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New-York tribune., 1922-03-19
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SjNDAl-Aeolan Hail.
Tristan Isolde;
Poiakn metropolitan M,
Orchestra Hippodromc, m.
Mccormack and assisting Numord Hall,
recital by F. Robert Schtz;
Lucille Maxim
Nionst City College, N recital by Baldwin,
Greenwich Village 1heater
Guild Metropolitan u
MONDAS-aeoian Wall S:l5
Society; by Faas
M
House, ~ Italian and Fnch
TIiS>@iAeolian Hall by
recital Evelyn NiscNcvin:
recital by Emma Caise; G:i5 2.
m,
Nanamaker Auditorium, 2:30 III, Char
WEDNESDAf-Town Hall, p.
City College, p. A.
poIian Opera House, III, French "Faus'
Hall
Society;
Hall, Sis M Use Aeoan Hall,
House
m- German "1ohengrn'
iRGA1-Carnege Kali 2:3O p by The Philharmonic
Orchestra; S:l5 M the New York
Town HALL b. Wilhelm
Opera House p italian "tosi Fan Tute."
SATURDAlAcoan Hal, chidrcns
Symphony Orchestral Carnegie Hall violin recital
Rubinstein; Hall, S:15 by
Orchestra;
Metropolitan House, and II, Italian
"LAn nore del Tire Re" and "LOracoio.'
New-York tribune., 1922-03-19

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girl, then at the age Of nineteen years
came to New York for instruction,
which she received from Emilio Agra
monte and Henrietta Beebe and others.
Her first choir engagement here was
at the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church.
where she sang for Ave years. She
then went to the Broadway Tabernacle
where she remained twenty years, after
which she retired to devote herself to
teaching. From the beginning OF the
first season in 1894 to the end of the
tenth 1893'a4, she was member oF
the Musical Art Society, conducted by
DR.. Frank Damrosch, where her serv-
ices we're Invaluable. She went back TO
yhc home Of her birth and childhood
eight or ten years ago, having retired
from active work A friend who sent
us the melancholy news of her death,
wrote: "Maric Bissel rose To success
through her own endeavors and hay
generously given Of herself and purse
TO aid many struggling pupil OF asso-
ciatc Her pure life was devoted TO
the highest ideals Of her art and hun
drcds OF her friends and students will
read these lines with sorrow in their
hearts
New-York tribune., 1922-03-19

gave concerts Of orchestral rs well as
vocal nusic in South Dakota there is
a university library at NermjIlion, in
which there are 500 player rolls and
$50 photographs, as against 900 books
on and Of music. The policy Of the
library is said to be 60 purchase ma
terial that will be OF the greatest help
to students of the university and the
community" No rolls are reported
from the five libraries of Tennessee
which have music sections, but there
is one collection of records. The larg-
est number Of books on music reported
by a Texas library is $50. One library
has fifty phonograph records and one
reports longing for them. Nothing
is said Oh the subject in the report
from Utah, which shows great pau
city of interest in musical literature.
From Vermont one report mentions sew
enty-two photograph records; eleven
libraries report about music sections
with books numbering from 25 to 257.
The summary Of six Libraries in Nir-
ginia gives scant information-none at
all as to mechanical appliances. That
is also the case with reports from
Washington. One library in West Vir-
giria has fifty. another 200 records.
Concerning Wisconsin and Wyoming
We arc left in the dark.
We wish that the authors of the Bull
letin had made it possible for US to
estimate the appropriations made for
New-York tribune., 1922-03-19
The Music Sections
In American Libraries
Books, Player-Piano Rolls and Phonograp, Rec
ords; jules Jordan; Busoni's Appreciation of
Saint-Saens; Death of Marie R;ssel1
By II. f. krchbicI

