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community, if it is properly backed.
that he has organized committee OF
$50 prominent men to raise the S25O,OOO
needed 10 equip il for its work. Among
those associated with him in the en-
terprise are Mayor Mitchell, Ebert H.
Gary. George w. Perkins, Ogden Mills
Reid. Chauncey VI. Depew, Thomas w.
Churchill. the Rev. Stephen 5. Wise,
George Gordon Battle, Robert Adam
son, Job f. Hedges, William b. Joyce,
Franklin ?. Adams, William A. Brady,
the Rev. David James Burrell, John
II. Finley, William Fellowes Morgan,
Marc Klaw and Joseph p. Day.
There is also women's campaign
committee, headed by Miss Anne
Rhodes, who has enlisted as assistants
not only a group of women prominent
in philanthropic and civic work, but
also a squad Of pretty girls. Inc lat
ter, with Miss Elizabeth Peabody Stew
art as their leader, are planning some
devices for Turing large subscriptions,
which they think will make Joseph +.
Day and his forty male team captains
wonder who is setting the pace.
The active canvass for pledges VIII
begin at the opening campaign dinner
to be held on May Is at the Aldine
Club. Both of the campaign COM
mittees, as well as the business mems
committee of two hundred team work
ers, will be present, and a certain num-
Der of prospects" will be assigned to
each solicitor. Mr. Littleton will pre-
side. The ground floor of the Stewart
Building, at Broadway and Chambers
Street, has been secured for campaign
headquarters, and the men and women
workers will meet there for luncheon
at 1890 o'clock on May 20 and the sue
ceeding days of the canvass, and turn IN
TO their captains the pledge cards they
have obtained. The total amount sub
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-09

scribed each day viii. he announced By
Mr.. Littleton at the conclusion OF the
luncheon.
The committee hopes that those who
are interested in the welfare of the
city will realize that in contributing 20
this fund for helping the newsboy
they are merely paying the premium
on a civic insurance policy, and that
they will make their pledges as large
as possible.
The director Of the Newsboys' Home
Club gives special attention 10 the reg
ulating of such evils as begging, short
changing and late selling, and i'm
presses upon all members the necessity
of obeying the child labor law.
Ii is the purpose of the directors 20
apply not more than Sl50,OOO of the
fund TO be raised either for exercising
an option for purchasing the building
il now occupies at $4,000, which is
the assessed valuesof the site, and re-
modelling or replacing II, or for the
purchase of another site and the cree
ton or remodelling of a building
thereon. The remaining 100000 and
at least half of an excess amount VIII
be used as the basis of a permanent
endowment fund.
The club draws its members largely
from the ranks OF boys who are physi-
cally and mentally active, who are
eager for knowledge Of any kind and
who demand constant occupation of
one sort or another. They may become
a menace 10 the community or they
may be numbered among its most vaiu-
able citizens. IL is inevitable that they
will develop positive factors either Tor
good or evil The responsibility for
the result lies largely with the mem
bers of the community, who have the
power to supply or to withhold the
conditions for their best growth.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-09

Glaphvrus and Ambrosius the flute
PLAYER End Polio the kItharist 1t
was Polio whom lady OF lofty rank
so loved that she kept for her kisses
the plectrum with which he had
strummed the strings Of his Tyre. That
instrument she had incrusted with
Jewels. and for the sake Of him who
twanced il she did not hesitate to veil
her face before the altar of Janus and
speak the mystic formula after the
priest. O"What more could she do were
her husband sick asks Juvenal;
what if the physicians had despalred
of her son?') And Roman women
fawned upon the gladiator Sergius,
whose forehead was CALLED by his he'll
met. who sported a huge wen between
his nostrils and "acrid rheum forever
trickling from his eye
But why go on? The ancient list is
a long and varied one, and no doubt
the public split itself into parties and
ouarrellcd about the merits of fight
ers, singers, instrumcntallSts and
dancers as vigorously 1000 years ago
as il does now.
