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2 TIITS PASSES FOR A ROOSEVELT PORTRAIT. CAMPAIGN BASS ERS. fhoumnds Employed in Making Them— Artists Who Do the Work. "I can crack out eight portraits of any of the candidates' in one day," remarked the artist in Tie variegated overalls, as he Added a touch of lolor to Mr. Roosevelt's mustache. "Any, old kind of copy will do. A picture clipped from a magazine often serves if a photograph Is not easily procurable. One does not have to bother •with the lines of the face in making a picture for a campaign banner. Be long as It looks th* part from the sidewalk Iks picture passes mutt ir ' TUr artist went on to explain that the present Presidential and Vies Pr— candidates .•• especially easy to paint. Ail hay« faces with rtrongly marked characteristics that make It /Tni'iKt ini|^>ssililr for a campaign banner artist <• wander from a resemblance. l*rc.sident Koose r.-lt. with eyeglasses, round face and a low collar, hair part.-d f.li^lttl..- at the vide and sat, determined .'.ok. is not a difficult problem. Fair banks has a high forehead and a beard that Is peculiar; put a Fairbanks beard on almost any face, say the artists «>f the s;trett 1/anners, and the face will look like Fairbanks'*. Parker has & big mustache :i!--l a judicial face, with no ex traordinary linos to bother Ihe Inter who counts on turning out eight portraits of the Democratic candidate •• day; and Davis, with I. is pointed white beard, is n blessing to the crtlet of the campaign variety. The man who paints thi portraits for the riifit banners 1- at the top notch of his pro li-ssioii. He will condescend, when «.r.i .•: to, to devote his talents to the portrayal of a wide winged casle clawing a star spangled shield, or he v<;;i fill In his time lettering "X Piuribus Unum" on half finished banners, but he regards nii]\ nrork ss the proper sphere of less talented artist. 1 ?. Th" portrait man considers that his tin should, be pent on the pictures of the can didates. The rest he tails "tilling in." It requires the energies of twelve m. to make on< of the big campaign banners* that are now being: fiu»g to the breeze; Two men prepare the El;.; on which the Uttering is done. Two more atti'»j<i to the lettering of these strip*, painting the names] of the clubs or associations, ordering the banners, the caption* for the portraits and 11.' offices for which the noiiiiti.t-.s are to con tend. 'i ■•..<) men work on the centrepieces, the vuirht and the shield and the 'X T'luiilnis Unum," without which no political party with a hope of securing votes would lllng its banner to the breeze. One nan works on the special portraits, and I!.'1 !.' rest assemble the various parts, sew the strips together with sewing machine* or get down on the Iloor and hand sew them to the netting. Home Of the men employed in the making of the campaign banner are artists who have come into the field by the straight gate, but the 111:1 jority have climbed over the wail. The former clan Is made up of graduates from the art schools, who rind in the great demand for their cervices in the campaign rush a more remunera tive fit-Id than in painting pictures that no one will buy. It in this class that attends to the painting of the portraits of candidates. By working on the same faces day after day, these men become so skilful and so quick that they can paint a Roosevelt or a Parker in the dark with their eyes shut, and paint It as true to life as the standard of the campaign banner indus try requires. NEW-YORK TRIBUNE ILLUSTRATED SUPPLEMENT. Whatever Uie difference of opinion between th. rival parties, both are SIT aid on the value of the campaign banner as a means of arousing enthusiasm among the voters. Great is the >x citement when the banner Is hoisted to its platv in the centre of the street, while the band plays and the faithful cheer. "Hang your banner* on the outer wall, that all may ace." was the advice of th- late Senator itanna. And. judg ing by the appearance of the streets, even at this early period of the campaign, both parties arc strenuously endeavoring to follow oat this advice. OVERREACHED. President Elmer H. Capen of Tufts College was talking to a little group of undergraduates about the wisdom of economy. "But while economy is wise," he said, "to be mean or niggardly la the height of tenrsilness. THE RESTING PLACE OF A GREAT QUEEN: THE VICTORIA AND ALBERT TOMB AT FROGMORE Place of &»••» Vfctoria and the l*rl..ee Consort. waj , by Queen Vi.-iorta soon after the aeathtf PTtoee AJbTri wnoS. 1 hodv -£i that of the l'riace having to placed In position ahortlv after hi" £ceal« ro.Tm havSiK b£n ™j ?i/E.tJV* d t? Sn f a >.*. t th « suae «*"■'• Queen Victoria. In this Hate th« royal tomb remaJn.d during the lohk wiluwh",Hi of h" nuii^l ir« n ii P< J B the slab for Ui« statue of Albert till the death of Que«n Victoria. Then for the rtrst time, probably for • aW forty jtSn^S'c^SS, ,^k bela * \ h ? blJyb I Jy °£ P " * In order to iuliil h.