The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-09-18
Will MAKE ROYAL
GIFT TO new YORK.
Thomas F. Ryan to Spend Great
Sum for Robins Master
pieces.
SCIENCE AND ART. COMBINED
Proprietor Of Philadelphia Paper
Takes Music and Medicine
Cure.
SCIENCE AND ART. COMBINED
by VANCE THOMPSON.

Especial CaOl6 10 Inc :.
Paris. September 17.-Thomas y.
Ryan has given $4,000 as the first In
stalment for selection OF Sculptor
Rodin's works. which he will present
to the Metropolitan Museum of New
York. Ine directors of the museum
have agreed, 1t is said, to put aside
anentire room for the exclusive exhi-
bition OF Robins works.
A selection is now being made which
Will be submitted to a committee
chosen by tho museum. Robins mas-
terpfece. THE Age of Bronze" is now
in the Metropolitan. and round 1t will
be grouped his most characteristic
sculptures.
Mr.. Ryan's project Is so sweeping
IN Its extent that possibly French art
societies may intervene In order to
prevent this wholesale expectation OF
the masterpieces OF the greatest living
French sculptor. Meanwhile Mr.. Ryan's
money Is UP, and / am informed the
Metropolitan Museum authorities are
ready to act
Total Benefaction n Million.
The total sum which Mr.. Ryan in
tends to devote to this royal gift ia
New York Is said to be over 81 100000
MY informant said:
Nr. Ryan will give whatever is
nece ssary. but he Intends that Rod!n'a
S1AaAA 30 " NOW YORK.
One OF the first examples to go viii
probably be Robins huge statue Of
Ba!zac. Another masterpieces which
Rodin has just finished is a bust In
bronze Of Ryan. 1t is a marve1ons
portrait. retaining at the same time
al the vigor and freshness of mas
terly sketch.
am informed that no replicas win
ngure In this rodin museum of New
SY>Nr
eeption Will be replica OF the Joseph
fulitzer bust. which Rodin made two
years ago. The original is in Mr.
pulitzer's house in New York. and ~
NE Pulitzer permits Rodin will send
MS first sketch of the bust in plaster
James Elverson. the venerable pro-
prietor Of the Philadelphia Enquirer
n mas LOT the secorl season taken his
music and medicine cure" in Paris,
lhis combination. which was pre-
scrlbed by DIR. r. Suzor. of 81 Rue
fauoourg. Montrnartre, Paris, bids fair
TO reNolutionize medical science
Ii. Suzor, who is a graduate OF the
universities of Paris and Edinburgh
STANDS high in his profession. Having
MA snosed the case OF the venerable
Slr. E!verson. he found that unless i,,s
nerves were soothed medicine could
nave no enect: hence the introduction
lntothe cure of music by symna
thetic nurse.
Last year this was tried with ex-
ceilent erect but 1t seems that the
music and medicine treatment must be
I,. every year just as the annua,
Sarisbad cure. Mr.. Elverson's nurse 10
distinguished Danish woman named
NINE. Dagmar. She understands the
art Oh music as we'll as the science NJ
medicine. When Mr. Elyerson nama.
over this year Nine. Dagmar accorn-
panied him to AK, taking with her
luil medicine chest and rolls OF tha
most soothing music
Science and Art Combined.
Mnen the melancholy mood came
over the patient apd medicine was In
eneetve Nine. Dagmar would sing one
VI ner curative songs. Sne would do
SO regardless of every one and every
tnlng except the welfare of her pa
tent. and to the surprise of many who
oio not know of the music and medi-
sine treatment she one day sang to
Ner patient in the reading room at
prominent Paris hotel.
Mr.. Alverson has been restored n
health and will return to Philadelpbia q
farls thinks he has started a new
cure. and music anu medicine scienti-
ncaly blended viii in future be pre-.
scTlned for suffering septuagenariaus.
me cruiser SfaX. OF the French
navy, was sold the other day at auc-
lion. 1t was supposed she would go
IKE all worn-out lighting ships for
song. but there was evidently
.strolig party back of the bidding.
Finally the French bidders refused
to go any further, and the Sfax was
knocked down to German bidders from
hamburg. whittier she was taken IN.
der her own steam. The Sfax was
the ship that brought Alfred Dreyfus
back from Devils Island. and She Will |
now Join the auxiliary forces of the
German navy.