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OF MUSIC AND MUSICIANS.
BOSTON SYMPHONY'S 30 YEANS.
ORCHESTRA MADE BY GERICKE.
First Concert on October —ISSI—-
How the Band Developed Voder Its
• •Autocratic’’ Leader—The splendid
'Vsinlts.
The first concert of the Boston sym
phony orchestra was civon on October 12—.
I>Sl. with Georg Heiisehel as eoniluetor.
The present autumn, therefore, brings t!.
famous organization to its oUtii amiivir
saiy—au occasion which is to be recognized
in the program of the concerts on the 20th
and 21st. The orchestra has had numeivus
phases in its development, coincident, in v.
main, with tin* different eonductorships.
The Boston Transcript, in its issue of
September 30, published several articles
in which the course of ri ■ orchestra s
development is indicated. 1 lie principal
article of the group by William 1-osier
Apthorp tells, among other things, how
the oivhestra v-. .-> J dui'mg
the first term of Mr Gericke, the or
chestra’s second conductor, who never was
an easy taskmaster: —
The real effective remodeling of the or
chestra came alter Mr Henschel s retiromtut,
with the accession of Wilhelm Gericke. Mr
Gericke. when Mr Higginson first fouud him
out, was fourth conductor at the \ icima
court opera, besides conducting ? owe ether
things in the Austrian capital. Mr Hicginson
could not have made a luckier choice.
Mr Gericke was not only a fully equipped
and experienced conductor and musical Grin
master with a strong touch of the martinet,
but also a man of rare organizing faculty
and indexible backbone; he was not in the
least timid about assuming responsibility. llis
general musicianship too, was conspicuously
sound. If he had a shortcoming at that time,
it was that the scope of his musical reading
and sympathy was rather restriciedlr Vien
nese. and he shared with most of his fellow
townsmeu the uotion that what the Kaiser
stadt did not know n was not worth knowing.
His standards and traditions were all of
Vienna, which, in those days, was Lot the
most go-ahead musical center in the world.
For a while Mr Gericke seemed to sail
prosperously on smooth waters; after the
critical tempest amid which Mr Henschel
hud lived, moved, and had his being, it
as if sweet Peace smiled once more. Except
for such difference of opinion on matters of
“interpretation” as must inevitably come
up everywhere, he had practically the whole
press with him. and the public was cordial
ly appreciative.
But. if peace reigned in his relations with
press and public, his relations, with the
orchestra were not quite so serene. There
were heart-burnings galore. Indeed the sit
uation was quite new to a large percentage
of our Boston orchestra players, and to the
liking of few of them. Here was a body of
men. most of whom had for years been used
to tboth actually and necessarily) slipshod
methods and lax rule; and these men found
themselves brought suddenly face to face
with a most strict, accurate and meticulous
drill-master, who took for granted that his
word should be law
it soon became evident enough that Mr
Gericke was not only a strict and careful,
but an excessively fatiguing rehearser.
Listemann. who, as I have said, was a nerv
ously impetuous player, with little sense for
finish of style, found him particularly hard
to stand. “Ach. sic wollen ja Alios so
spitz-fein haben!" *<>h, you want everything
so polished up to the nines’.) was his con
tinual complaint. The truth is that Mr
Gericke belonged to a school of conductors
who wish to do everything themselves, who
nre willing to recognize no initiative but
their own. aud insist upon every item in a
composition being played exactly their way.
Many conductors, on the other hand—and
great ones, too—are not only willing but
eager to leave a great deal to the taste and
initiative of the so-called "first” players un
der them; to the first flute, first oboe, first
horn. etc., especially in incidental solo pas
sages. And this difference of attitude is well
worth considering, for it springs from a cor
responding difference of musical point of
view. .
With Mr Gerieke's second season (iss."-Bfit
another thundercloud burst, and the tempest
became general. Air Gericke found hmwelf
to be as much of a storm-center as Mr Hen
schel had been before him. The fact is. Mr
Gericke had come to Boston with it pe-fectly
definite purpose to assert and realize his own
standard of orchestral performance. And ins
mind was fully made up from the first. He
was not going to conduct performances that
did not satisfy hint! He thus took the first
year of his conduetorship here 'as a signifi
cant example of the old adage; "You can't
make a silk nurse out of it sow's ear:" and
saw clonrly that the next thing to do was
to be rid of the sow’s ear. In a word, he
saw that the orchestral forces at his disposal
were irremediably Inadequate aud set about
earing their Inadequacy with a will. Ho •
eor.hngly cs* ■;■■<! upon a course of w.-o-i;; g
nut and supplying new-made vacancies as he
saw fit. that hrouglit a line hornet's no?*
about his eais.
After the close of ins first season he de
posed Liisienuinn from his .oncer*-: -
ship: and. of course, (Jstemann forthwith re
signed iiis membership in ihe sir.. ,
TYilf Fries had done before him. tin.;. ■ M-
Henschel. Nor was hist.imaiia s ihe oi ;v
head that fell.
For the season of 1885-Slt Mr Gericke
brought Franz Knelsei with him from
Vienne, as his new concert master: n posi
tion to which the then young violinist s.,i, u
proved himself, as it were, predestined by
heaven. A more admirable concert, masioV
ne\er. drew bow. Fritz Giese. :brought
over some years before bv the Mrmlrio.dii
quintet club, succeeded Wilhelm Muller as
leading 'cellist. Neither did these make up
all the new blood that was infused into the
orchestra; press notices of the opening con
cert made quite a point of “the many new
faces on the platform."
If Mr Higginson, in 1881, had inaugurated
the "system of importation" with Mr
Henschel. Mr Gericke. iu 1885, began ap
plying that system unstintingly. or . ours',
tiie decapitated one- growled, nnd their
friends with them. That Was actual onnega
Yet, looting back upon tin* business from a
distance of 26 years, one cannot but womb r
at the hullaballoo it raised! People seemed
to lose all sense of proportion. Some of tie
expressions of resentment had even a smack
of trades onion irritubilliv.
One would have thought Mr Gericke wr
trying to revive the "effete m um i. l.ir
this country, indignant patriots -sed “i
an orchestra! conductors!:!}, n in. q. nd v
dictatorship?" or. "Ar.. fre
citizens to he subjected to the indignit' .f
autocratic rule?" For n while, there was
quite an epidemic of writing to the net's:
pers: nor were son... regular eriri.-s or im
press less virulent than wrathful enrre .
erne. But it was really only our new uc-m
otil condition In Boston showing more : rwl
more Influence : wp xvere but in the birth
throes of thp Modern Idea.
