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The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1919-05-02
SPECIFICATIONS FOR BRANCH NO. 2 OF
TIE RAMEs DRAIN.


TIE RAMKs DRAIN.
Center stakes are set at the outlet, termi-
nus and at all angles Of the drain.
Station stakes and grade hubs are set
every rods along the line Of the drain.
Station stakes are numbered consecu-
lively from at the outlet Of the drain
to sta 10 plus i67 at the terminus Of the drain.
Station stakes and grade hubs are set
as follows: Sta 0 TO sta 10, Is links TO the left
OF the cent line OF the drain; stu 10 to the
erminus, 25 links to the right.
The width Of the bottom Of the drain
shall be feet.
The slope Of the banks shall be one foot
horizontal to each foot OF depth.
The width Of the top shall be two times
the depth added to the width Of the bot
tom.
The depth OF the drain shall be 90 feet
or less, to be taken from the profile or
grade table which are herewith returned
and made part or the survey records
Between stations the drain shall be dug
to q true grade, based on the depth at
each grade hub.
All measurements shall be from the tops
Of the grade hubs or bench marks.
All angles not affecting the highway or
an t easy a curve, beginning and ending not
less than two rods each side OF the angle
stake.
The right Of way required for the drain
shall consist of u strip OF land 100 feet
wide, 80 feet being on each sid OF the
above described route, which shall be the
center line Of the drain.
All trees, rocks. brush, stumps.. ETC.,
shall be removed from the right Of way
far enough from each side Of the center
line so that the full width Of the drain
good clean BERN Of feet and the spoil
banks shall be in the cleared area.
All work shall be done in a good and
workmanlike manner and shall be approx
ed by the Drain Commissioner or his rep
resentative before being considered COM
pleted.
Surveyed and leve'ed April 25th ana Both. 1913.
by order Of Alonzo Griffin, County Drain
Commissioner Of Shiawassee County.
BRUCE ROBINSON,
Surveyor.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1919-05-02

the senator received an intlmation that
he would be put in nomination II Van
Puren failed. Immediately he wrote
to Judge Fine of ogdensburg. chair
nan Of the delegation from the north
ern district Of New York. forbidding
such use of his name on the ground
that his ncquiescence would involve dis
loyalty to his friend the ex-president
He gave me leave to go to the con-
vention on my way home to meet Sally.
I had conflded to Mrs. Wright the de-
tails Of my little love affair." had to
and she had shown tender. sympa-
tbetic interest In the story.
The senator had said to me one day.
with q gentle smile:
BART, you have business In Canton,
I believe, with which trifiIng matters
IKE the choice of n president and the
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1919-05-02

All trees. rocks brush, ,stumps. etc,
shall be removed from the right Of way
Tar enough from each side Of the center
line SO that the full width Of the drain
good clean BERN Of 9 feet and the spoil
banks shall be In the cleared area.
All work shall be done In a good and
workmanlike manner and shall be APPROX
representative, before being considered
completed.
surveyed and leveled April 2srd, 18th and
30th, 1913, by order Of
ALONZO GRIFFIN.
County Drain Commissioner of the County
of Shiawassee.
BRUCE ROBINSON,
Surveyor.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1919-05-02
MINUTES OF SURVEY OF THE EAMEs
DRAIN.

