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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-06

Show me a bargain for all cash, Sha5t
to $4,000, inside city limits.
W C. HOLLAND. =
2o7 Texas Bank Bldg. Or. $50.
Evening star., 1925-06-01
NelU York to Haze
First Skyscraper
Church Edifice
BrOGdrOdy Temple Fund
of S2,OOO,OOO Report
ed as Complete.
BY the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, June New York
City was assured Of its first sky
scraper church last night when the
board of directors of the Broadway
Temple brought the campaign for
S2.0OO,O00 to a successful conclusion
by agreeing to underwrite what
ever amount remained to be sub.
scribed.
In its last days, the campaign has
assumed the aspects of a race against
quarter or million dollars in that
that amount had been given toward
the project by John d. Rockefeller,
jr., contingent on the organizations
raising of S1,750 900 from other
sources by June /.
Although the definite figures were
not made public last night concerning
the amount still needed to complete
the sum necessary to claim Mr.
Rockefeller's gift, DR.. Christian F.
Reisner, who inaugurated the Broad
way Temple project, announced that
about $4,000 was still to be raised.
The Broadway Temple to be built
at Broadway and 173d street, will be
composed of a church with large
facilities for community welfare and
office space. The bulk of the building
will be given over to commercial pur-
poses, the purpose being for the rent
of the many floors of offices to carry
the cost of the property. The build
ing will cost S4,000,000.
Evening star., 1925-06-01
SAYS LOVE OF COUNTRY
RANKS AS FINE VIRTUE
But Bishop Ainsworth Asserts Pa
triotism Sometimes Stands
Aside in Presence of Christ.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MACON, Ga, June 1.-'Love of
country is one of the finest virtues.
Patriotism stands close to piety, but
there come times when loyalty to
country must stand aside in the pres
ence Of Christ" Bishop w. y. Aims
worth of the NJ. Z. Church South told
the graduating class Of Wesleyan Col
lege yesterday in the baccalaureate
sermon. IF the German commander
OF the submarine tN sank the Lusi-
tania had sal so 10 the general
staff, I'll f firing squad before
III martyr those women and chill
dren.' the whole course of the war
1n5g' have been changed.
emc love has been nailed to
. more than once, but such love
II .--.-lg the world"
Evening star., 1925-06-01
SIDEWALKS AUTHOR DIES
Charles D. Lawler, Composer of
Tammany Song, Succumbs.

NEW YORK, June 1 OP.-Charles
ID. Lawler, who in 1894 wrote THE
Sidewalks of New York" faVorite
song of Tammany Hall and the cam
paign song of Gov. Smiths support
ers in the last national Democratic
convention, died yesterday OF heart
disease.
He was born in Dublin, Ireland, 73
years ago and came to this country
when he was 16. He had been on
the stage for so years
Evening star., 1925-06-01
PLAN TABERNACLE
Of LARGE CAPACITY
AdVentistS Consider Erection
of EdifiCe in Takoma Park
to Seat 5000.

Erection of a tabernacle which will
accommodate at least 5000 in Takoma
Park, where church conventions and
other denOminatiouaI functions could
be held, is being considered by leaders
of the Seventh Day Adventists of the
Washington Conference, who are in
their annual Today camp meeting at
Iakoma Park.
Need Stressed by Speakers.
The need of such a convention
building, many times urged by Ad-
NentiSt leaders. was emphasized Sat
urday by speakers at the opening ses-
sion OF the camp meeting. Theodore
b. WestbrOok, president of the con
ference, declared Takoma Park was
the logical place for the tabernacle,
and said he would suggest to the exec
utive committee of the conference that
future gatherings of the denomina-
tion in this conference be held in Ia
kOma Park.
The large canvas tent on Flower
avenue, Takoma Park, where the
gatherings Of the camp meetings are
being held, was crowded at the open
ing session and hundreds were forced
to stand in order TO participate in the
first service.
Hits Modern Science.
DIR. B. G. Wilkinson, dean of the
Washington Missionary College, ad-
dressing the camp meeting last night
declared modern science was antago-
nistic to Christianity and contrary to
the teachings of the Bible Modern
ism is threatening to destroy the
foundations of Christianity, he said
The world has reached such a state
Christ's return is necessary to save it,
he said.
Others who addressed the Advent
lists included Mrs. L. Flora Plummer
secretary of the Sabbath school de-
partment of the conference; Elder H
). Hyatt and Rev. O. X. Butler, mis-
sionaries to South America: Rev. G.
B. Thompson, field secretary of the
conference, and Rev. f. A. Harter,
pastor OF the Lynchburg, Va, church
Evening star., 1925-06-01

ton on that day. He said he would
confer with Adjt. Gen. Milton A.
Record to determine whether the Ma
tional Guard will be modified
Gov. Ritchie based his opposition to
the plan on the fact that most of the
citizens of Maryland and members of
the National Guard already had made
plans for a holiday July 4.
Evening star., 1925-06-01

