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IN THIS ISSUE. "In Memory of Longfellow," Editorial—"It Is To Laugh" the Lyons- Cotterill Fiasco, Editorial.—Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Budget, Illus trated.—Sons of the American Revolution, By E. Morrison Grout, Illustrated.—"The English Suffregettes," By Mrs. Elizabeth Baker. —"An Eighth Wonder of the World" Illustrated. In the Literary Section Agnes Lockhart Hughes has some spicy Longfellow remin iscences.
FMERSON SAID- "HITCH YOUR WACON TO A STAR." YOU DO THAT WHEN YOU PUT AN~AD. IN THE M ' MAIL AND HERAID. 5?ts- Published the Seattle, Washington, March 2, 1907 Every Saturday VOLUME X NUMBER 14 ^ II111 THE SEATTLE MAIL AND HERALD
Oldest Bank in Washington BANKING DEPARTMENT PERSONALS. P. CAPLAN Ind. A 2668 P. COHEN Mr. R. D. Miller, vice-president of the Exchange National Bank, of Spokane, Dexter Horton @, Co. NEW BANKS AND CHANGES. Wash., was married to Miss Nellie Roche at Seattle this week. Vienna Dye Works BANKERS The Yakima National Bank of North LADIES' SKIRTS SPONGED, Seattle. Yakima, Wash., is now a regular deposi Announcement was made recently that PRESSED AND REBOUND, Established in 1870. tory for U. S. government funds. John G. Morony, president of the First $1.00.. CALLED FOR AND National Bank of Great Falls, Mont., has DELIVERED FREE OF Capital, Surplus and Undivided The Continental National Bank of Chi declined the executive position recently CHARGE. cago, 111., has been approved the reserve offered him in conection with the newly Profits $1,000,000.00 agent for the First National Bank of Mis Ladies' and Gents' Cleaning, Pressing. Dye organized National Copper Bank of New ing and Repairing. Transact a general banking business. soula, Mont. City. Interest on Savings Accounts at 4%. REASONABLE PRICES Deposits received by mail. A new bank is to be organized at The L. Gorton, of Smith Ferry, president of Correspondents in the principal cities of Dalles, Ore., with a capital stock of $5,- the Intermountain State Bank, at Craw 1409 Fourth Ave. Seattle, Wash. the civilized world. 000. It will be known as the Wasco Agents of Bank of British North America. ford, Ida., spent several days at Boise County Bank. last week. First Avenue South and Washington St., EDGAR S. HADLEY The Citizens' Bank of Anacortes, at An- Clyde E. Cox, of the Bank of Anatone, SEATTLE, WASH. acortes, Wash., has been organized by W. Wash., was a visitor at Clarkston, Wash., LAWYER T. Odin, M. B. Mattice and Geo. A. Han over Sunday last. 322-23 Pioneer Bldg. Office: Main 1921 son. Capital stock is $25,000. Residence Phone: East 3082 D. T. Coleman, assistant cashier of the A new bank named the State Bank Morrill Bank, at Kent, Wash., is receiving More Than a Million has just been opened at Everson, Wash. the congratulations of his friends these Residence Phone East 3898. Our resources exceed a This bank will be a great convenience days. He has just received the gold mad- Office Main 5684. million dollars. A gen to the farmers, and will be well patron erous response to mod al granted by Wilson's Modern Business ern banking methods. ized. College, of this city, for the highest gen DR. GEO. E. WEBSTER Our Savings Depart ment pays 4 per cent, eral average of the entire class of 300. DENTIST. interest, compounded The First National Bank of Moore, twice a year. Security Mont., has been organized; capital stock, Mr. Fred T. Walker last week took 204 Denny Bldg. 1408 Second Ave. rather than income, our • $50,000. M. L. Woodman, president; P. motto. We invite your charge as manager of the main office on account. N. Hill, vice-president, and Gordon O. Hastings St. of the Royal Bank in Van E. L. GRONDAHL President Shafer, cashier. couver. 10 a. m. to 4 p. em. Tel. Red 3994 A. H. SOELBERG Vice Pres. and Cash. Ind. L 2372 JOHN ERICKSON Vice President The head office of the Royal Bank of James C. Langley, vice-president of the W. R. INGE DALTON, M. D. Corner First Ave. and Yesler Way, on Canada will be removed from Halifax Colton State Bank, was a business visit Pioneer Square. to Montreal in the near future. The paid or from Johnson, Wash., last Monday and Room 447 Arcade Bldg. up capital will be increased from $4,000,- Tuesday. STATE BANK OF SEATTLE 000 to $5,000,000. Skin Diseases Only. Seattle, Wash. James D. Hoge, president of the Union The First National Bank of Oregon Savings & Trust Co., of this city, returned City, Ore., has been authorized to do busi home yesterday with his wife and chil ness with a capital of $50,000. D. C. La- dren after six months' pleasure and busi V. V. WILLIAMS Puget Sound National tourette, president, and M. D. Latourette, ness trip through the eastern cities. cashier. D. D. S. Dr. M. B. Mattice, of Sedro-Woolley, Offices, 408-9 Hinckley Block. Bank Wash., who is interested in the banking The Bellevue State Bank was recently Seattle Wash. Capital Paid Up $300,000 organized at Bellevue, Ida., with Daniel business at that place, being a member of Surplus 150,000 Braymer as president and C. W. Wilson the banking firm of W. T. Odlin & Co., as cashier. was transacting business in Anacortes JACOB PURTH President last week. Glasses Scientifically Fitted. J.S. GOLDSMITH Vice President The Canadian Bank of Commerce of F. E. ELLIOTT R. V. ANKENY Cashier New Westminster, B. C, opened a branch Alesdair Keith, whose death last week Refracting Optician. Correspondents in all the Principal Cities of the bank at Mission City last week, with Ken was a great shock to the many residents World, including- Alaska. neth V. Munro in charge. They have rent of Portland, Ore., came to Portland from 11 and 12 Heussy Bldg. Phone, Ind. A 1416 304 Pike St., Seattle, Wash. General Banking Business Transacted. ed temporary headquarters in the Mason San Francisco in 1905 to assume the posi ic Building pending the erection of their tion of note and exchange teller in