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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-03-26

CCARCELY two people agree upon the
individual successes Of the artists
showing with the Forum Exhibition
during the past two weeks in the Anderson
Galleries; yet many opinions have been ex.
pressed; indeed everybody has had m
opinion. II never 10 a matter Of deep i'm.
portance whether people agree or disagree
upon questions Of art, but It Is in the high.
est degree essential that they form an opin-
lon the n way or the other. So in its
capacity for making people think the Fo.
rum Exhibition must be considered.a success.
The fact that the enterprise was q dis.
interested effort upon the part Of its spon.
son and that no business interests were
connected with Il also affected and i'm.
pressed the public, particularly - the open.
ing Of the chow coineidently with that of
the Spring Academy ives not considered
altogether IN accident. To fling open 20
large an exhibition at such . tire seemed
decidedly like the beginning Of the long ex.
pected. long heraided independent art
society.
Thu steady progress OF the modern artists
and the constantly increasing interest in
their work are due very largely. however.
to certain courageous business houses. and
the debt Of the art public to these houses
must not be forgotten. At Q time when the
officials Of the public exhibitions. among
which must be included the international
art shows at Pittsburg and San Francisco,
ere deliberately excluding the work Of men
that all intelligent people know at least to
be sincere. It represents no small degree Of
heroism upon the part Of certain great gal.
leries on or near Fifth Avenue 4 give over
months Of service to what at present 10
chiefly propasandism. The present un.
commercial enterprise puts . desirable
eachet upon the movement. In return it
will give the big galleries renewed impetus
toward modern art and will no doubt bring
In converts.
There 10 no intention here to plunge into
the reckless business Of assigning honors or
even rating. to the artists Of the Forum
Exhibition. The public 10 interested and
10 debating the values for itself. which 10
much better. To award honors at such Q
time would be indiscreet. for il is an open
secret that the modem movement in
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-03-26

drops'cal statuary. such a happy feature
OF the exterior arrangements" he calls Il.
Upon the whole, n gets the impression
that DR.. Brinton's uplift began upon his
return home. when he took up the study
Of the modern works Of art that were
rejected at the fair.
Charles Ebert. the impressionist. had the
privilege Of intimate friendship with the
late J. H. Twachtman and frequently
went out painting with him. AZ an illus.
tration Of Twachtman's mercurisl quality
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-03-26

The first chapter in Christian Brinton's
Impressions Of the Art at the Panama.
Pacific Exposition" John Lane Company
il smoothing more or less than q historical and
esthetical eiucidation of the principles Of
what 10 known a. modern art" DR.. Brin.
ton recites the sequence Of historic facts
and gives at considerable length the views
Of Marinetti. Matisse and Please. and
does not forget to mention the names Of
the American modernists. Arthur B. Da-
vies, Alfred Maurer. Maurice Stene, Max
Weber, Dove and Hartley. The modem
art" which these artists represent was. Of
course. conspicuously absent from the fair.
The conclusion n be avoided. there.
fore. that the deepest impression that
DR.. Brinton gathered in San Francisco
came from the extraordinary omissions in
the representation Of contemporary art.
This wilful exclusion. by the officials, of
the most vital art manifestations of the
period 10 M more illustration of the wide
gap between the public and practising art.
lists hat was discussed in these columns last
&c ~ 30 y Nto ttSCu u COn-
cerned. I believe this injustice has already
been rectihed and in the winter exhibition
now proceeding in San Francisco Arthur B..
Davies, Jules Pascin, Walt Kuhn and other
modern painters are we'll represented.
Later in the volume DR.. Brnton pays DO
lite tributes to the works Of Sargent. Home,
and Whistler that were shown. and lavishes
tactfui phrases upon the efforts Of the Swed
ish. French and other foreign exhibitors.
but he could not write of them with the en-
thusiasm Of Q discoverer, for of course no
Eastern writer upon art ven to San Fran.
cisco to discover these men.
The thing that 10 demanded of the re.
turned traveller from the fair 10 not what
he thought Of Whistler. for we all know BY
this time what we all think Of Whistler. but
was the fair really nice1 Was the ron.
temptation Of the fair really rewardir g to
the individual Of delicate susceptib;lities
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-03-26