The Bureau Of Education of the De-
pa-tment OF The Interior of the United
Statcs government has published q bull
letn entitled Music Departments of
Libraries prepared by committee of
she Music Teachers National Associa-
ION composed OF William Benbow.
Waldo S. Pratt, Q. G. Sonneck, ]. Law
renee Erb and Charles n. Boyd. The
information in the Bulletin was OBJ
tanned through The medium Of a cues
tioaraire prepared by the committee
nd sent out by the Bureau of Educa-
ton in 1917-1S. 1t is a valuable docu-
1ent If it is indicative Of musical cul-
iure in the various sections OF the
United States, but We confess that We
10 not know nor can we guess to what
extent i is such an indication. Com
pairing the facts set forth in the docu-
ment with some gathered by US sixteen
o. seventeen years ago, we are inclined
10 think that the growth Of interest in
collections OF books and music is
shown chiefly, ii not solely, in the large
cities which have long been ccnters of
musical cuiture-New York, Boston and
Chicago, for instance. A notable ex-
cepticu is formed by Washington.
where, with the encouragement re-
ceived from the librarian. Mr.. Putnam.
and under the supervision and dircc-
ton Of Er. Sonhetk while he was chief
ii the music division, the Library of
Congress has been tremendously dcvel-
oped along musical lines.
The compilers of the Bulletin have
made summaries Of reports received
from forty states ard the District
q Columbia. but they have not made
an abstract of the summaries which
might show where there is q minimum.
where a maximum of interest in col
ection Of books on music and music it.
self which could be scanned by the in
'erested student. Their general conclu-
Ion on the resui. of their labors is set
'orth n these words: The result IS
10Th encouraging and discouraging. 1t
$ encouraging in that the report shows
2 fairly WIDE dissemination of consid-
erable music libraries throughout the
0antry with some collections Of first
rank. It is encouraging for the reason
hat many more Libraries report in
c1caslng interest in the music Depart
rqnts in parison &c the number
here music interest Is stationary or
screasing. It is encouraging because
many Of the librarians who report small
Collections are careful to note that the
reason therefor is recent installation of
he section. perhaps esru the youth OF
.ho library itself, or l..A Of room or of
other facilities. The 0iscouraging fea-
ure is the lack of interest shown,
loagh not more frequently thpn might
BE- expected, by libraries, niasic teach
New-York tribune., 1922-03-19

Public Library 1.o6 per cent is of rolls
Montanes report is negligible, though
the Public Library ut lTcleua, which
IS just starting q music section and
has spent $1,000 upon it, makes no
mention Of automatic music. Nebraska
equally negligible, is silent on the sub
iect. From Nevada the University at
Reno reports the possession Of music
shelf "about six feet long but the
public library Of the Grctna Green OF
Divorces has 1870 volumes of books and
| music all told. New Hampshire reports
no rolls or records, but also no scores
Of orchestral or chamber music New
Jerseys reports Oh 80 Libraries are CON
fined to books on music and musical
publications. New Mexico is in every
respect musically a~id-onc library has
10 books and another has So catalogue
entries under the title "Music" A hur-
ried estimate indicates that here are
about 1000 rolls and records lin the
libraries o. " g State OF New York, iiyc
times as many books on music and
five times as many bound volumes OF
music. One library out Of the nine
in North Carolina has % phonograph
records. Two out Of seven libraries in
North Dakota have $50; Ohio reports
about 1900, but there are no aids to
the enjoyment OF automatic music in
tho large libraries of Cincinnati and
Cleveland The Dcnson University
Conservatory Of Music has 25o rolls
and records, the Obcrlin College il
brary 31j and the Public Library Of
Toledo 500.
Oklahoma has 8 State University
Library, with $50 rolls and records, as
against $50 books and musical publi-
cations. Oregon has nothing to say
about records or rolls, except that the
people rent them aid try to keep up
with the programs OF tie National Fed
Grafton of Musical Clrbs. The demand
for books or music 'has been quite
extraordinary" during the last few
years. Pennsylvania sixty enc libra
ries are much stronger in literature
and music than in mechanical agencies,
though the committee refuses to be-
lieve that they are remarkable in any
one respect. 1t seems to us as if the
1000 books on music, / 400 bound vol (
umes of music, 175 orchestral scores
and 400 chamber music scores of the
Carnegie Library deserve a word of |
commentator. About 800 rolls and
lecords are reported by the siXty-one
libraries. OF Rhode Island the Bulle +
tin says: "Thc striking feature of the
reports from sixteen Rhode Island
libraries with music sections IS the
almost total lack, except in one case,
Of any resources except books on music.
No player-piano rolls are mentioned,
and fifty photograph records is the
total library collection for the state"
In South Carolina one library has 20
very few books on music" another "a
few books on music" another "about
eleven" and fourth about thirty"
There are several hundred books on
music in the Carnegie Library of Win
throp Normal and Industrial COLLEGE. at
Rock Hill. Nothing is said about au-
tomato instruments or their accesso-
ries. Yet in the eighteenth century
Charleston already boasted st. Ce-
cilia Society founded in 1862, which
New-York tribune., 1922-03-19
Music Notes

