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MAECH 27,191? mUND PAfflPf 10 LOSE NA6EL :Man Who W*nt to Des U,|RM Twenty Yeans Ago to be ean of Mimical Coltaf* vf There, Leaves. LIVE IN NEW YORK «rW Take up Mu»!o Writing LThere and Family Expect* to Leave About Auflurt- Flnrt. [Special to The Gete City.] «s MOINES, Iowa, March 27.—Dr. Mi Nagel, who came here from tSuk twenty years ago to be dean foe Highland Park college of musjc ll long a leader of musical I*» Maes has severed his connections Eh the college to take effect at the Tot the college year and next Aug twill go to New York for a year. after the first of the year, he gtg president Magill that he was It to be considered for the position Fdean of the music school after this ir bat his leaving the college was given out and became known only ham tired after some years of 1 work as teacher and executive," Dean Nagel this morning, "and ,4 the need of a real rest. I plan obtain rest by change and will od a year on a number of compo jons I have not been able under stress of college work and man ment to complete, although I have usual love of a creator for them, iere is no discord in the relations Eween President George P. Magill me which have been and are _,jr pleasant, cordial and co-operative. |tave a very high appreciation of sldent Magill and some of the tstees. It will be breaking many ties to leave Des Moines, which always treated me royally and piere I have some of my most valued lids." A Leader in Mueie Education. Dean Nagel came here to be direct of the piano department of the col He when it was a comparatively til school. A little later Jhe was •etary of its faculty and in a few was dean of the college of basic, its chief executive and- the panager of its destinies. From that jnning oat in a part of a building Highland Park, Dean Nagel built up be college of music to a large attend nce and fail equipment housed not on the college campus but In |&e K. P. block down town, and irom isjall radios of influence to a posi recognlzed as very high by the tics and music journals of New Fork and Boston. During all this Be, he also taught advanced piano indents personally. It is all this work ^Mch Dean Nagel says entitles him a rest for awhile at least. to addition to the work of his own tool of music. Dean Nagel has bad important work for music through the state and the middle west, in educational and artistic phases, vas seven times elected president (the Iowa Society of Music Teachers is now a member of the board I standardization which intends to dardize mnsic teaching in Iowa, fwate it and greatly increase its ef ncy. The personal efforts of Dean si, and his hard work in that di Ktion, are given credit for putting »ic into the public schools of Iowa. induced the Iowa State Music ehers association to substitute for oratory as the piece de re btence of their annual conventions 'contending one year that an ora- Ho well done would draw as well as [beodore Roosevelt had done the pre year Nagel put on the Messiah |ith the St Paul orchestra and four indred voices in the chorus and filled Colllseum which proved the suc of his arguments. Much fop Music In Dea Moines. ^For years the name of Dean Frank has been identified with musi- Progress In Des Moines. For prepare This for a Bad Cough—It's Fine |CkMpI7 and Kaallr Mate* but noes the Work Qalcklr- whnJ*ne8t cough syrup that money iU Ii~50a,tlne °]ly about one-fifth as ft ITjV'made preparations,—can h«u "P at Jv mat "ome- The way it a,nd conquers distressing and chest oolds wifl Liar ^wLT.lu enthusiastic about it. ii oun™?^?fST can ««PPly you with othi? ,^ Pln?x (50 cents worth). Ss wit? P,nt and fill the ri,„. P'ain granulated sugar fn. thoroughly and it is total cost is about wes you a full pint—a 0 a, moBt Ustln* i.' effectual, remedy. It keeps ^er- ajJon'shing how quickly it "Ssfta 1 S£ 7, but surely the pflsh will hu tickle and dreaded Ltcr fa" ?'®PJ«.r entirely. Nothing !?I»nie •Pasmodio croup, /•fir!? of~^„urneyNo^av 1 c.°.mb'nei. With guaiacol •t* Wwth!»*?rld over for 'its ®hines. effect on the throat rftrtrt by asking your Pi iirectinT,. ounces of Pin ex* with I1*eliT?* don't accept any P«jon rantee Absolute sat- with thi. ^eV P^Ptly refunded w£V£ratioa- ^pine* iSSW'} wwiSiiiNyl: yean he was the conductor of the Philharmonic choir. He gave this city lt6 first home made music festival with Des Moines singers and orches tral After concerts had been losing ventures to the point of desnair, for years. Dean Nagel broke the" hoodoo with a ooncert by Dr. Ludwig Wull ner that packed Foster's opera house. He has been very active in every movement for more and better music in Dea Moines with both hard work and good advice, and gave much time and energy to assisting all sorts of musical affairs. At large financial risk, Dr. Nagel brought many famous musical artists to Des MolneB during several years. Among the world.'s greatest artists here under the management of Dean Nagel are David Bispham, Caroline White, Mme. Sturko-Ryder,' Arthur Hartmann, Albert Spaulding, Ludwig Wullner, Busoni twice, Ysaye. Among the famous archestras he brought here