New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-05-17
GOSSIP OF THE BOROUGH
Fear That Subway Will Weaken
fcodenu of Music Walls.

~ De-. nv pohert Macdonald, pastor Of the
washington Avenue Baptist Church VINO receii'is
brought the Emmanuel Church movement 10 SFooA-
1vn is preparing with his friends to open free
clinic for the treatment OF nervous u'0e'
said yesterday:
In order test the various principles ihNoseu
in this system of the treatment OF nervous us
eases have maintained of late small clinic at
my home The results have been reinarkanle' One
man who had been victim of alcoholism TOT
twenty years was cured under cur treatment al
least he thinks and he is not oilhHihs -
woman who had been treated many years by ply
sieisns for hysteria also cured our "olh 4tos
been on small scale, but II shows "hai can pe
done We take only cases of functional disturb
snces and not organic diseases we VIII cuie -
Tins of insomnia nervous breakdown ana o'Ne1
kindred Affections but only those cases that are
authorized by physicians. There IS no charge Ioi
this treatment and therein the movement diners
radically from Christian Science For TINS reasoi
+. large clinic would not be self-supportlns.
here is strong possibility that the foundations
walls of the new Academy OF Music viii De
-ted by the construction OF the Fourih avenue
subway line. The subway will run through ASH
land Place into Lafayette avenue, and down the
.venue to Fatbush avenue where ii will cross over
:, ror,t1, azenue The structure stands in La
fayette avenue. between Ashland Place and 81
Felix street The bend in the tube will consequent
ly run almost beneath the building. Ex-MaSof
Charles A. Scheren Of the directors. has writ
II
what action had been taken by the engineers in
planning for the building Of the subway TO avoid
damaging the hall. In response. the following note
him by Henry B. Seaman. the chief en-
gineer:
have had a conference with Lowell NJ.
Palmer and his architects, and il is our purpose.
before making detailed plans of this work to confer
Music in order to avoid any possibility of danger
The academy will be ready for by next fall.
II represents an outlay OF more than 100000 A
big winters programme has been mapped out for it.
Part OF il is rented by the Brooklyn Institute OF
Arts and Sciences for business Offices and for
lectures and concerts, at cost of $1,000 year.
There is a great rush to secure seats for the
fourteen nights of grand opera at the Academy of
Music So far $50 have been taken for the
/ full season and least 5000 a night guaranteed
About 1850 still remain the late corners.
The total value Of house With every seat taken
IS g 600 at the present rates II is likely that the
demand viii force the price up. The management
that IL the subscriptions continue to come in
ss they have within the last three weeks the
opera will be supported by subscription patrons
exclusively II supposed that the people would
not subscribe to the opera in Brooklyn when they
could go Manhattan and the display of So
cety at its best and hear the same music for the
money. So il that the academy's seats
placed a slightly lower figure than the
seats in the Metropolitan Opera House. The man
egen1ent knows better
BY April L. weeks after the circulars invit-
ing subscriptions out 535 had been
snapped up for the season, and most of them were
the box and other high priced positions. The peo-
pie who now subscribe will have a chance
cure choice seats and keep them only through
the coming season, but also through succeeding
opera seasons without having TO pay extra
premium after the first year. The season opens
November L. The directors have determined 10
sllot the by auction 20 give the patrons
all fair chance. The auction viii be held in Oc-
toher and every subscriber will have thirty days
notice. According Frederick d. Edsall, the
managing superintendent the directors were
ecruated only by the purest altruistic motives in
deciding upon the auction. They not looking
for the premiums all; the plan is simply devised
enable every have fair chance TO get
the seats he wants The fact that he will have 70
psy for the chance is merely incidental. The
Metropolitan Opera Company will have charge Of
The operate productions.
The best educated patrolrnsn on the Brooklyn
force is. far is known, Frank Douders, who
has been q member of the mounted squad OF the
Payx~ilie station for several years. He Speak
three languages huently, and has often been en-
ploye6 interpret the remarks OF prisoners
ous.ntes with English. He has besides smatter-
ing Of 6 couple OF others. He is the only police
man n New York who holds a degree as an cleo
tricsl engineer Re got his training tn three
winters the night school held in the Manual
Training Eigh School II Seventh He
hopes 70 have the Police Department employ him
in some branch which viii bring his knoui-
edge into use. Deputy Commissioner Baker had
hin attending TO electrical work for sixty days,
btr Douders IL now back al his old job. waiting
fer further assignments in his chosen line.