Effort is being made to establish an
all-water route from Western Siberia
for lumber, which now must travel a
long distance overland on the Trans
siberian Railway to the Baltic Sea or
Archangel and thence to Great Britain
hNr
Evening star., 1925-06-01
RITCHIE OPPOSES JULY d
FOR DEFENSE TEST DAY
Governors Says People Already
Have Planned Holiday-Will
Not Issue Call.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE, June 1.-Opposition
to the Governments plan for a Ma
tional Defense day test July 4 is. voiced
by Gov. Ritchie.
The governor announced he would
not issue a call for a civilian mobiliza-
Evening star., 1925-06-01
OIL FOUND AT PUERTO.
Commission of Experts Explores
Gulf Land in Mexico.

VERA CRUZ, Mexico. June l CP.-
A commission Of oil experts has just
returned from a tour of exploration of
land along the Gulf coast, reporting
that they found indications of oil de
posits at Puerto, Mexico and other
places in that vicinity. Their findings,
however, showed that there was little
likelihood Of oil in the State of Tabasco.
Figures may not lie, but estimates
have been known TO mislead.
Evening star., 1925-06-01
War on Mosquitoes Nation Wide.

CHICAGO, June 1 CR.-The open
ing of nationwide campaign of ex.
termination against the mosquito,
was announced yesterday by the Cor
gas Memorial Institute. An outline of
definite home aids in the anti.mosquito
war has been prepared and widely
distributed by the institute
Evening star., 1925-06-01

A WONDERFUL VACATION that offers posbil
tiles for PROSPEROUS FUTURE, THROUGH ONE MORE IN
VESTMENTS MADE WHILE YOU ARE ON GROUND See
for Yourself the wonderful opportunities which
THE WORLD HAS NEVER WITNESSED AN EQUAL TO THE SEN
SATIONAL GROWTH OF FLORIDA DURING THE PAST TWO
YEARSNow the time to invest
vestgate the conditions for yourself OUR ADVICE
BE EARYe must limit the number
to and this number has
appointed last tour. AGAIN WE SAY-MAKE YOUR RES
ERVATIONS EARLY-our
convenience-DONT MISS THIS WONDERFUL
Evening star., 1925-06-01

Java coffee, once popular through
out the world, is now raised only on
a few plantations that are 5000 feet
above sea level to escape the leaf
disease that. has spread to all other
parts of the island and destroyed the
Evening star., 1925-06-01

Quoted the paper for many years un-
til his death several months ago, an
nounces the paper will continue as a
Democratic organ.
The publication will be edited by
Anglin.
Evening star., 1925-06-01
BUYS LAUREL DEMOCRAT.
w. H. Anglin of Hyattsville Takes
Over Long Established Weekly.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch TO The Star.
HYATTSVILLE, Md, June 1.-Wil-
liam II. Anglin of Hyattsville has pur-
chased the Laurel Democrat, one of
the oldest weekly newspapers in this
section of Maryland. The change is
effective today and the first issue un-
der the new management will be pub
Hshed Friday.
Anglin, who bought the Democrat
from Mrs. Carrie l.. Baldwin, widow
of DR.. Thomas NJ. Baldwin, who CON
Evening star., 1925-06-01