Luckily Mr Hlggtnsnn fully grasped the
Men. nml barked up Mr Gertrke manfully rt
tnek some courage: more fhnn enn » e'l *...
appreeleted nowadays Rut Mr TTfegrinr. n
never iaeked oottrage- physleal *>r moral Vm*
one thing. the toed results of Mt- k.-'s
applirntion of the ‘’system" were -o. n up.
parent and unmistakable: no one could Ion?
1... blind to the font that the Unstop .vllj
ubonr orohestrn was not only a real 1 ; ...
tra. In the fullest sense of the word Put
was fast (trowing Into n remarkably
fin* one
The Idea and Its first realization wore sole
Iv Mr Higglnaon's; Ita emnnlete perfwtlou
we owe. as 1 have said, to Wilhelm Oetl. '-o
Since then It has had other < andueto . s [!luP
of whom kept it well np to his high stamlird
some allowed It. to lapsp sllghtl.x therefrom:
but fare in the way of oeenshmal e\.v|tf|.m
ai luck In finding some extraordinarily vr.nerh
Prst wind players, it may he said without in
yld'oiifness that no otto has really ’•also.! It
at>r ye that standing. I am here speak'.i ■: of
the 'tualltr or the playing; what max be
Walled the •general effleleney of the ■trcheatva
has Induhltnhly been gradually increased
since Its augmented numerical forep the
doubling of the wood-wind, the only recent)-.--
eepnired eighth horn, are all of real Mine.
But the standard of playing was set to Mr
Gerioke From the time when he tlrsi left
it In the spring of IRSfI. It has Steadily
stood well In the front rank of the recog
pltedly great orchestras of the world.
Mr Gevifhe wan hip eeeded by Mr Nikis-li
end Mr T’aur. and then lie returned to
Itpston f«.r his aeeontl term as eomlrn'tor of
the symphony orchestra Mr Nikis.lt m l
Mr Pniir. in the article tiy H T. Pnrker.
are described ns ‘‘romantic.” Of Mr
Ocrlcke in his second term and of Or
Muck and Mr Fiedler, Mr Barker's views.
, ‘ onsidc?bly abridged, are follows:
| i* t« re- ihe hniancc 'again. 01 lie nY>:«ttv! not a
. • Ml. ids ;:e:i! for technical perfections, his
j *t■ • l»e iho impulse what it ma\. in the
Ion;-, . i.i; so - i his second tt'cm. he laid a
; sn . 'id foundation of the symphony orchestra,
to-day. To him it already owed it’s t ehideal
!• i . ' .In ev From him in his final
' Mr:- i; IV e ived the impulses toware. the
; •< • « mi!:-, the ilraiuatizing. the variously Im
•’ :“. ! 1 1. _ e' i ;:..-ii'-e that now distinguishes it.
i.i . . siiiL'ing teacher who had prepared
| a voice, he arimated and colored it.
T . _\ic Gericke succeeded Dr Muck to lift
| the .a. In srra to new bights of nccoiupllsh
: i!:r:■>. A perfected instrument awaiied him:
1 torti.ns. He could hardlv refine upon The
{ »e- bmc in which *lr fiericke had >-h >« ?c 1
! bail*' r m-m the tonal quality to which
i his ear was .-.lmost as sensitive as had been
1 Mr Geruke's own. He could, uowevei. begin
! v.hot-u Mr Gericke ended in tha broadening
| tin eionpeace ami in the bightnlng of the
j c’v (.(•••licstral voices. In him was
j and Is the discriminating, the responsive, the
i jv ; i.etrating faculty that enabled him to
(lunlit V' of
j .■ o.iipiscr. of each composition tut he
} played.
i New. for three years—and for a fourth to
[ cure Mr Fiddler reigns in his stead. There
| F debate of the signal virtues and of the
I shnrtc. tilings that are the complement of
j tin-m in a conductor of his ambition and
I cal. of his in tens ties, of his sense of ■ street
i an.! * effective eloquence. Anniversaries are
| r,o ccc;>ions for debate of the present. Snf
n •. it that Mr Fiedler has done his individ-
I u.-il. considerable and probably abiding «erv
! ice to the orchestra. He has established the
j concerts as they were never established be
‘ tore in the cities that it regularly or occa
sionally visits. Until he came, it had been
an orchestra that played to the connoisseur,
the amateur, the instructed. Hearing ir un
der him. that paradoxical, evasive, hut un
doubtedly existent person, the average con
cert-poet’ has been interested and pleased.
SynLpWm Season Opens*, in Boston*
The first rehearsal and concert of the
present season of the Boston symphony or
chestra were held in Boston on Friday and
Saturday. A new overture by Reger, which
Air Fielder brought with him from Europe,
was performed for the first time. It is
styled a “comedy overture.” The work
did not make a strong impression. Mine
Gluck, the opera singer was the soloist.
The Metropolitan** Season.
The season of the Metropolitan opera
house in New York, according to its own
proud announcement, “probably represents
a higher degree of variety and eclectism
than is to be found in any other great
operatic institution. Adhering to the tra
diiions and policies which have made the
Metropolitan opera house what it is. the
management will continue to present all
operas in their original languages—French,
Italian. German and English. The reper
tory will be increased by a number of
novelties and revivals.” The Metropolitan
opera company announces the production
during the forthcoming season of the opera
“Mona,” the work of two Americans, the
composer being Prof Horatio Parker of
Yale university, and the librettist Bryan
Hooker. “Mona’' was awarded the prize
in the national opera contest, organized
by the Metropolitan opera company three
years ago. Among the other new operas
which will be performed the management
makes special mention of “Boris Godoun
off,” by the Russian composer Moussorg
sky, and “Lobetanz,” by Thuille. # The
American premiere of “Le Donne Curiose.”
by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, is also an
nounced. The season at the Metropoli
tan opera house will begin on Monday
evening, November 13. and will last 22
weeks. The season will include some per
formances of "Parsifal” and a complete
cycle of “The Ring." By an agreement
between the Metropolitan opera company
and the Chicago opera company, the lat
ter will give six performances on Tuesday
nights, beginning February 13. The con
ductors will be Arturo Toscanini. Alfred
Hertz. Giuseppe Sturani, .Josef Pasternack
and others. The Russian dancers have
been re-engaged. The singers engaged are
the following:-—
Sopranos: Mines Bella Alten, Anna Case.
