The times dispatch. [volume], December 18, 1911, Page 3, Image 3

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$250,000 PAID FOR
A GAINSBOROUGH
Painter's Masterpiece, Portrait of
Ann Ford Thicknesse, Comes
to This Country.
PICTURES HER FULL LENGTH
Viola da Gamba, Which Played
Part in Painter's Life, Is
in Canvas. ?
New York. December ]7.?An Amer?
ican collector has bought for approx?
imately (250.000 Gainsborough's mas?
terpiece, a full-length, seated por'.ralt
of Mrs. Thicknesse, which once sold
Tor $30(1,001) In England. The purchase
"'as made through .Scott & F?Wle?, who
brought to this country Turner's "Now
for the Painter.'' bougtit by un Ameri?
can collector for about $'.'00,000. The
Gainsborough was formerly In the col?
lection of tho late Charles Werthelmor.
und was obtained by Mr. Scott last
summer In London. It arrived roceiitly.
The picture's history savors of ro?
mance. It was comparatively unknown
until discovered In Mr. Wei theliner's
lx>ndon home. In quality It has b^en
compared to Gainsborough's "Mush?
room Girl." The portrait bearH the
full signature of Gainsborough, and Is
Inscribed with a dedication to Governor
Thicknesse It portrays the Governor's
third wife when she was Miss Ann
Ford. In the background Is tho viola
da Gamba. which played an Interesting
part In the painter's lifo story. It la
believed to have been tho cause of
the painter leaving Bath lor lyondon.
The Instrument was much coveted
by the artist, who once offered 100
guineas for it. The Instrument was
Anally given to him at a musical enter?
tainment In the Governor's house, on
the understanding that ho would pa'nt
Thlcknesso's portrait aH a companion
painting to that of his wife
Gainsborough was so transpo-ted
over the gift that he Is said to hvfo
remarked: "Keop mo hungry, keep me
hungry'. Do not send the lustrument
until I have finished the picture."
There Is a certain dash In the paint?
ing of the attractvc subject that sug
goBts the French artist. It bears the
impress of spontaneity, and tho texture
of thu gown is rendered most effect?
ively.
ANOTHER WAR SCARE
.\Cwnpoprr Discovers Plan of Knglnnd
to ill.," L'p IVtlhelmahavrn.
Cologn?. December 17.?The Rhenish
Weatphallon Zeitung publishes a story
of an alleged discovery of a plan on
Iiis part of Great Rrltoln to blow up
Wilhelmshaven. Tho Zeltung pro?
fesses to have received Its information
from onr of the best informed officials,
who said the postal authorities, being
suspicious of repeated money orders in
f^vor of deck otltcers and chief mates,
dually selr.ed some of tho letters pass?
ing through the postal department.
I hese showed that the plans to the
entrance to Wilhelmshaven war har
b ir. aa well as plans of th' water sup?
ply and the contents of the secret code
l ook had been betrayed to the British
admiralty.
Tin partet points out that with such
Information at :te command Great
Drittln could blow the entrances to
the war harbor at the decisive moment
-'?ndcrlng the harbor utterly useless
.??rid Germany at the very beginning of
war. helpless to defend herself at sea.
To prevent th<- threatened danger, the
'/? Hung continue*, a German squadron
remained lor weeks on patrol duty.
Recent conferences between the Km
poror. me .Minister of Marine, the chief
Of tho admiralty staff and the chief
of tho Marine Department dealt with
tills matter.
?tvKarded lloninnec.
London, December 17.?Tpe story
that tho British admiralty nus secur?
ed plans of the locks and water sup?
ply and the secret signal codes of Wil?
helmshaven, with the Idea in event of
? war of blowing up the harbor en?
trances anil thus bottling up the Ger?
man tloet. Is regarded here as a mere
romance. The story Is supposed to
have been betrayed by German Officers
to the Rhenish Westphallan Zeitung,
which Is strongly anti-British and the
organ of the war material trade
editor?7oTco1le6e
publication selected
Annuuf Will llr fanned by TrlnttJ
Students?Degree Conferred oil
I'rcslilenl Few.
