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soldiers monuments in Rochester.
York prevented her complying with
his request That same month
Johnny, Mrs. Farnham's third child
and her Junior partner was born.
But few months later a second
and more insistent wire brought
Mrs. Farnham to Rochester. The
committee members asked her all
sorts of questions, then went off
into another room to deliberate.
The hours they spent there were
centuries to the waiting victim. All
she wanted, by the time they were
through celebrating, was to get
home to her children; she had for
gotten all about the commission.
When they reentered the room each
one of them in turn made a long,
deliberate, stately speech, which at
another time the woman might
have appreciated. When they were
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terminated in inviting every mer-
chant Of the town to provide horse.
Now, unlike the Arab tribesmen
of the country districts, the town
Moor is no rider. He climbs now
and again onto the padded crimson
saddle Of a fat mule and ambles to
his place of business Or to pay o
visit, but horse is to him an annoy
ing and dangerous quadruped, pos
sessed of only two ideas: to fight
every other horse it meets-for in
Morocco only stations are ridden
and to throw it's rider. Accordingly
not single merchant possessed a
horse, and determined not to buy
one until the absolute necessity
rose, on the principle of "wait and
see."
A few nights later, about 10
o'clock, when all the inmates of his
house were asleep, there was tre-
mendous knocking at the nail
studded door Of the house Of one
of the principal merchants of the
city. Hastily donning such garments
as were within his reach, and wrap
ping his bed blanket around him,
for the night was cold, the elderly
gentleman called out from within
and asked what was wanted.
"Open, in the name of the Ba-
shav'
With a drawing Of many bolts
and the turning of great keys the
door was opened by the merchant
himself, who timidly asked the rea-
son Of this late visit.
Eve have called for your horse, !"
replied the master Of the Basha Is
household, who stood without, sur
rounded by half dozen particularly
evil looking soldiers. ~
my horse2"
Yes; the horse you were COM
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Now Her Equestrian Statue Of
Bolivar Is to Find a Place
In Central Park

About those soldiers monuments
there hovers a romance of hope, dis
couragement, waiting, reward, and
then hard work, and finally a proof
Of the realism Of art. Rochester
asked for sketches. Mrs. Farnham
sent them Immediately; they were
ready.A Her hope Of receiving the
commission was based on her own
knowledge that the sketches were
good. But she waited, month after
month, and received no further
word from Rochester; hope waned
and finally died out entirely.
Delayed by the Stork
Then one day there came Who'll
ly unexpected telegram, asking her
to go Immediately to Rochester. To
the head Of the committee, a sweet
old Scotchman, she telegraphed that
an important piece Of work in New
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No Tourist Rush to Europe

many who want to come will not
be able to pay the $500 for the pas
sage, it is equally true that the
Americans who are here have more
money than the prewar tourists.
This fact is being capitalized, to the
disadvantage of Americans.
1t is not unusual for the taxi
driver to tell an American his fare
is two sbob." When the American
shows ignorance of the slang for a
shilling, the driver will say 81. Some
times he gets away with it.
Most Americans now go to France
first instead of coming to England
as before the war. Travel to Italy
has practically ceased for tourists
on account Of the continuance of
trouble there in the railway system.
Spain is more popular than before
the war, but the war zone in France
is the place of greatest interest.
There are more than a dozen special
tours into the war area from Paris.
They last from one to nine days and
are SO arranged as to cover the
specific operations of the French.
English and American armies. The
chateau and cathedral towns. SO
popular with tourists before the war.
have fallen off as points Of interest.
In London within a fortnight sey-
eral sightseeing trips by motor
have sprung up and several more
into the interior Of England an.
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THE great equestrian stat
4 Me of General. Bolivar
by Mrs. Farmham

