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BOSTON SUNDAY POST, MAY 25, 1902 BUFFUM COLLECTION OF AMBER A RARE EXHIBIT AT THE ART MUSEUM The Boston Museum of Pine Arts has corroe Into the possession of a very beautiful and valuable collection of amber Jewelry that was once the property of tho late William Arnold Buffum, who bequeathed it to tho museum at the time of his death. During the past week subscribers to the museum and the ln'iimediato friends of the Bnnffums have been allowed to view this magnificent collection, which fills four entire cases In the room devoted to carvings, and on Monday next tho general public may feast their eyes on. the rare collection. Nearly everyone Is familiar with the substance, amber. It Is almost universally used In the manufacture of stems for expensive pipes and is frequently brought Into use as a pendant for the brooch of milady.

But amber jewelry is something that Is met with only or. rare occasions, and it is to the fact that Professor great hobby was the procuring of curious amber that the Boston public may have the opportunity of examining some very beautiful but obsolete gems. of the specimens of the collection are of the celebrated Italian work and date back to about the eighth century These were excavated by a party of which Mr. Buffum was a member, at Palestrina, the ancient Praeneate. He was then pursuing some archeological studies In Italy, and the sight of these remarkable relics, the Intrinsic beauty of the ornaments, so Interested him in amber that he began to study the subject systematically.

He soon became an authority on the subject. He wrote a most interesting little book called Tears of tho Hellades, or Amber as a published in Hondon In 1896. This Is the first time the collection has been brought together and shown as a whole. It was Mr. Buff Intention to do so but he died before ho could carry it out.

There is a great variety of specimens, representing all possible varieties or. tho these are surprising in the'r differences. Examples of each kind of the mineral are Roumanian and Sicilian, In their various forms, find there are also specimens of the matrix rock. It is wonderful what a rangeof color is shown In the Sicilian only all shades of golden yellow, but blue, green, violet, rose, with ail the fasci- nating play of the richest opals. All sorts of ornaments are represented, an cienit and modern.

These are labelled, and a special catalogue of the collection will be issued as soon as practicable. Some of the amber opaque and of various hues, but most of it is of the more familiar translucent character. There is a deal of old German and old Italian work, very richly and delicately- carved. There are two beautiful transparencies, with different shades of yellow amber, giving effects like stainecl glass windows, and representing scriptural subjects. Ore of these Is cinque-cento work, and depicts the Among the Italian 17th century work are an altar service and some delightful statuettes, vases, etc.

The modern work is very rich and beautiful, reaching Its climax In a large and splendidly designed jewelled case in the Renaissance style, of ebony, ivory, silver and lapis lazuli, with numerous medallions of Sicilian amber, carved exquisitely, both in relief and intaglio. This is illuminated from within by an ingenious arrangement of electric light, which, gleaming th-ough the amber, makes it glow superbly. It was made at the order of Mr. Buffum by 1 Professor Fritz von Muller of Munich. SOME RARE PIECES OF THE BUFFUM COLLECTION.

On the left is a Jewelled erucldx and on right arc'a beautiful neeklace of amber and gold and some rare brooohos. The centrepiece is a Jewelled caae, ma Professor Fritz Von Muller of Munich. AMATEURS TO PRESENT Young Sodality of Immaculate Conception to Give Gilbert and Opera Efforts of Friends to Conceal Facts of Attempted Suicide For some reason, as yet unexplained, John A. Warnock of 1619 Massachusetts avenue, Cambridge, attempted suicide last Thursday by poison and a pistol shot in an open boat off Nahant. Warnock called at the boat house of William Brittain on Winthrop Beach on the day mentioned about 1 and hired a common rowboat.

According to men who saw him at the time, he appeared to be all right, though somewhat nervous. One of the employees said that Warnock suffered apparently from St. Vitus dance. That was the last seen of him by tMr. Brittain.

Friday the boat house keeper received word from the police of this city that a boat belonging to nlm had been brought to wharf by the fishing sloop Ignatius Enos. While near Nahant the Enos had picked the craft up and found Warnock In a semi-conscious condition, lying in the bottom of the boat. When the city was reached, Warnock was Immediately removed to the Emergency Hospital. There he made a request that onj of the physicians whose work for the day had ended be assigned to care for him. Another doctor, however, w'orked upon him, and, It Is said, found that the man was suffering from poison as well as 'the pistol So far as can be learned, Warnock had intended to end his life when he rowed out.