Commencing at point SIC chains south
Sec. 1, II 8 r 1 Il, Shiawassee County.
Michigan. Thence s 20 deg. w on the N
y Of the s w Of Sec. I, William 3.
deg. 80 min. W, IS links to a point IL .2s
chains south Of the w " post Of Sec. I.
Length Of drain on said land Is 3.15
Thence N 81 deg. 30 min. w on the N e
u of the e u Of Sec. 2, Esther A. Buch,
holz owner, % links, thence s n deg. 10
min. w, Isl chains, thence "a deg. so
min. w, 9.21 chains, thence s 81 deg. 80
min W, 9.S6 chains to point las chains
east Of the w corner Of said land.
Length Of drain on said land is Pill
chains.
Thence S 81 deg. 80 min. W on the N
n Of the u of the Il 4 Of Sec. 2, Herbert B.
Peters owner, 3.07 chains, thence 90 deg.
40 min. w, 1924 chains, thence 43 deg.
% min. w, Cos chains to point 5.6l
chains east of the w corner of said
land
Length Of drain on said land is 1916
chains.
Thence s 70 deg. 30 min. w on the s "
ezer Waters owner, 5.0S chains to point
2 chains south Of the N w corner Of said
land
Length Of drain on said land sos chains.
Thence 3 " deg. 30 min. w on the Il
y Of the E u Of the 8 w of Sec 2, Mel az
lie Sanders owner, pa chains, thence 8 80
40 min. w, 1872 chains to a point 8.26
chains west Of the s u post Of Sec. 2.
Length Of drain on said land Is 1O.79
chains.
Thence s 4 deg. 40 min. w on the e u
Of the n w a Of Sec. IL, Charles Carroll
and wife owners, "a links, thence N 81
deg. 81 min. w, 1413 chains to point 81
links south Of the N N w * post Of Sec.
IL.
Length Of drain on said land is 14.47
chains.
Thence N 81 deg. 81 min. w on the w
"a of the N w u Of Sec. IL, Samuel b.
TAYLOR owner. 2O.37 chains to point 81
links south Of the N w corner Of Sec: II:
Length Of drain on said land Is 2O.S
chains.
Thence N 81 deg. 81 min. w on the N e
"a of the N u a Of Sec. 10. Charles Il.
Caswell and wife owners, IS links, thence
N 80 deg. 81 min. W, 1915 chains to the
terminus fythe drain at q point 80 links
south Of the N N Il h post Of Sec. 10.
Length OF drain on said land Is 1890
chains.
Total length Of the Eames Drain is 114.93
chains or 1 mile, 1S9 rods and IS links.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1919-05-02
MINUTES OF SURVEY OF BRANCH NO.
OF THE EAMEs DRAIN.

Commencing In the Games Drain at a
point 80 links south and 1901 chains west
Of the corner Of Sec. 10, Il 8 N E,
shiawassee County, Michigan: Thence s 2
deg. w on the N II "A Of the % u OF
Sec. 10, Charles e. Caswell and wife own
ers, 1895 chains to point 4.50 chains
east of the 3 w corner Of said land.
Length Of drain on said land Is 1865
chains.
Thence s deg. w on the N u Of the
SIC "a Of the N Il "a Of Sec. 10, Benja-
min +. lies and wife owners, $40 chnins,
thence N SO deg As min. w, 4.52 chains to
a point $40 chains north Of the w cor
ner Of said land.
Length of drain on said land is 1927
chains.
Thence SO deg. 45 min. w on the u
VI Of the 8 w u Of the N Il u of Sec. 10,
John p. Cramer and wife owners, 9.59
chains to the terminus OF the drain at a
point 1855 chains north and $50 chains
east Of the center Of Sec. 10.
Length Of drain on said land Is 800
chains.
Total length Of Branch No. 8 Of the
Games Drain is 40 81 chains.
BRANCH NO. 8 EAMEs DRAIN
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1919-05-02

The Pain Of Cerns and 6unions,
Is quickly relieved by shaking into th.
shoes some Aliens Foot Esse. the anti
septic powder, Try IL. No more th cd
aching. swollen. tender feet II you us.
this standard remedy. Sold everywhere
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1919-05-02
MINUTES OF SURVEY OF BRANCH NO
Q OF THE EAMEs DRAIN.

