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Show A CHEAT ARCHITECT. f;r.i,:?..i::L:,A". "Lu"'oi;ii building was during fair ornamented whh groups THE LATE CHARLES B. ATWOOD replicas and specimen had no rivals: The rruteip! lit Ocijjuwl arhl'a Umoat he His He! XilrnU Advautage la the m n art MEN Seen to rijrle. )HE late Charles B. Atwood was born Chailestown. In Mass., May 18. 1849 truts Sa T becaaie a pupil of Ware & Van Brunt, (I) architects of Boston, and after two years under their Instruction entered the scientific school f Harvard After this University. course he returned to the office of Ware & Van Brunt, remaining with them 'un-i- ll 1872, when he established himself in Pemberton Square, Boston. In that year he built the Merchants Fire Insurance Building at Worcester, Mass., ami the Five Cent Savings Bank at Lowed He was Invited to enter into nuon for several Important stun tuj rs at this time and received a prise 'cr the city hall at San Franeiseo, two pi uks for the state enpitol at Hart-l'-- il (min ; a prize for the design of tlm louit liou-- e in SpnugfhU. Mass, an! Lie fir t pure and eonrnitMon to build ;! citv ball at Holyoke, Mas-- . In Ivil Air Atwood went to New York to the 'inhibit for the Run of iiorler Rutiurs, and during tile next s.v-'o- u,, iU . luied the resident es of H.ni'. William 11 V.u.di rbit. Eli o' i and W hloau, all in Ne V oi 1, hts des the nte,ior in of ihe g ici hon-o- s ii.i ad P r of tne umuiiy, notably that oi Alta Alai k Hopkins at San 1'r.u. nhou Altart ou tbe I ulvvr Itj ot Mlonu IUk tttuwd Tull. Oscar E. Federson. whose broad charges against the management of the University of Wisconsin, at Madison, conducted by Prof Adams, late of Cornell, have created a furor In the educational circles of the Badger state, was born In the old ludmn village of pujes front Oshkosh, in' IStiT. lie u one of the youngest school superintendents In the west. He controls 115 schools in one of the leading counties Winnebago of the state. He la serving his second term as superintendent. and is a Republican. He was married last September in the home of his childhood. His education, aside from that received in the common schools of his home, was gained by a year's study In Valparaiso, Ind., and three years In the Lawrence university, at Appleton. Wis, He has risen to his present position from the ranks of the common people and Is all eddy known llrar idaiir.i The Ua tb 1 Ger-manjo- vviinn. H 1; a , ; v ii j v 1 1 soie-m-la- tnieity i CIS estabL-ho- d lumself H.de-in New Yoi k in I'vsl anil ictened from Mr. Vandeibilt the lom-m- i 'ion to design two residences for 11 McK. his Twombly ami Hr Se,vard Webb. Me also enter il into i on petition for the Boston public binary and gained the first prize of $t OOP against 125, contestants. In 1886 be was appointed by Airs Mark Hop-bin- s to complete her magnificent -- new lesidenee at Great Barrington, Mass., where lie remained continuously for two years and finished all the designs for fts grand Interior decorations. He then entered the competition for the rew city hall in New York. He gained the first prize of $5,000, and his design 'was i ecommendcd by the board of experts as the only one suitable to be accepted by the city authorities. Since that time nothing has been done toward the erection of thia building except to ihange several times the state laws governing Its erection. In tbe summer of 1890 Mr. Atwood of located in Chicago at the Invitrti 1851 at a dc my,,. In and assigned to East Indian service on the sloop In ISfil he received his commission as lieutenant on the Penobscot. He subsequently served In the civil war on Pawnee and Caiskill and commanded the Dictator and Ironclad Mon- adnock. He was in the skirmishes at A GREAT EDUCATOR, - Yorktown und Gloucester and in the engagements at" Fort FHhff He dls-- ctuiriri b.n.i.u usn, of th f tinguished himself at Chai lesion and Kendall Adams, prosdent of particiilarlvji an ass:iyltyvo4jiinteers j i li.u on Fort Sumter. Commodore Bunce t'!:e'ri'iv5P17v f f Wiscofistn; wTlo Ts was dast June placed hi cliaige of the Ju-'estimated as "among the great North Atlantic squadron will) the rank ednr itnis of the piescnt day," has the of acting riat admiial In the Rear Admiral S'niut!i of all lus Franus 1 allot te McNair was a class-- 1 cao-- .. of higher education In Ihe ap- mate of Admiral Bunco at Annapolis pert lit unpiovokPd attaik which has and also achieved