New-York tribune., 1902-02-18
MUSEUM OFFICERS ELECTED.
MANY GIFTS BESIDES ROGERS LEGACY
RECEIVED FROM PATRONS
AND FRIENDS

At the regular quarterly meeting yesterday of
the board of trustees of the Metropolitan Mu-
scum of Art, Frederick w. Rhinelander presid-
ing there also present Salem II. Wales,
Rutherfurd Stuyvesant William E. Dodge.
Darius o. Mills. John Crosby Brown. whitelaw
Reid. William L. Andrews L. P. Di CesnOla,
Robert W. De Forest and William r. WILCOX
The following officers were reelected for the
year ending February. 1903; President. Henry
G. Marquand: first president, F. w. Rhine
lander; second president. Daniel Hunting
ton: treasurer. William l. Andrews, and secre-
tary. L. P. Di CesnOla.
John Crosby Brown. F. w. Rhinelander and
H. c. Fahnestock were reelected trustees for
the term ending February, 1909 The members
Of the executive committee reelected for the en-
suing year are William F. Dodge. Salem H.
Wales Darius q. Mills Samuel p Avery,
Charles Stewart Smith, John 5. Kennedy. John
L. Cadwalader and ]. Pierpont Morgan. The
members OF the finance committee for the year
ending February, 1908. all of whom were re-
elected. will be H. c. Fahnestock Darius o.
Mills John s. Kennedy and William L. Andrews.
treasurer oficio The members of the audit
ing committee John Crosby Brown. Rutherfurd
Stuyvesant and Edward d. Adams were re-
elected for the year ending February. 1903.
The museum received a number Of gifts and
bequests in the last year from its patrons and
friends. In the will of one of its annual mem
bers. the late Jacob s. Rogers. it was made the
resduary legatee of his large estate, both per-
sonal and real, the amount of which is var-
ously estimated at from S5,O0OOOO to $5,5O0OOo.
Thus far, however, the executors of the will
have not turned over the property to the treas
urer of the corporation. The conditions in the
will that the income only of the fund hereby
created or intended so to be- is to be used
for the purchase OF rare and desirable art OBJ
jects. and in the purchase of books for the
library OF the museum, and for such purposes
exclusively. the principal of the fund not 10 be
used. diminished or impaired for any purpose
whatever.
Four other legacies left to the museum which
have been received are as follows:
From the estate of Victor Henry Burgy. who
died in Paris in 1900 collection of 175 objects,
chiefly OF the period of Henry H. Louis XIII.
Louis XIV and Louis XVI in silver. bronze, sill
YER plated, iron. lead, wood. etc, representing
church candlesticks Italian faience reliquaries.
etc; from the estate of the late Miss NJ A.
Main, ten large plaques. nine porcelain and one
glass, from the estate Of C. " Sidel. portrait
Of John A Sidell, by John Vanderlyn, and from
the estate of Henry Willard $1,000
Among the gifts is one from Charles B. Cur
tis, of ten $1,000 bonds of the Toledo. Peoria and
Western Railway Company; two oil paintings
from Lyman G. Bloomingdale, "A Spanish Girl
by Washington Anston, and Forging the
Shaft" by John F. Weir: 164 musical instru-
menrs. from Mrs John Crosby Brown added
to her collection with 523 portraits of musi-
clans from W. F. Havemeyer. old painting.
In Strange Seas" by George w. Maynard. and
from Alfred Duane Pell, 2I4 specimens Of Euro
pean porcelains.
The number OF visitors to the museum last
year reached 593946 and the statements Of the
treasurer and the finance committee show that
the institution continues to grow steadily in
| financial strength. and is without debt of any
kind. The new east extension. facing Fifth
ave- is finished and ready 10 be equipped The
making Of wall cases has not yet been begun
but as the Board OF Estimate December
Is authorized the sale of bonds for the remain
| ing amount of 100000 authorized by the State
| legislature, it is hoped the making OF the cases
Will now proceed without further interruption.