was the .London Symphony orchestra with Herr Arthur Nikisch, conductor. Ir. Nagel incidentally gave Des Moines ita first outdoor drama when he brought here the Coburn players to play on the college campus The •Conterbury Pilgrims, recently produc ed in New York as a grand opera. Dean Nagel has had a large Influ ence as a teacher and college execu tive, and his pupils in large numbers are in concert work and college fac ulty positions all over the United States. Artistic Pianist and Composer. The musical education of Mr. Frank Nagel began at an early age under private teachers at the family borne, "Cedarcroft" in the edge of Warsaw, Illinois, perhaps the finest and most elegant home on the Mississippi river bluffs from St. Paul to New Orleans, which he recently inherited. It Is an ideal residence for an artist, musical or other, and there Frank Nagel stu died music and worked hard during his youth. Through the advice of his friend Feund, editor of "Musical Am erica" he went to Dresden to study for three years under Herman Scholtz, court pianist to the king of Saxony. After a long tour through musical Europe, he returned to America and spent a few years in the Rocky moun tain states and a few more years teaching anci upbuilding music in Keo kuk before coming to Des Molnea. Dr. Nagel has done a good deal of composition, some of it of really great importance, but little of it has been published owing to the demands made upon the composer by his college work. Before coming to Des Molnea, he wrote a light, opera, "Pocahontas" of much musical merit and produced several times in various cities. He has in his portfolio many piano com positions and songs. A song cycle for mixed voices and reader was com posed a few years ago in collaboration with Major S. H. M. Byers, the poet. One of his works is a musical setting to "Thanatopsis," which has been very popular. Before the exactions of his college work occupied so much of his ener gies, Dr. Nagel made several success ful concert tours and became recog nized as one of the best pianists in the west. He played three times for the National Educational association convention. At the St. Louis exposi tion he played a program of his own compositions by special invitation. A Paradox *f. arPersonality. *'Dean Nagel certainly is a paradox in humanity," said one of his old friends today, "'°r h«v not only is a great musician but also one of the best balanced meiri ev^r knew. If he has the least"'Symptom of a cranky streak in him, have not been able to find it in twenty* years of close con tact with him. -JH® is a remarkably good business man and manager, and of course all Des- Moines knows he is a good fellow." He has many warm friends in Des Moines among not only musicians but also among members of the business men's, women's/and other organiza tions. He is a charter member of the Des Moines cltfb. Dr. Nagel h&fl offers from several eastern music- idfthools, another to be come an executive in the management of a big opera company, and also of a very prominent position as a con ductor in the east, but h§ is declining them all to attain that rest in work ing on his compositions. He will live in New York where he will also be in closer contact with his son, Conrad Nagel, who has become famous as an actor star as Youth In "Experience." The family expect to leave Des Moines about the first week in August. IOWA STORM PROVES COSTLY Big Blizzard in Northern and Eastern Section Cost Iowa Telephone Co. #175,000. The damage caused by the sleet, and wind storm which. swept over north ern and eastern Iowa the night of March 12 and the following day cost the Iowa Telephone company more than 176.000, according to a state ment by VJoe President and General Manager W. G. T. Belt. The sle«t storm extended west as far as Fort Dodge, south to Dea Moines and east to the Mississippi river. In that territory the telephone company had more than 1,600 poles snapped off and over 10.000 breaks in in its long distance wires. On the night of March 12 the mist began to fall and freeze as it struck the wires. By the following morning the circuits were weighted with ice nearly an inch thick. This load alone broke many of the wires, but with the rieing wind the next day and the fol lowing night the poles began to snap off until so many circuits were down that it was almost impossible to get a long distance call through anywhere in the district covered by the storm. As soon as It was learned what damtfge the sleet was causing, the telephone company rushed men here from Minnesota, western Iowa and Nebraska, and within twenty-four hours hundreds were at work through out the storm swept area repairing the damage. It was jreTy difficult to set poles in the frozen ground, and so temporary wires were strung over the snow and through the fields. In lees than a -.static week every telephone circuit was,re paired and in use. COURTS WILL DECIDE CLAIM Water Power Company and City of Ft. Madieon Unable to Get Together on Drainage Question. In telephone conversation with City Solicitor Pollard today. Manager C. W. Kali ore of the Missisainoi Riv XHE DAILY GATE