-r last wish, no touchingly expressed in th.- iJktirii^crlotlon over th,. fw.rf'.i )3> ,h o%trm * * Ub wa ? removed for her obsequies, rlae again with h,r royal consort. The statue of Queen Victoria ?v reaSner as much yoC than shH^ 2?X* h * ™ i « ht r<Bt witil sculpture, of courae. like that of Prince Albert, having U-en modellwl whVn both w«r» to th« oriiS. !lf nr^-n? 1 V ! pres * nt sensation. th« robes, wearing a JlTlHll crown and holding a sceptre 11? her clasped ; handa. P f "* Th tat * W"* 80 «■ d*Pict*a in regal The nigKiirdly nian in n»-arl> alwa\s n\ «-r reached. It is like" Here l>r. Capon smiled. "It is like," he resumed, "the story of the miser and the mouthful of water. "This miser had a cask of wine in his cellar, and every I tiling he would nil down his man to fetch him up a pitcher. To keep the man from drinking any of the wine he would make him Ml his mouth with water before he left the 100:11. Then on his return the man would have to prove that the water still remained in his mouth, and thus the miser would be convinced that MM of the wine bad been stolen. "This scheme seems Ingenious, and yet the servant with the greatest case overreached bis master. lie kept a pitcher of water bidden in the cellar, and. emptying his mouth on his de scent, he would drink a.ll the v/ino he desired, and on his return upstairs would still have a full mouth to show the unsuspecting master." DASHING OFF AN ALLEGED PARKER PICTURE. ODD WORK FOR IVOMAX. Raising the Massive Monoliths of a Cathedral. There are many interesting features connected with th« work of standing on their ends the ninety ton and forty ton mcnoliths of the Cathe dral of St. John the Divine, on Morningside Heights. Not the least interesting of these Ls the fact that a woman takes an active and important part in the difficult task. Just as Sabina yon Stclnba. h. daughter of the architect of the fa mous Cathedral of Strasburg. immortalized her name by her work upon that splendid edifice, so perhaps will the name of Mrs. Carrie A. How land live long In the *""»»■ of church building because of her work la constructing what Is planned to be the grandest structure of Its kind in th«» Western Hemisphere. Mrs. Howland is a native of the Green Moun tain State, famous for its quarries of building and monumental stone. She is the wife and partner of the contractor for the erection of the choir column*, now going- on. and for over a year her mind and tim« have been given to the great work. She Is the contractor's assistant in all stages of the progress of the enterprise. Mrs. How laud Is quietly energetic, very me thodical, and quick to discern danger to the men employed, or to remedy any hitch in the work. Many new methods have been devised, by her. and in an emergency she selects the tools and implements required with a promptness that be longs only to the initiated, experienced and also inventive mechanic. She usually wears while at work a black straw hat. light colored shirt waist, a black woollen skirt, and on cool days a black woollen jacket. She carries a parasol or umbrella on hot days. Her complexion is fal*. she ha.s blue eyes and dark brown hair, she Is of medium height, but of slight build, and Is womanly and naturally graceful in speech and mam:, r. Mrs. Howlund brings to thi? task the expert ence of years gained in less important under takings, such as the SBwCftSBB of monuments of all sizes, and cables, ropes, pulleys. lev»rst scaf folds, hammt-rs and drills are as familiar to her as teaspoons or scissors are to other women. Mrs. Howland feels that her ohout-n vocation is a dignified one. and that especially the building Si a cathedral for the worship of God is an in spiring and ennobling task. Another feature about this work which strikes the average onlooker as peculiar is the fact that two lons, slim poles of pine suffice to sustain the enormous weight of these colossal pillars. Some of these pillars weigh close to two hundred thousand pounds, and when they were being hauled from the river front to the cathedral sit» their weight caused the wheels that supported them to make gutters in the paved streets that a pig could wallow in. The wagon they were carried on had to be specially constructed. Its wheels and axles were massive in their size. Yet one of these imposing columns is dangled as lightly in the air between two pine poles as a one pound perch from a schoolboy's fishing; rod. It is amazing. These two poles are of Oregon pine, each ninety-six feet long, only two feet in diameter at th« largest end and not more than twenty inches at the top. Two crosspieceo of oak sold them apart, and: at the sum time hold them to gether. These erosspieces measure to thsakaess 1- by 20 inches. From these crossplecee hang links and pulleys of Norway Iron, and through these pulleys run thirty strands of slim wire cable. These strands, that look as thin as flab