the own block. Bank of California, and was one of the most substantial and trusted employes of Articles of incorporation have been that institution. He was only 29 years of CIVIL SERVICE POSITIONS—Want Peoples Savings Bank filed by the Union Savings Bank of Ash age and was born in Aboyne, Aberdeen ed young men to prepare for Railway SEATTLE. WASH. land by E. V. Carter, D. R. Milis, L. L. shire, Scotland. Mail Clerks, Immigration and Chinese In Mulit, E. A. Sherwin, G. W. Dunn, J. K. spectors, Postal Clerks and Carriers. EDW. C. NEUPELDER President Van Sant, C. H. Vaupel, F. H. Carter, G. Write for free catalogue. WEST COAST R. H. DENNY Vice President S. Butler and O. Winter. CORRO. SCHOOL, PIONEER BUILD JOS. F. GREENLEAP Cashier ROOK REVIEW ING, SEATTLE, WASH. The Columbia Valley Bank of Wenat- chee, Wash., has filed notice with the AN ODD COINCIDENCE. secretary of state of the increase of their Some one has just discovered that by and will be a valuable contribution to the Variety Iron Works capital stock from $30,000 to $100,000. Its some strange chance the surnames of history of the Civil War and the spcu- Incorporated. Geo. James, Mngr. fine new building will be completed in a the hero and heroine in Mr. Carpenter's lative era which preceded the panic of MANUFACTURERS AND FOUNDERS few weeks. "Captain Courtesy," published by George 1873. The book is a story of how Cooke Castings of All Kinds W. Jacobs & Co., form the name of the sold more than two thousand millions of Machinery Castings, Hotel Ranges, Archi tectural Castings and General Contracting. A fine lot has been sold recently in Na- author of "Trusia," also issued by the United States bonds and then set out to naimo, B. C, to parties whose names have same firm. Leonard Davis and Eleanor civilize the Northwest from Duluth to not been made public, but it is thought Brinton are the main characters in the Tacoma, a region then inhabited chiefly that the Bank of Montreal, which has no first named story, while Davis Brinton by hostile Indians and black herds of branch there, is interested in that pur is the author of the latter. This coinci buffalo. chase. dence is all the more remarkable from The Moran Company the fact that these titles are the two best Suit was filed last week in the district selling novels that Messrs. Jacobs & Co. THE "LIFE" OF FREDERICK DOUG ENGINE AND SHIP BUILDEES court at Kalispell, Mont., by the North have this year. LASS. STEEL AND WOOD western National Bank, of Minneapolis, Minn., versus the B. R. Lewis Lumber Co. The biography of Frederick Douglass, to recover an amount in the neighborhood THE FINANCIER OF THE CIVIL WAR. promised last year by George W. Jacobs of $15,000 on over-due notes. The matter Upon the completion of the series of & Co. for the American Crisis Biograph has, however, already been settled out of articles upon Jay Cooke, the Financier ies, but unavoidably delayed, is to be Mathew Dow court. of the Civil War, now running in the issued this month (February). Those Century Magazine, a full and authorized who have read the advance sheets of the CONTRACTOR and BUILDER The Department Store Savings Bank at biography of this remarkable American book state that the story of this man's Office 313 Boston Block, Seattle, Wash. the Palace Store opened last week at will be published by George W. Jacobs life possesses unusual interest, almost Phone, Main 728. Spokane, Wash. Later on the Palace ex & Co. This book (of which the serial fascinating one with the variety and pects to do a general banking business, articles form a part) is by Ellis Paxson romance of his remarkable career. From Estimates made on all public buildings a slave boy on a Maryland plantation, and business blocks. but now separate apartments have been Oberholtzer, Ph. D., the author of a work fitted up for the women, and they will be on Robert Morris and the finances of the he rose, through sheer strength of will expected to be the chief savers of money Revolution. He has had free access to and force of character, to hold high gov by the new enterprise. all the Cooke papers which comprised ernment positions and to be a leader many chests full of letters, documents, among men, particularly of his own race J. A'ROMSOff The First National Bank of Snohomish, maps and scrap books preserved in the at a time when they greatly needed a Wash., is now in its new home on the most careful way by a methodical busi representative to bring the wrongs of WINES AND LIQUORS ness man. All this material has been util slavery before the American people. The FOR MEDICAL PURPOSES corner of First St. and Avenue A. The building is especially erected as a bank ized to the full with the approval and aid story of his life is told by one well quali ing house, being centrally located and of the family. The work will be amply fied to write such a volume, Booker T. 104 and 106 First Avenue South, Seattle. illustrated with portraits and fac-similes Washington. Phones, Ind. 1751; Sunset 3375. conveniently arranged. THE SEATTLE MAIL AND HERALD
