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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-05

Before she conscious Of what she had done she
found herself stepped in Greek ideals She had learned
the beauties and mysteries of the Greek language and
literature. These impeed her take up the study of
another of the fine arts, sculpture.
She began her studies the institute under dorado
Taft and showed much skill modelling clay as she
had for dancing and study of the Greek drama 1t was
he who taught her that sculpture is than copy
of human figure. 1t is rather expression curves
and rhythmical At its best achieves what
the living body does in the dance 1t expresses poetry
motion by poise of the body and by drapery.
Therefore dancing and sculpture twin arts having
the ideal and the possibilities of expressing
beauty After Mrs Moore had discovered this important
truth she the splendid possibilities both artsaud
that skill she could get from might be employed
in the other and she has developed the side by side
In the beginning she afraid that she would be un-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-05

of art to correct the designs copied from these
walls and now in the collections of Windsor,
Eton, and Holkham hall.
Besides the mural paintings the excavs-
tions have revealed a number of historic
names, scratched, after the fashion of the
tourist, on the walls. Nearly 200 names have
been already noted down, beginning with the
year 1895. Most of them are Dutch; but of
Britons there are Cameron; Buchan, and John
Parker. One king has scrawled his name
there-Gustavus Adolphus III. of Sweden,
with the date 1884, eight years before his
assassination. 7- r.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-05

bent nearly double, to avoid touching ceiling.
The Importance of these excavations is due
to the fact that some of the most famous
paintings and drawings of the sixteenth CEN
fury, when the baths of Trajan were more
easily accessible, were copied, often errone-
ously, from the beautiful mural decorations,
which the removal of the accumulated earth
is now bringing to light
Descending from a lovely orange garden
into the underground passages the investi-
gators found themselves in the room, marked
No. so on DIR. Weege's plan, in a niche of
which the famous LAGOON is said to have
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-05

picture, copied from here by Carracci and the
Bartoi, is to be seen (but without the child
at Windsor, and has consequently been mis-
described as "Coriolanus and His Mother"
Another scene is likewise drawn from Homer
Paris and Helen introduced to one another
by Aphrodite and Eros.
DIR. Weege infers accordingly that these
Homeric tableaux were specially chosen in
allusion to Nero's poem the Troica," men
toned by Suetonius and Dion Cassius and
satirized by Juvenal an extract from which
the emperor recited while Rome was burn
ing. Thus these discoveries enable students
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-05
superb Art Treasures Dug Up

I INTERESTING excavations are being
made in Nero's Golden House " by the
] Italian government whose attention was
drawn to the subject by DR.. Fritz Weege,
young German archaoogist, author of
treatise, on one of the rooms in that vast
palace.
Nero's I" folly which the wits said would
embrace all Rome, and that good citizens, emf
grating in quest of apartments to Veil, would
probably find had extended thither a1so-cov-
cred an area about thrice that occupied by
the present vatican with all its appurtenances.
Erected after the burning Of Rome in A. d.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-05

been found in 1906. During the last few days
a marble hand of the same marble as the
that it might prove to be part of the missing
limb of the statue.
OF the mural paintings the most interest
ing is that of a warrior with nodding helmet,
a woman holding child CLEARLY visible in
the painting, and another woman in the back
ground) where gate and battlements are
also noticeable.
DIR. Weege identifies this painting with the
touching scene in the " Iliad of the de-
parture of Hector from Andromache. The
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-05

7 is unusual for artist to take time from her own
art to investigate the field of dancing This is be-
cause the painter, the sculptor, musician are
usually engrossed in their own work that they
have little time and inclination interest themselves in
other work Moreover the turkey trot the bear dance
the TANGO and other equally frivolous have brought
dancing into such dsrepue are no longer
willing to consider dancing fine Even the most
lsador Duncan, Ruth St. Denis, Rosina Gal have
it with the Greeks, who valued it as much as paint
ing sculpture, and 4nusic.
In spite of these Mrs Wall Moore talented
Chicago sculptor has worked rehabtate dancing
to leading and religious rite The dance drama
or epic she recreates is serious art any
Indeed she accepts Wagner still the Greek
idea that all the fine closely related and thus
makes use of all the arts in dancing
She says she believes the artistic dancer uses bodily mo-
ton poet words musician uses tones and
painter color.
1t shares with the other arts the right be called lib.
eral and fine, and deserves equally important place
in serious regard
That dancing is the legitimate sister of music and
poetry is indispuabe Her brhrght is authen-
tic than theirs Eer origin less divine while realm
of her inheritance lies within enjoyment of all
1t by chance that Mrs. Moore came upon this
important fact She commenced study dancing before
her unframed hands tempted working in clay. When
child she placed under the instruction of French
dancing master, of whose ancestors was a noble at
the court of Louis XIV. When passed beyond the
steps of the courty minuette perro French
court dances she commenced study of classical dancing
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-05

