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This is the May 18, 1893 issue of FRANK LESLIE’S ILLUSTRATED WEEKLY, published by W.J. Arkell, New York. This publication competed with Harper’s Weekly, in New York. This issue is in very good condition for a newspaper of this age. The pages are flat and mostly clean and bright. Additional pictures available upon request please send your e-mail address.
ARTICLES:
COVER ILLUSTRATION – THE COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION AT CHICAGO. Scene in front of the administration building during the address of President Cleveland. (See cover picture)
REPUBLICAN REORGANIZATION – The success of the Republican Party should include a utilization of the young men of the party, heretofore too largely ignored.
THE DEMOCRATIC DILEMMA – Probably the President and his immediate advisers would prefer that the meeting should be postponed until December, but the pressure for an early session, in September, is constantly growing in volume, and it is doubtful if it can be successfully resisted.
THE PRESBYTERIAN CONTROVERSY – The Presbyterian General Assembly, which meets in Washington on the 18th inst., will be called upon the deal with questions of the very highest importance. These questions relate to the standards of orthodoxy, the right of individual criticism, and the enforcement of the constitution in trials for heresy.
BIG STEAMSHIPS – We have entered upon an era of big steamship. The New York and Paris, of the American line, were until recently the largest vessels afloat. But they have been eclipsed by the new Campania, of the Cunard line, which has a length of six hundred and twenty feet, and is in every respect a magnificent ship.
REPUBLICANISM IN NEW YORK – The annual agitation of the subject of party reorganization in the State has about subsided; the party press has glided away from the topic and out into the realm of glittering generalities, leaving the questions little if any nearer a solution than it was when, in November, we awoke to the fact that we had again suffered defeat.
BETTER THAN TREATIES – The recent naval land parade through the streets of New York was an object-lesson for the civilized nation of the world. This North American republic proved its unique position among the great Powers by welcoming to its metropolis the armed hosts of nine foreign nations.
WHITE VIOLETS. – A poem by M. L. Smith.
MARK TIDWELL’S GRIEVANCE - by Charles Ernest Shober
MRS. LEASE ON "RED DEVIL SOUTH HATRED" – On June 2d, 1882, Hon William Lowe, of Alabama, a Southerner “born and bred,” delivered a speech in the House of Representatives, then having under consideration the contested-election case of “Lowe vs. Wheeler.”
THE PRESIDENT'S COUNTRY HOME – President Cleveland in his first term astonished the people of Washington by purchasing a home in the country, which he occupied during the summer months. Mr. Cleveland chose to have a home of his own just outside the city, so he purchased an old house surrounded by spacious grounds, which he christened “Oak View.” A photograph of the summer residence of President Cleveland is presented with this article.
THE BACK YARDS IN BIG CITIES – In this world there are few things more unlovely than the back yard of a city house. It is usually too small for a lawn, and attempts to grow flowers or fruits or vegetables are usually most unsuccessful.
FACE STUDIES - by Stiletto - PROFESSOR CHARLES A. BRIGSS
CENTER PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE COLUMBIAN EXHIBITION. (See pictures)
“The vanguard of the great crowd”
“A note of preparation”
“Grafton excursionists stop at Niagara en route to the fair.”
“The electric button.”
“In front of the transportation building.”
“Difficult navigation.”
“The crowd invading the grand stand.”
“The second Illinois Regiment on Guard.”
“A gondola”
“The Peristyle, from the front of the agricultural building.”
“A Turkish portal.”
“An electric launch.”
“A sedan chair”
“Heads bowed during prayer.”
EXPERTS AND EXPERT EVIDENCE - by Allan McLane Hamilton – The use of experts in civil and criminal cases is no new thing, as many suppose.
THE PRESS CLUB FAIR – The fair of New York press Club, now in progress at the Grand Central Palace at East Forty-third Street and Lexington Avenue, is attracting deserved attention from the public. It abounds in attractions, there being in all some one hundred booths, all of which are presided over by bevies of ladies representing the artistic. A full-page of drawings by E.J. Meeker of the Fair at Grand Central palace, East Forty-third Street and Lexington Avenue are presented.
MARGARET SUTTON BRISCO – Miss Briscoe has been industrious in her work. Besides the charming stories she has contributed to Frank Leslie’s paper she has had tales in the Christian Union and Scribner’s Magazine and has been published by Dodd, Mead & Co. This is a graceful gift that Miss Briscoe has discovered in herself almost by accident, and she is putting it to most excellent account.
THE RECENT PANIC – The panic which recently convulsed Wall Street was of brief duration, but while it lasted was marked by scenes of excitement approximating those of some previous “Black Fridays.” The decline in the values of industrial stocks was enormous, and for half an hour the stock market presented a more menacing aspect than it had done at any period since 1873. A full-page illustration of the scene in the New York Stock Exchange drawn by Charles Broughton is presented with this article.
CHICAGO AND THE FAIR – The great city of superlatives was done more to injure the immediate financial prospect of the Columbian Exposition by its general unfitness for the reception of visitors on the day set apart for the inauguration of the fair, and by the insatiable greed of its citizens, than can be remedied by weeks of contribution and repentance. All the illustrations reflect the unfitness of the area around the fair grounds.
ILLUSTRATIONS – The incomplete conditions of the approaches to the fair on opening day. (See pictures)
“The Chicago practical joker – The “unsurpassed view” advertised by a prominent lakefront hotel.”
“One of the new exposition hotels on May 1st.”
“Sixty-fourth Street, three blocks from the fair, on opening day.”
“Sixty-fourth Street, one and a half blocks from the fair.”
“Sixty-fourth Street and Stony Island Avenue entrance.”
“Sixty-fourth Street, two blocks from the fair grounds”
AN ANTI-HOME-RULE DEMONSTRATION – The campaign against the Irish Home-rule bill is prosecuted with great vigor and enthusiasm. One of the most notable of recent demonstrations was that held in Albert Hall, London, at which some twelve hundred delegates representing the loyalists of all parts of Ireland, entered their protest against the measure. A full-page illustration of the scene in Albert Hall is shown. (See picture)
MR. PHIL MAY – Mr. Phil May, artist of the London Graphic, is at present in this city on his way to Chicago, and subsequently to Japan.
ANCIENT MEDIAEVAL, AND MODERN CORSETS – by Philip Poindexter - Of all the wise saws there is none more frequently heard than that of “Woman unadorned is adorned the most.” Six factory pictures from the corset manufactory of Warner Brothers, at Bridgeport, Connecticut are shown.
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