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TWO DIG REPAIRING I
DAMAGE OF STORM
Foreman Electrocuted Try- j
ing to Save Lineman En- j
tangled in Wires.
DEATH TOLL MOUNTS!
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PsHmfifp Unite tn fiivtv.
five; Eighth Ferris Wheel
Fatality Reported.
FOUR MORE DROWNED!
;
Engineer's Body Washed
Ashore; Wife and Children
> in Boat Missing.
Two more were added yesterday to
the list of thoso who met death as a I
result of the storm Sunday. They;
were electricians working to correct'
the storm damage and maintain ser-,
vice to the Rest House at Inwood
* Park, an institution for the sick.
Frederick Perry of 401 West 12fith
street, foreman of the Job, regardless
of his own danger, attempted to free
the body of Carlo Tnburgio, a lineman,
which had become entangled In
a live wire carrying current from the
power house of the United Electric
Light and Power Company to the Rest
House. Little spurts of blue flame
told the other members of the gang
that their boss and Inburgio had been
ingtantly killed. Their bodies were I
burned by the time fellow workmen !
lassoed and dragged them from the
writhing wires through which the current
had been kept flowing for the
benefit of the Inmates of Rest House.
Faulty Insulation was given as the
cause. ?
The double electrocution brought the
known death toll well over sixty, as
none of the seven missing after the fury
of the storm had spent Itself has since
reported safe. It is possible too that
there are others missing whose names
have not yet reached the authorities.
Kstimates of the total dead continued to
vary from sixty-five to ninety, with the
rollce holding nearer the first figure.
Eighth Ferris Wheel Death.
The eighth death resulting from the
collapse of Paul Simon's Ferris wheel
at Clason Point was recorded when
Addle Potter, 18, a negress of 42 West
130th street, died at Fordham Hospital
of a fractured skull. Her sister Izetta,
who suffered lacerations of the right
leg, was discharged from the hospital.
Identification of the body of Henry
C. Robinson, 34, a civil engineer of 53
Argyle avenue. New Hochelle, washed
ashore at Rye. probably tells the fate of
three others. Mr. Robinson, with his
wife and two children, a girl aged 6 J
and a boy of 4. is known to have started |
from New Rochelle for Oyster Bay a |
few minutes before the storm broke In a
twenty-eight foot power boat. Identification
of Robinson's body wus made by
l is mother, Mrs. Mary Robinson of New
Kochelle.
Walter Taffendorp of 229 Kast 118th
street reported to the police last night
that his son Walter, Jr., aged 2, had
been ono of the victims of the storm.
The baby, he said, was in a party of
twelve in a boat which capsized near
Hunter Island. Of the party, according
t>> Paffendorp. four aro now listed
among the known dead.
AgneH Kohler, 3, of 23fi Kast 118th
street, was another victim reported last1
night as having been drowned during the
storm. She was one of the party in the
boat with the Paffendorp boy.
The polite of the marine division continued
yesterday their search of the
waters of Pclham Bay, while the little
i iatlon on City Island and the Kordham
Morgue presented the same harrowing
sights. Relatives of persons still missing
continued to come. Two launches |
full of patrolmen continued to search off
City Island yesterday as long us there
\ as light.
IlotllM Are Identified.
<">ne of the women's bodies, unidentified
on Sunday, proved to be that of
Mrs. Grace Lawyer Casey, 34, of 122
West 111th street, and the identification j
told another story of tragedy overtak- |
lng a family outing. Mrs. Casey's little '
daughter Kmlly. 9, was also among the j
dead, while two other children. Ken- I
neth, 10. and Hazel. 11. are patients In
Fordham Hospital. All were victims of j
the Ferris wheel crash at Clason Point. '
the boy Kenneth receiving a fractured
skull.
Soon after Mrs. Casey's body had been [
Identified the body of another woman !
of about 28 years was recovered from ;
the Ka^.t River, off Clason Point. The
woman had light brown hair, blue eyes, i
a fair complexion Hnd weighed about
!tS pounds. She was five feet three |
Inches tall, wore a blue hat and white
gingham dress, brown stockings and
Oxford ahoes.