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IN Not for many years yet, if at proud of the particular job. They acted merely in a George F. Cotterill and Mr. Joseph Lyons have been all, will the people who love MEMORY professional capacity and for pay. tampered with so shamelessly that a committee of the the poetry of the common state senate opposed to Mr. Cotterill politically almost OF things of life forget to do hon immediately declared the fraud, and that the contest or to the memory of Long- was ended in Mr. Cotterill's favor. LONGFELLOW Great preparation was made for the great contest. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^H fellow. The recent celebration "To the shame of the Republican party in this county Vast tomes of legal lore were gone over by the learned of the one hundredth anniver be it said that the outrageous condition of the ballot counsel, authorities were consulted and digested and sary of his birth, the many tri boxes, the reasonable presumption that the box contain briefed. At the wise suggestion of the counsel before butes paid by the leaders of thought and literature in ing the ballots in the Cotterill-Lyons election, and its every part of the world, show the esteem in which him mentioned, the ballot box in which was the evidence contents, were not undisturbed—to put it mildly, oc self and his poetic contributions are held. We are still that would, according to thir ideas, unseat Mr. Cotterill curred under Republican administration in King too close to him, to the generation in which he wrought and give his place to Lyons, was carefully guarded. county" out on the sounding anvil so many strong and beautiful Every preparation was made to inaugurate surprises poetic creations, to pronounce a fitting judgment on his that would bring confusion to the champion of the works. Longfellow was the poet of the common people, people. At last the great day arrived. The committee of the common things of earth and sky. Like Burns, of the senate and the county authorities assembled in he sang the joys and sorrows of the common folks with solemn conclave. Mr. Hughes, representing the Seat There are thousands of Republicans in King county such pathos and power that he drew all hearts to him tle Electric Co., beamed effulgent upon that distin who, under a sense of outrage on account of the and carved for himself a high place in the temple of guished gathering. Mr. Fulton, representing the Liquor high-handed frauds of their party leaders in this Fame. Sixty years ago, De Tocqueville wrote that Dealers' Association, joined hands with Mr. Hughes and county, are today in open rebellion, and such should America had no literature. Yet at that time Cooper had also beamed a beam or two in token of his hearty sym be willing to join hands with the Democrats in giving written his novels which William Cullen Bryant said pathy with the purposes of the meeting. Mr. Cotterill this county a clean and wholesome administration. would endure for centuries, Irving had penned his im trembled on the ragged edge, but, with brave heart, Many Republicans see that as long as this King county mortal work, Bryant had written his "Thanatopsis," nevertheless, dared his fate. Oh! That was a pregnant ring has control they stand no chance of political ad and Longfellow had published two volumes of his poetry moment, my beloved brethren !* At last the ballot box vancement. This ring has partitioned out the offices including his "Psalm of Life," that has been pronounced that was to deceide this celebrated case was brought down the line for years yet to come. They have in by eminent critics a poem of unusual strength and into court. After much pow-wow, much citation of au charge the machinery of the party, they can nominate beauty. It was said of the Great Teacher that "the thorities, and much recommendation on the part of Mr. each other to office and will do this in spite of all pro common people heard him gladly." He taught in para Hughes, representing the Seattle Electric Co., and Mr. tests to the contrary. They will swing the party whip bles. He wove into his ethical system stories of the Fulton, representing the Liquor Dealers' Association, and plead the Republican battle cry of protection to sower who went forth to sow, of the fishes in the sea, while Mr. CotterilFs hair stood on end with expectancy American industries to line up Republicans to con the birds in the air. The Cambridge student and poet and anxiety, Dr. Brier, the deputy of Auditor Agnew, tinue them in power. But it is not likely they can fool wrought into his poems much of the out-doors. He with hands that trembled with mingled emotions of all the Republicans all the time. It gives the Mail and touched life in its lower rounds and uttered deep things fear and wonder, opened the box, and behold, instead Herald pleasure to credit the Republican senate with easily understood by the unlettered but simple and nat of the ballots for senator and county officers were honesty and a sense of fair dealing in the Cotterill mat ural common people of the world, a wisdom concealed found the votes cast on the municipal water bond ter. In fact the Republican legislature in a general as always from the wise and prudent, but grasped with proposition. The box that had been used at the ninth way have done many meritorious things this session, out difficulty by babes. The arrows of his "Psalm of precinct of the eighth ward on November sixth last, and it is hoped they will do more before the session Life" still sing in the air; in our minds who first read and contained the record that was to decide this case, closes. It is a hopeful sign when party politics can be the "Village Blacksmith" in the old McGuffey's readers instead of having been carefully guarded according to laid aside at least once in a while in favor of decency in the dear old schooldays in little red, country school- law, had been thrown about amongst the rubbish of and patriotic Americanism. houses, the "spreading chestnut tree" still spreads its the carpenter shop of the city hall for lo, these many ample branches above the "village smithy," and the months. Thus at last the labors of the Seattle Electric children still pause in wonder before the open door and Co. and the Liquor Dealers Association's mountann Mayor Moore is a stayer. Nobody look in to see the blazing forge and hear the roar of the brought forth a very diminutive and scabby looking MAYOR MOORE can dispute that who is at all ac huge bellows; and even now, while the twilight is mouse. Mr. Cotterill will retain his seat, and the cor quainted with his record in all of gathering, and we look for the morning stars that her poration and ring contingent will bear their defeat with A