Bicentennial Parade - Tiger Company 1

New Ipswich Historical Society

Dec 19, 2022

New Ipswich Bicentennial Parade - The Tiger Engine No. 1. Driver Charles Fish, Albro L. Balch, Otto Weisman, Willis F. Mansfield, Edward R. Wheeler, Willmore D. Ashley, Walter E. Hardy.

William Jurian Kaula diary - December 1897

Two December entries today. No entries for 16th and 18th. We are back in sync.

17 Dec 1897

Opening night of the first prize exhibition of paintings at the American Club. It was a "private view and musical." It had more of the character of a loan exhibition as the club members were not represented in very large numbers. The committee in charge have made great efforts to make the first display one of great merit and have succeeded in collecting many works from prominent French painters. As there is not much room in the salon to hang pictures their works excluded the works of the club members which might have been hung. As the prizes can only fall to club members the awards will fall among very few men. When the exhibition will be of work wholly done by the members the prizes will be much more satisfactory. As it is now, a great many works were refused because there was not space enough to hang them. The management is always at fault according to somebody but there is some reason for complaint on this occasion. The exhibition is nevertheless a good one and the best that the club has probably every held. Benjamin Constant loaned a portrait. It is an unfinished study of a portrait which he had in the last Salon. Dagnan-Bouveret sent two figure paintings which were undoubtably studies for some work. They are finished works and the best in the exhibition. Collin has two canvases - one a study in monochrome and the other a head. Sargent is represented by a pencil sketch of Collin's head - "just a mere suggestion." I had much trouble in discovering a striking resemblance as I see Collin twice a week at school and have an idea of his character. There are two small pen sketches by Whistler which will attract much attention because of the name under each one, but if they were executed by anyone else I doubt if many will find them interesting as works of art. Tanner, who is now quite a man at the club since his medal and work at the last Salon, has sent a landscape which has much life and snap - like an old Constable. Tanner paints with a full brush and with vigor. It was a heavy black sky and a rift of sunshine in the foreground. Wolcott has a fire or lamp-light effect among some fishermen who are telling stories on a fishing vessel which is rolling in the heavy sea. It represents the cabin and usual fishing apparatus. Wolcott has improved very much since I saw his work where he was with Mitchell a year ago. He stands a good chance for a prize. Garrido has two heads which are good, Vanderweyden has two small things. He is very clever but often makes things look pretty. I should not have gone on thus far without mentioning DuMond - the man who has done the most to collect the exhibition and who went to the Frenchmen for their works. He is on the committee and is the most prominent one of that august body. DuMond is one of the most interesting talkers that I ever knew, he has ideas and knows how to express them, he has tact and with too that has served him many a good turn. By his diplomacy the works of Constant, Bouveret, and Collin were secured. DuMond has two works and as works of art they are not very successful. DuMond knows too much about the science of painting so that his work now takes the form of a colored illustration which has a photographic accuracy in drawing. It is hardly a feeling of the beautiful in nature as much as it is reproduction of it with only a faithful deliniation [sic] of absolute facts.

Washburn, one of the mutes, has a clever little work which was painted in Spain. Garrido's work suffers from being hung beside that of Collin's. Mott-Smith has a perfectly atrocious portrait of himself. Fry, the man I met at Crécy and the one who talks continually about following the examples of the old masters, and studying for "tone", has an example of his work, a portrait of his mother-in-law. It was a good way in which to get even with her. I had one work accepted and hung - not the one which I considered the best of the two I sent.

Note: The jury could not agree on awarding three prizes and so they were divided into five - Tanner, Garrido, Wolcott, Washburne, and an English sculptor.

19 Dec 1897

Rogers called at our studio in the afternoon. He is studying by himself as he intends to work at illustration entirely. He spends his time going about the city making numerous sketches and works them into compositions in his room. Wallace is doing the same thing and is able to get enough work in Paris to be able to pay his expenses. Wallace is at present working for Dodge, the painter, who is illustrating the operas of Europe - Wallace was assisting Castagne the well known illustrator of Harpers Magazines. Rogers is said to be more clever than Wallace. Allingham will go home in a few days to England. His folks wish for his return and the _______ and "we" will lose our best type of a true Bohemian. He never works much and after about five years of study has nothing to take home to show for his time. A more lazy, unkempt, and slovenly individual would be hard to find. Yet A. is such a jolly good fellow that we will all miss him much at Creuset's. (Allingham is with us again - Jan. 10 '98).

On this day - December 19, 1908

James Roger diary entry

19th (Saturday)

Hard frost cold north wind, changing to SW. David logging for Shirland. I shoveled paths around the place also Church and Town Hall. Swept Church and arranged vestry. Got letter from Alice.