Emmy Destinu, Geraldine Farrar. Rita For
nia. Olive Fremstad, Johauna Gadski, Alm«
Gluck. Carmen Melis, Berta Morena, Alice
Nielson. Inga Orner. Bernice de Pasquali,
Marie Rappold. Lenora Rparkes, Luisa Tet
razzini and Roslna Van Dyck.
Mezzo-sopranos and contraltos: Mmes 3Ja
rlska Aldrich. Emma Borniggia, Maria
Glaessens. Louise Homer. Helen Mapleson.
Jeanne Maubourg, Marie Mattfield. Marga
rets Matzeuauer. Theodora Orridge. Lillia
Snelllng, Henrietta Wakefield and Florence
Wickham.
Tenors: Messrs Pietro Audisio. Angelo
Bad a. Amadeo Bassi. Julius Bayer, Carl
Burrian, Enrico Caruso. Charles Dalmores.
Henrich Hensel, Hermann Jadlowker. Carl
Jorn. John McCormack, Riccardo Martin,
Lambert Murphy. Luigi Ramella. Albert
Reiss. Leo Slezak, Dimitri Smirnoff and
Giovanni Zenatello.
Baritones: Messrs Pasquale Amato, Ber
nard Begue, Giuseppe Campanari. Dlnh
Gill v. Otto Goritz. William Hinshaw,
Edoardo Missiano. Antonio Scotti, Maurice
Renaud. Vincenzo Reschiglian, Clarence
WliltehiH and Herman Weil.
P.ass.s: Messrs Paolo Ananian. Georges
Bourgeois. Adamo Didur, Putnam Griswold.
Edward lankow. Antonio Pini-Corsl. Marcel
Reiner, Giullo Rossi, Leon, Rothier. Basil
Kcysdael. Andrea de Segarola and Herbert
I Witherspoon.
MB- SHAW’S “BLANCO FOSNET.”
First American Performance of a
Rarely Interesting Work Given by
Irish Flayers,
George Bernard Shaw's eomedy. “The
Showing-up of Blanco Posnet,” was per
formed on Thursday night in Boston by
the Irish players of the Abbey theater,
Dublin, for the first time in America.
The play, which is in one act. made a deep
impression. Philip Hale said that it was
not easy "to write in adequate terms of
this extraordinary play, which; is a mix
liure oi‘ realism and the highest imnginn
. ion. of wit, humor, irony and lofty elo
quence.”
The play, denied the right of perform
. be. in Euglund by the stupidity of the
1 easel'. wa“ first, performed by these Hame
AG" v theater players, the occasion being
regarded of so great importance that Mr
Walkley. Mr Bnitgbau and others of the
j Lond»n critics journeyed to Dublin to be
I Mr Hale gives a summary of the play
in his hrisk and expressive style, and con
cludes; "These are necessarily only im
press;..as of tie most powerful, thoughtful,
wholly original play, both in , conception
and in expression, that has been produced
here in many years.’
WIZARD GLAD TO BE HOME.
Edison sn>» He Felt 1,1 ke Kissing the
statue of Liberty.
Thomas A. Edison returned to New
York yesterday on the steamer Amerika
ufter a two-months’ tour in Europe. Mr
Edison was in a happy ntood when the
vessel docked. "I tell you, hots,” he said,
"I felt like kissing tin statue of Liberty
when I came up the bay. I am glad to
get hack home. After m, visit abroad, I
must sin 1 am satisfied with uiy own .min*
tt'.v. . The inventors wife, son, Theodore,
and daughter. Madeline, were in the party
• hey toured Germany, Fiance nnd Switz
erland by automobile. Mr Edison said
i raveling 2(mo miles over splendid roads-:
much better than American highways.
Although tin* European governments were
very progeastve. the inventor declared
none could approach the United States at
any angle of human endeavor, except iu
I'oadbuilding.
—
LIKE HALLEY’S COMET.
i Spectrograms of Brooks's comet, made
| 1 bee.lay night at me Lowell observatory
at Flagstaff. -Arix., showed the bead was
touipesed chiefly of cyanogen and the tail
ot carbon monoxide, with some Indio
carbon and ..vuuogcu. There is prqctu.nHv
no continuous spectrum: that is, the hshi
is not emitted bv solid particle*. I„,| | n
gases, i Ids is almost exactly vvhtit Hai
ley .*. comet showed with regard to the
constitution of its head ami t a jh
THE SPRINGFIELD WEEKLY REPUBLICAN: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12. 1911.
1 1 OR FOOTBALL IN ENGLAND,
j OUR BASEBALL FEVER SURPASSED
■ Hu* "•(-»*<» it .1 list OpiMieil—The Kosd
hitll V s.Hoointion Ha* Over 750,000
Member*, nml ITO.OOO llefereet—
Vlumeji That Exist—The Crowd*
Greater Than Our*.
I [Copyright. HM. in the United States and
Great Britain l»y Curtis Brown.]
i Correspondence »>f The Republican.
IjONdo.n, September 2S. I!ML
Just as baseball, the national game of
, America, is drawing to a finish, association
loot ball, the national game of England,
enters its early stages. Within a few
i weeks it will be in full cry, and through'
; <uit the length and breadth of John Bull’s
j island, in every lot and field, in every
• nook and corner, in every home and school,
boys and girls, men and women, to a num
ber closely approaching the total popula
tion of the country, will be football mad.
Baseball fever is a mild and harmless dis
ease compared with tlie football lunacy
of the British. Glance at a few figures
and see for yourself. In England alone
there are more than HJJMO regularly con
stituted football clubs playing a schedule
of games throughout the season. 'There
are oGG recognized important leagues, i
some of them embracing 20 30. or oven j
40 clubs. The football association, the |
largest governing body iu the game, has j
jurisdiction over 14.000 clubs, and on its j
rolls are more than 750.000 members.
It registers and sanctions 20.000 referees,
and has more or less authoritative c ontrol
over every big game played in the country.
These astounding figures do not include
the thousands of clubs and the hundreds
of thousands of players in schools through
out England. They are not registered by
the football association, but have a sepa
rate organization of their own. much like
the bodies that govern public school ath
letics in the United States.
There are still to be found enthusiasts
who chfciiii that cricket is the national
game of England. As a popular sport,
cricket cannot hold a candle to its more
healthy rival. Thousands shriek them
selves hoarse, as spectators, lose their eye
sight and confound their inatheniati's over
the percentage tables, or die nine deaths
a day on the field, for the sake of the
champagne of football, for every one that
sips the still beer of cricket.