Commencing In the Eames Drain at a
point 80 links south and IL links east of
the N w n post Of Sec. IL, N 1
y, Shiawassee County, Michigan. Thence
w u Of Sec. IL. Charles Carroll and wife
owners, 1896 chains, thence 9 deg. 8
min. w, 1.05 chains to point 2O31 chains
south of the w corner of said land.
Length Of drain on said land is 20
ch"'ns.
Thence 8 9 deg. 8 min w on the w "
OF the w a Of Sec II, Samuel B. Taylor
1912 chains to the terminus Of the drain at
a point 8 links west Of s N w "A post
Of Sec. IL.
chains.
Total length Of Branch No 2 Of the
Games Drain is 39.67 chains.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1919-05-02

NOTICE OF LETTING OF DRAIN CON-
TRACTS FOR THE EAMEs DRAIN AT
THE RESIDENCE OF JOSEPH APPLEBEE
FAIRFIELD TOWNSHIP. ON THE nth
DAY OF MAY A. d. 1913.
Notice Is Hereby Given. That. i, Alonxo
Griffin. County Drain Commissioner of the
County Of Shiawassee, State Of Michigan, will
on the 9th day Of May. A. d. 1919. at the
residence Of Joseph Applebee. in the Town
ship Of Fairfield, in said County of Shiawas-
see. at 10 o'clock in the forenoon Of that day,
proceed to receive bids for the construction of
a certain Drain known and designated as
"Eames Drain" located and established in the
Township of Fairfield in said County of Shia-
wassee. and described as follows. to-wit:
New-York tribune., 1919-05-25
Calendar of Current Exhibitions

A0raham straus Gallery BrookynThryght paintings by con-
temporary artists, to Mays - ~
Academy Art Shop 1853 Fifty-sevent
Batk work. ~ ~
1aerlesEchngs, engravngs, Autographs prints
and drawings by contemporary
Arlington Galleries. 274 Madison and andscapes
Clifford W. Ashley, 1. y
benord Galerles-Panngs by Belle Bennett to Nav 20
bourgeois Galleries. 66S Fifth exhibition Of odo
art to May 81 ~
Caadorl Art Gallery 734 Fifth
sixteenth seventeenth and eighteenth century antiques
Devonshre Lace Shop 80 Washington SquareExhbon Of bridal
wells and laces, to June ~
Enrich Print Gallery TOT Avenue-Woodbock prints IN ~
to May 2S ~ " i'
Gimpel Wildensen CAT Avenue-Decorative nannos m
Hubert Robert. Ne' ~
Groler Club AZ East Sixtiet Street-Exhbon of hoobrd
NN's'' "
Hotel Majestic Central and sevenv-second s+ H.
to 1900 N 0'"ei''
John Mowbray- Clarke, to June T. ~
hennedy Co.. 613 Fifth Of old naval r;n+
through ~ ~ pii"'S'
hraushaar Galleries. 260 Fifth Avenue-Panncs bv Rvder Mont;
cell and Luks, to May ~ ~ ~
NlueunExhbon prints drawings bv Degas
~ alees-New YORK street and flag pictures by Chlde
Hassam, through ~ y O'"o
National
October " eN''o'''oi' W
new fork Public LbraryExhion illustrated books Of tho +
four centuries. - ~ VI 'Ao p"s'
ochoo OF Design and Liberal Arts-Exhbtion of Students ~
amy ra ohop 7l8 Madison
etchings by Adele Brush to June IN - ~ p'osi"piic
whitney Studio Club, lat Fourth Observation-Disclosures 80 ~
and decorative paintings to June l. N t"'e
New-York tribune., 1919-05-25

subjects meet him half way, they are
classical, but nature has her chance,
and the painter can put forth without
handicap the peculiar strength that is
his.
He can make his ancient ruin a light
romantic fabric. He can make his
trees like the accessories in some
comedy of the period, all grace and
slender beauty Over everything he
can throw the glamour of bright,
COOL luminous sky. The sky in a good
Hubert Robert comes near to making
the painting a masterpiece, it is so
deep and airy, so blandly spacious, so
full of clear, fine color We say
good" Hubert Robert. The pot boil
ers tell different story In this ex-
hibition, fortunately, there are no pot
boilers. Uncommon luck seems to have
waited upon the formation of the COL
lection. Into the handsome room
which they fit so felictously only good
paintings have entered They are all,
indeed, so good that we doubt if bet
New-York tribune., 1919-05-25
The Tradition Which
Developed Hubert Robert

