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PROGRESS IN ICE BOATS.
CRAFT ATTAINING A BPEBD OF 50
MILES AN HOUR.
How Ice Boats Are Made—The 1886
Model—Snow Sailers to Carry the
Mails In the Far West—Kites as a
Motive Power for Skaters—Tobog
gan Adapted to Level Overland Nav
igation.
( Copyright .)
New York, Dec. 7.—The annual advent
of Jack Froet is at hand, and with the
spreading of his white mantle over the
earth, and his hard, glistening crust upon
the water, the bob-sled 9, skates and tobog
gans are brought out once more.
For those who are fond of novelties,
there is the Danish skate sail, which con
sists of a small light sail, measuring about
6 feet long by 2 feet wide, which is spread
upon light rods crossed at the back of the
skater and fastened to a belt round his
body. An enthusiast recently adapted this
principle to a pair of large roller skates,
specially designed to run on a railroad
track, and with a fair wind skated or sailed
from Milwaukee to Chicago in less than
four hours.
PROGRESS IN ICE BOAT ARCHITECTURE.
The ice yacht is another device which lms
become almost a national institution, and
one that other countries do not seem to un
derstand, unless they are shown one in the
act of sailing. The design of an ice boat,
known as the 1886 model, was deemed the
very hightof perfection, and when its speed
was found to reach fifty miles an hour,
under extraordinarily favorable circum
stances, it seemed as if the utmost possible
excellence had been reached at a single
stride. This was not so, however; such
high speed could only be obtained in
very strong winds, and as the amount of
resistance required a corresponding amount
of heaviness in structure, which tended to
make these record-breaking boats very
slow in au ordinary breeze, the brains of
our builders and inventors were devoted to
the task of getting the highest rate of speed
out of a ten-knot breeze rather than break
ing the record obtained in a favorable gale.
The difference between these is like the
record of a skater on a circular track
and one with the wind behind him. The
latter breaks the record, but the former
wins the race, and that is the aim of the
Ice yachtsman.
Several ideas have been tried with more
or less success; the skate blades have been
ground on different patterns from the old
straight-edged blade, and instead of the
under surface which runs on the ice being
perfectly flat it has been “hollow ground, - ’
that is to say, the center of the blade has
been more or less cut away, leaving the
outer edges sharper and harder, so as to di
minish the lee-wav in reaching, which, of
course, increases the speed just so much.
Hitherto the sloop rig has been the popu
lar style, and it is yet believed by experts
to be the fastest and most satisfactory rig
known. This year anew rig will be tried,
which will be productive of considerable
interest in ice vaebt circles. It is a modifi
cation of the latteen rtg of the Mediter
ranean feluccas, and the great advantages
claimed for it are that it gives a great
spread of unbroken canvas, is easier manipu
lated than the three or four rails of the
sloop, and better still, brings the bulk of
the sail area and consequent resistance to
the wiud right down to the very point which
modern sailing science proves to be most
productive of high speed.
THE LATTEEN RIG.
The latteen rig consists of a stout mast
stepped in the ordinary way, and the sail is
spread up 511 a huge gaff, or boom, which
extends in an arc from the bow of the yacht
lip to the top of the mast and beyond, the
sail covering the whole space from stem to
stern. This rig one of the fastest Known
modern rigs as applied to ordinary “ailing
craft, the felluccas of the south of Europe
being proverbial for speed, aud consider
able interest is felt os to the result when the
good propei tias of this rig are fully demon
strated. Jacob E. Buckhart, the Pough
keepsie ice yacht expert, favors the sloop
rig against any other that may be intro
duced.
The ice boat is not a difficult thing to
make, and a modification of one that will
sail well may be made by any one who
knows anything of the carpenter’s art. The
rest is easy, as any blacksmith will give
estimates for a set of three blades, and, in a
city, the hardware store will obtain quota
tions and goods from the makers. Take a
drygoods box, about five feet long and four
feet wide, and cut down to a depth of two
feet. Clamp the bottom and sides of the
box with pieces of iron, so as to make it
sufficiently strong to bear the strain that
will be put upon it. To the sides of the
box forwards attach two planks, whicn
meet at the points, to form the bow. These
planks are shaved away so as to present an
upward slant at the apex. Underneath the
box, crosswise, attach a plank twenty feet
long with equal projections from the box
on each side. This plank should be nine
inches wide and two inches in thickness.
Lengthwise of the box, at a point midway
between its sides aud at right angles to the
long plank, fasten another so thut it extends
underneath the box backwards, to form a
keel and projects from the box rear
wards eight inches. In this projection
cut a hole in which to insert the stern post;
at the base of this sternpost is fixed oue of
the three skates, while the other two are
fastened at each end of the long plauk.
These skates are the bases of support upon
which the craft rests. The sternpost is so
adjusted that when the rudder handle is
turned to port or starboard, the skate turns
also, and directs the course of the boat, in
the same way as would be done by a rudder.
