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GRACEFUL PINNER OOWN or CHIFFON LAOS. MOKALS OF THE POOR. MR. ELY'S LAST LECTURE IN COURSE BEFORE POLITICAL LEAGUE. "The report of "he Committee of Fifteen, which via be issued In book form In a Cow days, will give 10 some people an Incorrect Idea of the moral difficulties dangers of the poor." said Robert Ers- Mre rdsjr.

In a lecture on "The Morals of tie Self-supporting Poor." As a. matter of fact, the th' ar.d awful phases of human wickedness and weakness with which the report will deal ere exceptional rather than characteristic, conslltftoc the population of the poor quarter is a whole. Always remembering that in these lectures the term "poor" means poor, and does not include either the pauper sr the criminal class, it may positively asserted that virtue, in the technical sense of the word. Is. perhaps, quite as often found among the poor among the very rich.

"Poor people are naturally more open to the appeals for help than others, because they know what th? sufferings an-1 privations of poverty mean. In factories, where a certain number of accidents cr of illness arc sure to occur among the norkaen. it is the universal rule, under such clr'smsttnecs. for the men to "pass the hat' for a fellow workman so afflicted. The -very fart that workir.tr people are compelled to live rear together In great tenement blocks tends to cultivate among the social virtues.

They have a sense of common life, of common joy and Borrow, -which pwple who live in detached houses surrounded If ample grounds do not have. "Eut how about the homelier, rather unlovely, rirtuf of even." day honesty, truth telling and reliability? Do working people pay their debts as conscientiously as other people do? Probably not But at least they have the partial excuse of wfufirc to pay theyjiave little to pay with. It is porsible that a majority of the wage earning are rarely wholly out of debt. In money matters they treat members of their own economic class better than they do well to do and the Itch. bsJ reports are circulated now and again about the exceedingly low tone of morality which prevails In the great department stores.

These reports have come foundation. In so far as they apply to the most inferior grade of shops, where the very lowest wages are paid. In such places there are instances, undoubtedly, where women do not receive the living ware and they finally succumb to the easiest way of living, which, alas! Is always within their reach. Generally speaking, however, in the shops the general sentiment among the eirplnyefl themselves never favors this sort of thing, and resents strenuously the Imputation that it exists. It is a bitter injustice to those who are Innocent to generalise regarding the women employes of any shop, even the worst.

If one were to make any general statement at all It might be this: That, partly through the work of the league and partly through the general stirring nf the social conscience, the evils which result from the scandalously low wages paid to women tend to come less, and this tendency will grow gradually stronger and stronger. No employer will dare to resist the pressure of public sentiment en this point, when the women who buy Insist that by their purchases they shall not Indirectly injure the lives of the women who sell poods over the counter. conscience of buyer, when Intelligent and active, has a wonderfully favorable influence upon the conscience of the employer. MORAL EFFECT OF RECREATIONS. The moral influence of dancing and the theatre the poor is.

on the whole, not bad. It Is true that to which young people are allowed to Po or insist on going without beinjj allowed, too often result in the worst possible way. But In the majority r.f cases the bad Influence of the ball is in the demands it makes upon physical vitality, TVorkir.g en and women who dance until 1 or 2 o'dock the morning cannot lie in bed until 12 o'clock the next day. They must be at work at o'clock, and that probably causes bad temper. thea.tr« is far from being what It might be ana ooght to be.

a great moril teacher as well as a means of healthy amusement. However, leaving eot cf the question the vulgar and insufferably ttupld performances of the low grade vaudeville theatres, the so-called legitimate drama among the Toor is not bad from the point of view of morals, I although it often is from the point of view of art One Ref-s fewer problem plays in the theatres Rented by the poorer people than In the high fcradf; theatres patronized by the wealthy class. And it happens absolutely without exception among r.atlor)alit!*-s and in ail places that virtue on the applauded to the echo, and villainy and are hissed with extromest disapprobation, If indicates anything It indicates that the moral of tho humbler people, crude though they are sound at the core. REMEDIES FCR FAULTS AND VICES Every one in New- York is thinking and talking the saloon. Some wise things and some vv i foolish things are said on this subject.

It Is Intrinsically undesirable that saloons should be legally open on Sunday or on any day of I I mean saloons as they are popularly sup- to be. Whether we are civilized enough and enough to close the saloons is quite another 2 The mot stringent laws we can make apparently fall of their object. It Is one thine to on the statute books the saloon must be dosed; quite another thing to enforce such laws, and clt the saloon and keep it Closed. This general Colgate's MONAD VIOLET PERFUME Delightfully Fragrant principle, however, may be In Id down as the only consistent with real political morality, namely, that the people of a given community should be allowed to have such laws regarding the liquor traffic as they wish to have, a majority of them, of course. our form of government a minority, however intelligent and however disinterested and pure its morality, cannot compel the majority to be and do better than the majority wish to be and do.

it Is politically immoral and absurd th.it members of the State Legislature from Painted Post and Skaneateles should de. Ide what the excise laws of New-York City shall be. This decision should be made only by the city itself. Let every borough vote on the question of whether cr not saloons shall be open on Sundays, and dur. Ing what hours, if they are to be open at all.

