The Washington herald., 1920-03-17
In the Linelight
BY George Perry Morris.

II BY George Perry Morris.
When they tore down the Madison
Square Presbyterian Church, New
York City. which Stanford White
designed and which many persons
considered one Of his best later
works, men wondered what was to
become of the tiles and other decor
ations that made Its facade SO at
tractiye. They are to go into a fine
new building for the Times of Hart
ford. Conn, which Dom Barber, a
native of Washington, has designed.
When completed, this will be one of
the handsomest and most costly
newspaper properties In New Eng
land, and ii will have been
paid for by the patronage OF
one OF the largest and least
competed for Democratic con-
stituencies Of readers in the coun-
try. Barber edits the New York
Architect; has his work scattered
about New York City, Hartford and
Washington. IL the Times, in it's
new home. will make it's tripod as
powerful as DR.. Parkhurst in his
best days used to make the pulpit
of the Madison Avenue church, the
paper will break UP some of the
Connecticut complacency.
So New York City is the native
town of the new chancellor of the
German state, he being the son OF a
liberal, who, in the middle of the
last century, came to this country
as did Carl Schurz. for a chance to
live a free life and to escape stead
lily growing Prussian domination
The present Herr Won Kapp, who IL
the new chancellor, went back TO
Germany to live, and now is a con.
servative. There is nothing new in
this. Liberals sometimes have con-
servative Eons-Carl Schurz's son
for instance.
The Legion of Honor decoration
of cheyalier has been given BY
France to Frederick Carl Erieske
Western born but now well.
known New York artist. especially
for his service during the war in
developing registration of the ar
tistic aspects of the conflict. His
work Is In some of the best Euro
pean galleries from Venice to
Odessa; he has held important ad.
ministrative posts in museums and
galleries in this country: and during
the war he worked steadily for
''the cause"
One of the most learned of Euro
pean savants recently settling in
the country is George Sarton
whose home and printing plant fol-
Isis" an international quarterly
devoted to the history of science
and civilization, were subjected to
German raiding in Belgium early in
the war. He found his way to the
United States: men who knew OF
his attainments and who sympa-
thized with his ideals made 1t pos
sible for him to get a teaching
place Cat Harvard University, which
he held for a time. Then he estab-
lished relations with the Carnegie
Institution of this city, which now
stands sponsor for the Isis" and
makes it possible for him to be a
scholar of leisure. as such a mar
should be. and not a recitation
hearer.
The man who has had to bear thu
brunt of the controversy over man
agement of the Boston Symphony
Orchestra is a Cabot. 1t is a fam
lily that though old is virile still
and also progressive in attitude
also. DR.. Richard c. Cabot, the
physician, teacher of religion and
professor of social ethics at Har.
ward, being a living witness. Judge
Frederick p. Cabot, president of the
trustees of the orchestra, has am
pie means. His vocation is sitting
day after day in the Juvenile Court
of the Boston region and getting al
the bottom of cases" that if not
handled wisely will develop into
permanent public charges. He is
not quite as busy on this job as he
was a while ago, for prohibition is
steadily cutting down his docket
just as it is emptying the jails, the
almshouses and the houses of de-
tention of Massachusetts,. Judge
Cabot is a trustee of Radcliffe Col
lege. and though comparatively
youthful. has all the accomplish
ments of his caste, being cultivated,
philanthropic and civic spirited.
1t seems that Harry Harness
Flagler is the good angel" who is
underwriting" the European tour
of the New York Symphony Orches-
ira with Walter Damrosch as lead
er. The first concert is to be in
Paris. May 4, and the last one in
London, June 80. Five countries will
be visited and thirty-f1ve concerts
given in seven and a half weeks.
That is what might be called in
terms of music, accelerated pace.
Mr.. Flagler's generosity is no new
thing. The orchestra owes much to
him. If the tour could have been
made six months ago it might have
been more heartily received than it
will be now. Former allies are not
so friendly. An era of bad feeling
has set in.