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The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-06-17

superiority, OH tne greater part OF the
front. The whole house rose and ap-
plauded.
The war minister said that the cap
ture of 1900 prisoners was proof that
the italian troops were truly heroic
violence, in which large masses of in
fantry are being used by the Austrians
in an attempt to break through the
Italian lines, particularly in the east
ern sector of the Asiago plateau in
the Brenta valley and on Monte Crap
pa, is described in the official report
from Italian headquarters today. The
enemy's attacks were met in the ad-
vance defensive area.
The Italian forces are firmly hold
ing the Asiago front, according to the
War Office announcement They have
completely reoccuped their original
positions on Aoslone and Monte Soa-
rola and are closely pressing the enc
my who crossed the Piave.
The text of the Italian official state
ment reads:
"A great battle has been in progress
on our front since yesterday
After artillery preparations, which
was exceptionally intense on account
of the violence of the fire and the
number of guns employed, the enemy
has begun his expected offensive by
launching large masses of infantry
to attack our positions in the eastern
sector of the Asiago plateau, at the
end of the Brenta valley and on Monte
Grappa, by attempting at several
points to force the Piave, and by car
rying out heavy local demonstrations
on the remainder of the front.
"Our infantry and that of the Al
lied contingent fearlessly bore the
tempest of destructive fire, and, sup
ported by barrage of their own ar
tillery, which had already prudently
anticipated the enemy's preparation
with a timely and deadly counter
preparation bombardment, bravely
sustained the enemys onslaught in
the advanced defensive area"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-10

staff there we're still go applicants for
lessons who could 10. be accented at
THE beginning of the present year; that
lessons cost from ten cents for class
and theory instructions up to fifty
cents for personal instruction on in
struments and that a considerable
number of. those who cannot afford
to lay are taught free of charge from
the proceeds Of certain scholarship
funds. Finally. it is shown that since
the payments made by the pupils for
their lessons cover only about quar-
ter of the expense of the institution
llncluding its very considerable social
work in the ghborhood), the settle
ment appeals once more to the gener-
osity of sympathetic friends for iinan-
cial support.
So far annual reports can go. But
they have to stop short OF Poetry.
Hence they have to stop short of the
final truth concerning the Music School
Settlement. For the work of Mr.. Far
wells institution IS the putting Of
poetry into the lives of a thousand
families.
1t may, Mr.. Farwell fears, be classed
at the present time as q mon essen
tial industry" And Mr.. Farwell resents
this classification, being sure that,
after food, clothing and shelter, music
is one of the primary necessities Of
life. Americans are little too apt to
find a place for music only after the
important" things are taken care of.
At least, those who don't care especially
for music insist nowadays that it is
essential" like the small boy who
will give up olives for Lent.
But just now, says Mr.. Farwell,
music, instead of being less essential
than usual, is more. 1t is proved by
the constant stream of appeals that
come to the Music School Settlement
for musicians to play for patriotic rail-
lies, war thrift meetings, Red Cross
gatherings and many other sorts of
meetings intended to aid the war. One
very prominent banker some weeks ago
publicly mentioned music as non-es.
sentlal industry. Only a few days
afterward certain war charity made
the usual appeal to the settlement for
music for one Of it's meetings. And on
the letterhead was the name of the
prominent banker.
SO the Music School Settlement has
simply been established in typical
community of Manhattan to offer thor
oughly good musical instruction to
those who want it at the most moderate
prices. CThe prices would be insisted on
even if there were a mint of money
behind the settlement, because prices
nave an excellent moral effect, con-
vlnclng the pupils that they are not
the recipients Of charity)
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-10

symphony is the Beethoven Second,
while the second half of the programme
is devoted entirely to Wagner. Mr..
Damrosch's concert arrangements Of
the professional Of the Knights of the
Holy Grail from "Parsifal," the Love
Music and Brangane's Warning from
Tristan" and Brunnhilde's Awakening
and Finale from "Segfried" will be
played, besides the Dance of the APP
prenticcs from ode Meistersinger."
The Symphony Society's final pair of
concerts Of the season will take place
on Saturday evening, March 16, in Car
negie Hall, and Sunday afternoon,
March II, in Aeolian Hall The same
programme has been selected for both
concerts, with Josef Holman playine
Chopln's f minor concerto and the
Chromaticon for piano with orchestra
by Dvorsky The only work for the
orchestra alone on these programmes is
Cigars Symphony No. / in A fiat. The
total proceeds of the Saturday evening
concert will be devoted to the American
Friends of Musicians in France, which
has been organized to bring financial
help to the musicians in France and
their families who were made destitute
by the war.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-10
The Work of the Music
School Settlement
Institution Directed by Arthur Far
WeH Gave Lessons to More Than
One Thousand Pupils Last Year