men-they look and they look and they say
something that the author Of the picture
would be pleased to hear. The Sailor Boy.
April Love are immensely popular among
my hangers
THE late Mr.. w. J. Stillman. though
warm in appreciation Of the Pre.Raphael.
ties, however, reported u~nfavourably o n BE-
half Of the more cultured. Writing to Mr..
William Rossetti he Gays:
"'You should have thought that the &C.
centricities Of the school were new to US.
and left art such things a. Hushes's Fair
Rosamond and April Love. all Of which
have their value to the initiated. but to Us
generally are childish and triAing.'
Time has decided in favour Of the New
York working man." Mr.. Ross adds:
In the same way. rank outsiders will have
a immense deal to do with deciding the
fate Of modern art. Those who are firmly
welded to the old methods simply get into
q state Of mind at the mere suggestion Of q
revolution in art, and their minds are %
swayed by bigotry that they no longer re.
ceive impressions in the brain from what
they contemplate with the eyes. Young
people Of every epoch have q willingness.
however. to listen to the dialect Of their
OWN period. and it is to them, as we'll as the
unprejudiced New York w%orkingmen. that
the progressive artists will appeal for jus.
tice.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-01-28

ter 1t is very essential to provide for
giving the hogs all the exercise posi-
BILE, as no animals are at their best
when they are getting no exercise.
Sunshine is provided IN all parts of
the house by the windows on the roof.
This side of the roof is faced toward
the south, and the sunshine is admit
ted to both the front and the back of
the pens by the two rows of windows.
The windows along the side also help
in bringing plenty of sunshine into
the house.
All the windows are made in the
same way. They have galvanized
iron frame and the sash is also made
of the came material. This makes a
strong, substantial window that can
withstand the ravages of the elements.
This is especially necessary in the
windows placed on the roof A wood.
en- window in this place would be
likely to retain the water after a
rain so that 1t would swell and warp
out of place.
The foundation and the floor of the
building is made of concrete so that
it can be readily cleaned. In each of
the pens is placed movable floor that
is made Of planks A concrete floor
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-01-28
FRENCH DRIVERS BADLY PAID
Responsibilities, Receive Very
Small Wages.

Edward Mott Woolley contributes to
the Saturday Evening Post an article
on methods of earning a living in
Europe.
There are many fast trains in
France-or, rather, there were before
the war and there will be when the
war is over | am speaking here in
terms of peace, says the writer. Rel
atively there are just as many daring
engine drivers in France as in
America
One of these engine drivers is
JACQUES Olivier-if you will permit me
to take little liberty with his name.
He hauled the NOrd express, train de
luxe on the French Northern railroad,
out of Paris on it's journey toward
Berlin and what was then st. Peters
burg. The Nord express was as fast
a train as most of the famous flyers
in the United States.
The first stage of its eastward jour
ney ended at Saint-Quentin, SO miles
from Paris, and the running time Civ
en- Olivier was 102 minutes. This
means more than mile minute over
most of the distance. 1t meant, in
spots, IS miles an hour, which is the
limit allowed by the French law. Be-
yOnd Saint-Quentin Olivier's run
reached to Charleroi, Belgium-in all
about a hundred and sixty miles. 1t
was COM arabic to the run from New
York to Albany.
. The Nord express, too, might be
comparable to the luxurious trains
that rush headlong between New York
and Chicago. 1t had corridor, sleep
ing and restaurant cars and on it tray
eled the aristocracy of Europe and
America.
Therefore in France Olivier lived in
the same sort of halo of romance that
hCvers over the heads of the men who
sit at the throttles of our own limited
trains and haul us out into the night.
He had the same duties; the same re-
sponsibilities of life in his keeping;
| the same grim nerve.
For this service Olivier received
about $50 a month, including the va
riGus extras for making time and for
allowances on expenses away from
home. If he were taking a fast train
OF leg of its journey from New York
to Chicago he would be getting today
somewhere around 1925 a month.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-01-28
TREES ALONG RIGHT OF WAY
Texas Railroad Has Started Move
ment LIKELY to Meet With Gen.
eraI Appreciation,