STAYER. the public positions he has filled with ald the Eternal sunrise, we ponder the touching and what grace they can. honor to himself and benefit to his tender lines of our dear New England poet, growing constituents. He is determined that happier still and cheerfuller, and our nights are "filled the council shall not interfere with his prerogative in with music, while the cares that infest the day fold up naming men for positions within his jurisdiction as their tents like the Arabs and silently steal away." There is, however, a serious side to this fiasco. What Mayor of Seattle. In this he is absolutely right. The surety have the people that their ballots cast at any council has placed itself in a bad light before the people election will be counted fairly under such a regime in entering into a confessed conspiracy to confirm no IT IS The celebrated case of Lyons, as that of the King County Republican contingent now one but the ex-incumbent, Mr. Walters. They might alias the Seattle Electric Co., managing the political affairs in the most important with propriety refuse to confirm one nominated by alias the Liquor Dealers' Asso- county of the state of Washington? It was charged Mayor Moore for cause, but to give out that they will LAUGH! ciation, alias the Republican during the last state election that certain election have Walters or nobody puts them hoplessly in the hole King County ring, vs. George boards were guilty of fraud. County Attorney Mac and separates them from the sympathy of disinterested Cotterill for his seat in the intosh made a show of prosecuting these wretches but people. Mayor Moore is to be congratulated on stand senate of the state of Wash nothing ever came of it. Instead of that some of these ing by his rights and he should stay with them until ington will go down in his same villians were placed on the election boards for the turned down by the courts. tory with the celebrated case of Bardell vs. Pickwick, last county and state election. It is quite clear that and other equally celebrated cases that have attracted nothing can be expected from the Republican ring now the attention of the civilized world. There never has running things here with a high hand. To the credit There is a despicable little sheet published in Seattle been a case in the history of the West that started of the Post-Intelligencer, an honest and able Republican called the Municipal News. It first came into a little out with such blare of trumpets as did that of the newspaper, be it said that in its issue of last Monday temporary prominence last fall when it opposed munic combination mentioned against Cotterill. Mr. E. C. it condemned the King county ring for its unblushing ipal ownership, getting out a special edition of corpor Hughes, representing the Seattle Electric Co., joined frauds on the ballot and sustained the senatorial com ation rot and sending the bill to Jacob Furth as the hands with Walter Fulton, attorney for the Liquor mittee in seating Mr. Cotterill. The Post-Intelligencer representative of the Seattle Electric Company. Its Dealers' Association, and tried by dint of much legal very pertinently asked: latest venture in vileness is an attack on Mayor Moore. lore and all kinds of machine politics to oust the rep "If the secrecy and sacredness of the ballot box in Of course, very properly, Mayor Moore pays no atten resentative of the people, the gallant defender of the elections are to disappear, why hold elections, why tion to it. The sheet is simply a sewer through which rights of man, the patriot, scholar, reformer, and put not turn over the farce of nominating public officers the whiskey ring or any other ring, political or other in his place Lyons, who is the willing tool of the cor to the ballot box jugglers, stuffers and fixers who do wise, may, for a consideration, pour its filth upon the porations mentioned above for any and all practical the dirty work of their bosses higher up? heads of such true and tried public servants as Mayor purposes. Of course, no blame attaches to either of "These questions which have been asked before come Moore. And a paper that will reprint such attacks and these gentlemen; both are honorable men and able in to the front again by the clear proof that the ballot give them publicity is no better than the Municipal their profession. It is not likely that they were at all boxes in the case of the contested election of Senator News. THE SEATTLE MAIL AND HERALD AAasKfL-yukon-'Pactfic Exposition
A BIT OF ALASKA SCENERY (Oourtesy The Westerner Magazine) ALASKA-YUKON-PACIFIC EXPOSITION BUDGET. The Minnesota Club at its last meeting reported many IR ANTHONY COOKE, the tutor of Edward VI, Responses from the various state legislatures now in lines of activity in the work of interesting the legisla had his daughters so carefuly instructed that they session show that the Exposition idea has taken deep tors of that state in the Exposition. The Ohio,. Nebra became proficients in literature, but not the less ska, New York, Illinois, Pennsylvania—in fact all of the S celebrated as mothers of families, conducting root in the popular mind. The Commissioners who have state clubs are doing good work to help the cause along. their households with admirable discretion. Katherine, been laboring in the different states report that every who became Lady KiUigrew, wrote Latin hexameters where the Exposition receives the hearty commenda and penatmeters. Mildred, the wife of Lord Burleigh, tions of all classes, and the legislatures back up the ALASKA NOTES. is described by Roger Ascham as the best Greek scholar voice of the people by most liberal appropriations. among the young women of England, Lady Jane Grey The Oregon legislature has appropriated $100,000, and Esther Creek will make a good showing in the output always excepted. Anne, the mother of Francis Bacon, word has just been received