Althongh Dr. K. Sellers Kennard. Assistant
Medical Examiner of Bronx
county, was on hand yesterday to Issue
the necessary certificates for the
removal of all bodies as soon as
claimed, late yesterday afternoon only
six of the fifteen bodies In the City
Island station had been taken away.
Grand Jnry Called.
District Attorney Edward J. Olennon
of the Bronx, yesterday sent messengers
to summon the Grand Jury to meet
at lb o'clock this morning to Institute
an Investigation of the Ferris wheel
rollapse. The suggestion has been made
to establish some sort of storm warning,
by siren or other signal, that would
reduce the hnsard and lessen the danger
to pleasure seekers from a repetition
of Sunday's freahlBh and fatal squall
Engineers from District Attorney Glentton's
office also have made an Investigation
of the durability and safely
of the other amusement apparatus at
Clason Point and other amusement
parks.
Edward Mott, 9, or fi Main streel,
Rlduefleld Park, N. J., was p'ayInff
In front of his home when he
tripped and fell over an electrh wire
which had been blown down oy the
storm on Sunday. A passim? motorist
picked him up and drove to the police
station, where Dr. Edward Duffy prono"accd
him dead from electric shock.
admits murdering woman.
Jackson, Mich , June IS.?John Straub.
9, former Inmate of Jackson Prison,
has confessed to the murder of Miss \
Alice Mallett, matron of the Florence
Crittenton Home here
The ax with which the deed was aceonipllshed
was obtained at the home
of a Polish family about two block
from the spot here Miss Mallett met
death.
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A site in Seventh avenue, from
has been tentatively chosen for the
house the seven arts. The site is t<
mates of its cost run up to $15,00
MANY GALE DEATHS
LAID TO CITY PENURY
Volunteers' Secretary Says
Lack of Boats and Stations
Cost Many Lives.
"TMs department is completely over- ,
looked by th?< budget making author!- j
ties. We have sufficient men. but we j
need at lca?t fifty more stations with I
equipment of boats, life prefer r-rs and
medical supplies. Fvcry year our stations
are becoming less because the city
slmn'y wi'l not stipeort us. Bast year
we lost two stations at Rockaway, or.e
at the beach and another at the point.
Both were swept out to sea."
BIND Fnrrp rr?T tmnoo
IN FURS IN BROADWAY j
Bandits Also Cn*her $S40 in
Store and Escape.
Four bandits armed with revolvers
entered the store nnd shop of the Reliable
Fur Company at 2729 Broadway,
near 103<1 street, last night about 9
o'clock and packed furs worth $10,000
Into two burlap bags after they had
tied David and Nathan Brenner, owners :
of the store, nnd two other men hand
juid foot with ropes tiry! dumped them on !
the floor in the fur cutting room.
Before leaving with the furs the I
bandits also took $500 from the rash ,
register, $20 from David Brenner, a gold
watch from David Rehfeld. a jeweler i
of 1013 Simpson street. The Bronx, and ,
$120 from Alexander Werner of 1717
Hoe avenue, a f"r cutter.
Werner. Rehfeld nnd the two Brenners 1
lav on the floor fu? almost half an hour. ;
A woman customer, calling to get furs i
that had heen left for repairs. h> ard I
groans coming from the cutting room. |
She went in and with a knife cut the j
ropes, releasing the four prisoners. I
Police Headquarters was notified. I
Samuel Belton, acting Chief Inspector,
arrived in un automobile to take charge j
of the investigation. Detectives also i
were sent from the West 100th street j
station.
The Brenners told the police they had
necn hi numrik ueniiiu men ctuiiwh
talking lo Werner and Hehfeld when
the four men entered. The bandits were
well dressed, and each carried it burlap
bag under hie arm. David Brenner ud\ane'd
to wait on them, but they drew
guns and ordered the brothers, the Jeweler
and the fur cutter to step Into
the fur cutting room.
