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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 10, 1899)
* OMAIFA ILLUSTHAThJD lJI21il. September 10 , isoo. Dewey's Welcome in New York f.ip ( > righted , 1800 , by the 3. H Mi Cluro Co. ) When ( Jtorgu Dowoy. ailnilral , Halls Into Now York Imrlior September 28 lit' will bo tin ) inoHt talked of in mi In tlio world and thu best loved tnnn In Ainorlcn. Only Dreyfus IWH occupied HO largo a share of public : thought. dining the tnontliH Hlnco Dewey loft .Manlln and Dreyfus' prominence has been that of notoriety , not faino. "If the inonoy that la to bo Bpont on Dcwoy's reception should bo weighed up In sliver. " Halil a statistical nund , "It would IM pii'tly nearly IIH heavy na the aggregate weight of the .shot ho Ilred at the Spanish ships. " Whether IhlB Is tine or not IB of no pnn- Hlblu consequence , hut It la curtnlnly a 'act that America hay never BO nearly ap pro , ii'hi'd a national lit of affection uo hvstorla n Hint will on the day the hero of the IMilllpplneH comes home. Itlll bo like the mooting of a sweetheart with her lover after u long separation. Mlas Columbia's in IIIH are uldely Hpread and nlie will hug ( leorgo Dewey fervently. I have huon In Now York off and on for a grod iniiny jears and It has been my bnnl- ni'88 to Hi'o ItH big ovenla. There has never been a celebration In honor of any one in in approaching the Dcwoy reception In nagnl- tuile. Already , almost three weeks before the adnilial In scheduled to arrive , his Maine Is the word heard In every rroup of men from the stevedores on the docks to the mll- llnnalHsH In thu Union League club ; al- ic.uly the novelty makerH are putting their Dewey badgett on snlo on the s'reoui and getting their Dewey bunting re.idy to Ily from every place In town which i .111 offer holding room for a waving , colored r.ig. Hare mid ugly tlnibera hide' the fronts of Hcon-.s of houses and business buildings be foio uhlch the great parade \\II1 pass , amnll Ing to the estimate of the general passenger agent of tlio Now York Central. Hundreds of thousand ) ) of people will be disappointed In their efforts to see the ad miral an ho passes along the line of march. The arrangements for stands are not as complete as It was hoped they would bo. .Mayor Van Wyck's prlvalo secretary , Mr. Downs , who him had much to do with the arrangements for the celebration , sa > s that not moro than 2,000,000 people will bo able to eeo the parade If every inch of space along the line Is occupied. "At least twice that number will try to , " ho added. Win dow H from which the show may he seen are of course In great demand. Tliiiit'til Arcli anil Ciiliiniiiiili * . Thai great feature of Now York's prepara tions will consist of the colossal arch and colonnade on Fifth avenue , where It will ho flunked by the famous Madison Squat o and the Fifth Avenue hotel. This Is the out growth of patriotism pure anil simple. The Idea waa put forward by C. II. Lamb , a well known decorator. Ho told of It to J. Q. A. Ward , the famous sculptor. "Tho city will furnish the money it thu sculptors will do tlio work , " said Mr. Lamb. "But I don't suppose tlio sculptois will do the work. " "Tho sculptors will do the work , " said Mr. Ward , "but the city will not fmulsh the money. I'll talk to 'the ' sculptors about It If you will start the money end of the plan. " Mr. Ward did suggest the plnn to the sculpture society They took It up with a good will that can-led It through In one night. The city government was scaicoly less prompt In appropriating the money for materials and workmen. There was a hitch In the Issuance of the bonds , but U was caused by a complication and did not hull J ( ) A WARD , LIUDUl OF SCl'l'LTOKS I ) | WIY Alton \\D nis dllOL'l' WHICH WILL StMl.MOUNT TII13 AIK'll speculate * a liavo staked their all In i Jilting Hpaco ; street car companies are figuring out wa > s by uhlch they can keep their cars away fiom curtain clouded streets and Htlll tiaiiHpoit the crowds , cabmen are reckoning on u gie.it harvest In thu glorious twenty- four houis of Dewo > 's day ; hotels are fur nishing up their IOOIIIH and restaurants are hulng food supplies lung In advance , all Now Yoik Is getting ready to leci-Uo the admiral. \ll \\iuit ti > .S > i > DtMte ) . And what Now Yoik s tioini : Is only a I urt of what is helm : donu. Cvery inll- road leaving from Now York decldud weeks ngq to iHHhiL'e Its passenger rates to thu big oily on the day of thu celubratlon , and In some cases to have thu