The French school Of the eighteenth
century was of sophistication all COM
pact. 1t was the growth of the studio.
brought to perfection for the drawing
room and the boudoir. Never was an
art more sympathetically social than
the art Of this period. 1t is at once
the mirror of French manners and
their monument 1t reproduces with
eXactitude the color and movement of
life in which human relations were
codlfled to an extreme degree, and it's
all-pervasive law was one essentiallv
urban. The wholesome airs of the
countryside seem to have been excluded
from this fabric as by general con-
sent. But genius dominates the sur
roundings from which it draws the
breath of life. In the paintings and
drawings of Vatican you see how his
instinct for nature made him superior
to mere artifice. Chardin, delineating
kitchen maids and other humble do
mesuc figures, developed a style as
robust as his themes and rose mas
eSt1uli. dOOEe tne lNSlncerlty of his
time. From the influence illustrated
by these men there developed in the
eighteenth century feeling for nature
counterbalancing the hot house atmos-
phere that everywhere controlled. Art
lists who would not have known what
to do with ploughed field, such as
Mlllet was later to make beautiful
were at home in stately park They
recognized the value of tree. as least
as decorative value. Hence, they ar
rived at the formation of something
like landscape tradition. They ex-
plotted 1T in subordinate capacity.
ihelr landscape was never painted for
its own sake, but only as back
ground. Nevertheless, they made it
fascinating. 1t was this tradition that
produced Hubert Robert.
He was born in 1888, light. CAV
New-York tribune., 1919-05-25
By Royal Cortissoz

The fault of much modern mural
decoration lies in the Difference it paws
to an outworn ideal of symbolical de-
sign. A goddess is enthroned in the
middle of the canvas. The subsidiary
hgures on either side are ranged and
posed like supers in O stage tableau.
AS an American artist once wittilv ex-
pressed 1t, the effect smacks of a banal
rlte-"the presentation OF pianola
by Fisheries to Manufactures. It is
the absence of nature as a controlling
influence that explains this defect. On
the other hand, mural decoration re-
qulres certain architectural balance.
In the solution of it's problems the
greatest of modern masters are those
like Puvis de Chavannes and Besnard
VINO have known how to fuse natural
sstlc with formal elements. An
eighteenth century painter, Hubert
Robert. who, in his way, brilliantly
accomplished this fusion, may now be
studied in New York There is an
exhibition of decorations and pictures
from his brush at the Gimpel and Will
denstein gallery. In It's intrinsic charm
and IN the light it throws on an i'm
portant subject it makes a peculiarly
welcome episode.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-25

ter group could be gathered together
IN Paris or in Russia,
1t is an intense pleasure to see #
The exhibition is one of sheer delicbt
making known in an ideal way the best
qualities of deeply interesting type
whose traits need to be better under
stood in the United States. Moreover
the show is full of suggestion for the
student of decorative painting. II
shows how nature and art NAV be fused
together, how landscape may be intro
duced into formal schemes without
pedantry, without sacrifice Of the
beauty belonging to greensward and
trees. The net result is, as we are
pound to repeat, a shade theatrical
but 1T is theatricality refined to a point
OF lovel'ness. Think Of it in close as
sociation with the social world of
eighteenth century France and one can.
not help making much of the rlittering
artifice which was a second nature ~
Hubert Robert, as it was to all tho
painters of that epoch save such nor
tents as Chardn and Vatican. Think
OF 1t more abstractly, as just a mode
New-York tribune., 1919-05-25
Hubert Robert and
The French Tradition