One of the bandits produced a coll ;
of rope from one of the bugs, and with i
this he and one of the others tied the,
four men hand and foot pid pushed
them to the ' floor. Then two of the
bandits searched their pockcta while the
other two gathered up the furs that
were on the < untun and stuffed them
Into the hag.-,.
Twenty minutes after the robbery
Harry Hasklnd, a taxteah ohntilTeur of
200 Madison street entered the West |
' 'ortv-seventh street station anil tohl
the police thi re. that he had been apt
reached at 103d street and Broadway
by two men who told him to drive them
:c Central Bark West and Ninety-sixth
street and to hurry. He didn't hurrv at |
first, he said, and one of them pushed j
a gur. against his back. Then he iittr- r
cd. The men got, out at Ninety-sixth j
street and Hasklnd went to the police i
station.
I
Miss Ida Osborne, secretary of the |
United States Volunteer Life Saving
Corps, which Is a city department with
G.50O volunteer members, declared yesterday
that many of the lives lost In
last Sunday's storm flight have '>ee?
saved If the equipment of tno corps had
h?ti n'ffi-lnnl ..nrl mCtoVila Tlio Ilnir,!
of Estimate Is to blame. Miss Osborne
said, for denying: appropriations. She
continued:
"There has been some criticism of this .
department for failure to effect more j
rescues than were made, especla'ly at
City Island on Sunday The fact is that
more rescues mkcht nave been made If
the city authorities had allowed us sufficient
money with which to keep our
paraphernalia in repair and to acquire
additional equipment which this department
sorely needs.
"When the budget was prepared, we
asked for $15,000. The board cut ua
down to less than $8,000. That amount
is Insufficient to maintain our stations.
At the Hunter Island Station, for instance,
where we have thirty-five men,
the corps motor boat was out of commission
on Sunday. We had no money
to repair it and simply had to let It lie
there until the men could repair
It ' themselves Unfortunately I
the motor boat owned by the i
men themselves was a 'so out of i
commission. This meant ttmt the men !
had to to use the oar dr rles. Execution \
Rock and Hat Island, where most of the j
casualties occurred, ire miles from the !
station. Nevertheless our men effected j
more than 200 rescues, and It is no ex- ]
aggeration to say that hundreds would |
have lost their lives were It not for our
men.
"George Gordon Battle, head of the
Parks and Playground Association,
called me on the phone to-day to complain
about the lack of pulmotors at
our Hunter Island station. So far as
pulmotors are concerned the lack of
them was of no account anyway, as In
the hands of laymen they are dangerous.
"A real comolalnt. however, could be
mad- about the lack of stations and
equipment, not only for rescuing but i
for rpsuscltatlnr the armarently drowned ]
and for aiding the Injured.
the y
)0 Music and Ai
Fifty-seventh to Fifty-ninth street. 1
building in which it is proposed to !
j be provided by ^he city and esti0,000.
Another $15,000,000 for the Ij
U. S. SIMPLIFIES RULES
ON ISSUING PASSPORTS
Eliminates Much Red Tape,
for Americans Going Abroad.
Washington. June 13.?Revised -passport
regulations announced to-day by
Secretary Hughes, simplify requirements
for Americans desiring to go abroad.
Holders of passports issued since January
3. 1918, will require no further
Identification in obtaining new passports
to any part of the world. The requirement
of documentary evidence as to the.
purpose of the visit has been withdrawn
ind Americans seeking passports need
nly state their business in general
tirmi.
The State Department explained that '
>? I9lv date for acceptance of old pass- i
rts as establishing identification for
r< irsue was for the convenience of soalled
"habitual travellers" who make
frequent journeys abroad, in their case
obtaining passports hereafter will require
little more than the filling out of
the routine forms.
CLAIMS SOVIET TRACT
SIZE OF RHODE ISLAND
r
Dr. Hammer Asserts Conces-1!
sion to Run Asbestos Mines, j1
Dr. Armand Hammer, son of Dr.