At the second concert Of the Interns-
tional Composers Guild, to take place
this evening at the Greenwich Village
Theatcr, Eva Gaathier, assisted by the
Chamber Music Art Society, will sing
group Of songs for voice and a few in
struments by Bliss, Delage, Kramer
and Ravcl, as we'll as Russian group
FOR voice and piano by Dukelski and
Sfravinsl,y. Gustave Tinlot ard Leroy
Shield viii play for the first time in
this country 4 sonata for violin and
piano by Tloront Schmitt. The pro
gram also includes piano pieces b.
Kodaly new to America and songs BY
Carl Engel and Vaughan Williams
which will be sung by Lawrence
strauss.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-19

music in the various states Of the
Union. They have not, obviously, be.
cause they could not. ] hat it is paltry
in every section we know Even in
New York the Public Library depends
largely upon private contributions for
accessories 49, bencvolenccs bestowed
upon the community by individual cit-
zens or organizations via the Bee
thoven Association. The facts about
such large musical collections as those
Brown Music Room in Boston, the Pub
lie Library Of New York and the New
berry Library, Of Chicago, have fire.
Qucntly been discussed, though there
are features about them which may in
vite renewed attention at another time.
The Autobiography
or Jules Jordan
Mr.. Jules Jordan, who received the
honorary degree OF Mus. Doc. from
Brown University in 1895, in recog-
milton of his energetic and unselfish
labors in behalf OF the art, has written
and published volume of reminis-
cences, autobiography, pedagogical es-
says, records and poems under the title
The happenings of a Musical Life"
Though widely known throughout the
United States as concert tenor, Mr..
j Jordan's activities were devoted chiefly
to Providence, r. l., where he stood at
the head of the Arion Club for full
forty years after he had called it into
New-York tribune., 1922-03-19

The final concert of Inc season by the
Society Of the Friends of Music will be
given next Sunday afternoon at Town
Hal
Teha.kovsky's pathetic" symphony
is the principal orchestral Offering a.
the Philha rInonic eoaoo IT to be given at
Carnegie Hal ~ Sunday afternoon,
March 26. whea Myra Hess will be the
soloist
The Chamber Music Art Society OF
New York viii give concert al Town
Hall Monday evening, March 27 The
program VIII include the Schubert Oc-
tet, Op. 166.
Josef Lhevinno. Russian pianist, has
been engaged as the soloist for the last
subscription concert this season Of the
New York Symphony Orchestra in Aeo-
liam Hall next Sunday afternoon. He
VIII play Beethoven's Concerto No. l.
a Chopin program will be given s4za
the Friday Noon Hour of Music al
Brick Church. March "a. by Cd
Dickinson, with Alice Louise Me- o
contralto. and Maurice Kaufman. NO =.
linist, which VIII include Polonaise in
4 fiat; song. The Maidcn's Wish:
viciin, Nocturnc in A fiat; Etude in C
fat; song. y Lithuanian Song:
Prelude III j Cat; violin. Nocturne in
(coutinued en- next pss,l
New-York tribune., 1922-03-19

Walter Damrosch viii begin second
series OF three explanatory recitals at
the piano on the operas of Richard
Wagner in Aeolian Hall this afternoon.
ject.
Evening star., 1922-04-14
Against Track Extension.

There is well reasoned and deter.
mined opposition of citizens and insti-
tutions to a bill, passed by the Senate
and now with the House District com.
mittee, which would authorize the
District Commissioning "in their dis.
erection to grant to any steam railroad
company authorized to have tracks in
the District permits to construct over.
head or underground sidings from the
lines of such railroad into such squares
as may be included within any indus.
trial area now or hereafter estab-
lished." The object of the bill is to
enable the Baltimore and Ohio rail.
road to run tracks into q SQUARE
which lie now within an industrial
sone adjoining squares which are
within a commercial sone. The bill as
introduced, In the Senate specifically
Evening star., 1922-04-14
Cold Figures and Warm Logic.