their work. Often you find that
every portrait by given artist re-
sembles in expression every other
portrait he has made. That is be-
cause the portrait includes some
thing foreign to the model and be-
longing to the artist
Which made me look at the "all-
fired ugly" Spanish dancer and
think:
"Well, you can never be accused
Of that, Mrs. Farnharm!"
Roosevelt Sat for Her
Another great man who "sat for
his portrait before Mrs. Farnham
was Theodore Roosevelt. It was in
the midst Of a Cabinet meeting.
Root, Taft, Moody and all the rest
were there. With no place to work,
or almost none, the woman sculptor
contrived nevertheless to work from
8 a. m. to 2 p. m. You can see the
finished bronze bust any day in the
boys gymnasium Of the Jacob Riis
Settlement. So great was the popu
larity Of this bust that requests for
portraits came in by the hundreds.
So the prestige of having "Farn-
ham" portrait done in bronze has
gained in luster with each succeeding
year. Mrs. Farnham declares that
suddenly she became as busy as that
busiest man in the world-the paper
hanging gentleman with one arm and
the hives. She marched straight into
fame and fortune without any de-
tours or any serious mishaps.
, The first "job" of this extraor
dinary sculptress was her third
piece of work and was planned in
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lean tourists for getting
over here and back in two
months is going to stand
for the year at least Two reasons
are given for this-lack of ships and
lack of money. The average rate
of steamship arrivals is two week;
before the war it was FIVE a week.
And the large contingent of Ameri-
cans who used to come over, such as
school teachers and government Off
cials, haven't the money. This is the
story you hear from those whose
business it is to look after Ameri-
can tourists.
There are about two thousand
Americans landing in Europe each
week, but they are not here primarily
for a holiday. They are, for the
most part, on business, and if there
is any time left they go sightseeing.
The hotels are not crowded. Stories
of travellers in desperation over
their failure to find accommodation
are pure rumors. According to the
head of the travel department of the
American Express Company they
have no difficulty in finding accom-
mediation for all their clients. And
they do not expect to have.
Although it is clear at this time
that there are not ships enough
the transatlantic service has been in
creased by only two large ships, the
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the commission Mrs. Farnham SIM
ply sketched the fountain, all the
details Of which she had already
conceived. She won against forty
contestants, the majority of them
sculptors of proved talent and abil-
ity. The first money she ever
earned was the check received for
this fountain-$5,O00-an enviable
debut!
During the second year of her
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The Basha Ventures Into High Finance Saves His Credit
E is still living, the hero
Of this story, writes the

|El E is still living the hero
Of this story, writes the
Tangier correspondent OF
Inc London Times" though he is
longer the Basha of a great
'0o'lsh city. Far away in a
"uaed residence in one Of the
'as1 towns he lives life Of peace
Nd tranquility.
Luxe all the Moors who have held
sa positions, he was a planter of
s'uens and builder Of palaces,
Auy OF which, nowadays in other
spus' remain to tell the tale of his
4emncence. His father had been
'saa OF the city before him, and
" not wasted his time, and when
son inherited the fathers wealth
bought the reversion to his
s,s post the family properties
:, already become vast.
h. 4ne son quickly added to them.
I'VE groves and fruit gardens were
sa'eo outside the city walls. With
'ne town he bought up almost
ea1lre quarter, pulling down
uses 70 add to the great window
block of masonry that formed
paiace. Externally it was moth
Oat high yellow walls of brick,
"itmn were marble courts and
s' rooms with richly painted and
,so ceilings, immense kitchens
I'so like a Gothic cathedral, and
s0's OF apartments Of all shapes
sizes, for the Basha's ladies
- numerous and exacting.
Goes Broke
~ this necessitated the spending
ge sums Of money, and, like
Moorish functionariea, the
e cverspent his income. Hi,
"a was great, but all the taxes
Solo collect and the revenues OF
xicultural land and olive
sculd not snfnce to balance
Nc nat faat he ere,
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the workmen went for long periods
without being paid, and there was
no redress. To strike meant being
struck-all over the back and legs
with knotted cords-and to COM
plain meant prison. So they bore it
and trusted to luck, and consoled
themselves that fate had ordained
everything, good and bad.
At length the Basha's situation
became serious. The crops Of the
year before had been poor, and he
had drained every possible source
of revenue, legal and illegal, just
and unjust. The Jews would lend
no more. The tribesmen of the
country round threatened revolt,
but every day the expenses Of his
household increased. It was a mat
ter of pulling through till the har-
vest-but the harvest was still a
couple Of months ahead. Two or
three thousand pounds would suffice
for the most pressing needs-the
rest might wait; but how to raise
even that paltry, insignificant sum?
For the whole Of one night he pom
dered, and in the morning he issued
an edict.
Call for Horses
There was danger, this document
stated, from the surrounding tribes,
whose loyalty to the Sultan was in
doubt. The walls were sufficient to
defend the city, but it was Of vital
Importance that the suburbs should
not be raided, as the population was
largely dependent for its food sup
plies on the gardens and granaries
situated outside. The military forces
under his command, though sufficient
to protect the town, were quite in
adequate to venture outside and
patrol the suburbs, and there was
no cavalry. In these circumstances
he proposed to raise : troop Of horse
men. The men were 70 hand, but
New-York tribune., 1920-07-11
MRS. SALLY JAMES
4'A FARNHAM, Who began
her career as q sculptorWhi
conualescing IN q hospital

