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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1936-10-08
MRS. ASA CODDINGTON

Mrs. Mollie Susan Coddington, aged
rs, wife of Asa Coddington, of Oak
land, died suddenly at her home on
Liberty street on Thursday afternoon,
October 1, 1886, of heart attack. She
had prepared the noon meal that day
and appeared to be at usual.
Funeral services were conducted
Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock from
the Red House Lutheran church, Rev,
A. X. Jones officiating, assisted by Rev,
C. A. Shilke, of Oakland. Interment
was in Red House cemetery.
Pallbearers were George Yutzy
Charles F. White, Robert and Ernest
Townshend, ]. ]. Ashby, Jr., and
George Little. Flower bearers were
six nieces.
The deceased had been member Of
the Lutheran church at Red House fol
sixty years.
Surviving are her husband, one son
George E. Coddington, of Mt. Lake
Park; one daughter, Mrs. Nellie May
Coddington, of Detroit, Mich; also
three sisters, Mrs. Lem Reed, of Rec
House; Mrs. Will Hauser, Aurora, W
Va; and Mrs. Robert Lathrum, Cum
berland.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1936-10-08

Biser's brother on Sunday.
Simon Burkholder visited his father
near Bittinger this week.
Mrs. Blaine Newton, of Akron; o.;
Norma and Charles Slabaugh, Barber
ton, o.; are visiting at the home of
their uncle, S. w. Slabach.
Mrs. George Fulk and daughter Miss
Beryl Fulk, Oakland; and Mrs. Annie
Strawser, of Cumberland, were visit
ing Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Fulk and
Mr.. and Mrs. Noah Slabaugh on Mon
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. E. Sanders, Morgan
town, spent Wednesday at Noah C.
Slabaugh's.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1936-10-08

Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Miller and daugb-
ter Martha, and from Johnstown, Mr.
and Mrs. M. D. Reynolds and chill
dren, who held family picnic.
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Younkin and
daughters, Mabel and Dorothy, and
Emmons Younkin visited Mr.. and Mrs
c. L. Daniels, Spring Gap, below Cum.
berland, Sunday. Emmons Younkin re-
turned to his home in Pittsburgh.
Mrs. Charles burst, Mrs. Homer
burst and daughter, Salisbury, were
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. R. Younkin
this week.
Miss Anna Yutzy is i'll at her home
here.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1936-10-08
Insurance -. 1ss / ears
Roosevelt F Financial p olicy

NEW YORK.-Alarmed by the f.
nancial policies of the Roosevelt
administration which seriously inn
pair income necessary for the Sc
curity of life insurance reserves"
the National Fraternal Congress Of
America recently went on record
as opposed to these policies.
Representing five million holders
of fraternal insurance policies in
America valued at five billion dol
lars, the congress passed the reso-
luton without dissenting vote:
"Unless the administrators poll
cies are changed or stopped, the
millions Of policyholders in this
country will suffer irreparable in
jury"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1936-10-08
ORDER NISI

Jesse ]. Ashby, Jr., Treasurer of Garrett
County, Maryland, VS.. Estate of M. nj
Gender, deceased
No. 1909 Miscellaneous. In the Circuit Court
for Garrett County Maryland
ORDERED, By the Circuit Court for Gar.
rett County, Maryland, this 3rd day of Octo-
Der, 1886, that the tax sale made and reported
by the Treasurer of Garrett County, Marv-
land, be ratified and confirmed, unless cause
to the contrary thereof be shown on or before
the 9Th day of November, 1886; provided a
paper published in Garrett County once a week
for three successive weeks before the 3Oth day
of October, 1886. N~'
The report states the amount of sale to he
S213.66. "e
True copy-Test: A. G. ROSS, Clerk.
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FRED e.. KNOX

Fred C. Knox, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Simeon Knox of this county, died very
suddenly Saturday evening, October 8,
at Akron, Ohio. Mr.. Knox had been in
failing health for five years or more
and his death was the result of one
of many heart attacks which he had
suffered at intervals during that
period. His passing, though sudden,
was not unexpected. The end came at
the home of his wife's parents, cutting
short a business conversation.
Mr.. Knox was born June %, 1885
at McHenry, and was reared in that
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1936-10-08

1896 Election Slogan
'Look at Spain and vote like
Maine"
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Comments on Generals in
Washington and on Cor
ners in Europe.

