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j., which then bore an excellent reputation.
There my bent to drawing attracted the at
tention of Herr Wolfe, a German teacher
OF art with rather more than q local repu-
tation. From him / received my first lesson
in drawing from the plat. Later, on his
advice, / went to the Franklin Institute,
next to the Spring Garden Institute, and
then to the schools Of the Pennsylvania
Academy Of the Fine Arts, where re-
mained six years. While there ] had .
picture accepted and hung at one Of the
annual exhibitions.
Later I went to Paris and studied three
years in Julian's Academy under Bougue-
reau and Robert Fleury.
'At Brolles, on the edge Of the forest OF
Fontainebleu, there stood then the Hotel
Deligant, which because of its proximity to
Barbazon was much frequented by Millet
and other gieat painters Of France. 1t
was also headquarters for the American
artists and art students in Paris. The
latter sometimes became financially embar-
raised, but their credit was always good for
from one to six months board at the hotel,
and to their credit be 1t said Of the hundreds
thus accommodated through q period Of
forty years but one failed to meet his obi.
cations. Christmas was always q great
day with Us at the hotel, with q banquet in
the great raftered sale -manger and
Christmas tree at night hung with presents
for the children of the town.
1T was at Brolles that I painted my
frst sp"w picture. called "A Road in the
Forest OF Fontainebleu,' and which was
hung in the Salon exhibition of 1890 and
later sold to Mrs. r. G. Lincoln, of Boston,
for $50. The same picture was sold At
public sale in New York last winter for
several times that amount.
''It was at Brolles that met and mar
ried my wife, who was Mademoiselle Elise
Delisant. Q daughter Of the house. She left
home and friends to come with me across
the Atlantic and Is a. great O nature lover
as 1 am. and it is to her inspiration and
willingness to live a quiet country life that
no little Of my success is due. 1t was soon
after my return to America in $500 that I
first came here and to the Delaware valley,
but IL was not until 1893 that bought my
place here and wife and set UP house
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the peach and pear blossoms began again. I
plan fourteen pictures Of this period. hoping
thereby to show the beauty, the illusions, the
constantly changing phases Of the spring
time. After that begins my long annual va
cation lasting until next December"
What do you do in this long vacation?"
MY principal avocation and recreation
is gardening; there are several gardening
sharps here and think they will tell you
that 1 keep my end up. Then / take long
rides with my family through the picturesque
country hereabouts-and see more of the
children, of whom there are five, all at home
in summer, and some days they keep me
pretty busy. Formerly, as you know, went
a-fishing. I know the great river like book,
and there isn't a creek emptying into it for
miles above or below that haven't whipped /;
but the fish don't bite any more and I am
not one to sit in a boat all day for the bite
that never comes. Even the shad have left
the river; there is a shad ichery on the
island yonder, and following an old Colonial
custom the fishermen give one shad in each
haul for the rent Of IT, We have only had
three planked shad 20 far"
''You spoke last fall Of opening studio
~ Acahpy Vioke, Eoint icasoHt' "oS As'
''Yes, consider that village one of the
most picturesque and interesting Of the
Delaware, and have bought two properties
there, one last April and the other quite
recently; on the first il an old barn that
have remodeled into q studio" ..-
II should like to see it,
''You shall. In few minutes 1 am going
up there to paint, and you can come with
me and finish the day.
IAN the books on the river remarked
the artist, ''call this road the finest scenic
drive in Pennsylvania, but the road itself
would be dissrace to the most remote
backwoods district in the state. 1t is q
bad road, certainly--a bumpVty bump road.
There are little ravines across it cut BY the
winter floods, and II Is peppered with holes
OF various geometricai designs where up
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keeping. Here we live summer and winter,
rarely going far from home. I maintain no
studio in town.
"As to my method Of painting, It is
unusual, and 90 has been made the
subject Of criticism. Until recently my
work was all done in winter, as you know.
and most Of it from December to March.
My pictures are ell painted at q sitting and
usually in four or Eve hours. I seldom re-
touch or alter. II picture does not please
me 1t goes to the scrapheap. OF course, to
those who spend long hours at the easel
sketching, eliminating, composing, accord
ing to the conventional method, thh seems
revolutionary. A picture, they say, so
hastily painted cannot be good art. To which
1t may be replied that his work justiies
the workman.
MY belief is that art cannot be taught,
but that the trade of drawing and painting