personality, not in the least a man
of genius, but indubitably a man of
talent. He was altogether in harmony
with his period When he died in
1908 and they buried him in the ceme
terry at Auteuil, the inscription upon
his tomb commemorated him as an
Academician formally unregistered as
such, not only in his native France, but
In st. Petersburg, where the Russian
aristocracy had long followed a cult
Tor his works. A brief biographical
introduction to the catalogue of the
present exhibition lays stress upon his
cheerfulness, which persisted even un-
der the imprisonment which he suf
fered during the Terror. He is de-
scribed as bold athlete in his youth.
AT Rome he risked his life prone
nading the cornice of the dome of
st. Peters. He did this on wager
OF a few sheets of drawing paper.
Vlgee Lebrun, who painted his Dor
trait when he was young man, repre-
sents a full blooded, energetic being.
who, with the temperament that we
know he possessed, ought to have be-
come something like n romanticist. He
became, instead, an archaelogue. He
never could throw off, he probably
never wanted to throw off, the habit
of the Academy. At the same time,
there was at the bottom of his aca-
demic prediction certain realistic
strain. In the foreground of his
Staircase and Foyer of the Villa Me-
dici," purely architectural subject,
as formal in design as a work by Pan
Mini or Piranesi, washerwoman has
nung up her linen. The incident is
of Robert, of his taste
or everyday accepts upon his monu
mental schemes. He did not alwavs
iraw his figures himself. Boucher.
'ragonard and others drew them for
lin. But he wanted them there. It
S the mark of his archaeological world
hat nature is always creeping in.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-25
Nature and Art Fused
In Decoration

His craftsmanship tells primarily in
the building up of his compositions.
lie knows what to>lcave out and how
to bring what is left into a hapnv
unity. See him in the two panels
dedicated to the baths founded by
Count Vigier on the Seine. He puts
the prosaic elements Of his subject
into most beguiling perspective
The enpcloppc is as graceful as tho
substance of the work is not Ru+
look even more attentively at a
couple of decorations, like the two
from tho Roussel collection, "The
fountain of the Temple of vesta" and
The Rest in the Park" There h,s
New-York tribune., 1919-05-25
ANDSCAPE IN DECORATIVE PAINTINC .

upon Vernet, inclined less to portrait
ure in landscape and more to the
atrlcal ideal. In an easel picture,
therefore, which exists in isolation. he
has less weight than his master. But
when he has purely decorative aim he
more than rivals Vernet; he achieves,
If anything, a finer role. There are
some delightful easel pictures in the
exhibition under review-the study Of
the Villa Medici, already cited; the
sylvan view of Ermenonville," the
lovely little "Roman Villa" and sew
eral others. They are all serene.
llmpld Impressions, their picturesoue-
ness carried just SO far, their natural
ISM held in check by polished ele-
gance. taken as group apart, these
would be sufficient to justify Hubert
Robert as minor figure of distinc-
ton in his school. But the decorative
panels almost give him major rank in
that school.
There are four pairs of them. nm
rights OF about the same height, though
the horizontal dimensions vary. Thew
nave been, as it happens, superblv
hung IN a French room where the tint
IN the draperies and on the walls is
precisely the right one and where me-
r'od furniture, with a terra Gotta by
Plgalle, gives the ensemble perfect
hnlsh. The panels make an exhibi
ton, but as they are displayed thew
brlng back the atmosphere of an
eighteenth century interior, That is
the test for Hubert Robert. His
paintings are meant to enter into the
integrity of wall. They do this. As
we have said, he was not a man of
genius, but his talent was consum-
mate. He "trifed" with his ancient
RUNS IN the sense that he relieved
them of all unduly weighty and forbid
Ding effects. He painted them with
KIND of suavity. They are masses of
hoary stone, yet he contrives, without
doing violence to their antique DIGNITY
TO make pillar and frieze, crumbling
staircase or half wrecked cornice no
more overpowering than the same
things are when they are simulated in
5he opera house. These are, indeed,
oewltchlngly operate scenes, these
scenes OF Hubert Roberts. A cassi-
cal ruin of his, Renaissance palazzo
still intact, as in "a Fete at the Villa
Nedlci," is relieved by trees which hint
lot of the forest but of the garden.
lven when he paints wilder subject
IS pendant to the villa picture Just
Mentioned, he makes it, "The Torrent"
n altogether gracious impression of
shattered temple lifted above
ocky gorge. He is never tragic. From
ne bllthe morning or MONDAY light
n which he generally bathes the first
anvas in pair he passes to more
ubdued key without indulging in any
hlng graver than a sort Of mild, sun
ct revery. His characteristic mood is
New-York tribune., 1919-05-25
Free Concerts at
Columbia University

