The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-04-08
New York .ceHer.

NEW YORK, April Gen. T. Estrada
Palma, president-elect of the Cuban re-
public. was the guest of honor of the
Chamber of Commerce at a luncheon
given at its rooms. There were only a
lew informal speeches. President Nor
ris K. Jessup presided. Gen. Palma re-
sponded to the toast THE Republic of
Cuba"
The Cuban colony Of the city will
tender a banquet to their president-eleet
at the Union Square hotel on April r.
This occasion is to bring together Cubans
of every political belief in the island and
will really be in the nature of a farewell
demonstration as Gen. Palma has definite
ly decided to leave for Cuba on April
II. About 100 invitations have been is
sued.
Gen. Palma has returned her from his
Central Valley home with his wife and
four of his children. Sonora Palma and
the children will not accompany the gen.
eral to Cuba, but intend to join him at
Havana early in May.
Rubens' "He1y Family Sold
SiXty-four paintings of the collection of
the late T. o. Matthiessen We're sold at
auction in NIendelssohn hall. The total
receipts of the sale amounted to S34S, $50.
Among the paintings sold are some of the
finest productions of the old masters ever
brought to this country, pre-eminent
among them being 1.-The Holy Family
by Peter Paul Rubens, which was sold
last night to George P. Blow, of Pitts
burg, for $4,000
The Holy Family was almost the last
picture offered for sale, and when it was
displayed it was greeted by a storm of
applause. Mendelssohn hall was crowded
to the doors long before the time set for
the sale, and the bidding on all the bet
ter paintings presented was most spirited {;
but when the Rubsns was uncovered there
was breathless pause which lasted for
almost minute, until the auctioneer an
heunced that he had received a first bid
of $4,000 1t was several minutes before
the renewed applause which greeted the
bid had subsidized, and the real bidding on
the masterpiece began in earnest.
Ihe first advance on the Rubens was
a,0O0, and then it kept on going up in
LOCO bids until the price offered reached
$4,000. The auctioneeF announced that it
had cost Mr. Matthiessen $50 900 to get
the painting to this country. Up to that
time the increasing offers for the paint
ing had been coming from all over the
house and these continued until the price
offered for the picture was $35 500. After
that the bidding was confined between
two men, Mr.. Blow and somebody sitting
we'll in the rear Of the hall, who kept on
bidding until he had offered $45, 500, when
he allowed the painting to be bid in by
Mr.. Blow for $4,000. The name of this
bidder could not be learned
The painting which brought the next
highest price to the Rubens was
Harvesting the Poppies," by Jules Bre-
ton, which was finally bid in by Joseph F.
sutton, an agent for the buyer, whose
name could not be learned, for $36 500.
The Breton, which was well down in the
Middle OF the list, was the first picture
presented, and was greeted by the entire
assemblage in Mendelssohn hall with a
ourst OF applause. The first bid was
5000, and until the price offered had
reached $4,000 the advances were CON
fined to $1,000 each.
Military Musicians May Strike
Nowhere in military history is it writ
ten that soldiers ever Were awakened by
feVeille on fishh0rn or ordered to bed
with taps" on a steamboat dinner gong
But those distinctly unmartiaI lnstrn-
hents may have to be used in the state
camp at Peekskill this summer if tho
held musicians continue in their present
state of Indignation
Indignation is hardly the word Incini
ent rebellion comes nearer to describing
the actual state Of affairs. If the laborAr
IS worthy Of his hire, the field musicians
ask, why have they not received the fuII
wage promised them? They are the fret
men up in camp, tumbling out half asIeen
70 sound the 'I-can't -get- emu can't
ger em-up IN the ears of the Iaggards
ana they are also the last men to turn