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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-17
Spain Has 10000 Men at Cadiz.

PARIS. June IA dispatch to La
Patrie from Tangier says that Spain has
concentrated 10000 men, with an enor
nous quantity of water materials, at
Cadiz, for use in Morocco should occa-
sion arise. The forces now occupying Ell
Ariash are to be increased to 1000 men.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-17
DEFENSE OF HIS COURSE
Assumed Power, He Says, When
Conditions Required Energy.
WILL NOT RETURN TO MEXICO
Aged Deposed President Predicts
Chaos and Disorder as Result
Of Madero's Reign.
HOW DIAZ FEELS.
| shall never 60 back.

SIldiI iiCNCi SO OdSN.
/ am saddened by the re-
cent events and the ingrati-
tude of my countrymen.
| voluntarily sacrificed my
ambition in the hope Of OBJ
tanning tranquility for the
nation.
My day is done, my sun is
set, and | am an old, old
man.
/ have been betrayed by
those | trusted.
Chaos and disorder, the dis
ruption of the government.
the dissatisfaction OF the peo-
pie will accompany Madero's
reign.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-17
DR.. Page Goes to Dartmouth.

HANOVER, y. H., June 17.-Dr. Curtis
II. Page. professor of English literature
in Northwestern University. will come to
Dartmouth next fall as professor OF
English literature. DR.. John Wesley
Young. at present head of the depart
ment of mathematics at the University OF
Kansas, will occupy the professorship OF
mathematics under the Chandler founda-
ton.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-17
TEACHERS SOUND KNEL[
Of SCHOOL FRATERN|T|ES
Officials Will Formally Ask
Board of Education to Put
Ban on Organizations.

Fraternities and sororities in the high
schools of the District of Columbia
should be abolished.
Such is the sentiment today of a large
majority of the high school teachers and
principals, as we'll as other school off,
cials. A resolution urging the abolition
has been adopted by the High School
Teachers Association by overwhelming
vote. and will be presented to the board
of education at the next meeting of that
body Members of the association may
appear and personally urge the members
of the board to settle for once and for
all the question of high school 'frats."
Though the Lohr case, which for time
was expected to bring about drastic ac-
ton concerning the fraternities. was de-
cided by the board to be not pertinent
to the fraternity question, it is said that
minor questions. which have constantly
been arising In the high schools. have
caused much trouble, and will cease only
tions.
Capt. Oyster Not Advised.
Capt. James F. Oyster. president of the
board of education, said today that he
Ildu llOI DccA daS1Scu VI IIc dCdVH Ol Illo
High School Teachers Association. If,
however, the fraternities were in any
way overstepping the rules laid down for
them during the fraternity trouble a few
years ago, he said, their wings will be
clipped" So far as they went as a So
cial institution President Oyster had
nothing against them, he said, but II they
tried to mix in school politics he intimated
there would be trouble.
Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mussey. vice presi-
dent of the board. said today that she had
not been officially told Of the action taken
by the high school teachers. She added,
though. that she believed fraternities
were entirely unnecessary in the high
schools.
A. T. Stuart, superintendent OF schools.
was also unaware that the Teachers As
ISOLATION has taken any action in the
matter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-17
Yale's Oldest Graduate.

NEW HAVEN, Conn, June 17.-Judge
Henry p Hedges of Binghamton, N. Y.
a member of the Yale class of 1898, and
the oldest living graduate Of the college,
will attend the commencement exercises
this year. He is ninety years old and
boasts Of excellent health.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-17
TEACHER WINS SUIT KAHN WANTS FACTS
Court Holds Miss Lynch En- Californian Proposes Probe
titled to Longevity Pay. Into Army Conditions.
CONTROLLER IS REVERSED RESOL UTl0N is INTRODUCED
TwenySeven At Joint Committee Investigation Pro-
fected by Decision. vided for =
DISTRICT TO TAKE APPEAL REPORT AT NEXT SESSION
Higher Desired if There
for Revew-Condeable thing Radically Wrong
Sum Supply Remedy
Court Holds Miss Lynch En-
titled to Longevity Pay.
CONTROLLER is REVERSED
Twenty-Seven Other Teachers AZ
fected by Decision.
DISTRICT TO TAKE APPEAL
Matter Will Be Carried to Higher
Court for Observation-Disclosures
Sum Involved.