able to two and them equally WELL but
she learned that the adds enthusiasm and zest
to the other She divides her time between the mod
cling in her studio and revvng the most perfect of the
Greek and Renaissance dances
1t has taken her several years revive Greek Dances
for little has down in literature she had to study
the movements she found on antique Greek She
has worked out two groups of dances in absolute correct
of detail One of these is divided in three parts
resenting the funeral dance the tomb of Agamemnon
from the baton pourers of schylus the Eumenides
spell dance of the furies around Oreses, and the Bac
chanaa sacred dance of Bacchus.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-05
Details of Costume Important.

1t has declined steadily until it has all its poetry
and has become nothing than gymnastic exercise
The dance of Salome and the spring dance they have
been done by of dancers recently are
little than refined acrobatic settings. The meaning
and spirit of the dances have been lost believe correct
costumng plays impoEtant part in dancing To make
my work complete | study every detail of the costume
until believe have succeeded in rescuing preserving
their full meaning.
In my work in sculpture l seek to bring out the
meaning of the motion of the Greek drama In modelling
in clay portray but single heeting thought If
had model alive and plastic is my clay l could
catch not but every meaning of every notion 1t
do this that started interpret the Greek dances
myself"
Mrs Moore has put such exquisite grace and motion
into her modelling that many of the figures seem to
breathe and dance with joy This is shown in the gay,
graceful sketch of Nine. Saharet The same
beautiful plastic repose is in the satuete of the
little boy playing the sand and in the head of Miss
Leyendecker The poetic inspiration thought classic
epose that the Greeks understood and loved so well and
expressed in all their charmingly symbozed in
the panel of mother and child. Mrs. Moore in her work
demonstrates that all art is really 1t complete
expression Of motion and of beauty
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-05
Works Out Ideals in Clay.

She discovered that rhythmic movements are as
exquisite and exact language for the dancer as color is
to the painter and lines the sculptor. Then she
undertook the study of the Greek DRAMA and to her
prise she found that the Greek dramatsts did not
the erpsichorean or period of rest 1t
was recognized as language, integral part of the
drama as important as poetry and music.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-05

der But furies him by the smell of blood
the very altar. Here all the motion Of the dance is
earthward stealthy, and dire. When the fures find
Orestes protected their is great they appeal
gods for vengeance and Orestes is given to
tribunal of judges. Here all thought of and
agility is forgotten in feeling of vengefu fury and
fame of wrath
Besides the Greek Dances she has revived the most
fned the most beautiful and stately of the dances
native to Spain and France. These she reconstructed
from old paintings, illustrations, and diagrams.
Dancing, she says is the of expression
it understood by the ancens but through long
uries Of undermining influence it has gradually been lost
The revival of the of the dance within the last few
years is but beginning that believe will lead great
revival. Modern dancing, rule, nothing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-05

Moods Expressed in Dances.
One of her interesting dances is from the SYM
phony of the The dance of winter is full of
action and quvers with morbid strain there no vio
Atlanta Georgian., 1913-09-30

yery Day New
Items to the
Perth Amboy evening news., 1913-02-17
PRESIDENT FINALLY ELECTED.

While, rs far RS the general public is con
cerned, Woodrow Wilson was elected Presi-
dent of the United States November of last
year, in reality he did not become president
elect until twelfth of February just passed
The makers of the constitution were not
willing to trust the people to elect presi-
dent of the United States and for that reason
complicated system was adopted, whereby
the people voted for set Of electors in each
man for president. These votes are sealed and
sent to congress, the result is announced at
electors are formally opened.
Not until congress has thus met in joint
session and formally announced the result OF
the ballots cast by the electors does the man
chosen for President become qualified. Thus
we see that America does not have the direct
election of President, although the system
has been outgrown, and to all intents and
purposes, the people do choose their own
executive.
Ii would be good thing if all the red tape
connected with electing president was cut
out and the man who has the plurality vote
of the people be declared elected at once and
shortly afterward, 50 that the
long period between the election and inaugu-
ration, when business is so unsettled, will be-
eliminated.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1913-02-17
MAIL DELIVERY.