It Is as true of a community as it of an Individual that there can be no moral character without freedom of choice and responsibility for one's own decisions The saloon question Involves for its rareful siudy discrimination between the different kinds of saloons. Saloon? of one grade are absolutely bad, without a single redeeming feature: they p.re nothing more or less than schools of brutality, vice and crime. They are a blot on the name of civilization and Christianity. Another class of saloons are not so bad. and another class ars still less bad and a few are least so of all.

In any case It is as impossible to settle the saloon question merely by passing jaws, as it Is impossible to make saints -i? all men and women by passing a law that all men and women shall Immediately become saint What is the relation of organized religion to the morals of the poor? We shall speak, of course, in the broad sense, which Includes the religious Institutions and efforts of both Jew and Gentile, Catholic nd Protestant. The liturgical and non- Uturgica churches, the liberal and the radical ones. It is true, and more is the pity, that the hold of Church upon the working class Is relaxing. Working people are not naturally Irreligious In their tendencies They are not naturally free thinkers or unbelievers. When the Church becomes a little wiser, a little truer to itself and its Master, It will regain its Influence over the masses of the people.

May that day be hastened. MEET TODAY. WO3CEN FROM OTHER COUNTRIES TO BS HEARD AT CONVENTION IN The National Puffragists' Convention npfru this afternoon in Washington, D. with Mrs Carrie f'hapmar. as prf.sidlng oftii er.

The afternoon will be devoted to organization business, and evening session to a love feast of the pi cause. will be pro thicv from Mrs. Wright Bewail, president of tbe Intern Council; Susan B. Anthony. Anna If Shaw, the Rev Antoinette Brown Blackwell.

the Rev Olympla Brown. Julia Ward Howe, Elizabeth Cads Stanton and others. To-morrow morning will lie given to reports of ofllcers find committees, and the afternoon to nddresses by State presidents. Thursday evening there be discui lor of the "New Woman" from the ftamlpolnt of a doctor, hy Pr. Cora Smith Eaton; of a lawyer, by Miss Oail Laughlln: of a teacher, bj Miss Margaret Haley; of a v.riter.

by Mrs. Elizabeth flilmer; of minister, by the Rev. Ida C. Hi'llin. Friday morning press work.

Industrial problems, nal resolutions. amondnK uta to the constitution, and invitati jus for the nex( convention and reports of special onimiter-B. will t.tke up the time until noon, when the board will go Into executive session. Htate reports will be continued Friday aftern while the evening will be devoted to the "New Man." Men will part In this William Dudley Foulke. of Indiana; Rudolph Blankenburg, of Pennsylvania; J.j.-h- S.

Crosby and Oiwald Qarrison Villard, of New-York, the latter speaking ol the work accomplished by women who took i. art in the New-York city municipal campaign ol Saturday morning will be devoted to thi plan of future work and the afternoon to an Internatlo tl conference and reception. Saturday evening James 1.. Hughes, of Canada; Miss Vi.in Goldstein of Australia, and Mrs. Florence Fenwick Miller, of England, will speak of women In politics in their several countries.

Monday morning there will he presidents' council, followed by election of The afternoon session will tw devoted principally to a symposium of an International ch.ir?i'-t>-r. This will be a new feature of the Suffrage Convention, and designed to give a of the legal of women of all countries Mr- Harriet Potter Nonr.se will talk of the wi men of the Philippines; Mme. Raphael Recart of the women of Venezuela; Benorlts Carolina of the- women In the Spanish-American republics; Mrs. F. Whiting of the women Ina, and the Rev.

Clay McCauley, of the of Japan. Monday evening will also be given to the foreign t'lok'ii Gins Krog describing tbe women of Norway; Mrs Emory Kwaid. Sweden; Frattleln Antonle Stolle, Germany; Mme. So'in Frledland, of Russia; Florence Fensnawn, of Constantinople, ami Mr-. Lucretia Blankenburg, of Italy, France, Belgium nnd Switzerland.

Tuesday morning there will a Congressional hearing, and in the afternoon the last of the rep irts will be read. The last session, In the evening, will be devoted to the and countries In which woman suffrage exists, with addresses by Augusta S. Gillam, of Canada, the of tho Evolution of Senator 1.. M. Patterson, of Colorado.

"Where Woman Suffrage the Rev. Anna H. Shaw and others. TO CELEBRATE LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY. In with its annual custom, the Educational Alliance.

Kast Broadway snd will celebrate Lincoln's Birthday In its auditorium this evening at 8 o'clock. Appropriate patriotic rclses will he held, and the Importance of the national hoiidav will be explained to the East Side public by well knowr. rs in both Knglisli and Yiddish. A. S.

Solomons, general of tbe Baron Hirsch Fund, will presMe. and Louis Marshall and Masllansky will the speakers SEIGHBORUOOD CARD RECEPTION. Mrs. Melville S. Page gave a "neighborhood card reception" her home.

No. 150 South Mount Yernon. on Monday evening Among others present were Mr. and Edward Kirk. Mr.

and Mrs. Swan and Lieutenant and Mrs. Henry E. Rhoades. WOUAX AS BAXK DIRECTOR.