[Special to Thi Times-Dispatch.J
Trinity College, Durham, N. C? De?
cember 17.?I>ast Saturday nlgl?t the
governing board of llie college annual
? met and fleeted the officers for the pub?
lication, uh.1 since that time work has
been progressing as fast 'as possible.
Those elected to the offices arc Claude
Bennett, editor-in-chief: W. II. Muse,
business manager! James Cannon, Jr..
mid N. I. White, assistant editors, and
II. L. Wilson, assistant business man?
ager. On account of too much other
work. Mr. Muse was forced to resign,
and A. S. Brower was elected business
man iger in his place. Those elected
met Wednesday night and appointed the
cs8lstan!s and" departmental editors.
As yet the name for the annual lias
not been selected, but a contest has
been started offering^ u prize to Iff.
I man proposing the best name for il.
The nuine will be selected by the gov
'rnlnir board, which is composed of rcp
I retell tail von from I he various organiza?
tions, who are financially responsible
I for Its publication.
j President Wililam Preston Pew re
| turned fron. Georgetown. Texas, where
I he delivered the address at the Ihau
| guratlon of Dr. Charles M. Bishop,
I president-elect of the Southwestern
University. While there Dr. Few was
. honored by having the honorary degree
of doctor of laws conferred upon him
I by the university, together with two
I other college presidents of some note ?
President Frank K. Sanders, of Wash
burn College; Topeks, Kan., and Pres?
ident B. B. Mazes, of the University of
Texas.
The Hesperian Llterory Society held
its quarterly election of offlce-s lust
Saturday night, resulting in thi; fol?
lowing men being named: President. V>'.
L Scott; Vice-President. W. E. Ellor;
f'ritlr, Claude Bennett, .Secretary. W. T.
|R-uark; Treasurer, James Cannon, Jr.;
Murshall. T. W. lx?c; Chairman of tho
Executive Committee, F. W. Terrell, and
members of the Annual Board?Qulnlon
Hoi ton. Claude Bennett and W. A. Cade.
The Glee Club returned to-day from
a successful trip through the Eastern
part of the State,
j Rev. J. M. Culbroth. who until re?
cently was a member of the Oklahoma
Methodist Conference, has transferred
I his membership to the North Carolina
! Conference, and Is pastor of the Man
i gutn Street Church. Durham, and in
j addition to his pastoral work he has
I registered ns n member of the senior
I class of the college.
j extra! girl~babies taller
Hot New? IllKlit off the Wire I'ropi
Boston,
Boston. Mass.. December 17.?Girl
I bable. are now born taller and vfith
: much more vitality than used to be the
j cas'j. according to an authority In this
city. Mis* Charlotte W. Dunn, j-.sslst
j ant superintendent of a hospital here
patronized by the stork to the extent
of 3.000 births a year. says. "We have
j noticed that girl babies are gctt'ng
j taller and that they aro appearing In
I this world lately with more real vitality
J than formerly. The boy babies con?
tinue on the average both In weight
and height."
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Bookkeeper and Then Her Mis?
doings Become Known.
New York. December IG. ? \iina 3.
Glffurd, a seventeen-year-old graduate
of a public school In East Seventy- |
fifth Street, was locked up in the Boat
One Hundred and Twenty?Ofth Street
station house last night on u charge ]
of forgery and grand larceny
Attached to the complaint against |
the young girl. who. In spite of her
tender yeurs, I? married, are checks
which she Is alleged to have forged
to the amount of 1150. Reco?-dJ of
other forgeries are produced, the j
checks for which have been destroyed,
according to the girl's confession to |
the police, amounting to approximate,
ly 12.000.
All the foregerlcs were done In July.
