The evening world. Newspaper, April 17, 1915, Page 3

——_— Son Is Rapidly Dispersing Art Collection J. P. Morgan Took 20 Years | to Gather Deveens Buy for $4,000,000 French vench Statuary, Portraii Buste snd Period Furni ture, Possibly Acting for H.C. Frick Only Napoleon's Loot Equalled Morgan Art Treasures Before Sales. By Henry Tyrrell. Consideretie portions «! the grea’ caltertion rather, agere Getion ef collections ¢tili remain at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Ie fast, oniy two oF three galiertes i @Ut of & Wiel of fourteen have been OF are about be dismanties up to Gate ary the “priceless” Chi- sigh over, Duvesns ieternational art dealers, for a con- fideration o , MORE oF lean But that w ne am item Tre Mr Frick fancied tre wonard panels, a bargain at $1,426,00 for a drawing room in bis new Fifth Avenue m. HON the site of the old Lenon library, Exit Fragonard ( more detail disposed of And now, to-day, we have the news of @ transaction in French statuary and portrait busts and period tur ture with historical and sentime Aasociations, amounting to possibly 94,000,000 for the lot. Those ilkewine 9 temporarily to the Duveens, The nome of Henry C. Frick naturally ie much mentioned in this connection but as yet only by way of surmine, Qe regarda the last montionsd sale from the now steadily disintegrating Morgan collection Meanwhile, « total tal for just th Wree little items of something over | te the tmogt @t work trying to frame a compre hensive idea of what a stunning col feetion It must have been, and who @ masterly man must have conc end realized the project @ellection, when it and the mas man were both in their pri On an imperial avale, ind the acquisitions and peaceable con quests of art treasures de luxe by the date Morgan, senior. Napoleor Bona- Parte, with the loot of all Europe con- @uests at his feet, is the only com- parable art-autocrat in modern ages. Napoleon stockod up the Vari Louvre with masterpieces, upon which | the fame and glory of that palace of the people rest secure for ali time. _. Morgan turned to New York's young | but promising Metropolitan Museum | of Art, with a keen prophetic vision of its growth in the not distant future to where {t should fAttingly stand for the| twentietb- | Wealth and culture of century world metropolis. THE ELDER MORGAN'S DREAM OF A NEW YORK LOUVRE. from a Here Mr. is @ significant clouse Morgan's will “I have been greatly interested for many years in gathering my collections of paintings, minia- tures, porcelains and other works of art, and it has been my desire and intention to make some a ab-. disposition of them or of euch portions of them as | might de- termini which would render them permanently available for the instruction ard pleasure of the American peopl: Lack of necessary time to devote to it 8 yet prevented my carry- into effect.” Alas! He never did find the neces- wary time to formulate this truly Yet Als action in iife in tranater- Srandiose purpo: the last year of b ived| crows ete ution, ae um of of New York ve no doubt Jeatination of ortiatic wealth | wet | Natura | City | te the events compar abie elder Mortman In the tof hie will, the 1 was followed Ameri History, ale woorged te by in ey Ifetime, they ase to my son, John an junior, oF to his eon Junie Spencer Mergen juni o under the foregoing clauses of thie will, ‘whereby | jepoee of my able, in such he may think best, to | make a permanent d ition, or from time to time permanent die ons, of them or of euch por | tions of them ae he may deter | mine, which will be « substantial carrying out of the intentions which | have thue cherish: SON MUST GIVE TREASURES TO CITY OR PAY GREAT TAX. | March a1, 1913, was the date of Mr | Morgan's dea in Rome, The second | anniversary of that date has passed | marking the expiration of the two the State for thy de whether he will politan Otherwine, tance or trans: the State of Now York—a sum, not 4% yet deter- ed, pending various appraisements, but upon which a preliminary pay nent of § ) lat already been made by the ¢ ta, Mr. J. Morgan jr, abroad in Bu | rope, has given no clue as to his tp tention ther than what may be tn ferred trom his recent course—but | that Is enough, The Morgan collec- ix in process of dispersal, sure igi; and the process is going o | seemingly, as rapidly | State of the workd art market will rea- fonably yy The general belief among those in the know is that Mr. Morgan will sell all the more important groups and objects of his father’s collection, if he can get his prices; and, further- more, that bids of magnitude are