that Idaho has swung into of the Tanana valley when the production by creeks v. t.s distinguished both as a linguist and a theologian. line with $15,000. Utah will appropriate a similar sum, is figured out at the close of navigation next fall. There She corresponded in Greek with Bishop Jewell, and while in Montana a bill providing for an appropriation are at the present time several big dumps being taken translated his "Apologiae" from the Latin so correctly of $50,000 has been reported upon favorably by the com out, both above and below discovery, and there will be that neither he nor Archbishop Parker could suggest a mittee having it in charge. plenty of work from the jump-off, when the time for the single alteration. She also translated a series of ser In the case of Idaho and Utah, it is understood that spring clean-up arrives. mons on fate and farewell from the Tuscan. these appropriations will be supplemented by the next Finn Brothers and McGrath have one of the largest Leclerc says: "Abundance of us read the poets who legislatures and very largely increased. do not know what a poet is, or at least canot express Louis W. Pratt, of the Tacoma Chamber of Commerce, dumps on the creek at 3 above. McDonald, on 4 above, what they mean by it. A poet is one who invents, who has recently returned from California, states that and Finger and Tingle, on 2 above, are active in this either in whole or in part, the subject he treats of; who the people of this state are taking a deep interest In our way, as also are Chisholm and Webber, on 1 above. disposes it in certain order, proper to surprise the great Exposition, and notwithstanding the loss of mil There are also several operators engaged in the same reader and make him attentive. In short, he is one lions in the earthquake and fire of last year, will appro work below discovery, and many others are preparing who expresses himself in a different manner from the priate $100,000 and possibly more to make a fitting ex for work on a large scale in the spring, work being vulgar, not only in respect of the cadence, but likewise hibit of that great state. principally in opening up the ground and blocking out of the elocution." Prof. Edward S. Meany, who has been laboring in the for a speedy moving when weather conditions make interests of the Exposition in a number of eastern states, active operations possible once more. ADAME GOULD has not yet made her final bow returned recently with the encouraging report that New to the public. Insult continues to add to her York, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts will contribute John Biglow has acquired the boilers from the Lotta injury. It is no use—the American woman liberally and that there is good reason to hope that Talbot, now sunk opposite Fairbanks in the slough, and M wedded to the alien man with title upon his Maine, New Hampshire, Connecticut and New Jersey will immediately have them installed on a fraction be beastly breast, crown upon his craven brow, suddenly, will also fall in line with liberal appropriations. tween 8 and 9 below. The boilers are of 60-horsepower incomprehensibly loses her new-world courage and for Prof. Meany thinks the first three states mentioned capacity each, and there is said to be a lot of exceed gets her heritage of freedom, equality and liberty. On will give from $40,000 to $100,000. It will be necessary, ingly rich ground in sight on the claim where they will foreign soil she seems to become a craven suppliant, however, to continue the missionary work already begun be operated. begging for her own possessions. Think of an ordinary in the east and, through the various state clubs, con McDonald is moving the plant from 4 above to a middle-class American woman footing the bills for an tinue the agitation and education of the public mind fraction between 3 and 4 below. Nothing but prospect actress' jewels, these the gifts of her unfaithful hus along the lines of a very liberal policy toward the Ex ing work has so far been done on this ground, but it is band. It is such a far-fetched fancy that we better not position. said to be a good mining proposition. bother our wise wits about it. BY AGfp CKH-ART HUGHLJ
"There is no death — what i :i :2 tower." Many times have I crossed and recrossed this seems so is transition; ^4^4^4^4^4Mf 4^f-4^ ^p4 bridge aboard a trolley or on foot, and thought of the This life of mortal breath poet's refrain—"I see the long procession still passing Is but a suburb of a life ely- to and fro, The young heart hot and restless— The old sian, THE BRIDGE. subdued and slow." Whose portals we call death." On the twenty-seventh of STOOD on th bridge at midnight as the February, one hundred years clocks were striking the hour, The scene of the village blacksmith I have also vis ago, there was born in Port And the moon rose o'er the city, behind ited and conversed with the son of the smith who in land, Maine, Henry Wads- i the dark church tower. spired "Under a spreading chestnut tree, the village worth Longfellow, a poet of whom Meiklejohn says — smithy stands." Often, too, I have crossed the lawns I saw her bright reflection in the waters under and sat on the piazzas of the poet's summer home at "taught more people to love me, poetry than any other English Like a golden goblet falling and sinking into the Nahant, Massachusetts, from where can be seen the writer, however great." sea. light house on Egg Rock, forcibly bringing to mind— A few years ago the writer "Sail on, it says—sail on ye stately ships, And with your And far in the hazy distance of that lovely night floating bridge the ocean span. visited Portland and repaired in June, to the birthplace of Longfel "Be mine to guard this light from all eclipse, Be yours The blaze of the flaming furnace gleamed redder to bring man nearer man." low, only to find that it had than the moon. been converted into