The mast is stepped into a solid foot,
which rests upon a long plauk running
crozswise underneath the box, and this mast
is strengthened and steadied by pissing
through a second piece of planking placed
crosswise on top of the box. The sail is
simply the sail of a cat boat, only made
smaller and lighter to suit the boat. Any
one with any knowledge of the carpenter’s
art and of the ordinary requirements of a
boat can make an ice yacht for compara
tively few dollars outside of the first cost of
the skates.
SNOW SAILING CRAFTS.
One of the most interesting sail inven
tions of the past year is that of the snow
yacht, which is stated to be the product of
the brain of a Kansas man. The ice yacht
is desigoed to skim over the frozen surface
of lakes and rivers, but the snow has
hitherto proved an impassable expanse, with
the exception of the sleigh and the snow
shoes. By the application of this new Idea,
however, the snow becomes equally under
the subjection of the sportsman in any dis
trict where there is enough of it and the
country is open enough for it to be undis
turbed. The principle is almost the same
as the ice yacht, but applied to the tobog
gan. A large toboggan is made, and the
runner-planks are set ten feet apart and
are thirty-two feet long by two feet wide.
These rest, of course, under the tobogganj
which is about twenty feet long bv ten
feet broad, and is only different from the
ordinary toboggan in the matter of leo
boards about six inches in bight, which run
along each side. The mast is stepped into
a wooden “foot,” or square block of wood,
and is about twenty feet in bight; to sucli
a boat the dimensions of the boom would bo
about twenty-two fiet and gaff twelve
feet. The boat is a peculiar oue in
appearance, but sails well as soou
as a crust forms upon the snow. The
one I saw last your was fitted at the mast
head with a peculiarly bent piece of
stout, flat iron wire, placed to catch the
telegraph wires as a coweatchor catches an
obstruction, and to lift them up mid slide
them over the mast as the boat passes under
neath them. The great reason for this is that
the snow being several feet in depth, it of
course decreases the distance tietweon the
wires and the ground, and so something is
necessary to lift them up. The steering gear
of the snow yacht is simply a pole about ten
feet in length, fitted with a broad end,
which can be turned at the will of the pilot,
so as to dig into the snow, and so obtain a
good purchase, or, when running before the
wind, it can be left to trail behind. These
boats sail very fast in a good wind, and are
fairly easy to manage, the only difficulty
being found by inexperie ced mariners in
putting them about. If brought up toi
suddenly she will not get quite round, an i
will jam right in the wind, and uaiess tbe
occupants have snow-shoes on board, and
so can get out and boost her round,
they are likely to have a hard time.
ithout snow-shoes the weight of the boat
will push the men into the snow, instead of
their efforts moving the boat. It will be
readily seen that this boat is simply au
adaptation of the idea of the Fijian in his
double canoe, which is applied to the snow
surface instead of water. It is expected
that by means of the snow yacht, the mails
on the western prairies will this year be de
livered during several months of the year,
when previously it has been practically im
possible.
KITES AS MOTIVE POWER FOR SKATERS.
Another novel idoa that should find favor
with our boys this year is the adaptation
of kite-flying to the ice. IV o all know that
many days, when one goes out for a skate,
the wind blows too strong tor any comfort,
and we are obliged to just skim up and
down some shady spot so as to escape the
buffeting and hard work of beating back
against the wind. On such a day, if the
wind be moderately ucross the river, a lot
of fun may be had by means of the kite
laid away sinco the summer: or, better still,
by one especially made for the purpose.
The square or six-sided kite is the best
shape, and, if specially made, it should be
made with extra stout ribs and back, or. if
an old one is used, it should be re-covered
and strengthened.
The cord should be very Imuch stouter
and longer than usual, for the more resist
ance that is applied, the higher it will be
necessary to let the kite go. Having every
thing In readiness, get a friend to hold the
kite, ami start in the usual way, skating a
short distance against the wind to get it
“up.” Then turn and let the kite draw
you. It is well known bow very little it
takes to keep a person on skates moving,
after once being sot in motion, and it will
be readily understood what the motive
power of a fairly large kite will be.
The greatest fun, however, does
not consist in simply holding
on to the kite, and being drawn
in a straight line along the ice; to get the
maximum of pleasure, learn to coast with
it. Have the cord wound upon a good
thick stick, long enough to give n good pur
chase to both hands and stout ouough to
bear the pressure without breaking in the
middle. Hold this with bent arms in front
of your chest, and turn your fo it slightly to
the right, how far to turn them caunot bo
rxpDined in words, your own judgment of
the pull of the kite must guide you. If it is
not very strong it will be possible to go
nearly iu a straight line acrosi the ice, aud
turning, come brick nearly as straight, but if
it is bowing hard, andjthe pull is strong, a
more slanting direction will bo necessary.