can be impaired to one who is interested
In It. After that the student must have
consuming love for some one thing and
employ his trade In producing the thing that
he loves. In other words, the artist must
put his heart and soul into It in order to
produce q really great painting. The slar-
ing failure In cubism and the other isms
Of the day 10 that they show no love for
anything except sensationalism, which has
absolutely nothing to do with art. Any art
that needs much explaining Is not good art,
in my estimation. The picture should con-
vey all there is to be said in regard to the
matter. II that IL not clear the artist has
missed his mark he is a failure"
What distinction do you make between
the author and the artist? I have long
wished to ask real. artist the question"
s0T,HE author is word painter, and pre-
sents q picture to the minds eye through
the descriptive power Of words; the painter,
however. presents his subject directly to
the physical eye without an intermediary.
Good literature should not require paintings
or illustration to show what the author
meant; and, conversely. painting should
not require words to tell what IL means.
II began painting last, winter on Decen-
ber 10 and laid aside my brushes March 20,
rested month, and with the opening oi
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boiling waters tore through the frost -loosened
earth"
We turned up q side road and were i'm
mediately confronted by hill as steep as the
proverbial house roof. Far above the roofs
OF the more pretentious dwellings that line
the main street OF the village We turned into
a grassy lane.
In a clearing on the right Of perhaps an
acre stood a comfortable frame house and
barn-the artists first purchase. The
upper story of the harm he has fitted up for
q small but workable studio. The house.
think, may be his summer home, although
he did not so state. The view of the great
river and of the opposite shore from this
point is superb, but the artist said be could
show a finer and drove on a few PAGES,
turned into another hill road and descended
perhaps hundred feet.
''This is my second purchase" he saiG,
"and bought it for the view. Look north
ward and tell me what you see."
ONE Of the most beautiful views in the
" world. A long long vista between
shouldering mountains with the river for
Furnished floor; church spires in the middle
distance and far beyond the blue misty bulk
OF huge mountain thrown across the valley.
At our feet the Delaware was pinched
between two opposing points and flowed ike
mill race.
"You can't imagine how the colors play
down there" said the artist. "I 6nd my
self watching them while at work. and that
deep cash in the mountainside yonder, mark
ing the old abandoned stone quarry, with its
yellowish walls and the great splotehes Of
intensest black in its center, where water
charged with some chemical has run over
them-it Is very difficult to keep from
putting that in, too"
He had been setting up his easel while
speaking, and I had the pleasure Of seeing
q Red6eld picture grow. At first q few
touches Of black rising up the canvas with
out apparent order. but in a few moments
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becoming q tree. Then a lensthening lins
Of neutral tints shows a road, a mass Of
browns and grays on the left becomes q
picture takes form. At the end Of an hour
1t is blocked out and the artist steps back
to view the general effect and nearly steps
upon a bag Of sandwiches that Mrs. Red
fields forethought had provided. Dear
me- said he, 81 had forgotten lunch, rs I
often do, when at work. Are you ready for
it, my friend?"
There 10 q mouse -colored cottage In the
center of the clearing and near it a walled.
in mountain spring between two ancient
cedars. From the latter rustic up a can
of purest water and we lunch sumptuously
and talk, happier than kings. I should
have observed above that all the time the
artist was sketching in his picture he was
talking on Indifferent subjects, scenery, art,
the feverish ferment and unrest that ataicts
our body polite today.
The largest collection Of his paintings
ever brought together is now on exhibition,
in the Peabody Institute at Baltimore. II
comprises forty three paintings, illustrating
all phases Of his work, ani has been very
well received by the press and the people
Of Baltimore
Mr.. Redfeld is represented in. the princi-
pal galleries Of the country; the Metropol-
tan Museum, the Corcoran Gallery at Wash.
ington, Boston Museum, Cincinnati Mu-
scum, Brooklyn Institute, Detroit Museum.
Academy Of the Fine Arts at Indianapolis
Rhode Island School of Design and Buffalo
Academy Of Art. He is a National .Acade.
mician, and among his best known pictures
probably is Canal in Winter" which has
the honor of hanging in the Luxembourg
Museum In Paris. He has been awarded
several prizes, among them being the second
Halgarten, which came to him in 1904; the
Shaw Fund prize. the gold medal at the
Corcoran Gallery Exhibition in 1907 and
gold medal in the Buenos Aires exhibition in
1904.
The McCarthy weekly news., 1920-08-07

