The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-12-25
Boxful From Waiter DAM
rosch's House Nipped
Off Express Wagon.
A $4,000 PRIZE AT STAKE
Six Best Works, With Others, In
the Two Boxes, One Of
Which Is Gone.

last two wears hav. been trying fnr the
sIO."n pris. offered hy the Metrop rlitti
Opera Company -'n encourage Americn
compn-..r~ ,ar. 10 confusion ye-t~r,irr
when = hoS weighing about fo,tv poInd,.
which nilir"d "a ruiubpr II the ~
B 'hestril sores N manuscript. vss stolen
, from Adams LNpre.' IDn1ITr wIyrI
while tn. colleCto? was picking up moro
eNpreSsage IN a cigar factory at 22o hast
Sixty-ihi-d street. In" box tar wts
stolen mad been takCh INTO the wag,n
| early Yesterday afternoon az the homo
! of Walter Dsmru-ch, al IS Ia, Sixty
/ first street
About twenty-five mEnUscrIpi 'op.cs.
all s,gn. with assumed nar"s uno"r
he condt ions OF b." con- 90; were .urr~i
ovc- abou zen DAYS ago by QUO Kahn.
chairman OF the cxe-u.ive committees
/ OF m. Ne ropolr, Al Ope:a Company. to
h.. four judGc who were 20 award ths
prize. Waite Damro-ch. \frci Hc-tz.
G-org. " Chadwick. head of tn. Boston
Con-e-vat Org OF Music. and Charles
LoeIler Of the Bo-,o on symphony Or
| ch--tra
The box stolen yesterday was one Of
wo which were being sent by Mr. DAM
rosch Mr. Chadwick al Boston In the
wo We're tn" six manuscripts from which
he priz> composition was % have teen
| selected as well some OF tho
others And - Mr. Damn osch said lass
nigh, when told by SUS reporter Of tbs,
reported theft OF the box. unless copie.
of the manuscript; scores were kept by
the contestants some one possibly has
lost his masterpiece. not TO mcntion the
$40 go prize and the glory Of having an
opera staged at the etropolitan Opera
House which also was a promise Of tbs
prize givers
man who gave his name as James
! Macomb and who said he was a repre-
sentative Of the Adams Express Compan
and attached to tn. express companys
branch Office Al 1857 Third avenue. came
\ TO the East Sixty -reventh street police
station last night and told Lieut. Breel
/ that while one Of the company drivers
! was IN the cigar factory earlier IN the dsy
I collecting package- some one had taSen
! from the wagon the box from the Dam
3 ro-ck house hut had pa s-sd over a second
( box of the same weight and which also
war directed to Director Chadwick nv
! Mr. Damrosch
| When MIR Dpmro-,h was seen -no Iy
after bv the reporter and told of the. net
/ h.. h~am- very much excited
4 backed iu,. boy.-- , week. ago st
Mr. Damro-cn, IN EN- With ol-s
w.r. the six manuscripts thou-R-
the best az ~ hen good "a
ary on" Of hen IN irne 'nr NJ -.
pr.h". az "ourS. don ,n'w who wro..
tn.-- comp - iti0r- h.. W. IA. ,an-
=, ions Of ne con, s. Wa. not pe-nt
. N. composer ,u -lgu hI- "Nu ma II. % us
maurscriu.
'infs - awfrr tvfui' con ~.aI
Eu.g wGI.n marrl....ln - uscla. IN N,
=, Glen box or which n he box hs. re-
mains cen min. III. . p,r of on.
| urn,..cr,rr MAY IN. IN III. !. o;-n taS,
- nrr..S he. IL 49, -, .,.y I've. ~ ~. nrA
! laf ou -h. v,nror Nr. = Ne cantaS -
d,,ir'. 4unlic,t. fh~,r 1inrt ..cTip.- vii
H., ur.ttv tough ON them
! nut n valu. of only $40 on .a-h box.
/ bir som. pla~. within one of them Is q
manuscripi rha, - worth not only inc
/ slnaD 10 he. awarded to it, Great in
p-,z.. money but p.rhap- many r,o.-
/ ,b.u..,ds IN stare and music p,,bIiraIiou
ROYALTIES
! MIR Damrosch Wa too excited when hs
| frs, heard OF ih. loss OF the box to 70
! further INTO details Just then Over At
IN. express corpanv's branch Office in
Third avenue the company was holding
tn. remaining box 20 await Mr.. DAM
ro-ch'- arrival before opening " Before
! h. I..f, the house Mr. Damrosch teiephoneh
o.. tI..,,,,,ar,.rs ,r,y,n, ,ha, u.aa-
- -i.I - -, - -
qua ,F'@ n"A- ~ :"
ger the HhS1ihk "a7.s p's. Nv
telephoned however defective Mcbce
and a squad OF Central ONCE men already