It will bo found necessary when tho pull
coinos to incline the body from the kite, as
if ooe were doing the “outside edge,” so as
to get more resistance, and then it is neces
sary to watch the wind carefully and be on
the lookout for sudden puffs, which, if not
anticipated, may result in an unexpected
fall at the sudden jerk of tho kite or the
equally sudden let up of the pull. Properly
managed, the kite will take the flyer skim
ming along, coasting here and there across
tbe ice, or running straight ahead
before the wind, describing zig
zag, cr any other figure he
pleases. This is a very popular sport among
the boys in Eastern and Middle Europe,
and the boy here who first introduces it to
his section will have au enviable time. I
have also seen boys make a light frame
work of lumber like a raft aud put it upon
runners made of a pair of discarded wagon
shafts cut to au edge and securely fastened
to the raft, and theu, getting their kites
well up, nun down in the rude sleigh with
half a dissea of them sitting on it, their
kites drawing them alone, the steering being
done by a boy’s log dragging out behind, iu
the same way that a toboggan is guided.
David Wkcusleh.
TERROR REIGNS SUPREME.
Negroes Terrorized by a Gang of
Desperadoes.
From the Columbus ( Gn.) Enquirer-Sun.
It is seldom that such a caption has to be
penned to an article, the iiappening of which
occurs in this section of country.
The farmers near Mountain Hill report
that they are in a serious predicament,
which has been produced by a set of lawless
whites, who reside in the community. The
farmers have been using all the'means
within their power to briug the parties to
justice, but it seems without success.
The negroes have become so thoroughly
frightened as to leave the community. In
some instances it is impossible for the fann
ers to obtain help enough to gather tneir
crops, and ruin stares them in the face.
These imitators of the “White Caps”
chalk the outline of a coffin upon the
doors of the negro tenants, lire a load of
buckshot into the door, place n notice on
same, with the announcment that if tho
notice was not complied with they would
forfeit their lives.
A notice was served on Gube Walker
the other night. He lives on Mr. B. C.
Kimbrough’s place. He is reported as
being au excellent colored man, always at
tending to his own busiuess, and working
faithfully and hard to earn a living.
Andy Hutchius, who works on Mr. B. C.
Whitten’s place, was, without notice, taken
out on Friday and unmercifully whipped.
Shade Caldwell, who live 6 on the place of
E. C. Moultrie, was served with one of
their notices. Mr. Moultrie states that
there is not a better negro living than
Hhado Caldwell; that he is hard working,
honest, reliable, and a stanch democrat.
All of the negroes upon whom these
notices have been served are of tho best
class. The lazy, idle ones are not troubled.
The matter has reached such proportions
that the farmers on yesterday held a mass
mooting to determine upon some action. A
petition was signed by seventy-five citizens,
asking the governor to increase the reward
ulready offered from SBOO to #I,OOO.
31’lie parties are known to the pe< mlo, but
they say they are afraid to take any action
against these outlaws, for fear of having
the torch appliod to their barns aud homes.
The negroes who have been maltreated
know the perpetrator, but will not furnish
the evidence to lead to his conviction, for
fear of boing waylaid and killed.
He is described as another Rube Burrows
and his namo is said to bo Wallace. One
Harris county man who wa4 in the city
yesterday, said: ’
“ Wallace is a very dangerous character.
He is unscrupulous and can use a pistol to
good effect. It is said that he can shoot a
hole through a silver quarter thrown into
the air. Tho people up there are pretty
well satisfied that he is the man whoisdoing
all the mischief, but no one will dare to at
tempt to capture him.”
“What do you think about a man going
up there and taking him in ?” asked the re
porter.
“I think it would be a very risky 'busi
ness. lam satisfied that ho would not be
taken alive. It is generally believed now,
however, tnat ho has left the community
and gone to Florida, but no one knows this
to be a fact.”
Will Wallace has violated the law more
than once, and there is an indictment
standing against him in Muscogee county
for a very ugly crime. He is very well
known by several gentlemen in Columbus,
and they all speak of him as a dangerous
character.
lie is not responsible alone, however, for
the trouble in Harris county. Others have
joined him terrorizing the negroes there.
It is understood thut tho trouble was first
started by the negro who was killed. He
was u school teacher who bad been talking
very loudly ia advocacy of social equality.
The last oue who was used up was a
preacher who indorsed the course of the
1 teacher.
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1889-TWELVE PAGES.
WOMEN ARTISTS AT WORK
IN THE STUDIOS OF A FEW WHO
ARE WINNING NAMES.
Some Clever Painters—Marla Brooke,
Amanda Brewster Sewell, Mar ia R.
Dixon, Agnes D. Abbatt, and Others
Who Wield the Palette Knife and
Brushes.
