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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-11-17
BRIEF IN RATE CASE
Farmers. Institute Complains of Vir-
ginIn AIRLINE HALLWAY.

ginin Air-Line Halfway.
Ernest A. Gray as attorney for the
Virginia state Farmers Institute, yes
terday filed with the State Corpora
ton Commission the brief of that So
ciety in the rate case against the Vtr-
GINA AIRLINE Railway. The Fluvanna
County Farmers Association is also a
party to the petition.
II is claimed by the petitioners that
while the Virginia AIRLINE Railway
is practically part of the main line
of the Chesapeake and Ohio, 1t Is
treated as branch, and that higher
rates on commodities is charged than
prevail on other parts of the system.
notably on the Buckingham branch 1t
as therefore asked that the commission
require the road to charge similar
rates as those charged to other points
of equal distance. Instances are given
of rates on tin cans from the factory.
and from the canning plants to Rich
mond.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-11-17
Attends Meeting

Deputy State Food Commissioner B.
l. Purcell is in Washington this week,
attending a meeting of the Associa-
ton of Feed Control Officials, of which
he Is the president
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-11-17
TIE Important
Problem

confronting anyone in need Of Taxa.
tive is not question of a single &C.
ton only, but of permanently bene-
fetal effects, which will follow proper
efforts to live in healthful way, with
the assistance Of Syrup of Figs and
Elixir of SIENNA, whenever it is re.
quired, as it cleanses the system
gently yet promptly, without irritation
and will therefore always have the
preference of all who wish the best Of
family laxatives.
The combination has the approval
of physicians because it is known to
be truly beneficial, and because it has
given satisfaction to the millions Of
well.informed families who have used
it for many years past
To get its beneficial effects, always
buy the genuine manufactured by the
California Fig Syrup Co. only.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-11-17

quired to file an expense account. But
he is mistaken.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-11-17

FREE BLOOD COUPON-Ths Richmond
Dispatchlis sample
ID Ga State name Of trouble you know,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-09

Spain he went to Algiers. Malta, Athens.
Constantinople, Smyrna; then into the
Holy Lands. The route from Beyrout-
Carta to Nazareth and Tiberius was the
greatest I ever saw. Such color. 1t was
heaven brought to earth. My sketches
could not meet the problem l was
at Bethlehem today and worked in the
pouring rain. Tomorrow we are of TO
Jordan, the Dead sea and Jecicho. Next
comes Cairo, then Rome and home. Mr..
Powell is, 1t will be remembered, travel
ing on steamer which makes this spe-
cial tour, going from place to place and
serving as a floating hotel. The exhibit
ton of the sketches he brings back with
him will be anticipated with much IN
terest.
n PORTRAIT of Capt. HERMAN which
IA Ernest Moore has just painted is now
on exhibition at the Veerhoff galleries.
1t is three-quarter length and repre-
sents the subject seated in an armchair
turned slightly to the right. The face
is toward the observer and the expression
is alert. A dull red. fiat tone serves as
a background. Good in color, we'll
modelled and vital, this portrait will take
its place among the best of Mr.. Moore S
productions. 1t is a we'll studied and
eminently satisfactory work.
X 4
A 7 the Shelby Clark gallery next week
"A group of six or more portraits
painted this winter in this city by Philip
Neaser will be on view. These are all
of men prominent in political life and
are purposed for various state buildines.
Among the number will be portraits or
Senators Page, Allison and Scott
MISS ANNA SANDS has recently
1VA painted a portrait of a young
woman in hat and street dress which is
altogether engaging. 1t is compare
lively a small canvas. showing only
the head and shoulders, but the work IS
impressively strong. In treatment it Is
broad ard simple, in construction good
and as a whole it carries conviction.
A PRIVATE collector of this city mas
"A recently acquired a head in marole
THE Charioteer"-by Miss Edith
Hope Ogden. who for a number of
years resided in Washington. This was
done in Paris ito beguile some leisure
hours, and is hewn out Of a rough
block. There was something in TIL.
model that reminded the sculptor o.
the Greek youth who dared to drive
his chariot toward the all-glorious
sum- and the spirit of the ancient
story she has embodied in her work.
The youthful face is beautiful. noble.
eXpectant and is sensitively modelled.
though strong and full of life. In any
company its merit would declare it
self. LEILA MECHLIN. :
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H. K. Bush-Brown forming an executive
committee. After the business session
the meeting resolved itself into social
gathering.
A GREAT town-planning conference is
to be held in London in July, under
the patronage Of the king, and through
the fundamentally of the Royal Society
of British architects. In connection with
this conference an exhibition of plans.
designs. photographs. models and other
material to illustrate the development of
town planning will be arranged, and all
urgent letter has been sent by the sec
rotary of the committee in charge re-
queSting the loan of the Burnham park
commission plans for Washington, to-
gether with such other data as may he
available to illustrate the artistic de
velopment and future possibilities of this
city. "Such loan." Secretary Ian
MacAlister writes, would be of the ut
most interest to the members of our con-
ference"
IN Chicago recently a unique art society
has ueen formed. 1t is called 1.-THE
Friends of American Art and its object
is to secure, through systematic contr
buttons, noteworthy American paintings
for the permanent collections of the chi
cago Art Institute. The members each
promise to give to such object 800 year
for five years, and already ninety-siX
persons have sent in subscription pledges.
1t Is confidently expected that the fund
will amount to 10000 year, and pur-
chases will. as far as possible, be made
from the exhibition that takes place each
year at the Art Institute Of the works
of contemporary American artists. This
will not only enrich the Art institute, but
encourage the painters and materially
help to raise the standard Of the Chi
cago exhibition. 1t would. be we'll If
some such fund could be secured i'll
ings from the Corcoran Gallery's exhi-
bition, either for that institution or for
the National Gallery. Why not?
date of March II Lucien
- Powell writes interestingly from
Jerusalem, from which city he turns his
steps homeward. He says:
Never was place so interesting. The
street Acenes are charming, but the
streets are so narrow and crowded with
humanity that sketching is difficult The
weather is cold and rainy. We reached
here after being held up at Joppa for
four days by storm and found the land
ing dangerous"
Mr. Powell adds that he has made many
sketches as ne went from place to place
and that he has received orders for a
humber of finished pictures from those
who have CHANGED to see his work. From
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The Answer.

