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Evening journal., 1914-10-31
LYCEUM FESTIVAL AT
newark next week
Special to THE EVENING JOURNAL

Special to THE EVENING JOURNAL
NEWARK, Oct. 31.-The lyceum
festival will be held here the last
three days of next week under the
auspices of the Chautauqua Associa-
ton of Swarthmore, Pa.
Several Halloween parties have
been arranged for this evening in
Newark. AT the Womens College
there will be a party to which a num-
Der of the friends Of the students
have been invited. There will also
be a masked party at st. Thomas
Episcopal Church for the children Of
the parish
For the purpose of eliminating the
dust nuisance TO which there were
many complaints Town Council has
had a top dressing of fine stone and
tarvia placed on Main street
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In Absence of War Declaration
Turkey Does Not Accept Official

Austria. Clrcumstantial stories from
Rome declare that ConstantinOple all
ready has heard Of a naval battle be-
tween the Turkish and Russian fleets
But there Is no confirmation Of this
and Rome news has been singularIy
unreliable during the present war.
England is In readiness to prevent
any invasion of Egypt by the Turks
IL she is drawn into still another field
Of hostilities. There has been much
mystery over the whereabouts Of the
Australian and New Zealand units
who have been at various times re-
ported on the firing line. Il is now
understood that they are in Egypt and
have been guarding the entire length
OF the Suez Canal for several weeks.
In addition certain first line troops
1 have been quietly sent to Egypt to
reinforce the garrisons already there
and so far as England is concerned
II Is stated that every precaution has
been taken TO meet any emergency
that might result from any action o.
/ Turkey
II Is considered certain that tn,
present peculiar situation cannot last
very much longer. II Is believed here
that Russia has already demanded
/ through the Italian ambassador at
C0nstantinople who has assumed
charge of the Russian affairs in Tur-
key. an explanation Of her intentions.
This should reach Petrograd today.
Meanwhile the Russian Black Sea fleet
is protecting the Russian coast and
unless Turkey disavows all hostile
acts and Immediately recalls her fleet,
the hostile war vessels must soon
clash.
Evening journal., 1914-10-31
HURRYINC WORK
ON REHODOTH CANAL

Special to THE EVENING JOURNAL.
REHOBOTH, Del, Oct Sl.-The
dredge which is digging the land across
Gorden's Pont is about through the
pond and has started across the land ad-
joining Frazer's farm.
The Rehoboth public school children
will give a Halloween entertainment in
Horns Royal Theatre tonight.
Mrs. Mary E. Williams OF Milford is
at her cottage for a while.-Airs. Annie
G. McClelland of Milford spent few
days with Mrs. Mary E. Williams this
week.-Walter Burton of Lewes was
town visitor on Friday.
Evening journal., 1914-10-31
Allies Warships Pour
Shells Into Tsing Tau Forts
By The United Press.

BY The United Press.
TOXIC. Oct 31.-The Japanese
British-Indian troops who are at
tempting the reduction of the German
concession at Kiao-Chau are reported
today to have captured another out
lying fort near Tsing-Tau and to be
attempting TO take the entire position
by a series of assaults. They are re-
ceiving assistance from the Japanese
feet which is steaming close in shore
and is bombarding the positions with
its heavy guns. Every effort is being
made by the Japanese TO take the city
and advices received today say that
already a good portion of it has been
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destroyed by fires set by the explod-
ing shells.
Meanwhile a flying squadron COM
prising the swiftest cruisers Of the
Japanese feet has been dispatched to
search for and destroy the German
cruiser Emden. which is raiding Jap
anese and British shipping in the In
dian ocean and that vicinity. The
Japanese cruisers assigned TO this
task are faster than the Emden and
unless the latter is able to make a
neutral port and is interned by her
commander, officials at the Admiralty
are certai nthat she viii be sunk with
in the next few days.
Evening journal., 1914-10-31
TuREEY xUM on wAR DEcLARAT1ON.

ny The United Press.
PETRoGRAD Oct si.--No word has come from cen4tan
regarding Turkeys intention Although varships
have attacked Russian ports and shipping the Turkish
continues mute whether this offensive constitutes
state Of Meanwhile Russia IS taking an precautions
censorship established all from BLACK Sc
ports varsAps being oTsd IN aceordanee
with prsarranEed pszr
Evening journal., 1914-10-31
FLASHES FROM THE WAR
NILES gam NOTABLE VICTORY N FBANcT.