f.une for his courage been made upon him by Comity Superla the war He was at the bombard- intend! nt Pederson, of Oshkosh. Prof. ments of Fort Jackson anil Fort St A lains ,vs bom in Vermont sixty yeaia Philip and participated in the capture ago U the age of 2U he moved to. of New Oi leans, the passage both ways Iowa, ,.nd ait. r preparation for college of the Yiilsbiug batteries and the dein the Iiejintik academy, entered the of Mulligan in the fall of struction of the uni Arkansas. As an U:m. io o hr -- obtained tho master's t'Vi'Piitiir r.Tier in the South Atlantia IN'. squadron he le eived special mention t! pier in m;2 and was appointed ia Latin and history. for londmt at Foit Fislur. Since the In 1863 war he ha filled the various positions he was made assistant professor, and m tne navy as commander of vessels la lvt:7 piop sor. with the privilege of on foreign i rinses and stations, at Anapt tiding a y..r and a half in Europe, napolis and at the seveial navy yards wiiiih tjnio.was spent in study of edu- 1 , Atwood lhrir In-di- ai deco-r.i'ion.- ii W mi or tl.e VVlilio Naty of Hava llUitiigalahad In War amt In I'rait Wa to the trial. Mate Admiral EAR Francis M. Bunce, who succeeded AdIn miral Meade the command of North Atlajftlc squad ion, is a native of Connecticut, lie was graduated from the Annapolis 1 Li. I nlloil liimifliri VV bu'v ' COULD DEMOLISH BRITAIN'S NAVY. WHO O. E. PEDERSON. at t'ia iltliug of statues, of ancient t for a long Pa, ifie cruise He made a re ord for gallantry in the rebellion and after ib. war was-othe Brazilian sUUion Prom s79 to lssl Admiral NXalktr was conneited with road staining a two years leave of absence for that purpose. In lSsl he Uei.nne ilf.ief of the buriiau of Jiavig moil which place he filled eight years Many of the improvements In the navi aie due to his suggestions. Adnui il Geoige Brown was born in a in iv;j and was appointed midshipman on the Cumberland frigate in IS! Feb 5 of this year will complete his forty seventh jear of naval ,ser-yL- c As lieutenant in commandof the fnfflanola. Admiral Brown surrendered hi si uking ship to four gunboats near Upper lalmy ra Island Feb. 24. 1863. He subsequently distinguished himself at Mobile Among other offices he filled he fire leathing his present grade was that of commander of a Japanese Ironclad This was subsequent to 1867. He was permitted bv the government to accvp' the mikado's commission, as the ship he nun mantled had been sold by the United States. naval heroes. OSCAR E. 1 EDEKdO.V one of W Lsconsin s most progressive school superintendents. is , SPLITTINC BANK NOTES. Cliimi) UeihH for ounterfaittng 1lre C lul!ir Itllln. , Many devices have been resorted to by counterfeiters to raise genuine bank notes as well ub to manufacture bogus ones, but one of the most novel has come to light within the last few days at the United States subtreasurers office In this xlly, says tbe Philadelphia Record. It is not known whether the plan was ever tried before, nor how successful It was In this case, as It Is not known w hether any body was caught by it The scheme consisted of splitting a $5 and a $1 note and then pasting the back of the $1 note to tho front of the $5 note and the front of the $1 note to the back of tbe $5 note. The mechanical part of the work was excellently done, but the fraud could be detected the moment the note was turned over. An effort had been made to change the one to five on the one" side of the new combined note, but It was done 30 clumsily that the fraud would have been seen at a glance, and the only hope of passing the notes as fives would have been to pass them over with the $5 side up and trust to the man receiving It not to turn it over before putting It away. The doctored notes camo to the subtreasury through one of tho banks, with the request that they be allowed whatever they were worth. The government always redeems notes at the face value; and as the faces In this case were of a $1 and a $5 note $6 wTas allowed. It la not known whether the bank was caught on the split notes or noL A cleverly executed counterfeit $5 natiCHARLES B. ATWOOD. onal-bank note was also detected at Fair. the D. H. Burnham, of tbe World the other day. It was subtreasury Later he was made designer-In-chlon the First National bank of Tamaqua for tho exposition, and abundant la- and was burned In several places to Rear Admiral Thomas 0. Selfridge Is bors wore then heaped on