Holding different view of the law from
the controller of the Treasury. Justice
Stafford Of the District Supreme Court
today decided that all teachers in high.
normal and manual training schools in
the District are entitled to salaries based
on the length of experience in teaching
in an accredited high or normal school.
Accordingly the court awarded judg-
ment for $40 against the District of Co
lumbia in favor of Miss Sarah p. Lynch.
a high school teacher. who sued for that
amount as due her for longevity increase
pay which had been withheld under the
opinion of the controller.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-17
Marines Sent to North Portugal.

LISBON, Portugal June 17.-Marfnes
were embarked on the cruiser Republica
today destined for North Portugal. where
they will replace other corps which have
been used to reinforce the frontier gar
risions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-17
Bubonic Plague Deaths in China.

AMOY, China, June 17-Eighty-thre
deaths from the bubonic plague and sew
en- deaths from smallpox were reported
in this vicinity during the two weeks end
ing yesterday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-17

ST. PETERSBURG, June 17.-Emperor
Nicholas today received American Am
bassador Rockhill, who presented his let
ters OF recall. Mr. Rockhill has been
transferred to Constantinople.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-17

NEW YORK, June ia man sup
posed to be s. B. Price Of College street,
Winchester, KY, committed suicide today
in Central Park. Letters were found in
his pockets bearing this name He shot
himself through the head.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-17
RESOLUTION is INTRODUCED
Joint Committee Investigation Pro-
vided for.
REPORT AT NEXT SESSION
Desired to Learn if There Is Some
thing Radically Wrong and
to Supply the Remedy.

general investigation of the United
States Army. by a joint committee of
Congress is proposed in a resolution In
troduced in the House today by Repre-
sentative Julius Kahn of California
Mr.. Kahn, in talking with a Star re-
porter this afternoon. told why he had
introduced the resolution
The bills introduced by Mr.. Hav,
chairman OF the House committee on
military affairs, said Mr. Kahn, ARE
intended to save some five or six millions
of dollars per annum. If such a sum
can be saved without impairment OF
the military branch of the government,
it ought to be done
But the more immediate cause for
the introduction Of this resolution 10 in.
vestigate the condition OF the army is
TO determine definitely whether we have
military organization that would he
an effective force in case OF hostilitieS.
and ii not what remedial action ought
to be taken by Congress in order TO
make our army an effective fighting
force.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-17
HE'S A GOOD SPELLER.
Washington Boy Wins SIS Prize at
the Cheshire School.

CHESHIRE, Conn, June 17.-At the
annual commencement exercises OF Che
shire school this week. on its 117th an
niversary, George Maynard of Washing
ton. ID. c.. was awarded the prize of sl5
for excellence in spelling and also award
ed honorable mention for general scholar
ship, his average being next TO the high
est in the school.
George Maynard is the son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. George e.. Maynard OF lfot loth
street northwest. He is a native or this
city and before going to Cheshire to at
tend that famous old school was pupil
in the Washington School for Boys, which
at one time was conducted out on the
TenIeytown road. Young Maynards ia
ther is an employe Of the division OF
technology in the National Museum
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-17

Il understand from men who are in a
position to know that the recent mobili-
zation on the Mexican frontier was
rather failure. True. the troops were
promptly dispatched to the places of
rendezvous. but having arrived at their
destination it developed that there was
such lack of organization that 1t re-
quired several months to make the one
division that was mobilized in Texas
half way effective.
This would indicate that under our
present system ii is impossible to mobil-
iZe a single division of troops at war
strength within any reasonable time. II
clearly shows that something is radically
that something IL the better for the
country. We expend upward of one hun
dred million dollars per annum on our
military establishment. 1t ought to be
in complete state of preparedness for
any possible emergency.
I'VE recall the fact that when France
declared war against Prussia in 1870.
all that Won Moltke, the chief OF stan
of the latter government, had to do
was to issue an order and Immediately
the entire German army was In motion.
Whether We have a small army or a
large one, our own ought to be equally
efficient I believe the country expects
that much Of her defenders
THE investigation proposed by my
resolution ought to enable us to show
just wherein the weakness Of our pres
ent military organization lies, SO that
Congress may promptly apply the
remedy"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-17
Provisions of Resolution.