Julius Hammer, the physician who is 1
serving a term in Sing Sing I'rison for
manslaughter, returned yesterday on i
the White Star liner Majestic from a j
two months tour of Russia, during
which he visited the extensive asbestoi j
mines near Ekaterinburg, in the Ural '
district, which, ho said, lie holds under
a concession from the Soviet Government.
Dr. Hammer said he obtained
tha concession nearly a year ago and
then established the Allied American
Corporation, 165 Broadway, which wi'.l
uipply the machinery necessary to worn !
the mines.
Dr. Hammer said he had a letter j ,
from Lcnine saying "such concessions j
will be of the greatest importance in
furthering trade relations between our
republic and the United States."
Dr. Hammer lives at the Anson Is
Hotel and said that he expects the 1
first shipment of asbestos from the Urai
mines will reach this country some time
during August. He is to pay the Soviet
Government 10 per cent, of the yield 1
of the mines.
The tract in which the mines are is
about as large as Rhode Island, Dr.
Hammer said.
MZSSHNUEK VANISHES |,
WITH $92,000 IN STOCKS
Clark, Childs & Co. Silent on j!
Report of Theft.
Stock certificates worth 192,000, it
was learned last night, have been stolen
from Clark, Childs & Co., brokers, 165 t
Broadway. A messenger carrying the 1
certificates left the main office of the
company yesterday and did not go back. '
Kvery effort to locate him up to early
this morning had proved unsuccessful.
If the disappearance was reported to
the police they would not admit it.
Likewise, at Clark. Childs Co.'s strict
silencf was maintained. It was said
that a detective agency had been called
in to handle the case. The Pinkerton
and Burns agencies denied that they
had been retained.
Private detectives, it was learned,
were w'atching most of the ferries and
railrond stations. Several detectives
went to Coney Island on a tip that the
messenger had gone there. It was the
belief of the firm and the police that
an arrest would he made and the certificates
recovered before news of the
loss became public.
DEA I) MINNOWS LIVE
LAKE ONTARIO'S SHORE
Farmers Urged to Collect and
Use Them as Fertilizers.
Torojcto, June 13.?A plague has descended
upon the flsh of I^ake Ontario,
lining the shores with hundreds of j
thousands of dead minnows.
The health authorities, fearing a
threat of disease, have urged farmers to
collect the minnows and use them as
fertilizer, while owners of water front
lots near the city have been notified
that they must clear their beaches.
BROKER SAYS WOMAN
THREATENED SHOOTING
Nellie Black of 245 IVest Seventy-fifth
street was held yesterday without hall
for Investigation by Magistrate Oberwager
In the Tombs court after she
hart horn found Rullty of dirorderty
conduct on a complaint of Edward M
Fuller, a broker of V) Broad el reel..
Fuller said Miss Black came Into hie
office on Monday and threatened to "Mow
hie head off" unices he paid Jto.fiitf)
which the youn.( woman safrt he owed
her. F!oth Fuller and Mies Hlack testified
that thc.v had lived together In
this and other cities for nearly six
yenra up to elpht months bko. Michael
rteinwl, counsel for Fuller, enld Fuller
had spent, more than lloO.OOO on Mies
Hlack.
Fuller testified that she telephoned
him a week hro that she was Kilnn to
pet a revolver and kill him lie said
she same to his office and created a
disturbance.
He said he t.rted to reason with het
but she would not leave and exclaimed I
In a loud voice "You're lucky 1 don't
shoot you down."
[EW YORK HERALD,
*t Center Plann
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building is to be raised by subscri]
have been proposed for the sale
whose productions would thercaftei
architect of the proposed building
HORSES RUN WILD,
KILL A BOY VICTIM
Panic in Hester and Ludlow
Streets When the Animals
Dash Through Crowds.
A team of big brown horses attached
to an express truck standing in front of
28 Ludlow street last night became
frightened) tore themselves loose from
the truck and ran several blocks through
one of the most crowded sections of the
East Side, killing one five-year-old girl.
