The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-10-09
AMERICAN woman
Counting DEATH
Miss Bernardy Carrying on Pro-
paganda Against Black
Hand.
is CLOSELY G UAR D D
Her Published Articles Attract
Wide Attention Through
out Italy.
NY MARQUIS DE cAsTELLANE.

III lnAltSlJS Dc
Especial Gable to The Times Dispatch
Paris, october Sd have just learned
from thoroughly reliable Source that
an American woman Is counting death
by carrying on propaganda against
the Black Hand in Italy. She is Miss
Bernardy. daughter of a former Amer
lean consul in Florence, She is well
versed in the-Italian language and its
literature. having made a special study
of Italian while residing in I'loreSGe
with her father.
Such are her attachments that she
fills the chair of professor of Italian
literature in Smith College, of North
ampton, Mass. Fired by the ntrocities
OF the Black Hand in America, Mills
Bernardy determined to crush 1t in its
cradle. With the object of awakening'
Italian sentiment against this society
of murderers Miss Bernardy has writ
ten series of powerful articles throw
! ing the bright American light athwart
| the path of the Black Hand. The ar
ticles are being published In tho
Giornale d'1talia. and are making a
national sensation not only because
| of what they reveal. but because OF
their exquisite style. They have att
tracted the attention and have won
the approval of Queen Margherita
The Italian police are keeping a.
| particularly sharp lookout lest evil
should befall the courageous American
girl. Their work is no sinecure any
how, and they feel relieved to learn
that Miss Bernardy has announced that
her holidays are over and that she
will return Immediately to resume her
lectures in Smith College,
An Evergreen Student of Art.
My surprise and delight were great
the other day when 1 happened upon
an enthusiastic art student of sixty
seven summers He looked so much
the real student that l thought of
joining his class although | am a FEW
years his senior.
i refer to Augustus Eddy, of Chicago.
He is studying art with zeal which
recalls the early days of Puvis de
Chavannes At that time of life when
tireside with pipe, this younx-old
'Chicagoan Just starts out on his
career And although his hair ia as
white as the SHOWS of Minnesota he
is as ninble of foot as Andre de
Fouauiere and as trim of figure as
I, James Hazen Hyde.
! His son. Spencer Eddy, is one of hN
greatest admirers, and often after a
| hard day of golf he may be seen wend
/ ing his way to the venerable artists
studio in the Latin Quarter to see
| the last touches put upon a picture.
And that neither age nor wealth
prevents Americans taking up the
study of art is proved by EdwaY-
Mellon. the millionaire banker, OF
Pittsburg. whose record as an art stu
dent during the past year stands very
high. He attended all the lectures at
the Ecole DIES Beaux Arts, and only
young Stanford White is said to have
surpassed him in serious wNsk and
study
Paris to be More Beautiful.
l thank an American woman, Miss
LILLIAN Whiting, for the name of
| Paris, the Beautiful" A decree has
lust been issued which will make
| dear old Paris even more beautiful
| than the brilliant American authoress
| describes it.
| Monsieur de Selves, Project of the
Seine. has instructed the city fathers
at work devisns ways and means to-
| further embellish 1t. In his instruc-
/ tons NJ de Selves warns the municipal
authorities to avoid the chess board
style of regularity and to incline to
graceful curves in the boulevards and
streets
tits curious to note that the military
spirit was responsible for the same
Chess board" plan of Paris, both Ma
poleon III. and Louis Philippe favor
ing straight streets and bouleyards ana
rectangular crossings, because they
allow of the free use of artilleSy in
popular uprisngs,
..NIorsieur de Selves also calls atten-
ton to the necessity of proportion be.
tween the height of the buildings and
the breadth Of the streets High build
ings he says. should have no place in
narrow streets. Excessive height, he
thinks. wars against salubrious suns
Hight and wholesome fresh air. Then.
too. Paris is to be city of trees.
That quarter Of our city known as
Ceur de la RENE. which was first laid
out By Marie dc Medici, is to have a.
public winter garden. Already we have
100000 trees growing in our city, and
the number is to be increased.