New-York tribune., 1905-02-14
MUSEUM WANTS MONEY.
Larger Endorsement Funds asked
for by metropolitan Trustees.

J. Pierpont Morgan presided at the thirty-ffth
annual meeting of the corporation Of the Metro
poltan Museum of Art yesterday afternoon in the
OF the trustees of that institution. No action
was taken toward eIecting two new members of the
board of trustees TO fill vacancies. 1t
nounced by the secretary. Robert W. De Forest.
that this would be taken up at the meeting of the
board of trustees next Monday.
Several amendments to the constitution OF the
corporation were proposed and adopted. The re-
port of the treasurer was also read and the thirty
fifth annual report of the trustees was presented
and adopted
In the report of the trustees mention is made of
the death in the year of Samuel PutEam Avery.
Frederick w. Rhineander and General Louis P. di
Cesnola. and the comment is made that with their
deaths the generation which watched over the mU-
scum at it's birth and directed it's early develop
ment has almost passed away. Only two of the
original trustees remain in active service They are
Joseph FL Cheate and Rutherfurd Stuyvesant.
The report calls attention to the establishment of
the museum in private house. with only few
objects on temporary eXhibitioT-rnostly lent. II
had no assured incoE,e. Now three-fourths of the
income needed for maintenance is provided by the
city. and it has assured income of 100000 for
the purchase of objects of art.
The trustees speak of the great care they had TO
exercise in finding a successor to General di Ces-
noIa the director. They believe they have found
a worthy one in Sir Caspar PurdOn Clarke, the
former art director of the South Kensington Mu-
scum and they congratulate the American people
high position In his country 10 come here
He is essentially man Of the people" the re-
port reads. '-and having won his way to distinction
by his own efforts. many of our own country
men have done. feel that he will find hearty
welcome and congenial home in American Re
public"
The trustees say they are not yet prepared to an
nounce the choice of the curators. they want
to have a conference with the director before
making final selections.
al M auH-fIf
tees should put themselves in the position Of the
founders. and test their wisdom In accepting gifts
by the situation which then confronted them. Nor
did those founders have any alternative in what
they did accept. 1t take everything offered or
nothing"
The museum says the report. has already taken
place among the great storehouses of art in the
civilized world ANY works OF art are honored by
a place in its halls The trustees have TO
enlarge their collections and they have been at lib
erty in years to exercise more careful dis
elimination in accepting gifts. They may
vigorously exclude all which do not attain to ac-
knowledged standards. and they can now. for the
first time, buifd up their collections according to
comprehensive scientific plan.
In doing So they say 1t will be the aim of the
trustees not merely to assemble beautiful objects
and display them hqrmoniously, stlli less to amsss
a GGeGtSp OF Of iferen Countries and times In
such relation and sequence as to Illustrate the
it's teaching and 20 inspire its national develop
ment.
The trustees report that the expenses for the
current wear exceed by $4,000 the ctys appropria-
ton for that purpose. and this has TO be made up
from the private resources of the Museum. But
for this deficiency they report. the private
sources could be used TO extend the collections
From now on they have the income from the Jacob
s. Rogers fund bur it Is limited to the purchase
OF and desirable art objects and books for the
library.
The trustees say there should be endowment
fund for such expense of maintenance the city
does not meet and there should be still larger
endowment fund for new purchases without re-
strcttons of character and scope They report that
they have obtained the necessary legislation for
the building OF wing for 81. $4,000 for which
MeKim Mead & White have been made architects
During the year, the report SAYS in ending, ''the
Museum, has substantially realized the full
OF the Jacob s. Rogers generous hequest II
amounts, carried on the books OF the Museum
70 A,sots11 IS. assuring an annual income of over