It Is said tha't he took a dose of morphine, and followed it with a quantity of chloroform. As these failed to kill, he shot himself. When he was tpken on 1 board the fishing he was very weak, but under the care of the crew he had recovered consciousness when the city was reached. His family was notified and, when it was found that the physician whom he wished to tend him could not conveniently do so at the Emergency Hospital, arrangements were quickly made for his i removal to the Massachusetts General Hospital. As soon as the injured man had been taken care of, the family strove to conceal his Identity and cover the facts In the case.

The Enos, manned by Portuguese, left the harbor early Friday morning on a fishing trip. Pledges of secrecy, is said, were from all on wharf who were aware of the tacts, and these pledges have been kept That no hint of Warnock's desperate attempt might come to the newspapers, the police were not notified and there 1 no entry at headquarters to show that he had tried to kill himself. Notwithstanding the pain of the sur- 1 ferer, his greatest solicitude, as well as that of his family, was that nothing leak out, and he left the Emergency Hospital as he entered, unknown. is no record on the books of that stltution to show that he had been a patient there, At the Massachusetts General Hospital hlB wishes were respected and all information regarding the matter was refused. Even Inquiries as to his chames i of recovery were unanswered.

Ah yet the motive which prompted Warnock to his desperate deed lii ft mystery Ho is about 30 years old and employed in this city as Insurance agent. He is well known in and very generally respected. to Mr. Brittain, Warnock had not fore been Been in Winthrop, al hough a I younger brother, William is known, having frequently there. Notwithstanding the triple at tempt upon his life, It chances of recovery are vs i fair.

OFFER! A New Gold Mine WITH A BRIGHT FUTURE I am offering stock in a new Gold Crocker-Oregon-which Is situated In the famous Cracker reGp 11 known as the Oregon Development; is $1,500,000, divided into 1,500,000 shares of $1.00 each, fully paid, non-assessable, and no personal liability. wM answer that my answer on what I have seen of the property impressed me AFTER A PERSONAL INSPECTION of it. and a careful canvass of what Is being done by nXhboring properties that are located in the same district and which contain the same general character- lstlcs, as Regards ore, claims isYhe which produces from $40.000 to AbivttlnK us on wost Is the famous Eureka pro- dured over $900,000 in three years. South of the E. is the great Columbia uhfch puts forth about the Golconda, another monthly producer valued at $1,000.000.

These are the giants of the vein, but there are others being developed that bid fair to rival These are rvMoker-Oreeon which lies in the midst of all of them, with a well-defined yS2non the surface averaging froinlO to 40 feet in width-running northeast and southwest, the trend of all the large the man or woman who wants to make an Investment in what appears to me to be a corning dJ of oM age? You have saved a little money. Good. Will It earn enough to keep you when you are tired of working? Ofie thousSid dollars might earn $40.00 a year. That would keep you for a month! Have to do better than that. MUgT puT YOUR MONEY TO WORK, where will stand a chance to earn big dividends, pro- you think the Mine proposition? Ever hear of a Gold Mine shutting down because I if stock'in a Gold Mine-I take my own medicine, too, for I am a large holder of i offer it, to my friends until I know that It IS a Gold Mine.

You will not bviy any from me until I have put myself in possession of all the facts and KNOW what I am 0fferlThere are plenty of meritorious Gold Mines waiting the magical touch of machinery and men to make them spring Cracker-Oregon1 is what is known as free milling, the easiest to treat. I prepared a prospectus which tells about this mine-goes into details, and the first step that I want you to take is to SEND FOR THE PROSPECTUS. The lias boon plnoeit at you can buy a small block of this stock and never miss the outlay. You may buy it as follows: IOO shares 10.00 300 shares 200 shares 20.00 400 500 shares $50.00 and so on up. And it vou oavnod BOO shares nt stock in some of the mines that tie next to oura- today-you would never have canusc -o tear tunS then put In a stamp mill.

It staoulVnot thanyear to bring it Into the pnulucinK Vs. IT WII.I. A PRODUCER. Tt has Hie all that is told in that prospectus that I am so anxious to send you. i mo will he sold at so the sooner you send for the prospectus and read it, the better.