Word comes that a Texas railroad,
running from San Antonio to the Gulf,
is to plant trees all along it's right OF
way, and discussion of the proposed
move is provoking much favorable dis
cussion, says the Los Angeles Times.
to improve, the scenery in general
and the railroad property in particular,
and to show travellers at the same
time what southern Texas soil and
climate will produce in arboreal
growth.
The trees to be used consist of date
palms, figs, oranges and peCans: the
latter native to Texas and one of the
most staple, natural and cultivated
crops. 1t is expected that trees bear
ing other fruits, nuts, etc, will be add
ed, after the first planting, as the rail
road will secure the services and ad
vice of the best experts to be found,
with the idea of demonstrating the
fullest horticultural values of this por-
ton of that truly great state, great in
many ways. Ornamental groupings
will also be made around station
houses, section houses, water tanks,
and on railroad lands of any character
along the entire route.
Railroad officials have had this move
in mind for some time and the work
has not been ordered in a spasm of
momentary and transitory enthusiasm.
With the charm thus added to the
landscape will go the profits to be de-
rived from orchard trees, and it is
anticipated the result will be an added
Texas. 1t will present a continuous
and uninterrupted argument for the
fertility and sufficiency of that sec
ton. The plan is one that has been
much urged of late for the alignment
Of the highways between Galveston
and Houston and the City Beautiful
man is much gratifed to find that such
a fine example is to be set for all who
thirst and hunger for more general
landscape identifying. There are no
more potent factors in the building up
of cities and surrounding territory
than good roads and scenic drives
with miles upon miles of suitable trees
to relieve the otherwise barren and
uninteresting landscape. We most
sincerely hope that not only the south
ern part, but the whole of the Lone
Star state may become one great
checkerboard, laid off in lines and
squares of living green.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-01-28

develop plenty of vitality on a fairly
small amount of feed SO that they can
have strong, healthy filters of pigs.
Outside pens are not shown in the
design but they may be provided in
any way that will be suitable for the
owner. Very often they are made as
rather long pens extending out from
the individual pens in the house. The
floor Of these pens is often made of
concrete so that it can easily be kept
clean. The concrete for these pens
does not have to be of very good ma
terial and is often made of lean mix
ture with the aggregate of bank-run
gravel. 1t is so easily repaired that
it is more economical to make the
floor in this way than to make it of
highgrade concrete. The pens pro-
vide a yard where the pigs can get ex-
ercise during the warmer days in win.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-01-28
GAVE HIS NAME TO TRAIN
road Who Was Long Held in Re-
markabIe Affection.

Running between Yates Center and
Fort Scott on the Missouri Pacific is
an accommodation train that is known
as Bobby" Railroad men, travellers
and folk living along the line alike
call it by that name, says the Kansas
City Star 1t is a sort of memorial
for one of the best-liked men that
ever carried ticket punch.
For twenty years Bobby Reeves
nobody ever called him Robert-was
conductor of the morning Missouri
Pacific that ran along this route. Most
of the time the train went as far east
as Rich Hill, but later its run was
terminated at Fort Scott. Reeves was
big, jovial man. He always had
kindly smile for the country boy who
was taking his first ride ION the cars"
he could chuck a crying infant under
the chin and bring an immediate smile
to it's wry little face, and he could
swap a joke with any drummer along
the line. After a while most everybody
along that portion of the road came to
KNOW bODUg hGtNtS anu Sdll INN
friend. Perhaps he made a few enc
mics, too, but if he did they were Of
remarkably silent sort, for nobody
ever seems to have heard of them.
Last winter Bobby Reeves died.
About the same time the Missouri Pa
ciffc took Off the morning train along
that route. There was an immediate
protest against the roads action by
every town along the line. The train
probably was not badly needed, but it
had come to be sort of institution,
| and folks did not want to part with 1t.
After a while the Missouri Pacific re-
stored it in accommodation form. The
long familiar figure of the smiling old
conductor is gone now, but folks look
after the train a bit wistfully and say
There goes Bobby
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-01-28
Animals at Play.

That the lower animals do not
laugh, that they have no sense of
humor is hard to understand when we
think how thoroughly they love to
play. From the highest to the hum
blest, they show the keenest joy in
sport, but they cannot laugh! If they
could perhaps the power would bring
with it other mental gifts, such as
to upset the whole order of things. Be
that as it may, the watcher of wild
life never gets used to the sight of
their mirthless sport, for in all other
respects their play is entirely hui
man.
"A great deal of human play is Sc
rious-desperately serious on the foot
ball field and at the card table, espe-
cially when lonely player at soil
taire, for instance, is trying to kill
time
Il have watched great, ungainly
hippopotamus trying by the hour to
do the same solemn thing: cutting a
croquet ball back and forth from one
end Of his cage to the other His
keepers said that without the play.
thing the poor Gagged giant would fret
and worry himself to death. 1t was
his game of solitaire. Dallas Lore
Sharp in St. Nicholas
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-01-28

