Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1941-05-15
LEADER PAoro BY DOUGLAS WENT

Shown in the above photo is
a part of the beautiful pitcher
collection of Mrs. Allen Wiley,
931 Granville road. OF many
varieties and of beautiful design
and coloring, they are very in
teresting as Mrs. Wiley explains
the origin, and Oftentimes senti-
ment attached to them.
in the lower photo Mrs. Wiley
is holding a pitcher made in
1865, the etching. and design be.
ing the same as that used on
Abraham Lincoln's casket and
hearse. She is particularly
proud of this piece.
The Rajah of Borneo has pit
chers a foot deep and nine inch
es wide, but he has nothing on
Mrs. Allen Wiley of 931 Gran
vile road, who has 1913 of them
ranging in size from a foot deep
and nine inches wide down to
one-quarter inch deep and about
one-eighth inch in diameter.
There is another difference
between the Rajah's pitchers and
Mrs. Willey's collection in that
a sticky liquid is usually found
in the bottoms of his receptacles,
in which insects are held and
apparently digested, for they are
the famous tropical pitcher
plants, in thirty-five varieties
and in color are red, yellow,
scarlet, green, spotted, streaked
and plain. In comparison Mrs.
Willey's collection of ''jugs", to
use the English version, are
scrupously clean, made of earth
enware, glass, or metal, and RI
val in beauty and line, all that
nature can produce in the jungle
fastness.
Having a yen to collect some
thing Mrs. Wiley was cleaning
out her cupboard one day about
a year ago, and her attention
focused on several old and cur
ious pitchers which had been III
her family for years, and right
there came the inspiration to
start a collection, and she has
had singular success, as the
photographs show. She put the
necleus of the present collection
on the mantel-piece, = friends,
relatives and neighbors-visiting
admired them, and started to
bring her odd china, glass and
metal pitchers of all kinds and
descriptions.
Now when anyone comes to
visit she is greeted by a saluta-
tion somewhat like this, Hello,
I've got perfectly darling
pitcher for YOU" Occasionally
the donor takes a more novel way
of making the presentation, as
was the case when a friend gave
her an odd piece in the shape of
the "Old Black Crow" Accom-
panying the gift was the follow
ing poem:
There sat an ancient bird,
Just covered with aged dust
Speaking not a word.
But he heard about your hobby
And that collection rare
He spoke with indignation
"I'm lonesome and that amt fair.
| want to be among the others
I'll keep my wings down tight,
It's better'n bein' in a cellar
And sittin' without a light"
So | promised him journey
'Twould make him happy too
By ending lonesome hours
And starting life anew.
To you / give this fellow,
A friend of boyhood days,
To be placed among your pitchers
And share the visitors gaze.
"A FRIEND.
And thus Mrs. Wiley came
into possession of another odd
and beautiful piece of china.
Pitchers of all sizes, shapes,
and description-and origin
grace the mantle-piece, the cup
boards, and the special shelves
built in the sun-parlor of the
Wiley home. With the rays of
the sun reflecting from and
through them they take on
sparkling brilliance and beauti-
full coloring.
In the array are pitchers of
Japanese, English, Holland,
Italian and German origin. One
is in the shape of Ferdinand the
Bull, which of course couldn't
be anything but strictly Ameri-
can,-another is a Holland land
scape done in colors. A large
glass affair is moulded in the
shape of mans head surmounted
by a helmet, with a beard ex-
tending down from the lip of the
receptacle. A quaint one is made
in the form of the head of a
bull moose, with antlers extend
ing back around the rim, the lip
of the pitcher being the mouth
of the animal. One of those old