This is the June 22, 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. 

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COVER ILLUSTRATION - THE WORLD’S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION AT CHICAGO. - ILLUMINATION OF THE ADMINISTRATION BUILDING BY ELECTRICITY. - Drawn by Hughson Hawley. (See cover picture)

THE PRESIDENT AND SILVER RESIDENT CLEVELAND – The President has done a real public service in announcing that he proposes to convene Congress in extra session early in September, for the purpose of dealing positively and decisively with the financial question.

THE CONTEST IN OHIO – In the nomination of Governor McKinley for re-election the Republicans of Ohio have simply complied with the plain demands of the situation.  Any other nomination would simply have been illogical.

ETIQUETTE IN CHICAGO AND TIMBUCTOO. – The thoughts one gives to etiquette might in most cases have better remained unthought.  The natural involuntary act, given some slight culture, is precisely the one that etiquette would soonest suggest.  The brief compendium of wisdom and religion, “Do unto others”, covers all the ground.

THE PENSION BUSINESS – There can be not doubt that the honest veterans, of our Civil War, desire to see the pension-list thoroughly purged of the frauds and cheats who are now abusing the favor of the government.

INDIA’S HOARD OF GOLD – In a recent article the London Spectator dwells upon the apparent insolubility of the silver problem in India, confessing that, while Englishmen are supposed to be the successful financiers of the world, the country in utterly unable to find a man who can solve this difficulty.

RECIPROCITY WITH CANADA – The second national reciprocity convention, recently held in St. Paul, furnishes a conclusive proof of the desire of the commercial classes for closer business relation between this country and Canada.

MILITARY METHODS IN OFFICE WORK  – The catastrophe of the recent disaster in Washington, caused by the collapse of the building occupied by the record and pension division of the War Department, is the responsibility of Congress that was fully warned of the danger.

MAMSEL FAVERNEY’S DROLL PICTURE – by Robert C. V. Meyers

THE CENTENNIAL AND THE WORLD’S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION – The Centennial Exhibition was a mighty lever in the development of many of the resources of this country.  It created an artistic spirit among the people, and revolutionized decorative and architecture in the United States

NOTABLE JEWS - LEO N. LAVI by Isidor Lewi

DAY OF DAYS – A poem by Alice Hamilton Rich

BROOKLYN’S SUNDAY SCHOOL PARADE – Probably the brightest, happiest day off of all the year for the Sunday-school children of Brooklyn, is that on which they make their annual parade with banner and song through the streets of the city.

A CHILDREN’S FESTIVAL DAY - THE THIRTY-SECOND ANNUAL PARADE OF THE SUNDAY-SCHOOLS OF BROOKLYN. - FROM PHOTOGRAPHS BY HEMMENT. (See pictures)

MAYOR BOODY, PRESIDENT W. M. CARTWRIGHT, AND GRAND MARSHAL THOMAS C. STOKES REVIEWING THE PROCESSION.

ICECREAM AFTER THE PARADE.

SOUTH THIRD STREET M. E. CHURCH SUNDAY-SCHOOL, SEVENTH DIVISION.

SCHOOL OF ST. PAUL’S LUTHERAN CHURCH, NINTH DIVISION.

DE WOLF HOPPER IN “PANJANDRUM” – “Panjandrum” in name and in fact, is what its authors call it - an olla podrida. Mr. De-Wolf Hopper is capable of shining brightly in any surroundings, and in this case Manager Stevens has provided an exceedingly elaborate setting for the efforts of Messrs. Goodwin and Morse.

PUBLIC MONUMENTS AND STATUES – In mentioning, in a previous article, some of the very unworthy so-called works of art that had been set up in public places in New York as memorials of great man, the opinion was expressed that the people of Cleveland, in Ohio, ought not to feel unduly bad over the fact that they were about to complete a soldiers’ monument of monstrously inartistic design and vulgar effect.  Every city in the country has one or more of these crude and bizarre monuments, and New York has its full share.