The complaint made by merchants along
State street about the late delivery of their
mail calls attention to an agitation that was
stared in this city some time ago for improved
postal facilities. There does seem to be some
thing radically wrong when men doing bust
ness along our main streets cannot receive
their first mail in the morning earlier than
1870 o'eock. AS a matter of fact, they should
have had their mail and had an opportunity
to answer any important communications by
that time.
This also reminds US OF the complaint Of
the PEI p 13ls living in the northwestern section
of the city where there is no mail delivery
whatever When it is realized that the people
living Just over the border line of the city get
their mail delivered to their door every day
>y the rural free delivery route from Metu-
chen, whereas, the people living within the
limits of the city of Perth Amboy, who are
supposed to be enjoying the privileges Of a
city, do not get any mail service whatever,
one begins to wonder what the advantages Of
city are.
We would suggest to these people in the
northwestern section, that their first move
should be to get their streets graded, curbed,
sidewalks tagged and houses numbered Once
this is done, the city is in position to demand
of the post Office authorities extension free
delivery. If the streets are already graded,
curbed and tagged, and houses numbered,
there is no reason why the mail delivery
should not be extended to- them at once.
Once the people have done this much for
themselves, the government can be compelled
to do the rest.
Let these people living in the northwest
ern section prove to the authorities that they
want mail service bad enough by making the
improvements here mentioned, and we believe
that the desired accommodations will be
forthcoming.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1913-02-17
Buds AND PROPOSALS,

Bids will be received by the Board
of Education of Woodbridge Township,
N. j., at Che high school, Woodbridge,
\. j., on Monday, February the nth,
1918, at o'eleck p. M, for the pr:
pose of erecting an addition and alter
alton, and erecting new heating eys.
tenn to public school No. 9 at oors
Reading, N. j., as per plans aud speci-
fcations prepared by j. K Jensen &
G. ". Brooks, Architects, Perth Am
boy, N. }.
A certified check to the amount Of
S5uU.O0 must accompany each bad for
the addition and alteration and certi-
fed check to the amount of $200.0O
must accompany each bid for heating
and ventilating, which certified cheeks
will be returned when contracts are
signed
Plans and specifications may be OBJ
tanned at the architects office at 1876
Smith street, Perth Amboy, N. j., by
depositing a check of $1,000, which will
be returned at the delivery of the
plans and specifications back to the
architects.
W. Fl. DEMAREST,
j. C. FOWLER,
CUAS. S. FA RRFI.L,
Committee.
14013-2-h 1012145
Perth Amboy evening news., 1913-02-17
CONTROL OF DANCE HALLS.

Among the bills in the legislature is one
providing for the regulation of dance halls
in cities by the Board of Freeholders of the
county in which the city is located. This
measure has been introduced to meet the sit
uation in Essex county where Newark has a
liberal government and dance halls are wide
open and the excise laws are largely ignored
1t is felt that the Board Of Freeholders would
make some needed reforms and for that
reason the effort is being made to take the
control of the dance halls away from the NUM-
cipality and give it to the county.
This step, we believe, would be a serious
mistake. We are in favor of home rule We
do not see why the County Boa d of Free
holders should regulate such local matter
as dance halls in any town or city. If the
people in the town or city do not see fit to
elect city officers who viii give them the re-
form they want, they should net look to a
county board to do the work. We believe
each city is able to take care of itself
Perth Amboy would not for moment want
to surrender its control of dance halls to the
Perth Amboy evening news., 1913-02-17
EIIZABETH's EXPOSITION.

The city of Elizabeth has just closed an
industrial exposition. Practically all the in
dustries of that city had exhibits in the armory
there, and the public was invited to inspect
the work and see just what Elizabeth is doing.
The exhibit has been a decided success.
Not only have neighboring cities and the out
side world come to respect Elizabeth a great
deal mare hui bat Tie people living in the city
itself have also been brought to a greater
realization of the importance of the place in
which they live. The exhibit was a highly
creditable one and worthy of city much larg-
er than Elizabeth, which has a population of
about $4,000.
Back Of this important industrial exposi-
ton was the Board of Trade Of Elizabeth,
which has recently been reorganized and
placed on a firm foundation Just as has been
done in Perth Amboy. Without this organi-
zation the great civic awakening which has
resulted in Elizabeth as result of this show,
would not have taken place. 1t is becoming
more and more evident what Board of Trade
means to city.
Every business man and resident should
help support such an organization, for there
is no agency that is continually working fol
the city's welfare or in a position to DO as
OF Trade
Perth Amboy evening news., 1913-02-17