Read about your Sourdough friends in the Pathfinder. Read of the development that has been done already in this great territory.
 The July number of the Path finder is the Cordova issue. 1t consists of 2OOO copies profuse- lv illustrated and devoted al- most entirely to the Copper city
The McCarthy weekly news., 1920-08-07

According to late papers re- celved from there, Anchorage i, suffering from a pest of rats and the city is taking steps for a campaign to put the rodents out of business.
The McCarthy weekly news., 1920-08-07
TRAIL NEWS

Everybody is up to the neck in work this summer in Chisana there are no men to hire, and all the owners are .shovelling in as much as they can themselves in order to move the ground.
The McCarthy weekly news., 1920-08-07
OLDTIMERS RETURN

After an absence of over year Nels Tjosevig and Bill God frey returned today. They were formerly associated with the Mother Lode, and have been taking long vacations. MT. I jo- sevig has been on a visit to Eur ope and to see his mother in Norway.
 Bill Godfrey has taken in the sights of Seattle, San Francisco, Salt Lrke and Denver but is mighty glad to be back in his home town. The hometown folks are glad to see them back.
The McCarthy weekly news., 1920-08-07

ALASKA FLYERS on the WAY P rince George. Captain Street has arrived from Jasper to join the reso of the party. Land- ing during a storm they over shot the field, Wrecking the ma- chine and it is ur cel tain wheth- CT repairs can be made.
The McCarthy weekly news., 1920-08-07
TRAVEL BY MANY MEANS

Tony Grisko arrived on todays train. Since leaving here the last of March, when he started out on a fur buying trip, he has beer to Chisana and the White River by dog team, on down to Fairbanks by ooat. then to Chitina by automobile, an d here by rail.
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TOWN TOPICS

Todays train brought the first hunting party of the season. Messrs, T. J. Oliver and J. E. McKie, both of Texas. They will leave on an extensive trip tomc- row, going first to Chisana, on to Nabesna. where they will hunt bear, then to the Snag, the place for sheep and goat.
 They will then proceed to the Beaver, the home of the biz moose, aud expect to return to Mccarthy in about sixty days with a fine collection of trophies
 Jimmy Brown is in charge of the arty,with John NickelI also as guide, Con Miller as cook & Bill Meyers as packer.
 Andy Ttylor arrived from the Tjosevig property today and is now preparing for a hunt ting trip which party will ar, rive about next Thursday.
 Big Outside mail arrived to- day and another one tomorrow off the Watson,
 The survey party, with Fred Dahlquiet in charge, have moved camp from Sourdough Hill to mile 186. From there they vii work on through Long Lax Q and Strelna and finish up their seasons $ work Chitina.
The McCarthy weekly news., 1920-08-07

Mir. A. F. Trim writes that he will be in the interior prospect ing all summer.
The McCarthy weekly news., 1920-08-07

Jack Dolan is building a cabin at the mouth of the Snag, with the assistance of Bill Garden.
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HOME PEACE MOST NEED.

Marion. Ohio. August 9th.
 Senator Harding said in another front porch speech to- day that he would rather have industrial rest at home than be able to command the inter- national peace of the world.
The McCarthy weekly news., 1920-08-07

MT. Malcolm Brock, president of the First Bank of Cordova, is here on business visit.
The McCarthy weekly news., 1920-08-07

Mrs J. P. Hubrick entertain ed MessrS. T. J. Oliver and J. E. McKie and Jimmy Brown at din- per this evening.
The McCarthy weekly news., 1920-08-07
GOING UP

It is rumored that on the 1st of September the railroad and steamship fares are to be ad- vanced again
The McCarthy weekly news., 1920-08-07

A prospector named Myers, who has been prospecting and trapping in the Chisana and Scotty Creek country for some
 years, is reported missing. He was last seen in March, when he had considerable amount of money and furs in his poss- ession. One of his dogs showed up recently and it is feared that something serious may have lap pened it's owner; U. $. Commiss toner McGettigan has gona down river to enquire into the case.
The McCarthy weekly news., 1920-08-07

LARGE ARMY in IRELAND
 London, Aug. 3. The British have an army of seventy thous and in Ireland.
The McCarthy weekly news., 1920-08-07
BOLSHEVIKI ADVANCE

