Art: Lottery

In Manhattan last week a lady put her hand into a vase and drew out a piece of paper with a name on it — a name often stamped in blue on the snowy fat of hams and neatly printed upon bacon boxes —Swift, of Chicago. Mr. Harold H.

Swift was thereby entitled to choose a picture from the Grand Central Art Galleries for his own.

Every year the supporters of the Gallery are rewarded for their in vestment with a free lottery of selected paintings. Mr. Swift chose the only Sargent in the Gallery, a portrait valued at $15,000. The second name...

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