ga H. WELL" said wilbur wright.
"A there's a plausible answer you
know, TO every charge"
Mr. Wright at dinner in Dayton was
discussing the defense put up by an m
frfnger of his hipiane patents.
The most defenseless charge" he
said. has it's defense. Take the case OF
Bloomsbury.
"A gentleman visited Bloomsbury. Get
ting off the train he found he had to
drive four miles from the station to the
town. This naturally angered him, and
he reproached the ticket agent.
You are fools on this line he said.
What made you build your station so
far away from the city.
Because drawled the agent, We
thought il would be more convenient to
have it down here near the railroad.
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Complimentary Reply.

OF Miss Margaretta DreSel, the beau
~ tiful Philadelphia heircss, who is to
marry Viscount Maidstone, a Phladel-
phian said:
Miss Drexel at a dinner in London
once sat beside a famous sociologist. She
said to this sociologist:
There is very much more poverty
and wretchedness i'm London than in
PHILADELPHIA or New York. Look at the
tragic figures huddled on the embank-
ment every night. What is the cause OF
this great Misery
II will reply said the sociolosiSt,
with a line from the poet Wordsworth
...Drink, pretty creature, drink"
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American Cities. BY Lawrence Veil
Ter. New York: Charities Publica-
ton Committee.
THE MYSTERY OF HAMLET. PRINCE
OF DENMARK. BY Robert Russell
Benedict Philadelphia: j. b. Lip
pincott Company.
THE SOCIETY WOLF. BY Luke Thrice.
illustrated by w. H. Loomis and
Modest Stein. New York: Cupples IL
Leon Company.
THE CONQUEST OF DISEASE
THROUGH ANIMAL EXPERIMENT
TATION. By James Peter Warbasse,
NJ. D., Surgeon to the German Hos
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-09
A Witty Bishop.