knew it. In Potsdam, Frederick the
Great knew it.
Nor was the knowledge confined to
those of high estate. Near any bour-
geols home in France, or Italy, or
Germany, the same imaginative COM
bination is created on a minor scale.
In any lesser English country place
bits of sculptured fancy in stone or
lead rise above fringed pools. or nestle
into the syringa bushes. Out on a
promontory in the bay by Stockholm
in the studio gardens of the sculptor
Miles, his statues and his shrubbery
grow up together.
Human nature has not changed.
The germ is planted in gracious Amer
ican imaginations, too, if we would
only cultivate it bit.
So let us have enough Of the notion
that parks accomplish complete
beauty in setting forth rows of hy-
drangeas in one spot and q bronze
young man with a machine gun and
bayonet going to death and destruc-
ton In another. Let us give the charm
of sophistication to our public woods.
Here and there in shaded alleys where
steel magnates, or cheese merchants,
may wander, let us combine evanes-
cent color with permanent form.
Only, whatever our visual philos-
ophy, let us all sdorn our flowers
with our statuary, and our statuary
with our flowers. For combinations
of plastic form and evanescent color
possess today, as they possessed in
the iyest. the power to intrigue the
imagination, both of those who enjoy
this mornings streamlined automo-
biles and Of those prone to shed a
tear over yesterdays departed horse
and buggy.
From the Caroenie Magazine Uith per-
mission.
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Bulletin of Exhibitions.

The Corcoran Gallery of Art
Permanent collections. Special
exhibition Of drawings and etch-
ings by Luigi Lucioni.
National Gallery Of Art-Per-
manent collections and special
exhibition. Association of Federal
Architects Fifth Annual.
Smithsonian Building - Etch-
ings by Ruth Doris SWEET and
mezzotipts and aquatints by Alex
ander M4stro-Valerio.
Freer Gallery of Art-Perma-
nent collections Oriental Art,
works by Whistler and other
American artists.
Phillips Memorial Gallery
Permanent collection. Paintings
by old masters and modern art
lists.
Studio House-Annual exhibi-
ton Of student work.
Textile Museum of the District
of Columbia-Permanent collec-
ton of rare and beautiful textiles.
Arts Club of Washington
Summer exhibition of members
works.
library Of Congress-Drawings
and other studies in color by Ed
ward Penfleld. Cabinet Of Amer
ican Illustration.
Public Library, Main Building
Cartoons by Clifford K. Berry,
man. James Bergman and Har-
old M. Talburt.
Georgetown Branch. Public
Library-Paintings by Catherine
c. Critcher and by Eugene Weisz.
Mount Pleasant branch. Public
Library-Water colors, drawings,
renderings and models by stu
tents of architectural department,
Central High School.
The Silver Wheel-Drawings
and Paintings by Alumni Of the
Master Institute, Roerich Mu-
scum, New York.
Howard University Art Gallery
Prints by Negro artists. Water
colors by Lois M. Jones.
The Little Gallery, Intimate
Book Shop-Water colors by Da-
vid L. Morris.
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ters, are hung as pendants two flower
paintings by Hattie E Burdette, who is
perhaps best known for her portraits
and miniature paintings. One of these
is of Egyptian Lilies"-pink and Law
eendar in a bowl on a table. Nearby
Stands a cream-colored vase, and as
background. one sees a shadowy repre-
sentation of the great pyramids The
other is of bunch of Garden
Flowers" in glass vase-white phlox.
pink dahlias, delphinium. Light comes
from the left through a white-cur-
tanned window; to the right is a wall
curtain of delphinium blue. Both are
very colorful compositions and Sensi-
lively rendered.
Other still-life Compositions of in
teresting character come from Mar
guerite N. Schafer Ind Cherry Ford
White. There are figures by Catherine
Melton, Florence Bryant. Nella F.
Buckley and Alice M. Addison, adding
variety, but byfar the majority of the
compositions are Of landscape themes
Minor s. Jameson shows two-one
looking down into Rock Greek Park
through a screen of trees when autum-
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FATHER OF POSTER ART LENDS BEAUTY TO FAMED GROUP
Cabinet American Illustration Library Congress Presents Notable
Magazines Pictorial Day Recaued-Luioni
Eting Corcoran Ganery-Summe Exhibition at ArtC Club