London, Aug.3. The Bolsh evilzi are continuing to advance and are now within sixty miles i Warsaw.
 WAR TO BE DECLARED
 London. August 9th. Lloyd George told the Bolsheviki reI resentatiyes today that unless immediately cease invading Pc land, Britain would declare war Paris. Britain has mobiliZeC two divisions for service in Poland.
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PERSONAL

MT. A. F. Trim writes that he will he in the interior prospect ing all summer.
 MT. Malcolm Brock, president of the First Bank of Cordova, is here on a business visit.
 Mrs J. P. Hubrick entertain ed Messrs. T. J. Oliver and J. E McKie and Jimmy Brown at din- per this evening.
 H. Park, who came into town from Dan Creek recently with a poisoned hand, had to have one finger amputated at Kenn~ ecOtt Hospital this week. He is staying at Mrs. Pete Johnson's.
 Pete Erickson came down to town on Wednesday from Ken necott, and is now preparing for a journey to bis c"pper proper ties, where he intends to spend a number of weeks.
 Mrs.J. Stevens of Juneau, who represents the Grolier Society for the sale of the "ToOk of Knowledge, spent several days in Mccarthy and Kennecott this week and was very well pleased at the number of orders received while here.
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TELEGRAPHIC

Especial to the Nev>
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Mike Knowles is making poor time to Whitehorse, where ne is to join Charley Baxter on hunting trip, on account ot losine his LorseS en route. Tie last report, he was still hunt ing item.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-01
Ship Board Asks Baker
For Six Hoboken Piers
Docks Used by War Department
Held To Be Needed for Com.
mercial Purposes

WASHINGTON, Dec. 31.-Negotia-
tions have been opened with the War
Department by the Shipping Board for
the transfer to the board Of six former
Hamburg American Line piers at Ho-
boken, which were turned over to the
army during the war for the use of
the transport service. Shortage of pier
space is handicapping shipping in New
York, and by acquiring these piers the
board could help relieve the situation
for its operators, officials said to-day.
The piers were taken over by the
Alien Property Custodian and pur-
chased by the President out of his spe-
cial fund and placed at the disposal of
the War Department.
The army is said to take the posi-
ton that with $4,000 troops and 10000
bodies to be brought home the War
Department should retain the piers in
definitely, alotting such space as it
considers available to the use of COM
mercial vessels. In the opinion of
Shipping Board officials the piers are
needed for the merchant marine, and
the army's requirements could be met
by the board
New-York tribune., 1920-01-01

Presidential and legislative elections
are held next July
General plans of campaign were laid
out and the military chiefs were given
instructions, but details were with.
held.
Control of the elections will b.
vested in elements supporting the Car
rama government, as q result Of ths
election to-day OF fiftsan members Of
the permanent commission In th.
Chamber Of Deputies. A decisive ma
jority was given the government ticket.
which WAS headed by General Marciano
Gonzales, over those put forward b.
the adherents of Pablo Gonzalez snd
Alvaro Obregon. In the election of the
Chambers share OF the commission
which will install the new Congress
September /, 1920, the governmen,
forces we're similarly successful.
Fifteen Of the twenty-nire members
of the permanent commission, which
functions between sessions of Con
gress, are elected by the lower house,
which also has majority on the con-
mission installing the rev Congress.
Thus the government will be IN full
control during the critical elections
period, although the Senate hss no.
chosen it's representatives. Govern
ment adherents, however, hold bal
ance of power there, and il is expected
will seat a majority OF those selected
by the upper house.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-01
Destruction Threatens Esprit
!. de Corps, 1t Is Declared,
\ \ Unless the War Depart.
ment Revises the System
l State of Unrest Exists
Overseas Officers Object to
Serving Under Men Who
We're Juniors Before War
Ne1o York Tribune
WQshiNQtoM BureQN

y WASHINGTON, Dec. 31.-The esprit
threatened with complete destruction,
According to close observers here, un-
less some steps are taken by Secretary
Of War Baker and his military advisers,
chief of whom is General Peyton c.
March, chief of staff, to remove the
condition of unrest that has developed
by reason of the policy of demotion
Followed by the War Department.
This was frankly admitted to-day in
army circles, where the prevailing in
equality in rank is the predominant
subject Of discussion. While it is true
that a majority Of the officers who
failed TO be sent overseas are the ones
wlo have been favored by the War
Departments policy of demotion, many
of those officers admit the justice of
she complaint of the veterans of the
American Expeditionary Forces. They
also admit that the departments mis-
take was one that has done more to
disturb the morale of the army than
any army regulation that ever has been
authorized.
j Overseas men who have been re-
duced are not complaining about their
demotion so much as the necessity of
serving in inferior grades to officers
who were their juniors before the war
The point is made that wnile officers
at home have been denoted, their re-
ductions have not been on parity
with demotions in the A. f. f.
Cuts Regarded AS Too Deep
1t is pointed out that the War De-
partment could have prevented the
New-York tribune., 1920-01-01
Labor Legislation
OF 1919 Bettered
Lot of Workers
Social and Health Insurance
Extended Through States
and Women and Children
Have Greater Safeguards