roduotlon cover n purled of several da > s. Thu distances over which theuu ratu reductions reach vary greatly , but they do nut limit the scope of the territory throughout which preparations art ) bolng Hindi ) by tuns of thousands to land In thu motropolls at thu name tlmu the admiral decs , HO as to help In thu cheer ing , Thu Nuw York Ccntial , thu Pennsyl vania , thu IJrle , the Lehlgh Valley , the Nuw England lines Indeed , every railroad leadIng - Ing to Nuw York U hustling for cars and arranging to get freight tralllc off Its ( racks bo as to bo able to handle thu da'a enor- moua passenger business. Not less than - 1,000,000 i > ooplu will bo brought into Nuw I -V York from the surrounding country , accord- cato lack of enthusiasm over the aicli pro ject. ject.Tho The Sculpture noolety had to nmko their general plans for the work In ono night. No such colossal task was over performed by artists In so short n time. They selected thu arch of Titus , slightly modified , as the buhoinu for the main feature. Thin arch had no sldu entrances , hut It was decided to pierce the Dewey arch transversely , FO that It would span Fifth avenue and Twenty-foiuth street with freu space for each thoroughfare. Extending on Fifth nvu- nue In each direction for a distance of one block , they planned a colonnade , heroically designed and lavishly decorated. This was ono nlght'H work. The next day the sculptors were hard at work on their designs and within n week the models were growing In their htudlos. To J. Q. A. Ward was nntinally entrusted the task of making the great group for the topi of the arch , Prancing sea horses draw ing Victory's barge through curling waves , with Liberty at the helm , was his subject Two weeks ho had to complete his model In work which ordinarily would have occu- pldu as many months. And thu dash , thu glory of the reason for U , Inspired him Done In haste the great group will bo , but luinled In appearance It will not be. And BO with the two great groups which will appear on the sides of the arch's down town front. Nlehaua and Karl Bitter took them up with the same Impulsive enthusi and the sea warriors letnrnlng to their homo with Vlctorj's wings spread eve , them will stand out on the Dcwey arch n < only as evidences of the Intense putrioiium which animated the idea , but as samples of good art. i'hllllp Martlgnl , Daniel I Fiench , F. W. Iluclmtuhl , ( leoigo n. Bis Hell , Charle.s A. I pcz , Isid ore Contl and many others nearly all the numbers tf the Sculpture loeloty , In fact htivu duie as much. Never have the studios of New York's workers at this art been si busj Vacations have been curtailed. Other orders dors have been put aside. Nothing has hien pel milled to stand In thu way of making the homeomiiig of our great admiral a beautiful as well n.-i an enthusiastic occasion I'niuilnrl/nl litii < > l' Vrl. "All this has another significance , Mr Waul ald. Ho was haul at woik on the touchcH needed to llnlsh his great gn np Ills years nil Ilghti'y on hkn. The tale of time told by his gray hair and pointed will to heard Is belled by the athletic lines of his active llguie. He Is no plush-jink uted sculptor dabbling daintily. He wore a white , clay spattered undershirt that day and his tiouseru wcio the overalls of till- hard working hod canlur. Ho piofehfaedly watt pleased with all parts ( f I'ifo except his own group ( which stood In brown , shin Ing clay behind him on a turning standaid ) and modesty alone made him slight thu merit of that. Two assistants weio work Ing with the mud which tilled the gieat clay chest In ono corner of the enormous room , ami they were visibly pioud of their mauler and of his work. Mr. Ward beamed benignly. "U all means moro than we boo on the surface , " ho admitted. "It means the com ing of a great thing to New York and to America. Fiom tl.no immemoilal It has been F.ild that wo lacked public spirit and especially that as a people wo lacked ar- tlbtlo appteclatlon. What could bo more public spirited than the way the countiy Is pieparlng to lecelve the man who took the L'hlllpplnus' . ' What could mole cleatly In dicate aitlstlc nppieclatlon than the way In which the city of Now York met the hculptoi.s * oiler of fioo woik and appr ipri attd froHl ( ( ) for mateilal and labor "Tlovvnv'H rnmlncr hns a slcnlflcanco which none of us ( Itearned It would havo. Ho biingn with him not only thu laurel wreathes of a lighter's victoiles , but ho has started a movement without knowing It himself which will be of Incalculable artistic benellt to the American people. Our cities have been by no means as slow In such matters as they have been ciedlted with being. 