Arthur Farwell, director of the Mu-
sic School Settlement. gave an impress
,ive demonstration of the dimensions
Of his work at the annual festival con.
cert Wednesday night. We say "di-
mensions" because the work itself and
the fruits of it are not to be seen in
q large exhibition in a large audito-
rum. The work goes on day after day,
from morning to night, in the twenty
five tiny lesson rooms at the settle
ment, on East Third Street, where the
thousand pupils get their instruction
Il merely nominal cost. The fruits
Of the work can't be held up for ex-
hibition, being intangible things. like
hope and courage and imagination and
beauty brought into laborious and out
wardly drab lives.
1t is embarrassing to the directors.
The fact that these values are intan-
glble. What can they say in their an
nual report to inform the many gen
erous supporters Of the school of the
results produced by their money? An
ordinary settlement has an easier
time. Its report would show that so
and so many children had been cloth
ed out of settlement funds in the fis-
cal year just past; so and so many
babies had been given baths, and so
and so many persons nursed through
such and such sicknesses. This is in
telligible. These are obvious utili-
ties and need no explanation.
But down at the Music School Set
tlement they are dealing in airer stuff,
If the directors sought to itemize the
ultimate product of their efforts and
expenditures they would have to do it
something like this:
Item. One smile on Yetta Gold
STEMS face.
Item. One moment of restful for
getfulness to Yetta's mother, in spite
OF the knowledge that the eviction
notice was coming the next day
Item. Thirty simultaneous thrills
of mutual friendliness the day the
junior orchestra all played in tune"
That is what you are up against
when your institution is turning out
commodities that have no CONNER
cal rating. Smiles, forgetfulness and
friendliness somehow don't itemize in
annual reports.
Accordingly, the annual report of
the Music School Settlement is con-
fined largely to such statements as that
34,772 individual lessons were given in
the past year to a student body of more
than thousand, composed of fifteen
that $500 readers used
its circulating library, which contains
$500 compositions and $3.50 books;
that with nearly 100 teachers on the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-10

An overture, Comes Autumntime, >
by Leo Sowerby, the twenty-three-
year-old American composer, now in
Camp Grant, heads the programme Of
the concert to be given by the SYM
phony Society of New York, Walter
Damrosch, conduc- or, this afternoon at
Aeolian Hall. George Barrere, hutist of
the orchestra, is the soloist and will play
Widor's Romance and Scherzo. The
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-10
"Pilgrir11' s Progress''
as a Miracle PZov
The Cantata Which Edgar Stilln,an
Kelley Has Made From q Semi Dra-
matte Arrangement of English Classic