August und September of this year,
during which time Mrs. Olfford. then
Miss Anna Croly, was employed by
Herbert N. Chute, a carpenter und
builder, with offlcen and factory at 13
East Eighty-sixth Street. The for?
geries ended on September 20. when
Miss Croly eloped to Jersey City with
Joseph Olfford, a young man fro-n
New I/ondon, Conn, She had met hlrn
on August 10 at Coney Island while
apendtng the proceeds of forged check:-?, I
and after the marriage he had Joined
her at the home of her parents
331 Kast Seventy-sixth Street.
Miss Croly voluntarily gave up her
posltlo.i as bookkeeper and steno?
grapher In order to begin housekeep?
ing with her young husband, and he!
has worked hard to maintain the homo
?is a solicitor for the New Jersey Tele
phone Company. He did not hear of j
hie wife's itrrcst or her confession until
several hours after site had been lock?
ed up
Her former employer was so cv.'r- )
come by tho glri's confeHSlon. male
without the (.lightest trace of embar?
rassment or regret, that he could not
speak. The girl's father was hea--t
r.roken, and after restoring her mother,
who had fainted, he sobbed with her.
At the Kast Eighty-eighth Street Po?
lice Station, he saw- his daughter for
a few minutes, but he could only stam?
mer hi* words to her.
The girl was dressed jp an expen?
sive blue serge gown with fur trim?
mings. She laughed and chatted with
J the doorman, who kept wutch over
! her until the charge had been entered
I in the blotter, and then etepped with a
I smile Into tho patrol wagon to go to
! the East One Hundred and Twenty
fifth Street Station, where there Is a
matron and cells for wom'r,, The po?
licemen who arrested her said that
rarely had they ever "booked"' so be?
coming a girl or one whose composure
was so hard to disturb.
As to what sh- dtd with the money
the girl --.lung steadfastly to one story,
j which she repeated time after time tn
response to cross-questioning. She had
I spent It 1n Coney Island witli a girl
j friend named Daisy Roberts, of 23 East
j Seventy-sixth Street. She had bcught
1 herself expensive dresseg with It, and
I had bought her girl friend many g-.iod
I tiiio.-s. but no ciothlng. She had never|
' brought any home, nnd her parents
! knew nothing of her forgeries or the
! fun-la derived from them. No one had
I Instigated the forgeries. she steadfast?
ly said
Oheeka arriving for the firm from
I persons having open aoeo-unt? were de?
posited by tho young bookkeei#er In
the bank. She would then draw a
check made payable to herself, sign?
ing ths name of Mr. Chute te It. for
the exact amount of the check depos?
ited. At the end of each month, when
she went to the bank to get the return
checks, she would take from the bun?
dle her forged cheeks, tear them up.
and "doctor" the books so the receipt
of the checks from customers would
be disguised.
THE WEATHER.
KoreeaM: Virginia?Fnlr Monday and
Tiie?dn> i nut much dient;r in tcruper
aturet llgbt north treat wtnda.
Vorth Carolina?Fnlr Monday and
I Tuesdnyt moderate northwest wind?.
Special l^ocnl Data for Yesterday.
12 noon temperature. 17
3 P. M. temperature. 45
Maximum temperature up to S
P. M. I"
'Minimum temperature up to 8
j P. M. _. tl
I Mean temperature . It
Normal temperature . 40
Excess In temperature. 1
Deficiency In temperature since
I March 1 _. 104
I Accum, e.xce.ss In tepiperaturc sine?
I January 1 . 2."
Deficiency in rainfall since March 1 CIS
I Accum, deficiency in rainfall since
I January 1.6-40
j Local Obaervatlon 8 I*. M. Yesterday.
I Temperature . 11
Humidity . 60
Wind, direction.N. E.
Wind, velocity . 11
Weather.Clear
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CONDITIONS IN IMTORTANT OITIBS.
(At S I'. M- Eastern Standard Time.)