12very Ameilcan city of sUe has many things to its eiedlt on ait's books. But nothing of the magnitude of thebo Dewey decorations has over been started on pure enthusiasm In any city In America. The whole thing will be an object lesson to the sculptors ; It will prove to them that the people and those who are ek tel io Kovun tnt'in an > not so whollj out of sympathy with aitints and art feeling na they have been supposed to bo. It will be an object lesson to the people ; It will show them how greatly art can add to a demon- atiatlon of this kind , and will also prove to them that the artists of Now York aio an patriotic as any ono Is and moro than ready to co-operate with other cltUeus In adding to the glory of a great national ovont. " lli > ( InVrrli IM llcllili llulll. The construction of this arch Is much more Intelestlng than thu building of anj similar strucuiio has been , becaiihe of the great haste with which It Is being done. H was enl > thieo weeks ago that the llrst enclosure of pine boards was put tip In the street wheie the arch now stands , almost com pleted. At that tlmo the sculptors had not ontliely finished any of their models ana all that could bo erected before thesu" wore llnlshed was the baru framu- woik of the arch. At the fii.o Hint nut thU board lence was put up in tdo middle of Fifth avenue the babe- mum of MadiMin gaiden was turned Into a gteat ntid Inteiestlng woikbhop. U was theio Unit the sculptorH1 models were to be en- laiged fiom small cluy Imagis Into heiolc llgurui teady for position on the aich Fiom twenty to slxt ) men were employed In this woik , and their manner of going at It was Htrangu to Ihe lajman's e > e. I'liht of all a small squato fiamo was put ovir the artist's model. Tills was notched by Inches and fiom each notch u plumb llcie of black tincad was diopped until It btruck > oino Im- poitant point on ilie model Itself. After these had been cuiefully adjusted a similar and much larger hqunro frame was built and hung al a height somewhat above- the point wheie the completed statue was to ruich. Fiom this pi lib lines exactly corresponding to the little ones hinging fiom the tiinuller liquate weie diopped , acid these inarKid the luUtivu positions of the meiihurid | olnts In thu larger statue. A VlINt Sliullo. There was no chipping of marble , no dtll- uatu ihlbcllng with line tools In this vast bculptors' studio. Thu mass of thu figures was built up of common cviiUlor dipped In plaster. White spattered workmen piled handful upon handful of this crude material up until It approximated the shape of the figure to be Imitated. After this was aciom- pllbhcd they took any road to Home. With fhUels and knlvis they chipped the plnbter oil. with haUdets they hacked at It , with MIWS they sivvcd It , with loiuid ended sticks they n.odellod It ; with brooms they bvvept It. Then came the artists themselves. Sculptor Ward In his studio , wearing bis undershirt and his overalls , was carefully dressed when compared to the artists afcr they began their work In .Madison Square garden Attendants stood by with pans of plaster as thu sculptors Jumped about putting the finishing touches on their tri butes to Dewoy's greatness. No inau held. h-Ct'LI'TOIl N'lmiAl'S AND HIS DBWEY AIICH OKOU ! ' , "TIUUMl'HANT HOME COMING. " himself down to his own figure They weie ill working together with one object In view -tho complelk n of a great whole to do honor to a great occasion. Wherever they could bo of use they worked. No spectators were peimltted to bother them , nor even friends to visit them. How closely they have had to figure in order to complete the work in time Is shown by the fact that the last figures will iii-t leave Madlbon Square garden finished until the day Dewey lands In New York City and thu day before the great paiadc of which the arch Is to bo thu feature. Whether or not the enthusiasm which hns an led the plans for the reception of Dewuy .so far with a rush will last long enough to lalso the $750,000 necessary to make the arch permanent Is extremely doubtful. 