Injuring her younger brother and two
men and spreading terror among dbzens
of pushcart peddlers and hundreds of
mothers who had their children out in
the streets.
Lena Russo, 5, of 107 Forsyth street,
was injured internally and died soon
after uhe was taken to Gouverneur Hospital.
David Russo. 4, her brother, was
knocked down by the horses when they
ran upon the sidewalk at Hester and
Orchard streets and was cut about the
arms and face. Morris Rudolph, 48. of
56 Eldrldge street, and Benjamin Moskosvitz,
35, of 52 Hester street, also were
Injured They were attended by Dr.
Oonzales of Gouverneur Hospital.
Moskowitz and Jacob Posner of 29
Ludlow street were unloading wate-melons.
A passing automobile backfired.
Several children shouted. The
Norses leaped Into the air and then
plunged forward. Moskowitz, who was
nearest, the horses, jumped for the bridle
af the horse nearest him and held on.
He was dragged 100 feet and finally
rorced to loosen his hold. His left arm
was badly torn and may have to be
amputated.
The horses freed themselves of the
truck in the first few feet of their run
?-> ott-ntli thrnuch Hf'Stiv
I iir- rrjwn miu u? wuiimih v??
O. MininKer and Co!. Francis (j Catrreceivers
in equity for th? \VHI>?
Corporation, were approved yesterday
In the Cnltert States District Court b>
JudK" Knox. The report shows that on
May 27 last the receivers had 1613,600.
fudge Knox relieved Mlnlnger H, re.
elver and authorized Col. Caffey to accept
the off-r of the T"ttenvllle Cop.
per Company of $24,399 for 191.397 pounds
of copper Ingot*.
Try Piccadilly L
you will under
are growing mo
day. They are f
anteed.
10 In th<
Claro?Celoradc
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street, overturning pushcarts and seat'eeing
women and children to both sides
They turned into Orchard street. Mrs.
Rosso, pushing a baby carriage containing
her nine weeks old baby Benjamin,
and accompanied by Lena and
David, was in the path of the horses
is they turned the corner.
The carriage was overturned and the
baby thrown out. He was scratched a
little but otherwise uninjured. The
horses tramrled upon Lena Russo.
knocked down her brother. T>avid, and
then went on. One of the horses ran
into a lamp post and was thrown to
the sidewalk, where it lay until It was
shot.
Patrolman William H. Farley of the
Flinton street polloo station saw the
other horse coming. He shouted to a
man in an automobile truck to block Its
path. The horse drew up, snorted, and
started to turn. Farley leaped for its
neck. Ho twisted Its head and the big
horse fell heavily to the ground, with
Farley on top.
It was an hour before the debris left
In the wake of the runaway was cleared
away and Ludlow and Hester streets
once more wore normal.
ma hi rrmm m randit
BY WOMAN ACCOMPLICE
White Plains Man Robbed of
Watch and Money.
A good looking young woman approached
A. W. Hastings of 22 William
street. White Plains, In Central avenue,
there last night, and .asked him If he
would escort her through a dark street
to the Holklns avenue bridge.
"I am all alone," she said, ''and I am
afraid."
Hastings went with her, and when
they reached the bridge a man stepped
from the bushes and confronted them.
He had a revolver which he pointed at
Hastings.
"How much money you got?" he demended.
"Fifty cents." sjtid Hastings.
"My God," the man cried, and tilt
Hastings In the face. Hastings started
to run. and the man shot him In the
shoulder, while the woman stood by
and watched. Then, with her aid. the
man tied Hastings with a piece of picture
wire and chucked hint Into the
shrubbery, first taking a vetch ami
from his pockets. Then the bandit
and the woman fled in an automobile
and Hastings was found soon afterwards
by two negroes.
WIUY.1 RKCKIVKHS ft FPORT.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1
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ption and endowment. Negotiations
of the Metropolitan Opera House. !
be made in the Music Center. The
is Arnold W. Brunner.