Professional football in England bears
many points of resemblance to profes
sional baseball in the United States. There
are also, however, many points of diver
gence. Professional baseball in the United
States is openly and frankly run for the
purpose of making money for the men |
and syndicates hack of the various clubs, j
The big leagues are their own masters
and acknowledge the authority of no
higher governing body. Whatever may
he the true inside situation in professional
football in England, ostensibly the big
leagues are run in the interests of pure
sportsmanship. It is difficult—some people
find it impossible—to reconcile the huge
gates, the big secret salaries paid to play
ers. and the well-known failings of human
nature with this view of the situation, but
the fact remains that by the articles of
their incorporation, by their rules and
regulations and by their public protesta-
The officials of the footliall association
claim that even under the present condi
tions the S2O a week maximum still holds,
except in the ease of the larger clubs, be
cause the smaller organizations cannot
afford to pay more to a player, even if
they wished. It will be seen. then, that
playing professional football in England
is not as lucrative a job as playing pro
fessioua! baseball in the United States.
The SSOOO a year ufliich the best foot
ballers receive compares poorly with the
sum running to twice that amount that is
paid to the stars of the baseball diamond.
A footballer works nine months out of
the year, from August to April, so that
lie has but three remaining months in
which to supplement his “meager” wage.
A baseball player works but six out of
the 12 months for his much fatter en
velope.
tions, the clubs forswear any desire to
make money out of the game.
Over these big league clubs, as well as
over the smaller professional and amateur
organizations, rules the football associa
tion, of which the king is patron and Lord
Kinnaird is president. The association, I
am afraid, is not happy in its dual role
of ruler of professional as well as of am
ateur sport. Although the big leagues
are tongue-loyal to tlte governing body,
there are many signs that they would like
to break away and form a professional
association of their own. They have hail
frequent misunderstandings with the asso
ciation. and because of their great impor
tance have generally managed to have
their way.
One of the most serious hones of conten
tion during recent years has been the sal
aries of the players. The rules of the
football association provided that no player
in any club affiliated with the organiza
tion should be paid more than S2O a week,
or $lO-10 a year. In order to see that this
rule, as well as others, was faithfully ob
served, the football association claimed
the right to inspect the books of every
clnb whenever it wished, and to have sub
mitted to it a detailed balance sheet at
the end of every year. The football asso
■ iation can talk as much as it wants, but
the fact remains that this salary rule has
been consistently broken in hundreds of
instances throughout England. It is safe
to say that there is not a desirable player
in the whole country who is receiving so
little as the maximum salary allowed by
the rules of the association. For some
years it lias been known to those on the
inside that SIOO a week is the salary de
manded by the best players.
These illegal salaries were eoneeaied by
making false returns to the football asso
ciation. The books were kept regular by
a system of oileating the turnstiles at the
admission gates. A large part of the
money taken at the gates was thus un
recorded, and went to the fund for the
payment of unlawful salaries. A year
ago the football association attempted to
ease its conscience a little. It could not
have been ignorant of matters known to
everybody else connected with the game.
So the rule fixing a maximum salary was
dropped and the matter left to the indi
vidual eluhs. Now many of the club* pro
vide that players shall receive, in addition
to their regular salaries, bonuses for win
ning games, for winning championships
and for various other reasons, but that
has by no means done away with the
secret salaries.
The buying anil selling of players is as
keen in this country ns in the United
States, although in that respect also the
-.a!" of prices is lower. Simpson, one of
the In m players in the game, was last
year i...ught l.v the Blackburn Rovers, in
competition with the other eluhs of the
football league, for the unprecedented
price of $111,060,
I'rofessioiml football here gets a support
from tin spectator public that is truly re
markable. Talk about your baseball
crowds in the l uited States! the biggest
ot them would bring grief to the backers
of the great empire clubs. You who have
( marveled at the thousands that have
blacked the benches of the polo grounds
or Forbes field, should gaze on the tvveed
-1 apped legions of Crystal palace on onp
tic vlav. That is the day when the final
mutch of the season, by which, according .
to tlie arrangement of the football league
s hedtde. the championship is decided, is
pbi.'cd. More than llo.ow people have i
pushed and crowded anti squeezed I heir ,
wii,' into ih< grounds to witness the great ■
-troggle more people than you could pot j
m three arenaa like the polo grounds. The
great majority, however, paid but »ix* I
! |ienre <l2 cents) >-sion. and probably
'be asm to business !i who are running
baseball in the Unit* ' States an* infinitely
better off tlniu L-- \\h«» arc behind pro
; tessiona) fltatbalpfiii England.
Uup-Jie day is ecr of the most aston
ishing observances the English year. It
in well worth seeing from beginning to
j cud by anxone inn :• lin the customs
>•] the pot'ple. h the one great event
of the icar whicli a national appeal.
Men and boys. giU> ; nb women*, all over
' the country, even in ihe lowliest walks of
■hie., save* their nu •;. > months ahead to
; defray the raihvk.v and other expenses of
the day. If the gan ris played at Crystal
1 palace. London for a day becomes a mod*
;cm Babel. 1C very I '■ of the widely dif
ferent. accents and Meets of this strange
country is heard its streets. From
Lancashire, Yorkshire, tin' Midlands, from
(he sourh, from the east, from the west
they come in their thousands. The first
: irainloads arrive s m after midnight, and
from then until noontime trainlond after
| trainload of football “nuts’* are emptied
lat the various London stations. By far
I the most picturesque arc the north emm
! ties men- for in Yorkshire and in Lau-
I < a shire is found tit football enthusiast
| par excellence., TU can bo recognized
I by their brawn, tin ups and their jugs
of beer, which they invariably bring all
the way from hoip< rather than bs com
pelled to drink the London brow.
A YOUNG AMERICAN SAILOR.
Lieut Stephen Decatur, and What He
Did in the Harbor of Tripoli in the
Mar With the Pirates.
<>ne of the braves' and most daring ex
ploiis in the v-hrtJe history of the Ameri
can navy is reyufled -y the action of the
Italians in making war upon Turkey iu
order to seize Tripoli. It was in the har
bor of Tripoli, in. the year 180*1, that young
Lieut Stephen Itecatur did what Nelson,
the great English admiral, was said to
have declared "the most daring act of
the age." The war between Italy and Tur
key may lie a pretty tame sort of an
affair, but there was nothing tame to
wlint the young American naval lieuten
ant did that night iu the harbor of Tripoli.