com- ing in to him quite briskly right now. That was only to be expected, consid- ering the fact that these objects are of the aort and quallty to poworfully jattract bu !C. Frick a the present) ~~ | | |- me | ONLY THESE SIMPLE CONDIT TO BE OBSERVED, sixteen years old. | — tb ¢ the “following thre diet DIST. NO. Nana ake: wee rary eine FREE EVENING WOR te hy $ OW, your photo ra, turned after the contest, return postage. _?88 BYENING WORLD, GRACE MOUNTAIN NEw YoRrK (ONS j 1—Each entrant must be at least i York pret- er, NS. the fol- LD, 63 'W YORK CITY. h re- inclose LeR- fore arte) bab A verano w BILLY SUNDAY FORCES | Wonder Trip Offer Draws, Quick Response From Eager Beauties, “DRY SUNDAY’’ ORDER The Evening World-Universal #iim| 5#loon-Keepers Are Told by we| Messrs. W: and Johnson off === ee< | com " 1 pany's offer to send tho seven to Philadeipiia, erie ® TEE OL Ot Quixote” Gobelins tapestries vie with| prettiest. girls in this vicinity on a oi Open Only ie Boston, Charloa L. Freer of Detroit] jentuanty FUER ES Uta and the free tour to the Panama-Pacitle Hx- Rooms To-Morrow. jand Henry Walters of Baltimore. padlcles csi toy bare! | | "Or course It may be that some of|Plluters, Gainsborough, Reynolds and! Position was barely a day olf when! one prewertes of New York have! | the scattered treasures will revert to \the Metropolitan Museum later o: Ono authority has specifically that Mr, Morgan may make some minor gifts, suc as ¢ antique in seu Metropolitan, The |saine authority atso says that Mr. Morgan will not give any portion of the collection to the City of New York. Within the last few days Mr. Mor- gan has written to Director Edward Robinson of the Metropolitan Mu- seu, offering to reimburse the inati- | tution for the expense Incurred in the installation, guarding and maintain. ing of the vast Morgan loan which has been on p for a refuved | feciing that it has been amply repaid jby the opportunity of putting ao | splendid an exhibition before the pub- lic for a period still indeterminate, Bat tt means goodby, or at least au revoir, before very long, to the sump- tuous sights and aesthetic sensations of those dozen grand galleries in the North Wing, where the gorgeous “Don Here wants, conservi of uneq ple are Best’s.’ Fifth HE growing-up lady who has very definite ideas of dress is very likely to discover that Best’s is an entirely safe place to bring her mother. wants her to want-~ Partly because we have pre- pared for precisely her re- quirements, always with the And partly because our peo- tion and have the disposition to display it. “You never pay more at Arenue, she finds just what she and what her mother atism (not restraint) ualled experience, trained in co-opera- Weat Side, Corner of 35th Street the rest bust by commoc Kiesener for private Sand si Queen You ha day af ye only rnoon to look your public exhibition tents of theso galleries, [important excepti with lings, tapestries and enamels, t going down Fifth Avenue | dealers nth century omMs that the y for and they must b ns hay ut” WABOCHALIG ie a dow nt hobby du: {or more at the rip | }and Hou¢ me next, | by famous artificers for the a tion of royal patrons in a volu land spendthrift age. That age apartments is, Including pa in the: look down luxuriously upon toudon, and Louis XVI mar- retain M LAST CHANCE FOR PUBLIC TO VIEW FRENCH GALLERY. until next Wedne last on} |the contents of Galleries 17 and 18, ax &t present arranged in the Museum's For it ts the con- certain nt hat are to the French two bought $4,000,000 y for delivery by of next week, They have already taken the life- | elzed portrait of the elder J. P. Mor- n out of ry 16. A very con- siderate move, surely it would grieve the collector's spirit to see his pet stle lures and penates drifting nto the ehan- of sordid tra ne Frenel furniture, especial sent Li Sculpturettes, especially of Falconet These exquisite toys were fashioned electa~ ptuous ended soon enough, and the beauteous bau- bles were scattered in the sto} took the American multi-mil! connoisseur to find them, or th me rm, It jonaire clr re= Look at this lovely ti spestry si Louis XV, furniture in seven with the Fables of La Fontain in belins Da Barry’ 4 pi wo! n their panels of finest silk, This ix the iden- tical suite that was presented by the King Louis of the decadence to the then contemporary King of Denmark, and was purehased by Mr. M from the King of Denmark. What Nobody knows, But tt wus, a fact Bo We understood that for halt a lifetine he had the first pick of everything ex- that ceptionally rich and into the BURGLARS GET T BRIDAL G NWICH, Street re & Wealthy reel with offices at No, 185 Bro York, was entered early Conn, Ani 1 North idence of Rob came IFTS, 7.