One of several American banking
houses in Paris estimates that sales of
francs to tourists in exchange for dol
lars averages 100000 a day in the
busy season.
Evening star., 1925-03-08
Art Fakers Able to Get Big Prices
For Imitation World Masterpieces
About
Reap btantal FIarvets FromC C5uIib America

score of pictures in the course of
their lives. Some who painted sew
eral hundred left only a handful that
are up to the mark and worth pos
sessing for their merit. But the de-
mand takes no cognizance of these
hard realities. Every museum must
have an fnness. a Homer a Wyant, a
Blakelock, a Ranger. a Fuller, a
Twachtman, and so on Many hun
dreds of private buyers exhibit a sim
liar hunger, and the prices mount
with every fresh sale.
Naturally, the temptation of the
faker Is extreme. 5 The fakes pour
into the market by the hundreds to
meet the demand, and, lest there be
any doubt, they are bought up as fast
as they can be produced.
But how is this taking done? How
can man palm off work of fraud
some pains to investigate the ways
and wiles of the daring rascals who
practice on the art innocent, and am
now familiar with some of the tricks
of the trade.
One afternoon a merry and quite
frank dealer in American pictures
took me with him to an auction of
household effects, among which were
listed a number of pictures "by early
american masters. we sat and wait
ed while the horsehair sofas, the First
avenue spinets, the Tenth avenue
highboys and other select pieces of
factory antique were picked up by
eager buyers. At last came the pic
lures. Here my friend sat up and paid
attention.
The first thing offered was a sorry
vague daub of an old fisherman in
dory, against a pasteboard storm sky
and some papier-mache rocks. One
used to see such chromos in Waverly
place rooming houses, where defunct
art students of a forgotten genera
ton had left them in lieu of rent
Perhaps they have a wreckage value
by the ton.
Five dollars" said sly-looking
person in the front row.
"Ten," said my dealer.
Twenty" came the response from
a familiar looking woman behind US.
Fifty" said my man doggedly.
1t was finally knocked down to him
for something like $40.
Several other sad smears went by
and were let go for 81 and SO each.
Then came big old canvas with a
dismal black foreground, above which
was a light mackerel sky, painted in
what the art faker calls broken color.
The thing looked like parts of two
Evening star., 1925-03-08

cannot be told (by the amateur ex-
perD from real oil paint that has
stood for century
The finished picture is then coated
with shellac. Before this is dry a
thin film of glue is added. The shell
lac and the glue shrink uneQually in
drying. with the result that the whole
picture is covered in a short time with
tiny cracks, seams and lines, the IA
miliar crackle that may be seen on
many old works of art. If the thing
looks too fresh, it can then be coated
again with Yarnish into which has
been put a little bitumen, burnt
sienna, sepia or lampblack. This is
called souping the picture. 1t gives
the added touch of darkening age to
a brand-new buckeye.
These last applications were not
necessary in the case of the fake
Twachtman, to be sure. But with
out them there was turned out a not
unpresentable fake, for which the i'm
posing customer paid more than
$1,000 happily and with certain con-
descension.
Evening star., 1925-03-08

The land was probably bought from
Col. Nathaniel Pope. whose daughter
Ann became the wife of John wash
ington.
John Washington increased his
land holdings, became a prominent
man, was chosen to a seat in the
house of burgesses and was a colonel
of militia in one of the wars with
Indians. 1t is believed that the house
of the immigrant, John, and perhaps
that of his son, Capt. Lawrence
Washington, was not the house in
which George Washington was born
and that 1t stood not on Popes Creek
but near Bridges Creek. The burial
ground indicates this. Generally the
family burial ground was close to
the house.
When the Rambler wrote of Wake
field in 1904 he had from Mr.. John
L. Wilson. then owner of the prop
erty and who had been its owner
since 1876, information that not far
from the Washington cemetery and
on rising ground overlooking Bridges
Creek is a spot on which long ago
there was a habitation. The rich
ness OF the soil and the character of
vegetation show this, and fragments
Mr.. Wilson's belief was that the first
Washington house was there and
that the house of Popes Creek was
built either by the son of the immf-
grant Capt. Lawrence) or by the
latters son, Augustine, who was the
father of Washington. This theory
is accepted by the Wakefield Associa-
ton, which, in its literature, written
to aid in raising funds for the pur-
chase of the Wakefield farm, says:
The plans of the association are
simple and yet comprehensive. There
are about 1000 acres in the tract
lying between Bridges Creek, where
George Washington's greatgrand-
father built his first house, and Popes
Creek. where the family lived when
George Washington was born. 1t is
the ultimate purpose of the associa-
tion to buy this entire tract"
From Mr.. Wilson, who died about
Is years ago, the Rambler got what
follows:
The farm descended from John
Washington to his son, Lawrence.
Lawrence married Mildred, daughter
of Col. Augustine Warner of Glou-
cester County. and their children
were John, Augustine and Mildred,
who married, first, Roger Gregory,
Evening star., 1925-03-08

