Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-02-07

than year. His two brothers, OF whom
Henry @. Marquand was the eldest:
thought his bill for attendance and board
ought to be paid, though Bellevue "a city
hospital and free to any New YORK citizen
TIE BOARD BILL PAID.
So the bill was quietly paid by erecting
along the entire front OF the institution
fine iron railing, building an imposing
gateway, with waiting-rooms on e,theI
side. and lodging-rooms for the attendants
above. and putting up close 10y on the
grounds q fine pavilion expressly for SICK
children, the whole costing some 1so,on.
That WIS the Marquand estimate OF the
worth of a years board and medical AT
tendance. hIr. Henry q. Marquand has
been fairly "princely" donor TO
Princeton College. Other institutions,1
educational and charitable-have Dounu-
fully benefited BY his libe,ality. l am
afraid that | shall incur his enmity oy
writing this. SO will do him tue favol
TO notify writers Of begging letters ,na'
the hundreds Of such illusions Sent 70 MI;
Narquand every year rarely get beyonu
the eve OF his secretary, who consienss
them 20 tho waste-basket. Dir. Marauahu
manages his own Denefactions without
assistance from unknown correspondent
He ls. too. one of the few wise MILL mares,
like the late Peter Cooper-he gives MS
money while he has IT, and can himselt see
that it is devoted exactly as he wishes ~
to be. Possibly he IL remarkable; TOO as
a multi-millionairs who can Walk ABOUT
freely and go where be pleases with no
fear Of dynamite cranks.
owYID By coRPoRiToEs.
This allusion 10 the liberality Of the
President OF the Metropolitan Museum or
Art gives me the opportunity 10 cofTeGt
very current error. even IN this town. that
the museum belongs 10 the CITY,. Inc
city furnishes the building and makes an
annual appropriation. which covers ABOUT
one third Of the expense Of opening the
museum 10 the public tree four DAYS and
two evenings IN tn week, and on all non;
davs. including Sundays. The annual
deficit in meeting the expenses mas Deeh
quietly covered by the directors VINO
pulled the needed money out OF thelI
own pockets. The rare collections ot ART
and antiouitv. now amounting IN value 10
about So 900, 600, are the properly OF the
corporators of the institution. VINO can
close the museum tomorrow, II they wis.,
divide the property. or sell II TO anv one
of the foreign governments which would
iump at the chance 20 get II. The clts
does not own so much as the value OF a
silver toofh-pck in this emblage or
treasures. But az those who do own the
collections. ID addition. MAINTAIN tech
meal schools of art for the lnstruc-
ton Of Young men and women, be
sides throwing open their galleries TO the
public. IL does seem As il the city ought
10 paw the expenses of a perpetual eIhibi-
ton, from which the entire public derives
not only enjoyment but education as well.
And the city is willing and even eager to
meet these expenses. All that IS wanted
is authority to make the needed approprla-
ton. and this probably will be secured by
legislation this winter. 1t IS one Of the
marvels Of modern management of mat
tiers and things in Feneral-or 1t must seem
so TO believers IN home rule"-that we
cannot spend our own city money as we
wish without the permission OF rural legls-
lators in Albany.