Labor throughout the country scored
distinct gain in the way of protective
legislative enactments during the year
ended yesterday, according to state
ment issued by the American Assocla-
tion for Labor Legislation. Four more
states adopted workmen's compensation
laws, leaving only six, all in the South,
still without such protective measures.
Eight other states further extended
their compensation laws to provide re-
education and rehabilitation for vic
tins of industrial accidents.
The association also notes striking
trend toward comprehensive applica-
tion Of the principle Of social insur
ance, as shown by the action Of Con-
gress and the legislatures of the states
which held regular and special sessions
during the year.
Missouri, Tennessee, Alabama and
North Dakota we're the states which
added compensation laws to their stat
utes. In the latter an advanced law
was adopted, providing an exclusive
state fund for administering compensa-
tion insurance.
Thirty States Extend Scope
More than thirty states. the associa-
tion reports, amended their compensa-
tion laws, providing more liberal cash
and medical benefits and widening
their scope. 1t adds:
Legislative progress during 1919
toward workmen's health insurance, to
protect wage earners against sickness
as compensation now protects them
against accidents, was marked by re-
ports from several additional state in
vestigating commissions, whose findings
are in general agreement as to the
crushing burden Of illness upon work
ers and their families and the made
quacy of medical care available under
present conditions, which call for re-
lief through q system of universal
health insurance. In New York COM
pulsory health insurance bill passed
tha Senate.
"In two states, Pennsylvania and
Ohio, official commissions made reports
looking toward old age pension laws for
New-York tribune., 1920-01-01

not blindfolded and was aware Of the
location of the place where he WAS hid
den, in spite Of Mr.. Jenkins's claims
to the contrary. The telegram added
that the Second Puebla Criminal xou1.
was continuing its investigation OF the
It was decided by the Supreme Court
Yesterday that the Federal District
Court should have jurisdiction in the
jenkins case.
Testimony given before tho Fall COM
m;ttse Of the United States Senate in
vestigatinr Mexican affairs by w. F.
Rnck1ev' an American lawyer formerly
Of Tampico. who said thst Luis Ca;
declared that the menace of the Amer
lean in Mexico must be removed, was
called to the attention of Senor
Cabrera.
The Secretary, in answer, declared
he did not even know Mr.. Buckley.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-01
Mexican Governor
Says Jenkins Plot
Charge Was Proved
Government Witnesses Said
to Have Confirmed Re-
port American and Bandit
Captor OH Friendly Terms

MEXICO CITY, Dec. 31.-Reiteration
of the charge that w. O. Jenkins,
United States Consular Agent at
Puebla, was seen in company with
Federico Cordova, the bandit said to
have abducted him, during the period
that Mr.. Jenkins says he was being
held by the outlaw, was contained in a
telegram from the Governor Of Puebla
given out by the Inferior Department
here.
Government witnesses, it is said
have proved" that Friendly relations"
existed between Mr. Jenkins and his
alleged captor while they were at the
villages OF Santa Maria and San Ber-
nabe. Mr.. jenkins, it is declared. wsg
New-York tribune., 1920-01-01
Bullfghting Bill Fails
Prevents Vote on the
Measure Permitting Contests

MEXICO CITY, Dec. 31-The spr-
ted fight between Congress and the
executive department relative to bull
lighting in the Federal district ended
yesterday with a victory for President
Carranza, government adherents alb
sonting themselves from the Senate
and thus preventing a vote on the
bill which would permit the conduct
ing OF fights.
Prohibited by Presidential decree
several years ago, bullfghting seemed
likely to return when both houses re-
Gently voted to rescind the decree
President Carranza objected, however,
and returned the measure to Congress-
The Chamber Of Deputies again passed
it, but the Senate failed because of
the lack Of quorum