Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-09-12

committee on public information to
exhibit them in Japan.
The original drawings differ little
comparatively from the lithograpns,
the latter being an extreme auto
graphic process, but there Is oli-
ference.
Ten of the drawings now on exhibit
tion in the Corcoran Gallery OF Art
were done on Hog Island and snow
diheTent picturesque views or the
greet construction work which Is
there being carried on.
Another group illustrates different
'fews in single munition town
They are tremendously complicated
compositions. tall derricks. machin-
cry. the workmen the work itself in
process. Yet as Mr.. Pennell has in
terpreted them they seem exceedingly
simple and very graphic. They give
wonderful idea of the enormous
york the government is do1ng-turn-
ing out ships, producing munitions.
building locomotives. etc. and they
cannot fail to stir patriotic pride in
the accomplishment.
In the original catalogue. as is his
wont, Mr.. Pennell has accompanied
the list of titles with brief COM
ments-comments in some instances
almost as engaging and Illuminating
as the pictures themselves.
Comment on Hog Island Group.
For instance, here is the note to the
first of the Hog Island group:
what does "A. /. S. c. Spell?' asks
the man who wants to know of the
man who bears these letters ON his
badge. Hog Island says the worker.
AS every ore writes about Hog Island
and photographs 1t under it's proper
name and place, there is no reason
why / should not. have seen more
of
there, for l began when it was little
more than an island and was down
again the last time few days ago.
I have seen the place grow-a growth
| which is amazing-just as l have
seen the growth of shipbuilding.
which will go on after the war.
have seen the Delaware river trans
formed, and have seen. as Admiral
Bowles told me. more ships being
built today between Wilmington and
Bristol than on all the rivers OF
Europe And American energy and
go has done it. Hog Island is too i'm
mense to draw, even to see at once
and these drawings are but little OF
the enormous whole.
Title Of bodybuilding Subject.
"The All-Seeing Eye" is the title of
one of the bodybuilding subjects. and
here is what Mr.. Pennell says of it:
Just as we have returned to war to
settle our differences, SO the. ship
builders have returned to the all
seeing eye to guide and protect their
ships, for what is the difference. save
size. between this monster and the
fisheS boat, which, too, trusts to Its
eye for safety as it sails the Adriatic.'
Another picture is THE Inland En-
barkation Camp. The men who
chose this site thought nothing of its
beauty, only that it was near the
great concentration depot; that it was
hidden: that the great transports
could reach it. and yet" he says, "how
beautiful it is
This sense of beauty pervades all of
Mr. Pennell's work, guiding his pen
Gil and his pen.
THE most picturesque place in
America he declares, lis on the
mountain side. where huge shafts
have lately sprung up. The top is
crowned not with trees, but with
chimneys. If you have the luck to
reach the town early in the morning
you will find it half revealed, half
concealed in smoke. mist and steam,
through which the strange shafts
struggle up to the light, while all
round the horizon the snow peaks ST.
lently simmer above the noisy hid
den town. If you have the still bet
ter fortune to reach it late in the
evening you will see an Alpine glow
that the Alps have never seen. In
the middle of the day the mountains
disappear and there is nothing but