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Show "St. Gaudin was ill with lever m w. and Mr. Gibbs. a American touris- hi at- ins that an American artist wbb foF lack of rare, went to his St. Gaudin rewarded this act by stu.pturing the daughters of the Gib family. . t? " A : I here Is a picture by S.r.et K Street, an American artist of Me c.. nineteenth century." he went 6n. J was no: profitable even in those dasand the shtnjrle on Street's house ' read: "Milk, batter and eggs for tai.. Also portraits painted." Mr McCarthy has some remarkajve Italian chairs in his art gallery alao but he is afrahl he will not be aWe to keep, ihem long, for someone is always com:: In to buv pictures and ends by buing most of the McCarthy furniture atso. - I I j The Rise of the Antique I By Frederic J. Haslun. , 4 NKW YORK, Kov. 9. The New Yorker spends a great deal of his recreation recrea-tion exploring antique stores. He must. Otherwise, there couldn't be so many or them. Nothing but a tremendously heavy patronage can account for all the antiquity an-tiquity here assembled, beginning in GiWnwieh village and stretching ah the way up to the lironx. in so:no sections ot" the city there are what might bo correctly tewnvU euttre antique villages. On Mauisoii avenue, lor inhume, iniwei'ii oriy-stcuiid ami iSixiy-thiitl iSixiy-thiitl streets, almost every louitii store Is devoted to the sale ot antiques antique an-tique luruiture, antique tapes irus, antique an-tique jewelry, rugs, iace, embroiuerus, chum, pottery, coins, pictures, boons. Nearly every country has Us spveial rep-res-ntalives here. There are i-ietien aa-tiqae aa-tiqae shops and Italian antique Mioi'S, iSpanisii. urtentui, Egyptian, Fnwnfnn a"d American establishments. in tms sec-Lion, sec-Lion, too, are special institutions, Known us' uniiue hospitals. If you are a collector of ancient and mysterious Kgypiian antiquity, you can find at least a dozen stores which claim to possess it. Are you looking tor turiu-ture turiu-ture ot tho French Renaissance period'.' night this way, please! Or pernaps you hKe old Chinese pottery. Mere it is long shelves ot It waiting for you. To tins casual explorer it seems as thougn New YorK aioue contained enougn antique turniture to supply every home in the United States, and, ot course, mat may be what the antique deuicrs here have in mind, suite tne passion lor anuquiiy has uecoiiio so nation-wide. The lure of the antique has becohie so great that even the New lork department stores have taken it up. Many scores are now considering establishing new antique departments in order lo pr.event the local antique dealers from taking all the furniture furni-ture business away from num. Only tne other day one large New York 'department 'depart-ment store advertised the sale of a col-lecuon col-lecuon ot' rare antique tapestries, the prices ranging from ?oU0 to J2o,u0u than which no antique dealer could ask more. It Is useless to attempt to stem the antique an-tique tide. In another year we will all be engulfed in It, and It Will oe as necessary to live among battered and uncomiot tab.e chairs of ancient cut as among eie-""- i y and piumblng. The shadows oi Iftw coming com-ing event are already cast in eevetlfti Ol the more elaborate New YorK hoteis. wmeh have refurnished their Vooms witn eunousiy carvea chests and heds ql some peiUOte and inconvenient period. Gradually Grad-ually New YorK, at least, seems to te reaching the same conclusion as China. ;i.ai " nothing is good which is hol od. The campaign 01 disapproval which has been waged ut ntervaus against tne (aKe antique has in nowise destroyed the public's pub-lic's confidence lu it. There ore BftU plenty of people who buy quite trusting" the earlv peisonal i eiougings ot George Washington and Napoleon Uonaparle, ouc, on the other hand, Hie antique dealers are tending to adopt a noniustoricai course. Antiuuus are now so popular thai it is no longer nectaary tor tacm to have histories. In Tact, the more m; s'.ei aoua their origin, the more the people avein to !lKu tltelll. Ask a New York antique dealer M he has any valuable historical pieces in hie collections, and ten to one no wid tell you coldly that he hasn't. "We have nothing ot any historical slg-!;;ik',mce," slg-!;;ik',mce," said one dealer In answ ex to this question the other day. "There are a coup.e of very nice chairs over there" he pointed to a ehadowy corner "of the early colonial period, but we do not know their origin. Just picked them up in the sale of a. targe estate the other day. How much? Oh. they are not veiy aiuab.e only apiece." In some of