Recently there has come from the
presses of the Oliver Ditson Company,
of Boston, the score of Edgar Stillman
Kelley's musical miracle play" THE
Pilgrims Progress" which is to have
its first performance at the Cincinnati
Festival, early in May, under the COM
poser's direction. The text is arranged
with evident care for the picturesque
values OF Bunyan's story, and the COM
poser has taken the opportunities thus
given him to write some of his most
richly tinted music. By all odds the
work is interesting, and the reports
from Cincinnati will be watched eagerly
by those to whom the coming Of a good
cantata is more than a casual incident
Mr.. Kelley calls his work miracle
play" because, as is evident from his
PREDATORY note, he would really like to
see it performed on the stage. He con-
fesses that he had long entertained the
project of writing music to illustrate
scenes from THE Pilgrims Progress"
Doubtless he has pondered, as many an
ether artist has, over the fine language
Of Bunyan's allegory and its possibili
ties for dramatic performance. Stage
versions" OF the work have been made
and noted ere this, and Bernard Shaw
is on record in one of his most elo-
quent essays as asserting that Bun
vans prose is finer, from the point of
view of the practical theatre man. than
the verse Of Shakespeare. Certainly he
who keeps a special niche in his heart
for Bunyan's English has q special ap-
probation Of the genius OF our lam
guage which is not given to all. That
Mr.. Kelley should have an initial en-
thusiasm for this language is first evil
dence that he worked with sincerity.
The composer adds that he was
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front in Part. II of the programme
for the Musical Art Society's twenty
fifth anniversary Spring Festival Con-
cert on March 10 in Carnegie Hall.
Music actually composed and first
sung by soldiers in the trenches will
include as it's novel climax Florent
Schmitt's "Chant de Guerre," for tenor
500, mems voices and piano, together
with the famous Maurice Ravel's two
choruses, "Nicolette" and "Trois Oh
seaux de Paradis," and Mr.. Selzedo's
four chcruses, "in old sonata form" for
mems voices and harp.
Of Pedestrians "Stabat Mater" which
leads the traditional Part |, pro-
gramme note remarks that if "the hui
man note" is to be found in anv of the
Latin masters works it is in this one,
in which is described the Virgin Moth
er's grief and the Christians appeal
for salvation through the sacrifice of
her Son. Written for sopranos, some
altos ard tenors, the work has been
likened to "a song in the blue ether
by voices of angels
To the ancient hymns of the Church
are added Lotti's "Crucifixus," Bach's
motel, "Sing Ye," and a modern cave
Maria" of Bruch. In Part III a
group of secular pieces includes
Brahms's "Wher'er l Co." for six
voices; Cigars two choral songs, "The
Shower" and "Serenade," and Rimsky-
Korsakotf's unfamiliar Russian song,
Farewell, Carnival" An old Neither
land Hymn Of Thanks will conclude
the concert, and with it both the Mu-
steal Art Society's festival season
and DR.. Frank Damrosch's quarter CEN
tsnnial as its leader
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-10

happy to come upon the stare arraroe-
menu made by Elizabeth Hodgkinson.
"hlch ne has used as the basis for his
music. In treating the highly imagi-
native creation of John Bunyan in the
form OF medieval mystery with mod
ern musical coloring," he saws. "onnor-
tunlty was afforded for COMPOSING a
work without the limitations of the
oratorio tradition, on the one hand or
the paraphcrnalia of the opera on the
other. The possibility of ultimate
stage production was, however, kept in
mind by the composer, although the
work will be known chiefly through
concert performance"
Stage performance for this work is
quite practicable, though how desir-
able it may be only the event will
show. Miss Hodgkinson has arranged
her story in three "acts" or "parts"
and seven Scenes" retaining much of
Bunyan's language for her text. In the
first part Christian hears the voices
of Doom crying in the City of Destruc-
ton that the day of the Lord cometh.
After listening to the approximations
Of his neighbors, he heeds the advice
Of Evangelist and starts on his Jour
ney for the Celestial City. At the
Wicket Gate he receives the encour-
agement of the Celestial Voices, and
puts on the Armour of God Thus
strengthened, he proceeds to the Val-
ley of Humiliation, where he meets the
flend Apollyon, whom he overcomes in
single combat.
In the second part or "act" Chris
tan meets with the temptations of
Vanity Fair. The tradesmen offer him
their vain wares. Mr.. Worldly Wise
man and Mr.. Money Love advise him
to desist from his journey. Atheist
seeks to shake his faith, and Madame
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-10
Music Notes