—-The vert broker morn: ing and silver valued at $5,000 was taken, Many of the articles were weddir ‘The family retired st night and know nothing until morning house was sacked from top to bottom, ‘T! of a clock, which were removed silver case, are also imnissing, Ln month the summer residences of L. Storm, Clifford the burg! ve mitts, ary ran- » works from a the last are Mallory and Mra, e ee Jenee have been robbed in a simi-| Details of tour and apn Will be| taking his cap off in the ner. bump his head as he does moving about in the trenches, aty the first photographs began to arrive. The lure of « wonder trip like the eaaont one offered certainly has proved irre-| 2S Teason? Billy Sunday, The Exposition will yield more t Teeo an the Baron Nathan Rothschild who died Twelfth St SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 1918, 2ErNe ak will have to tell your friends about when you return ho: Another girl writes ust the trip atone would be a trea nif there Were no expositions to see. It would Bi¥e US @ Chance to see many Of the ' # in our own country that we've To show its dain for ry ubin Jubout. ft would be a trip of ad- | has decided to reduce 49 por cent, the 4 venture to many of us Who never’ and sean h Of the mercantile murine have travelled very far from home,” - To many another featu: girls : A German at Weimar prisoner and was sentenced to ony for his nationality.” says a despa day's movin) tand chat with the big - them acting the Swiss authoritics at Singen on the § feature fms, to picious of so many funerals crossing inte found it full of copper tering Wateh for an im ment in Monday's E ortant announc yENING WORLD. and straw for his b on eating house printed from day to da: ————— ne that. It will give you little peeps: March 31, as provisional, ework 2 every corner of tho World, With People | for probate venterday vat e?. H At 9 o'clock the man wi from strange countries living Just like | ($9 200.0007, ait A mond had not returned, w : 5.00, All oes to hin family, they do in their own lands. th . bie began to doub It will give you all xorty of amuse. There were no public or charitable Dewan 10 dell’ man ments with new “thrills and ny a a lights. Achievements (n the dot tie, = — — — industrial and sclentitle worlds Wilt be Lisplayed there And what a lot you the L ums on insurance wave three cig tinpr . The undersigned, friends. neiehbors and acquaintances of the wise German frontier became sus candidate, vouch for her good qualities and desirability as a Germany, and on opening a coffin member of The Evening World's touring party. v et 1 scarcity of butte the Germans will make arg | career ay a "movie star” for herself! oy serial P 7 Of course, the seven girls who win untlowers in every bit of available gr ng lin contest must compete for this as prize with the girls winning the other The first monument commemorating the war has been erec | contests now conducted French at the point where Ge von Klick ad Was stoppe throughout the States and two miles cast of Parl | whom you will meet at Chicago, If you haven't already entered the Davout porsiona aeo m of a ‘etony: ti contest. you'd by fk DUMY ANG! pies a Patio deanatoh, Th t ides send in our photog oh right away hye ‘ Best ‘ i a to the Free Tour Bureau. “The ace 8d luminous eronss companying small box will tell you d-| the simple conditions to be observed When an Alpine chasseur, alone in a snowstorm, cane upon and how to send in your picture.) German troops on skia who had lost thelr way, he called to. th | Risowhere in the paper is printed a render, that they were surrounded, and they did | sponsors’ blank, which you m though you can obtain on Serman Lieutenant writes home ho haa heoome'en vac > | free of charge, from your newad A German Lieutenant writes hi ! becom: ised te line that if he ever gets buck to hin family he will insist nly with a pocket knife; and must have sharp edges on which to} don Houre “lack Here Are Some of the Pretty Girls Compeling In Contest to Win Free Panama-Pacific Tour MAKES GIRL SECURITY FOR ENGAGEMENT RING AND FAILS TO RETURN ordered a dry Sunday to-moriow.