New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-02-17
FrOWns When Asked What
He Will Do with Big
Collection.
SEES TREASURES IN
MUSEUM GALLERIES
Auditing Committee Termed Joke
by CHARACTERISTICS
Make Report.

J Picrponj Morgan saw Yesterday after
noon tho great art collection left nino by
his father. Whatever were his impress
sions as he walked through the thirteen
galleries in the Metropolitan Museum OF
Art which afford the art treasures ex-
hibition space he made no audible obser-
,ations He had a smiling countcnance.
That is. nc did until he was asked II his
mad decided what ne would eventually do
with the collection Then he frcwned.
AID rcnarked sharply.
81 have nothing TO say
But won't you say e you arc rIeased
with the way in which the collection IS
exhibited he was asked
Then the smile returned, as he sdded:'
What good would it DO if said any
thing
AR Morgan remained some time IN tho
galleries where the collection is shown.
He had gone there alone after the meet
ing OF the trustees. He was not alone
in the galleries. however because sornS
of the corporation members we're then
having their first view OF the collection.
Tonight the members and their friends
will be given an opportunity to see 10
after reception. and tomorrow morn
ing it will be opened TO the public.
At the annual meeting of the trustees
the following officers were re-electe1 for
the year ending February Is 1915:
President. Robert W. de Forest first,
ce-president. Joseph Il. Choate second
vice -president Henry Walters; treasurer.
Howard Mansfield; honorary librarian.
William L. Andrews, and secretary.
Henry ". Kent.
Edward D. Adams and william L. An
dreVs were reelected trustees in tho
class Of 1921. Two new trustees were
elected. r r. Haines Halsey and Samuel
T. Peters. the latter 10 succeed the late
George 4. Hearn
Mr. de Forest was amused when asked
what Mr.. Morgan meant when he SAID
the auditing committee, also reelected,
and OF which Mr.. Morgan is himself a
member. was farce. The after nao
made such an exclamation 10 the presi-
dent of the museum as they emerged
from the meeting.
IL was q committee that had been III
existence for forty or more years. Mr..
de Forest added. He explained That IL
went over the audited reports after they
had been fully certified to.
In the forty-fourth annual report OF
the trustees, for the year ended Decem'
Der 81 1918, presented yesterday Mr.. DC
Forest said the museum had receive"
during the one year its severest DO" III
the death Of J. Pierpont Morgan am
George A. Hearn. and received us TWO
most valuable collections OF woins OF
art. to wit the Altman collection ana
the armor collection Of William IL. Riggs
II was pointed out Icy the president
that increased annual appropriations
from the city we're imperative.
A deficit of 81, $50 had to be made up by
ths trustees TO cover the expenses OF ad-
mlnistration. An increase in the endow-
ment fund of the museum, II was a"oeu'
was urgently needed.
The number Of visitors IN the year
reached a total of s39.4ls, exceeding by
,.a 22s the number FOR the previous year
.nd exceeding the attendance Tor any
wear in the history of the institution eA
cent that OF 1909 when the Hudson-ru'-
ton exhibition was held II included
normal increase In the use Oh the i"N
ss,rn hut wac due chiefly to the presence
of the Morgan paintings.
Acquisitions during the year reacheu
q total Of 3,s22, an increase OF 90 over
the previous year. OF the 3'22 there
war. sac gifts and 2,Sss purchases FUNDS
90 tho extent of $751;, 800 81 were expended
in purchasing works CT art.