the hospital, when her friends were
still laughing at her. 1t is a large
fountain, which stands on Captain
lawn in Baltimore. When
the competition was announced for
which the winner was to receive
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meteoric climb her work netted her
more than $4,000.
The third was a banner year. In
it she won two more competitions
and the commission to make the
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1nvalld's Whim Grew Into Successful Caree
Farnham, the Sculptor, Did
Her First Moldmg in !.
a Hospital

wears white whiskers and white
gloves and white boots and who has
lived with dogs SO long that he thinks
he is dog, too; and Charley Young's
pal, the white Esquimau pup; and
Widolphus, the canary who doesn't
sing as blithely as she used to, be-
cause she is jealous Of Bolivar, the
new green parrot; and Bolivar him
self, a great orator, whose funniest
stunt is telling the plaster ladies and
the bronze cats and dogs and ele-
plants what he thinks Of them, per-
suaded that they could answer him
if they weren't too lazy. Bolivar
would be a great liberator if he could
only get out of his cage! For Boil
var believes and is convinced that
the lovely, adorable white ladies are
in fearful peril from the elephants
and dogs, and Bolivar is born pro-
tector.
Fact is, Bolivar cannot be blamed,
for if ever elephants and dogs
looked all alive and on the point Of
action, here they are. Life and
action have been characteristic OF all
Of Mrs. Farnham's hundreds of
creations, since that fateful day
when Fred Remington called her
Spanish dancer "all-fred ugly" then
spontaneously added that cit was
full of ginger and very much alive"
In fact, it was that bit of criticism
and the courage to face the laughter
OF her friends which quickened the
new artists spirit and helped her to
go on. On so little thing do great
matters often hang.
A Bust of Hoover
Near the studio door you meet one
of the biggest men in the country,
so much alive, so tremendously real,
I wanted to shake his hand and ask
him but there wasn't any
hand!
Yet Herbert Hoover was there.
He posed for that marvellous bust
exactly two hours.
"He looks as if you could speak to
him." said the maid when she came
into the studio, and think that un-
studied compliment has pleased Mrs.
Farnham more than any other praise
she ever received.
''Look pleasant, and look as if you
were about to make a Speech" she
had said to him, and his answer
was:
~ never made but two speeches in
my life, and then, do you know what
they shouted from the audience?
Just two words: Louder and Fun
niern"
Before I make the portrait of
any great man." says Mrs. Farm
ham, ~ read up all I can find about
him; he must have certain attributes
in order to have accomplished big
things. think about him and his
work to the entire exclusion of any
thought of myself, my own opinions,
sentiments, peculiarities and indi-
viduality, which is just another way
of saying that try above all to rep
resent the truth. Too many sculp-
tors fashion all their works while
looking through the colored glass of
their own temperament and person
ality at the model before them; they
put too much Of themselves into
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pv Faith Hunter Dodge