New York, Dec. 7.—lt Is probable that
there will be in future regular exhibitions
each winter of the work of women painter*
in New York, which will bring out in
greater prominence tho strength of the art
work now being done by women. Women
in every profession are following the fashion
of the day in organizing, and one of the
newest clubs is a club of women artists
which is not yet old enough to have re
ceived a name, hut which in its unchristened
babyhood already includes some two dozen
of the best known workers, and will hold
its first exhibition, which is awaited as one
of the art events of the winter, in two or
three months’ time.
Maria Brooks is one of the most vigorous
painters among women. She is not an
American, though she has had the good taste
—let us say—to open a studio ia New York,
spending her winters here aud returning in
tho summer to England. Miss Brooks has a
slight figure and a serious, thoughtful, in
tellectual face, somewhat suggesting the
be3t type of the New England school
teacher. She paints a picture that is virile
in its power and always strong and har
monious in coloring. Her early life
was spent in England and she was
a painter when little more than a
child. She was a student at the South
Kensington art school ana took a gold
medal for her work in design, painting at
this time, if I am not mistaken, a fan
mount for the queen. She was an inde
fatigable worker, rising for five years at 5
o’clock in the morning and devoting her
self to her brush ail day. At the end of
this time she bad six pictures well hung in
the Royal Academy, and thenceforward
exhibited there regularly for fourteen years.
Her work came into demand and she
had commissions for portraits from many
prominent pbople. Canadian admirers in
vited her to Montreal, and when she visited
that city receptions were given in her honor
by Sir William and Lady Dawson, and a
special exhibition of her works was held.
From Canada she came to New York and
has made this city her home for three or
four years, though the deaths of members
of her family calling for a long visit to
England, together with an accident from
which she has not yet fully recovered, have
considerably reduced the actual working
time. She continues to exhibit abroad.
Miss Brooks has a large studio in the
Sherwood building, full of interesting can
vases, tapestry-hung aud rug-strewn, where
a small green paroquet perches on her finger
surveying the world from that vantage
ground. The first picture which she painted
in New York was a half-length of the Rev.
Dr. Huntington, of Grace church, and she
lias since painted the ltov. Dr. Morgan Dix
in full canonicals. Two of tho eleven oils
attributed to women in tho fall exhibition of
American paintings at the Fifth avenue art
galleries were from her brush. Oueof these,
which she calls “Down Piccadilly,” is a ’bus
load of female Britons returning from Co
vent Garden with baskets of flowers. It is a
large canvas, treated with realistic force and
directness, and the types are admirable.
“Wayfarers” is a large picture now in her
studio which his never been exhibited in
the city. It shows a group of wanderers at
rest on a moor, and its breadth of treatment,
strength and simplicity are very interest
ing. "Un Desir” is one of the most beauti
ful things Miss Brooks has evor done. It is
the head of a girl in blue draperies, and
there is a world of aspiration in the eyes.
It was painted, I think, from the artist’s
maid.
“The Drxigo prize” for the best work in
the spring exhibition of the National
Academy, painted in the United States by
a woman, hat been awarded three times.
This year it went to Mrs. Ella Condie Lamb,
in 1888 to Miss Amanda Brewster, now
Mrs. R. V V. Sewell, for a portrait of
Dora Wheeler, and the year before that to
Mary Curtis Richardson. Mrs. Sewell
works with her husband, Mr. Robert Van
Vorst Sewell, the artist, in a studio in West
Fiftieth street. She has a face of singular
sweetness, earnestness and womanly charm,
and paints a strong portrait, while her
work in genre is intellectual and poetic in
theme. Mr3. Sewell was born in New
York and studied a short time at the
Art Students’ League, afterward spend
ing three years in Paris at the Julien
Academy. She has exhibited several
times at the salon since her re
turn. Mrs. Sewell has shown several
pictures from Dutch subjects, but one of
tlio finest things she has done is her “Mother
and Son” iu tho present exhibition at the
National academy, which has been pro
nounced one of tile most satisfactory things
in tho display. The costume of the mother
is simple and picturesque,and was designed,
Mrs. Sewell says, by her sitter. She is low
at work oa a figure piece for the spring ex
hibition, showing maidens on their way to
oiler flowers and fruits at the temple of
Ceres, the fine composition and harmonious
coloring of which are noteworthy. The
girls have thrown themselves on the
ground, while a lad is piping to them, and
the draperies fall back from their round
arms. Mrs. Sewell is a young woman, still
under 30, and her art work gains in strength
and maturity every year.
There are many of these artist marriages,
other notable examples being Mr. and Mrs.
Frederick R. lamb and Mr. and Mrs.
Henry A. Loop. Mrs. Lamb is better
known as Ella Coudie lamb, whose picture,
“An Advent Angel,” took the Dodge prize
last spring and whose work marks her out
as possessed of serious ainiß and ideals. Her
“Hoad of an Indian Boy” at the Fifth
avenue galleries this fall was marked by
characteristic fidelity. It might well have
been a portrait, the lineaments, color, hair
and expression being essentially Indian.