form, he dramatized the power and
grandeur Of nature and of men, In
their conflict with the elements, hunt
ing, fishing, seafaring."
In his oil paintings he followed
academic standards, his surfaces are
smooth and details are carefully de-
lineated. His canvases never seem to
have been produced by frst intent, but
to have been built up and profoundly
studied. But not so his water colors.
In the handling Of. this medium he
developed a new and very personal
Style-one which was destined to rev.
olutionize the art of water-color
painting. In most instances, when
using water color, he painted with q
full brush and very simply and di-
rectly. But the strength and the
knowledge were there.
Homer learned in the school of ex-
perience. At the age of 10 he began
working for a photographer. He did
titles for the covers of sheet music
and portraits Of members of the
Massachusetts, State Senate. In 1859
he went to New York seeking work
as an illustrator, and for a short time
before getting employment on Harper's
Weekly studied in night class at the
National Academy of Design. Then
came his adventures as staff artist at
the front during the Civil War. after
which he began painting with serious
intent. He made two trips abroad,
one in 1867 and the other in 1882,
but neither seems to have left any
imprint on his art, whereas brief
sojourns and voyages to Bermuda and
the West Indies brought forth gener-
Gus harvests. In 1881 he was paint
ing at Gloucester. but shortly there
after he settled at Scarborough, near
Prouts Neck, where he remained for
the rest Of his life and where some
OF his most famous pictures were
painted, among them the High Cliff,
Coast of Maine" owned by the Ma
tional Gallery Of Art. and "A Light
on the Sea-" which is in the Corcoran
Gallery of Art. He was a National
Academician and a member of the
National Institute of Arts and Letters.
a The centennial exhibition in the
Pennsylvania Museum of Art, which
will remain on view through June 8,
comprises 80 oil paintings and about
an equal number of water colors.
These have been lent by the Metro
politan Museum of Art, the Museum
OF Fine Arts. Boston; the Addison
Gallery. Andover: the Brooklyn Mu-
scum, the Cleveland Museum, the
Pennsylvania Academy Of Fine Arts,
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with somewhat water color technique,
but very charmingly. In interesting
contrast is Sunset by Mrs. Thomas
Wood Hastings-a broad view of hills,
sparsely grown with trees. water and
sky tinged by afterglow-rendered
with Photographic accuracy, but naive
simplicity in the manner of the So
called primitives amazing little
canvas. Hildegarde Hamilton, an out
of-town member, is represented by two
small canvaseS, both of which record
progEess-one of The Alczar Gardens
as scr through stone archway-the
other of The Bay of Palma -Mallorca.
Helen Townsend and Elizabeth Evans
Graves, in Along the Canal" and
Late Afternoon. Wellfeet." respec-
lively, make worthwhile contributions.
their paintings being fresh in color
and very skillful in handling. Others
represented in the gallery are A. j.
Ted Meurer. Marguerite Mum and
Marie E. Walcott.
Miss Sawtelle and Mrs. Graves are
Both represented again in the reception
room group, the former by a water
color entitled "Turbots Creek, Maine" :"
and the latter by work in the same
medium listed as still life-a pot of
rosy colored cyclamen and an apple
Clara r. Saunders is represented here
by very interesting head, broadly
rendered, and a bowl of rose0 so set
forth that the evanescence of the
flowers is fully realized, as we'll as their
colorful beauty. To still-life painting,
Wax Flowers" by Frances Hungerford
Combs. the place of honor over the
mantel has been appropriately given.
Doorway in Ragusa," by Susan B.
Chase. has much to commend it in
skill of rendering. besides picturesque
ness Of theme. Magnolia" by Mary
D. Dawson; "Rockport." by Ruth Per-
kins Stafford, and THE Pool" by
Frances Wheeler. add something
through interest and merit to the ac-
cumulative effect of the group.
In the hall hang two water colors-
one by Mary Lukens, Blossom Time"
in which a Towering fruit tree has
chief prominence, and the other by
John Butler, Boat Builders" which
is especially good in color and crisply
painted. The exhibition comprises
Just four etchings, Cherokee Chief"
q portrait study by Warren W. Fer
ris; Christ Church." presumably
Alexandria. by Bernice Ferris, and
"The Digges House, Yorktown" and
"Shacks, Wenatchea, Wash.," by
Norman Anderson.
The sculpture is all by Kathleen
Wheeler, and includes a horse. her
favorite theme; fountain figure and
q character study entitled "The So
cialist," testifying to the sculptors
versatility. These works will all re-
main in place until early next Au-
tumn.
Scholarships and Course for
High School Students.
THE Corcoran School Of Art is offer
ing to talented students who
graduate this year from the local high
schools two full-time scholarships for
the season of 1861. To be eligi-
bic for these awards students have
to be recommended by their art
teachers and submit three examples
CT their work. The awards, which
will be made almost Immediately, will
+ given by the faculty of the school.
There viii be also two honorable
mentions. The Corcoran School of
Art does not charge tuition. but does
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Plea Made for Intimate Sculpture in Park and Garden