There can be no opera without
prima donnas and. it would seem, no
prima donnas without public as well as
private jealousies and squabbleS and
rancor. An entertaining and divertng
chapter illustrating the truism may be
extracted from the history Of Italian
opera in London. The coming of the
prima donna, the Italian lady, OF
course, had TO wait upon the intro
duction of Italian opera and so none OF
IN, great singers of the seventeenth
century who were identified with the
first hundred years of the lyric drama
were heard i'm England. Scarcely had
the first of the tuncful tribe appeared
across The Channel, however, before
there arose the rIvalrIes and scan
dals which have made up a large
part OF the prlma donnass history
ever since. The first Of record was
Marcarita de lEpine; but she sang
only in Italian and in concerts and did
not get an opportunity in opera until
Buononcini's "Almahide" came and
provided Addison with the chance to
air his delightful wit at the expense OF
the new style Of entertainment and
the public that affected TO like II. by
that time, too. the lady already had
an English rival in Mrs. lofts, whose
early disclosing the innate character or
operate partlsans, hcoted and Missed
the Italian woman when she sang IN
Drury Lane Theatre in 1904. knights
Of the Quill who in that age delighted
in satire, carried the warfare into the
p-bhc prints and we have preserved
for Us specimens Of the gentle art OF
satirists who, when they we're unable
apparently 10 find fault with the sing
ing Of their victims, did not hesitate
TO descant on their real or supposed
moral impcrfections. II was Swift who
in his journal to Stella spoke Ike
sweet and perfect knight OF the Italian
lady as "Margarita and her sister and
another drab, and a parcel of tddlers
at Windsor; while an unnamed serb
bier addressing Mrs. lofts wrote:
$50 bright Is thy beauty, so charming
thy song,
That il draws both the beasts and
their Orpheus along;
But such is thy av'rice and such is thy
pride,
That the beasts must have starved
and the poet have died"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-09
JULIEN TIERsOTS BOOK OF
SIXTY FRENCH FOLKSONCS

that ever-growing class Of concert
singers who have followed the example
of Mme. Sembrich and are putt.E-
the folksongs of the various peoples
Of the world into their programmes.
Nine. Sembrich has done a large and
genuine service 20 art in creating an
interest in a book OF music which has
come TO be recognized as Of the high
est value in the development OF art.
To students OF musical history and
philosophy NJ. Tiersot rendered a still
greater service by publishing his stud
les OF the songs which he found among
the French Canadians. the American
Indians and the French Creoles OF our
Southland, under the title. La Mu-
sique chez les Peoples indigenes de
rAmerique du Nord Etats Unis ct
Canada" The studies appeared hrst
in THE Journal % the international
Music Society" (which has been dis.
rupted by the European war; ana
afterward in pamphlet form.
The study OF folkSong In IT'S entirety
cannot be said even yet 20 have ad-
yanced very far. The best work Of the
Continued on page seven.
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Mayor of the city. belonged TO the
musical as well as the fashionable set
in society and had an interest with
Mr.. Peter Schermerhorn and other
gentlemen in one of the boxes of the
elegant new establishment. He kept a
diary. from which we learn that al
ready in the first season OF the opera
lit was in 1889 he doubted that ltal-
ian opera would ever be supported IN
New York. A year later he was out
of all countenance with the art-form
whose only charm, he said, was that 1t
was ian exclusive and eXtravagant
recreation" and above all, the fash
ion" these words seem TO have a ia
miliar sound), and he sets down some
lines quite in the spirit of his satlrl-
cal predecessor of century before:
"Italian music's sweet because It's dear,
Their vanity is tickled, not their ear;
Their taste would lessen if the prices
fell,
And Shakespeare's wretched stuff do
quite as well"
So when the great Cuzzoni and Faus-
tina came to London to dispute the
popularity of such English singers as
Mrs. lofts. Anastasia Robinson and
Lavinia Fenton, Henry Carey who pro-
vided the civilized universe and super
civilized Germany with God Save the
King" comparing the second OF these
ladies' with Cuzzoni, wrote:
with better voice and fifty times her
skill, -,
Poor Robinson is always treated i'll;
But such is the good nature of the
'Tis now the mode to cry the English
down"
Didn't we hear something that
sounded like a tune in this key when
Fremstad went and it was rumored
that Farrar was going? Isn't Caruso
greater than Ricardo Martin only be-
cause he was born IN Italy?