Tol his MIN ana last concert of the
New York season, (which will take place
IN Carnegie Hall, Saturday evening.
March 90, Modest Altschuler, conductor
of the Russian Symphony Orchestra
has divided his programme equally be-
tween Russian and American com.
posers. The soloist on that occasion
will be John Powell, the American
planist-composer. Two of Mr.. Powelps
numbers will be heard here with the
orchestra for the first time. His
"Rhapsodie Negre," for piano and or
chestra, is an entirely new composition
and Will be given its first public hear
ing. His suite "At the Fair" (sketches
OF American fun was first written for
the piano alone. 1t was heard in New
York a few weeks ago when he PLAYED
! at concert in Aeolian Hall for the
benefit of the American Friends of
Musicians IN France. On that occasion
1T was we'll received. When Mr.. Alt
schuler first heard this work he urged
Mr.. Powell to orchestrate it, This he
did and it has been played by the Rus
SLAMS on many occasions during their
road tours. The other number that
will be heard in America for the first
time will be a Russian folklore num-
Der, "The Fire Bird" This is from
the pen of Tscherepnin. The closing
number will be the ever favorite
Tschaikowsky Symphonic Pathetioue."
Ever since the Russian Orchestra was
1ormed-ffteen years ago-Mr. Alt
schiller has never failed to give this
number in New York. He has kent this
symphony until the last concert, as it
marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of
Tschaikowsky's death.
Kurt SCHNEIDER conductor, will give it's
second and last concert of the season
at Carnegie Hall on Tuesday evening,
April 8. The programme will consist
of American folk music, Slavonic
song cycle, favorite Russian folksongs
and ballads and songs by Finland's
greatest composers.
The only appearance of Eugen
Ysaye takes place in Aeolian Hall on
the evening of March %, when the Bel
gian violinist will assist Miss Victoria
Boshko, the young Russian pianist at
her annual New York recital. The
feature of the programme will be the
Beethoven "Kreutzer" sonata. Mr.. Ysaye
has played this famous number every
time he has appeared in this country.
Among those with whom he has ap-
peared are Busoni, D'Albert and Pugno,
but this will be the first time he has
ever had woman at the piano. The
other number in which he will assist
Miss Boshko will be the sonata for vio-
lin and piano by Sylvio Lazzari. This
composition was dedicated to the vio-
linist. Miss Boshko will open the
with the Etudes SYM
phoniques, by Schumann. She will
also play the Nocturne, c minor; Pre-
Jude, F major, and the Schcrzo. B
minor, by Chopin.
An overture, Comes Autumntime,
by Leo Sowerby, the twenty-t three
year-old American composer, now in
Camp Grant, heads the programme of
the concert to be given by the SYM
phony Society of New York, Walter
Damrosch, conduc- or, this afternoon at
Aeolian Hall. George Barrere, Autist of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-10

The Rialto orchestra's overture this
week will be Svensden's Carnival in
Paris" with Hugo Riesenfeld and Nat
W. Finston conducting. Eleanor Fran
els will sing "Floods of Spring." by
Rachmaninoff; Carlos Mejia will be
heard in "Spirito Gentil," from LA
Favorita," by Donizetti, and the full
chorus and orchestra will give the
Waltz Song from Faust"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-10

Bubble seeks to practise upon him he
sorcery. When he spurns all their be
gullements, he is driven out from tn,
vicious city.
In the Delectable Mountains, tt
which Christian has in the third "act'
attained, Hopeful and the Shepherds
join with the Celestial Voices in sing
ing OF the goodness and majesty of the
Lord and of the beauty of His City
thus encouraged, Christian crosses the
River and proceeds to his goal. Here
ne is greeted by the angel with the
benediction, blessed are thew that dc
his commandments" The gates arc
opened for him, and Christian and his
comrades are greeted with the full
chorus chanting, "Well done, good and
faithful servants!"
At best, in stage performance this
work would be masque rather than a
drama, for there is little dramatic ac-
ton conformable to the requisite
conflict 81, Wills" But there is not a
little stage business" especially in
the scene of Vanity Fair and that Of
the fight with Apollyon. There is like
wise abundant opportunity for re.
splendent stage pictures. which should
charm the eye even when the action
does not occupy the mind.
Still, as Mr.. Kelley we'll knows. the
work is likely to be given ninety-nine
times in concert form" to once after
tbs manner CT drama. And he has
taken pains that it shall conform to
all the conditions which surround the
performance of cantatas in America. He
has so devised his score that the bulk
of 1.-THE first and third parts-may be
sung in a church by the regular choir,
with its soloists, to the accompan;
ment Of the organ. From these pro-
portions up to those of the most i'm
presslve festival performance, such as
that promised in Cincinnati. the work
will be found easily adaptable to any
resources at hand. Such flexibility is
altogether praiseworthy where it is
possible, for all too many works are
born to blush unseen because of the
excessive demands they make for
their performance.
MIR. Kelley has written for this
score his most melodious and warm
blooded music. Often it Utilities chro.
matte procedure to a marked degree.
There is much that is dramatic and
and "atmosphe eric" in the
scenes in the City of Destruction and
the Valley Of Humiliation. Some of
the chorales, with freely modulating
harmonies, are most impressive. In
the section denominated Vanity Fair,
Mr. Kelley, the gifted composer of
light opera, is seen in his own ele-
ment. The srrigntly arias Of Mr..
Worldly Wiseman, Mr.. Money Love
and Madame Bubble are admirably
written. The choruses are lively III
the extreme. And, lastly, the fnales of
he first and third parts are splendldly
broad and sonorous. Altogether, this
8 music of marked dignity, fresh in
iention and intricate resource, easy
or layman to grasp and enjoy at first
rearing, and also we'll repayirg the at
,entiOn of the musician
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-10
Musical Art Society