a tene My feet have trodden too "In the Acadian land, on ment house. But proceeding to the home of the poet's Among the long black rafters the wavering the shores of the Basin of Minas" where "distant, se youth, I rejoiced to find it well preserved. This house, shadows lay, cluded and still, the little village of Grand Pre lay in which is located on Congress Street, in the heart of And the current that came from the ocean, seemed the fruitful valley." And here I have plucked sweet, the city, sets back from the street as though withdraw to lift and bear them away. pale daisies from the meadow where walked Evange ing from the busy hum of commerce all about it. En line and Gabriel under the old French willows, hear As sweeping and eddying through them rose the ing the whisperings of Longfellow's — "List to the tering through the gate in the white fence which di belated tide, vides the thoroughfare and the house, we entered under And, streaming into the moonlight, the sea-weed mournful tradition still sung by the pines of the forest. the portal hallowed by recollections of the poet's youth. floated, wide. List to the tale of love in Acadie—home of the happy." Within there is maintained a museum of Longfellow relics, very instructive and entertaining, and the place And like these waters rushing, among the wooden is the mecca of tourists and others who visit the thriv piers, Buf'Oh, not in cruelty, not in wrath, the Reaper came ing city of Portland. A cloud of thought came o'er me that filled my eyes with tears. one day; And the angel that visited the green earth— Bore this poet away. Longfellow died at his home on How often, O how often, in the days that had March 24, 1882, and was buried at Mount Auburn Ceme A few hours' journey from Portland by rail and gone by, tery, a palm branch and a Passion flower lying upon Boston is reached. From there a trolley ride of twenty I had stood on that bridge at midnight and gazed his casket. minutes will bring one to the Craigie house in Cam on that wave and sky. bridge, Massachusetts, the home occupied by the Poet "O Land. O Land. For all the broken hearted, The Longfellow from the days of his professorship at Har How often, O how often, I had wished that the mildest herald by our fate alloted, Beckons, and with vard College, until he passed from "this suburb of life ebbing tide inverted torch doth stand, To lead us with a gentle elysian, over the portals which we call death." Would bear me away on its bosom o'er the ocean hand, Into the Land of the great Departed—Into the The writer, who was acquainted with a neighbor of wild and wide. Silent Land." Longfellow's tomb is severely plain. Not a flower the Longfellows in Cambridge, had the pleasure of For my heart was hot and restless, and my life acquaintance with the poet's daughter, Miss Alice, and blossoms over his grave, which lies beneath a sombre was full of care, gray slab, table-like in form. many times visited the home. And the burden laid upon me, seemed greater I have stood within the room occupied by General than I could bear. A few years ago the writer gathered a small spray of George Washington, and from the poet's library looked clover from the poet's grave, and it lies remarkably out from the window through which Longfellow so But now it has fallen from me, it is buried in well preserved between the leaves of a volume of his often watched "the lovely stars, the for-get-me-nots of the sea; poems. the angels, fade, as the little moon dropped down be And only the sorrow of others, throws its shadow "Lie calm, O white and laureate head; hind the sky." over me. Lie calm, O dead, thou art not dead, In the house and about it one cannot look anywhere Yet, whenever I cross the river on its bridge, with Since from the voiceless grave without seeing some reminder of the man who in de wooden piers, Thy tongue shall speak to old and young, parting left behind "footprints on the sands of time." Like the odor of brine from the ocean, comes the While song yet speaks in English tongue, From the staircase ticks the old clock— thought of other years. By Charles' of Thames' wave." "All are scattered now and fled, Some are married, some are dead; And I think how many thousands of care-encum •§• bered men, And when I ask with throbs of pain, Each bearing his burden of sorrow, have crossed The state of Maine, by act of legislature, has named 'Ah—when shall they all meet again?' the bridge since then. February 27th "Longfellow Day," and the centenary of As in the days long since gone by, the Birth of the poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, is The ancient time-piece makes reply, I see the long procession still passing to and celebrated throughout the length and breadth of New 'Forever—never—never—forever.' " fro, England. The young heart hot and restless, and the old, The elms that whisper around the house, "the gor subdued and slow. geous flowerets in the sunlight shining, and the tremu lous leaves, with soft and silver lining," breathe of the And forever, and forever, as long as the river A true reader of poetry partakes of a more than one who walked among them and wove their beauties flows, ordinary portion of the poetic nature; and no one can into verse. As long as the heart has passions, as long as be completely such who does not love or take an inter life has woes; The Longfellow house, Colonial in architecture, is est in everything that interests the poet—from the located on Brattle street, within the classic shades of firmament to the daisy; from the highest heart of man Harvard, and is set far back from the broad and beau The moon and its broken reflection, and its shad ows shall appear, to the most pitable of the low. tiful thoroughfare. The neighborhood is one of the As the symbol of love in heaven, and its wavering most conservative in Cambridge. Opposite the house is image, here." Longfellow Park, an