MOTOR CAR CLIMBS
HILL, KILLING 2 MEN
Wildwood, X. J., Residents
Die in Odd Wreck?Two Boys
Dead?Man Dying*.
Atlantic City, June 13.?The State
Police to-night found the bodies of
William J. Worth and William McClaine
of Wildwood, N. J., under an
overturned automobile In Tuckahoe
road, near Hammonton, N. J.
The police said that the automobile
evidently turned turtle when taking a
turn at high speed. It had skidded up
the side of an embankment, plowed
up the earth for twenty feet, then toppled
over, crushing the two men under,
neath.
Worth, who was 40 years old, was a
storekeeper of WiWwood and McCline
-vas proprietor of the Pacific Hotel
there.
Just what caused the accident has
not beep ascertained. It is believed
that something went wrong with the
teering gear, causing the car to swerve
to one side and overturn.
Stanley Chastante, 4. of 101 Liberty
avenue, Dongan Hills, S. I., was
knocked down and killed in front of his j
home yesterday afternoon by an automobile
driven by Ernest Langloix of
Oil Richmond road, Dongan Hills. The
boy was playing baseball and 'started
across the street directly in i*out of the
lutomoblle.
An automobile truck driven by Frank
DeLuci of 254 West Thirtieth street, j
ran up on the sidewalk into a crowd i
of negro children at Tenth a venue and !
Fifty-eighth street. Four were Injured j
and were taken to Roosevelt Hospi'al
across the street, where they were attended
for cuts and bruises and sent
home. DeLuci told the policy he ra.n
on the sidewalk when he .tried to avoid
n I f f I ri o- ii n At trilflf.
Benjamin B. Anderson. 38. of 276
Steinway avenue. Bohr Island City, was
dying at midnight at St. John's Hospital
from Injuries received In an
J automobile collision at First avenue
land Freeman street, l^ong Island City,
i His skull and right shoulder were
I fractured, and he was injured internally
atid badly cut about the face and body.
Miss Barbara. Braun of 63 IVoolsey
; avenue, Long Island City, was served
with a summons for reckless driving.
\ She and Anderson were in their automobiles
and were rounding a corner
when they got their signals mixed and
their automobiles crashed.
Motor Car Kills Schoolboy.
Meuidev, Conn., June 13. ? Robert
I BOWtn, S, son 01 Mr. ana Mrs. J r
Bowen of Walnut Grove, was fatally
injured this afternoon when struck by
an automobile driven by Samuel Pharnick
of Madison. Corn., as lie was returning
from school. The boy died at
the hospital. Sharnlc.k Is held for reokiess
driving for a preliminary hearing
| by the coroner Wednesday morning.
REPORT 15,000 PERSONS
MASSACRED BY TURKS
Only Few Christian Women
and Children Escape.
Washington, June 13 (United News).
?Some fifteen villages have been wiped
out end of a population of 15,000 only a
few women and children have escaped
annihilation at the hands of the Turks
In massacres and dejpredations in the
district of Rhodopolls, according to ,i
cablegram Just received from Athens by
the Hoyal Greek Legation.
At DJevegll several Greeks were beheaded
and their heads, fixed on poles
exposed for days In the market plac
At 1'latana, near Treblstond, all the be.Greek
houses were set on fire and th
inhabitants massacred.
Tbe cablegram stated that the Gree
Governor of Sokia has received repor.
| that the whole Greek population i
, Asia Minor territory near Garond i ha
| been deported toward the remotest in
j terlor in the direction of Mougla.
curtain fire at home
of w. c. rockefeller
The curtains of n?* . ront basemen'
windows at the home of William CJ
Rockefeller, 192 Madison avenue, caugh'
fire yesterday afternoon. A breeze was
blowing the curtains back .ind forth
through the windows when firemen be
lleve a stray spark from the str< _<
caught In them.
A man passing by 'he house turned
In the alarm, but by the time the ftre
men arrived the blase had burned Itscl'
out. The damage was slight. Mr. Rock
efeller, nephew of John D. Rockefeller
Is with bit family at (Jrecnwleh. Conn
The house was In the care of the laundress.