Because of the demand for tickets
for this seasons concerts at Columbia
University, it has become necessary
to provide several thousand more
chairs. Up to the present time there
have been more than twenty thousand
requests for tickets, and the number
will probably reach fifty thousand be.
fore the opening date. The New York
Military Band, under the direction of
Edwin Frank Goldman, who organized
these concerts, will play thrice weekly
for ten weeks.
At the opening concert, on June 2
Ernest S. Williams, cornetist, will give
solo. The second concert will take
place on Thursday, June 5, instead
of Wednesday, because Of the COM
mencement day exercises at the uni
versity.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-25
The Vicissitudes of
An Artist 8 Fame

mere have been curious fluctuations
IN the repute Of Hubert Robert. He
was enormously prosperous while he
lived. Allusion has been made to his
Russian vogue. Catherine II invited
him in 1882 and again in 1891 to come
to st. Petersburg. He no longer had,
however, the gusto for travel which
had sustained him in his youthful
Italian wanderings. He would not go
north himself, but was content to
paint quantities of canvases for his
admirers there. M. Louis Reau esti-
mated in the "Gazette des Beaux-Arts"
some time ago there were easily a
hundred examples of Hubert Robert in
the public and private collections Of
Russia. At home he always had
abundant support. In the official world
he held high rank. On the tombstone
aforementioned he is honored as Com
seillier de PAcademie Royale." In
l718 he was a member of the commit
tee appointed to supervise the altera-
tlons IN the Louvre required by the
establishment there Of the Kings pict-
ures. 1t was not until 1895 that M.
Gaolllot published his monograph on
the painter. This was followed in
1910 by M. de Nolhac's admirable
volume, and a few years later M.
Tristan Leclerc celebrated him and the
landscapists Of his time in a contribu-
ton to series Of popular handbooks.
To-day Robert is once moro on the
crest of the wave. His works fetch
high prices in the auction room in
Paris Collectors are finding him
worth while. Why should there ever
have been any interruption to appre-
citation of his art?
1t Is partly explained by the nature
Of that art itself, as it is unconscious
ly criticised by Vig6e Lebrun, who held
him in high esteem. She notes in her
Souvenirs" that 1t was fashionable to
have ones salon painted by Hubert
Robert Fashion is perilous task
mistress. leading particularly to the
cultivation of that facile method which
is one Of the most specious of all
crutches. Vigee Lebrun again records
the dubious proficiency of her friend.
"1l peignait un tableau," she says,
"aussi vite quill ecrivait une lettre."
Gle painted picture as quickly as
he wrote letter.") Facility like that
implies scores of "pot boilers" and Rob
ert painted them, not simply by the
score, but, we might even say, by the
hundred. 1t is significant, too that he
has been bracketed for popularity with
Greuze, which is tantamount to saying
that he had in him vein of rather
too saccharine sentiment. Even now
the commentator occasionally patron
ICES him. M. Louis Hourticq says that
ne "trlfied with the noble ruins of
Rome and Provence" Well, perhaps he
old. But, like divers other men, he
trified to good purpose. There is
kind of artist in the history of Landscape
painting notable for scenic handling
of nature and for treatment of archi
tcctural motives that is perhaps to be
characterized as trifing. Claude had
the grand style. Poussn had it. But
Wilson, the Englishman, is a good cx-
ample Of the old classical hypothesis
made little less than majestic Guardi, |
too, made the ruins In some of his
pictures charming rather than impress
sive. This was the function of Hubert
Robert, not to impress, but to charm
New-York tribune., 1919-05-25
The Ruin That Beauties
A Drawing Room

The eighteenth century French
painter who made landscapes more
than a background in his pictures was
Joseph Vernct. He revived the archi-
tectural tradition Of sClaude, but his
ciass'cism did not keep him from loy-
ing nature for itself; and il he was
capable OF building an academic COM
position in the heroic manner. he was
also capable Of painting a recognizable
portrait OF a place. Hubert Robert.
who formed himself to some extent