New York enjoyed pretty rivalry
thirty-two years ago when the old So
cial regime fought under Mapleson and
Patti at the Academy o. Music and
the new under Abbey and Nilsson at
the Metropolitan Orera House just
built: but the struggle never partook
of the bitterness or Enthusiastically OF
the social war which divided London
into two camps in the days OF Handlers
operatic consulship. The rival prima
tina. who though they created parties
that divided families, were never such
artistic idols as Farinelli, Senesino
and others Of their sexless tribe. The
warfare between Cuzzoni and Faus-
tina. like that between the Italian and
English singers a decade earlier. had
some features not unlike elements of
the situation toward the close of the
Metropolitan season which came 10 an
end a fortnight ago. Handel engaged
Cuzzonl for MS opera in 1923. She had
a wonderfully sweet voice. and though
she was not pretty, either Of face or
figure, she enchanted the subscribers
10 the opera. The directors engaged
to pay her 1000 guineas for the sea-
son say about four times what the
Metropolitan directors are supposed to
pay Caruso a night, and her success
was so great that already at the sec
ond performance the price Of tickets was
raised to four guineas. She was said
to have refused the equivalent OF 1890
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-09

The Newsboys' Home Club, which was
INCORPORATED in 1907. has an enrol
mert If 1878 and a long waiting list,
20 be admitted as soon as suitable ac-
Communications can be provided. Owing
20 the age and the peculiar conStruc-
ton of the building II now occupies,
which was designated for exhibition
purposes and has never been remod-
elled 20 SUIT the requirements OF a club,
its gymnasium facilities are pitiully
small. and during the last year much
of the work in manual training has
had TO bo discontinued. The motion
picturcs which are shown in the assem-
bly, hall every Saturday night and the
classes in civics, history and literature
have been the chief attractions during
the winter.
There is one feature of the club,
however. which appeals strongly to all
its members, and that is the summer
camp at Woodland Beach. Staten ISL
and. where last summer more than two
thousand boys had a weeks vacation
without expense TO themselves or their
parents. Here a tent colony has been
built by the boys themselves on tract
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are brought conspicuously into play by
the various emergencies which arise IN
connection with camp life.
In order 10 do efficient work with
the bows i now reaches, and with sew
eral thousand more boys VINO could be
brought within the scope Of its infu-
ence under more favorable conditions,
the club must have a building Of It's
own, equipped with gymnasium, shower
baths, workshops, classrooms, library
and an assembly hall suitable for lect-
urcs. amateur theatricals and the DIS
play of motion pictures. 1t needs also
a permanent endowment fund TO cover
in part the maintenance OF manual
trimming classes in carpentry, cobbllng,
printing. plumbing and masonry. as
well as courses OF instruction IN Eng
hsh. mechanical and architecture!
drawing. stcrography and bookkeeping.
Believing that one of the most COM
mon causes of economic failure IS the
attempted fitting of square pegs TO
round holes, the directors OF the club
are most anxious 10 establish an en-
ploymcnt bureau that will be Of last
ing benefit to its young clients. Noca-
tional guidance, based on an intelli-
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last days were pitful in the extreme.
She disappeared from public view and
is said to have supported herself in her
old age in Bologna by working at the
trade of button making.
"Faustna had q nature which was
as lovely as Cuzzoni's voice and "A voice
which in a sense offered a parallel TO
Cuzzonis nature. She was a noble
Venetian, beautiful of features and
form, with meZzo-soprano voice
reaching from fiat 10 G. in alt, but
which was rather hard and brilliant.
