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Show A TALENTED MOTOIIMAN. flae of Oeorjo Wotringr's Pictures Took First Pr.zo. Georgo Wetrlng, 51 years old, his bteu a driver and mntorman on the Hirket street line fir twenty years. That In Itself lh a long-record of activity activ-ity undr one employer, yet It, would sut bo noteworthy liul for tlui fact Hit Mr. Weiring t-ouitilnuH With his iimiiwlnit olHeiirti oueup.itloii ttm talent tal-ent nf a great Hrtlst. The story which Ur. Wetrlng Inllt of the. fate that tiiudc of him a man nf lowly career intend ot I painter of nolo In ua peculiar as it U Atthcngn of 18 this man, whoe hauilti have crown callous from wield lK tbu reins and the big brum handle ot an electric storage baitnry, was n pupil of Wlllielm Knulbach. (ho gicat-ttt gicat-ttt hliinilcal pulnter of ihu 110. In 15.53 mi oil painting by him of an Ilal-!an Ilal-!an flower girl reeeivad tho first prize at Hie P,W exposition In the art pupil' pu-pil' foci Ion of tho world. A freu hmd drawing of the 'Venus do Allio" lianas to the royal art school of Wuorz'nirg, where It Is unpurchaseable for love or mnney A weal'hy Englishman was wllllni! to plvii fcU.SOO for it whan he mw it on tho easel of young Wot.rlng. Even now his correct eye and great ar lutlc lnstlnc'. hnv.n col been suppressed or eradicated by his menial labor. In the Inline of Mr. Ro. In Wells hangs a tree hand pencil portrait of Mr. Eras, tut Wells the founder of tho Market Hreot linn and (nice its sole n-vner. In Mr. Weill' estimation it Is tho bed, KLrnlt,evir niado of Ills father. Of Mure, the hand that pencils even now with tlm facile cunning of the real ur-tn ur-tn ha lost its swifltifix, and the eyes, grown dim ami tired from peering into tli" d irknesA of the niuht from the iuo torman's seat soon weary of the c'osn it pllcitUin r q red by port rail draw Ing but mi oiin fonkx ut the fimplo momi-ftian's momi-ftian's art works, on marvels what would Imve become of him had he been illnwod to it row up in a profession for which beseemed eminently lilted. Georgu Wtitrlng was born In Wuorz b'irg,B-tvarla. His father was a high Rnvernment official, and his uncle oc cupled the. pout of quartermaster genii gen-ii ral In tho Bavarian urtny. After i Srnduiitlng from the public schools of i Wuerzlmrg, young Weiring1 entered Mm tuantt il training school, nnd made M flm mark In the ari department nf llili school. Fianz von Kauibach, the I'nillierof the Jl Itiorlal Wllhelm, dl. Vtred tho rate talent for portrait Piloting und drawing possessed ly Wet ring, Hu gavo him his personal Ulentinu nnd finally, when he could Jch him no more, ho sent him to his "rothtir's studio In Munich and helped "Jiit to euter the art academy there. In "U great art school Weiring ppnt four Hrs with remarkablH success. His ItalUn Flower Girl, whlclr was ernwned lth the first prize, at the Pari" exposl-'K exposl-'K was tho fruit of his academical lilinr. Shortly beforo tho breaking out nf tho f between Prussia and AuMiUln ,86 the Wet rings, who were well-to.do J"'"Ple, cnntemplnted 4 trip to America w visit their relatives In Berry county, 0. The war prevented the elder Wet-"nK' Wet-"nK' J'lUrney, but he sent his two j0"" and daughter to mako tho trip id see a good bit of the now world. "''Bo Wett ing, tho elder of tho two was made npqusor of his younger Paniong, and together tht-y came 'bis country und made their way to I? c!Mty, where they found their wUoau nguReU 1a tin bjswfry liU6t ( ne.a. Being young and Inexpetlenced, tho young German YlJltnt-a IntTUMrrt their tnenni tn the reltlvw,whora they fnttnd In inmewhat si vnltened clrcnm-Btnnccs clrcnm-Btnnccs and very much In nerd of will-Ing will-Ing hands to wnik In their brewery. So Iho two young Wettings went to wnrk, nnd when the time came for thrlr return re-turn bnmn I h y had not tho means to pay for their p isiage ncros, the water. By that time the boys had made ihein-selves ihein-selves mightily us-fiil In the hu-dues- of their relatives and the latter were loth to let them go. A letter which George wrote to his father wns In-tempted In-tempted and failed to rencli him. Meanwhile the time which they wero permitted to atny, according In their pasKpnrts, had expired, and as Weiring should have enteied the army of his native laud on Ins return, he was regal re-gal ded as u deserter und urrcst threatened. threat-ened. Being young nnd ton Ignorant of the lawsofihu new country, ho ill. I not know what to do. So tho three child ren remained in Iteir.v county wl h their relatives and dually drifted awa to eck their foi tunes in their own bo ha'f Georgo Weiring came In St. L'Oila whore It" worked for yeart In a brewery. Ignorant of the la'ngii ge, he could not open up lor blnoelf a lleld la Ills career as an urtist.aud soon he lost heart ultegeihor. Twenty years ugo ho applied for 11 position as a driver 011 a s reel car to Mr. Enstus Well and obtained the Job. Gradually tlm dealre. to go haek to his h nue. lelt him. Ills parents died meanwhile ami their property whs l"nt. Th" work of a malHter wao not caleubited to develop devel-op ihu former an Ins Inns which might have nls.-d George Weiring to a high pluu:cle. Fniuier and talnter gtew Ills heart, nnd (lually. In a sort nf cUi por. ho settled di'Wti to hard labor for tne resi of his life Now and then uie inoioruiau'H hand feels ItHcuii'iing, ami the old l.lve of art juoinpis III in 10 do some of the wnik ot bis 011t1g days, but with it 0 tues invariably a sort ot hungry cry for his lost life and 'the riches ii iiiiuht hive brought hl'ii had fate dealt mute kindly with Inm. " |