The resolution provides for the appoint
ment Of commission to consist of five
members Of the Senate committee on
military affairs and five members of the
House committee on military affairs, to
institute and carry forward an investf-
cation of the military establishment and
it's organization, proportions, strength,
distribution. maintenance and admins
trstion and generally into all other mat
ters that may be necessary TO reach con-
clusionS as to the cause of inefficiency
and extravaganza, if found to exist, and
to suggest remedial measures.
The five senators on the investigating
committee are to be selected by the chair
man of the Senate military committee,
and the five House members by the House
military affairs chairman.
The Joint committee is empowered by
the Kahn resolution to sit in any place.
to visit the maneuver mobilization camp at
San Antonio and to call upon the War
Department for any and all papers and
documents essential to the inquiry.
The committee must report the resolu-
tion prescribes, at the regular session of
Congress beginning next December The
sum of 5000 is appropriated to defray
the expenses of the investigation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-17
Other Teachers Affected.

AS many as twentyseven other
teachers in the high schools are said
to be affected by the decision and may
recover back pay as well as have their
future salaries increased in accordance
with the opinion of the court.
Two acts of Congress have been
passed affecting longevity pay for high
school teachers, one in 1905 and the
other in 1910. In ruling on the latter
act Controller Tracewel held the act
not to apply to teachers receiving less
than $500 and who had taught less than
five years in such schools. notwith-
standing they had been since promoted
to the class of teachers entitled to the
benefit Of longevity pay.
Through Attorney A. S. Worthington,
Miss Lynch brought suit, and Corporation
Counsel Thomas and his assistant. F. H.
Stephens, having waived a jury trial,
J,,Stico CT ford heard the matter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-17
District to Appeal Case.

In his decision the court holds that all
the teachers who have now received the
class with Miss Lynch are entitled under
the law to the benefits of longevity pay,
because the law treats all members OF
that class alike.
The District Of Columbia noted an ap-
peal from the judgment of the court.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-17
WEATHER.

Showers tonight and Sunday,
with moderate temperature; light
to moderate variable winds.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-17

Our Sunday Magazine
will contain that kind OF
variety, being an ideal
mid-June number, the kind
you will enjoy reading
while seated on your
New-York tribune., 1911-04-02
THE ROMAN ACADEMY.

It would not be bad idea for the in
dependents to visit the Fine Arts Build
ing next Tuesday evening and listen to n
lecture to be delivered there under the
auspices of the Architectural League.
The speaker will be Mr.. Frank Miles
Day, and his subject will be THE Amer
lean Academy in Rome Mr.. Day Is an
architect. and we do not suppose that he
would in any case be offering the inde-
pendents advice as to how to paint. But
merely In explaining the purpose of the
academy he could not but give them
'furiously to think" If we have. over
and over again, since its organization
some sixteen years ago, earnestly COM
mended the Roman scheme, 1t has been
lust for that reason, because the acad-
emy stimulates the young artist to use
his brains as we'll as his hands. OF
course, every artist would Indignantly
repudiate the idea that his performances
were purely manual. but if we are to
Judge from much of the work that we
see nowadays there are painters and
soulptors whose goal is deXterity alone.
Long ago Matthew Arnold pointed out
the duty of the critic to know the best
that was done and thought in the world.
Too many artists are willing to leave
that duty entirely to criticism. The best
New-York tribune., 1911-04-02

when the masters grandest painting was
detached from the wall in the Ducal Pal
ace and hung upon "a screen whlch
brought 1t much nearer the eye of the
behoIdcr. In a delightful quarto pub
lshed BY the Pear Tree Press. at Bognor
In England. he gives US an essay on The
Paradise of Tintoretto" which trayerscs
not only the history OF the painting. but
It's actual surface, almost inch by inch.
The present writer, having gone day after
day, for a time. to study the Paradise
when It was on the wall. can testify to
the Justice of this writer's contention
that such an examination reveals new
beauties In the renowned work Particu-
larly does II exhibit In a clearer light the
deep interest with which Tintoretto In
vested his subsidiary figures and groups.
Mr.. Osmas ston's analysis Of these details
should go far toward heightening appre-
citation OF the picture. and we may add
that in this regard his numerous Illus
trations OF important fragments are more
than welcome.
It is good to note that in both these
books full attention is paid to the subtler
aspects OF this great realists art. Miss
Phillips has the following penetrating
passage on the spirit in which Tintoretto
New-York tribune., 1911-04-02