She had fluent tongue but was wise
enough TO use its fuency in singing
rather than in gossip or controversy
with opera directors. In her warfare
with Cuzzoni she had the men on her
side and Cuzzoni the women. The
most notable illustration Of this di-
vision of sentiment was TO be seen in
the household of Sir Robert Walpole,
where the noble lord fought under the
banner Of Faustina and his lady wore
the colors of Cuzzoni. But the lady
was the better diplomat of the two and
used to have both singers as her
guests at the same time without dis
turbance Of the peace, though eventu-
ally they did fall 20 Il tooth and nail
in the face of the public. The Countess
of Pembroke led the Cuzzoni faction.
which seems to have been the first to
resort 70 such disgraceful methods
as kissing on the entrance OF the rival
singer. Wherefore we have preserved
for us an epigram 10 this effect:
"Old poets sing that beasts did dance
Whenever Orpheus play'd;
So. 70 Faustina's charming voice,
"Faustina married the composer
Hasse, who was ten years her junior;
but he was the most popular composer
Of his time and director of the opera
at Dresden, one of the leading estsb-
lishments OF Europe. She got fifteen
years engagement at the Saxon capital
and thpn retired /"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-09
BY II. f.. kR ,HBIEL.

NJ. Julien Tiersot, Librarian of the
Paris Conservatoire. has done an ex-
cellent work in behalf of musical folk
lore by compiling and editing a vol
ume entitled "Sixty Folksongs Of
France" which has been published by
the Ditson Company, in Boston, and
Charles Ii. Dltson & Co., of New York.
VI. Tiersot is among the foremost of lly-
ing folklorists and musical litterateurs.
A quarter Of = century ago he laid the
foundation for scientific study OF
French song with his "Histoire de la
Chanson Popuiaire en- France" work
which was crowned by the French
Academy OF Fine Arts, which had in
vited a competition on the topic in
1885. In 1905 and 1906 he visited Can
ada and the United States, and as a
result OF Investigations made here c.
Schirmer, in 1910. published a volume
Of "Forty-four French Folksongs and
Variants, from Canada. Normandy and
Brittany" collection to which his
last book may be considered compile
mentary These collections are of gen
eral interest and will be welcomed by
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guineas for a season in Italy, just as
we hear nowadays of artists refusing
fabulous fees offered in Buenos Ayres.
The salary question Obsessed her mind
after while as it has Obsessed the
minds of local singers recently, and 1t
became her undoing. A few years
later, at the very heyday Of her popular
ity and the climax Of her rivalry with
Faustina, some of her supporters per
suaded her 10 make a vow never 10
sing for penny less than Faustina
received. She had, by this time, worn
out her popularity with the directors
and they took advantage of her vow
10 get rid of her. When tn, time came
for renewing contracts they offered
Faustina one guinea more than Cuz-
zoni. She would not endure the al
front and accommodated the directors
by leaving them and London. Let the
rest of the story be told in words
which appeared in The Tribune some
eight or ten years ago. They are at
least no worse now than they were
then. We make no application of the
story TO present or recent conditions.
"Had Cuzzoni's amiability been as
great as her musical gifts she would
probably have held out against the
rivalry Of Faustina better than she
did. At first she had the town COM
pletely for her. For a whole year i'm
medlately befole the arrival of Faus-
tina in 1926 her costume in 'Rodelinda'
set the fashion for the ladies of Lon
don. who wore brown silk gowns en-
broidered with silver. But she was
capricious and ill-tempered. II was
the devil in Cuzzoni that Handel
threatened TO cast out in the name OF
Beelzebub, the prince of devils, when
he dragged he.- to an open window and
threatened 20 kurl her out on the stone
pavement below unless she sang one of
his airs as he had written il. She
came back 10 London in 1749 but never
regained her old popularity, and her
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20 convert possible ganGsters into
ro.c-.a' captains Of industry,
70 evolve good American citizens
I,,- Young at,cs o. various nationali-
te. ard incidentally 20 give TO several
thousand boys who have no real place
70 play opportunities for healthful
recreation ara some Of the avowed OBJ
,s,.s o, The Newsboys' Home Club, at
Second Avenue and Eleventh Street.
