The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-11-11
Some Gossip Gathered From
The Gay American Metropolis

! NEW YORK, Nov. 1.-THE Metro
politan Opera company will begin its
| fourth season under the direction OF
Guilio Gatta-Casazza next Monday eve
ming with a performance OF Aida -
and there is every indication that the
opening performance will be a great
| artistic as we'll as social success. The
cast will include Nine Destin. who
will sing the title role: Caruso, who
will make his temperance as Rha-
danes and Margaret Matzenauer. the
ne" contralto, who is cast for the
| part OF Amnerls. Signor Toscanni
Will conduct AS usual on the opening
night of the Metropolitan opera sea
| son everybody who is somebody will
attend the performance and TO figure
up the billions of wealth represented
! by the occupants of the row Of boxes
| in the golden horseshoe" would make
any ordinary mortal dizzy
The new season promises to be quite
| interesting to music lovers. One of
| the interesting announcements is that
| the new American opera Mona" the
! music by Prof. Horatio Parker, OF
Yale, and the libretto by Bryan Hook
er, will be given its first production
during the season. Other new works
! to be presented are Boris Godounoff,"
by the Russian composer Moussorgsky
and "Lobetanz,' by Thuille. Further
| more, the American premiere of lie
Dome Duriose" will be given, and the
composer, Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari has
promised to be present on that occa-
sion. The season will include several
performances of "Parsifal," and COM
plete cycle of the Nibelungen Ring.
Last years operate novelties, The
Girl of the Golden West" and "koe-
nigskinder" are again to be presented
and the repertoire Of standard operas
| will include Bizet's " Carmen" which
has not been heard at the metropolitan
for several years.
Public School 2, located on Henry
street near Pike street in Manhattan
will celebrate it's centenary anniver-
sary next week in manner befitting
| the historical Importance of the event.
The board Of education and the gradu-
ates of the school have combined their
efforts in arranging an elaborate pro-
gram for the exercises.
THE old Seventh Ward School, is
| the name by which the school used to
be known for many years in it's early
history. That was before the district
changed and when Montgomery street
and Henry street and Pike street were
lined with neat brick dwellings with
carved doorways and knockers and all
that distinguished in those days the
homes of substantial citizens. Today
about the only English heard in that
neighborhood is spoken in the class.
rooms of the school. Alien languages
are heard almost exclusively outside
it's walls and crowded tenements now
surround it on every side.
The site on which the school of to-
day stands was given to the city for
establishing free school in the city of
New York by Col. Henry Rutgers. 1t
consisted of two lots and in 1906,
when the gift was made, the value of
the two lots was estimated at $4,000
The building used at present is the
second erected upon that plot. The
first school, which was opened on
November 10, 1911, accommodated on
a pinch $50 children. Into the present
building there are squeezed about o.
500 children, nearly all Russian Jews.
The original building was remodeled