IIettJollt iionllMAGAZINE SECTION MT VERNON ROCKCASTLE COUNTY ICY MAY 11 1906 Pages 1 to 4

SUCCESSFUL SCULPTRESS

Miss Evelyn Longman of ChicagoAwarded Fifteen Thousand

Dollar Prize

To Carve Bronze Doors at AnnapolisNaval AcademyHas Attained FameThrough Her Figure of U Victoryat St Louis Fair

When the new bronze entrance doorsof the Annapolis Naval Academy arecompleted and hung in place there willexist another monument to the skillof American women Colonel RobertM Thompson who presented thesedoors to the academy as a memorialof the class of 68 stipulated in makingthe offer that the design selected forthe doors should be awarded by compe ¬

tition the winner to receive a prize of15000 There were thirtythree com ¬

petitors for this prize an unusuallylarge number and the designs submit¬

ted are said to have been of a highdegree of excellence The rotes of allfive jurors were cast for the model pre ¬

sented Miss Evelyn B Longman of-Chicago

MISS LONGMANS STATUE OF VICTORY AT THECHICAGO EXPOSITION

Miss Longmans design has two pan¬

els representing Peace and War Onthe peace panel is a figure symbolizingscience an old man in an attitude ofdeep thought explaining a difficultproblem to two students of the acad ¬

emy On the war panel patriotism isrepresented by a female figure sym ¬

bolical also of the home the protectionof which is assumed to be the reasonfor the existence of the navy Underher draperies is a coat of armor andwith one hand on a cannon she pointswith the other to the distance wheremasts of ships show the destination ofthe marching figures in the back ¬

ground

In the upper panels of the door arcfestoons supported by shellsof oakleaves over the war panel and oliveover that of peace In the lower panelswreaths of the same leaves inclose tenames of naval heroes In the transomis the dedication to the class of 68and above the transom is a group rep ¬

resenting Fametwo laurelcrownedfigures on either side of an altarlikepedestal with an inscription lo JohnPaul Jones whose bones are to restin the crypt of the chapel The pedes-tal

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is surmounted by a tripod fromwhich issue flames symbolizing endur¬

ing fame

Award to Woman UnprecedentedThe award of this prize to a woman

is said to be an unprecedented event inthe artistic history of the country anda bright future is predicted for theyoung sculptress

I consider Miss Longman to be oneof the most promising of our youngersculptors said Mr Daniel C Frenchwhose assistant she has been for thelast four years

Miss Longman was born in Win ¬

chester Ohio her father Edwin HLongman being a musician and an ar ¬

tist Drawing was one of her childishamusements and she began modelingwithout instruction in the art depart ¬

ment of Olivet College Her work thereattracted the attention of Lorado TaftChicagoArtand during the first year paid her ex¬penses by doing library work Thenshe was made an assistant instructorIn the school and a year or two latershe came to New York where shesoon after became an assistant to Mr

Taft She is rather proud of the factthat she has never studied abroad andalso that she has been able to meetall the expenses of her artistic edu ¬

cation herselfISculptress Is Already Famous

The best known work of Miss Long ¬

man is the bronze figure of Victorywhich was carved for the Festival Hallat the St Louis Worlds Fair Forthis she was awarded a silver medalAt the close of the fair the originalwas brought to the Chicago Art Insti ¬

tute A bronze reproduction has beenpurchased by the Union League Cluband will adorn the entrance to the clubroomsAnother one of Miss Longmansworks which has won commendation isa bronze figure of Death which sherecently completed and which is tobe placed on the Story monument inthe cemetery at Lowell Mass

WOMAN CIVIL ENGINEERGranddaughter of Mrs Stanton Has

Offer to Go to ChinaMiss Nora Stanton Blatch grand¬

daughter of Mrs Elizabeth Cady Stanton is now a member of the AmericanSociety of Civil Engineers She is thefirst woman admitted to membershipand it is said there was not a dissent

ing opinion offered when she was pro-posed for membership

Miss Blatch was the first woman toget a degree of Bachelor of Science inUniversityShe¬

ing among the first five of the classSince her graduation she has beendraughtsman in a big bridge concernShe is now considering an offer from