ideal bit of land, maintained by the city as a public parkway, the grounds are beauti If there is one rule above another which I wish to fully kept and lawns slope down to the banks of the impress on those starting out in life," writes Charles Charles River, of which the poet has said, "Thou hast Kingsley, "it is this: Take pains, take trouble. What taught me, silent River, many a lesson deep and long. ever you do, do thoroughly.; whatever you begin, finish. Thou has been a generous giver; I can give thee but a and flows onward between Cambridgeport and East It may not seem worth while at the moment to be so song." This river is now the scene of many boat races Cambridge, where it is spanned by the Craigie Bridge very painstaking and exact. In after years you will between the Harvard and Yale college crews, and is of which Longfellow has written, "I stood on the bridge find that it has paid for by training your character; also a favorite place for canoeing. This same river at midnight, as the clocks were striking the hour, and paid for by giving you success in life; paid for by winds its way "Through the meadows, bright and free," the moon rose o'er the city, behind the dark church giving you the trust and respect of others." THE SEATTLE MAIL AND HERALD
HERR LOUIS E. SCHOENIGER DR. M .A. LAZARUS Violin Soloist and Teacher. DENTIST. (Formerly of Chicago) Phones: Sunset, Main 2946. Studio 1901 East Union Street, Seattle. Independent, 766. Telephone East 6860. 205 Hinckley Block SEATTLE. JAMES HAMTILTON HOWE, MUS. B. Conductor of the Seattle Choral Symph. Soc. Pianoforte, Organ and Harmony. Gra-Oes Holyoke Building. Phone Main 2674. 429 Peoples' Bank Bldg. HIGH GRADE HAIR DRESSING WILLIAM FRANCIS HUGHES 3EN and where was Music born? The dedication of the new organ, built MANICURING AND CHIFRODY PARLORS When the Gods on that by the Hutchings-Voey Organ company, POR LADIES AND GENTLEMEN Tenor Soloist and Teacher. great morn, for the Church of the Disciples, took place in Boston, February 18th, with the Superfluous Hair, Moles and Warts Re W Made in man a heart of fire— moved toy Electrolysis. 710 East Pike Street. Telephone East 3494. Love—with infinite desire. following program: Ages long Love wandered dumb, 1. Prelude and Fugue in B Minor. .Bach Hair Goods for Sale and Made to Order. Albert W. Snow. Work First Class. Prices Reasonable. HELEN MARION GERRISH, Dreaming of the time to come, Till the strong Gods, quit of wrong, 2. (a) Allegr from Sonata in F Minor Pianoforte Teacher and Soloist. Crowned her loveliness with song." Mendelssohn (b) Vision Rheinberger Danny Deever Damrosch Studio 107 13th Ave. N. Tel. East 2831. (The Birth of Music) by Burton W. Were I a Star Hawley Lockhart. 3. The Beatitudes Otto Dresel Long Ago MacDowell Henry W. Savage's production of Puc Mrs. Laura Comstock Littlefield. James Forrest. MISS CHASE cini's "Madame Butterfly," at the Grand 4. Sonata (Mms. written especially Herbst (Autumn) Eugene Haile Opera House, is this week occupying the for this occasion) Lynes My Dream Buck PIANO. attention of th emusic lovers of Seattle. Allegro, Pastorale, Larghetto, Finale. Frank Lynes. Miss Fannie Copeland. Lessons Given at Homes of Pupils. A review of the opera will appear in Margareta Myer-Helmund Address: The Clark, 1014 Minor Avenue. these columns in our next issue, the 5. Aria—O Hark the Linnet (from Edmund J. Myer, Jr. initial production taking place too late Joshua) Handel Duett—Hunting Song Bullard for this issue. Mrs. Laura Comstock Littlefield. MISS CAROLINE SADLER G. (a) Andantino in G Minor... .Franck Messrs. Myer and Forrest. Piano Teacher; Leschitizky Method. (b) Cantilene Nuptiale Dubois * * * Special Work for Children. Rehearsals for Rossini's Stabat Mater (c) Finale in B Flat. . .Wolstenholme Over in New York the other night are now being held by the Choral Sym Holyoke Bldg. Telephone Main 4426. Arthur Foote. there was held a benefit for a broken phony Society. It will have its auspi The organ was given by members and down little prize fighter who for years cious rendition the week preceding East friends of the society as a memorial to has not done a day's work except that Phone Ind. 3043. er. Singers not members of the society, Anna Huidekoper Clarke. involved in training for encounters with wishing to take part, may leave their * * * other bruisers. The man had earned APPY'S STUDIO names with the director on Mondays Pianoforte Instruction. The Boston Symphony Orchestra re thousands of dollars in the art of pound from 11 to 1, and on Tuesdays from 2 to turned to Boston a few weeks ago, after ing somebody else into insensibility, all 1015 Boren Avenue, near Madison Street. 4, at the Choral Symphony's headquar the most successful tour it has ever of which he had squandered through the ters, room 37 Holyoke block. made in the west. It gave six concerts dissipation of drink and other sorts of MISS HARLA M. SLOAN in Rochester, Cleveland, Chicago, Detroit, excesses. Teacher of Guitar and Mandolin. Indianapolis and Cincinnati. Plainly the young fighter should now Mrs. Nina Martin Hatcher gave an ex be independently wealthy, and he would Holyoke Block Rooms 13-14 cellent program at her recital Wednes Telephone: Central 1170. be had he exercised even the common day evening, at the Unitarian church. Miss Clara Clemens, daughter of Mark sense of a squirrel. Instead, he is a The assisting artists were Messrs. Twain, sang Monday afternoon at Miss battered and poverty-stricken derelict, Nicholas Oeconomacos, Erwin Gastel, Terry's concert at the Somerset, Boston. and his friends—with a loyalty for which NELLE M. FORRESTER and Howard C. Gratton. Program was Miss Clemens is personally attractive, sin Dramatic Reader, others cannot help honoring them — ar as follows: cere and displays musical temperament, ranged a performance to help him, and Teacher of Elocution and Physical Elegie — Massenet — Clarinet obligate but she is not what she purposes to be, a Culture. in one way and another actually got to Mr. Oeconomacos, Mrs. Hatcher. singer. Her voice is small, not trained gether, it is said, $25,000 for mainte Studio 421 Broadway N. Phone East 4252. (a) Er Ded Herrlichste Schumann to its best advantage, and although occa nance. (b) Volisliedehen Schumann sionally of a sympathetic quality there is not enough of any one quality apparent In a little country town in New Eng (a) Du Meine Seele Schonster Traum land there lives in poverty and the piti MRS. ROSE HOSLEY IRELAND Lassen at the present time to allow her to build great hopes on her vocal prowess. ful gloom of a darkened intellect one of Teacher of Voice and Piano. (b) Summer Night Lassen the greatest composers this Western Mrs. Hatcher. Francis Rogers, who was on the same Main 3388. 