or less systematized studies In his par
ticular art, but even more he feeds his
imagination and his sense OF beauty. He
learns to understand a little better the
nature of tradition and to distinguish be-
tween 1t and those scholastic conventions
which have, perhaps, been confused with
il in his mind. He begins to perceive
what style is. to see that while 1t is
profoundly personal thing ii Is strength
ened by contact with great historic ideals
and so is saved from becoming the aff1r-
nation of mere undisciplined vanity.
Principle takes the place of caprice. and,
above all things, the artist runs the
golden risk of acquiring tinge. at least,
of ordinary sane humility. The mighty
spirit of Rome does not crush out his
individuality. On the contrary. it leaves
him, If you like. a full-ncdged independ-
ent-but it persuades him to take him.
self little less seriously.
The academy reports that the competi-
tions for its felowships are undertaken
with the utmost keenness, and that, In
short, it's work prospers. Very recently
a union has been effected between It and
the American Scnool OF Classical Studies
in Rome, which means that now its scope
will embrace not only architecture,
sculpture and painting, but the archa-
ology, literature and history of the clas-
sical and later periods. Through the
generosity Of the late Mrs. Clara j. Hey
land the academy will leave its present
home in the too remote Villa MirafQre
and take possession of the villa Aurelia'
which occupies one Of the finest sites IN
Rome. The present director, Mr.. Fred
orick Crowninshield. is an admirable ad-
ministrator, full Of knowledge. entnu-
siasm and energy. The academy has re-
ceived substantial support from private
subscribers and the public institutions
whose graduates enter its competitions,
and there is every sign of rich develop
ment of those benefits to American art
which were contemplated by the late
Charles F. McKim and his colleagues in
New-York tribune., 1911-04-02

ularly useful to us at the present time.
Tintoretto was one of the first OF the
Impressionists. He had imagination OF
high order. true sense OF spiritual
things, and he gave poignant reality TO
religious subjects. not simply through
painting them In familiar manner. but
through the indefinable force OF feeling.
But the amazing naturalism that he
practised greatly depends for its effect
upon his command over light and shade.
his power OF swiftly reproducing the
passing effects Of nature 1t is true that
his grand themes drawn from the Script
urts incline one to think Of him as build
ing up his compositions by the inner light
of the soul, but as matter of fact ne
flooded them with the light Of day. with
the light of Venice Miss Phillipps's vol
ume, like all the others In this series,
contains many full page plates in half
tone. They make but the merest mem
oranda in black and white. yet even turn
ing these pages one is aware Of the living
world. 1t was the living world that Tin
tOTcIlO DdlHtcu WHStuCt thO NHNASsA ~"
pagan story happened to set his brush In
motion.
Color saturated in light was at the tip
CT that brush, but it was not by any
means the sole spring Of the beauty
which belongs to his work. He had
prodIgious sense Of form. The old story
runs that he sought to fuse the color OF
Titan with the form of Michael Angelo.
The truth is that the figures in Tinto-
rettos paintings have a vitality ma
jesty and charm which could have been
secured only through innate genius. You
feel this in the presence Of his early
work, as, for example, In the great figure
occupying the foreground in the Pres
entation Of the Virgin" at the Church
of the Madonna DELI Orto. You feel 1t
throughout the heroic succession of his
canvases, down to the stupendous Para
DISC" in the Ducal Palace at Venice.
which Ruskin placed above all other
pictures calling it "the thoughtfullest. as
New-York tribune., 1911-04-02

as we may believe in the detachment OF an
artist from his subject, or in the power OF
artistic imagination to divine real feeling.
1 think most people will feel as they
sit In this small chamber and turn from
one wall to another that here Is brought
TO bear upon us something more than ar
tistic knowledge. magnetism still flows
TO us from those luminous walls. They are
imbued with a depth and weight or emo
ton that come from the heart of one who,
being dead. yet 3peaketh."
There are times, as in "The Last Sup
per-" the painting at the Scuola, when
Tintoretto goes perilously near to Illus
trating his subject In terms OF Venetian
life so intimate, so "everydayish.' as to
threaten the religious impressiveness OF
the work. But he never quite crosses the
line of danger. and more often. as in the
Christ Before Plate" he reaches tre-
mendous height Of spiritual exaltation
It is satisfying to return to his genius
from time TO time. for it recalls us to the
noblest elements in art.
New-York tribune., 1911-04-02

