New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-04-21

have for some time been on the Museum walls are
70 be returned The owners. and their places are
- be taken by now acquisitions. About thirty al
thos. which belong o. Theodore VI. Davis. are be-
INK boxed flr shipmen, To Newport. Two pictures
by m. late William Hart are to leave the galleries;
one. The Last Clean" going TO J. X Moser' 81
Allentown. Penn and the other. THE Golden
Hour" being sent back 70 william Rockefeller.
Among the new pictures will be loans from Mrs
Israel Corsc II NeW-Iork. ard considerable ail'-
tIon % the works already Placed In the Museum
by Nr Hearn. Russell Sturgis has made num-
Der ~ gifts 10 the institution
Advantage is being taken ~ housecleaning time
>, make some changes in the electric lights for the
better exhibition % the pictures. elders are at
work ON the picture frames which need repairs.
when the frames only cracked In places ana
ue-l a I.tt.e rc;ouch.ns. the workman comes 10 'he
gallery with his putty glue and gold leaf ana going
from one 10 another makes each frame what
eyer repairs ar needed In other instances. IArtc-
ulary in the ease of large frames. 1t Is found best
IA TAX. them from the walls and send them To pet
ura- frame shops whcnc' they come back looking as
good AS new Frequently canvaseS need thorough
WASHING The ElIss-covered pictures also require
attention The glasses have % be taken out ana
cleaned and often the pictures themselves, In spite
Of TN. covering, have be- sponged on Picture
g.asses like lamp-chimneys. have erratic ways Now
ana than one will crack without apparent OCCASION
and "A new plate must b" provided
This is the week when the marble statues al nave
their seml-annual baths. Al other times they get
nothing but a dry wash" During the season the
marbles are busted about once "A week. Out great
paiu. are taken to have this work done only on
dry day; otherwise the moisture in the atmosphere
wound make the dust stick In places and the result
would be streaks OF back across the figures In
this process only the finest busters are used which
are kept solely FOR This purpose ana are not even
,un,ov,l IA whsk the dirt from the pedesials. the
i,.ss hahn no IN r mod tfp
indcp,ndcntly With all this care one would expect
- 6nI the statuary quite c.ean after six months.
Inn, 10 j. in fact decidedly dirty when compared
with really clean marble. Dust VIII settle ana STICK
and visitors VIII touch the pieces. 80, Wheh path-
ing time comes all the white figures are ready Tor
if First great white cloths are draped behind the
statuary 70 keep water from being spattered on the
wall. Then one or two men, with small cans 81
pumice flour. some water and some round-paint
h,,sb.s n,rh,us An inch in diameter begin To scrub
IN, pumir, and water Is brushed all over the mar
bile and into all the folds and crevices ana when
the work is done the s,atuary IS as white as when
first cut from the block
IN. p.astcr casts cannot be washed. They must
H.. content with an extra careful, busting. and the
nos.il,,. runbng with a little white powder. which
serves to chalk over particularly dirty places The
model of the Pantheon. which Is protected inside
and out with glass p,at"s to Keep visitors myers
nj a dlstanci. furnishes eNactnS WORK ior 'he
ccaner. The sass Is r(moVed' ana a'' inc "'''
'rhc cleaning OF the cases is an immense WORK.
tn hing which Ike owe bids defiance to bolts
and bars The impa.pabe powder VIII silt IN ana
pSi"rts which they contain. SO the fronts are
unScreweI al the exhibits taken out the Interior
thornuch.y brushed. ard the pieces busted, rear
r ,,,' where necessary 10 make room for new
acquisitions. and IN that case renumGerrd ana re-
easaa observer but those which hsye been IN
bppn untouched since the autumn