'liven If It Is , " said Mr. Waul , "many things will need to be considered carefully. Fltst , of course , the design of the arch has been hurriedly decided upon and might bo afterward much Improved. Second , it is by no means certain that the location Is the best that could be selected. All these matters - tors must ionic up for discussion later. " In view of the trouble New York found In raising the money for Grant's tomb and the $100,000 for the Washington memorial aich , It Is by no means certain that this now and much greater effort will be taken up at all. Far Worse Than Death Valley Dreadful as Death Valley ID , Ha north western aim , known as Mesqulto Vnlley , Is worse. All the wateis upon Its surface , bays the Chicago Hccord , are polsrn , and down through the canyon a hot , suffocating wind , blows with terrible velocity. Dining its course through the desert It frequently gatheis clouds of white sand that have blinded many a hoi so and ildor , and at fre quent Intervals It whirls down the canyon HKo a cyclone of sharp crystals. Under the glistening beds of salt and borax ire con cealed streams of salt water which flow sluggishly toward some unknown -Millet or may bo hipped up by the parched winds. One of the utrangcat phenomena > f < ! iU ex traordinary place Is what frontiersmen , for want of a better mime , have called "raising earth. " By the action of the sun .1 crust compiled of minerals and clay has bien foimed on the surface , and by some callous presume of nature has been lifted from the earth In Inegular curves llko plo crust In the oven The cavity between this crust and the solid earth varies fiom one to ton feet , ami the depth frequently changes after heavy windstorms by the displacement of the air beneath. Thu man or the animal that etrpt upon this crust la gone forever. It la abso lutely Impobslblo for any ono to uxtrU-atu himself when plunging about In the "raising earth. " Ready to Emigrate Atlanta Constitution "Marso Jim , " tald thu old-tlniu darky , "la It true dat dem Hi Mti n folks Is gaddurin' up do cullud i.co en glvln' 'urn a trip tor Boston free ? " "Well , they have done bo In one in- htaine But what's that io you. ' " "Hit's a mighty heap , ruh Jit what U j' You know 1 got one wife ei thirteen hftlun , don't > ou ? " "Yes. " "Well , Buh , I been wantln' tor take do whole fumbly off for do summer dls loac time , en hit come ter mo dat of du Uojton folk'll dex pay du expenses we'll go up dar en live on 'um twell fros' Little Bob , On the Breaks of the Blue Far away on the furthermost side oC the eaith , Where the jungles are wild , 'neath a tioplonl sun , While the low moaning sea sighed a re quiem sad , I whispered. "God bless you , my com- radp , well done. " A hero bad fallen ; a lad we all loved ; Ills bravo life was rapidly ebbing away. As I knelt , by him , sadly , to catch his last wordb Knowing each dying hero has some word to say. A fond message of love stored up In his heart , Perchance he has guarded there many a long day ; A trinket , he hopes they might prize for his sake , He would send to those dear ones far over the sea. With an effort he raises his head-growing r' ° , "i , tno ° u'ids that are draining his life's blood away And a tear dims my eye , when I catch his "Dear conuade , bend nearer , I've a word yet to say. " Tor the message Is sad this poor boy must send homo To a mother , or sweetheart , far over the sea , While a Hood of fond memories o'erwhelms my heart , Of those dear ones , I know , are. now pia > ! ng for me. " 1Iyi I p"low hls heai1 ° " ' " > ' And smootho back the locks from his Him-bionzed blow , As 1 brokenly whisper-knowing well I r. speak false "You will jive. my brave comrade. ; yon aio easier now. " * Then faintly ho slghed-growlng weaker the while "When 1 die. since I must , matters not to me now ; Thank heaven ! I've no mother no sweet heart to mourn , In my fai-away home on the 'Breaks of the Blue. ' "Only one who will miss mo ; my poor little A lono' btother-a crlpplo-God help the poor ) ad. A d < ? llule soul I love hlm-poor If ho could die with me this would not be so sad. "In my belt I've some money , securely sowed ; . It's for him. My dear comrade , I trust all to jou ; < In my knapsack some tilnkets-and here's . . ' " > old watch , " " . ' 5 ° .u ocar I'161" ' t ° Bob , on the- 'Breaks of the Blue. ' " ' But break the news gently ; for he loves me. jou know ; Sny 111" ' my last breath was a T ° ' 1 > ' ° 10l > 1 Ol > the 'I5reaKs " Then the hand 1 was holding grew colder. . * n mint' , While the death damp stood out on mi . . . l > r ivo comrade's brow ; Ills lips moved in whisper ; I bent near to "God protect little Bob on the 'Breaks of the Blue.1 " . r , , , T , , . . Qi'onai : NOHL SCOTT > Ihe Blue. Is a. little river In southeastein Nebraska. The broken country along Its course la called the "Breaks of the Blue. " ,