The "Barkan* ’States," on the. north
coast of Africa, have iieen famous through
centuries as the home of Mohammedan
pirates or corsairs, who captured and
cruelly treated thousands of Christians,
killing them, putting them in prison and
making slaves of them. One of these
"Barbary States" is Tripoli. In 1551,
after Ihe city of Trip ii. which is the cap
ital of tire country, had ucen held for 21
.'ears’ by the brave Christian Knights of
St John, the whole state became a Turk
ish province, and then falling into an
archy, remained a regular nest of pirates
until 1535, when Turkey reasserted its
authority. But long before that the pi
rates had begun to get. into trouble with
some of the nations of Europe, and espe
cially with the United States.
What the pirates tried to do was to
make the nations pay so much money
each year to have their ships let alone,
instead of being stink or their crews mur
dered or enslaved by the pirates. For a
time the United States paid such tributes
and ransoms to insure peace with all the
"Barbary States.” .But in 1796 a peace
nas made . with Tripoli without money.
But the paslm or ruler of Tripoli broke
the treaty inside of four years, and de
manded large payments. The United
States refused to pay. and so war was
declared, the pasha thinking that the
United States was. a weak nation that
could do hint little harm. That was where
he made a mistake.
A squadron of American warships,
.under .the comma nu rof, ’GotoinoAbrft Pule,
was sent across. t,Ue,;XH;fgn to tench the
pirates a lesson, fine .of .the United States
warships was ,hhe ; trigajte , Philadelphia,
and she had the misfortune to run aground
on a reef in the harbor of Tripqli. This
gave the Tripoli tans a chance to capture
her, refloat, hpr, and imprison all her
officers and crew.
But at this titne Lieut Stephen Decatur
was iu the Mediterranean, on board the
frigate Constitution, under command of
Commodore I’reble. When Treble heard
of what had happened to the Philadel
phia he sailed for Tripoli at once. They
eoqjd not recapture, the Philadelphia,
which had been towed well inside the har
bor, but young Decatur did capture a
Tripolitan ketch, as the queer-rigged, small
Tripolitan boats are called, and he named
her the "Uiiited State" sloop Intrepid.”
On the night of February 16, 1804, De
catur took a picked drew, whom he dis
guised as Tripolitans; and with the guns
concealed, lie run tlte Intrepid right into
the harbor, which was surrounded by
foi-ts , and cannon. He .steered the little
Intrepid up alongside the Philadelphia,
and before the Tripolitans on hoard knew
what had happened, he. had captured hack
the ship and sent tflem jumping over her
sides. It was impossible to get the Phil
adelphia out of the harbor, but before
the garrison in the forts coftld he alarmed
Decatur, set fire to her, so that the pirates
should not have any. advantage front her.
Then, in the light made by the blazing
frigate, he set the sails on the little In
trepid. having cast her loose from the
Philadelphia, and amid the shot and shell
front 141 cannon from the Tripolitan forts
and ships, he steered big.'tittle craft out
of the harbor to where Commodore Preble
was waiting with the Constitution. De
catur managed things so well that he did
not lose a man, j ,
Decatur's deed was important, because
if the pirates i ml been able to take time
enough to re!:; the Philadelphia and use
her. they vv Id have had a force almost
strong enough to defeat the American
fleet in those waters. But ns it was. Com
modore Dale, under Commodore Preble,
bombarded the < ity of Tripoli five times,
and the cjty of I >orme was captured h.v
an American land force under (Jen Eaton.
By this time ihe unsha had had all he
wanted, nnd was afraid of more bombard
ments front the American fleet and more
attacks from the American siddiers, so he
signed a treaty of peace.
But it was in 1815 that Decatur, who
had risen high iu rank ns a result of his
early bravery, was sent in command -of
a squadron l" teach the Barbary States a
final lesson. In two months he had suc
ceeded in exacting indemnities and treaties
of peace at the very mouths of his can
non. He raptured the flagship of the dry
of Algiers, for. oil him to make u treaty
that freed tin United States front ever
again paying tribute, and secured the re
lease of all Christian captives. Less than
four weeks later he had treated the hey
of Tunis to a -imilnr stiff dose of medi
cine. and less than two weeks after that
the pasha of Tripoli had to submit in his
turn. For these services Commodore De
catur received honors,from Europe ns well
as America. f..r )». had secured the release
of European prisoner* from their eells in
Tripoli.
Decatur was killed in IS2O ns the result
of a duel with <'ominodore James Barron,
a naval officer ah,nut whose bravery there
was serious question. Decatur, who justly
ranks as one ~f .America's naval heroes,
lie* hurled in St Peter's churchyard in
Philadelphia.
RETIRING THE OLDEST ENGINE.
(From the New York American.]
In a short time now the oldest locomo
tive in the Americas will be put out of
comuiisaion. It has spent au uneventful
vxistence traveling over 1,3 miles of road
he’vveen Carillon and Grenville, on the
cast side of the 'Ottawa river, not far
from tjiiehec.
it has lam hack nnd forth during the
tourist season qfl the only broad-gauged
road on the ontlncnt. Now that the
pin per tv lias been bought by the Canadian
Northern, it is honed that a part of the
track and the engine that was new when
tin gold rush to California waa young
ma.v he preserved in u museum.
1 FAMOUS STONE IN HINGHAM
FROM ENGLISH MOTHER. TOWN.
j Address hy Embassador Bryce— j
.Mounting Block io Be l sed tor t or- .
ner or Hell Timer Commemorating'
Landing of Pilgrims.
Tee old stepping-stone which for TOP j
years stood in the public square at Hing- ,
ham, Knt, was presented to Hingham in |
tliis state Monday night on behalf of the !
people' of the English village by James j
Bryce, the British embassador. The stone i
is in he used as the corner-stone for a j
i 01l tower to'commemorate the landing at i
Hingham L‘7s years ago of n band of pil
grims from Hiftghnm, Eng. Former Sec
retary of tlie Navy John l>. Long pre
sided at the exercises Monday night, and
Walter W. Mersey, chairman of the board
of cf.hcfmen, accepted the gift for the
town. Seated upon tlie platform as repre
sentatives of Hinghnni families now living
elsewhere were former Gov John L. Bates
of Massachusetts, Robert T. Lincoln of
Chicago, i liark’Tiiagnr Tower of Philadel
phia. former United States embassador to
Germany. President Edmund James of
the university of'lllinois, Urbnna, ill., and
others
Mr Bryce said that he was glad to be
privileged to express on behalf of Tlie
people of Old Hingham in England,
ulienee came tlie settlers of tlie new Hing
liaiii hero, tlie sentiments with which they
had sent this stobe from their village
green to the descendants of their common
Norfolk ancestors. Used as a mounting
block for riders in file old country, it
spoke of n time when riding on horseback
was practically rhe only means of travel.