entirely different pictures joined to-
gether Once more there was spirit
ed bidding among the same three or
four interested persons, and once more
my friend carried the thing off for
about 5000. AS soon as he had bought
it in he rose and we left the place.
What on earth do you want with
those things?" / asked him.
Hush" said he, grinning.
/ insisted and pressed my curiosity
upon him.
I'm surprised at you" he respond
ed at last. Don't you know an AL
bert Ryder or a Blakelock when you
see one staring you in the face?"
He laughed loudly and with a deep
inner glee at my stupid protest.
That first picture was an Albert
Ryder and the second was a Blake
L mean. Come
around to my place in a week and
I'll prove it to you
x x
7 CALLED two days later, unexpect-
l. edly, and was admitted. My deal
er was in his shirt sleeves. An artist
Evening star., 1925-03-08

was at work on an easel on which
stood the alleged Ryder, but, ah. how
changed. In the other corner reposed
the Blakelock, most beautifully
transmitted, with the fresh paint still
wet upon it's lower half. An Indian
village had been painted into the
corner, a great dark tree rose in the
center and the whole tone OF the
lower half had been keyed up to
match the mackerel sky, which had
also been retouched a little. Before
me stood an absolutely Characteristic
Blakelock.
The secret was apparent enough.
The dealer had bought both these
poor daubs because they were done
on old canvas, cotemporary with the
best periods of Ryder and Blakelock.
But that was a secondary considera-
ton, since faxed old canvases, artifi-
cially aged, can be bought in the
market. The real attraction was that
the poor failures who painted these
things had got into certain parts of
their pictures something of the quail
ity of the famous artists. My dealer
had bought them for their good parts
and had their deficiencies supplied
by master of the craft, who got
more Tor MS Work than the original
painter had ever possessed.
l saw these pictures exhibited later
in private collection and was shown
their histories, pedigrees and authen-
ticatfons. One was held at 5000 and
the other at $1,000, and it is possible
they have long since reached a place
among the elect.
A still cruder method is the direct
manufacture of limitations. Pictures
of this class fool only the minor col
lectors, the provincial rich men and
such like, but the fact that they do
fool many is attested by the vast
numbers in which they are turned
out Literally scores of clever ar
lists who cannot make a living at
their own work earn high wages du-
plicating the pictures of dead Ameri-
can masters. Studios in which this
work is done exist in several large
cities and some Of the impresarios Of
this fake art are as well known to
me as my baker or butcher. The
| astonishing part about them is that
they take very little trouble to con-
ceal their character from any but the
gullible pseudo-connoisseur. Many of
them have shown me their work and
exulted over their tricks and deceits.
| There exists a camaraderie in the
fake art world that makes the faker
Evening star., 1925-03-08

paintings, copies or retreatments of
the same subject or scene. The esti
mate is rough. but accurate enough
for our purpose.
But there are many more than 5000
art galleries In the world and some
hundreds of thousands of private col
lectors. all of them anxious to pos
sess Rubens, or. better still, a dozen
or so Rubens. The result is a mere
Q. f. D. Fake Rubens pictures crop
up from time to time in all parts of
the earth, and there are always eX-
perts to indorse them and suckers to
buy them. 1t is the way of the world.
x x
TN America the most notable move
l. ment pertaining to collecting has
had to do In the last two decades with
d mountainous rise in the demand for
all sorts of native arts and crafts
products, from paintings and statues
down to old whisky bottles-even the
empty ones. Nearly every one is
collector This man gathers Windsor
chairs from farmsteads all along the
Atlantic coast. The next man goes
in for highboys or fourposter beds
or maple tables. Another fellow likes
Stiegel glass or copper vessels or
Revolutionary firearms. AS a result
of this sudden and intense apprecia-
tion of native products the prices of
all such matters have risen out of
all sane proportion.
One steps into the fashionable auc-
tion rooms nowadays and sees little
early American mahogany chair of
chaste design fetch $500 without even
a gasp of anguish. A good highboy,
that may or may not have felt the
tool of Duncan Phyfe, brings up to
$4,000. Fifteen years ago, before the
craze began, such articles were COM
monty bought for s5 to $50. They
adorned the studios OF INDECENT art
lists and blithering Bohemians in
Greenwich Village, the only souls to
do them reverence.
This same appreciation" has over
taken American painting. Artists
who starved and groveled most of
their lives, died in want and defeat
or spent their senescence in lunatio
asylums, undone by worry and priva-
ton, now bring such prices as $4,000,
$40, 1000, $4,000 and even $4,000 for a
single picture. To every collector or
promenader in Picture Row these
things are too familiar for comment.
/ set them down for the information
of the reader who is not art stung.
1t happens to be a sterling fact that
some of these popular Americans
painted only a few dozen or few
Evening star., 1925-03-08
BY EDWARD H. SMITH.