Mr. and Mrs. Loop are now at Los Angeles,
but are expected in New York in the spring.
Mrs. Loop is one of the two women painters
who are associate academicians, the other
being Miss Fidelia Bridges. No woman has
been made an academician, and the Amer
ican Water Color Socioty has admitted few
women, Miss Bridges, Mrs. Rhoda Holmes
Nicholls, Miss Agnes I). Abbatt, and Mrs.
George H. Smillie being the names which
occur to me.
The year of Mrs. Sewell’s success the
New York Herald said that “the Dodge
prize” should go to M. R. Dixon for a charm
ing female (figure called “Reverie.” This
n n-committal signature has appeared on
much clever work in the last eignt or nine
years, work broad and siinplo in its tech
nique, and oftener than not attributed to a
man. Mrs. Dixon has her studio at her
home in Brooklyn, and is a figure painter of
unusual ability, unduly modest in her esti
mate of her own work and, withal, a
woman whom other women call charming.
She was a pupil of the Art Students’
League and of C. Y. Turner, aud first ex
hibited in 1880 at the Brooklyn
Art Association’s exhibition. Her
first picture in tho National acad
emy was shown In 1883. It was
called “Waiting,” nnd showed a young
woman in a light evening costume of quaint
old fashion, with iier back to tho spectator.
In 1855 she exhibited “An Idle Moment,” a
young girl sittiug in a hammock neglectful
of her knitting and watching a kitten play
with her ball of yarn. In 1880 her picture
was “Sewing Carpet Rags,” a character
study of an old w man engaged in a homely
occupation, a picture exceedingly rich in
color and broad and effective in treatment.
Iu 1887 she showed “The Secret,” two youug
girls, one seated, tbe other whispering in
her ear. Last spring she had a tine picture
called “The Rehearsal,” and “Tne Break
fast.” A picture of “ Feeding the Pigeons”
bears her name this fall.
Mrs. Dixon does her art work in her own
house, to bo amid homelike surrounding,
nnd not to be separated from her family—
her mother and child. Her studio is tho
nest of an art-loving woman, and is bright
ened bv etchings which have been made
from many of her paintings and which have
a wids sale.
Miss Agnes D. Abbatt is known Doth as a
landscape and flower painter. Many of her
landscapes have gone to Boston, while her
studio at 387 Fourth avenue. New York,
abounds in studies of every flower that
blooms, and makes a most attractive spot
for visitors when thrown open, as often
happens, in hospitable fashion for Saturday
afternoon receptions. Its furnishings are
simple, couches, rug' and quaint brio-a
brao, wit a studies in oil and water color
filling every available inch of room.
Miss Abbatt was born in New York city
and studied at Cooper institute, at the Na
tional Academy, under Janies D. Smillie
and R. 8 wain Gifford. She was longest
with Smillie, and his influence is probably
strongest in her paintings. She first ex
hibited m 1876 at the American Water
Color Society’s exhibition, and has received
medals from Cooper Institute and from the
Massaehusett’a charitable inochauic ex
hibition. She now exhibits regularly at the
National Academy, aud her “Harbor Road,
New London,” now on view, is a pleasing
expression of nature painted with sincerity
and feeling.
\f ■ A L. L. - AS. A- M _
Miss Abbott spends a part of every sum
mer at the family homestead ia the country,
and there she has an old-fashionea garden
where she coaxes into blossom a wilderness
of old-fashioned fliwers. An arbor over
grown with vines, a tangle of tall holly
hocks and sunflowers, a mass of blackberry
bushes covered with fruit in all stages of
greenness and ripeness, these are subjects
such as she delights in. She has a holly
hock picture now at the academy. She
paints nasturtiums against a background
of blue brocade, bachelors buttons in an old
brown jug, bluebells, and for all her flower
pictures she finds odd titles. “New Wine
in Old Bottles” for a bunch of jonquils and
narcissus in a curacoa bottle was. I remem
ber, a name which puzzled the critics a while
ago. Miss Abbatt is perhaps the painter of
chrysanthemums.
Much of her landscape work has been
sketched off the Massachusetts coast near
Maguolia, and shows the characteristic
rocky scenery. Some of her pictures of
shore scenes—the line of sand, the breakers
and a tree or two, are full of a quiet charm
and exceedingly interesting.
Few New York artists are better known
than Miss Dora Wheeler, whose reputation
is based partly on her gifts in decorative
design, some of the tapestry panels designed
by her and exhibited in London last spring
having created much enthusiasm, and
partly on her portrait and genre work.