Place. Ther. H.T. D.T. Weather
Ashevltle .... 88 3S 3d Cloudy
Atlanta . 10 30 38 Clear
Atlantic City.. 38 4S 3S Clear
Boston .?? 40 12 10 Cloudy
Buffalo . 32 2? 30 Cloudy
Calgary . 18 2S 18 Clear
Charleston ... 54 B0 54 Cloudy
Chicago . 2S 2S 28 Clear
Denver . 30 32 16 Cvsar
Duiut'ii . 22 26 IS Cloudy
Qalveston .... 50 52 16 'Clear
Hutteras 30 f.8 50 Cloudy
Havre . 22 28 22 Clear
Jacksonville .. 5(i 60 56 Rain
Kansas City. - 40 14 30 Clear
Louisville _ 34 40 34 Clear
Montgomery ..60 56 42 Clear
New Orleans. - 52 54 44 P. cloudy
New York- 88 46 44 Clear
NorfoMc . 44 50 44 Cloudy
Oklahoma .... 40 is 36 Clear
Pittsburgh ... 3C 38 36 Cloudy
Raleigh . 44 t>2 4 4 Cloudy
St. Dotlls . 36 3S 30 V. cloudy
St. Paul . 24 26 24 Snow
San Francisco. R3 5* 48 Clear
Savannah .... 52- 5fi 52 Cloudy
Spokane . 3 4 34 20 Cloudy
Tampa . 62 68 62 Rain
Washington . . 38 44 38 Clear
Winnipeg .... 12 16 12 Snow
Wythevllle ... 28 3S 28 Clear
MINIATURE ALMANAC.
December is. i9ll.
HIGH TIDE.
Sun rises.... 7:81 . Morning.... 3.17
Sun a*tt. 4-tt .', Droning:- Irfll
TREASURE HOARD
IN PEKING PALACE
? Enough Gold There to I'ay
Chinas Foreign Obligations
for Several Years.
London. December IT?Tin- Euro-,
peun financial world watches the 'io-j
volopmeuls in China with keen Inter?
est, but without ntis serious fear thatj
the ilnanelul obligations ehiarcd Into;
by the Imperial government will be!
repudiated. For, whatever be the ul-l
liiliato political outcome, the party Inj
power will need the assistance of till'!
outside world, and a refusal to meet
present obligations would not help to?
ward obtaining further loans.
Consequently, Peking repoits of the:
government's disposition to suspend]
the sinking fund for China's foreign I
loans is held to leuutro conllrmuitpti. j
Dr. George Ernest Morrison, the:
famous Peking c irresp mdcnt of The
Times, ronllntics in this connection to
point ou: thut ill Ih an abundance
of money In tho Chinese treasury to
meet all foreign obligations. The
palace hoard, hu says, is much larger
than It is generally believed to bo, al?
though about half a million sterling
trom it was recently sold to foreign
banks.
I Hiring the foreign military occupa?
tion of Peking In the year following
the Boxer outbreak of ltfOO, the palace
treasure was guarded by foreign troops*
lirst by the American soldiers belonging
to the command of General Chatte?, and
on their withdrawal by British soldiers
detailed for this duty by General Ga/.c
lce.
The treasure was stored in a quar?
ter of ilie pulacu n?-or the northeast
corner of the Forbidden City. Why
this rare should have been taken of
Ibis treasure of stute by the belligerent
powers, says Or. Morrison, is one ot
tho many mysterlee associated with
thut time of international Jealousy.
There Is ttrong reason for hcllevlng
that this hoarded treasure amounted
In value to nearly ?9.000.000 ($15.000.
000). The whole of It was restored to
the Chinese intact.
On the re-turn of the Empress Dowa?
ger from her tlight to Slan-Foo the
palace treasure was largely added to,
for the wily old woman displayed no
gratitude for the services rendered to
her by tho toreign powers In pro tec t
I Ihg her treasury, but, pleading that
I the palace had been looted In the ab?
sence of the court, reaped u rich har?
vest of money conribullons from the
patriotic and from the salo of titles I
and onlce.s in al] parts of the empire.
It is uulte ortaln. says Or. Morri?
son, that the gold and silver now
stored in tho palaco must be sufficient
to moot all of China's foreign obliga?
tions for several years.