Feb. 20.---First annual dinner OF
the Perth Amooy Progressive Club;
Packer House, 7:30.
Feb 2h--HeinieIn Banjo Quartet
and Concert Company, Goodwill hall.
". NJ. &. Al
Feb. 22-Turkey Dinner. Ladies'
Auxiliary OF Simpson M r. church,
ecture room.
Feb. 21-Masuuerade bali Of the
German Singing Society Ut Kroeger's p
Auditorium.
Feb. 26.--First annual ball. Dex-
ter Football Club, Auditorium.
March 24,--Easter dance, Good
will Club. Goodwill club.
Mar. 24--Ban OF st. Patrick's AL
lance. Auditorium.
April 2-Bartenders' UnioE an
nual ball at Auditorium.
April 14--Dance Of the Ancient
Order Of Hibernians and the Ladies'
Auxiiiarv Anditortutu i.-
Perth Amboy evening news., 1913-02-17

When torrents pouring tempests roaring how
cheerful is home To sit by winder all
drer than nder and watch the unfortunates With
glad follow the fellows who waow around in the
the seet, watch them asppng and sliding and
piping, and falling all the street, There's nothing
soothing apt to be smoothing the burrows of grief
from your brow, sitting and gazing at folks who are
raising out there in the mud such rowi To watch mad
neghbor through hurricane labor while you snug
by the fire. to him cavotng and paving snorting
what could mortal desref | love storm and
blizzard from clear to lizard m fond of the seet
and the rain; let winter get busy and whoop till he
dizzy and II be the last to complain. For there is
easement just the basement where in all comfort
iading through till they fall in ft
Perth Amboy evening news., 1913-02-17
p F. r T Fl A NJ B O Y
Population S2,13t.

Population 82.13t.
sS miles from New York.
Tax rate 2.G2.
On Staten Is and Sound, at
the mouth Of the Raritan river
and at the head Of Raritan
Bay.
Ocean steamers can dock in
from 80 to 40 feet Of water.
Channel 2l feet deep at low
water leading up the bay
from Sandy Hook.
Daily steamer service to
New York.
-Four railroads-the Pennsyt-
vania. Central Railroad OF New
Jersey, LehiBh Valley and the
staten Island Rapid Transit.
branches running in all dlrec-
tions, affording almost an un-
limited number Of excallsn (
factory sItss.
Hhs two telegraph and two
telephone companies.
Electric Hight and gas COM
panles,
Two daily newspapers.
Federal Postoffce building.
Public Library.
Nine grammar sohoois and
one high school. which IL on
the approved list OF all the
leading universities In the
country, four parochial schools
and a busine ess college.
Churches of all denomina-
tions.
city Hospital.
Municipal water works,
Perth Amboy evening news., 1913-02-17

Prominent center fer troll
ieys TO all parts Of tho state.
Richest clay deposits in tho
country In tho Immediate vi
cinity.
Splendid theatrical Rdvan
tages.
Some of the leading indus
tries. are American smelling b
kenning Company's smeIter;
RariIan Copper Works smeltsr.
Barber Asphalt Works, United
Lead Works; United States
Cartridge Company: Architect
ural Tile d. Faieuce Co; G..
pardee steel and Tile Works;
Atlantic TerrA Gotta Co; Fed
eral Torra Gotta Coz New
Jersey Terra Gotta Co; three
pIants OF tho National Fire
proorins Company, and other
similar Industries Within the
immediate vicinity: Ceramic
Works: Chesebrough Vasellne
Works; Marcy Stove Works;
two drydock companies. to-
gether with shipyards and
marine railways; Standard
Underground Gable Company;
Roessler a IfasslachEr Cheni-
cal Works; emery mills, coke
and cigar factories cement
stone works: coal shipping
piers; handkerchief factory.
cement works; machine shops
and iron fouRdries.
For further particulars ad-
dress:
Joseph n. Stricken, Presi-
dent of the Board of Trade.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1913-02-17

Board of Freeholders, meeting in New Bruins
wick, As a rne the municipal authorities are
more apt to respond to local feeling than any
body governing the county. The bill that
would make this change should be defeated.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1913-02-17
FIRE ALARM BOXES