ILLUSTRATION - AN ARTISTIC PUBLIC MONUMENT - THE WASHINGTON ARCH ON WASHINGTON SQUARE, NEW YORK CITY, DESIGNED BY STANFORD WHITE. - DRAWN BY HUGHSON HAWLEY. (See picture)

THE WASHINGTON CATASTROPHE - No recent catastrophe has so deeply stirred the popular mind as the collapse of the old Ford’s Theatre building in Washington, owned by the government, by which twenty-one persons were killed and sixty-seven were severely injured.

ILLUSTRATION -THE COLLAPSE OF THE OLD FORD’S OPERA HOUSE IN WASHINGTON, D. C. BY WHICH TWENTY-ONE PERSONS WERE KILLED AND SIXTY-SEVEN OTHERS SERIOUSLY INJURED. – From sketches by E. J. Meeker. (See picture)

THE HORSE-SHOW – The second annual open-air show of the United States Horse and Cattle Show Society, held in Manhattan Field, was from the first a remarkable success.

SNAP-SHOTS AT THE OPEN-AIR HORSE-SNOW AT MANHATTAN FIELD, NEW YORK CITY. – from photographs by Hement. (See pictures)

            THE  WINNING FOUR-IN-HAND.

            JUDGING SADDLE-HORSES.

            HIS FIRST PRIZE.

ECHOES OF THE VISIT OF THE INFANTA EULALIE TO NEW YORK CITY -PHOTOGRAPHS BY PACH BROTHERS, HEMMENT, AND LANGILL. (See pictures)

            LEAVING THE MORRIS PARK CLUB-HOUSE AFTER THE RACES.

            DRIVING AWAY FROM THE PARK.

THE INFANTA ENTERING ST. PATRICK’S CATHEDRAL TO ATTEND MASS.

            THE INFANTA AND HER SUITE.

            PASSING OUT OF MORRIS PARK GATE.

DRESS-PARADE OF THE SEVENTH REGIMENT N.G.S.N.Y., REVIEWED BY   THE INFANTA IN FRONT OF THE HOTEL SAVOY.

INTERNATIONAL FIRE CONGRESS – So seldom is a congress of the world’s firemen held that its general interest is in equal ratio to its rarity. But the International Fire Congress and Exhibition in London had a particular interest for our public, simply because it so clearly demonstrated the excellence of American methods of fighting the flames.

ILLUSTRATIONS -THE RECENT INTERNATIONAL FIRE CONGRESS AND EXHIBITION AT ROYAL AGRICULTURAL HALL IN LONDON. –Drawn by Gribayedoff. (See pictures)

            KANSAS CITY CREW.

            FRENCH POMPIER.

            PRESIDENT AND OFFICERS OF THE FRENCH.

            RUSSIAN FIREMAN IN FIRE TOWN.

            MAJOR A. P. PASKIN – RUSSIA’S REPRESENTATIVE.

            CHIEF G. C. HALE, KANSAS CITY.

            HALE WATER-TOWER.

            HORACE S. FALKER – GENERAL HON SEC. N. F. B. U.

LIEUT COL. SEABROKE CHARMAN N. F. B. U.

            ENGLAND’S CRACK FIRETEAM.

FACES STUDIES by Stiletto - KATE JORDAN

CADET LIEUTENANT WILFRID VAN NEST POWELSON. – The honor man of the United States Naval Academy this year is Wilfrid Van  Nest Powelson, of Middletown, New York.  He stands first in his class reputed to be the brightest that ever graduated at the institution.

SELECTIONS FROM THE BEST FOREIGN ILLUSTRATED NEWSPAPERS (See pictures)

            AN AMERICAN BICYCLER IN CHINA -‘WHAT ROAD SHALL I TAKE.”

            AN AMERICAN BICYCLE, F. G. LENZ, IN CHINA - OFF AGAIN.

            THE GATE OF A FORTIFIED VILLAGE IN MADAGASCAR.

MISS ELLEN TERRY AS “ROSAMUND” IN LORD TENNYSON’S “BECKET” AT THE LYCEUM THEATRE, LONDON.

FERDINAND ROYBET, PRIZE MADALIST OF THE PARIS SALON.

THE FINISH ENGLISH DERBY:

1.      ISINGLASS.

2.      RAVENSBURY.

3.      RAEBURN

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