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Philharmonic Concerts by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Dr. Karl Muck, Conductor - 393 New York Symphony Concerts for Young People, Mr. Walter Damrosch, Conductor - 393 The Institute's Musical Season of 1913-14 393 Frontispiece: Alloah ------396 The Battle of Brooklyn, by Miss Sarah J. Day 399 The Old Stone House at Gowanus - 401 The Martyrs Monument, Fort Greene Hill - 403 The Soldiers and Sailors Monument, Manhattan 405 The Institute Season of 1912-1913 - 406 Events in the Month of June 1913 - 407 Music Notes ------408 Art Notes ----- Inside Back Coyer

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THE BATTLE OF Then wild with loyalty a soldier mob And venom as he viewed the widening web Streamed down to Bowling Green and And thought how soon he would devour BROOKLYN* overthrew the flies! i King George's gilded statue, horse and But these same flies—those ants, 'twere The Old Tree man. better said— ,■ "Make bullets out of this old bullet-pate !" In spare but valiant swarms from all the AN hour or more, you say to mend They shouted; 'Shoot him at his Hessians States the car? hired Had delved and burrowed here the summer Why then content you, sir, beneath To prick us back to loyalty!" And sooth through, the shade The lead king furnished two score thou¬ Along our river borders and across Of my great oak-tree. I am well content sand balls Our island, heaping earthworks and To own a comrade for an August hour. That made the live king wince upon his redoubts. Save for my tree I mostly sit alone throne. If this our city held, the war was won; As very old men must, their cronies gone, "The mate to this," quoth grandsire, "bet¬ If taken, all those years of strife must be The young folk skipping by. I lean my ter aimed, That were; and Washington resolved to chair Went back to England in the trooper's leg try Against my wide-armed, rough-skinnea, Who, spying, lurked at dusk behind our The desperate chance; whereby he met faithful friend oak." some blame. And sit and muse upon his life and mine: My life so long compared with—yours, sir, And so he told his stories one by one The night before the landing of the troops say; Of winter evenings or on fishing days His so much longer that mine seems a An evil portent fell—a thunder storm Or. here beneath the oak, my playmates So awful none had ever known its like. child's. come There's comfort in that to an old man, sir. The ink-black sky, the cowering earth, the To listen too. What, you would hear sea, My great great grandsire set the sapling them all? here, Were sheeted in a swift, incessant flame; Why, then, I'll try to set them orderly, The thunder roared and rolled—no mo¬ His house there where you see it—one As old wives sort and piece their ancient of few ment's pause; scraps The heavens seemed falling in the rout Dutch homesteads left in our old Flatbush To make a pattern. Choosing thus, first now. and flood. comes Closed round about by foes, a fearful They've seen a deal betwixt them, house My favorite tale—the landing of the troops. and tree, thing That I should like to know. As you came It was to lie beneath the wrath of God. II When morning brought the bright, hot by, Just now, I sat here fancying that the The Landing of the Troops August day, leaves Ten men lay smitten in a single tent. Above me chattered of the battle fought Lord Llowe had lain a year since Bunker And while we held their solemn funeral, So many years ago this very day. Hill A martial music blared across the bay You had forgot the date? I doubt a score Encircling Boston, careless, clever Howe, And lo! the enemy were forth at last. Of our twin cities' millions know the date Who made and marred his plans with equal Of their great island battle. Nor should I, ease— From isle to isle a vast flotilla moved Had not grandfather fought with Sullivan And now he came by sea with all his force Low laden with the troops in squadron In the redoubt here, and the tales he told And camped on Staten Island, there to wait massed. Of all that chanced before and on that day The full assemblage of the fleets King- The sunlight danced along the bayonets Come back more clearly now than later George And flashed from burnished brasses; fifes things; Was drawing from all sides in firm resolve shrilled out So clearly that I seem the man who fought, To crush these rebels too long unsubdued. Above the throbbing drums, and horses Not just the lad who drank the stories in From his repulse at Moultrie, Clinton neighed ; Over and over begging them again. came; And like the waving fringes of some vast Look sharp above my head, sir. Do you see From far West Indies and from Florida And strange sea-radiate, a thousand oars The bullet, bedded deep now, in the bark? White sails appeared; and made the lower Smiting the sparkling waters rose and fell; That's my first memory—that I was held bay While loomed aloof those sullen men-of- In grandsire's arms to feel the smooth cold A forest, thick with masts. And last, the war lead fleet To guard the myriad passage. In such With curious, frightened touch as babies Of Admiral Lord Howe, much storm- wise use. delayed, The chief of nations from the Old World And afterward he told me how men made Brought in the dear-bought Hessians, thou¬ came That bullet from the melting of a King ! sands strong. To crush her rebel children in the New. 