( Somo of the gold Just sold to foreign
banks was packed In soalid boxes,
with inscriptions showing that xhey
had been remitted from Canton In the
seventies. They had never hcen opened.
No treasure remitted to Peking during
the last thirty years has yet been
touched.
There Is greater wealth in the
Pr-kins Palace. Dr. Morrison says, than
was found in the Ylldlz Kiosk after
I the fall of Abdul Hamid.
BELIEVES CONGRESS WILL
PROTEST DRY TKItHITORY."
Bristol, Term., December 17.?Repre?
sentative Sam R. Sells, of the First
Tennessee District, who Is at home
from Washington to spend a few days
?with forestry department inspectors
now Investigating East Tennessee
lands, expresses tho belief that Con?
gress will pass at this session a
measure to restrict the Interstate ship?
ment of whiskey. He said:
"I Und a growing sentiment in favor
of temperance legislation among the
members of the lower House, and an
effort will be made by certain mem?
bers to frame a measure that will give
'dry' territory protection from the in?
discriminate method of shipping now
in vogue. In the bill there will be a
section to prevent the indiscriminate
Issuance of government liquor licenses
in 'dry' territory.'*
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The head of the family is often puzzled to know what his wife and children most
desire for Christmas?what gift above all others they would select if they had their free,
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them select their own presents.
It is most significant, that in former years it has sometimes happened that the sale
of the Pianola Piano has been greater the week following Christmas than the week before.
The Christmas checks have been used to purchase this instrument, showing conclusively
the real preference of the recipients.
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of music, and thus participate in one of the keenest forms of human enjoyment?the
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renewing her acquaintance with the pieces 6he
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The Pianola Piano is of supreme importance in
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SCHOOL INQUIRY
MAY BE DELAYED
No Chance Now to Take It Up
Until After the Christ?
mas Holidays.
Because of the delays due to special
meeting's calbta "In. connection with
the form of government ordinances, U
is now expected that tho proposed in?
vestigation of the methods of conduct?
ing the public schools will be postponed
until after the holidays. The Joint res?
olution authorizing tho appointment of
a !;pecln) committee to hold this inquiry
comes up in the Board of Aldermen to?
morrow night for concurrence, and au
the investigation Is Jointly recommend?
ed by tho Ordinance. Charter and Re?
form C'ommltleo and by the School
Board there seems no doubt of concur?
rence. Tho petition of the elementary
teachers for on increaso in pay is now
pending before tho Committee on Fi?
nance, but inasmuch as later petitions
have been Mod by tho High School
teachers and those of the primary
grades, It may be that all will bo taken
up together. A general_resolution for
an increase of 10 per "cent, all along
the Uno may result.
Whllo this Is not anything like as
much ns the women tenchers of tho ele?
mentary white grades ask, or even
what the Ordinance Committee has rec?
ommended. It Is polntod out that were
that lncreuso alone granted It would
practically disrupt the touching force
at the Hgh School, as It would result
In paying teachers In the elementary
garde.-, more than Is now paid to high?
ly trained special teachers In th? upper
grades of tho High School.
quirk confession'
not now iiblirvbo
Junctioti City, Kan.. December 17.?
With the release of Rev. C. M. Brewer,
of Oluatree, Okla.. proceedings In the
I Fort Rllcy dynamiting ease seem to
I have come to a sudden end. The mlll
I tary authorities claim that the re?
lease of Mr. Brewer and of Mrs. Anna
Jordan is a severe setback to the
case- Private Michael Quirk, who con?
fessed to the dynamiting, and the
other five members of Ills company nr
rested are still being hold at the post.
Tho belief that the Quirk confession
was given merely that his long soli?
tary confinement might be terminated
gains ground here.