By The United Press.
PARIS. 8i-ASouEh military osieiais hore declared
the allies gaining notable victory the north te
official claims couehed guarded
admitted lighting yesterday various.
aons mile limo Of battle there alternative
it also admitted that the Gernaus
been able retain Of The ground Aey have gained Bul
pointed that these sans hayo been than onset
the gains part the allies the impression iostered
from oacal quarters hat tho present German activity te
north purpose Of covering general vhdIaFal
new battle lines farther to she rear.
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Boarding the midnight Wilmington
nd Philadelphia Traction Company
ar from Richardson Park. in charge
Of Conductor A. d. Crossan, early
this morning, four masked men,
thought to be white. attempted to rob
The conductor. Failing in their at
tempt, the would-be bandits fired sew
eral shots at the trolley car as it
sped towards this city, four of the
bullets ploughing through the win
dows and into the woodwork of the
car. The fact that the men emptied
their revolver was a factor in saving
Evening journal., 1914-10-31

SUN AND TIDES.
Sun rose 6.2s A. NJ.
Sun sets ............. 5.0OP P. M.
Mouth of Christiana.
High water .... 9.40 A. NJ. 1905 A. NJ.
Low water .... 1853 A. NJ. 423 P. NJ.
Reedy Island, high and low water one
hour earlier.
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RUSSIAN BLACK SEA FLEET
SEEKS BATTLE WITH TURKS.
ALLIES SEND BATTLESHIPS
TO SINK CRUISER EMDEN

Responsibility for Hostile Acts
of WarshipS. Clash of Fleets Is
UncOnfirmed. Allies Shell
Tsing- Tau. Germans Retreat
All Along the Line in France.
and Capital Will be Established
at Paris About November 20.
Kaiser Reports Russian RepuIse
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WEATHER

Fair tonight and Sunday.
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US TEMPERATURE

AT EVENING JOURNAL OFFICE
New-York tribune., 1914-11-29

ators. whose services we're accepted
shortly after the outbreak Of hostilitles
and whose feat has brought distlnc-
tion TO the International Correspon-
dence Schools, of which he IS a sue
cessful student.
Sighting a German aviator az Mont
morency, Lieutenant Spratt promptly
went up in pursuit Soaring Ike a
hawk above his prey, Spratt made 1t
known TO the German, whose name was
Heisden, that he had his gun trained
on him. The German signalled tnat
ne would surrender. and planed down,
ward. When he was about hundred
feet from the ground, however ne
tried to escape, but Lieutenant Spratt
did not hesitate for a moment. lie
simply dropped on the enemy from the
height of a hundred feet, sustaining
injuries himself, but securing his pris-
oner and smashing the German ma
chine.
It IS graphic story, too, which
comes from Aisne. a German aero
plane, flying high, visited the BRUSH
lines with the object OF reconnoitrlng,;
As the machine hovered overhead, well
out of the line of fire, British avl-
ator shot up 20 the attack. me Ger
man saw his adversary and attempted
IN attack from above. Shots we're
fred. but they missed their marx.
Steadily the British aviator mounted,
endeavoring 10 get above the German,
shots being constantly exchanged as
the two machines, looking exceedingly
like great birds in combat, maneuvred
swiftly around one another sudden
ly the Brtisher swung above. More
shots we're exchanged, and the German
machine was seen TO reel and stagger
and then slowly come TO the ground.
The German pilot was wounded, an
once moro the British aviator had
proved his superiority and skill
German aviators, indeed, scarcely
know how 20 combat the members Of
the Roval Flying Corps. One aviator
saws that, although he has encountered
several German flying machines, they
all fled away from him.
French and Russian aviatOrs, too,
are covering themselves with glory,
and the story Of how Captain Nester-
off. one of the first men in Russia 70
loop the loop, sacrificed his life in
order 20 prevent the escape Of an
aerial foe is one which must thrill the
world Nesterof observed two Aus
trian aeroplanes making their way
toward the Russian positions. He rec
ognized that IL was absolutely neces-
sary 20 prevent these ayiators carry
ing information regarding the Russian
positions 20 the Austrians.
Flying toward them, Nesterof sue
ceeded by skilful manGuvring in get
ting 80 close TO one of the aeroplanes
that he was able % fire his revolver
almost point blank al the pilot. The
latter was wounded, and fell with his
machine 70 the ground, where he was
captured. As soon as he had fred.
Captain Nesterof commenced a spiral
upward Sight. and was followed by the
second Austrian.
Il was impossible for Nesteroff, how
ever, 10 take any certain aim az the
Austrian, and. realizing that il was
above all else necessary TO prevent him
returning to the Austrian lines with
New-York tribune., 1914-11-29