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China of a place in one the corps ofcountryforsystem The offer came too from ayoung Chinaman who was taking agraduate course at Cornell while shewas there The graduate student wassent here it is said not only in¬

crease his technical knowledge of en ¬

gineering but to obtain for his coun ¬

try the best engineers to be had Hewatched Miss Blatchs work closelyand offered her a place

An ostrich egg weighs about threeand a half pounds It is less delicatein flavor than a hens egg althoughperfectly eatable It is a curious factthat ostrich eggs will keep fresh fortwo or three months The flesh of theostrich itself is being not unlikeveal flavor

SAN FRANCISCAN HORROR

Terrible Destruction of the Cityby Violent Earthquake

and Flames

Fire Results in All Parts of Metrop ¬

olisGeological Scientists Say NoConnection Between Quake andVesuvian Eruption

It was during the repose of earlymorning the Springtime sun wascasting its golden rays over the SierraNevadas and striking down Into thepeaceful slumbering valley of theSacramento All the Western Hemi ¬

sphere was at peace with the elementsSuddenly there came an awful growl ¬

ing and crashing beneath the very cen ¬

tre of San Francisco and in a tenth ofthe space of time required to describethe event falling walls and fire com-bined

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to worn on the metropolis of thePacific the most appalling natural ca-

lamity¬

which has occurred on thiscontinent since the landing of the Pil¬

grims The destruction that has beenaccomplished is almost incalculableThe inferno of flames which burst forthsimultaneously in various parts of thecity was rendered still more terribleby the repeated quakings of the earthby which the rescuers were in mo ¬

mentary danger of being buried withthe dead beneath the falling structuresThe very earth itselfour own motherearthproved as treacherous as adeadly snake and the usual oceanbreeze by a strange perversion of na¬

ture hauled around to a point where itfanned the flames to intensity andbecame a deadly agent of destructionThe general dismay of the populacewas augmented by the constant roarof dynamite explosions made in a vaineffort check the progress of theflames The vast pall of smoke thatblottedout the sky did not tend to alle ¬

viate the general anxiety Yet in suchI

surroundings calculated to inspire uni ¬

versal panic and madness there wereperformed numberless feats of heroismthat will remain on the scroll of timeas illustrious proofs of the nobilitywhich is hidden beneath the surface ofordinary life Cool heads and bravehands with stout hearts behind themperformed their work of rescue in thevery face of death and even the inde-scribable horror of the earthquake was

overcomeSan a rich and proud cityhas been swept by fires before andhas phoenix like arisen from herashes Moreover she has more thanonce experienced earthquake tremorswhich were to say the least injuriousand menacing But America is acemented nation The disasters of onesection bring together in one grandsympathetic bond the inhabitants ofthe others all anxious and insistentupon holding out the helping hand andvoicing words of sympathy to the af¬

flicted sister States cities and townsthroughout the entire Union have of¬

fered unstinted assistance in the waymoney food clothing and medical

attendance with which to relieve thewant not only of San Francisco butalso the other California citiesand towns which have suffered withthe metropolis of the State

No Connection With VesuviusComing as this disaster did practi ¬

cally coincident with the Vesuvian ca¬

lamity in Italy many persons supposethat there was a direct relation be-tween the two This idea howeveris logically contradicted by DirectorCharles D Walcott of the GeologicalSurvey Mr Walcott holds that thereis no possibility of a connection bet-ween the earthquake and the Italianvolcano for these two are entirely dif-ferent scientific phenomena ¬

sible for such earthquakes and vol-canic disturbances

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tists of the Geological and GeodeticSurveys agree that scientifically therecent disturbances were caused byconditions identical with those pertain ¬

