-bring
the proportion certainly to one in four
Good Now We get to the last secret
let the average young American stay
four wears with an influential master
and his chances 10 get IN are mathenatI-
Callv sure
A. 10 the value 81 getting into the Salon
there il no estimating u. II makes the
painters reputation all over the world
Right here IN Paris. at the now deflino
Students Art club. saw an example Of
it young fellow had painted a very
pretty fancy ~ swan ladies'. He had
Intended to send II 10 the Salon but
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being hard up he consented To sell II 20
an American tourist for the wretched price
81 So The tourist. at the last moment.
proved herself too grasping She showed
the 80 $50 francs. Il looks q loo In
French ten franc gold pieces. and shs
insisted he should throw in three small
studies The young fellow refused He
sent the Swan Ladies' 20 the Salon.
where 1t vas accepted and attracted at
tenfion: and he sold IL for 500 -without
tho little studies thrown in
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found another hunter IN the person Of a
hug" hOa constructor II had fallen upon
the dee and rnCiTclinR il body had taken
= hitch around the trunk Of sturdy tree
and vas crushing u 10 death
10 game dog had charged IN but the
snake pinned " against 4 log with IT. tail
aud would speedily have dispatched n
Caille- closed N and With Neu dirOCted
shot 30 fhe neck Killed the constructor
The doe was dead when the hunters
Sii-euranEled u from the coils 81 the huge
snake
fha favn was found hidden In some
brush and y little later the buck was lOrafsd
and ahOt The constructor measured twenty
one feet in length and its body 10 very large.
4 Inc back and doe are alHo large aneciwan9
and the group h . striking one.
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II on lucky inspiration He arrived In
Paris Just five days before the closing Of
N" Salon entries
ore iay he spent dreaming In the four
remaining no put tn" dream on canvas
This - qul'" important Tie pushed il
himself in a car Ia tho Grand Palais II
was hung on the line. received second
class prize and was sold for $40 to Q
French collector
But wait A. ~ the hoy had won q
Chicago newspaper prize for the best
amateur drawing Of American country
life Three years later he won an art
institutes money pri1e for drawing lie
arrived in Paris passed the Beaux-Arts
examinations. CO. = portrait received in
the salon, returned To America a. teacher
in a school Of fge arts. won a S. 90 scholar
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ship. and II was on those dollars he ar
rived IN Paris again just 1--WE DAYS he,ore
the closing 81 the Salon entries
You see there was no sudden jump. nor
would YOU call ~ fayoritism this man
had gone patiently through the BeauN-
Arts courses But | can tell Won a story
~ favori'sm. and u IL ~ an American
who duIt IN" BeauS-Arts after two weeks
The B~auN-Arts - too slow be i'm
aE,n"d. so h" changed Ia the Julien Acad-
envy
Well after one weeks work in tho
Julien Academy he won it, medal for
portrait painting and the successful
effort was hung N the atelier Now for
the favoritism Besnard happened "a
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DIM. got there: and a great American
named Whistler an another named Sar-
gent even carried many Of them part way
with them
Nevertheless they could but scratch
the surface % French painting How
should il be otherwise in France? Last
year a young French painter made q hit
with . pistol He shot his masterpiece
full Of BULLETS where IL hung because II
had not won q prize But Americans
must succeed by pleasing
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what are the mathematical chance
% . young American getting inso the
Salon In any given year,
Last year I .02T paintings we're accepted
by the jury and S2S Others were hung By
n. c. men. Of whom - or % are Amagi-
cans.
we're our fellow countrymenl
have had the patience To pick cut the
American Nance scattered in alphabetical
order through the catalogue. Well. there
were 7t-oO men and II women.