drawings from the Musee Fabre. Fas-
cinating drawings they are. An anon
ymous sanguine of the eighteenth
century heads the group OF ten,
Rubens-like portrait Of the sculptor
Desjardins. There follow charming
levities by Frago, a classical piece
highly romantic In sentiment--oy hu-
bert Robert, a courtly portrait by
Roslin, a dashing hunting scene by
Delacroix, a bleak study Of lion
by Barge, and portrait by Cabanel
proving that that polished academlclan
could very nearly approach, IN a
drawing, the magic of lngres. Ihen
there are two examples OF jean
Francois Millet, one of them a sketch
of the house at Gruchy, not far from
Cherbourg, in which he was born. We
look at each drawing for the drawing
sake, but we respond TO the touch OF
sentiment in the scene which once
saw the youthful Millet literally tend
ing his fathers focks, and we end
as we began, on a note of atfectionate
solicitude. One would not have disas-
ter overtake the French people, who
have done so much for art.
A notable tribute 70 their pre-eml-
nenCe III AT ulSlOIlC ptI4Ou has AdN1ty
come to hand in the shape of volume
privately printed by the Burlington
Fine Arts Club Of London. This is an
illustrated record of te summer exhi-
bition of 1913, in which the club as
sembled a remarkable collection Of
paintings, pastels and drawings, with
few pieces of sculpture, furniture,
miniatures, porcelain, fambeaux,
clocks, snuff boxes and other examples
of applied art. The text has but the
technical interest which attaches 70 a
good catalogue. The magnificent photo
gravures give one the illusion OF as
sisting at the exhibition itself. They
reproduce the sparkling qualities Of
Rigaud and Largilliere, Vatican and
Lancret, Boucher and Fragonard, Char
din and Moreau lie Jeune. In the de-
partment Of sculpture there is a mar
vellous relic of Houdon, his study, in
terra Gotta, for the great "Voltalre.
Among the drawings is the best OF all
the works Of this kind left US by
Liotard, his Turkish Lady" British
collections are evidently almost as rich
in French as in Italian and Flemish
masterpieces. There were, for example,
nine Chardins in this exhibition, and
Sir Claude Phillips, in his lntroduc-
ton 10 the catalogue, characterizes AT
least three Of them" as Of the finest
quality. The book before US IS wei
come monument TO a brilliant event.
New-York tribune., 1914-11-29

that which occurred at Mons between
After about ten minutes or q quarter Of
hour the Frenchman got on top and
blazed away with a revolver at the Ger
man. Suddenly the latter's aeroplane
was seen TO spin around, as II all con-
troll of the machine had been lost, and
10 came down with a crash behind the
British trenches, while the Frenchman
landed uninjured, 70 the accompani-
ment Of the cheers of thousands of SOL
diers who had watched with breathless
interest the fight in the air.
Jules Nedrines, the famous French
aviator, is the hero of a desperate
aerial engagement. when a French con-
10Y was attacked recently by a German
aeroplane. Vedrines, accompanied By
an officer, went in pursuit, and within
ten minutes reached an altitude OF
5000 feet, from which height the Off
GER shot down on the German aero
plane with his machine gun, the Ger
man pilot and passenger both being
killed.
It is interesting 70 note that al
though, according TO General French
report. the main object of military
aviators is the cleaning Of informa-
ton ratner lnan oouD ulDpPL"bi a.
goud, the inventor of looping the loop.
on one occasion crossed the Rhine with
an officer observer and blew up, by
means Of bombs, two German conveys:
while from a diary found on a dead
German cavalry soldier it has been dis
covered that a high explosive bomb
thrown on a cavalry column from one
of our eeroplanes struck an ammuni-
ton wagon, the resulting explosion kill
ing ffteen of the enemy
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ONS AND OTHER MATTERS OF FINE ART