Over his official signature, Secretary
of the Navy DENLY wrote to Chair.
man Madden of the House appropria-
tions committee, March 1S last, de-
scribing just what would have to hap
pen in the weakening Of the treaty
fleet should the committee carry out
its plan then disclosed to reduce the
Navy personnel to 65 200 enlisted men.
Noting that the treaty called for a
ratio Of 5-5-3 for the United States.
Great Britain and Japan, Secretary
DENLY said: Under the personnel al
lowance of $1,000, according to our
best information this ratio will be re-
duced to 2h-5-3 for the United States,
Great Britain and japan, respectively;
or, more concretely, the American per-
sonnel will be one-half that Of Great
Britain. and will be considerably less
than that of Japan. need not COM
ment upon the extraordinary spectacle
thus presented
Dealing with the practical aspect
which would confront him, if the re-
duction went into force, Secretary
DENLY said that the first thing neces.
sary would be to lay up in ordinary
six battleships of the first line. all the
twelve-inch-gun ships, with only COM
plements large, enough to preserve
them. The European station would
have to be abandoned. The Navy De-
partment holds that it would be better
to have twelve full-complement, ready
for-action ships than to have eighteen
part-complement ships not ready for
action. II personally believe that q
ship too greatly undermanned is sick
ship. and will be of little account in
battle" the Secretary wrote.
The contention is made by the re-
ductionists that the prospect of world
peace is so favorable as to render un-
treaty fleet. That proposition is un-
tenable. Laying up in ordinary Of
those six first-line ships would mean
that their efficiency in time of need
would be lost, because the crews which
would then man would not. have
had training, gunnery practice, drill
or evolution exercises.
The treaty provides for time
Navy. but a Navy in peace time up to
a state Of efficiency which would make
it ready for war. The establishment
of the ratio took into consideration
the prospective era of peace created
by the other features of the arms con-
ference. Japan and Great Britain will
most assuredly keep their ratio unim.
paired. 1t would be incredible folly
should the United States not do like
wise.
Evening star., 1922-04-14
EDITORIAL DIGEST

tions is based upon the belief of
many Frenchmen that France re-
| ceived the treatment of a second
rate power at Washington" in the
opinion of the Little Rock. Ark,
Democrat (democratic). which sug-
gests that should the French cham
Der take a leaf from the book of the
United States Senate, II would be
as disastrous to the Harding admin
istrations plans as though the Amer
lean Senate had refused to ratify."
But there is not the slightest likeli-
hood of anything of this sort taking
place. in the view of the Manchester,
N. H., Union independent repub-
lican), which is convinced that the
!. French may. and very likely will.
adopt a reservation calculated to save
her face, but it is virtually incred-
| ible that they would wreck the naval
treaty, restore the old rivalry in
building and force France out of the
race at the outset" Yet should
France insist on doing So. the Mil
see no reason for Americans to say
that this is not playing the game.
and at the same time keep our faces
straight when we ourselves did not
ask our co-signatories' opinion about
whether our pet reservations come
Americans also have no ground to
criticize the attitude of the French
in this respect" the Columbus, Ohio.
Dispatch dndependent). declares,
pointing out that no one party to
treaty 'can claim a right to make
reservations and not concede the
same right to-each and all the others.
1t is entirely possible that the whole
Washington program will be wrecked
on .'ressrvation' reefs in other eapi. 'i.
treaties has yet to prove its prac-
t1cability. It's history. down to date:
has been that OF wreckage. not OF
success" And even though it appears
that personal politics" is playing
large role in the Paris. maneuyers
for reservations the New York Tri-
bune (republican) Is convinced I'VE
have no right to complain of this.
Personal politics figure conspicuously
in the fight here over the league
tically all of the energy there was in
the recent fight against the four
power Pacific treaty"
Add to prospective horrors: Our
creditors may dun US by radio
Milwaukee Journal.
A lot Of CALI -Curcing was done. We
suppose, after her Jewels were stolen.
Nashville Tennessean.
"Margot took 100000 with her"
You didn't expect her to leave it, did
you s"6oSton transcript.
Universal knocking in time brings
reform" 1t doesn't appear 'to have
done much for the weather, however
Birmingham News.
The government bureau of engrav-
ing and printing has shut down, but
not because it wasn't making money.
New. York Herald,
Babe Ruth will be ont of the game
forty days and forty nights and a
flood Of protest Is expeoted.-Flint.
Mich, Journal.
Now Peggy Hopkins Joyce is going
to marry an editor. Evidently Peggy
meant what she said about wanting
no more rich husbands.-Syracuse
Herald:
Forty thieves held up. sugar train
in New York. thinking 1t loaded with
silk ana money. They must have
been amateur hiEhwaynhen to attempt
% steal from the sugar trust.-Houston.
Tex. PoSt.
Evening star., 1922-04-14
Talking About the Weather.