2S-Raritan Copper Works
19-Aarket and Sh eridan ste
25-Smith ct. and c. K. H.
Z6-Hfgh and Lewis SITS ...
s1--Madlson Ave. and Paterson st,
ss-Market and First SITS
35-Smith and High SITS
56-N. Brunswtck Ave. and New St
S1-State and Smith Sts.
9s-Atlantic Terra Gotta Works.
fJ--Buckingham Ave. 4 Hartford 81.
t5~-Conuerce and Front Ste.
4t-State and Washington Sts
4i-High and Washington sts
5s-State St and Buckingham Ave
b5--Parker st. and Pulaski Ave
bg-Han Ave and Cherries St
57--State and Wayne SITS
aS--Near United Lead Works.
69-Maurer.
Washington and First SITS.
65-N. brunswick Ave and Elm st.
64-smith st. and Watson Ave.
b5--Commerce and State Sts.
7S-tront and Smith SITS
I3-Water and Gordon SITS.
l4-k earny Ave. and Gordon ST
St--Brace and Hanson AVes.
S2-SInith and Herbert SITS.
sS-Amboy Ave. e Washington ST.
st-i.ehigh Ave, and Stanford St
65-Near City Hospital
St-cleTcland and EraCe Aves.
S7-A mboy and Hall AYES.
pa mhoy Ave and fnsicc st.
93-I.awrence and Francis SIS.
sf-Neville and Johustone SITS.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1913-02-17
PUBLIC SERVICE TIME rAnLE.

Cars Leave Staten Island Ferry;
For New Brunswie<-4 no "A. m. anu
every 80 minutes until S:4p u. n.---aIso AT
9;40, 1870 and 11:40 2. m. Saturdays
only, at l2:19.l
For Keashy--G:25 a. IA. and every 10
minutes until $40 p. m. Then every 90
minutes until f1.40.
For Rahway--5:5 so a. m.s and every 80
minut es until II 20 p. IN.
Fer Beyuton Beach-G 90 n. m. and
every Is mlnuies untIl ff:3G p m.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1913-02-17
NEW JERSEY CENTRAL.

TRAINS LEAVE PERTH AABOT
For New Work. Newark and Elzabsth.
at 6;2S, 7:l2. x7 SO. 7:55. sS;29, $3.50. 9;42,
1906. lo;32. lac a m.---l2 ;0f. 1873. s:a7.
S;it, 4;40. SOC 6:02. S14. sS:s6, sl1 90
p. m Sundays: S:3s. 9;2s o. MI ;23,
:aS. 6:52. s;27 p. IN,
New York only
Saturday only.
Fer Phlladelphia and Trenton, Via
Bound Brook: 6:2S. 7:f2. s"42, 1908. II nc
a. m.-I2:32. 2:47 5;e6, :02. 8:l4 .. nl.--
Sundays: s:32. s:2s a. MI :zS sos, s.b2,
9:27 D. IN.
For Long Branch, Asbury PARK Ocean
Grove, etc: 5:10. 996 a. m.---I2:o :o2. 80 .os,
4;3s, 500, :s4, s:54 I2:Si p, IA. Sundays.
For Freehold, $40. 1903 s:G6 A. M
1922 z:2i s:3s. 500 s:St p. IN. Sundays:
ii ;o6 a, m,--a;57, 1891 Q. m.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1913-02-17
PERTH AMBOY TRUST COMPANY

makes man think, and thinking often
stops him from making out the check.
That's how an account at the Perth
Amboy Trust Co. makes for economy. A
man will spend cash twice as readily
as he will If he has to draw check
for the amount. Start an account today
and keep track of the number of times
it saves you from needless spending.
We pay interest on daily balances.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1913-02-17
Perth Amboy Trust Co.

This Company is legal depositer,
or the funds OF the State of New Jer
&y, tbs County of Middlesex and is
iso depository for the municipal
:unds of the City of Perth Amboy.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1913-02-17
THE THREATENED FIREMEN'S STRIKE

OF course the locomotive firemen have a
right to strike if they want to, but they must
remember that no strike has been won that
has not had the sympathy of the public, and
the public is not going to treat kindly the
tying up of railroad traffic because of some
differences between corporation and its
employees, especially in these enlightened
days when arbitration can be used so easily.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1913-02-17

The store ada are q "oontinued
sGorys' from issue to issue of this
I ewspaper-with money saving posi-
Utilities almost sure to develop in each
saeceeding ebapteri