The Baltimore Sun from Baltimore, Maryland • 338

Get into the StoDO qd Tap By CARLETON JONES ACK in 1883 if the weather was warming up and you wanted a beer, you didn't have to go out in the blazing sun. You grabbed your "growler" and sent junior down to the corner place. The growler, a bucket-type container of almost any ft j. IT jijil with a Custom Pool by Gene Lilly Exercise and fun in your own back yard. Over 50 styles sizes to enhance your home.

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Later the Charcoal Club, as the art alliance became known, equipped itself with its own growler for its convivial sessions, a giant brass affair designed by member Adalbert Volck and cast by W. F. Jacobi, a famous Baltimore silversmith. The design included a rather bare miss sculpted in the round who is dipping her toes down into the vast reaches of the vessel. The growler has been a feature of club ceremonials ever since and members can look back on tales of the affluent, bohemian 1920s when the club possessed a sumptuous St.

Paul street clubhouse on the Preston street corner and would show off works by such then avant-garde artists as Robert Henri and Leon Kroll. Or even farther back to the turn of the century when its "Carnivals des Artistes" could attract up to 1,500 costumed revelers to old Lehmann's Hall. In 1933 as the Depression deepened, the Charcoal clubbers were kicked out of their elegant St. Paul street town house for nonpayment of almost everything, and they moved over to the Howard street area. Today, with about 40 members, the club, Maryland's oldest art society, is still active in a clubhouse at 25th and Charles streets (above Love's restaurant).

Weekly drawings from models or still-life arrangements are still held as well as exhibits and parties of relatively quiet, relaxed type though Carroll Hebbel, a longtime member, says recent attempts to hold art shows and sales for professional members have been flops. True Charcoalers (the list has included such men as painter Joe Sheppard, photographer A. Aubrey Bodine and columnist Louis Azrael) remain undaunted by such setbacks. Had not they survived being evicted from their home? Do they not still possess the drawings of the great Volck of Civil War fame and many another treasure? And the growler? Indeed they do and one of the greatest treasures is the rediscovered work of Ignatius L. Glutz.

"Glutz," though the mythical creation of a deceased ex-president of the club, has been part of a famed club spoof since the 1930s as the greatest Baltimore artist who ever starved to death." "Glutz" seems to have gotten around to sculpting his own "self-portrait" a few years before his untimely end in a Paris garret in the 1920s. The club has this masterly work and it's a mirror image of the great man, so authentic in fact that "the Glutz name at the base of the bust can be read only in a mirror." This and other club treasures are scheduled to go on public view in a 100th anniversary window at the Pratt Library's central branch on May 16, says Carroll Hebbel, and maybe even the growler, too. I Broan Model 346 I I Nautilus Model N346 I I I I I I I oo Roof mount powered attic ventilator motors are being recalled. Broan Model 346 and Nautilus Model N346 Powered Attic Ventilators containing a Westinghouse motor, series number E322P159, can be a fire hazard under certain conditions. To determine if your ventilator is involved, look at the plastic ventilator dome which sits on your roof.

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