The Calumet National Bank of South Chicago recently elected a woman as director. Mrs. Annie Fltzgibbon inherited a large interest in the bank from her husband, who died nine years ago. and she Is also the daughter of a banker. Her success in managing her affairs since she became a widow led to her election on the board or directors at har'j NEW- YORK DAILY TRIBba'K WEDNESDAY.

PEBKO'AKI- 12. 1902. TEACH CHILDREN MUSIC. "MOTHERS" LISTEN TO DAMROSCH'S TALK ON TRAINING LITTLE FOLKS. 'I am often asked at what age the musical education of a child should begin, and I am always tempted to answer.

'In the first month of its existenc 1 said Frank Damrosch to the Mothers' Club yesterday, In the meeting at the Tuxedo. ''Indeed, the training should begin with the mother, for she can do more to cultivate a love for music than any teacher. The earliest recollection of the child should be of its mother's staging. "Music Is the most Important element of home life, because it brings the whole family together an no other Influence can If one member has a talent for painting. it is an Individual thing, and cannot shared.

A composite picture painted by the entire family in hardly likely to be an artistic success, but with a very moderate knowledge of music all can join in singing with a pleasurable result." Mr. Damrosch struck a responsive chord In the mothers' memories when he ppoke of the flrdt effort of "little Johnny" to "pick out a tune" on the pianoforte, and his mother's pride in the wonderful talent thus displayed. In the subsequent trouble, when Johnny Is sent to a teacher, the speaker said that all his sympathies are not with the teacher nor the mother, but with poor, little ill-used Johnny. "It is all wrong!" he asserted. "The piano Is not a proper introduction of music to the child.

To make him toil over black and white keys and little black marks on lines and spaces Is not the way to make him love music. Give him music the thing if you would have him a music lover. Then, if he wants piano or violin, let him have it. When he is really interested, he will work the best he knows how, without thinking it work." Mr. Damrosch emphasised the mother's influence In the matter by affirming that he owed his lovo for music far more to his mother than to his father.

"Her singing to me and about the house made music as familiar as speech to my childhood ears, and Implanted such a love for it that my father's Instructions were eagerly received. I have a little nephew, who at a year and a half could sing twenty-three songs with perfect correctness, and now Is beginning to put the words to them, as he learns to talk. He learned them just from hearing his mother sing them over and over The mothers listened with great interest to Mr. remarks on music in the schools. He told what he has tried to do since be became the musical head and of the difficulties with which he ha? met In 'trying to give a love for music to 27 000 children." He has been told, when he asked for more money, that music was "a non-essential and has been compelled to continue with sixteen assista it supervisors "that is.

on" to every four hundred teachers, which permitted a ten minutes' ir-i to each about once in six weeks." He said, however, that he has every reason to believe that the new administration will remedy this state Of affairs and enlarge the appropriation 80 that there may be one assistant supervisor every two hundred teachers. He blamed the Normal College severely for not giving suitable attention to music In preparing Its students tor and said that it was a disgrace that such an Institution should neglect so important part of a teacher's "The school should lit a child for a developed, all round manhood and womanhood, giving a foundation 't only of physical and mental training, but also of the higher the moral and spiritual. It is often said that these last are the duty of 1 home but I do not hesitate declare that to very Krear our schools art- train- Ing the homes through the children. If th- time fhould come when our don't mean yours or mine, hut our New-York's are trained in eye and ear voice and mind to a love of the beautiful, then, at.d nut till the! shall we see a pure municipal government and a clean citizenship. Let hear pood music Let them see good pictures.

Put beauty nl! about them, for only so can they learn that beauty exists A munlcal was given, consisting of solos by Charles Russell, solos by the" boy soprano Arthur Bradley, md songs by Sirs Florence Broad well. Mis. Edgar Street was chairman of the day. RECEIVED TfJK PUBLIC LIBRARY. A NUMBER OF FOREIGN OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS PLACED ON THE SHELVES.

The New-York Public Library has received recently the following foreign official documents: From Brazil, the preliminary returns of the rejr'ilar decennial cent The first returns of the first decennial census of Bolivia, taken on September 1. 1900. Returns for five only of the nine depart' ments have been completed, the departments of Oruro. Tarija. Chuqulsaca.

Cochabanbs and Pax. The return! were prepared under the supervision of the Director General of Bureau of Statistics. Dr. Manuel v. Halllvan.

aided by a special commission. From Germany, verbatim discussion of the tariff bill, as an appendix to the stenographic reports ot the Reichstag. From Italy, the Parliamentary proceedings on tho bill for the establishment of a. Department of Labor, Introduced by the. Minister of Agriculture, Commerce and Industry, in present session.

The Into effect on July l. IKB, and provides for an appropriation of 50,000 lire for the fiscal year 1902-'O3, to cover the expenditures Incidental to the organization an LJfllcio del Lavoro. There have been received the discussions and reports In the Senate and Chamber Deputies on the bill for the acquisition of the Borghese gHllerles. bill, as approved by the Chamber and Introduced In the Senate. Is accompanied by an authentic copy of the terms of the proposed sale of the collection In by the heirs of Don Marcantinio Borghese to the Italian Government, and by a catalogue of the 273 pieces of sculpture and the 533 paintings comprising tl)f collection.