T HE recent trial in Paris of
Jean Vigoroux. one-time
Fifth avenue art dealer and
4 American representative of
the noted antiquarian firm of
De Motto, has brought to the fore
once more the question of spurious
art.
Since Vigoroux charged that a
statue De Motto had sold to the Met
ropolitan Museum in New York
through him was a fraud, even the
museums all over the country are
taking fresh peeps at their choice
pieces and wondering with horrible
apprehensions where the lightning of
exposure is going to strike next.
1t is true the French jury refused
to believe NigorouX and convicted
him of Withholding money due his
employer, and the Metropolitan au
thorities have secuted the charge as
preposterous.
No one who has been at all asso
ciated with the art market in New
York and other large American cities
can doubt that an immense number
of fakes of all kinds, descriptions and
degrees have been palmed off on the
public in this country in the last 25
years or since our newly prosperous
people began to go in for culture. The
very character and volume OF the de-
mand has made this inevitable.
In new countries, with new cities
and new-rich men coming up all the
time. there follows inevitably de-
mand for the old, the time hallowed,
the traditional. Everything else is so
new and brash that there seems to be
a vacuum that can be filled only by
the hot application of antiquities.
The cities and their men are not ia
miliar with such matters. The bright
fairyland OF art is to them terra
incognita. but not land of terrors.
They rush in where wiser men hold
back. Since the easiest and quick
thing TO learn about art is the name
of the artist. these new collectors in
variably go in for regulations. So it
happens that an enormous demand
arises for the work of certain lucky
men-lucky IL still living.
Here a great disparity between sup
ply and demand arises. Let US take
paintings for inspection. A madly
prolific painter like Rubens, for in
stance, even with the aid of pupils
and helpers, turned out in his whole
lifetime, which was longer than most,
a matter of some 600 pictures of all
kinds and sizes, many of them re-
Evening star., 1925-03-08

ceived her with many compliments
and genufiections and 1 understood at
once that the lady had been well
lowered.
She was interested in a Twacht-
man. Yes, Twachtman. Her old
friend. Mr.. Japonico, had several
beautiful examples and had bought
them cheap, too. She had a room
which required a Twachtman. How
much did they cost?
AS / recall the incident now, the
dealer mentioned some such sum IS
$1,000. There was a squall of indig-
nation. Five thousand dollars, Ah-
solutely not! That was an imposi-
ton. Then she began TO wheedle. She
had bought lot from her dear friend,
Mr.. Dealer. He shouldn't make such
profits on her No doubt he had a
Twachtman that he had bought for a
few hundred dollars. Surely he
would let her have it at a reasonable
advance.
Almost in the twinkling of an eve
the dealer had taken his cue and
brought out a couple of imitation
Twachtmans which had been painted
in Philadelphia by a well known re
producer of this artists work. They
were held at s1,500 each.
Also they gave this innocent be-
holder a fit of melancholy. Neither
was the lady pleased. They weren't
the kind of Twachtmans she wanted.
She must have one of the light, neb-
ulous, airy things. perhaps snow
picture Before she left she gave
the dimensions required and even Sc
lected a frame.
may have been conniving at an
imposture. but my curiosity as to how
the thing was done led me to accept
an invitation to witness the birth Of
real fake. A painter who special
lied in Twachtman fakes was sum-
moned, supplied with an old canvas of
the proper dimensions and shown a
catalogue containing some reproduc-
tions of well known Twachtman land
scapes One of these he swiftly cop
led, with few changes of compost
tion and detail. By afternoon the
thing was ready for drying and its
supplemental finish.
Such work is done very easily and
with simple materials. An old can
vas is used wherever possible. This
is first painted white and allowed to
dry. The picture is then painted, not
with artists materials, but with a
very widely known brand of patent
house paint which contains earths and
dryers This paint hardens over
night. In a week it is SO hard that it