William M. Chase and Bouguereau have
been her masters. H alter Besaut, James
Russell Lowell, John Burroughs, Thomas
Bailey Aldrich, Walt Whitman, Austin
Dobson, Charles Dudley Warner and other
literary men almost equally as well known
have l>eon among her sitters. “Will o’ the
Wisp” and “Biackberrying” have been
among her academy pictures. Her studio is
one of the most delightful places in the city
and happy are those who have the entreo.
Another prominent artist is Rosina Em
met, who, by marrying a son of Mrs. John
Sherwood, became Rosina Emmet Sher
wood a year or two ago. Miss Emmet
took the first prize in Irang’s Christmas
card competition in 1879, aud afterwood
studied art under William M. Chase. She
has illustrated sovoral books, “Old Fashion
Tales,” by Mrs. Burton Harrison, being of
the number. “A Nymph of Hymen” and
“A Portrait of a Lady,” were noteworthy
pictures shown by her last spring.
Letitia B. Hart, who showed “The Art
Amateur,” a symphony in yellow, at tho
Fifth avenue galleries a few weeks ago, is a
woman who pursues her art from love of it,
seriously and conscientiously. Maria J. C.
a-Becket has an attractive studio in the
Sherwood building, and is busy this fall
with one of her favorite wood interiors,
with a large birch in the foreground. A
“Landscape” anil an “Edge of the Wood,”
which she has shown recently, were both
excellent pieces of workmanship.
Mrs. Charlotte B. Coman is a strong and
simple landscape painter who is also of the
Sherwood building artist colony, and who
exhibits regularly at the academy. Another
landscape painter of ability is Miss S. M.
Barstow, of Brooklyn, who excels in warm
rich tones. Eleanor C. Bannister has signed
her name to some notably strong bit of
color harmony, and paints flesh to look as if
it were real. Adah C. Murphy, the wife of
J. Francis Murphy, paints quiet country
scenes that are full of subtle charm. “The
Pride of the Yard," which is one of her re
cent pictures, is a quaint garden witn an
old house, a gnarled apple tree and a wealth
of scarlet, piuk and crimson hollyhocks.
She has shown two water colors this fall,
“A Bit of Country” and “An Old Farm
House” which take high rank among all
competitors.
Rhoda Holmes Nicholls is another woman
artist who comes to us from across the seas.
The w-as born in Coventry, England, and
received the queen’s scholarship in the
Bloomsbury School of Art, Loudon. She
has studied in the Circolo Artistico in
Rome and in Venice, and some of her most
notable pictures are sunlit effects in the city
of the Doges, with gondola stands against
white walls, and gondoliers resting. Mrs.
i s the wife of Burr H. Nicholls, the
artist. Her work is exceptionally vigorous,
both in oil and water colors, and of u qual
ity to add luster to any exhibition.
Frances Eliot Gifford is another artist who
married an artist. Her husband is R.
Swain Gifford, and sometimes they work
iu collaboration. Mrs. Gifford’s specialty
is birds, and “The Home of the Sheldrake”
shows their joint labor, the wife painting
tho wild fowl and the husband putting in
tho background. Mrs. Gifford’s pictures
are of a very pleasing quality and good in
color. Louis C. Tiffany, Noah Brooks and
others have bought them.
What a list of artists’ wives I am getting.
Mrs. Thomas Moran was her husband’s
pupil before she married him. She is an
exceptionally vigorous etcher. Mrs. Frank
Fowler paint-, and so does Helen C. Hoven
don, tho wife of Thomas Hovomlen, whose
“In the Hands of tho Enemy” won so much
praise last spring. Mrs. Hovenden, like
her husband, paints figures and also ani
mals. Mr. and Mrs. George H. Smillie
must be added to the list of artist couples.
Mrs. Smillie is one of the best flower
painters in the country.
Among the younger artists there are
women who show great promise. One of
these is the daughter of William J. Evans.
She is one of tho prize winners of the
Academy of Design schools. The residence
of Mr. Evans in Jersey City is one of the
richest storehouses of art in America.
Another young painter is Miss Anna Laura
Morgan, daughter of William Morgan, the
artist. She has exhibited in the academy,
and one of her pictures is in the Kneeland
collection in Brooklyn. It is a fruit piece
rich in color, as are all her paintings, which
show great ability.
Miss Josephine Jessup is a promising
artist who lias a studio up under the
roof in tho Windermere. It is on the roof
in one senso. for the top story, a very low
and quaint one, has been built on the top of
tho older building, and has rows of tiny
windows with single panes like portholes,on
which account the artists who haunt it
christen it “the ship.” Miss Jessup’s Btudio
is a tiny one full of artistic belongings. She
and a number of other girl artists used to
work t igether in a barn down on Staten
Island, where they combined art and recre
ation most acceptably. Miss Josup
has boon rather n delicate girl, aud never
worked regularly in the schools, but has
been taugnt by Wyatt Eaton and has
had the advantage of study in European
galleries. William M. Chaso has painted
her portrait and given her some instruction.