Mrs. Robert McCree.
.ittle Cigars and
stand why they
re popular every
good?and guar?
package
i Claro?Colorado
4, 1922.
ART CENTER IS UP
TO METROPOLITAN
Berolzheimer Says Project Depends
Upon the Sale of
the Opera House.
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HYLAN ASSERTS CULTURE!
Notes Rumor That He Hasn't
It. but Savs He's the First
M; yor to Take It Up.
Mayor Hylan. other city official* ]
publishers of musical publications and ;
representatives of art organisations
talked over the $30,000,000 music and
art center peace memorial proposal last
night at the annual dinner which Philip
Berolzheimer, City Chamberlain, gives
the Mayor. The dinner was served In the
Astor Gallery of the Waldorf.
Health Commissioner Copfeland presided,
and introduced Mr. Berolzheimer
to the 100 men and women who comI
posed the party. The City Chamberlain,
who Is head of the Mayor's committee in
charge of the project, said:
"It dej)ends entirely on the Metropolitan
Realty Company whether this
project we are discussing here to-night
goes through. We hope that the Metropolitan
Really Company will sell Its
present property and make possible the
I'eace Memorial."
Ten ;irt organizations had already
| expressed approval of the pan, said Mr.
BeroUhelmer, and had offered to help.
I He then gave the Mayor a drawing of
the proposed building, which has been
designed by Arnold W. Brunner. archi- ,
tect, and Introduced Mr. Brunner. The
latter said that the drawing was a
prophecy. The site chosen, on Fiftyninth
street at Seventh avenue, la, he
said, the finest in the city for such buildings
as are proposed
The group, he said, would include an
opera house, an auditorium, a civic j
theater and a fine arts building, and !
these would stand well apart. There j
would lie three levels for entrance and :
exit, ono unoergrounu lor ine sunways, i
one on tjie level for pedestrians and one !
above for uutomoblle traffic. New York, |
he declared, needs a great opera house |
and has not one, the present opera house
being surrounded by flats, shops and
noisy streets.
Harry W. Watrous, president of the
National Academy of Qrslgn, spoke of
the fact that while half of the artists In
the United States are In New York, this
city has poorer accommodations for
artists than twenty other cities. Mayor
Hylan, he said, would make this the
gnat art center of the world If the
proper support is given him.
Joseph Haag. who is on the committee
with Mr. Berolzhetmcr, and Corporation
Counsel O'Brien also spoke
briefly and then the Mayor delivered a
prepared sjieech In which he said in
part:
"Now and then X have been referred
to as u public official who lacked 'culture'
and particularly 'scientific culture.'
This reference has been made for the
most part by those who had ample opportunities,
both In leisure and in money,
in their youth to acquire culture. It
nas aiso oeen inane i>y inose in nign
financial circles who are interested ir.
exploiting the people for personal and
psivate profit.
"However, I dare say It will not be
j denied that during my administration
i of the office of Mayor the first genuine
move was made to advance the. cultural
life of this city through 'the
creation of a great musical and entertainment
center. Nor can it be successfully
gainsaid that we have made the
first effort to bring certain exclusive
privileges heretofore restricted to a few
' within the compass of the common
| people.
"The project of a center for the adI
vaneement of education in music, drama
i and other arts will undoubtedly receive
the hearty support of the people, and
I this support will be manifested In the
tangible form required by the statute
under the provisions of which the build!
lng.s are to be erected.
*We must have the cooperation of the
representatives of every form of art,
particularly the people Identified With
musical interests, as well as the people
at large. Without such complete cooperation,
of course, the city can do
I little to accomplish the object sought
under the law enacted at our request.
"Might X Just add for the benefit of
those who entertain any scruples as to
I the project becoming subject to political
manipulation thai the personnel of the
committee In charge will he liml e<l to
those of ability and sincere Interest In
the arts regardless of political, personal.
racial or religious qualifications.'
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