bis shoulders. give it an old appearance and theh the son of another United States adwas on the He designed the Art Palace, the Peripasted on a piece of paper as If to hold miral of that name, who tho No received son list hie Station. when Terminal retired and the deit style' together. The .fraud was first wolfc at the exposition will remain tected by turning over one of the corgrade. The younger Selfrldge was longer in the memory of the beholders ners and detecting a misspelled word graduated from the Annapolis academy in 1853, and. as he was St the head of than these three widely variant mas- on the back. the first class ever turned out under terpieces of architecture. the present organization, was the first On of th Kttioo'n Leader. The Art Palace alone remains, a de of thousands each to the day, The ot eyes Is njval officer to receive a diploma ia the that accompanying portrait light He was anil an ornarncntto Jackson- Park as Ju3tin S. Moi-rnnmcd States Benator service as recalled from the coast of Africa in 1869 the home of the Columbian Museum. and made lieutenant commander. Ills The Art Palarp was the purest exemplicareer through the rebellion was so fies tiim of the beautiful old Greek archibrilliant as to dazzle. He escap d tecture among all the structures at of Ionic The the is style. drowning when tho Cumberland was the fair. It sunk by leaping through a porthole. main portion of tho building is 600 by On the Monitor, the Osage, the Vlndi- -' It is Intersected east and 320 feet. cator and Huron he did gallant fightwest, north and south, by a great nave ing. and, after the war, was promoted and transept. 100 feet wide aDd 70 feet the rises Intersection At their thirty numbers by the board of admirhigh. als. Admiral Selfrldge has done much flattened dome so characteristic of the work in coast survey and had charge buildings of the Greeks. The dome Is of the corps which laid out the routo 60 foot in diamaeter. .It Is surrounded of the canal across the Isthmus of Daby a type of a famous figure of winged saAdmiral Selfridge was recently are Interior the rien. In great victory. recalled from the foreign squadron on laries 24 feet above the floor and 49 tbe charge of mixing Into French polfeet wide, forming a promenade around Rear Admiral Lester A. Beards-le- e itics. either end of At entire building. the was bom In 1836 and waft appointed are wings, partaking the main building JUSTIN S. MORRILL, or the general style of architecture and acting midshipman In 1850. He was in from Vermont He Is the father of the one or two battles off the Chinese coast hv smaller domes. been eiecicd1 toudecir TSilord going1 lain the' utaid&ir.y, frem feenaieriiasihg four The main building Is entered by lively since 1867. which Mw&rifaduaterin I860. -- He sculpture-an- d with adorned portals, of broad signalized himself In various ways In flights steps. approached by war and was commissioned as comthe Ammonia Croa- tpanic. Great Corinthian columns beautify Colonadet extend People passing along one of the main mander after its close. After filling these entrances. Maes.-- , the other various commands he was appointed to along either side and add to the classi- streets of Springfield. Admiral cal beauty. The frieze of the exterior day were treated to a surprise of n novel the Port Royal station. sort A druggist's messenger dropped Francis M. Ramsey is chief of the buwalls and the pediments of the entrances were ornamented with sculptures ot a gallon jug of concentrated ammonia, reau of navigation. This is a difficult the masters of ancient art The color and the powerful liquid spread all over position and entails personal unpopuThe of the building gave the, impression of tho sidewalk and its odor spread all larity during the incumbency. la the service for of were uncongenial the over walls detailing main neighborhood. white marble. The duty of the chief. Admiral Walker brick, unlike those of other buildings entered the navy In 1850 from Penncovered with were Balsa Ha Ramin Taa. st the fair. They j sylvania,' although a native of tbe Dits The Russian goverament has conlighted white staff. The building xecord strict of Columbia. He made can be tea . cluded that raised profitably through skylights. 