35-36 Holyoke Bid. programme, gave much pleasure. His land has ever produced. He is Edward Also available for oratorio and concert work. Heaven Hath Shed a Tear Kucken MacDowell, whose splendid orchestral (Cello obligato) voice is well trained and pleasing, his style good and his interpretations thor works have delighted music lovers both Mrs. Hatcher and Mr. Gastel. oughly musical and artistic. His mezzo here and in Europe. He labored for ITALIAN CONSERVATORY OF Ballade in G Minor Chopin voce is excellent and thus is no simple years in the interest of art at salai-ies MUSIC Mr. Gratton. matter for a large voice. Arthur Hyde that never adequately paid for his genius. Hestor Q. Romano, Director. (a) Du Bist Wie Eine Blume accompanied excellently. But he gave freely the best that was in Teachers of Violin, Mandolin, Guitar, Cello, Rubinstein * * * him, and that best was glorious. Then Harp and Fiano. (b) Thou Art Like Unto a Lovely came a mind diseased, and now there is Studio 1414 2nd Ave. Rooms 310-311-312. Flower Wilson Smith Mr. Edmund J. Myer announces a hope only of a long and peaceful twilight. Mrs. Hatcher. series of five Educational Lecture Song A fund is being raised for him, too, but Nymphs and Fauns Bemberg Recitals, to be given at the Girard-Myer with all the work of a year or more it GERARD TONNING Vain Desire Max Vorich studio, Broadway building, corner Madi- has not reached the proportions of the CONCERT PIANIST AND TEACHER OF * * * fon and Broadway, in the small hall, sec- prize-fighter's reward. FIANO AND THEORY. end floor. Mr. Myer will be assisted by Studio: 127 North Broadway. Seattle. Mr. J. Edmonde Butler, organist of Are the people who pretend to love the Trinity church, gave a delightful organ his Dupils and all subjects will be vocally "higher things" of life less willing to recital on Sunday last. Mr. Butler's play illustrated. The lectures will take place translate that love into dollars and cents ing is always good, and the artists as in the following order: than those who regard a "mill" as the MISS ELLA SHEPARD BUSH sisting him were at their best. Those Thursday, March 7th—Technique, Tone, aggregate of human enjoyment? They MINIATURES IN IVORY assisting on the program were Mary Touch. have far more money in the aggregate PORTRAITS IN OIL Lionberger Scott, Ellen M. Kollock, and Friday, March 29th — Placing, Poise, than those who rallied to the support ol Bowman Ralston. Power. Terry McGovern, but they have coldev 420 Boston Block. Seattle, Wash. Tuesday, April 30th—Articulation, Pro hearts. It is a sorrowful commentary nunciation, Diction. upon the alleged desire for culture and The Columbia College of Music is set Tuesday, May 21st—An Evening with the fine arts in this country, that men THOMAS J. PENNELL ting before the public of Seattle an at Modern Classic Songs. BARITONE and women all over the land should not tractive array of musical recitals, Tuesday, June 11th—An Evening with pour in upon the promoters of the Mac "The Art of Singing." Wednesday evening having witnessed the Oratorio. Studio. 1014 Madison. Phone Ind. A3530. Dowell Fund all the money that the the following program given by the Co Admission is free, and tickets for the stricken maker of beautiful music can lumbia College String Quartette, assisted lectures can be obtained by application ever need. Certainly the "dead game EDMUND J. MYER by Herr Karl Schwerdtfeger, baritone, at the Girard-Myer studio, or at the Mail sports" have set them an admirable ex VOCAL INSTRUCTION and Mrs. David W. White, pianiste. The and Herald office, Peoples Bank Bldg. ample for liberality and appreciation.— following numbers from standard class ... • # * Washington Times. MISS ETHEL MYER, Voice and Piano. ical works comprised the program: Program of concert to be given at the The new organ of the American 1108 Broadway, Corner Madison, Schubert Quartette op 29 — Allegro ma Girard-Myer studio, Thursday evening, * * * Small Hall, Second Floor non troppo, andante, menuetto, allegro March 7th: Church, Rue de Berri, Paris, which has Phones: East 6450; Ind. L, 413. moderato. Snow Flakes Cowen been in progress of installation during the Schubert—Ungeduld, Der Neugierige. Bonnie Sweet Bessie (by request).Gilbert past two months, was dedicated Sunday Haydn—Quartette op 70, No. 3 Adagio, The Skylark's Song Buck evening. A brief dedicatory service was MR. EDWIN FAIRBOURN cantabile, variation. Mrs. Anna O. Lucas. followed by a recital by L. L. Renwick, Schumann — Fruhlingsfahrt, Ich Grolle The Lark Has Left Its Watery Nest. . which presented both organ and organ Organist and Choir Master, St. Mark's Nicht. Parker ist, most favorably. The chief feature of Church; Instructor in Organ, Piano Beethoven—Quartette op 16—Grave, al The Year's at the Spring the dedicatory service was the singing forte and Voice Culture. legro ma non troppo, andante canta Mrs. H. H. A. Beach of an anthem written specially for this Phone Ind. A 3479. Address 116 11th Av. N. bile, rondo. Miss Cecille Mahony. THE SEATTLE MAIL AND HERALD