when we reach that corner from an
other immediate adventure in rest
leSsness.
Let us remember, then, what Europe
has known so long, that we promptly
lost interest in those objects we have
thoroughly explored. Only the half
concealed stimulates our imaginations
Slowly. empirically, through the ages,
men and women of sophistication and
sensitive taste across the seas have
learned that the delight of finding a
welcome around the corner can be
supplied by neighboring corner; that
in going somewhere they did not need
the assistance of Detroit trans
portation; that of an evening they
could pass on foot, TRANQUILITY. through
their own gardens, or wander, of q
Sunday afternoon, in public gardens,
to meet the nook around the corner
that would furnish them with as
much delight as they might obtain
in the adjoining town, or country,
or State, or nation.
ONE of the blessings Of my task,
which has sent me scuttling
through Europe Of late years, is that
occasionally am thus enabled to drop
into one Of those hospitable hooks
where statues stand in gardens: the
Borghese Gardens in Rome, perhaps,
or merely the blue-tiled yard of q
Catalan artist, tucked In the niche of
q clifi above the Mediterranean. As
a result, in the shade Of Roman stone
pines, I have asked myself as to the
wherefore Of the roses, and answered
because Of the moss-patined busts of
bygone Emperors. Or looking seaward
over q kindly glass of manzanilla, I
have ruminated on the why Of lat
ter-day bit Of bronze between two
expresses that flanked my view, and
I have decided that it is because of
the nasturtiums beneath the wall.
The Greeks knew this. The Romans
knew it. The French, the English,
and the Germans knew it. In War
saw. Stanislaw, King Of the Poles,
knew IT. In Versailles. Louis XIV
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Homer St. Gaudens Asks
Plastic Form Combined
With Floral Color.
By Homer Saint Gandens.
director of Fine Arts, the Carnegie
Institute. Pittsburqh).