1 advance- his war and or Ihe the seIn arn8 has Ideas the and la designing imperial dominions, Mr. Atwoods meats have all been for merit. He was Art Talace were carried out happily lected a tract of crown land, 150,000 commissioned rear admiral . in April, on on In to which is acres which start the extent, fronting by its location, 1894. ' Rear Admiral John Grimes the lagoon, where broad sweeps of enterprise. Walker was born In 1835 and ha been steps lead down to the waters edge, In the navy since his appointment as Is of a curios One Maines Machias, balustrades and beautify and' terrace on the Portsmouth, bound a without of inhabitant town 20 debt midshipman -- Abe surroundings. Tbs north front front of tho lower story of the opera house is filled with fine, large, French plat glass windows, and when the turkey arrived at these he did not no tic the obstruction nor stop (or it. but went through it a if it were not there. .It broke a large hole In the win-dobut that did not impede the progress of th turkey, it lost a few feathers, but when captured did not seem to be otherwise Injured. The glass in the window was fully a quarter of sa Inch in thickness. -- . - rj Hm&M: A Tb"Folbl 8ocror to United lw IltlZE. LATEST STORY BROUGHT 40,000 tin Entered m Newspaper fonteet an Dag fed the Highest IrlaW few petition Wat Open to the' World II le Varton Iroduiliuna. HE success ot Julian Hawthorne in the competition for thc 10,909 pnkie offered by- - a. New Stmt '' lion. Joseph Benson Foraker was born near Ralnsborough. Highland county, Ohio. Feb. 6, 184$, He worked on a farm In his boyhood, and when sixteen years of age enlisted In the Ohio regiment and served Eighty-nint- h ' BIG JULIAN-HAWTHORN- JOSEPH BENSON FORAKER. Iftrff ork 7J PPer BOt a great surprise to those who btve 9 observed closely career In during the past few years. The competition was open to the world, and there were plenty of aspirants tor the tempting award, but Mr. Hawthorne is easily recognized among the foremost novelists of the time, fend that he should have achieved this marked triumph in literature will be a matter of general satisfaction. 11 was born n Boston in 1846, entered Harvard college in 1863, and though he failed to received the degree wlth which his colleagues In thd cf&si were decorated, he ' excelled them all in athletics and was, consoled in tbe hour of disappointment by his friend, John C, Heenan, the he prize fighter, who - assured-hi- m would be a successful prize fighter, and urged hlui to adopt, that occupation. He didn't follow tho advice, though strongly inclined to do so. for his illustrious father bad warned him to try to J. B. FORAKER. In the Army of the Cumberland until earn an honest living In any other way tbe close of the w ar, hnv lag reached the than by authorship. Ilo trlod to be a rank of captatu, and was on civil engineer, succeeded measurably in mastering that difficult profession Gen. H. W. Slocum's staff. After the war he spent two years at and was for a period employed la ' the Wesleyan Unfterhlty at Delaware, 0., New York department of docks under and then entered Cornell, where be General George B. McClellan. He grew graduated with the first class In 1869. weary of the workL however, and ln He was admitted to the bar in that year, 1872 gave it up and went to Dresden and In 1879-8- 2 was Judge of the Clnctn- - with his wife and child. During the latter part of Ula residence in New York he had, to use his own language, contracted a deleterious practice of writing short stories for the magazines," which he followed np during his residence abroad by the production of a novel entitled "Bressart, which was published In England tnd America, and .. was regarded as a work of much merit, Since that numerous works have fol lowed, among which were Saxon Studies," Garth," "Sebastian Strome." Slnflre and Archibald Malm&laon," the last two of which he rate among his bestvorka The prize winner in the recent contest Is entitled Between Two Fires," and strangely enough another of the competitors had chosen the same title for the work he eubmltted, but without the least depreciation ot e others It may be said that there were no two opinions among tbe judges This a. p ef catlonal affairs. After his return he became apromlnent figure in university affairs in 1885 was called to the presidency of Cornell university, which position he occupied until 1892, when he resigned for the purpose of devoting his life henceforth to the writing of history. A year later, however, he accepted a call to the presidency of the University of Wisconsin. The degree iaws was conferred ia President Adams by