Her special talent is portraiture, and she
usually sui'ceeds in catching a very charac
teristic “expression.” Mrs. Moncuee D.
Coo way, in a square cut dinnor dress, and
Mildred Conway, her daughter, iu tho ar
tistic Greek gown she wore in one of her
parts wiijle studying at tho Lyceum School
of Acting, have been two of her sitters, the
pictures being ordered for Mr. Conwuy.
Miss Roekuinu, the young actress of the
Palmer company, has sat to her also.
Another of the younger artists is Clothilde
Bodice, who had two fine water colors at
the Fifth Avenue galleries at the recent ex-
hibition, and has two good landscapes in
the present exhibition at the academy.
if one were to begin with Franc- s" Hunt
Throop aud enumerate all the women in
New York who are doing work that marks
thm off from the daubers of plush and
decorators of little pink jugs, aud theu
were to run over the art groups of Host >n,
®od Philadelphia, and Cincinnati, ad
Louisville, the number of women artists
would oe seen to be by no means small nor
their success inconsiderable. The field is
a comparatively new one, but ite tillage is
being industriously pursued.
Eliza Putnam Heatos.
THE NEW PHARMACY LAWS.
Amendments of Importance Passed
by the Legislature.
Hereafter applicants for pharmacy li
censes will have to uudorgo strict examina
tion by the 6tate pharmaceutical board.
That is, those who cannot show diplomas
from some regularly chartered school of
pharmacy, will be subjected to examina
tion, no matter how long they have been
in the business. An applicant may have
been connected with a pharmacy or drug
store any length of time, but unless lie
undergoes the proscribed examination, he
cannot secure a license as an authorized
pharmacist.
Lndor the law, before it was amended by
the last general assembly, licenses were
granted promiscuously to any person who
had served an apprenticeship of ten years,
whether under a licensed permit or not.
The new lawdoosaway with that entirely,
however, and hereafter only thosu who
received diplomas in chemiitry, or
who can stand examination by the board
of pharmacists, will be permitted by the
state to engage in the profession of drugs.
Regular graduates of medicine also come
under this law. It holds that a physician is
no more entitled to practice pharmacy,
without making it a special study, thau a
sawyer is to practice medicine.
“This amendment is one of great inmort
anceto the profession,” said Dr. Theo.
Schumann of Atlanta when questioned
about the effect of the new law upon the
granting of license. “Formerly, if a man
could prove that he had served ten years in
a drug store, without saying what the
capacity of his employment, he was just as
much entitled to a license as one who hud
taken a course and received his diploma at
a regular institute of pharmacy. Then
doctors, who didn’t know common bark
from rhubarb, were, in the eye of the law.
competent chemists.
“Another important change is in the clause
relative to adulterated drugs. Heretofore
it has been necessary to prove the actual
victim of the adulteration. Now it is a mis
demeanor for a pharmacist to have in his
possession, anywhere in his store, drugs that
have been weakened or adulterated. If tho
board should suspect a house of handling
drugs that had been tampered with, it can,
on purchasing through a decoy channel,
samples of the suspected article, convict the
sellers. This amendment will go far toward
doiug away with adulterated drugs, as it
makes proof of the cheat comparatively
easy.”
The amendments to the pharmacy laws
were due to thp efforts of the state phar
maceutic board and the Georgia Pharma
ceutical Society. Several other minor
changes were made, but th ose mentioned
are of greatest interest.
MARY ANDERSON’B START.
How She Was Taken Up by Col, South
mayd and Others in New Orleanß.
From the Louisville (Ky.) Times.
Colonel Fred R. Southmayd, of New
Orleans, famous throughout the Mississippi
valley in connection with every yellow
fever epidemic within tho past quarter of a
century, has been in Louisville for several
days on business, his first visit to this city
in twenty-seven years. Col. Southmayd is
one of the best known and most picturesque
figures in the south. He is an old man
now, but retains all the energy and activity
of youth, both in mind and body. He
walks erect, with a soldierly bearing that
is his by right, for he lost his right arm in
the confederate service; wears a gray
beard, a slouch hat anil a great coat, and
has a bluff and impetuous manner that
shows the man of will. But beneath it ail
is a heart that boats for all humanity and
an unselfishneas that has been tried aud not
found wanting.
Col. Southmayd was manager of tho
Democrat newspaper in New Orleans when
Mary Anderson made her first appearance
there, unknown and unnoticed. He was
familiarly dubbed “The Pirate” in those
days, and was nothing of a theator-goer.
