The Washington herald., 1920-05-09

L N~AACNses AaAOaEh ANNS41N N mat
city he obtained Job as a messen-
ger boy. Bright and ambitious. the
Virgtnian attracted attention every
where. A Job in a brokers once
gave him his hrst chance. He de-
voted all his energies to learning
the brokerage business and twenty
years after he entered Chicago, al =
most friendless and pennyless. he
was the proprietor of nourishinG !,
brokerage ofices in that city and In
New York. His fortune Increased :
rapidly. He never INDUCED in Wild !,
cat speculations. ;.
MY secret OF success" Mr.. Nc :,
Intire boasts. -is knowing when 90
take loss and not hang on To-
hopeless proposition" '- . -.s --
I Mseh Time Abroad.
After accumulating his first ST.
o00.0 Mr.. McIntiFe gave up striv-
ing for money. This in. itself was ).
the last Of his ambitions. During
l the past twenty years he has spent )
much of his time in foreign travel.
He has visited nearly every large
country in the world. At one time
he made his home in Italy. which
reminded him OF his native virginia.
he says. :,
Library His First Gift. .-
In the great art galleries OF :
France and Italy he developed his
love for painting and sculpture. In
1.-THE world-fsmed concert halls Of
Germany he acquired the taste for
music. From his European travels
came the ambition TO make his ma
tive town the center Of Dlxieland
culture.
Since his return to Charlottesville
he has kept things moving. The
public library was his first gift II
also may be added that q long series
OF benefactions for the city. county
and university are planned in the
future, according to reliable infor-
nation. .-.r
Mr.. McIntire lives alone in a new
home in West Charlottesville over
looking the university athletic field.
The house is modelled on the JEFF
lfersonian design, colonial classic .
with white colonades. His only
daughter, Virginia. is at q private
school in Washington. His one
hobby is horsemanship. He owns
a fine mount and spends much or
his time riding about among the e
mountains. As much as possible he
investigates for himself Just what
conditions are and relieves distress
4 ne hu02 MS AmnlLlOn
TO change the Blue Ridge school .
system resulted from these inVesti-
cations. ."
"An Effective IdeaIIst.-
Mr.. McIntire is described by his
friend. DIR. Patton, university libra
rian. thus: He is an ideRIist OF
the effective type. Working back
from his acts TO the impulses that
put them in train, one comes TO a
personality deeply religious and
also keenly responsive to spiritual
forces that lie outside the sphere
Of religious doctrine. He does not
go about with a Testament or hymn
book in his pocket or indulge in
much speaking, but he looks up
the workers in remote fields where
schools and churches are few and
reflect starvation of heart, mind and
soul. Not many of his associates
know that he supports schools and
churches in the mountains OF his
native county and in barren places
elsewhere.
He is suspected Of having in
mind a place in Charlottesville
where these mountain workers cab
come for a holiday each year. He
is not a sensational or even a dra-
matte man. His achievements have
not been the eagerly-sought frui-
tion Of an overdeveloped seIf-con-
sciousness."
Y Payne Gives EtckinEs.
The University of Virginia has
many other gifts which make more
secure its position as the head
quarters of Southern culture. Scat
tered about the university grounds
are statues by the most celebrated
American scUltors, Houden, Bitter,
Borglum. Ezekiel and Aitken.
To complete these facilities, Il
now is planned to bring TO Char
lottesville each year the finest eN-
hibitions circulated by the Amen-
can Federation Of Art.
In addition to Mr.. Mclntire's en- .
dowment the most notable gift that
has come TO the art school is a coll
lection Of etchings presented by
John Barton Payne, Secretary OF
the Interior, a Nirginisn by birth.
These constitute the cream Of the
collection that adorned his home at
Elmhurst. in Chicago. They In
clude twenty-six whistlers. sixteen
Haydens. four Rembrandts, two
Zorns. There also are a large num-
Der OF engraved eighteenth century
l
teuil, Duval and Strange.
Students Like @PrezSS
Besides its intrinsic beauty, the
4 collection admirably illustrates the
development Of the art Of etching
by nne single examples OF many
early masters such as the Dutch
men, Van De Velde. Ostade. Potter
and Schoenmakers. The collection
is valued at about $4,000. II Is
planned to make IL q nucleus OF an
art museum building worthy of the
other artistic riches Of the uni
versity. -.
Edwin Anderson Alderman, pres,
dent OF the university.-is a notabls
figure in, the plans for the develop
ment of the Athens of Dixie" He
represents the ideal type of modern
university head Learned. shrewd
and aggressive he presents a COM
binstion of the business man ana
the scholar difficult TO surpass. DR..
. Alderman and Mr.. McIntire are
close friends and plan together for
the glorious days TO come.
"Prexie" Alderman is the idol OF
, the university students. He has
!. them behind him TO the last msa
In whatever he undertakes. The
! honor system has bsen in effect nj
the University of Virginia for more
than fifty years In very few~in-
stances has IL been violated, and
| then the offenders Wern dealt With