Both the "Star-Spangled Banner" and
the "Marseillaise' are shortly to be
heard hrrc in versions said to have
been automatically harmonized by Car
los Salzedo recently for wartime in
ternational occasion in Canada. These
national anthems will precede the sing
ing of songs from the French battle
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-12-08

The Cretaaeous era which followed was
the age Of those strange huge water ami
mails known as mosasaurs, piesiosaurs,
etc. Their recovered bones show painful
LESSONS with striking masses Of tumor
growths, resulting in their demises. Dollo
found in their teeth the near mouth in.
fections by parasites, known to moderns
as alveolar pyorrhea. Even sea turtles
were affected by this disease That the
entire animal life Of the Cretaccous ora
must have persisted with tumors and teeth
infections is shown in the fact that, in
the following Tertiary period. there were
new types OF animals arising which had
not Inherited former troubles.
Gradually, disease again crcpt into the
world OF animal and plant life. assuming
new violence in the later Plestocenc era.
Flesh eating mammals began world
domination. They overdid it, however,
and by Selling and devouring infected
prey, themselves became victims OF
prevalent. fatal diseases. These infec-
tions roughened and sortencd the homes
go that they readily broke into fragments
The infections apparently ran. in many
cases, through the bones OF the entire
skeleton. Matthew first noted and de-
fined the process after an examination OF
creodont carnivore named I.mnocyon
potens, from the Washable Eocene forma-
tions. Later excavations In the tarpits OF
Rancho Brea California, by Merriam.
showed that numerous mammals had var
ious stages OF the infectious diseases
when they entered the fatal tar trap in
search OF prey. and could not have had
long to live IL they had remained out
side. Among these wero the most
gigantic wolves. lions. sabre.toothed tigers.
hyenas, ETC., that ever existed.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-12-08

In the later OliSocene period dogs
reached their most gigantic size Hatcher.
who examined their fossilized remains,
found them victims OF cancerous tumors.
q revival of the dread disease OF the
earlier reptilian mosasaurs. Osborn ex-
aiming bones of the new genus OF huge
mammals which he named Titanotheres, in
the same era, noted that they. too, were
likewise infected. Then came the Miocene,
when the ancestral three.toed horse
gracefully roamed over much OF America
and to which the name of Meryhippus
has been attached. Somehow his teeth
and jaws became infected with parasites,
producing swellngs from which his de-
scendants. the horses of to-day, are saved
by the advances of veterinary science.
Bereft OF his teeth, Meryhippus miserably
faded out OF existence, with no soothing
solutions from the hand Of the yeterinar.
Ian aid and save.
In the ensuing eras, Plioccne, Peisto-
Gene and Modern, oil of the saprophytio
tvegetahle bacteriaD and parasitic (ani.
mad diseases inherited from reptiles not
only increased OH vast scale, but we're
accompanied by new types, which in
creased to the enormous brood Of troubles
Known 10 the human race to-day
me antiquity Of disease is shown In an
appalling manner by the recent discovery
OF Professor Charles d. Walcott, secretary
or the Smithsonian Institution, Washing
ION. He found fossiizcd toxic, or poison
Gus, bacteria at the base Of and far below
the CaIobrian rocks. These rocks had
originally lain thirty-six miles below the
earths surface but had been upheayed by
some tremendous convulsion Theirs is
an age OF some 100000 years ago.
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with phalanges close together The
whole attitude OF the boly strongly sug.
sests some severe spas.ic distress 1t may
have suffered death from severe cerebro.
spinal infection tof pois onods bactera)
Whatever the cause OF il death, the atti-
'rde shows the effect OF disease
Tho associated trouble chest spasms.
while not so common among higher
vertebrates, is common among fish
THIS is also evidently the cause of the at
titude OF the fossil plesios; III, or sea lizard.
The remarkable skeleton of the geosaur
fron the Upper Jurassic slatc OF Eich
standt, clearly shows marked instance
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