ing during the earthquake which de-molished Charleston S C on August31 1886 Volcanoes occasionally causeshaking of the earths but thedisturbances occasioned by pentup

seeking to escape are felt onlylocallyThe

cause generally attributed toearthquakes is the gradual cooling ofthe earth which is known to still be amolten mass inside When any objectcools it contracts and so will theas it grows colder This contractionwould unavoidably cause a disturbance

in the already hardened shell that sur¬

rounds the inner mass Thatmust give way at some point Asidefrom the contractions of the earthssurface another cause is given thatmight affect the changing of the sur ¬

face of a given part of the world Thiscause is the accumulation of a vastweight of sedimentary deposit brought

by rivers For example the Mis ¬

sissippi River is entirely made up ofthe deposits of the streams washing

from higher lands The weightof that deposit would be difficult tocalculate and resting upon a portionof the earths shell might occasion itssinking This theory is held by somescientists in connection with the Cali ¬

fornia disaster for the SacramqntoRiver is the depositor of vast weightsof sediment in the Pacific waters nearSan Francisco

Greatest Natural Disasters ofHistory

Pompeii and Herculaneum de ¬

stroyed by eruption of Mount VesuviusA D 79 more than 20000 lives lost

Earthquake in Constantinople thou¬

sands killed year 557Catania Sicily 15000 persons killed

by earthquake year 1137Syria 20000 killed by earthquake

year 1158Cilicia 20000 killed by earthquake

year 12C-SPalermo earthquake JBUU lost year

1726CantonChina 1000000 lost by

earthquake November 30 1731Kuchan North Persia 40000 lost

earthquake year 1755Lisbon city ruined by earthquake

25000 killed November 1755Aleppo destroyed by earthquake

thousands killed year 1822Canton earthquake 6000 lost

27 1830Calabria earthquake 10000 lost

year 1857Island of Krakatoa volcanic erup-

tion 36380 lives lost May 27 1883Eruption of Mauna Loa Hawaii 79

killed year 1880Isle of Ischia earthquake 2000 lost

year 1SS3Charleston S C earthquake 41

lives lost August 31 1886Bandalsan volcanic eruption

killed 1888Island of Hondo Japan earthquake

10000 killed October 1891Venezuela earthquake 3000 killed

April 24 1891-Gautemala earthquake great loss of

life April 1902St Pierre Martinique Pelee

May 1902 loss of life 40000Vesuvian towns destroyed by erup-

tion of volcano April 1906 400 ormore killed

San Francisco April IS 1906 earth ¬

quake followed by fire

THE SURGERY OF THE ANCIENTS

What is known to modern dentistsas bridge work was familiar to theEtruscans as extant specimens attestaccording to an interesting article inthe British Medical Journal Plasterears noses and lips were commonamong the Indians where the cuttingoff of these features was a punishment

in use and Greek and Romanveterans who had lost a leg or an armin war tried to make the def-iciency by artificial substitutes It isstated further

What is said to be the oldest artifi ¬

cial leg in existence is now in the mu ¬

seum of the Royal College of Surgeonsof England It was found in a tombat Capua Pliny speaks of a Romanwarrior who a century and a half be ¬

fore the of Christ wore an artimanipulate a sword In the MiddleAges artificial limbs sometimes re-paired

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the disablements of war Theiron of Goetz von Berlichingen

was an ingenious piece of mechanismfor that famous knight in 1504

A century later an artificial was

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plying natural or accidental defectsin the human body He describes ar ¬

tificial eyes and noses an artificialtongue and an artificial palate At alater period Father Sebastian Car ¬

melite monk made movable arms andhands In the earlier part of the seventeenth century Peter Lowe in hisDiscourses on the Whole Art ofChirurgery gives representations ofartificial legs About the middle ofthe same century Falcinelli a Floren ¬

tine surgebn mentions the use of aretificial eyes of silver gold and crystalpainted in various colors