Preliminary returns of the 1900 census have been received from the following foreign countries and cities: Canada. Italy. Prussia. Mexico, Denmark, Austria. Sweden, Victoria (Australia), New-Zealand, England and Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Guadaloupe, Belgium.

Bolivia, Brazil, Baden, Munich, New South Wales. Tasmania. Queensland. France. St.

Lucia, Switzerland and Netherlands (taken In December. 1899). URBAS CLUB'S "AFTERNOON." "Potpourri Nation- was the tit asci an "aft held by ihe Urban Club at the borne of Mrs. a. J.

Perry, No. First Place, Brooklyn, yesterday. Seven tables spread with dainties and decorated with flags, flowers and colors characteristic of various countries were scattered through the parlors, and at them sat tbe chairmen each, who v-i-v the speakers of fternoon. The Urban has devoted Itself during the la I season to study of current events, aii'i extra tf and clippings concerning the countries represented wire Humphrey Anderson, who presided with Miss Alice Perkins the Oriental table, gave as Interesting talk on Japan, showing a number of costumes and curios gathsred by her in a recent trip and playing Japanese music. When it came the turn ol the American ta be heard Mrs.

Perry Introduced the topic ol day opening ol the saloon. A lively discussion followed, which ended In a vote showing a unanlloom among the women present Thfl Dutch table was ittractlvely decorated with I lied with tulips the i orners, Mrs. 8. H. Olmntead and Mrs.

H. T. Love chocolut tin- table. course bloomed upon the table i senting Britain, and there were the standr its various countries, wbili a pot of oxalls dutj for shamrock In Ireland. Mrs.

K. P. Chlttenden poured tea. on German table beer Coamed from sti the Btyle of the fatherland, and Miss Annie Purr Phelps and Mrs. Shaw French served it and tkea and sandwtohi s.

Caviare sandwiches were, of course, eonsp on Russian table, which was gorgeous In reds and blues and the flags of the Scandinavian well as that of the land of the Czar. Mrs. Walti Meserole Mrs. John F. Henry In charge.

Mrs. E. H. Hampson presided at the nen ta ble. RAINY DAY LUNCBEOS.

Several hundred women. Including tlves and presidents from nearly all the leading clubs of this city, attended the breakfast of welcome given yesterday by Rainy lub at the Majestic in honor of Mrs. A. M. Palm president of club, who recently returned from a European trip.

Among those who r-poke Mrs. Cornelius Zabriakie, Mrs. K. L. Fernandes, Miss Ai Mr- Alma C.

Johnson. Mrs. K. Wilson. Mrs.

Howard McNutt, Mary Newton. Mrs. Solom Smith and others. name of Mrs. Bertha W'eihy.

-he originator of the Rainy Da) Club, was Some of those present were Mrs. A. W. GUTord, treasurer; Mrs. S.

Merry, Mrs. Clarence Burns, Mrs Claude Hasen and Mrs c. Brandt. Work in spreading th( gospel of the rainy day OUtfl includes the formation of branches. Mrs.

Coleil is. the ihairman of the committee having thif. matter In hand. WITH XEW-EXGLAXD WOMEX. The National Society of New-England Women had Its literary afternoon yesterday.

Mr; Marti Hicks Dye recited "The 3ea" and "The Red instrumental accompaniments played by the composer Mm Nettie Arthur Brown-Weltz. She po read Northern -t poems. Miriam Mason gave an address on Rhode Island and Miss Hayes Ward spoke of the training of girls in a New-England ART EXHIBITIONS. PICTURES BY CHARLES CARYL COLEMAX, F. D.

MARSH AND THE MILLIKEN SALE- MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS. Some of the pictures which Mr. Charles Caryl Colenwn has on exhibition at the Avery Gallery shown in the collection which he brought over from his home In Capri nearly three years ago. It Is testimony to the charm of certain qualities in his art th.it these works "wear well." giving no less pleasure now than they gnve in 1599. It is true also that the excessive polish which we deprecated on the earlier occasion has lost none of its power to the favorable Impression received from a picture, say.

like the "Twilight and Poppies" still feel that a breadth is lost here for the s.ik- of minute precision that not sufficient In Itself to command admiration. Yet It is very pleasant to see this painting again, with its charming composition, its even more charming atmosphere. Indeed, Mr. Colomsta has a way of beguiling us. his disposition to add to that clarity of draughtsmanship which is one of the chief merits a rather cold and inelastic touch that hardens and hurts the effect aimed at.

He can work with i and suavity when he chooses, as in the series of delicate pastils. "Songs of Vesuvius." in the captivating landscape note "An Old Tower on the Side of Monte Bolaro." and in the best exhibit Of all, the "Town of Capri, Karly Moonlight Effect," a picture lovely in tone and especially rich In the savor of a fascinating theme. Mr. Coloman has lived In Capri, and bis painted its scenes and figures over and over again, but the -'i it ess anl poetry of the island get themselves expressed In his work with delightful freshness. Wo gives the brilliant colors of his surroundings their full value, but he is never garish; If at times he strikes too sharp a note be still preserves a certain harmonj Borne of the most successful pieces th( di oratlve studies), the large.