It spoke not only of its origin but of all
the changes that had passed in dtx) years,
and of the warm good will and affection
which those of the old town felt for those
of the new town after all that lapse of
time.
Looking through the list of the settlers
who had crossed the sea to this Massa
chusetts town in 1633 to 1639, he found
many of the best-known Xpw England
names. Among them was one name es
pecially interesting, because its bearer is
believed to have been au ancestor of tlie
greatest American of the 19th century.
Abraham Lincoln. There was. however,
something more and something deeper than
a mere continuity of families. There was
a continuity of institutions and traditions.
"The settlers," said Mr Bryce, "who
came from Norfolk to Massachusetts bay
b> escape the oppressive rule of King
Charles 1 and Archbishop Laud, hrouglit
with them ideas and beliefs and habits
already deeply rooted among the English
men of East Anglia, one of the .most truly
Teutonic parts of England. The love of
freedom ip the state; the love of freedom
in religion, the sense of duty to God and
to conscience. It, was for the sake of
these things that they left their quiet Nor
folk homes to face the- stern winters of
a new and almost unknown land, in whose
forests lurked unknown dangers from wild
beasts and wild men. And it was on the
foundation of these principles that they
built up their institutions here, set up
their self-governing towns, legislated iu the
General Court of their self-governing col
ony and in due time joined in framing
the constitution of their state and of the
federal republic.
“That the American people have grown
to a greatness and prosperity undreamed
of by the little hand who came from Old
Ilingham nearly three centuries ago is
due, partly to the sturdy spirit of the old
race, but largely also to the faith that has
never faltered in the principles and be
lief which the early settlers of the Bay
state brought with them, and in thgir loy
alty to which they and their descendants
have never faltered. The history of Amer
ican freedom is a continuation of rhe his
tory of English freedom and both coun
tries have alike given an example to the
world of what these principles can accom
plish.
"In these later days easier and quicker
communications have enabled the two
branches of our race to know one another
better and realize more fully the essential
unity of their thoughts and aspirations.
The friendship of nations is based on the
friendship of individuals, and the power of
understanding one another is the greatest
help to friendship. So the old affection of
the 17th century can be renewed to-day
with n stronger sense than ever of what
the nations have to unite them together.
May this stone from the old Norfolk town
which is to be built into your wall here
be an enduring memorial of the friendship
of the elder Hingham for the daughter
Hingham here, and a type of the friendship
of Old England for New England, and of
the British people everywhere for the peo
ple of the United States—the eldest horn
and the greatest of nil the nations that
have grown up outside Europe from our
ancient European stock.”
ATHOL’S ANCESTRAL FAMILIES.
Early Records of the Lords, Olivers
and Kendalls.
From Our Special Correspondent.
Atiiol, Saturday, October 7.
Every town has its old time families and
Athol must be included in the list. When
Moderator Lord made up the 150th anni
verstry committee he tried to have on
the committee of 13 at least one repre
sentative of these old families. Among
the earlier families iu Athol are those of
Lord. Morton, Oliver, Humphrey. Kendall,
Morse, Sweetser, Estnbrook, Haven,
Goddard, Smith and others. Most of these
have representatives on the 150th commit
tee. Ot the first five settlers of old
lYquoig, one whose family was very prom
inent from the beginning was Joseph
Lord- The first ancestor of the Lord
family iu New England was Robert Lord
of Ipswich, whose name appears on the
records of that town as a freeman in 1638.
He was a prominent man in that place.
Joseph Lord, who was one of the five
settlers of Athol, was graduated from
Harvard college in 1726 and for a time
was n physician in Sunderland, the first
in the place. In September 1735. with
four others. Lord came to Pequoig, after
ward Athol and his dwelling was located
on what is now known as Pleasant street
at Athol (’enter. For many years he was
a leading spirit among the settlers, the
first physician, the first preacher, the first
magistrate, first town treasurer, first tax
gatherer, in fact he was first and foremost
in many activities. Later Mr Lord left
Alhol and settled in Putney, Vt., after
«ards going to New Hampshire, where hp
lived for over 25 years. Mr Lord died
in_ Westmoreland. N. H.. December 7,
17SS at the age of 85.
Other curly settlers in Athol were four
brothers. John, RAbert. William and
James Oliver, who came in 1735. They
were Seotch-Irish people and ramp to this
tonn directly from the north of Ireland.
They were prominent In town and church
affairs and William was one of the first
selectmen and assessors. Robert, Williunt
and James afterwards removed to other
states. John remaining, and from him
descended (lie Allud Olivers. John Oliver
settled in the part of the town known at
present as Lyon's hill. His first house
was erected not a crept wavs from the
present home of Charles H. Moulton.
John Oliver came here from Hatfield and
was a large and powerful man. six feet
and six inches tall, straight as a “hickory."
He was familiarly known around Athol as
i "Old Cap." He was n town officer and
■ also served ns n captain in the Revohi
. tion. Mr. Oliver was married In 1746 and
had a family of tl children. He lived to
be 93. Or James Oliver, a well-known
present day resident of Athol, descended
i from John Oliver.
Another well-known Athol family were
. the Kendalls. Jesse Kendall was very
prominent In early Athol affairs. He de
! veloped water privileges and was one of
the tirtt deacons of the old church and
also built many mills. Another Kendall \
family settled on Chestnut hill,
FROM THE GOLDEN BOOKS.
The (cm men I.nt.
IJames Montgomery.]
Once in the Might of ages past
There lived a man and who was he?
Mortal, howe’er thy lot be cast,
That man resembled thee.
Unknown the region of his birth.
The laud in which lie died unknown;
His name has perished from the earth.
This truth survives alone:
That joy and grief, that hope and fear.
Alternate triumphed in his breast;
His bliss and woe a smile, a tear—
Oblivion hides the rest.
The bounding pulse, the languid limb,
The changing spirit's rise and fall.
We know that those were felt by him,
For they are felt liy all.