LAYING CORNERSTONE

Impressive Ceremony Incident toConstruction of New Capi ¬

tol Buildings

President Roosevelt and SpeakerCannon Both Masons Are Princi ¬

pal Actors10000000 for Sen ¬

ate and House

When President Roosevelt on April14th laid the cornerstone of the newoffice building for the House of Repre-sentatives it marked the beginning ofimprovements on Capitol Hill whichwill make that section of Washingtoncomparable with the ancient hills ofRome and Greece crowned with mag-nificent buildings in which met thesolons of ages past

This new building occupies a squareand is about a hundred yards distant

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT

from the south wing of the Capitolwith which it is to be connected byan underground passageway throughwhich members of Congress may passback and forth from the legislativehall to their offices There are 410office rooms providing a room for eachRepresentative in Congress and Dele-gate

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and leaving vacant nineteenrooms for a future growth in the membership of the House through a reapportionment of districts or the admis ¬

sion of new States The House annexand the Senate office building alsounder construction at the opposite endof the plaza are being put up to pro¬

vide for the members of the NationalLegislature quarters absolutely neededfor the efficient transaction of publicbusiness The great growth in sizeof both branches of Congress hascaused the Capitol building to be en ¬

larged but this was only sufficient toprovide the necessary space for theassembly halls of House and Senateand the committee rooms the latterin many cases being small and badlyventilated Under present conditionsindividual members unless they hap ¬

pen to be chairmen of committeeshave no offices and a badly congestedcondition exists Realizing the needof one great legislative centre whereSenators and Representatives mayconcentrate their activities and becomfortably quartered Congress threeyears ago authorized the construction

THE PLAZA IT WILL NEW BUILDINGS ARE COMPLETED I

Thisof the House and Senate office

buildingsSenateCeremony Next Fall

The House annex was started firstand is in a more advanced stage ofconstruction than the Senate buildingthough the cornerstone of the lattermay be ready to put in place next FallIt is estimated that the two buildingstogether will involve stn outlay ofabout ten million dollars In size anddesign they are identical they occupypositions balanced in their relation tothe Capitol and are planned to fit intoa general architectural scheme Theheight of the buildings has been re-stricted that they may not overpowerthe Capitol and they have been keptsimple in design Without pedimentsdomes or other accentuated points toprevent their detracting in any way

from the effect of the Capitol itselfThe exterior design for the buildingsis classic suggesting in its general di¬

vision of parts the Garde Meuble in thePlace de la Concorde Paris while thepavilions are modeled on those of theColonnade de Louvre Architecturallythe front is divided into two parts thelower corresponding to the first storyof the building constituting a rusti ¬

cated base on which extendingthrough the second and third storiesis the colonnade surmounted by itsentablature and balustrade It is be¬

lieved that the effect of the two flank ¬

ing buildings will be to give unity tothe whole scheme and to emphasizearchitecturally the great beauty of theCapitol all of the lines leading up toand centering in its dome

Work Progressing RapidlyAlthough the digging of the trenches

for the House office building was be ¬

gun less than a year ago the structureis now up to the first floor line Tohasten the work Elliott Woods Super-intendent of the Capitol directed thatconstruction begin before all the specifications and contracts were completeThis was done through letting out thestone contract first by authority of theHouse Building Commission It is cal ¬

culated that both buildings will beready for the Sixtieth Congress-

In accordance with Masonic tradi-tions the ceremony was conducted inthe open air in a simple unostenta ¬

tious manner In every detail it corre¬

sponded as nearly as practicable withthe historic ceremony in which Presi-dent Washington participated Thearticles placed in the cornerstone werelargely identical in character withthose deposited in the original Canttol stone by Federal Lodge and assboth President Roosevelt and SpeakerCannon are members of the Masonicorder the occasion in every way har-monized with the spirit of the ceresmony directed by the Virginia jurisdustint in laying the cornerstone of trio

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