como out, and next year the series was
to have been completed. Early this
winter we were to have had, too, tho
fourth and last Of the splendid folios
assembling the facsimiles Of Pisanel-
los drawings in the Louvre-with NJ.
Guifrey's historical and critical text
and NJ. Girodie's photography. 1t must
all wait. M. Guitfrey and the rest
have been too busy caring for the art
treasures of France TO think Of the
societe. They have been carrying
great paintings to places Of safety.
Some Of them. it Is probable. have been
fighting In London it Is the same.
The little interests of the amateur
have been swept where they belong,
into the extremely distant back
ground.
Who would have II otherwisel Yet
who could ignore the pang which comes
with reflection on the interruption OF
these humane employments2 One muses.
with a more poignant sympathy on the
national tastes and aptitudes from
which they flow. The drawings In the
last portfolio received from France are
all from the Musee Fabre, in Mont
pellier, and the brief introduction Ia
eloquent Of the sort Of thing common
In the history of French towns. Early
in the last century Montpelier pos
sessed comparatively few works Of art
in her public gallery. In 1925 the
painter Fabre remedied the defect, pre-
senting TO the municipality more than
two hundred pictures, number Of
drawings, prints, sculptures and mis-
cellaneous objects Of art, and a library
of about nine thousand volumes, many
Of which had belonged TO Alheri and
the Duchess of Albany. Montpelier
promptly bought one OF the ancient
mansions of the town, filed il with its
new collection and dedicated IL as the
Musee Fabre. He, on his death, left
more fine works of art 10 Montpelier
In 184l NJ. Bennet-Mel gave four hun
dred drawings. In 1868, and again in
1876, there were precious gifts from
VI. Bruyas. And so the list lcngthens,
tho names of Valedau, Collot, Canonge
and Cabanel marking Il with invaluable
donations. To-day tho Musee Fabre, IN
its cabinet Of drawings, ranks but little
below the Musee Vicar, at Lille.
Old memories como back as We
write the words, memories Of a very
multitude of provincial museums I'm
beauty, go rich in just the personal
souvenirs that glorify tho Musee Fabre,
That is the Frenchmsn's way. In ART,
as in other things, he Is q patriot. He
is happy collecting pictures and draw
ings. When he comes 10 die no loves
to give them to his native town. Bon
nat, working most Of his life in Paris
and gaining his fame there, neyertho-
less takes the superb collection he has
been 80 fortunate as 10 get togther
snd deposits it in Bayonne, where
hardly anybody ever goes. No doubt
more people would sec il II he had
given it to Paris. But no was born
in Bayonne and when in his youth
no needed money for the pursuit OF
his studies the town helped him out.
So no repays tho town. We think Of
this and Of thousand kindred liberal
tiles and tidelities as we turn over the
New-York tribune., 1914-11-29

ures. They contradict all the rules,
thereby giving US a healthy reminder
of the fact that there is nothing tails
manic about rules, in AIT For line
in WhistleT's sense, OF Rembrandt g,
Brangwyn has no prediction what
ever. 1t is color that he a. always
driving at, color in great masses, made
mysterious, and amusing. by dra-
matte play of light and shade. Cam
eron, indubitably a master, indubita-
bly, the finer artist, looks thin and
cold beside him. The others positive
ly crumple up. Brangwyn is robust,
emotional, vividly and sympathetically
human. When he tackles a subject
nominally too big for an etching he
somehow contrives TO justify his
choice of it, We may cite in illustra-
ton "The Valentre Bridge, Cahors
The colossal structural forms there
must have baffled anybody else. Brang-
wyn literally filings them on his plate,
with a large gusto, and the result Is
purely exhilarating.
If the lover Of etching, straying into
this exhibition and finding Cameron, as
we have found him, somewhat over
shadowed, would like 10 see the balance
restored, he has only to visit tho
Knoedler gallery, where Cameron has
an exhibition TO himself He really
needs 10 be thus detached from the gen
eral order Of things. There is nothing
in the least precious" about him. On
the contrary there is at the bottom OF
everything he does a strain amply in
dicative Of his northern origin. Never
was there an artist of a more maseu-
line temperament. The Whistlerian
nuance is not in his vocabulary. His
mode Of artistic expression Is keen and
lucid His work is made up OF ele-
ments absolutely concrete. Only In
some Of his landscapes does ne seem
to borrow from mountain and lake
beauty imponderable and poetic. And
vet Cameron is a man to study apart,
10 apprehend in that atmosphere Of
appreciation which is reserved for the
more recondite phases Of art. lie Is
the one type in the contemporary Brit
ish school who is a type Of distinction.
His style is not precisely elevated"
but Is tinged by austerity. 1t reflects
consummate taste. The personal
note, never absent, is never assertive.
Cameron gives US the rare and delight
full fusion of characteristics which is
one of the best phenomena in art,
fusion of original talent with kind OF
classical simplicity.
The current exhibition in the Print
Room at the Public Library testifes TO
the good judgment with which Mr..
Weitenkampf the curator, takes ac-
count of what is going on in New York.
Realizing that the renowned masters,
like Rembrandt and Whistler, are al
ways before us, he has covered the
walls with examples OF men not so well
known A few sixteenth century art
lists are included-the adorable Att
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From Raffet TO Inness and J. =.
TWachtman.