is too cold for hogs to sleep on It
The planks can be readily taken out
OF the way when the floor is to be
cleaned. The plank floor is held up
from the concrete by another plank
along the ends.
The walls of the building are made
double so that there will be no diff
Guilty in keeping the house warm.
There should be plenty of hogs in the
hoghouse in cold weather so that they
can keep warm, as the heating is ia
Ken care of by their body heat. The
pens are s feet by feet, which is
large enough to take care of a SOW
and her litter. This size pen is also
large enough so that four or i've
shoats can be kept in them for fatten-
ing during the winter. These shoats
should be nearly the same size or
they may pile up and smother the
smaller ones. If more than four or
i've are placed in pen, the same
thing may happen, even if the shoats
are almost of the same size.
The feeding and litter alley runs
through the center of the house
lengthwise between the two rows of
pens. Very often a litter carrier is
installed, though it is not as necessary
as in a Hairy barn. Along each row of
pens is a gutter, and the concrete
floors OF the pens are sloped slightly
SO that they can be easily washed out.
1t is not absolutely necessary to have
the moor; on a slant, as the pens are
swept OFT very often, anyway.
me Partitions between the pens is
almost Always made of tight boards
SO thaI zach pen will be easier to
keep Warla. If hog wire is used it
IS necessary to have the house full
IN order u keep it warm.
Drafts must be prevented in hog
houses, as they are very dangerous
TO hogs OF all kinds. 1t is also e3-
sential that ventilation be provided
one OF the side windows can be let
slightly open at the top and the fop
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-01-28
MAKING HOUSEWORK EASIER
Place in Most of the Homes of
the Country.

The sale of household and kitchen
utensils is subject to all sorts Of
chances and changes from the fluCtua-
tions in public taste and the march of
improvement. Wood bowls and mine
ing knives were once staples, but the
invention of food choppers has seri
ously diminished their usefulness.
The growing popularity of aluminium
utensils has had some setback be.
cause housekeepers find the metal
harder to keep clean and bright than
enamel ware.
The old-fashioned castiron pots, skill
let's and frying pans are out of date
save in remote country districts, and
have given place to wrought-steel
utensils, much lighter and more last
ing. Every modern kitchen has like
wise up-to-date small conveniences,
such as mechanical lighters in place
of matches, asbestos mats to keep
things hot. soap containers for dish
washing, cool handled stove lifters, and
the like. One of the great changes
that has come in the household is the
vacuum cleaner, taking the place OF
the broom, the carpet sweeper and
the carpet heater, and saving all this
hard hand labor, since the best and
most efficient cleaner is electrically
run and needs only to be attached to
the electric lighting plug.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-01-28
First American Locomotives.

Among the firms which early under
took locomotive construction was the
one founded by Matthias Baldwin in
Philadelphia, whose first engine, the
odd Ironsides," appeared in 1892. The
influence of George Stephenson of Eng
land and his celebrated locomotive,
the Rocket" was felt in the United
States, but considering the undevel-
oped condition of American indus
tries in 1886, a surprisingly small
number of English engines was i'm
ported. The needs of our railroads
were mainly supplied by our own
foundries and shops. Nor were Brit
ish models followed to much extent.
American designers followed new
lines in order to meet novel condi-
tons. They were so successful in
making engines that would work on
curves and climb grades that Ameri-
can locomotives soon began to be sold
in England
Peter Cooper's inventive genius was
continually employed during his life.
He was most active In the assist
ance of Cyrus w. Field in the laying
of the Atlantic cable, and this enter
prise was in very great degree sue
cessful through the unfagging efforts
Of Mr.. Cooper.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-01-28
Faith.

The necessity and dignity of faith
nothing can be more philosophical,
nothing more reasonable than this
idea. And yet, if we are to believe vul-
gar defamation, and the sayings OF
people of the world, faith can be the
portion only of weak minds and dis
eased imaginations. On the contrary,
it is in a certain degree the common
heritage of the human race; and in the
highest degree the peculiar gift of ele-
waited characters, of noble spirits, and
the source of whatever in the world
bears the impress of greatness
Vinet.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-01-28

The lines were the greatest defenses
of the kind conceived until that time,
one, 20 miles long, stretching from AL
banda on the Tagus to the sea. sec
ond running almost parallel with the
first but ten miles in the rear, and
third, much shorter, extending from
Passo d'Arco to the coast. The whole
system fortified over five hundred
square miles of territory and present
ed barrier against which Massena's
forces battered in vain. In March,
1911, his sadly depleted armies had to
retreat and Wellington issued from
his defenses to begin new campaign
that drove the enemy from the Span
ish eninsula.-London Chronicle
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-01-28

The hoghouse shown here is de-
signed to take care of quite a NUM-
Der of hoga through the cold months.
1t provides a place where the hogs
can be fattened for the market and
also where the breeding stock can be
kept. In the fall many of the hogs
that were intended for the market are
not fat enough so that a good profit
can be realized, and if building such
as this is available they can be held
over till spring. The breeding stock
require warm quarters where they can