Now. il We could know What propor-
ton sent in paintings We could strike one
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in gold. all charges paid. 20 Monsieur
the president ~ tho Society 81 French
Artists NJ the Grand Palais OF the Champs
Elys4es-
Experienced workmcn in white blouses
handle the arriving canvases tsnderIy
The yestibule 81 the Grand Palais Ia itself
palatial. Day after day IN March and
April Il receives enormous quantities
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'N~ first periodic "Npo-.'I'n- ~
nst.ui"r- N'r" tsg'In
XIV. had "A roval acad"my ~
"a and sculpture - hs own. 'ha' -
. - tho ~ia'"
day we'll along No his long reign
".r Minister. Iolpert, adj, Isod hin
...ur" ~" royN acad"micians T."
-.. 'h",r n-~ prodnOts each year 10
.... ali tog"'hsr ~ = Rtv~n dat.
no Er"u Them 80 10 their work
% -Cumus' Itiun - th.' Iife - art
Er have ~ 4 trade h"cau-e "
..I 90 uagulfi"-nt business Tor PARIS
.--t salon. therefore. open"d its
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the National Society ~ Fine Arts. the
So called New Salon. 80 we stick 70 the
old Salon. tho historic and official. with
its right to give out medals 10 the painters
Of the world and quantities Of cash prizes
to Frenchmen.
For paintings the jury 81 admission
10 composed Of sixty French artists who
are hors concours. that is 70 saw have
risen 80 high that they are no longer In
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chance to get voted in. Then do not
forget the largest class OF all, of paintings
that must get in because Of their real
qualities
The whole art Of getting into the Paris
Salon resolves itself therefore into not
being of the overplus
know an American who scented To do
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Of paintings like a great mill They dis
APPEAR from the sight OF their creators
Inside the Grand Palais are unending
suites OF halls in an enormous hollow
square Along the walls the paintings
stand in endless rows awaiting the de
ci@ions OF the jury Of admission
The members OF the jury come hurrying
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drop IN. was struck by the portrait and
asked to see more IT the young Ams-i-
cans work Bcsnard had a hiP job on
hand 10 deCorai" a church at Berck
comprising forty fresCOes
Come down To Berck and help me,
said the vice-president ~ the New Salon
- the American tenderfoot. and all that
summer he worked like a horse az the
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and Il was expressly stated that memi-r-
ship in the committee shall not hs in
compatible with membership IA yuriss
Of admission.
A close corporation Yes. in a way.
by prestige and influence. Hut those
who went out years ago in Indignation
now form still tighter corporation.
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Three canes m the air. And one nm
hrella' Perhaps those four jurymen will
glance appcaiingly AZ others Up GO
two more canes Three more umbrellas
the thing hfs b~en known 10 happen
until majority 81 all the twenty votes
has let tho painting IN
Before other canvaSes or sculptures
the canes and umbrellas 60 up instantly
The masters know what very good wor K
j. They would he ashamed 20 uass u
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a bunch ~ twenty famous Paris
painters They stop before canvas
Al glanc" AZ II tho same moment
This u how they can decide 80 quick
"
All have canes or umbrellas This
- how they lose no time in signify
ing thor decision
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GETTING into The SALON
I4RIOI ROADS OPEN TO THE
IOING ARTIST ~ Paris.

4 nnsnaI Merit one Certain Passport 20
wire PuIlIns secures the admission
Of Other Paintings Surcess of some
American Paintings me Process.
PIRis. S,rt IL know an American in
Paris nos IN absolute despair. With his
v o. he has lived two wears in Italy and
France upcn the travelling scholarship of
The academy ~ fine arts ~ an American
cry
This summer his Paris Salon picture
va refused For some reason they
would not oven hang II in corner Of those
VS. halls What shall this man saw To
tNrsa vho pad his wav? How can he
/ - 20 have ;he scholarship renewed?
Wa IA" refusal OF his picture due 10
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-02-19

erned by the English, with a small
garrison and a police force OF about
1000 mon. 1t is well governed, too,
and life and property arc quite as safe
hero as in New York or London.
THE CHINESE OF SINGAPORE.