Friends of Mr. Brewer and Mrs. Jor?
dan do not believe the charges against
them will bo pressed, although it is
maintained that new warrants will be
issued at once.
n i'M on cninnxT that
ACCORD !.?? BEACHED
London. December 18.? Special dis?
patches from Paris nnd .Teheron tslvo
the rumor that un accord has been
arrived at between Russia and Persia
through the conferences which the
Russian foreign minister, M. Sazonoff.
had in Paris with the Pcrstun minis?
ter, but scerding to the Teheran
Paris Temps correspondent there is
apparently well founded rumor that
I unless Persia accepts, all. the condi?
tions of tho ultimatum by December
I 21 the Russian troops at Kasbln will
march on T?h?ran
BRITISH UNION
He Also Denounces Recall of
Judges in Letter Just Made
. Public.
Washington. December 17.?A re?
markable letter by the late United
States Supreme Court Justice John M.
Harlan, of Kentucky, was given post?
humous publicity yesterday. In which
he declares that, in tho .end, Oreat
Britain must com? to a union of states
or dominions; also that no people will?
ing to put the recall of .ludijes into
their fundamental law are fit to enter
the American union of States.
The letter was written by the emi?
nent Jurist August 12 last, while at
his summer homo on the bonk; of the
?St. Lawrence River, only sixty-three
days before his death, to a young
friend. Several extracts from It were
read at the Harlan memorial exerctsas
In the United States Hupyreme Court
chamber by Blackburn Esterllne. of
tha Department of Justice, who has
been representing tho government In
recent cases before the new Commerce
Court. Mr. EslcrHne did not make
public, the name of tho young lawyer
to whom the letter wa_s written, and
merely read the extracts to Illustrate
Mr. Harlan'? capacity for letter-writ?
ing and portray his colossal nil ml.
Commenting on British affairs, these
words appear In the. Harlan epistle:
"The passage of the veto bill in Par?
liament practically wipes out the House
of Lords ns a power In England. We
are to have no more governing by titles
and heredity. This Is good, in the
end. Britain If it Is to last, must have
a union of states or dominions, with
local Parliaments to deal with domestic
matters and a general Parliament to
I <le.il with Imperial or empire matters.
Mr. Harlan In the same letter shifted
from British affairs to those of the
New World, and continued:
"I hopo that the President will put
his foot down firmly on tho reeull ot
Judges In Arizona und New Mexico,
while In territorial condition. It is
one thing for these people, after be?
coming States, to amend their Consti?
tutions and provide for the recall of
Judges. It Is quite a different thing
for Congress to give It* sanction to the
principle of tho recall by admitting
these Territories Into the Union, with
Constitutions providing for the recall
of Judges.
"No people It seems to me, are (It
to. come Into the Union as States who
are willing to put the recall cf Judges
Into their fundamental law.
"Whether a particular Territory
shall be admitted Into the Union as a
State is a matter of discretion with
Congress. That discretion should bo
exercised so as to malutaln sound
principles that are recognized as ouch
by Anglo-Saxon people. ,
? "Upon the question whether the re?
call of Judges is Republican in tS?
constitutional sense. I express no
opinion; for that nucstlon may come
up for Judicial determination. I only
speak of the recall as a matter of
public policy, and that far I muy ap?
propriately go."
TEN BODIES REMOVED
Knoxvllle. Term., December 17.?Ten
bodies were removed from Cross Moun
tain Mino at Brlcevillo to-day, leaving
el?ht more in the mine. To-day's re?
movals bring the total of identified
dead up to seventy-seven, while the
total number of victims Is estimate.I
ot eighty-four or eighty-live.
The funeral of Mayor Thomas Watts,
of Coal Creek, prominent In tho work
ot relief for the Brlcevllle sufferers,
who met death Friday morning, was
held to-(l:iy. Mrs. Walts has been con
lined to a hospital for a week as a.
result of an operation for appendicitis,
and at her request the funeral cortege
to-day stopped at the hospital, tho
cofUn was removed from the hearse
and carried by tho pallbearers into the
hospital that Mrs. Watts might have :i
lust look at the features of her dead
lllttltnnd
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