New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-20
THRONC SEES MORGAN
COLLECTION At MUSEUM
President Taft and His Party
in Crush That Beats All
Previous Records.
WILL PAY SECOND VISIT
Raphaels Madonna of SAINT
Antonio" Proves Most Pop
ular to Those Who Could
Get Inside Gallery.

Get Inside Gallery.
one of the greatest throngs that ever
entered the doors of the Metropolitan
Museum Of Art Vas attracted there
esterday. primarily by the J. Pierpont
Morgan loan collection of paintings. 1t
vas the first Sunday they had been on
view and the crowd was record one.
stimates placing the attendance be-
.ween 1900 and 1900 An suspicious
all sunday only brings out between
1.WO and 1000 visitors.
President Taft and his party were in
he crush. He motored 10 the museum
with Mrs. Taft and her sister. Mrs.
Louis More, Of Cincinnati; Major
Rhoades and the Secret Service men 10
see the Morgan collection. The PTesi-
dent had been anxious 10 see Mr.. Nor
gan's art loan. particularly the paint
iugs and the porceains. and so he
braved the chances of getting into a
grand rush Of Sunday visitors about
the museum gates. Despite the throng
the Presidential party had a comfort
able time enjoying the exhibit before
the crowd grew SO large that il almost
required police assistance to handle it.
Edward Robinson. the director. con
Quoted the party around.
Or. Robinson found in President Taft
u ore than the ordinary critic Of art.
The President has had the advantage
T.. Taft. whose private museum in Gin
cinnati ranks second only to that Of Mr..
Morgan in this city.
Taft to Pay Another Visit,
The President told Director Robinson
that he regretted his inability TO spend
more time studying the exhibit. Dr.
Robinson then extended a special in
vitation 10 the President to come down
next spring from New Haven 70 eX-
anime the rest of the exhibit The
President thanked Mr.. Robinson and
said nc certainly would do SO.
The record Sunday came as climax
To- more or less record weeE. The at
tendance. il was declared had been in
creased five times over since the Nor
gan paintings were placed on view,
Monday a week ago. Including yester-
days attendance the pictures have at
tacted approximately thirty thousand
persons.
The museum officials were prepared
for the tidal wave Of visitors Preced-
ing days gave an indication OF what
sunday would bring forth should it be
a favorable day Attendants were so
placed that persons passing in 10 view
the pictures did not interfere with those
coming cut In this way. when what
was considered safe number were in
the gallery the overflow was turned
temporarily into an adjoining gallery.
Hundreds Of persons who wanted TO
see the paintings could not do so. They
gradually filtered into other galleries
when they grew tired OF waiting 10 see
the Morgan treasures. Even in a gal
'cry three times the size occupied BY
he twenty-nine Morgan paintings
here would have been some who would
iot have been able 10 see the pictures.
only one other exhibition AT the
museum has brought out anything like
uCh a crowd 10 sec the pictures in the
rs, week OF their exhibition. and that
vas during the Hudson Fulton celebra
Ion. when a loan collection Of old mas
'ers was on view.
u the attendance or the first week
Is any criterion the close OF the Nor
gan exhibit will in all likelihood show
The greatest attendance for any single
exhibition in the history Of the mu-
scum.
The attendance last Monday was q
474. TUESDAY 5000 Wednesday 1000
md THURSDAY 1000. On Friday 1855
PERSONS visited the museum, although
was pay day. BY comparing it
& ith the same day a week previous the
attendance was three times as great
win the Morgan pictures attracting
the most attention. on only one day in
the previous week was the attendance
more than thousand. and that was
on THURSDAY
Interested in Morgan Portrait
While Raphael's Madonna Of SAINT
Antonio attracted the attention OF
most Of those who were able to get in
side the gallery, the portrait OF Mr..
Morgan himself, painted by the Pc
ruvian artist carlo Baca-F1or, also
caused considerable comment. The
story Of Pat Sheedy and the loss and
recovery or the Duchess Of Devon
shire" was recited IN a dozen ways by
some who found that picture the one
most 10 he interested in.
once inside the room the crowd made
II difficult to sec more than parts OF
some Of tho pistureS Attendants