He suffered, but itis pangs are o'er;
Enjoyed, but his delights are fled:
Had friends his friends are now no more;
Had fees—his foes are dead
He loved, hut whom he loved, the grave
Hath lost-in its unconscious womb;
Oh. she yvas fair! but nought could save
Her beauty from, the tomb.
He saw whatever thou hast seen,
Encountered all that troubles thee;
Ho was whatever tllou hast been;
He is what thou shnlt be.
The rolling seasons, day and night.
Sun, moon and stars, the earth and main,
Erewhi'.o his portion, life and light.
For him exist in rain.
The clouds and sunbeams, o'er his eye
That euee their shades anti glory threw,
Have left in yonder silent sky
No vestige where they flew.
Ttie annals of the human race.
Their ruins since the world, began,
Of him afford no other trace
Than this —There lived a man!
The V oice anil ihe Peak,
(Alfred Tennyson,]
The voice and the Peak
Far over summit and lawn,
The lone glow and long roar
Green rushing from the rosy thrones t/f
dawn I
All night have I heard the voice
Rise over the rocky bar.
But thorn.weft silent in heaven.
Above thee glided the star.
Hast thou no voice. O Peak.
That stnndest high above all?
“I am the voice of the Peak,
I roar and i rave, for I fall.
“A thousand voices go
To north, south, east and west;
They leave the bights and are troubled,
And moan, and sink to their rest.
“Tlie fields are fair beside them.
The chestnut towers iu his bloom;
But they—they feel the desire of the
deep,—
Fall, and follow their doom.
“The deep has power on the bight,
And the flight has power on the deep;
They are raised forever and ever.
And sink again into sleep,”
Not raised for ever and ever,
Blit vv’hen their cycle is o’er.
The valley, the voice, the peak, the star,
Pass, and are found no more.
The Peak is high, and flushed
At its highest with sunrise fire,
The Peak is high, and the stars are high,
And the thought of man is higher,
A deep below the deep.
And a hight beyond the hightl
Our hearing is* not hearing.
And our seeing is not sight.
The voice and the Peak
Far into heaven withdrawn.
The lone glow and the long roar.
Green-rushing from the rosy thrones of
dawn!
RILEY’S FIRST POEM.
Though countless gifts, usually more not
able as curiosities than for their merit, are
received at the White House, Secretary
Hilles the other day found in the presi
dent’s mail an offering of considerable lit
erary value. It was nothing less than a
copy of a hitherto unpublished poem by
James Whitcomb Riley, which he himself
has said was the first poem he ever wrote.
It has been omitted from all collections of
Riley's verse, owing to its purely personal
nature. The verse is dedicated to Hamil
ton J. Dunbar, who died in Greenfield.
Ind., September 5, 1876. It is as follows:—
Head! Dead! Dead!
We thought him ours alone;
And none so proud to see him tread
The rounds of fame, and lift his head
Where sunlight shone;
But now our aehlhg eyes are dim.
And look thro’ tears In vain for him.
Name! Name! Name!
It vvas his diadem;
Nor ever tarnish, taint of shame,
Could dim Its luster; like a flame
Reflected lit a gem.
He wears it blazing on his brow
Within the courts of Heaven now.
Tears! Tears! Tears!
Like dews upon the leaf
That hurst at least, from out the years,
The blossom of the trust appears
That blooms above the grief;
And mother, brother, wife nnd child
Will see it and be reconciled.
In 1876, according to the letter sent with
the copy of the poem, .Tames Whitcomb
Riley was 23 years old. and engaged in the
occupation of painting signs in his native
town of Greenfield. Dunbar was one of its
best beloved citizens. Riley knew hint
well, and idolized him. Twenty years after
Riley told this Rev Henry A.
Butehel, a Methodist: "When the services
were over I went home and wrote a poem
on Ham Dunbar. It was the first poem 1
ever wrote, and it gave me the idea that
after all I might be something more than
a sign-painter.”
VP BECKBT WAY'.
[From the Buffalo Express.]
The dispatches yesterday recorded the
death of a .Massachusetts farmer who is
said to have made a fortune by pulling
stalled automobiles over Jacob's Ladder,
that formerly dreaded Berkshire pass
which has now beeu reduced to innocu
ousness by the good-road makers. This
diaeonal person kept u team of oxen for
that purpose, charged "automobile prices”
nnd may have made what his neighbors
regarded ns a fortune.
The mention of his name recalls that
of a neighbor of his on Jacob's Ladder
whose cuteness likewise was much ad
mired in tlie mountains. He once made
a het of slo—a formidable sum for those
parts—with a fellow-townsman that with
in a year the latter would see a street car
pass his door. The thing seemed pre
posterous. Who would want to build a
tramway up Jacob's Ladder? To what
trade could such a line cater?
There was at the time in one of the
valley towns some horse cars which had
been bought from a Brooklyn company
that had substituted cables, The old
street signs were left on the cars while
they were used in Massachusetts before
the Berkshire town put in trollies. The
time had come for tlie change, and the
bettor learned that the twice-abandoned
cars wore to he sold for the New England
equivalent of a song. So he hied hint
down to the plains, bought out* of the lit
tle old horse cars, loaded it on a wagon
nnd bore it triumphantly up Jacob’s Lad
der. past his neighbor's door.
Bo the bet vvas won aud this is why
pilgrims in those parts still wonder at the
sight of au ancient street ear. labeled
"Brooklyn Bridge nnd Gownnus,” doing
duty hr a fishing shanty on the shore of
a pond.
HOOKER WASHINGTON’S PI'LL MAN,
1 From the New York Mint.)
. The best and most representative south
ern feeling, as expounded by Dea Hemp
hill, for example, sustains' Urof Booker
Washington in employing a special Pull
man car io cany him through Texas upon
a professional and educational tour. The
"Jim Crow" reznlntions in thut region
made his travel laborious and inconvenient,
and the lack of local entertainment com
pleted tiie array of obstacles He there
fore engaged a special ear, in which lie
could travel with comfort and find refuge
and entertainment at places where iio
would otherwise have experienced serious
if not insurmountable difficulties. We may
observe iii passing that the hostile eotn
ments on Ihis arrangement have proceeded
m most instances from Mr Washington's
own people, while the enlightening ap
provals conic from such sources as are
eoutroled by Pea Hemphill, a southerner
of southerners.
GLEANINGS AND GOSSIP.
Manufacturer Crane of Chicago, investi
gator of the shame of the colleges, will
inngratulatc himself upon the action of
the Harvard utiion in,ruling out, hereafter,
"beer nights” and banquets with alcoholic
accessories.