Some co-.~ac. that for any club!
Blu, the managers Of this one are per
,e,,,v sure they can fiji il, if only they
re. the ngr. soy, Of plant. It's quite
es,y. TOW ,ha. sociology has become a
real science. ,o transform one sort Of
a boy into quite the other sort, and
even 20 perform -he operation on whole
groups Of boys. T. can't be done, how
ever, jus, hy saving presto change "
Various forces material and psychology
zeal. must be brought into play. It's a
natter Of environment.
Before the phrase survival Of the
fues, became o.i-fash,ored the word
Environment was invariably pro-
bounced ire accents ~ awe. The thing
j, stood for was supposed TO be quite
rral,erat'e. and the value Of each
specimen ~ humanity was determined
ty his power o.: adar,ability to the par
,cular environment in which he
found himself.
But it's 81, quite different now. EN-
v.ronmen;' is sill frequently written
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-09

in capitals. but only by way Of draw
ing attention to some thing that isn't
what it should be. The specimen of
humanity has grabbed the centre Of the
stage and the spotlight. He Is the star
and environment" has been relegated
to the position of mere scenery and
properties, which must be shifted and
modified TO display him 20 the best
advantage. ,
All Of which goes to prove that when
the Newsboys' Home Club informs me
citizens of greater New York that us
present headquarters IN the Ola bullu
ING of the Historical Society are To-
tally inadequate and That ~ IS III
messing need Of S250.000 u IS the bust
ness 81 the citizens to see what can be
done about il. For if the citizens or
New York are not responsible for the
environment Of the New York news
bow. who is? Some persons think he
shouldn't exist at all. The state labor
law, however, recognizes MN as an
economic unit, or at any rate an eco
monte fraction. at the age OF SWeIVe'
But what Of his play time? VINO Is
worrying about his disposal OF me
hours between : p. m. and bed time?
His case was presented recently to
Martin W. Littleton and other philan-
thropic men, who became so thoroughly
IMPRESSED with its importance as a
factor in the life of the community
that they made a thorough investiga-
ton of the matter They found that
there are about four thousand boys
between the ages Of twelve and sixteen
selling papers on the city streets.
These boys are too poor to JON the
Young Mems Christian ASSOCIATION
and there is no institution that meets
their needs
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For a woman named Ann Barwick'
who had been serving maid 70 Mrs.
lofts literary skits and boots and
Kisses lacked sufficient materia!ity as
expressions of disapproyal. so she
threw oranges at the dc lLpine. got
herself arrested and reduced her late
mistress 20 the necessity Of sending
letter TO Rich. the manager OF the
theatre. disappearing Of the "rudeness'
committed at the playhouse By the
gentle Ann, protesting ;nat 1t was not
with her priyity, as she "a6horred such
practices" and expressing the hope that
her late serving woman would be
prosecuted and punished as she de-
served.
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II one were disposed 10 look DIT
curiously into the history of the rival
ries between prima donnas IN me
eighteenth century and the social teuds
10 which they gave rise, II would not
be very difficult, we fancy, to trace
parallels between London then ana
New York now. There was party TWO
centuries ago who ospoused the cause
OF the native singer against the Tor
eigner and rebuked the public Tor
affecting to like foreign art and Tor
eign artists simply because they were
foreign. What a familiar sound TINS
has There was just such party
eighty-two years ago IN New YORK
when the first Italian Opera House was
built. Then Mr.. Philip Hone, once
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Also, two corporation commissioners.
District judges, Of whom there are 27
in the state will hold until the gener-
al election to be held in 1918 There
is a vacancy in the Logan county
senatorial district, Judge Burford hav-
ing moved to Oklahoma City since be-
ing elected by Logan county voters
Logan IS the 18th senatorial district
A special election may be held to
supply the vacancy.