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Show FIRST IN ART OF OLD. CHICAGO LEADS WORLD IN MAKING MAK-ING OF ART GLASS. 8talned Glasa Wlndowa Made There Decorate Churches In Every Land on Earth Baffling Problem Solved by Workmen. Chicago. Chicago has robbed Europe Eu-rope of ii distinction of which It was proud. Italy, Franco, and Austria havo boon outdone In nn art In which thoy havo for centuries been supremo. Chicago now leads tho world In tho designing and making ot art glass and stained windows. Tho city may bo scorned na Innrtlstlo and commercial, but tho workors In coloring and leaded lead-ed glasn havo advanced far beyond their fellow craftsmon In othor countries, coun-tries, and particularly Is this truo of tho mon who design stained glass windows. win-dows. Moro than n scoro of firms horo are ongagod In tho ninnufacturo of art glnHB, and tholr product Is now modo widely known that that of any othor city or country. Thoro nro hundreds of permnnont proofs of Chlcago'H nrtlstlc supremacy In tho making of stnlntflglass windows. win-dows. Thoro nro manufacturers hero who can point to their offlco walls hung wltli photographs ot buildings In far off countries, tho wlndowa for each ono of which wore designed nnd mado In thin city. It Is Indeed nn un-clvlllzod un-clvlllzod Hpot, ono not blessed with churches, where Chicago windows are not prominent. South Africa has Chi-rngo Chi-rngo windows In n Cupottown church; Melbourne, Australia has suvurat, there aro two In tho City of Moxlco, and a number nro scattered through Japan. In Itussln Vladivostok u great theater has Chicago windows of brilliant bril-liant colors and Intrlcnto design, and unite recently camo nn order from (Inrmany for u largo number or leaded pnnuls to bo used In the pnlnco ot tho emperor. Italy and Homo Itself hnvo examples of this city's art, and many of tho old world cathedrals, ns repairs re-pairs bocomo nocessnry, order copies of tho orlglnnl windows from Chicago. An order Just given to a Chicago eompuny adds ono more proof to tho city's supremacy In glass work. It calls for three 'linmenso triple win dows, representing religious subjects, to bo plnced In tho Central Methodist Kplscnpal church of tho Philippine Islands, at Manila. Kov. Homer C. Stuntz, D. D superintendent of tho 1'hlllpplno Islands mission conforenco, who brought tho order to this city, will hnvo somo original Ideas embodied em-bodied In tho designs, for, whlto neither tho subjects nor tholr technical tech-nical hdudllng will bo dlfforent from othor cccleslnstlcal windows, tho color schomo Is unlQiio. Ab a goncrnl thing church windows aro made ot colors that add warmth to tho Interior. lied nnd yollbw Jones predominate, and nro softened with broken browns nnd greens, whljp or-ory or-ory cold color Is cllmInntet.'11siaJJ(Pi nlla tho Idea Is entirely dlffo;,ntl Thoro tho troplcnl sunlight Ii dfzztev Ing; Its brllllanco pains tho ejes and wearies tho brain. To offsot tho painfully pain-fully brilliant colors of tho landscnpo and to glv'6 tho Intorlor of tho now church an appearance of cool restful-nuss, restful-nuss, tho windows recently ordered will bo dono In thick, dark opalescent glass that will shut out tho glaring sunlight nnd. with cold greens and blues and purples, gtvo relief and rest to tho sonsos. Hut Chicago's supremacy In window-making window-making does not depend on widely scattered orders from foreign cities; It Ib firmly llxcd by tho originality and skill of tho artlsnns. A Chicago man llrst conceived tho Idea of leading lead-ing together bovelod plato glass and of using It combined with tho stained glnss. And It wob a Chicago factory that solved tho problem that 1ms battled bat-tled glnss workors for more than flvo centuries, tho problom of finding a method to Join pieces of glass with hard niotals, such as brass, copper and zinc, In place of tho soft lead that has been used so long nnd which Is so llexlblo that tho pattorna must bo marred by heavy rods to stiffen tho wlndowH nnd prevent bending. |