New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-09-10
PERSONAL.

To-day Mr. Enoch Pratt, OF Baltimore Is eighty.
.sven wears OF age. He is enjoying exceptionally
oood health. and will celebrate the day by work.
Inc az usual at his desk In the Farmers and Plant.
ers' Bank. returning 10 I''oh, MS suou'oan home
by an afternoon train.
German paper tells new story about the
late Dr. Won B1low. A lady OF the German cour,
insisted on being present at the rehearsal OF a
symphony and her opportunities at length pre-.
vailed But Won BuIow prepared terrible re-
yense. He directed the frst bassoon 10 play he
biieato. The MUSICIAN compiled. and long b.
tore had anshed his sPR9ntes II task *.
guest in hThe Ancient Mariner" who beat hiss
Breast for he heard the loud bassoon"
Tomorrow, the anniversary OF the battle ~
Brandy wine the citizens OF Chester County Penn
will unveil a memorial shaft to General Lafayette
The shaft is fifteen feet high. and was purchased
with money contributed by the public school chill.
dren of Chester County. II WIN be located on tn.
highest point Of the battlefield. and on the SPOT
where II is supposed General Lafayette stood When
he was Wounded us years ago. 1t is near "1 Tn
OF the scene OF the battle and is one OF the
place is superb To the north IS Osborne's Hill, on
which Lord Howe and General CORVALLIS viewed
the battle. and beyond that stands the spires 81
West Chester. To the west Is the valley OF ths
Brandyw.ne. and Off In the blue distance are The
Welsh Mountains.
The 'Rundschau" sys that Johann Strauss ana
Johannes Brahms notwithstanding the extremely
contrary direction OF their musical Talents,
intimate friends. and each has a genial apprs-
clation OF the others music. This kindly rela.
ton of the two masters expressed In a pleas.
ant manner by Brahms at the recent betrothal Pes.
tival OF the daughter OF Johann Strauss In Isch
Fraulen Strauss begged Brahms 10 nscrbe hi
autograph on her fan. He wrote the first line IA
her fathers IAN der schopen blaue1 Donau'' in
musical notes. and added the words Alas not by
Johannes Brahms!"
James r. Mckee. Of the Edison General Electric
Company, OF Schenectady, has leased the W n
Mccall cottage, No. Circular-st. Saratoga which
he will occupy with his family during the winter
Possession will be taken Immediately. Express.
dent Harrison will spend some portion Of the time
this fall with the family.
DR.. Jonathan Alderman Coles has purchased for
presentation the city OF Newark. " j. a beau.
tiful group In bronze. II consists OF three figures
American Indian. his wife and her mother each
fesize. The group executed in Rome by the
the story, given by Parkman and others OF an
Indian who married captive white girl Some
years later the girls mother her but thS
daughter failed to remember her, until she sang
one OF the old songs that she had sung years ago
for her child. The group will nave especial
that State is said to be the only State in the Union
that always paid the Indians for their land d.
Coles is son OF the late DR. Abraham Colea
whose translation Of the Latin hymn Dies Irssa
Is well known.
Mrs. Margaret Custer Calhoun, a daughter OF
General Custer, has been invited to read a paper
on Blue and Gray Day" September a. at the Az.
lanta Exposition, by the Board OF Woman Man.
ayers