By Homer Saint Gandens.
director of Fine Arts, the Carnegie
Institute, Pittsburgh.
NY FATHER, Augustus Saint
N Gaudens, being sculptor
1 i and my mother having q
passion for plants, began
life associating figures in stone or mar
marble with golden glow and larkspur
and sweet peas. From those early days
to this, such associations have contin-
ued. Fate led us quite bit through
Europe during my boyhood and as I
look back now I know that then ac-
cepted with unexcited satisfaction the
idea that parks and gardens belonged
to statuary and that statuary be-
longed to parks and gardens.
Sometimes we saw the fountains
play in Versailles, the water running
from the arms of those squirming
Tritons who first dived into their
pools back in the 1660s. Once we
walked by the rows Of Nordic heroes
who flank the Sieges Alice in Berlin's
Tiergarten. Another time, in the Bo-
boil Gardens in Florence, we made
friends with the inevitable antique
gods and goddesses. each posed In his
or her damp niche.
Home again, therefore. I have miss
ed the companionship between inti-
mate figures and beds Of flowers about
our private dwellings or more ambi-
tious shrubbery in parks, where plants
are replaced by Sunday-supplement-
Uttered lawns or an untidy wilderness
of trees.
Statues we have In parks, Ger
tainly, but they are naughty, un-
friendly. occasional Atatue& full Of
- -
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pomp and circumstance. In the public
gardens of my natal town Charles
Sumner stands aloof from tulip beds,
above even the intellectual aspirations
of Boston Brahmins. In Central Park,
Daniel Webster, with his hand in his
breast, elevates his nose at the gases
Of Gotham's circling automobiles.
In Washington. generals and still
more generals sit on many, many
horses, everlastingly shying at some
thing across the Potomac. The first
general on the first horse to shy was
Andrew Jackson in his park before
the White House. Andrew, too, ignores
tulips, beingly vainly conscious of his
seat on his lettering mount. Where
fore. the tulips, properly snubbed, have
nothing to do with Andrew. Neither
flowers nor sculpture play with one
another as the children near by play
with the indolent gray squirrels that
hop of the trees to eat peanuts.
NATURALLY, then, as I grow older,
foster nostalgia longing for the
hooks and alleys and unexplored cor
ners of the continental parks of
other days. I am sad that I may not
come upon a pair of unperturbed
modern lovers, at the end of a shaded
alley, seated on stone bench beneath
a marble Venus and Psyche" whose
enduring embrace has lasted for CEN
turies. I have learned that we ig-
more one real reason for the existence
of our parks. We have nowhere to
go in them.
This is q matter for lamentation,
since Of all peoples We Americans
wish to 'go places" For us some
thing around the corner has and al.
ways has had special allure. It Is
only the around-the-corner that
counts. And once we get around the
corner we rarely have anything left
to do but to start of again for an
other corner and so on "ad infinitum.
That is why q statue is set in q
garden nook. It is put there first as
something for us to look for around
the corner and second to detain US
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exact registration fee. It Is this
which in case of scholarship winners
will be remitted. Announcement is
also made that a Saturday morning
class is being planned especially for
high school students next season.
This class will be under the super
vision of the faculty, but taught by
advanced students The expense to
each student registering for this class
will be S. and the cost of materials.
The annual exhibition of student
work will be held informally in the
Office of the Corcoran School from
May IS to %, inclusive. The annual
awards will be made at this time and
the prize-winning works displayed.
Richard Lahey, the new principal
OF the Corcoran School of Art, was
one of the chief speakers at the re-
cent convention of the American
Federation of Arts held in this city
May 1915. His subject was Re
sources in Painting" and, speaking
extemporaneously, he emphasized the
present richness of our museum COL
lections, upon which the student can
draw freely for a knowledge of the
past, and the multiplicity Of tran
Sient exhibitions of contemporary
work, which afford opportunity for
comparative study. Especially did he
stress. in this connection, the real
significance of art-that it is some
thing to be loved, not merely ex-
hibited; that it has power to delight
and restore; that it is, in short, greater
than the sum of its attributes.
Art From the Artists
Standpoint.
THE attitude of the artist toward art
was also manifested in addresses
made at the Federation's Convention
by Paul Manship, the we'll known
sculptor, and Jonas Lie, president of
the National Academy of Design. Mr..
Lies subject was Roads to Rome"
which. being interpreted, was an expo
sition of the various ways taken by art
lists of different schools to attain a
great end. To some extent, Mr.. Lie
let the artists speak for themselves,
reading quotations from master art
lists from the earliest days to today.
His quotations at times aroused much
mirth. but while his touch was light,
humor was we'll balanced by serious
ness. and at the conclusion none was
left in doubt as to the speakers own
profound conviction concerning that
art which is sound and sane.
Paul Manship, too. expressed con-
viction in the endurance of high stand
ards, the perpetual upspringing of
creative art of the finest quality. He,
however, lamented the present domi-
nance of commercialism and OF the
machine, and urged a return to fine
craftsmanship and greater technical
proficiency. Works of art, he said.
are produced today in too much OF
a hurry, and hence in many instances
are very superficial.
Applauding Government patronage
he warned against Cove -1ient con-
troll of art. Such control he felt should
be in the hands of the artists. Refer->
ring specifically to a competition set
up by the Government to obtain sculp-
tural reliefs for the decoration of a
United States post Office, he stated
that 300 sculptors were competing,
and that the cost to each in material,
let alone time, would amount, in the
aggregate. to the proposed cost of
the work when finished. This he very
correctly argued was waste.
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lery is a striking green landscape by
Lucia B. Hollerith, entitled Blue
Grass Country picture of rolling
hills, grass grown, seen beyood a single
tree. which dominates the landscape.
This is a difficult subject, monotonous
in color. but very well handled. with
evident understanding of forms and
subtle suggestion of values-a very ret
icent work but also very competent.
At either end of the wall panel
which Miss Hollerith's painting CEN
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nal browns predominate: the other of
open fields clothed in the fresh green
of Spring. Robert E. Motley shows a
large canvas depicting Boulder Rapids
in which the rushing water is very
well portrayed. Omar o. Darlington is
at his best in a painting entitled Viii
lage Street, which at a glance is all
trees and foliage, seen in a patchwork
of sunshine and shade of natures
weaving. From Elizabeth Sawtelle has
come a painting of woods rendered
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Members Summer Exhibition
At the Arts CIuh

At the Arts CLUB.
A THOUGH no restrictions vert
= placed ON the eligibility of works
offHed for the Members Summer Ex-
hH4sion at the Arts Club in regard to
previous displays, there is no doubt
that the multiplicity of exhibitions
during the past season has had limit
ing effect upon the current show. II
is smaller and in some respects less
notable than heretofore-but the effect
produced, as a whole. is pleasing. and
some excellent woses are included.
The oils are show4& in the gallery,
with three of the four works in sculp-
ture, and the water colors and prints,
with one example of work in sculp-
ture, are to be seen in the reception
room and hall.
Centering one long wall in the gall
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Cooper Union and other institutions,
as well as by numerous private col
lectors. Included are such famous
works as "Alls Well" The Fog
Signal" Eight Bells" "The Life
Line" THE Search Light" and "The
Fox Hunt" all masterpieces.
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put himself forward. apparently he
never strove to be original, he wasted
no time feeling his spiritual muscles.
he was neither talkative nor gre
garious, he painted what he saw and