"Almond Blossoms," the "Asaleas and Vesuvius," both more or less formal productions In which tho refined method and his gift for design are exercised with special felicity. Whether he gives up undue analysis of form and polish of surface, or practises, as in the fine charcoal drawing of a Pihlicai subject, boldness of style ami richness of tone, Mr. communicates an engaging Individuality to his pictures. He exhibits none too often in this city, and when he ppear he i-ommaii'is serious attention. Mr.

Fred Dana Marsh, who exhibits a number of bis paintings and studies at the Clausen Gallery. gives promise of some notablo work in the future. One or two of his portraits ro be sure, show that something inter, sting to say In the present. In Rose Marsh." Is a clever performance, nd there is clever workmanship in the "Miss Van But of greater significance than the revealed In these and some of his other canvases is the K'-neral air of vitality which pervades the show. one feels that the iTrgre "Japanese Fantasia" has no very serious reason existing; It Is the kind of thing through which one budding talent after another gains passing notice In the bit? exhibitions.

In "The Revellers the Phantom." In "The Basin." and in half a dozen decorative, symbolical dt signs. Mr. Marsh appears to feeling his way toward accomplishment of good things Meanwhile his eosDr Is his drawing is crude, and his style is unformed. Bui the talent is one it sei se of thought in the conception, of energy tl feeling In the execution. It will surprising if In due course Mr.

Marsh does not material with a keener penetration into its possibilities, handle it with a steadier, more eloquent brush. The portraits of Mr. Arthur de Ferraris, which are at he Knoedler Gallery, are workmanlike productions. Though they have little quality in color and less In style, they are executed with some spirit, and are especially interesting In their obvious fidelity to the sitters represented, without being baldly photographic. Downstairs the American Society of Miniature Painters Is holding Its third annual exhibition.

Miss Laura Hills. Mrs. Lucia Fairchlld Fuller. Miss Lydla Field Kmmet. Mr.

William J. BaT and one or two other well known miniaturists provide, usual. backhone of the Phow, but the average throughout la very satisfactory. In Macbeth Gallery there hang two dozen tn pictures. There are interesting specimens the art of the late Inness: his noted contemporary, A.

H. Included; by late William Bliss then two characteristic, pieces, and with landscapes by I). W. Tryon. William A.

Coffin and C. M. Dewoy there are somo figure itudles bj A. Davies, R. Newman.

Alfred others. It Is a well balanced collection and worth seeing The E. F. Milliken collection will remain on view nt the American Art Galleries only to-day and to-morrow Friday morning the pictures will be removed to Mendelssohn Hall, whore th-y an auction in the evening. As has al- In The Tribune, this is one of the finest tions exhibited In New-York.

No a fir 1 pictures should miss seeing ne of the American paintings it contains, the delightful portrait by Mr. J. AJden Weir of Kirl Standing before a mirror, we have received some Information which relates to its title. In the catalogue "KoflectionN." It appears that Mr Weir originally called it "The Girl with the Green Bodice." and has since painted another and very different picture, to which the title of Is attached. We note the fact it, order to save any possible confusion.

Messrs Arthur Tooth Sons announce an exhibition at their galleries of collection of water oolors "Cathedrals, Castles and Rivers of noland." by Mr Btuart Uoyd. M. Uurand-Kuel brings forwards number ol paintings by Clauds Monet. There will be a press view of the seventeenth annual exhibition of Uw Architectural League at the Fine Arts Building next Friday. The annual dinner will be 1 In the evening of that day.

The opening reception will be held on Saturday evening, and the public will be admitted to the galleries for th. tirst time on Sunday. February Exhibits for the twenty-fourth annual show of the Society of American Artists will be at the Fine Arts Building on Thursday and Friday. March 18 and 14. Varnishing day will be Thursday.

March CT; the press view will occur on the following day. and the show will be opened on Saturday, Man 29, cloning on Sunday. May 4. Mr. Abbey's advice to American art students, to Choose London rather than Paris as the place in which to sock a painter's training, does not meet with much approval among Englishmen.

One critic observes Aosdosajr, or South Kenslngton, there is at a scrappy kind of bing to be obtained: nnd there are not enough conducted places, like Professor Herkomer's school, at Bushey, to accommodate large number ot students." Another commentator Mr. Abbey that "even hi? fellow Academicians are almost unanimous In their condemnation of the method! that now prevail in the Academy schools and their desire for Immediate reform. As to tbe other London art schools, even South Kensington, they nre either founded upon French methods or their most eminent teachers are foreigners. me the Academy does do Is to drive able pupils abroad to learn their trade. No doubt an Influx of Americana would be good for tti" Academy, but it would be bad for Americans." Public art works in England continue to invite ribald commem ot the scorner.

Witness the that Is expressed over the new stamps. Mere is what oik? of the wisest of the critics. Mr. Mac Coll, writing in "The Saturday Review." to say on the subject: None of King Edward Vll's coins has yet come mj Kay, 1 have been favored with a good many of his stamps, and my fingers to do a mentary cleaning up of their design. I will ask my readers to examine it in some detail.