lCoURAGE is the first
and foremost factor il
4 success-courage wher
people laugh at you!'
mis- is Mrs. Sally James Farm.
.us explanation OF the fact that
- the age of twenty she has be.
8. one Of the greatest American
,,lSkors, although before that age
J. had never modelled even a ball
.ube and never in her life has she
ssen lesson in her chosen art.
sor perhaps she adds on Sec
j thought, "it is just the working
4 Of the law of compensation"
To begin with, there was never a
1ulutor or artist among her ances-
s,,; the only professions represent
h we're the law and the army. Her
.iher was Edward Curtiss James,
I,s Of New York's leading attor-
,scs He was her best friend and
n pal. And in March, 1901, her
a.her died.
Must Earn a Living
| In April, 1901, Mrs. Farnham
as in Roosevelt Hospital. There
rble convalescing she had time and
OPPORTUNITY to think and plan for
km future. Her father was dead
knd her fathers money was gone !;
kb would have to earn her living,
kM. she had never earned a cent in
kr life. For some inexplicable rea-
n the only solution which came to
Esr was the idea of entering the field
d sculpture. Her friends laughed
l! her and she laughed at herself.
|lhs only knowledge she possessed of
Ehs subject was that constantly re-
kurring idea that she could take
beugh pieces of marble and convert
Ehem into the sinailitude of things
bad people as she saw them.
I And right there in the hospital she
kgan. A sick woman must be
(amored; so friend brought her a
et of plastilene and the surgeons
|at her some of their instruments.
The first product of these tools
vas not success; her friends con-
fnued to doubt and even to laugh.
Bat the hospital surgeons were en-
|husiastic; they said there was some
hing, some kind of muscular move
tent in the little statuette which
F'esaged success, unless, of course,
/ happened to be just beginners
|lck.
1t Had Life"
The second product was a Spanish
lancer. Fred Remington, historian,
saptor and critic, was asked to give
'a opinion of it.
Impossible to say anything good"
Fas his verdict, except that it sure
las ginger in it, and, if it weren't
% all-flred ugly, I'd think it was
live"
Up at 81 West Fifty-seventh Street,
New York, in the neighborhood of
'nth Avenue shops and restaurants
AUG tearooms, you will find sunny
soOlo In which everything is sur
psslngly alive. Not only Charley
l'ung, the dignifed black cat, who
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through, she merely rose and said:
Gentlemen: You've been making
speeches. Now I'll make a speech:
A house party I'm giving to-day is
waiting for me in the country; my
eldest son is waiting for me to take
him to his school, and, undoubtedly,
at this minute, my baby is crying
for me. I'm sure you'll excuse me-"
At that instant both contracts
were handed to her to sign at, her
convenience. The entire committee
escorted her to her train.
Not long ago the artist returned
to Rochester, wondering how her SOL
der monuments would strike her
now. To her amazement she found
an old, old, old G. A. r. veteran
proffering drink to one of the SOL
diers in bronze. "That is realism in
art" is all she had to say.
But Mrs. Farnham belongs to two
continents. To know her work one
must really go to South and Cen
trail America. Down there they talk
Of her as if she belonged to them.
Her magnificent friezes, done in
bronze, in the boardroom Of the
Pan-American Union at Washington
and her busts of Sucre, Hidalgo and
Bolivar, sufficient in themselves for
one artists lifework, have been
merely the nucleus of a long list of
commissions given her by the Latin
American governments.
A Statue of Bolivar
And now the entente cordsnle be-
tween Venezuela and the United
States is to be recemented by the
placing Of great equestrian statue
Of Bolivar, the national hero Of five
South American republics, in Gen.
tral Park this fall. This monument
in bronze cost $4,000 and is the gift
Of the Venezuelan government. On
the pedestal are the coats of arms
of Peru, Venezuela, Bolivia, Colon
bia and Ecuador.
Now about those children. There
is Julia, taller than her mother.
beautiful, attractive, fair-haired and
blue-eyed, who rides like her mother,
that is to say, better than a cow
girl, if such thing can be, and who
writes exquisite short stories.
Then there is James Paulding
Farnham, business man and aviator.
Who "lied to the army surgeons in
order to play the game, entered the
navy flying corps, said he was past
eighteen, proud Of the right to enter
the fight, knowing what it might
mean." j That is the way
James Sinnott expressed it at the
time, ending his verses with the
words which made Jimmy Farnham
hate him: 81 give you a name for
your hall Of fame, Farnharn-Farn-
ham of Yale!"
He enlisted when a freshman.
went with the first lot to Florida,
and was flying eight weeks after the
crash which made the navy sur
geons wire for his mother and tell
her that it was all over. But he
never stopped smiling.
"You needn't think Pm going to
die, DOCTOR" he informed the sur
geon, "my mothers lived through
worse than this, and you bet I'm not
going to disgrace her." And he
didn't.
On the contrary, at nineteen he
was in command of a ground school
with six commissioned officers under
him.
Then there's Johnny. Whom yow
already know.
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MISSJULIA FARNHAM.
1'A aUho rides like her
mother, but aUhose talents
raln to qvratlng rather than
sculpture
The Cordova daily times., 1920-03-15
MUST BE FULL CITIZENS

