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A STONE FROM THE
ABBEY.
CRASHES ON TO THE
PAVEMENT.
A block of atone, weighing, it is estimated, between 30 and 40lbs., fell on Oct. 2nd, from underrieath the coping on the North Front of Westminster Abbey and crashed on to the paving below, just in front of the north door.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1929.
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ARMY OFFICERS AS ARTISTS.
TWELVE GENERALS EXHIBIT
ያታ PICTURES.
Twelve generals, and many colonels and captains are among the soldier painters represented at the exhibition of the Army Officers' Art Society, which was recently opened at the New Burlington Gal- Jeries by Mr. Thomas Show, M.F., A police constable on duty, and Secretary of State for War. the official in charge of the book- Probably the most noticeable etall in the entrance, escaped by feature is the small number of ars only a few feet. Fortunately, too,tists who have chosen military sub- It was raining at the time, a cir-jects. When the sword is exchang- cumstance which accounted for the ed for the paint-brush, country absence of any people near the door, scenes and seascapes are favoured. which is the main entrance used by Lord Baden-Powell shows six ple- visitors to the Abbey.
tures, including some pleasing"
The spot from which the stone figure studies in Sierra Leone. One fell is plainly visible in the bead-Lentitled "Pa, Mn, and Baby," is ex- ing above the Rose Window. It ceptionally attractive. was painted out by an Abby official, who was an eye-witness of what occurred. "
Sandstone "Restoration." "In its fall," he stated, "it struck a gargoyle, and, rebounding, went burtling to the ground. Places of the stone flew about as if from an explosion. In the ordinary way there would have been a number of visitors on the path leading to the entrance but rain had kept then
away.'
The two German war books, "AI "Quiet on the Western Front," and "The Storm of Steel," which have been widely read, have been visus- ised by Lieut.-Colonel G. S. Hut- chison. The chairman of the So- clety, Major-General Sir John Adye, has six water colours, and Major- General Sir George Bourke dis plays some very colourful. French village scènes.
been put into a Hongkong street An amazing amount of detall has
He suggested that the stone had scene, the work of Lieut-Colonel become. loosened by the heavy rain, H. G. Gandy. Lieut. General Sir following the long spell of dryFW: N. McCracken has a charm- weather.
ing seascape.
The occurrence was at once re- ported to the Abbey authorities, one of whom made the reassuring statement that there was no need for the public to be alarmed.
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Many of the exhibits, especially among the water colours, reach a high artistic standard, and etchings and oil paintings are well represent- ed. All the 130 exhibitors "The Abbey is periodically in- Army officers, and nearly three hun- spected for loose stone-wark," he dred pictures are displayed. Informed me,.. "and where any is found it is removed. The North, Front is the 'victim' of the Gothici revival that took place about · 40 years ago, when, in 1881, it was restored with a facing of sand- stone."
This sandstone is one of the softest and most friable of atones, and it has given cause for anxiety in recent years. Pieces of the block which felf could be crumbled within the fingers.
MAGISTRATE'S JUMP
TO SAFETY,
ALLEGATION THAT LORRIES
WERE RACING.
Mr. J. A. R. Cairns, the Thames Police Court magistrate, was the chief witness in a prosecution at Feltham against Joseph Goodman, a lorry driver, of Hackney, for dangerous driving.
WOMAN MOTORIST
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MIDNIGHT DRIVE FOR RELIEF
FROM TOOTHACHE.
Miss Grace Calvert, aged 32, independent, of West Kensington- mansions, W, was fined £10, with S1 17s. 3d. costs, at Bowstreet for being drunk while in charge. of a motor-car in the Strand at 2 am, on a Sunday. She was also fined £2 for driving in a danger- ous manner. She pleaded guilty.
It was stated that her car came into collision with a stationary taxi-oab, which was damaged. The cabman pursued her to Constitu- tion-hili, where she was stopped.
Mr. Cannot, counsel for the de- fence, said that Miss Calvert took some whisky for severe tooth- ache, and, finding that it did not give any relief, she ordered a car He said that he was, standing at about midnight and, went for outside his house at Littleton, a drive. Those who let her have. when he saw a lorry driven by the car would never have allowed Goodman following another lorry her to take it out if she had been and a private car.
Goodman sud- drunk. She was sober when she denly swerved to his side to begun the drive, and the night air pass the vehicles, and in doing must have had some effect on her. so drove on the footpath, causing The taxi-cab driver, he added, him to jump back quickly to escape would be compensated. being knocked down.
Goodman's lorry, he said, con- tinued for about 300 yards on the footpath, travelling at about 25 miles an hour, and. Goodman ap- peared to be racing the other lorry
"I should never have dreamt of Interfering in the matter, but it was such an outrageous business," he added.
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He agreed that it was the right thing to pass another vehlele on Its offside, and commented, "It is the old dodge of trying to make out, that you are in the right by asking such a question.".
Goodman was fined £ and £4 12s. 6d. costs.
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