CITY & On January the First, and at the leading automobile shows, we introduced what we sincerely believe to be the most beautiful car in America. This, we admit, is a bold and sweeping statement. It is probably the most sensational an' nouncement that has ever been made by a manufacturer of medium priced automobiles. But we mean precisely what the words" imply, and only ask that you reserve final judgment until you have seen the New Paige with your own eyes. It is not our purpose, in this advertise' ment, to describe one single detail of the latest and greatest Paige Achieve' ment We merely invite you to visit the near' est Paige Representative—key your expectations up to the very highest pitch and determine for yourself whether or not we have been guilty of exaggeration. A moment's reflection, however, must convince you that we would not and could not make any such claim unless it were substantially correct. Our entire reputation and position in the motor car industry depend upon the accuracy of our public utterances. Knowing this, it is not likely that we would voluntarily assume responsi' bility for a statement which could be refuted to our everlasting discredit. If, though, you are still inclined to doubt, please remember that Paige has been one of the truly creative factors in the motor car industry. From the very beginning our body designs have been absolutely unique and re freshingly distinctive. Opening Wednesday Evening, March er Power company at Keokuk stated that a conference between represent-i ativies of the power company and the city on the matter of the city's sew er system wowld be of absolutely no avail says the Ft. Madison Democrat. He stated that the power company's figures would not be altered, and they were so far from those submitted by the city that th«re would be no hope of getting together. The sewer jaestion has long been a bttgbear to the city and the city authorities. When the stage of the Mississippi riveT was affected by the installing of the Keokuk dam. car- .7,* *f,.T:' #Y-T' •r PAIGE MostJ5eautifuZ Car. inflmericet The Paige Detroit Motor Car Company Detroit, Michigan KEOKUK-PAIGE CO. 523 Main Street BEAUTIFUL CAFL, AMERICA" If imitation is the most sincere form of flattery, we should indeed feel elated, because it is generally admitted that Paige designs have served as the models for practically every quality car in the industry. Nothing could more strikingly emphasize the fact that Paige has always built beautiful cars—and can be logically expected to produce "The Most Beautiful Car in America.1* So far as the mechanical features of our product are concerned, you need only consult the thousands of owner records which have been established during the past seven years. The Paige motor and chassis are world famous. They have been developed by the ripest engineering genius that the industry affords. In them we have incorporated every improvement, every refinement, that could possibly increase the efficiency of a smooth running, ever dependable motor car. As we have said time and time again, you can only expect to get out of an automobile precisely what the manu facturer puts into it There is no substitute for basic quality. To build the truly gnat tiiiagi this world one xmiat work mkk A Hoct quite at well ai Ids Hanla But for the present, we are going to say no more. When you—and other Americans like you—stand before the latest and greats' est Paige achievement, our case will be in the hands of the Jury. So, please remember this advertisement at that time—every word of it—and determine for yourself whether or not our claims are justified. In justice to your own interests, make it a special point to see "The Most Beautiful Car in America." 28th—Lobby MUSIC FROM 7:30 TO 10:30 tain damages were done to the city's sewer system. How much of that damage the power company was re sponsible fof and should pay for, is the difficulty.' ''The city officials, to be secure in the sum they asked, procured the services of one of the best reunited engineering firms In the country and secured an accurate con clusion of how much extra expense the city ie put to in constructing ita sewer system now than before the dam was installed. The figure Is a fairly large one, while the power oompany's figure la comparatively smalL v*--. of Hotel Iowa LA CREW J. B. Overton and family pleasantly •pent Sabbath at the Reflor home. Adam Kleber and wife dined at the Becker home Sunday. Robert Dempster was working in this community last week. George Reflor was a business caller at Donnellson last week. Grandma May la better at this time. Jffrs. MeOoy was laid to rest Thurs PAGE SEVEN 1 mm day in the Acklarn cemetery. Friends sympathise with the bereaved family. We are having nice weather now, only a little too oold. Our teacher. Mr. Kruze, made a trip to Donnellson Saturday. Sowing oats is the order of the day at present. Mr. Hackard departed for his new home last week. An Important Omission. St. Paul Pioneer Press: A college education isn't everything. Twenty seven Princeton seniors have never been kissed. t: I I- Ji' 'A •'".X.IW $1 1 Itf i. 1 S. &