Only shfirM will8tm a beginning. it is the first step that leads to independence-that Is. If it is taken In my direction I KNOW proposition and I deal in meritorious Gold Mines-no time for the payable to 1.0 S. Ovttt, FIsca, Ajtent. The Oregon Development Co.

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With the Exception ot I Street Others Closed Till Mid-June Aftermath of the Occupation of Cuba. (Photo by CAST OF Yoons Sodality of the Church of the Immaculate Conception. Beginning at thfleft end of th? cit the characters are personated by Miss Margaret A. Feeney, William Hazelborn. WU liam V.

Denning, T. Louis Thompson and Miss Louise Rena Staab. In Boston College Hall tomorrow evening and Tuesdny ambitious amateurs will produce the famous opera of Gilbert and Sullivan, entitled, "The for the benefit of the. sanctuary of tho Church of the Immaculate Conception. The Young Sodality of the church has been preparing for the last two months for the performance.

Mr. Edward MacGoldrlck Is in charge of tho miuslc and Mr. Leon E. Dadmun is In charge of the stage business. About 60 young men and women make up the cast.

Tho principal characters are 'to be taken by Mr. William A. Hazel boom. Mr. T.

Louis Thompson, Mr. William V. Denning, Mr. MacKenzie, Mr. While sweltering humanlt In Bnston KSS may take a dip and be refreshed.

It is true that the street bath house, where during the winter as summer, the ha orowfi will he open today, but if a big cr swoops down on the bath house, attendants there will not be able to 1 official opening of the bl cltv and will not take place until the middle of The State hath house at Revere Beach, that was with the masses last year, willnot open until the latter part of June. The e. bath will be the only city one, with the exception of the Indoor ones, that -will re celve candidates for Thomas J. Lane, chairman ofthe, hat commission, talked pretty evening about the failure of the to have all the baths open at this season of the year. He said: matter of baths I maintain is a public necessity.

We cannot open the baths any earlier in the season our expenses will not allow it. Just IN THE AIR More Hope That Strike May Be Settled Soon. our expenses will nor John F. McDevitt. Mr.

Frank E. Collins, BOOn ns the city allows us money enough Mr. John E. Thornton, Mr. Thomas F.

conduct the department as It ought lo then we will be able to open earlier in the season. YORK, May was entered in the United States District Court today by the Countess of Buena Vista against General Brooke of the I nited States army for The countess alleged that General Brooke abrogated rights held by her through Inheritance to the privileges of conducting the slaughter house at Havana and to the distribution of meats and the collection of the fixed charges for said meats. Tho countess claimed these privileges by virtue of a royal decree from the King of Spain, dated 1794. The business was successful and profitable until 1899. In that year, she alleged.

General Brooke, then military governor of Cuba, issued an order to the effect that the hereditary privileges connected with the slaughter of cattle in Havana were terminated and declared nnll and void. This order the plaintiff alleged was In direct violation of a section of the treaty of Paris, declaring that so long as the occupation lasted the United States should assume and discharge all obligations under International law for the protection of life and property. Mr. Frank J. 'Driscoll, Miss Margaret.

A. Foency. Miss Louise Rena Staab, Miss Louise Chisholm, Miss Grace T. Griffith, Miss Ellen Cecilia Sullivan, Miss Victoria Johnson, Miss Eva Keating, Miss B. Pearl Dougher, Miss M.

Louise Master Ar.drew H. McCarthy and Master Francis Howard. VOLCANOES NOT TO BLAME Professor Shaler Ridicules Idea of Connecting Them With Hot Spell Professor Shaler, dean of the Lawrence School at Harvard, does not look for a wldeapread scattering of ashes throughout the globe on account, of the recent volcanic eruptions, such as followed the great Iceland eruption of I7fc3 and the outburst of KraKatou in 1883. eruptions at and Ft. Pabst beer is always pure Brewed from carefully barley and permitted to leave the brewery until properly aged.

ho said yesterdiy comparatively small disturbances. After the erupBon of Krakaton, between Java and Sumatra, the ashes remained in tho air for three years and gave tha sun a reddish tinge at sunset. But that was a greater upheaval than the mint affair at The professor laughed heartily when the reporter mentioned a popular idea that the recent eruptions havu had something to do with bringing on tho sudden spsll of hot weather. will not say volcanoes never affect climatic he declared, I will say there have been no observations showing In any case that volcanic eruptions have any general effect on MECHANIC ARTS EXHIBITION Annual Public Reception Yesterday at the High School At the Mechanic Arts High School, Belvidere and Dalton streets, yesterday, the special annual public reception was held by the Instructors and pupils. Among the throng of visitors were the school committee on manual training, Mrs.