tT1E late Bishop Foss," said Phila-
! delphia physician, ''once visited me
for some trifling ailment
do you, SIR / said to him, in the
course of my examination. talk in your
sleep?
mo. sir he answered. Il talk in
other peoples. Aren't you aware that I
am a divine""
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has made this week prelimi-
nary announcement of it's con-
vention. which will be held in
this city on the 18th, 18th and
10th of May The sessions will be held
morning and afternoon at the Willard
Hotel. and delegates from over a hundred
art societies in all parts of the country
will be in attendance. This will bring
to Washington many persons of note
painters. sculptors, architects. art teach
eFs and others-and will help 10
justify the claim of this city as the
logical meeting place of the national
center for the dissemination of profitable
information and a center of art and
culture.
The program of the convention is not
complete, but even now it promises in
terest. Thomas Nelson Page will speak
on the subject of Art at the National
Capital Ralph Adams Cram on 'Archi-
lecture in Its Relation to the People,
James l.. Slayden of Texas Oh DIFF
ficulties and Trials of the Congressman
Concerning Art Matters: Hon. Charles
ID. Walcott secretary of the Smithsonian
Institution, on THE National Gallery OF
Art; F. Allen Whiting, secretary of the
National League of Handicraft Societies,
on What the Arts and Crafts Movement
Has Accomplished; Prof. Halsy c. Ives,
director of the City Museum of ST. Louis,
on Museum Possibilities; DR.. James +.
Haney, director of art in the New York
high schools, on industrial Education :;
Prof. T. Lindsey Blayney of the Central
University of Kentucky, on Art History
in the College Curriculum: Percy Mac
Kaye on THE Establishment of Civic
Theaters"; Edward I. Hartman, Secre-
tary of the Massachusetts Civic League,
on How to Reach the People j. Horace
Mcfarland, secretary of the American
Civic Association, OH "Civic Art: Eric
Pape of Boston. on "Pageants." Besides
which there will be other papers by spe-
cialists on city planning, the relation OF
sculpture to landscape, art in the schools,
music for the people, etc. On the first
evening of the convention reception will
he given the delegates by Mr.. and Mrs.
A. J. Parsons at the Alibi Club, and on
the last day the delegates will be received
at the White House by the President.
Receptions will also be given at the New
National Museum and at the Corcoran
Gallery of Art. The officers OF the Amer
lean Federation of Arts are Charles L.
Hutchinson, president: John w. AleXan-
der. Herbert Adams and Ralph Adams
Cram. vice presidents: F. d. Miliet Secre-
tary, and A J. Parsons, treasurer.
FINDER the auspices OF the Washing
~ ton Society of the Fine Arts, an
illustrated lecture on public art was
given by John Quincy Adams at the
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Usually Visited in a Winters Cruise
in Europe, Asia and Africa. Com
piled by Bruce Willard, author of
''LArabe Parle (Spoken-Arabic).'
Illustrated chiefly from original pho
tographs. New York: G. P. Put
nam'S Sons.
MEN VERSUS THE MAN; Core
spondence between Robert Rives La
Monte Socialist, and II. l.. Mencken.
Individualist New York: Henry
Holt & Co.
RUSSELL SAGE FOUNDATION PUBL
CATIONS-HOUSING REFORM, 4
Handbook for Practical Use in
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pital. Brooklyn, n. Y, etc. New
York: d. Appleton & Co.
QUAKER IDYLS. BY Sarah NJ. II. Gard
ner. Enlarged Edition, containing
two new Idyls. Frontispiece. New
York: Henry Holt & Co.
Paine. author of college Years" Ii
Illustrated by George Wright. New
York: Charles Scribner's Sons
Washington: Brentano's.
WEST POINT; Its Glamour and It's
Grind. BY Capt. Harold Hammond,
L. S. A, author of "Pinkey Perkins
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Just Boy" etc. New York: Cue-
Piles & Leon Company.
THE ENCHANTED ISLAND; other
Poems. BY Alfred Moves. New York;
Frederick A. Stokes Company.
GREAT BRITAIN, Handbook for Trar-
elers BY Karl Baedeker. With y
maps. 65 plans and a Panorama
Seventh Edition Revised and Aug
mented. Leipzig: Karl Baedeker.
New York: Charles ScFfbners sons.
Washington: Brentano's.
ORESTES, a Tragedy. BY Richard lie
Gallienne. New York: Mitchell Ken
nerleN
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w. Richardson. 1917 Connecticut avenue,
to which all who are interested In Its
work are invited. The league, through
Mrs E. +. Andrews. has just received
as gift two handsome colored prints
from Prof. Ernst Liebermann of Munich
One is Heidelberg Castle BY Night and
the other is THE Wartburg in Thur
ingen," and both are reproduced from
and color and effect they are most at
tractive, and the school in which they
are placed will indeed be fortunate.
THE art talk at the Corcoran School
Monday afternoon was given by
James Henry Moser, and was on sketch
ing From Nature"-a subject peculiarly
timely The value Of sketch book and
the delight Of being able to jot down pic
torial notes with comparative ease. Mr..
Moser made patent. AS a drill he de-
clared nothing could take the place of
sketching. but he warned his listeners
against carelessness on the one hand and
too great elaboration on the other. For
those of genuinely artistic temperament,
he said, the sketch book was almost an
essential vent for enthusiasm, and, to
be of worth, sketches should be done in
this spontaneous manner. To the stu
dents Mr.. Moser quoted William Morris
Hunts admonition that work was a spur
to work. loaf1ng a spur to loafing. In
conclusion he spoke briefly of the vari-
Gus mediums, pencil, charcoal water
color and OIL describing the possibilities
and limitations Of each.
FINDER Mr.. Moser's instruction. the
~ water color class of the Corcoran
School is going out sketching Monday
and Wednesday afternoons when the
weather permits. Other days still life
and flowers are to be painted in the
classroom. This has been brought about
in part by prize offered by A. j. Par
sons for the best landscape in water
color shown by student of the school
in the annual exhibition marking the
close of the school year, and in part to
the early spring with it's prodigality of
bloom which tempts artists and students
into the open fields and pleasant byWays.
Certainly it is arrangement which
meets with enthusiastic approval and
promises to bring forth some exceptional
ly good results.
THE Washington Water Color Club
! held it's annual meeting at Mr.
Moser's residence last Saturday evening.
The election of officers resulted as fol-
lows: James Henry Moser, president:
W. H. Holmes. vice president: Miss Ber-
tina E. Perrie, secretary. and John {.
Fitzpatrick treasurer, with Mrs. Mathildc
Mueden Leisenring, Carl Weller and Mrs
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Behind the Local Footlghts With the Scene Painters