In accordance with an act passed by the last Territorial legislature none but those having full citizen ship papers or being native born cit izens of the United States will be permitted to vote in municipal cleo tiOns in Alaska.
 Prior to the passage of this act those holding their first papers were eligible to vote in municipal elec- tions
 To vote in the coming municipal election it is necessary to be full citizen of the United States and to have resided one year in the Terri tory and sixty days in the precinct, continuously, prior to the date of the election.
 Full citizenship, a years residence in the Territory and thirty days in the precinct are the qualifications the precinct are the qualifications required to vote in primary elections
The Cordova daily times., 1920-03-15
AS TT SHOULD BE

Through the cooperation of a com mittee from the Juneau Parent Teachers Association and the School Board, a petition was presented to the council for an increase in the salaries for the teachers of the public schools of that town. In view of the gagged upon a contract stipulating the salary to be paid, the the Daily Elm pire congratulates the council upon the stand it took in removing from Juneau the stigma of not. having pro- perly compensated it's educators, it adds: "while available funds would not permit of a larger increase, the spirit of fairness shown should have a far reaching effect"
 To the credit of that city it also went a step further, and thus set good example to be followed by other Alaskan towns, as the following ex cerpt from the Empire report of the progressive stand taken shows: when the entire matter was presented to the council committee on schools the increase was endorsed by them and presented to the coun- Gil. The council unanimously voted to grant the increase from Septem- Der, last.''
 Thus the poorly paid teachers are not only to receive an increase in salary, but also additional remunera- tion for services rendered during the past six months. The Daily Times has been a consistent advocate of a large wage for this class of capable and earnest workers, since which time the subject has been taken up not only in Alaska but throughout the country, With beneficial results. It now remains for every other town in the territory to follow Juneau's lead and when this is done the par ents can rest assured the excellent standard of schools in Alaska will continue to be maintained.
The Cordova daily times., 1920-03-15
CURB THE YOUNGERS

Considerable complaint has been made in reference to the running at large of the youngsters of Cordova at all hours of the night Naturally
 being of a mischevious turn of mind they frequently become a nuisance, as in the case cited by the postmaster in our local columns. There are also other important reasons why they should be under the parental eye and care. In fact the matter has become 50 serious that it has been called to the attention of the members of the that some action will be taken at the meeting of that body tonight for the enforcement of the Ordinance No. 25, which makes it unlawful for any boy or girl under the age of sixteen years to be abroad upon the streets of COrdova after the hours of 10 o'clock D. m. from April 1, to OctO- Der 1, or after the hour of 8 o'clock for the balance of the year, unless accompanied by some grown person having him or her in charge, or un- less upon some errand by permission or direction of his or her parents, and shall not then loiter on the way and shall not make undue noise by shout ing or yelling, or otherwise annoying the peace and quiet of the town.
The Cordova daily times., 1920-03-15
RIGHT YOU ARE

America needs the Republican party back" says the Democratic Seattle Times and truer words were never spoken. That the wish of some of the Democrats as we'll as the pub lie generally will be gratified at the November election seems to be a forgone conclusion. With the change of administration will also come the relief the country is demanding and as set forth by the Seattle Times, as follows:
 "The time is one that calls, not for a splendidly capable one-man govern ment but for a government by many men, responding to the inspiration of team work.
 "The United States cannot get any where with a government that is not working single-mindedly and as a unit for the accomplishment of defi- mite ends.
 Democracy IS now confused by overmuch conflicting counsel with the Bryanites at one end, and the Wilsonites at the other, and all other "ites'' in between, staging a ralistic representation of Donnybrook Fair on a busy afternoon
 "The G. o. P. has had eight years in which to reunite it's forces
 During that eight years, number of major differences of opinion among it's various leaders have proved to be of only minor importance after all
 Given control of national affairs in Washington during the next four years, the party will open up a new page in it's and the countrys his- tory.
 America needs the G. o. P. back.