The weather, 1t is said, had much to
do with the election result in the
thirty-seventh New York Congress
district. 1t rained heavily all day,
putting many Of the country roads al
most out of commission. The country
vote thus was much reduced in size.
In the towns and cities the ap.
proaches to the polls were more easily
negotiated. Hence the vote there was
larger. The people turned out and
recorded themselves in fairly good
numbers.
In that district, as throughout the
country, the vets rely upon the urban
vote. the drys upon the rural vote. A
stormy election day, therefore, works
against the drys. They are more easily
stormbound. The vets have but to
move into their goloshes. raise their
coat collars and their umbrellas and
set out, ballots in hand.
This makes election day weather
unusually important this year. A driv-
ing rain, or an early fall Of snow, or a
nlSE vino, might play INTO the nandS
of the vets here and there materially.
- The dry campaign managers, there.
fore, will have to study the signs with
diligence, and arrange suitable pro-
visions in case Of stormy emer-
gency. They must study the art of
making heavy country roads nego.
table: of working the rural voters up
to the point of sacrificing much per.
sonal comfort in order to reach the
ballot boxes.
$; 1t is hardly necessary to point out
that II the vets control the Sixty
eighth Congress the campaign of 1924
will show prohibition well in front
again as a great national issue.
Evening star., 1922-04-14
Potomac National Park?

Senator Fernald of Maine has intro.
.duced a resolution proposing a plan
to extend the park system of the capi-
tai from Washington to Great Falls
4on both banks Of the Potomac. and d.
rectirg the chief Of engineers to make
a survey of the project and report to
Congress.
The borders of the Potomac between
Washington and Great Falls have been
surveyed several times, but not with
the purpose of creating a park, the
previous surveys having to do with
proposals to increase the water sup
ply Of Washington and with turning
part of the Potomac into a producer
of electricity.
The park proposal has been brought
forward number of times, and it has
had the approval of most persons hav-
ing acquaintance with. the section
that would be parked, and it has also
had the approval of most persons, per-
haps Of all persons, who desire to ex-
tend the park system Of the capital
that it may include those lands whose
only, or principal, value is as park
land.
If the borders Of the Potomac be-
tween Washington and Great Falls
could be taken over asa national park
the capital of the United States would
have park which would be in many
ways beyond comparison with any
@fh ~ify yV he ynrld 10
scenic features and the long vistas of
the region are remarkable. but they
are known to relatively few persons
even in Washington because of the
difficulty of reaching them. On the
Virginia side, because of the depth and
sharpness of the gorges of streams en-
tering the Potomac, there is no road
s.earer than the Georgetown and Lees
l5rR pike. which parallels the river. A
tew private ways lead from the pike
for some distance toward the river
but nearly all the feature spots"
must be reached by trails which tax
the lungs and legs of stout walkers.
The gorges of Dead run, SCOTS run
and Difficult run, the mighty rock
fastnesses at the mouth of Difficult
and between Black pond and the river,
the tall and steep wooded ridges on
both sides Of Prospect run. Bull Neck
run and Difficult. and the high views.
such az Prospect rock and a score of
unnamed places. are not known to
many persons who live in Washington
49, xry,o 1,;sit W. oh IN otoo b,,f ~ fb;c
section should be taken over by the
gove rnment roads and trails would be
built which would open it to all per-
sons and keep these wonder acres,
containing some Of the grandeur spots
Of the Appalachian world, from being
fenced in or walled in by private
owners.