A stamp is piece of paper of oblong shape: our recent designers therefore begin by drawing the head in i circle, -is for coin or medal. When they come. to fit this to the stamp shape, surprise overwhelms them. The designer of the halfpenny stamp of the last Victoria series put down nls circle in the middle of the oblong, with a little gasp, perhaps. for he hast-ned to fill up the ill proportioned spaces left top an-i bottom.

But he spurred his invention ni vain for a device, all he could think of was an absurd cut paper trimming with a pin at corner. He surpassed this on the postcards hy let ting his circle drop to the bottom edge of the oblong and thrusting It down more effectually by a topneavy label. When he came to the penny samp he had a flash of Inspiration. He bis circle into an ova', thus filling; up all of oblcns but its corners. oval was a complete misfit for the head, but how could a distracted designer consider that? Nor could he consider that his oval shape, with the lettering following round it.

made the legend of the stamp's use and value illegible, except at the cost of some trouble. Now, the designer of the new penny stamp has noticed this, and determined that it shall not be. At least as far as the "One Penny" goes, he has secured legibility by printing the words In a reasonable way across the bottom of the stamp. Ha has put an ugly label around them, chipped and rubbed off at the corners, but we must allow for the strain on his Invention. This has prevented his throwing the oval overboard, though it has no longer a reason for existence, since it does not occupy the whole space.

But a whimsical fancy has seized him of making this oval space not flat, as on a coin, but hollow, so that It is dark on one side and light on the other, to the destruction of all logic and simplicity of effect. He is so pleased with this device and the shine it gives to the King's head that he applies it to the space above the oval. making its form quite unintelligible. But let us return to the oval. By its reduction in length it has also grown narrower, and there is an awkward space to fill at the sides.

The designer has Imagined a wreath for this purpose, and to keep up the lopsided variety of the light and shade arrangement he has made Its two branches of different leaves, oak and laurel. But he was not out of his difficulties yet: this wreath, continued in full force, would fill up all the room Intended for the "Postage and Revenue" Inscription at the top. These words must be got In somehow, but also the gap between the ends of the wreath must be- filled. Here another flash of Inspiration occurred. The crown, which would naturally be on the Kind's head, Is lifted off and suspended above the oval to join up the wreath which also would naturally have been on the King's brows.

It is like arranging a selection of hats round a head that is left bare. But this device, ingenious as It Is still cramps the inscription sadly, which has therefore to be lettered In quite another scale from the first, and bent round Into the shape the designer set out by avoiding. Even so. there remained two awkward corners; and. tired of a too difficult world, the designer fell back on the old cut paper and plnhole device, and gave, four other nicks with his scissors to make this silly trimming crawl round the wreath and label below.

To the current number of "The Art Journal" Mr. Austin Dobson contributes the first of a series of papers on the late Kate Oreenaway. with whose charming art he is In the fullest sympathy. Amid his talk about her work Is this passage, in which we get a discreet glimpse of her personality: 1 remember that once, during a country walk, she gave me a long account of her childhood, which I wish I could reproduce In detail. Hut I know that she told me that she had been brought up in just such a neighborhood of red roofs and "gray old gardens" as she depicts In her drawings; and that, in some of the houses, It was her particular delight to turn over ancient chests and wardrobes filled with the flowered frocks and capes of the Jane Austen period.

Then, again. I call to mind another thing which she told me. either on this or another occasion, which struck me extremely characteristic of her kind heart. As is well known, she corresponded frequently with Mr. Ruskln.

and must have possessed numbers of his letters. In his latter years it had been her practice to write to him believe she said once a week. He had long ceased, probably from 111-health, to answer her letters; but she still continued to write lest he. should miss the little budget of chitchat to which he had grown accustomed. At another time I fancy It must have been in a pleasant country house which contained many examples of her art, and where she was putting the last touches to a delicately tinted child angel In the margin of a ventured to say.

"Why do your children always" But I need not complete the query: the answer alone is important. She looked at me reflectively, and said. "Because I see it so." The reference to Ruskin suggests the citation of an anecdote about him, which a visitor to the exhibition of oM masters at Burlington House recall-. He is Imagined as turning away people from the i'laudes. because of their being "almost exclusively hurtful" to certain minds, and blocking the doorway, "as once we saw Mm.

In years past, block the doorway of a Bond-st gallery, to prevent the entrance Of a friend. whom he said: back, it is the devil The work of 3atan in question. let us add. was that of an artist whose name now stands for all that Is most brilliant and enduring tn the art of portraiture." Can the reader guess who that artist was? FOIt THE LIBRARY. Cloth edition of The Tribune Almanac nrrrtnary fixture for the library.

Bound In cloth nnd lettered. Price, XEW POLICIES, SM.OOO.ttOO. ASTONISHING RECORD OF THE NEW-TORK I.IFK INSI RANCE COMPANY FOR WEEKS. Fifty-three million dollars of new Insurance in the nrst six weeks of year is the astonishing high water record announced by one of the foremost life insurance compinles. The announcement was made yesterday on the occasion of thrt celebration of the tenth anniversary of the election of John A McCall to the presidency of the w-York lAic- Insurance Company.

