Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-29
MUSEUM CREATES
NEW MEMBERSHIP
Newark Association Provides
for Associate at Annual
Meeting.

Associate members to the Newark
Museum Association, who shall pay
dues of only 81 year, are provided
for in an amendment which was
passed at the annual meeting of the
association held in the Public Library
last night Former Governor Frank
lin Murphy, president of the assoeia-
ton, presided.
At present the dues are 50 a year.
In providing for associates members
the association hopes for a material
increase in membership and a wider
active interest in the museum work.
Ten trustees of the association
whose terms expired this year We're
Unanimously reelected. They are
Charles Bradley, William L. Carter,
John II. Ely, j. Lewis Hay, William
IS. Kinney, Archibald Mercer Frank
lin Murphy, p. Sanford Ross, Wal
lace M. Scudder and Francis ].
Swayze.
Charles Bradley, treasurer sub
mitted his annual report, which
showed the associations receipts for
the past year to have been $24657.12
and the disbursements s14,963.46, ieay-
ing q balance on hand March 81 last
of s9,693.66.
The committee on membership re-
ported an active membership of 315,
Z divided into classes as follows: Two
hundred and sixty-three annual menu
bers, 81 life, sustaining, in per-
petuity; also honorary and ex-
; cfticio, making q total of 225. The
committee on purchase reported SOW
Ice, l.1o lei
year by purchase and gift, the most
important being American bronzes.
The executive committee reported
the total attendance at the museum
rooms during the year, except in July,
August and September, when the
museum was closed, to be 26,77O. Fiji
teen special exhibitions added TO the
, attractlveness of the museum. The
dates and attendance at these exhi-
billions were as follows: National
Sculpture Society bronzes, April IL to
30, 1918 attendance 1,715); etchings by
Roth, May / to June 2, 1918 Q,G06);
Japanese sketches by Ito, June to
September 80, 1918 (3,S6S); paintings by
Max Weber, July to October 20, 1915
$50; German posters, library collec-
ton, October to November IA (3,5s3);
Medici prints library collection, No
Vember 10 to December l q, 426);
paintings by American artists, De-
cember 1, 1918, to January 9 1914
l2,76D; woodcuts by Helen Hyde,
December ., 1918, to January 2, 1914
(S78); German posters from Leipzig,
January TO February s (3,S90);
photographs by Alice Boughton. Feb
Tuary 3 to March 8 (2,922); handwrit-
ing by Elizabeth, II. Webb, February
to March IL (25S; 1.-THE Making of
Book. March to April (3,03S);
Camp Fire Girls exhibit, March IL to
a 81
Etchers, April 6 to May J. $3.50. esti-
mated. and Hungarian peasant art,
April 10 to May 10 (8,500, estimated).
An important feature of the work
OF the year has been the plan for
Finding charts of industrial processes,
geographical models. minerals, pic
lures ana other material of aid to
teachers. The trustees have author
fed the purchase of seven medals
s.nd plaques by John Flanagan, and
model of Japanese landscape to
be made by T. Shiota, q landscape ar
tist. The special exhibitions for the
coming year will include an American
Industrial art show in March, 1916,
and an exhibit of the clay industries
of the state.
At the meeting last night Vice
Chancellor James 70. Howell rendered
his resignation. as a. member of the
board of trusteesA and il was ac-
cepted. Mr. Howell will be appointed
an honorary member. The name of
Forest f. Dryden was mentioned as
Il successor to Mr.. Howell, but action
will be taken later.
Former Governor Murphy, who is
president Of the association, win
shortly appoint committee of mem
bers to appear before the Common
Council to ask for the yearly appro-
priation of $4,000 to carry. on the
work of the association.
The bylaws were amended so that
an associate membership list may be
created, to cost 81 a year. 1t is
thought that this will create addi-
tional interest in the work.