on the floor and not, as is generally done,
in the frame.
In other words scene painting is only
picture painting on a heroic scale. and the
men who follow the profession of scene
painting. although they work with
brushes that are sometimes over a foot
wide. are, nevertheless, true artists in
their line
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-09

public library on Tuesday evening. MI.
Adams is the secretary of the art COM
mission of New York, which in meas
ure served through its efficiency as an
incentive to the bill recently passed by
the House of Representatives and now
before the Senate establishing federal
art commission. Because of this Dill
special interest attaches to Mr.. Adams
lecture, which dealt particularly with the
selection and placing of statues.
The city of New York, Mr.. Adams
said, has for a number Of years now
been doing that thing which is consider
ed highly imprOper-loOking a glft morse
in the mouth In other words, passing
judgment upon gifts offered the city
and rejecting them If they were artistically
inferior. 1t was, he explained, not al
ways possible to get very good thing
but monstrositles were avoided. 10
the city, Mr.. Adams exhibited numerous
designs and drawings that had been dis
approved with those that had been ap-
proved. With special reference to sculp-
ture he showed illustrations of statues
in New York that were we'll and ill
placed. explaining why the various loca-
lions were suitable or unsuitable. 1t Is
curious thing. he said, that we should
so often set aside a park, plant trees
and grass, and then proceed, as rapidly
as possible, to cover it UP with granite
The need Of fountains and the change
of SCULPTURE, come upon Unexpectedly,
critically placed, he lay special stress
upon, concluding with little story of a
French laborer who when told that Paris
was beautiful exclaimed, Yes, truly, it
lacks nothing. That some day this
might be said of Washington, the Ma
tional Capital Mr.. Adams expressed
his hope.
A VERY interesting though small eX-
"A hibit of photographs at the Public
Library continues and further illustrates
the subject upon which on Tuesday even
ing Mr.. Adams spoke Series of pic
lures are shown of statues, with land
scape setting and with architectural back
grounds. The Shaw Memorial, the Sher-
man, the Puritan, the Adams Memorial
and other examples of st. Gaudens' work
set forth, not least notable of which Is
the Farragut statue, which stands near
the northwest corner of Madison square,
not perhaps specially we'll located, but
always effective. Works by ID. {. French,
Hermon A MacNeil, Carl Bitter and
others are likewise to be seen, and eX-
cellent opportunity to make comparative
study is given. American sculptors have
done much worthy of cOmmemoratlon and
that so few meritorious statues are to be
found in this city is indeed lamentable- E.
-HE League for the Decoration of the
] Public Schools of this city will hold
it's annual meeting Monday afternoon at
4 o'clock at the residence of Mrs Charles
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agreed that the most trying experiences
passed through by one of their profession
is when a stock company is playing. and
Mr.. Thompson added:
II think / used to do good work
when l painted scenery for stock COM
pany az l do now, because the need for
quick work brings out the best In one.
My work at the present time is very Of
ten hurry work, but is not precisely the
same as in stock work. When things are
hardest for me here Is when one of the
players gets sick. If a new act has to be
run in 1 have to see to the settings for 1T.
paint new sheet for the announcement
board, get photographs and arrange
display for the lobby of the theater. All
that means hustling"
AS is the case with all artists, both of
these scene painters have a particular
line of work which they prefer With
Mr.. Thompson it is figure painting.
Neither interiors or exteriors can claim
first place in his regard unless he can
work in some figure. With Mr. Dufey
the choice lies in exteriors and he is al
ways glad when his work calls for an
out-of-doors setting.
In painting drop the linen on which
the scene is painted is usually of four
widths, each six feet wide. These are
sewed together, and form a set of sign
posts. SO to speak, for the painter; when
he reaches the first seam he knows that
his painting should be one-quarter fin
ished, and that to give the proper illu-
sion the figures on the scene should be
set certain distances from the seam in
order to convey the idea of the distance
required. This method is considerable
help to the painters, for working on such
a large canvas precludes the possibility
of having 1t all before the eye at any one
time, unless, Of course, it is being painted
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Wisely these are difYused

