Arizona republican., 1908-11-03

patronage of struggling musicians, painters and sculptors. She was
 largely responsible, it is understood, | for the social prominence of Timo-
 thee AdamOwski. for many years one | of the chief performers of the Boston | Symphony orchestra and now one of the most celebrated private teachers in America, and of George Proctor, the pianist. In Giosue Zingali, a | needy Italian sculptor of the North ! End, she once found a man capable
 of doing better than ordinary commer- | cial work and made it possible for him to get his start in life. Once at South End theater she noticed musician cheaply attired and evi- dently poorly paid, whose performance
 was such that he seemed capable of higher things. On inquiry she dis covered that this man had written
 music. but that he had no money to pay for >printing it or setting it up. 1 Through her help he became sue cessful teacher and recipient of royal 1 ties on many successful compositions. At her famous Italian gardens at Green Hill, a suburb of Boston, Mrs.
 Gardner has frequently had on her
 
 men. Persons have sometimes won ! dered why so many were needed to prune the hedges and cut the grass. Those who have known the circum- stances, however. have understood that they were employed rather to as sist them than to help Mrs. Gardner. At times as many as fifty Harvard students and candidates for musical career have thus been at work around the estate Laboring outdoors, amidst attractive surroundings, these student proteges have found reasonably re-
 munerative, dignified and interesting work for which they have to thank the ever helpful Mrs. Jack"
 Mrs Gardner's troubles and tribu- lations with Uncle Sam's treasury have grown out of her unselfish anX- iety to promote American art. Recog
 niZin that a first essential to our having competent painting and sculp-
 ture in this country is to make avail able to the whole public examples of the greatest art of the ages, attract lively set forth, she built some years ago in what was then a bleak and | barren district on the outskirts of Boston her famous Italian palace. l This is legally denominated the "Isa- bella Stuart Gardner Museum in the Fenway, Limited" It is more gen orally known, as the paraphrase in
 Mrs. Keays' book indicates, by the the name of Fenway Court. In this structure, plain but picturesque in l outward appearance, are the treasures gathered during lifetime of discrim- mating collecting. The perfect adapt atiOn of all the pictures and sculp- lures and other objects of art to their surroundings make the palace quite different from the ordinary museum. | The compartments are given such names as the Titan room, the VerOn- csc room, the Dutch room, the Chi nese room, and so on, each on ac- count of the general character of it's contents. Among the treasures are world famous works such as the Chigi Madonna which disappeared from Italy and few years ago turn ed up in the Fenway collection; a | bronze bust by Benvenuto Cellini, of which Michael Angelo once wrote in a personal letter. T have for years known you for one of the ablest jew elers in the world and I now find that
 
 tor" Titian's great masterpiece, "The Rape of Europe" painted by Philip II of Spain as part of the dover of his daughter who was to have been married to Charles l of England; little Pieta by Raphael which was once in the possession of Queen Christiana of Sweden; Botti- celli's Death of Lucretia" from Lord Ashburnham's collection, and many others.
 The expectation was that as Fen
 way Court is open to the public at stated intervals, and is thus virtually one of the art muesums of the coun-
 try, works of art could be imported without payment of the duties which are assessed upon wealthy private collectors. In this way Mrs Gardner's comparatively limited funds, for she is not enormously rich as fortunes are
 now measured-would go much fur ther, to the permanent advantage of all classes of Americans. But the courts ruled otherwise and the owner of the palace in the Fenway in 1903 paid the government somewhat over S200,000 in contested duties on i'm pOrtations. She might then have de- cided to close her palace to the pub lie altogether, but, despite Uncle Sams attitude, she has continued to open it on certain days, the proceeds from the admission fees going to some of the charities in which she is interested. A recent case in which a friend of Mrs. Gardner's in Chicago imported treasures destined for Fen
 way Court on q basis alleged to be one of under valuation is generally familiar.
 Mrs. Gardner is, generally supposed to be hostile to the newspapers. She prefers, it is said, to read Walter Pater or Epictetus in books printed on hand made paper and bound by Golden -Sanderson. It has been re- ported, however, and not denied, that she has maintained a private press clipping bureau. the entire time of one man being devoted to reading newspapers for articles which men, ton her or which in any way are connected with the subjects in which she is interested.
 Whatever her attitude toward the papers, she cannot be induced to give out interviews. One of the few oc- casions in which she talked for pub lication was when two young news