The Chinese are monopollzlng the
Straits Settlements As soon as the Eng
lish established q stable government
they began to come In, and they now
move back and forth to and from the
Straits at the rate of several hundred
thousand year. They are thrifty,
and the best of everything is rapidly
going Into their hands They own
stock In every corporation. and the
British tell mo that they can beat
European In any business deal
Since England has taken possession
of the federated Malay states. the
Chinese have been going there In great
numbers. They are crowding out the
Malays. and this is so with the ma
tivcs of all the islands In this part of
the east. On the Malay peninsula and
In the Straits Settlements there arc
row more than 100000 Chinese. There
are 100000 in Formosa and 100000 In
Slam. There are large numbers In
Burma, and something like 6000 900 In
the Dutch East Indies. They are rap
idly going into Sumatra. and nearly
every settlement In Borneo has Its
Chinese colony. Hongkong is prac-
tically n Chinese city. and the same
will be the case with Manila II We al
low them to come
CHINESE WHO WEAR DIAMONDS.
The Chinese OF these far-away is
lands are different from our laundry
men of the United States. They have
rich men among them. who spend
money like water. Many have magnif-
icent homes, and their wives are re-
splcndent in diamonds and pearls and
In bracelets and anklets of gold. 1
saw q party of Cclcstials at the
steamer as / landed. 1t comprised four
women whose ears sparkled with dIa-
monds and whose long silk gowns
were buttoned at the front with
brooches OF diamonds and pearls.
while on their bare ankles. above their
loose slippers, were great bands OF
pure gold
see Chinese riding in automobiles.
Some haYe carriages with coachmen
and footrhen in livery. They wear silk
gowns and felt hats. and lie back on
their cushions smoking their cigars.
as their brown Malay coachmen drive
them about. 1 see them In the billiard
rooms and on tho cricket grounds.
and now and then I pass one flying
over the roads on an American bicycle
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IF TIN IS NOW WORTH MORE THAN

Settlements themselves Is surprising.
These little British possessions. consist
ing Of the two Islands OF Singapore
and Penang and small strip of the
mainland. now rank among the rich
est parts OF the world. Penang is not
much bigger than the District OF Col
umbia, and Singapore a little more
than double as large. Nevertheless,
the two have a revenue of more than
six million gold dollars. and a foreign
trade greater than that of many q ma
ton OF Europe. 1t was almost four
hundred million last year. and its i'm
ports now amount TO two hundred mil
lion dollars per. annum. The total
tonnage of the colony. including the
various ports, surpasses that of any
one great port of the world. and Sin
gapore itself ranks Nth among the
trade ports. Here In the cast II Is
only surpassed by Hongkong, some
thing like nine or ten thousand vessels
coming In and going out of It's harbor
every year.
THE WAREHOUSES; OF SOUTH
ASIA
[ could take you TO the
VI Of Singapore and show you
THIS -..t warehouse Of south Asia The
port Is free. and 1t has become a dis
trlbuting center for the countries about
II Is LAO miles from Hongkong 5000
miles from London. and only two or
three days from Java, Borneo and 9TH
crs of the Dutch East Indies. SuInatra is
In plain View from where I am writ
ing. Bangkok, Siam, is only four days
away. and Burma - just around the
corner. This island lies midway In the
Straits of Malacca- 1t is the chief
stopping place between the Pacific and
Indian oceans. and II IS just half way
between China and India 1t Is the
gateway of the east, where the shaved
heads of the cclestials and the turbans
of the Hindus bump against one anoth-
CT. To the north and cast all is Mon
Sollan, 10 the west and northwest
everything Indian
/ came to Singapore from Hongkong.
We sklrted French China, went by the
Gulf OF Slam and then coasted the Ma
lay peninsula. whose palm trees could
be seen qu!verinS in the hot breeze.
We passed wooded islands and entered
n sapphire sea surrounded by n green
archipelago. at the back Of which Sin
gapore lay like a picture before us. 1t
was afternoon and heavy black clouds
hung over tho palms. The mighty
steamers coming in and going out left
trails OF smoke behind them, and as we
advanced the storm broke and a peal
OF thunder gave us royal salute. Then
| the air cleared and we could see Sinaa-