Foreign Language Press Service

Anton Buscher, the wood carver, died after a long illness at his home on May Street. The deceased was born in Gamburg, Grand Dutchy of Baden, in 1825. He showed great talent for wood carving during his early youth and eventually this craft became his life's work. Coming to America, twenty-fou

Dr. Alice Stockman, who just has returned from Sweden, where she has specialized in a thorough study of Swedish Sloyd, and the methods of instructions used over there, delivered a lecture the other day on the subject in question before the Industrial Art Association. Meeting in the Women's Ha

We herewith give you an illustration of the new German Building reproduced from Der Westen (The West, a German paper, Translated.) The object of this creation is to produce an edifice, whereby the higher ideals of the German population may find stimulation and satisfaction from a social stand

The annual meeting of the Jewish Training School was held on Tuesday night in the Sinai Temple vestry rooms. The Training School was organized for the purpose of helping the children of the hapless victims of Russians who settle here in Chicago. It endeavored to make of them useful

Mme. Fennie Bloomfield-Zeisler sailed last week for Southampton. She will go to London, Paris, Berlin, Hamburg, Dresden, Vienna, Bayreuth and the Tyrol. She will play at the musical exhibition at Vienna, and probably at a number of other places, returning about the middle of August.

In accordance with our promise given to the readers of Dziennik Chicagoski, we return to a discussion of the Polish-American participation in the Lwow Exposition of 1894. We are leaving the article in the Emigration Review on the side for the time being, and turn oar attention to the letter r

Daily from 11 A.M. until 4 P.M. hundreds of people assemble at the Southern side Chapel of the German House, to view one of the greatest art productions that the World's Fair contains. This is the clock build by Mr. Gustav Speckhardt, the court clock-maker of Prince Alfons of Bavaria, that is

Mr. Juszczenc, a Pole living on West Division Street, has just completed a very remarkable piece of work. He has constructed an occasional table of 6,235 pieces of wood without the use of a single nail or a bit of glue. It is a very beautiful and original piece of work. Persons who would like

Yesterday should be long remembered by Chicago Poles. The day was marked by two noteworthy occurrences, two important manifestations that give proof of our national vigor. The lecture on Polish art was given yesterday at the Memorial Art Palace on the lake front; the Polish Art Sect

August 13, Sunday, 4:30 P. M. there will be a meeting of all Chicago Lithuanian musicians. We are inviting all musicians, no matter what instrument they play. We wish to organize a band of Lithuanians only. Therefore, all musicians please come. The meeting will be held at St. Rokosz

Although much has been said and written on the subject of Polish-American participation in the Kosciusko Exposition to be held at Lwow in 1894, it was not until a few months ago that real action was taken in this matter at the initiative of Dr. E. H. Dunikowski. A Central Committee

In Mrs. Slominski's workshop we have seen two beautiful banners--one for the St. Barbara Society of St. Stanislaus Kostka Parish, the other for the St. John Cantius Society of St. Joseph Parish in Town of Lake. The first has an image of St. Barbara on one side and on the other the beheading o

The Abendpost succeeded in acquiring possession of a wonderful painting, which represents the loop-business district of Chicago. The artist had to take at first photographic pictures from eight different angles and finally accomplished his task by painting the combination-view on the roof of

Death has again torn a gap into the dwindling group of old Chicago settlers. This time it is John Weckler, who died yesterday at his home at 519 Sedgwick Street, 85 years old. Weckler came in 1836 from Germany to Chicago, where he lived all his life. He earned his living at first as

The following Polish-American exhibitors at the Lwow Exposition have received awards: L. Buczkowski of Chicago, a silver medal, for a harness he exhibited; Sisters of Nazareth of Chicago, a bronze medal, for a chasuble embroidered with golden threads; Mrs. Slominski of Chicago, a bronze medal

The beautiful Polish Hall that has been in process of erection by Andrew Szulc will be opened at St. Stanislaus Parish. The brick building, which is on the corner of Blackhawk and Noble Streets, has a modern front. The hall has room for 500 hundred chairs and 200 seats in the galler

To the art-loving public of Chicago it will be of interest to learn, that the highly thought of artist of Aquarelle paintings, Mr. Peter Woltze, opened a course of watercolor painting and sketched of nature in the "Columbian Trade and Business School", 239-241 Wabash Avenue. The son of the fa

The request of the Bohemian Musicians Union, for the admittance of their delegates to the Chicago Federation of Labor, was discussed in a meeting held last Sunday. The request was denied at the insistence of the American Federation Musicians Union, No. 10. The organization committee

Friends: - The Bohemian Typographical Union, in this manner, seeks to obtain your aid in its efforts to help Bohemian-American typesetters gain a respectable and deserved wage. Every branch of labor is organized so as to achieve honorable compensation for its labor and every branch

The religious art painter Mr. Jan Czajkowski is finishing a painting representing Christ on the Cross which will be placed in the main altar of the St. George church where Rev. Krawczunas is the pastor.