Harvard university in 1886. In 1890 he was president of tbe IVON natl superior court, resigning his office on account of In 1885 he was elected governor ot Ohio. Mr. Foraker Is one of tbe mos) prominent men In th republican party, and will probably be the auccessor of Senator Brice in the United States senate. Elk tot Srotlaad. Colonel WHlUm Root of. Laramie, W)'0., roenUy recelved an order from the representative of some wealthy British sportsmen owning big preserves In the Scottish highlands for n number of elk, deer and moose, to be shipped to Scotland for restocking the preseme. He has In former years secured and sent over several consignments, of big game to Great Britain and the continent The deer, he says, stand the long journey well, but the elk and moose seem more delicate, have to receive the greatest care and most carefully selected food, and after all frequently die oa th ocean trip. He will hunt ia the northern part of Wyoming. wher ejk and moose atilt abound, for tho animal to fill this order. It is a much harder task, as may bo imagined, to secure these animals alive and in good condition than simply to stalk and sho them, si !. ' Dr Se $94 Iotrwt. - JULIAN HAWTHORNE. as to which was the most deserving of all tb contributions. Mr. Hawthornes work Is a brilliant representation of contemporary American life, with a plot full of novel altuatioa and dramatic Incidents. It shews s keen observation and Stamps its author aa a minute dissector of character, s realist and a ro- -. mancist of unique conception and great power. The novel wss written by Mr. Hawthorne In Jamaica, whither he had gone In 1893. It was sent to his friend, J. M. Btoddard. 'of the Transatlantlc Publishing company, New York, under a pledge of solemn secrecy and was forwarded by him through the ordfnary methods The second prize In the novel contest was won by the Rev. W. C. Blakeman. of Isllp, N. Y. Ill work is entitled "The Black Hand," and the Tbe third -prize amounts to $2,000. has been in class that $1,000, prize, awarded to Mrs. Bond Valentine Thomas, of Millville, N. J, who competed under her maiden name, Edith Carpenter. Her novel Is entitled "Your Money or Your Life." The prize of $3,000 for tho hest novelette w as awarded te Mise Molly Elliot Seawell, of Washington, D. C., whose work I entitled ?The Sprightly Tale of Maniac." The $2,000 prize for a short story was won by Edward Fawcett, of New York, for a story entitled "A Romance of Old New Turk." TLc'fl.'O poem contest was awarded to aa anonymous writer whose pseudonym Is Sangamon," but whose Identity has not thus far been established. All tb contributions were submitted anonymously, that being one ot th conditions laid down. The identity of th principal beneficiary was developed only after considerable effort, but no doubt Sangamon" will claim th prize which his effort has earned. Regulus is outdone by a man from Ceylon who I now performing at the London Alhambra. Besides climbing with bar felt a ladder whose runi are sharp sword edges, and lying oa a ted of nail jolata with four men seated upon him, he curl himself up In a barrel through whose Inner side nails Tbe Turkey al Uw Window. A gentleman from the country came project, and I rolled "about th stage to Belton, Tex., the other day, having at a rapid rite. The exhibition la decurious some turkeys in his. wagon. Shortly scribed, however, as being after he drove upon the court house rather than interesting to the spectOnly EIIiIm, square one of his turkeys got -l- oose, ator. eighteen fatal accidents ocOnly hopped out of the wagon, and started curred In the Alps last stumper, four i Cml Dt. across the square toward the opera In the French Alps, six In tile Swiss, house. The man and his dog started Coal dut il successfully used as fuel ! six ia the German and Austrian and after It full tllL Th race was a pret- for boilers bj a process Invented by a , two In the Italian Alps. Four of the ty one. By the time the turkey got to German named Wegener. It is fed to victims were English, one, the guide the opera house it was doing its best, the furnace automatically,, and only J Emile Rey, French, two Italians and 1 needed. ha! the rest Germans running and haif flying. The ordinary dhlfcney draft CHARLES KENDALL ADAMS. American Historical association, and has earned a high place among the great thinkers, educators and historical writers of the day. He is tbe author of many important works,. |