New-York tribune., 1909-04-18
BROOKLYN NEWS
GOSSIP OF THE BOROUGH
Marble Group To Be Added to
Eastern Park5cay Collection.

-,,. group. entitled Cleopatra Before
&c soon be added 20 the collection Of
C@sD1, I,o,xIyu Museum in the Eastern Parkway
ne - o,,n was donated by the heirs of the late
Ihe r Martin It is in the Martin home
aohH lL,.b 81 will be removed to the museum in
tiOI ~ davs The piece weighs several tons,
.. ~ .rensportation will be difficult The work
snu ,+e - the Queen being carried by slave into
essence Of the Master of Rome. who is not
lH se,ted Il executed by V Lucardi. an
r.siian sculptor IN fNoiiio' Al A0'N A' 'o'' - 4N
- bsve been 20,ea.
.,,,cus accident occurred in Brooklyn recently.
= ri-ls were scrsmbling for pieces Of coal which
wv 60 a-onped by the carts as they passed op-
... coal yard in Degraw street. near the Go
P,,s Canal. In springing after a piece Of coal
We .-ls bumped their heads together. One of them
~ w tnocsed by the blow against q truck which
IS standing by the curb When she did not move
- .on7nsYfon became frightened and ran away,
H .,+lv unhurt. The second girl had to be
- "a the hospital Both her legs had been fract-
ured By the n1shaD'
-. Brooklyn College of Pharmacy. OF which
.ob "A Rehfuss IS president. has been relieved OF
=. -,o-tgage debt In honor of the occasion a ban
=. v-as held and a facsimile of the paper was
Snsigr7ed 10 the flames in the regulation style The
-+gsre secured a debt Of coo which the college
ed the Williamsburg Trust Company The col
sgs building Is at Nos 2S9 and 21 Nostrand avenue.
= William Muir. one Of the trustees Of the in
-,,.,,ion ofaciated at the burning. He placed the
- tn 2 bronze mortar. said TO be five centuries
"a where Il was burned 70 ashes. While It
IS burning the assembly arose and sang the
Dd1olosy
p-otessor Franklin W Hooper, director of the
-,otlvn Institute Of Arts and Sciences. struck
sss+ering chord the other day a meeting Of
- vrou1en's auxiliary board philharmonic
o,csrts An attempt made at the meeting by
,s, Eenrv I Judson and others TO get the board
. srnnort the reorganized New York Philhar-
-ic society Of which Gustav Mailer IS
s,+,- The society intends to hold five concerts at
+L Academy Of Music next winter, but not under
,ts srspjces Of the institute, as the Boston Sym
-,orv orchestra does. The friends Of the society
t.va raised 2 guarantee fund OF $4,000 to enable it
!, hnid concerts is Manhattan in the coming three
-ssrs Although he ner's auxiliary board has
.sfused &c support ;he society IN its opposition to
-. institute the women failed 10 take any such
,..nd After listening 10 the discussion. DR.
Hooper said:
..roth BROOKLYN and Manhattan need more good
-snsie deplore the spirit that has encouraged
onsrs in late years at the expense Of symphonic
- char7ter music both Of which represent pure
music have watched with interest the work OF
u-s Sheldon and her associates in connection with
.bA New York Philharmonic Orchestra, but l be
1--we that il these concerts are not given unoer
- sgnfces Of the Brooklyn Institute il will mean
.be 6esthblow to the institute With the opera in
cor1retition il has been of life or death IN
-be last season for the institute and any action
m ro,r mart for the support OF these concerts, ez-
rent +hrough the institute. VIII iniict an almost
sataI blow upon US Mrs. Sheldon, as former resi-
6sn- of BROOKLYN, knows about conditions here
o,6 what the cooperation Of the institute has
meant with regard to musical events"