Insurance men and financiers admit that this is one of strongest Indications of the general prosperity of country that has been presented since the dawn ol the new year Telegrams and letters of congratulation from officials and agents of the New-York Life over the land are being showered on President McCalL In bis report made at the beginning of the year Mr McCall foreshadowed the era of Insurance activity now prevalent. He Insisted that the. old of management, which was disposed to qulbbls over the settlement of claims and which denied the right of thp Insured to loans and surrender values on demand, must give way to more liberal and also that an open record of all transactions of the year should be furnished annually to the insured. It was hardly expected, however, that the response would be so spontaneous or oS- such dimensions Fifty-three million dollars is more new business than many of the larger companies havn hitherto been able to write tn the course of twelve months. Should ihe proscnt rate of new Insurance keep up for the year the New-York Life will secure 1300,000.000 In new paid for a figure so far in advance of anything hitherto achieved that thera no opportunity for comparison.

YtADVCT EARING COMPLETION. PLANS FOR EXTENSION OF RIVERSIDE DRIVE STRUCTURE WANTED AT ONCE. F. Stuart Williamson, consulting engineer of the borough Department of Public Works, has submitted a report on the extension of Riverside Drive to Borough President Cantor, in which he says that the Riverside Drive viaduct and its approaches are finished except for connecting the wires for lighting it. repairing the park directly under the viaduct, raising the grade of a shcrt piece of the drive near It.

for which stoats are being prepared, and grading and finishing the filling at the north end. which can be gone on with In the spring. The cost of finishing the work is estimated at about $40,000. As to the extension north of the viaduct, the report says that no work has been done, except that the subway contractors have received a permit to dump their waste on the route of the drive. This permit should never have been given, the report says, for when retaining walls for the roadway come to be built, most of this material must be removed to make way for the walls.

retaining walls should be built first, -mil then the filling put In. Mr. Williamson does not make a figure for the cost of the extension, but quotes a former estimate of $1,700,000. This will include several bridges across streets, and a steel structure around Trinity Cemetery. It is recommended that the preparation of plans, which will take three months to complete, be authorized Immediately.

TEX TEARS A PR ID EXT. The tenth anniversary of John A. McCall's presidency of the New-York Life Insurance Company was celebrated yesterday at executive offices of company. No. 346 Broadway, by a reception to the company's trustees, officials, employes and city representatives.

Mr. and Mrs. McCall were assisted by Dr. Henry Tuck. Mr.

arwi Mrs. George W. Perkins. Mr. and Mrs U.

P. Kingsley. Mr. and Mrs. T.

A. Bockner, Mr and Mrs. E. D. Randolph.

Dr. and Mrs. S. O. Yander Poel.

Mr and Mrs. Hugh S. Thompson. Mr. and Mrs.

G. W. Hubbell. Mr. and Mrs.

Charles C. Whitney. Mr. and Mrs. John C.

Whitney and others. From 2 until sp. m. more than fifteen hundred callers were entertained. The offices were decorated with palms, and the Columbia String Orchestra furnished music.

SOUTH ERX "MGULAXDERS." "Our Mountaineers" was the subject of Miss Emerson's address yesterday morning before the home missionary department of the Woman's Guild of the Manhattan Congregational Church, Broadway and Seventy-slxth-st. "You hive to away from the railroads and telegraph if you want to see the people." said Miss Emerson. "The mountain section has awakened, and there is a strong desire for Intellectual Improvement. Parents who allow boys to go to schools and academies make great sacrifices In letting them have the time required, for it takes the combined efforts of all the members of the family to cultivate the soil. Educated mountaineers who have taught at the academies are among the best Instructors (or the mountaineers, as they seem to feel a special confidence in their own people." As it was "Lincoln Day" at the guild, his favorite poem.

why should the spirit of mortal be proud?" was read by Mrs. George B. Shepherd, and i' H. Dickinson, chairman of the day. spoke briefl) of his life and influence.

FOR THE LIBRARY. Cloth edition of The Tribune Almanac la a necessary fixture for the library Donnd in cloth and urold lettered. Pilce. BIG PI'RCBASF BY Ml'Tr'AL LIFE. THE COMPANY NOW OWNS PRACTICALLY A WHOLE CiTY BLOCK.

The Stokes No. 43 to Cedar-st: No. 73 to 77 and an adjoining piece of property In 41 feet no'theast of were yesterday transferred by the Dudley company to the Mutual Life Insurance Company. These are the Stokes holdings. The revenue stamps showed that Sl.OOO.Ott) was and mortgages for ITSO.OOO were taken with the three prrrols.

The Mutual IJfe Insurance Company now owns practically the entire block In which its building: stands. This sale of the Stokes property was reported at the time the Queen Insurance Company's property was sold. THREATEXS TO CUT OFF WATER. NBW-TORK AND WBSTCHE3TER COMPANT ORDERED TO PAY Water Commissioner Dougherty yesterday another notice to the New-York and Westehsster Water Company, statins that unless all arrearages are paid before February 16 the supply of city water will be cut off from Its mains. It is believed that the water company will resort to injunction proceedings, as the people of WakefleM and Williamebrldge are dependent on the water that runs through the mains or he New- York and fstchester eompaii for their daily supply.