college men. Wisely these are diffused
beyond the limits of their original des-
tination. Vigorous and cotemporaneous
in spirit these are the gift of a rich and
sifted experience, which a convincing per
sonality passes on for the stimulation and
direction Of others
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OF scene painter have increased. When
at one time they meant simply painting
the scene, today they mean in addition
TO that securing the necessary furni-
ture for the setting. This is sometimes
quite simple matter, but when fur
nture for some period of long ago is
demanded it means studying the subject
first and then hunting among stores until
the exact style is found. This part of
stage business has improved greatly.
At one time cotton backed velvet and
cheap furniture were sufficiently decep
tive from the viewpoint of the mana gers.
but today large sums of money very
often spent In the case of one produc
ton, in particular, the furniture alone
cost over five thousand dollars.
Regarding the comic side of his work,
Mr.. Thompson was dubius.
There isn't any" he said, so!emnly.
Its all hard work. | don't even seem
to remember having heard of anything
funny having happened to a scene
painter. The nearest to the humorous l
can recall was the incident which
caused the writing of the skit called
The Rehearsal the little playlet which
was the pioneer in the matter of showing
the audience the bare stage. A COM
pany of players were rehearsing, the
producer being in the front of the house.
something annoyed the scene painter
during the rehearsal and he made some
remark to one of the players. The Ca use
of his annoyance not ceasing he pro-
ceeded to throw a couple of pieces of
wood he had handy on to the stage. One
of them rebounded and hit one of the
actors on the leg. 1t was this incident
which struck the producer as being
worthy of reproduction. But. really, our
work has no comic side that l have been
able to find.
Each theater has its own scenery. he
sides what each company brings along
with it The scenes are painted on
heavy linen. which is somewhat similar
to that used for oil painting. This can
be used for considerable length of time,
as one scene can be painted right over
an old one, the same piece Of materjal
serving in that way for any number of
purposes. After each piece has been
painted 1t has to have a solution put
on the back, which renders 1t freproof.
At stated periods the fire department eX-
amines all scenery In the house and. IL
It is approved, stamp Is placed on It.
Any scenery, thus fixed will not burn.
but of courss that does not mean that
if it was in a fire 1t would come out in
tact.
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BOOKS RECEIVED.

THE MEDITERRANEAN CRUISE; De-
scribing all Mediterranean Points
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HE. theatrical world is, as
rule enshrouded in a glamour
seldom penetrated by the vast
majority of The public, and it's
many provinces always appear
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VIE American Federation of Arts
has made this week prelimi-
nary announcement of it's con-