The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-09

third President of the United States. who founded it 100 years ago.
 More than quarter of century ago, when young McIntire was moving cases of Albemerle Pippins in the Char lottesville freight officeA he used to look up toward lofty Monticello three miles distant The classic outlines of the home made famous by the architect President were not discernible, but the young man knew every inch of its front and portico by heart
 How fine it would be. he thought if more beautiful architectural structures could be added to the JeffersoniaG group at the university. Years later while traveling in European countries this idea took concrete form. With it's realization. came the desire to make Charlottesville and the University the Athens of Dixie as their great progeni- tor desired.
 Home of four Presidents-Jefferso Madison, Monroe and Woodrow Wilson University of Virginia alumnus of the class of 'S1), the gray old college town IS an lQ6al TOT a lW enttStt century Athens. The spirit of Jeffer- son walks in it's dreamy streets, and one house in every ten is shrouded in pleasant "reminiscences of the days when courtly gentlemen in silk knee brooches bowed to hoop skirted lad. es with high, powdered coiffures.
 There is, too a second historic strata of Civil war days in which the old uni versity figured conspicuously. From the steps of the old rotunda faculty and student body rode bravely forth under the colors of Robert k. Lee, whose equestrian figure the sculptor Schrday has modelled in Lee park. Tho rotunda itself recalls to the historians the silk flag, sewed in secret by Char lottesville ladies, and hung from its flag pole at midnight by Randolph Har- rison McKim, who before his death last year was rector of the Church of the Epiphany in Washington. D. c.
 CRYSTALIZiNG INTO REALITY
 In this setting. the dreams and vis- ions of the poor village youth are today crystalliZing in parks, libraries, art schools, public schools. scholarships and statuary. A public concert course with the artists from the Metropolitan opera house and Carnegie hall in New York was opened to the public this winter. The spring will see three new statues erected in Charlottesville and the uni versity proper City and university have received cultural gifts from Mr' McIntire, totalling nearly $75O,o0o,oV Friends say that this sum represents large part of the donors fortune, Tor he is only one of the country's poor millionaires,'' and has frequently ex' pressed a desire to dispose of his snare of this worlds good before his opitu' ary is written.
 It is perhaps symbolic of the cultural heights he had in mind that flag poIe should be the first gift of the Uni versity of Virginia's patron. Thls Was followed by a statue of Stonewall Jack son (sS5, ,000); a statue of Robert E. Lee (s35. .O0o); the foundation of the School of Fine Arts ($165, 5,000); Greek am phiteatre (s85O0o); library (s1O0,oo0), Lewis and Clarke statue $29,ooD, |, George Rogers Clarke statue (s25,o00), 1, and the presentation of the Belmont park to the city.
 He is taking a keen interest in the University of Virginia's centennial en- dowment fund, and believes that the in- stitution's power for service in the com munity will be immeasurably increased if alumni and friends of education are successful in presenting alma mater with the s3,0o0,000 birthday gift planned for her one hundredth anniversary.
 That Mr. McIntire's public spirited ness is not limited to impersonai gif's may be judged from the fact that his only daughters name is "Charlottes- vile Virginia McIntire."
 A few short months ago Albemarle county was forty-second among Nir ginias 100 counties in public schoo. ratings Cooperating with the county authorities, MT. McIntire gave all, or part of the funds necessary to build lS new schools. He plans to bring this number up to 4e. As a result of these philanthropies, Albemarle county now leads the list in public school educa- tion.
 MT. McIntire was born in Charlottes vile in 1870 His father ran the village drug store, and as a small boy he ran errands and mixed prescriptions. Ills first job was in the Chesapeake and Ohio freight office, where his old bosS, and on eof his closest personal friendS, William o. Watson, still is in charge.
 Long walks in the ragged mountains, dear to Edgar Allan Poe as a UniversltJ of Virginia student, intimate acqualn- tance with the silent mountaineers, and a quick natural perception fired the imagination of the druggists son. Sew eral years savings in the local freight office gave him the privilege Of oM