the most pretentious antique an-tique shops in Madison avenue district the dealers apparently consider ;t oad torm to make any dtLirofl NhatSDOVer lor itu-ir goods. You are euuposed to he overcome by its magnificence Without any encouragement from them. Their manner usually con v eye the impression ibftl U -s really rather impolite of yaa to insist upon their selling you anything, since they could undoubtedly hold it lor a much greater price. If you eventually argue them into parting with some eoatly p.ece ot ;unk. you go away with the gm'ty teel-hig teel-hig tul you have taken a rather un:air advantage of them. Many of these dealers formerly sold shu ts and suitcases and second-hand I clo.hea. and are in the antique business t tor tho sole purpose to make money. Tney know tio w lo value their g cod s on iy i n dollars aud cents Hud not in terms of art. Here, tor instance, is what nappened m an uptown antique shop the other day: An old lady, whj was doutulcss a familiar fa-miliar figure m the place, came ta and UUTe4 hnklng over its supplies of an- j tiquily. After admiring many decrepit pieces, she finally saw two highly deco- 1 taied platan whic.n struck her fancy.' "How much are tliese?" she asked the . attendant In reverent voice. " Twenty dollars each." replied the at- " iendant promptly. Then, as the eld lady j hesitated "Hut they are so.d," he added : weirlt'. X)r. at least, there is an up-! lion on them." The old lady's Interest was Immediately Immediate-ly quickened. She examined the plates even moiv reverently. "1 would like to have them." she said. "If the person who has the option does not takp them, would yon puiul letting me know V I'll send ri.e.;irK:ter Them." The visiter who had witnessed this scene could not restrain a gasp b! surprise, sur-prise, he en use, Just a lew minutes before, tlii very same plates had been offered to him at Js apiece, and hot a won! had been sniu about an option. "These people evidently had n sliding scale ot prices,' he told the reporter Inter, "but in this instance they got ihe worst of u, bCUse thoy didn't have sense mouth to slide It on the same person- j After the plate episode, the old lady start-ad start-ad looking for some antique equipment to bestow upon a country church, and ! really wanted a bargain. The dealer kept raisins the prices on her nnd she finally i h-:. the shop in disgust. Funny ho .some people do not mind wasting money on , themsolvua. but drive huid bargains when I it comes to buying things for Other pao- pie.' Many of the .unique dealers here take great pride In their possessions, however, I and actually hate to part with thorn, even for a lot oi money. They spend their days lnvettaattnc the garrets of old buildings, scouring old warehouse for ancient pieces left by some Impecunious individual indi-vidual of brave ancestry, and In attending the sales of large ostnles, which usually yield many protliab.e specimens. Suofl a one la Harry Livingston, whose shoe, ij In the Thirties section here. At first, Mr. Livingston will tD you. In tne usual forbidding manner, that he handles no historical nntiques. but if yon admire ome oi his exhibits he will eventually I i n DUt the prl7.es from his treasure-chest treasure-chest and show them to you. Among thehi Is a queer book, printed shortly after the Invention of printing centuries sgo. which, he claims, is worth one thousand thou-sand dollars. In his front case, too, there is ,i 1 1 1 1 . ;-omewha 1 homely cup, Which belonged tO tbe Infant QfeorgV Washington Washing-ton Alihough he swears he has never read a book In his life, Mr. Uvineston knows a meat deal tbOUl rare boohs He Is nlwnys picking up copies of rare editions edi-tions In his rounds of various sales, nnd also the autographs of famous artists Whistler's nutograph ho onco sold to Frank Harris Of Pearson's magaxme for the price ot Kfc Another dealer who finds the pursuit ot antiques a romantic business Is J. M. McCarthy, who specialises in pictures. Upon Drat entering Mr. McCarthy shop! at 139 Lexington a venue, you do not get area I impression of his business it is llttlte Uny, and there are only a few pic-tUrO pic-tUrO on the walls, only a row pieces of anllque pottery In the showcases. Hut upstairs, on tne eocond door. Mr Mc-Carthv Mc-Carthv has a wholr an gallery of ids own, contalnlnR Some Very tine pictures nnd sculpture. BUI better even than his nlloctlon i Mr. McCarthy's discourse on American art nnd American artists, epe daily the latter, hNmu whom he tells most oulprtalnliiK stories. Here Is St tliuidln's portrait of Holl Olbhs," he said, pointing to the head ot |