He was inveigled into seeing the unheralded
actress by a youngster on the paper who
had fallen in love with her, and'to say that
tho colonel was charmed with her beauty
and genius is a weak statement of
facts. Ho sought her out, and when
he learned that her father was a confeder
ate soldior and was killed at Stones River at
the head of Breckinridge’s division, his in
terest in tho fair young girl knew no
bounds. She was playing two empty
benches, but she appeared unconscious ’ of
her surroundings, and acted witii a fervor
that was contagious. Col. Southmayd in
duced a prominent physician of New Or
leans, who was also a scholarly and brilliant
writer, to visit the theatre and hear
Miss Anderson. He did so under
protest, but remained to worship. Her
was spellbound and exclaimed to Col. South
mayd: “That is no girl; she is a woman,
and a wonderful one at that!” “She is but
a ohild,” replied the colonel, “and you shall
seoher.” Ho saw her aud was fascinated,
and the next day wrote au article for the
Democrat that attracted widespread in
terest. Other writers took up the strug
gling artist, and she was soon playing to
crowded and enthusiastic audiences. The
Pickwick club gave her a purse, she bought
a fine wardrobe, and went on a triumphant
tour east. Miss Anderson never forgot the
stanch friend of her adversity, and lor
many years they were correspondents.
THE SUN’S ECLIPSE.
The Great Astronomical Event of tho
Year to Occur Dec. 22.
The most important astronomical
month is a total eclipse of the
sun on the 21sL22d, not visible in
this latitude. This is the second
total eclipse of the year, a very rare
occurrence, for, although they occur occa
sionally within twelve months of each other,
it is very seldom that two total eclipses
hnppen in the same calendar year, aud it
will not again occur until the year 2057.
The total ociipse is important because it
affords a chunoo to study the solar corona,
and as the last eclipse considerably modified
the views of scientists in relation to the
constitution of the envelopes encircling the
sun, it is especially important to test
these new hypotheses by still more exact
observations, and as there is no other total
eclipse of the sun for a period of four years,
it is all the more important to make tho
most of this one. Cayenne, the most favor
able point of land for observation on this
side of tbe Atlantic, has a duration of
toiality of oue minut'i and forty-seven
seconds at about sunrise. At St. Paul de
Luanda, Africa, where the Pensacola took
Prof. Todd and his party, the totality will
last three minutes aud a quarter, and it is
at this station that the principal part of the
work will be done.
Here is another chance for the surplus
New England schoohna’atn. The recent
Greek census shows tho Greek population
in strong contrast to that of almost any
other European country, inasmuch as tho
number of males exceeds that of females.
The proportion of males is 107.6 to 100
females. It is well known that the females
considerably excoed the males in almost
every other Europeau country. At the last
English census in 1881 the ’sex proportion
was 105.5 females to 100 males, and in this
country the same rule holds good every
where outside tho northwestern groujt of
states.
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She is now as well and playful as any child.
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SUBURBAN RAILWAYS.
Coast Line Railroad
For Cathedral Cemetery, Bonaventure and
Thunderbolt. City Time. WEEK
Trains leave Savannah 7:15 and 10 a. m.. 8, 4-30
and 6:30 p. M. Leave Thunderbolt 6 and ?a.
SL, 12:30, 3:45, 5:45 p. m. **
Saturday night's last train out 7:15 p. m.
SUNDAYS leave Savannah 8,3, 10 and 11 a.
“ % \ 4 ,’ 5 > 6 anil 7p - Leave Thunder
bolt 7:10, 8:30, 9:30 and 10:30 a. m 12:30 2-30
3:30,4:30,6:30 and 6:30 p. m. Trains for city leave
Bonaventure five minutes after leaving Thun
derbolt.
Take Broughton street cars twenty (30) min ■
utes before leaving time of trains.
A. G. DRAKE, Supt
CITY AND SUBURBAN IUILM
ON and after FRIDAY, Nov, 8,1839, the fol
lowing schedule will be run on the outside
line:
LRAVIS ARRIVE UIAVE LEAVE
CITY. CITY. ISLE OP HOPE. MONTGOMERY
10:25 am 8:40 aru 8:15 ain 7:50 am
*7:oopm 2:oopm I:3spm 1:10pm
Every Monday there will be a train for Mont
gomery, leaving city at 6:50 a. m.
Every Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday a
train will be run out, leaving city at 3:25 p. u.
On Wednesday returning, leave Montgomery
4:40 p. m. and Isle of Hope 5:05 p. m.
On Saturdays and Sundays leave those points
a$ 6:20 p. m. and 5:50 p. m.
'•This train leaves half hour later on Satur
day and will be ommlttod on Sunday.
OEO. W. ALLEY Supt.
Savannah, Nov. 5, 1889.
Savannah and Tybee Railroai
SCHEDULE OF TRAINS (Standard Time).
Leave Savannah daily 9:30 2:30
Returning, leave Tvtiee 12:00 5:00
Saturday train will leave at 7 p. .
Family excursions every Tuesday and Friday
at reduced price.
R. E. COBB. Supt.
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Stock of Groceries,
LUNCH AND MARKET BASKETS.
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