New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-02-16
OFFICERS OF TIE NJ. N. A.
p Morgan, Vice-President-
Mann Visitors IN Year.

Manu- y 3SIJOIS III car.
,.. ,rs-,s-iv meeting OF ire board or
ne 49, ,rer-opolitan Museum OF Art. F. ".
r1siF -. -reei5i1g was held yesterday after
bii' -. museum. There were present Charles
roon = Go 70 o Mills John l. Cadwalader,
stew, n Adams =. Pierpont Morgan. George A.
bo". vrres.aw Rci1 John Crosby Brown, John
Be- Frederick Dielman. Rutherfurd Stuy-
BE- samuel p Avery. John 5. Kennedy VIII
Andrews and General Louis = o. Itsho-a-
hIa = ... trustees for The term ending February.
TIC -, p avery. John s. Kennedy and George
y were unanimously reelected
> ps,-earder the president. was re-eiecteo.
= ". y. ..o-ea- was elected first vice-presi-
. --sce o. the late William +. DodEe Ruth
c- e..,-,.eSart was elecsed second vice-presioent
err. - ,lece OF Daniel Huntington. resigned.
. = e. r-astocls the treasurer. and General LOUIS
p ~,ero'a. the secretary. were reelected
? 9 ~...ti,. committee elected includes r. ".
TT pierpont Morgan. Rutherford
Bhae. 81 r. Fahnestock General Louis p. di
s9' n n --us s T. Avery. Charles Stewart
Oe ronr Kennedy, John l. CaoWalaoer,
So \ Andrews, ELhu Root and Daniel Q.
red 49,. ..,---,,++ee are yohr
- n o. Mills John Crosby Brown and
49,. -..e+,-r The members OF the auditing
-,--ittse are bc"aIo ~
- George a. Hearn
- - ~ the trustees for the Lass year says
--.-,f~sl management has enabled the ao-
tl', - 10 keep within the appropriations. A
i--.s,-,sle mart of the Rogers oequest mas oeen
- 49, she executors 20 the treasurer ana ne
CIV -, soor De- paid. Untl The uuproductve
....-. and securities are converted INTO N
- hearing securities no ecc-l &c
-. i-oooe can be arrived al
eHD'l - D., fhe trustees 20 keep befo-e me
d. - 81. co-no-a.ion and the public the tact
-. ,--7-,e OF the Rogers fund Is restricted 70
l.-- -. n rare and desirable art oolecJs ana
-, 80 ne library. and that no part OF 'ne 80
Dol's - =. -ss6 for other purposes. The report
cone car .. ,,s.+ need for additional income
= -.,,-iss rua wages. Catalogues 4'.- "
i0I -. - maintenance involved I'd the lns-ai-
i. affections 81 Che new o-i.oifg-
-, - n g. The number OK persons VINO
Al ", .sr-, vas 655ls7. showing an Increase
.-,.,-s ever the previous year. -no On
- e 'sst the turust'les had reco'oe1 ''--
-, 80 an increase Of l2s.70S from lsl-.
eA n1lt - -. .bo .-rnstNe record book q lle
.,,. t11o- -q7 persons visited the luSl'--
-. Mech "a 1850. 20 December 81 ls-''
- II ,-,--b so lssl there were no registering
-. 81 she museum The visitors were
.---,ss 6sfly by he attendants employed TOT tHa'
.~-,,ss b,.t no record was kept ~ the nuInoeF-
Tn The last year the museum mas 'ost oE -
.,,..ic- and removal from the city. lS menoers'
-. - grs new ones were obtained. which
=. - -s,lsoes the lost ones. but added thlTy
-. al t-s fsf OF members. The total num- Der o.
members is 22aS ..-.
7,s collections o. the museum continue 70 aI'ract
. -, -r,,l,e- ~ classes from colleges ana nrifate
,rbools from au parts ~ this State. smong "nlch
sbs-a Qas ore Of US cadets from West Point NnueI
the guidance OF several officers. in charge Of Oolo-
nj Charles w Ln-ned. professor a. The Mllitaiy
Loa5srnv. who epeut most OF the Gay examining
str6virg the collections and taking notes These
classes usually come 20 the museum IN good
x.e-tber su zoe autumn and winter
The de7artmfut Of paintings has issued 70 art
r-u6er-s 21l permits 70 copy. and the number of
mixtures coined by them in The year was Si IN
tho other departments ia permits were Issued
The number OF classes % art students from schools
and colleges that visited THE museum was seventy
three.
Among the be1uests IN the last year was one OF
500 from The estate OF Samuel D. Bsbcock. The
c.fts Included a portrait or Shakespeare by Will
fam PAGE from Mrs Frances G. Barlow and her
rhree sisters Airs John Crosby Brown added is
musical instruments 20 her collection. John L.
CaLwaader gave forty-three ancient Egyptian
soarabs From Mrs Emma Nattaiessen. IN mem
o-y Of her husband. r. o. M1uhiessen. were re-
cevCd szty-th-ee art objects Of rock crystal Jade
ana ivory vases etc. Of the sixteenth seventeenth
and nineteenth centuries DR.. Louis l. Seaman
gave three ancient Chinese bells and Alfred Duane
pei added forty-tk-ee specimens OF European por-
ceain 90 the collection presented IN other years.
=. T. LOubat gave a marble table by Bartolni and
William z. Dodge. before his death. gave the
museum TWO oil paintings. The Valley q vau-
cluse. BY Thomas Cole and The Protest OF LII
uer' by ". Linden Schmit. Mrs. John Jay Chap
man gave three Oh paintings "A Garden Party"
~ raieri Portrait ~ a Lady" by Drouais. ard
venus Win Sea Nymphs." by CoypeL