| ‘Trusting Jeweller Fails to Get th the dia nd lived, but 1 of Trad for oftive ttes to a French of feeling ring from d to plant Nemew girl waid she did a |*“QEAB,”’ WE POSED AS x8 OWN BROTHER 27 YEARS Now Collins Must Tell Why Me Shouldn't Pay Alimeny for That Time. MILWAUKEE Wis, Apel 11.amer rorne of bie own brother fer twentge ren rears, Orville & ry fo have bere dead for thet length r] time, to day wae ordered to fore Judge Rechwetler of An tweet her husthand ¢ @ It ts accurate praise, and well deserved, to say that there are nowhere in New York such Suits et this q@ And it is not alone parent pride. We know they will be in competition, heen come | agree 1 to Ko with Nemeta to the Lud- | low Street address, Trace of no auch Person was found there, and Nemets insisted that the girl go with him to Police Headquarters, She maid there that her real name was Regina Zi- | linka, “L met this man three months ago,” she added to Detective Whalen and Lieut, Sullb “Woe weren't engaged, but when he asked me to go along medium grays and browns, and light colors. Checks, plaids, overplaids, pin and bought « diamond [said Thad nu notion that he didn't | hairline stripes. It when he said he would be , a ‘si on preferring a ; sistible. And why Wouldn't Ie dusc{ The orders that have been sent out! Suspicious Till Hours Pass Ni, kad she was |{ 4 Half-lined with fine al- think—a tour clear across the con. | {9 barkeepera are that no beer mus : Street Station, ac. | paca, Patch or plain pockets (nent at the time of year when)? drawn from the bar taps or drawn) — With $272 Gem Absent acted in concert | with flaps. Formefitting or tr or served in the barroom, Neti ler with Samuel in the larceny | 4 ravelling is most comfortable, to « a of one dian + $272" looser cut jland of veritable wonders! Even deta Prope eae nor hast Liane " 1% the Panama-Pacitic Exposition wore |b? In the barroom. usiness tf) A inan entered Harnett Nemet the only goal offered, the tour would] MY 18 done, must be tn the back ge , mnets's| LEGS OFF, BABE RECOVERS. q All sizes, 34 to 46, for be ono of enchantment. B rooms. Jewelry store, No. 266 Broome Street, | id " » ut when | Two-year-old Hrneat Hagatrom, whose | men of every physique. the world-wide gathored features of! That will mean that beer will have at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon and Jeca were cut off Thursday evening at that exposition are supplemented by to be drawn from kegs and that/asked prices on loos diamonds suit- | Nivetyesecond Street anc Central Park the added attractions of another wines and Hquors in bottles will have! able for an engagement ring. A yo West by a trolley car, when he darted | s Ban bier Pxpontion: the trp bes ty te ranged on tables in the bck, woman acompenied. the mam and! vse tram oa wether anata aero A Wonderful line | limagination ean outstrip room. Tho bartenders will have mata amilod his blandest aa hel tii? tovtors Hiyelinie "Hospital | f Men’, what we tell about the wai use their pockets as cash registers, brought! forth a tray of geome. The +) ens | store of isure is shown by Thoso are the most drastic orders the man tihed one wearhlig 1M tm | ‘| : S hula wocompunion One Pretty | rewern have ever issued, io, theie| whieh the Jowvicr waa willing to ath || SpringandSummer tg Jin thle tour party ate “Ae “Not all the clreuan ver ee en Be Pee SEL on i tito EIT Suits at $17.80 a our party," she te} » elroulars assign any | $27 = All er life T have Wanted to se@ @ reason. One brewer's lott “ said the “but! i or's letter, how. | “UN take this" said the man, “bul sition, but 1 knew To never | yin | Mike to have it appraised, Come MIKE could witord to gratify my desire un- | adel - KIO, Japan, April Emperor jess some wonderful bit of luck came, “Tho activity of the so-called relig- | out with Mm Yostitito with be crowned Nov. 10, -) ks & Con att and how this wonderful opportunity jonist® in a nearby city is attract Nemets couldn't, but when the man thar a having been fixed to-day a coma to noo NOt merely Ole EXPO | ing considerably attention, and the, Propoasd that his companion wait, by | by the Calla igereiony wae Vieieivs like Woeott hice tuatene eta inAusnce of thad campaten ¢ way of security, wntil hy should res | fie was post cause of the || Broadway at 34th Street exposition asa really truly f4iry> against the liquor intevesty in thin) turn, Nemets agreed, te frst, how Dowager! wa dently The Diet land, with its fiiry palaces, WHEF® state depend on you conduct (ever, mado out a bHL which the man | Mey Pett strange and wonderful sights are ened ua S el Merson of No. a7 weun—a place of enchantment and your place on ’ _ 1 oe AN tee hte : — << inagic, far removed from the promlc = diow Strer 16 Kirt also signed, sees that surround Us at homo 10 | Maron Rothechitd Hatate @12,300,000 an Julia Kdwn, tolling Nemous SPONSOR'S BLANK everyday life." 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