the Titan" which Mr. Charles Ricketts,
contributed to the series not long ago.
this volume lays stress upon the Venetian
masters suggestiveness to the student OF
technique. There Is a passage in the
book. quoted from NJ. Louis Hourticq,
which carries us to the heart OF Tlnto-
retto's usefulness for the modern painter
Before the Venetians." he says, no
PAINTERS had got the full effects from
fouch-the Florentine fresco painters, be-
cause they used fiat tints; the Flemish
Primitives, because an impersonal man.
ner was imposed upon them by the scru-
rulous imitation Of nature, whereas IN
Venice, when for the first time vast sur
faces were covered with oil color. the
traces Of the brush could no longer be
hidden under minute finish. Tin
toretto and Tiepolo, above all. saw in its
management one of the best means or
expression Tintoretto carves cut Sill
houette with a few cuts like sabres
stroke, and vehement gestures are
matched by violence of hand. This won
derful touch admits of impressions which
cannot be otherwise suggested. For a
painter who brings 1t to perfection ii
suggests light color. substance. distance,
even movement. and the most successful
Is he who can condense most sensations
into mass of patched work" Halls had
this gift Sargent has it, Indeed, 1t is
the gift that has been peculiarly culu-
waited among the moderns. But rarely
is it discovered so well balanced with
other qualities as in the masterpieces or
Tintoretto.
Miss Phillips excites warm apprecia-
ton through the skilful manner In which
she has exposed the different facets OF
her painters genius. showing how much
more than technician he was. but
nevertheless putting in the foreground,
and well Illuminating. those technical re-
sources whereby he is made more partic-
New-York tribune., 1911-04-02

that has been done and thought In the
world is only, in their opinion, what has
been done and thought by few arbi-
trarily chosen masters, and especially
those masters whom they have them
selves followed. If they have formed
themselves under the influence OF Manet
or Monet. Sargent or Whistler they see
nothing to he gained by sitting at the
feet of. say, SiSnese primitive. what
can they learn In respect to brush work
or the treatment OF light by looking at
the facade of a palaZzo by Bramante. by
idling in an Italian garden or gazing
over the roofs of Rome from a seat on
the Janicuum? Nothing, Of course.
And yet they can learn something OF
value in their profession.
The best lessons taught at the Amer
lean Academy in Rome are those which.
fguratively speaking, the student takes
in through his pores. lie follows more
New-York tribune., 1911-04-02
Matters Of -Arr

has the true instinct Of the painter and
several Of his canvases are worth see
ing. There is an engaging touch in the
small. sketches by Mr.. Guy Pene du
Bois. and In two OF the paintings by Mr..
Julius Golz. Carnival and "a City
Square," there is considerable merit.
One Of Mr.. Homer Boss's portraits,
Prosper Invernizzi." Is fairly attractive,
and Mr.. Glenn o. Coleman is persuasive
enough In his re listic urban scenes. A
poetic fancy and note Of individuality
give some charm to the paintings by Mr..
Arthur B. Davies, and in handful of
drawings he gives pleasure through the
simplicity and strength OF a technique
work with the brush. But, when all Is
said. the productions which we have in
dicated with more or less particularly
are not in themselves really remarkable
for authority. for beauty or for personal
significance. and taken together they in
no wise suggest that independence" IL
a word to conjure with as a matter of
course.
BY dint Of reducing its membership
and arranging modest exhibition in a
small room this organization might
legitimately, and without any exciting
effects. have added brief episode to
the record Of a crowded season. The
Twelve as they stand. with their swollen
collection. inspire rather rueful reflec-
tons. In a world flooded with pictures
one may have the friendliest sympathy
for men trying so hard to say something
new and yet demand that what the,
| have to say and their way Of saying II
should be made a little more interesting
| little more clearly worth while.