Show A ITEWSPAPER RACE Rivalry of the Continent and the Recorder I CHAMPION OF THE OTHER HALF Custard Pie HousesThe Water Color Fashion Ihe Schoolmasters CInb Other General Notes NEW YORK March 12 lS01Special correspondence of TBK HBHAID New York people are keenly interested just now in tho rivalry of the two new papers the I Recorder and Continent The Continent was i first in the field and the Recorder hurried up its preparations and came in soon after before it was quite ready apparently for the Sunday edition hasnt yet beoa published pub-lished Both papers are very interesting as experiments ex-periments The Continent has a tiny sheet not larger than 1 page of Puck Its publisher pub-lisher Frank A Munsey is more of a business busi-ness man than a journalist He has absolute I abso-lute confidence in himself and as one of his editors puts it failure is afraid of him He hasnt so much money as the Recorder people but perhaps C P Huntington is backing him The Recorder is perhaps the only instance of a newspaper born full grown I was a I complete newspaper on the day it was first published The best newspaper men have been hired from other papers by good salaries sal-aries and money has been spent liberally in advertising It is said that the men back of it John H Stann Duke the cigarette man Toiseph P Knapp Brewer Ehret and a few others havo putup a million to start I the papor and are prepared not to pull long faceR if they lose it They probably wont A million will run the paper at C loss a good nhll our Vitr tlint timp vhn VnnivciZ v o The Continent is boing written largely by tho staff of Afuttteys Wctklu which looks like a mistake but perhaps isut Howard Carroll Starins soninlaw has been placed in full control of the Recorder and oversees every detail even to the selection of the funny cuts on theJasc page He is a middle ed man of medium height with cdmiortably plump body and countenance hair moro than a little grey and a keen eye John W Keller the managing editor is big and bearded b as been a dramatic critic and editorial writer and has written plays Tangled Lives among others Both men have plenty of esperienco and ability and they know exactly what they are trying to do i TIlE scnooLiiAsxrns CLUB The new Schoolmasters club is bound in time to be variously nicknamed as The Ruler The Weeping Willow The Birch The Ferule The Tear Com peller The Educational Bludgeon but up to date the ferocious suggestiveness of the title has escaped notico The organization organiza-tion is by no means the least interesting of Now Yorks thousand clubs Thus far its meetings have been held at Columbia college col-lege but thero is talk of a removal soon to the old quarters of the Aidine club on Lafayette La-fayette Place a bookish and learned region I where the Astor Library stands and any number of publications are printed Dr Seth Low the president had been a tea merchant and tbo mayor of a grEat city before his debut as a master of schoolmasters schoolmas-ters in the presidents chair of Cclumbin He is a plump round rolypoly little man with a rosy young face a slight mustache and au all more businesslike than learned or digniiied He is a favorite with his students partly because he was in his I student days a doughty champion at football foot-ball President Eliot of Harvard was in I the fouroar crew of years ago in his alma mater Ur Low is one of toe best platform I speakers I i have ever heard because he is j always in earnest and has no rhetorical tricks I There are other distinguished men in the club Dr Maxwell the city superintend j I I ent of Brookli schools an exjournalist Ian I-an enormously tall County Tyrone man with a fine handsome face and a head too i big for liib neck Dr Nicholas Murray j 3utlir tho editor of the Educational Review Herr LeipZlier the manual training expert and I good roportion of the mal teachers within b radius of twenty miles of the metropolis me-tropolis i i I Probably most of these educators would i I agree that the art of teaching has made i Jtropnrtionatoly less advance in modern I prOlort I iuiiSs tbannifuiy less important Perhaps I we shall find out soon what they propose to II do abcut it i with their new organization now LONG DOES IT TAKE How long does it take to paint a watercolor water-color I aaked an artist Oh not long 1 Hub to bo done very quickly the paint ivies so rapidly You remember L C Earles Gamekeeper that was so much admired ad-mired at the recent exhibition 1 Priced at t hU0 Well Earle painted that in just four hours Bruce Crane did A Winter Noto in one afternoon sold it right away for 5150 und has orders now on hand for two similar pictures in oil and one in water color He worked a week to get it right though and tore uo n ninny as a dozen halffinished I sketches which did not suit him I I looks as if in spite f the present craze I for water color the sUDDlv will likely to I I equal the demand doesnt Good judges I say that the water coiorists are getting too I ambitious that they should confine themselves them-selves to slight tand sketchy trifles and let alone the ambitious and complicated subjects 3 sub-jects which can only receive just treatment in oils where tho painter can erase correct experiment andfinish at his leisure NOBODY WALKS OX TiE BRIDGH I believe the trustees of the Brooklyn bridge owe me I cent and fourfifths When the pathway in the air was completed everybody who ever went to Brooklyn at once resolved that he would wale over every time see the wondrous panorama of bay and river and fill his lungs with pure air fresh from the ocean Panorama and pure air I believe that was tho idea Everybody at once bought a bunch of tickets tick-ets The other day I found in the pocket of an old pair of trousers nine left of my buuch I wonder i the trustees would let me cash in the chips at a fifth of a cent each Probably not Nowadays no one walks over the bridge but visitors from out of town I know an I intelligent and active business man who has I never seen it except from a distance Yet I ills the world undoubtedly the finest promenade in COSTARD PIE DOUSES ThaUpurely domestic product thecus I i w l < l m x ard pie is the model upon which the swag gem new houses arc not alone being built but decorated The Tiffany bouse is a dark custard with a basement of English plum pudding The Freundschaf clubhouse is a custard smothered in grated nutmeg and with I well browned crust The new Con ury clubhouse is a dainty concoction of milk and egg yolk with no nutmeg On Upper Fifth avenue private residences in the colonial style have their crusts their trimmings door jambs and tho like pure white against the yellow of tho bricks The new combinations have it nil their own way in interior decorations for paint cheaper than bricks and mortar and wo are getting veil used to the stereotyped scheme in which about the only range h between cream and gold always with white in com bination This is Colonial I is also Renaissance aissance It is also extremely correct for the present THE OTHER HSLr C JrI I One of tbe quietest and most unassuming men in New York is Jacob A Kiis a slen del young fellow of rather less than medium heIght with dark hair and eyes and prepos I eseingly pleasant featured His book How the Other Half Lives is one of the I best of the winter not only in manner but in matter I had occurred t no one before to form a copartnership of pen and camera to bring to public attention tho startling acts about the lives and habitations of tho dwellers in the slums and there are many who think that aside from his telling pictures pic-tures his book has more solid value than General Booths widely vaunted Darkest I England Mr His is employed as a police II headquarters reporter by the evening Sun which has just lost anQther capable young I man in Richard Harding Davis I 1V1IEBS TiE 1JCTURES WENT Now that the Seney picture sale is a month old people are beginning to find out who bought the pictures bid in by agents Several of the finest examples of Cabanel and Daubigny are hung in the parlors of Timothy C Eastman the wholesale butcn I er along with some other fine canvases which had found their way there before Mr Eastmans English agent and sonin uw by the way is one of the Glasgow Bells and brother of the owner of the yurnt Thistle that came saw and was conquored by the Volunteer OWE LASGDOS |