Commissioner Dougherty said yesterday that bis Inspectors had reoorted that a livery stable in We st Slxteenth-st. had paid no water rent staoe The stable is down as a lot on the department books. A bill for has been seat to the proprietor of the si sill WANTS R3MM FRO II WALTER F. DC RYE A. FORMER EMFLOTE SAYS CONTRACT to MANUFACTURE STARCH BOX WAS NEVER CARRIED OUT.

Walter E. Duryea. who has lived for some time with a broken neck, is the defendant in a suit before Justice Wright, in the Supreme Court, in which John J. Hoffman seeks to recover damages and the enforcement of an alleged contract by which Mr. Duryea was to get up a stock company to manufacture a starch box patented by Hoffman.

Hoffman says that from 1873 until 1895 he was the foreman of the box department of the Duryea Starch Company. When the. starch Interests were consolidated Hoffman continued in his place with the National Starch Company. For all these years he, was urged to patent a box from which the prepared starch could not leak. He finally succeeded, and then Mr.

Duryea. told him that his fortune was made. According to Hoffman. Duryea told him to get his discovery patented, and said that afterward he. would get up a stock company to manufacture box.

The capitalization of the company was to be J200.000. of which Hoffman was to receiva SO.OOO. Hoffman asserts that he assigned the patents in accordance with the terms of his contract, but Mr. Duryea never formed the company. PFni.F.RS APPEAL TO THE MAYOR.

SAY THE ORDINANCES ARE SO ENFORCED THAT THEY CANNOT SELL. AT ALL. Fish pedlers, fruit pedlers. toy pedlers and pedlers of various sorts and conditions from the lower East Side to the number of about thousand surged the City Hall yesterday morning and demanded an audience with Mayor Low. Detective Sergeant Kennel them coming up the City Hall steps and called Policemen Phillips and Taggart.

stationed at Hall, and ordered them to stop the crowd. This was done as they reached the front doors, and only fifteen were allowed in. The remainder stood or. the steps and blocked the walks so that policemen from the City Hall precinct had to oe called out to clear passage. The fifteen allowed in the fity Hall were finally admitted Into the Mayor's office.

The Mayor greeted them cordially. Abraham Benowitz. the spokesman, expained to the Mayor that the pedle.rs -ailed to ask the Mayor to take some action which would allow them to have rights for explained that the ordinances on the statute were not only enforced, but enforced to such a jsreat extent that the pe.ilers did not have the liberty to sell at all. The Mayor said this was the first he had heard of any complaint, and he City Marshal Brown regarding the matter Mr. Bnwn had not heard of any complaint.

Mr. Low told th" spokesman to file a "complaint with the Mayor's irshnl and matter would be looked up XEW ST. NICHOLAS PARK COMMISSIOS. Justice Truax in the Supreme Court yesterday appointed Emanuel Blumenstiel. Gilbert M.

Spelr and ex-Judge George M. Van Hoesen commissioners to reappraise the land to be acquired by city for the proposed St. Nicholas Park, in the Twelfth Ward. A commission appointed some ago recently made a report, but on the complaint of John O. Baker T.

Richards and other property owners the assessments were vacated and the new commission appointed. vo SUBWAY IXDICTMEXT3 TET. When the grand jury adjourned yesterday until to-morrow, It was learned that no indictments bad been found yet as the result of the investigation Into the explosion in the subway at Park-aye. and In fact, the Investigation had not been finished. District Attorney Jerome dented that there wm friction between himself and some of the members of the grand jury over the way in which the investigation had been carried on.

He said that relations of his office with the Brand jury were, most amicable, and that Ike Inquiry into the tunnel explosion was running along smoothly. The Name Mostkowit? stgnlfles HIGH CLASS Ladies' Tailoring. 18 East 20th 18 hast xtitn west 42d st. During this month. SI order to keep our good busy.

we have decided to Tailor Made Gowns to Order. Latest style, in black or Cblored Cheviot. A A quality, all silk lined, worth for in advanced styles of Imported matertalM. heavy stlk lining, worth $70. Mr.

Mostkowltz is well known as a fitter at rare ability. I Fifth Avenue Auction Rooms, 238 FIFTH ATE. (Near 28th kVM. B. NOn.MAV Auctioneer THIS AFTERNOON AT 2 O'CLOCK.

5 Fri. Pat. Afternoons at hour. 9. of a most remarkablo collection of JAPANESE AND CHINESE PORCELAINS I POTTERIES.

Antique Brocades and Bronzes, 'j Works in Old Iron, Formed by Mr. R. Nikamura. of Tokio. Japan, Comprtslnc 1 1,000 SPECIMENS Inrluiing many that valuable.

i REMOVAL SALE A great opportunity to Bsardkasf a Piano at an UNUSUALLY LOW PRKIE, CASH OR INSTALMENTS. Your choice of NEW GRANDS and UPRIGHTS. LATEST STYLES. ALL WOODS. Also new in ODD STYLES.

SLIGHTLY USED, SECOND HAND, and Pianos of other makes taken in exchange as payment on of New FISCHER PIANOS. 33 UNION SQUARE-WEST Between 18th and 17th An early call means a better 7.