Mendelssohn hall in New York, long the
honpe of the .-hoicogt recitals and chamber
music concerts, is to he converted, sad to
say, into a motion-picture theater, which
has taken a five-year lease. When it
comes to bidding for rentals high art is out
classed every time.
The new si eel passenger steamer, City
of Detroit 111. said to be the largest side
whre! boat in the world, was launched at
Detroit last week... The hull dimensions
of the vessel arc 500 feet over all and its
depth is 21.25 feet. The steamer cost
$1,500,000. and will ply between Detroit
and Buffalo.
The enormous growth of the sheep in
dustry in New Zealand (the wool exports
of 1010 were nearly $10,000,000 iu advance
of those of 1900) is due to the equable
climate, the uniform fall of rain, and the
suitability of the soil for the growing of
nutritious grasses, turnips, rape and oth
er feed specially, suited for sheep. The
number of sheep exceeds 24,000,000.
Kubelik’s Stradivarius violin is valued
at $75,000, perhaps for advertising pur
poses, in submitting it to tlie customs of
ficials. But bis fingers are insured for
8233.000. Is that a flat rate of 823,500
per digit? Or is there in violin playing a
sliding scale of values, from the indis
pensable thumb to the weak and trouble
some ring finger?
I)r Frederick A. Cook, the Brooklyn
traveler, who still insists that he at least
came as near to the north pole as Admiral
Uearv did, took Mrs Cook and two children
with him to Europe last week aboard the
Lapland. _ "I am going to Europe,” he
said at New York, "to present scientific
data to various institutions to prove that
I reached os near the north pole as any
man ever did.”
“Forty years ago I watched the work
ers on the Suez canal,” writes Harrington
Emerson in the Engineering Magazine.
“Many of them were girls, digging up
the sand with their' bare fingers, scoop
ing it into tlie hollows of their hands,
throwing it into a rush basket each had
woven for herself, lifting the baskets to
their heads and carrying; the load of 20
to 30 pounds 100 feet up the bank and
dumping it.”
The city of Washington -bids fair at
the present rate to become as overloaded
with stone and metal tributes to the hon
ored dead as Westminster abbey. The
latest monument scheme was launched
last week by the New Y'ork cmn
manciery of the Loyal Legion. It is pro- •
posed' to raise half a million dollars for
a national memorial to the memory of the
women of the civil war. Maj-Gen Fred
erick D. Grant heads the boom commit
tee.
Though poets are reputed to die young,
the literary and artistic professions have
their full share of examples of longevity.
Yet it would not he equal to match* the
ease of the English artist Thomas Robert
Macquoid, who is 91 and still able to
use his pen and brush, effectively, and
his wife. Katharine S. Macquoid, a novel
ist who published her first book in 1859,
and at 87 years of age is still a busy
writer whose work is in demand. For
over half a century she lias produced at
least otic novel a year, besides many
stories for children and books of travel.
Anglers will be interested in the drastia
measures taken by the marquis of Bute in
stoekiDg Locb Fad, which is the largest
body of wafer iu Great Britain. He found
that the pike were eating the trout as fast
as they could be put in. and he under
took to make an end of them at ono
stroke by blasting the whole lake with
gelignite. There were ‘over 300 mines,
some of which threw hp columns of water
70 feet high. When the show was over
nearly 10,000 pike were taken up stunned,
and it is believed that n great number
were killed. Now the stocking will once
more proceed.
A fine field for petty graft, honest or
otherwise, is opened by tlie legal prohibi
tion of common drinking cups, Iu a
New Y'ork city court-room the other day
a lawyer who was trying a case asked
a court attendant for a drink to slake his
Throat. The attendant refused and the
astonished lawyer appealed to the clerk
of the court. "Sorry," said that official,
“but unless you have an individual cup in
your pocket the new ordinance says you
shall not drink.” But an attendant was
ready to sell him a new glass. There
should he a boom in pocket drinking cups.
A feature of the third real estate and
ideal home show, to be held at Madison
Square garden in New Y'ork. beginning this
week is to be a large model, 30 by 69
feet, of ancient Rome on her seven hills,
constructed by the Italian archeologist
Luigi I.occi. Much new light has been
thrown in recent years, not only upon the
location of buildings, but upon the details
of architecture, and such a model doubt
less gives a very fair impression of the
capital that was the wonder of the ancient
world. Will it be possible, in 3400 A. D.,
to locate the substructures of Madison
Square garden? And where will Diana
be then, poor thing?
One result of the Dickens centenary has
been the erection by the London county
council of a tablet at 15 Johnson street,
Somers Town, with the inscription,
“Charles Dickens, novelist, lived here In
his bovhood.” It was in 1825. after Dick
ens's father was released from the Mar
shalsea debtors’ prison, that he occupied
this humble home. Clmrles himself was
not there much of the time, because after
his wretched . employment in a blacking
factory he had a taste of school life. This
house is naturally not much visited by
iiiltrims. but it deserves a memorial while
it lasts, even if it hardly merits preserva
tion.
If airships would only fly in the air as
they do on paper, Jules Verne would soon
he outdone. Of late, attention has been
mainly focussed on the aeroplane, but the
advocates of thu dirigible have not lost
(heir optimism, and an English patent has
just been granted to Baron A. Itonne for a
balloon which he thinks will be a marvel.
Its feature is h . ar as long ns the frame
work of (he balloon, a construction which
he’thinks will distribute the weight better,
and make possible an increase in efficiency
and safety. His first airship on this model
will be equipped with 15 motors, and will
have accommodations for 400 passengers
for a week's cruise. With a favorable
wind that would be umple for crossing the
Atlantic.
The (lays of New York's hoodie aider
men may be supposed to have passed, so
there would he nothing eniharnissingly ap
propriate about having the Madison Square
Diana poised on the peak of the new city
hall, hovering, ns It were over "Diana's
foresters.” But it is now said that Saint-
Gauriens's bountiful nude figure—the only
nude statue he ever made—ls too small to
he seen at 600 feet above the ground. It
is 13 feet and four inches high. Mean
while. the architects of the new bqilding.
MoKllll, Mend A White, have accepted
for the post a 20-foot stntoe by Adolf A.
Weinman, railed “I'ivie fame" On the
head of the draped female figure is a
wreath of laurel, and 111 the right hand a
crown hearing five ornaments symbolizing
the rive boroughs of the city. On a shield
is the state's cont-of-urats.