The Anderson Galleries are. like
those Just traversed. acked to the
doors. Several collections are brought
forward. One, which is TO be sold on
the afternoons and evenings Of Decem-
Der / and 2, is composed Of the fourth
part of Mr.. Latta's wilderness OF Ma
poleonic and Revolutionary relics. The
portraits, caricatures and other souve-
Mrs generally draw their interest from
purely historical sources, but the Hth-
ographs of Raffet are 'rilliant works
Of art He has never before been so
lavishly represented in an auction on
this side of the water The dispersal
Of so large a group Of such fine i'm
pressions constitutes an event. For
the student the value of the litho-
graphs is partly personal and partly
technical. Raffet's individual quality.
his ideas Of form and composition, his
dramatic fire, would by themselves
leave a deep impression. But the pc
culiarly important thing is his genius
for his medium, his manipulation of
the special tonality and texture Of
lithography. There he stands alone.
one of the original forces in the his
tory of French art.
There are some other nrints on view
at the Anderson Galleries, some four
or FIVE hundred from the collections Of
the late James Cockcroft, Samuel p.
Tatun and others, which will be sold on
the evenings of December and 9.
These range from the early masters.
Rembrandt in Holland, Marc Antonio
in Italy and Faitkorne in England. to
such moderns as Whistler and Haden,
and men of the present day, Cameron.
Brangwyn and Axel Haig. The body of
engraved portraits is in .eresting, en-
bracing royalties, bishops, statesmen
and great lawyers. The third of the
sales scheduled at these galleries is
one of paintings by American and for
eign artists belonging 70 A. II. Griffith,
Andrew jackson and others. The array
of I39 examples is not, as whole, at
all distinguished, but it contains some
good things. High up among these we
would recko.. the early nicture by. the
late ]. II. Twachtman, "The Beach at
Coney Island" II is little gem OF
color, simple, casual impression,
painted probably in few he RS and
bearing the bloom Of such spontaneous
work A tiny panel by Inness, the
Delaware Valley" likewise an early
fragment commands sppreciatiye al
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rrrniture, Paint
;nSs and Prints
French Draw
ings.
Nv ROYAL CoRTIssoz.

~. onsninS OF the Altman collection
,Ss museum has had the effect OF
.s,ns everything else seem little
- After so exciting an event one
'i'L.s Inclined 90 think that the sea-
hss suddenly fallen into something
w. 80 .o-por As matter Of fact, there
..sl.,tv 70 see, and. ss will be shown
- sfeirs are particularly active
VLs suetion room. IL may also be
- in passing that there are 20 be
- episodes OF certain high sig
ss.s,ce before the winter is ended.
~ current number OF the museums
-peustin" states that work upon the
p;Srs collection is being pushed rap
.sis .sis forward which means that we
- 80 expect glorious display of
.-.;e,t arms and srmor. There are
s-o.neets. too, Of al important exhibi-
- ~ old masters 81 the knoedler
.',is-iss. after the holidays. and it is
-. ir,probable that the Duveens may
.how. by and by, d remarkable group Of
i,siisr Prmitives. lt looks, after all,
a. n the war were not 20 interfere TO
~ serious extent with the pleasure Of
.lose who frequent the galleries.
Whether the owners Of the galleries,
I'D with them the artists, are to feel
80 pressure o. the European situation
~ -ot remains g question on which one
rsy gather the most diverse opinions.
IN. own inquiries have elected the in
io-nauon that nobody is doing land
,s,s business, but that things might
5s much worse than they are, and that
srery now and then some one makes a
,r,kv stroke One commentator hope
s-Nv recalled the fact that in more
,bs1 one year when business conditions
\ the United states were bad, even
sspieky. the sales Of works Of art were
stll very good He attributed IL TO the
h,; tbs; WORKS Of art Of the right sort
AVE more sn6 more come 20 be re-
rsr5sd as sure financial assets in this
tocntry. Some confirmation of the idea
night possibly be found in recent
incident. ty all odds the most piquant
of the sort 90 be recorded thus far in
he present season. We refer 20 the
ale the other night at the Anderson
rs,leries Of Sarrent's portrait OF