Emily A. Fifield, Miss Barrows, Messrs. Brick, Morris and Mulvey. In the academic department the pupils were seen at work. The classes In mathematics and physics were In charge of Roswell Parish; mathematics, William Fuller; history, Herbert 8.

Weaver: French and German, 11 an let E. Burd, history and mathematics, Charles Reed; English, Charles L. Ha tvs on; French and English, Anna Vaughn: mathematics and English, Thomas G. Itees; chemistry and French, Robert Burke; mathematics, William B. Carpenter; English, Katherine Leonard.

In the forge shop John W. Raymond, had 36 boys engaged lu making a weld. In the metal working room the boys at the lathcH were under direction of Allan Sweet, assisted by Frank A Coupal. In the flrwt year woodworking shops Benjamin Eddy and Oscar F. Hmh were directing the boys who were working from blue-print upon a oread board and a wooden rosette which were being carved.

In the second year woodworking shop Herbert M. Woodward and Harold Nathaniel D. Henchman were In charge. The first year drawing classes, Ludwig Frank and Harold H. Mendell, were engaged In plane geometrlq drawing and projection, while the second year classed, under Ralph H.

Knapp and Frank A. Kraft, were drawing upon orthographic and Isometric projections. The general exhibit of the school was In the hall. U1U street bath has been open Ml the year round, and I have no doubt it anyone calls over there they will ho attended to, although the official opening Is not until June 17. The shower baths can be taken advantage of In the different public gymnasiums.

"There seems be an opinion prevalent, which I think Ms entitled to some consideration, and that Is that the water Is not fit for bathing until the latter part of June While the atmosphere Is warm the water Is very cold for bathing and will register somewhere In the A rugged man or boy can stand It all right, but the weaklings In any event let them give us money enough and we throw open the baths right away. AN IDEAL SHOP Although the average woman Is willing to undergo a struggle as severe as that of the. football field In the purchase of or desired fashions, she Is quick to appreciate prompt and civil Rervlce. An Illustration of this fact Is seen In the success that Tremont Temple shop la enjoying. Everything there contributes to make shopping a fascinating pastime instead of a task to be abhorred.

The great display of those articles of dress about which women are most fastidious, such as shirt waists, neckwear, hosiery and gloves, together with the prompt attention one receives and the very moderate prices charged, makes It a really Ideal shop. WILKESBARRE, May Mitchell gives no indication that he is considering any proposition from the other side looking to a settlement of tho strike, but peace rumors are again In the air. Reports from the entire coal field showed every locality was quiet. Strikers in Camp BLAIRSVILLE, May camp has been established here for tho striking coal minors. Active efforts will be made to close down the mines still in operation.

A brass band from Carnegie and nearly 1000 strikers are here, and it Is said they will remain until the agreement is signed by the operators. President Dolan Is advising the men against the use of violence. Warned to Close HAZLETON. May owners of the Dusky Diamond colliery at Beaver Brook, and Matthias Schwabe. operator of a small mine at 8outh Ha- berton, which furnish coal for domestic use, have been warned to close down until after the strike.

Agents from West Virginia are here trying to secure miners. The United Mine officers have notified the strikers not to go The pumpmen at the Crystal Ridge colliery of A. Pardee Co. have been suspended. and bosses have been put in charge of the pumps.

Strike Ordered in Virginia HUNTINGTON, W. May general strike among all the miners in Virginia and West Virginia was ordered today by the LTnited Mine conference, to begin June 7 and last until the demands of a 10 to 22 per cent Increase In wages, adopted In convention March 18. is accepted by the operators. Good Old Advice The children are for grandma! Who is there like her for wisdom and gentleness, and sympathy, since the first baby came? What would we have done without her? splendid, my old mother praises them very highly, end she would never be without Howard W. Wellman, Tremont Street, Fairmount, Ohio.

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