'Twas when our Independence was de¬ A stirring scene the vast armada made; clared. Four hundred transports, two score men- They beached within the curve of Graves- Where now the fountain leaps at City Hall of-war, end Bay, The troops were drawn up in a hollow Swarming with soldiery; and tiny craft And rank by rank, as if it were parade, square On secret errands darting back and forth, Went up from out the barges. Terror With Washington a-center and his aide Weaving the web that should encompass us. swept Who read the message in a mighty voice; Poor paltry patriots, tangled in its woof. The broad plain 1 are before them; people Spider-in-chief, grim Tryon, scuttled forth fled * This poem, by Miss Sarah J. Day, received Our town, still lurked on Asia, man-of-war, From scattered homesteads, leaving herds Second Honorable Mention in the recent com¬ Biding our doom, and now he swelled with and store— petition for the best poem on the Battle of Brooklyn. hope The very loaf and joint upon the board. 400 THE BULLETIN OF THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

And there the foe encamped to bide his Wrought like an ague fit in us and shook You'll chant them into music! 'Tis from time, Our legs to running. So they took our Heaven, Snowing the plain with tents. But first he town. This poet poyver to make a row of words sent But soon persuaded these were only men Move with the undulations of the sea His Jagers, Donop's men, to seize and hold We drove them sharply from the roads And lift a body lightly on its waves Our little Flatbush just below the Ridge. beyond Or shake him through with thunderings And penned them there in Flatbush. of surge Ill Then we saw Swaying to peace or passion all at will. Our old Dutch houses made into redoubts, The Defenses And one may choose those far off battle And fierce, dark faces peered out through days You must remember, sir, to understand the holes That wrought our nation's birth as better Our battle and catastrophe, the Ridge— Pierced in our stout walls for their musket theme A natural rampart dense with forest growth bores. Than Homer's of a city's fall, or that That rose along our Island east and west A few had fired their homes before they Of Arthur's noble plan and sad defeat, And must be traversed ere the foe could fled To make an epic that shall stir the blood. reach And flames lent added horror to the din I see it all, and you shall sing it, sir! Our line of fortress guarding Brooklyn Of cannon, musket-shots and battle-cries Church That filled our quiet plains and echoed back V And Brooklyn Ferry and, beyond, New From the long wooded hills where troop York. to troop Battle Eve Our great commander (great men work Were being hurried to defend the roads with God Whose windings led to Brooklyn's line of Now shall we go together from the forts To know and use the means He proffers forts. We've tarried in? Fort Greene, to right, them), was named Had given strictest charge to guard the That line was drawn across from Walla- For that brave general first in charge— Ridge bout some thought At each of its four passes constantly. To Gowan's creek whose full tide fed the He might have won the day—who falling mills, low Martense Lane, the westernmost, ran round Flowing far in and guarding half our In such a fever as full half our men The base of Greenwood's bill and joined front. Had sickened under, chief command was the road The forts were three: nearest the mills given Up from the Narrows skirting into town Fort Box; To General Putnam, bluff, and brave Along Gowanus Bay and past the mills. At center Greene; and on a rising ground enough Six miles to east (and thence disaster (Where, tardy witness, stands the Martyrs' But—so grandfather thought who never came) Shaft) liked The high road from Jamaica pierced the Fort Putnam jutted out and frowned along His blustering and oaths—too much es¬ Ridge The highroad entering 'twixt his guns and And north of it ran on to Brooklyn teemed Greene's. At Bunker Hill; and sooth, he failed us Church. The forts were joined by ramparts and The middle passes through the Ridge were here. redoubts That is his fort, the star-point, jutting out. two : And all before them lay the forest felled One, called the Clove, led north to Bed¬ We'll take the sally-port between the two; To form abattis, mates of my great oak How often through it on his great gray ford, then In order prone, their proud tops pointing A little post-town on Jamaica Road; horse out, Rode Washington, when from the farther The other was, and is, our Flatbush way Thousands by thousands immolate to war. To Brooklyn winding. (Like a sentinel shore He came to prove with anxious carefulness Set at its ancient entrance seems to me IV The water-tower—that bit of perfectness, His Island bulwarks holding back the foe! Hay nothing mar its grace!) Both roads Interlude went up Let us go forth with him among his aides, From out our small Dutch hamlet—whence But here's our Gretchen come with cakes Turn where he turns on Flatbush road the foe and cheese to south So instant-eager in possessing us. And in the glasses something tastier! And gallop out to Valley Grove Redoubt— And since she finds us safe behind the Our breastworks thrown across to hold the How did he know our roads and passes? forts Pass Sir, The battle not yet on, we well may rest, Where on the morrow's morn we made Friends' hands were reached to him and The one his tongue, the other his tired defense, friendly tongues ears As set forth on the tablet in the Park. Were whispering at his ear; our island And pledge our new acquaintance. What, folk not tired? 'Tis now the battle eve—the twenty-sixth. Were doubtful sponsors for tbeir new¬ You say I'm telling 3-011 the very facts Rumor reports the foe about to move born land; You need to make a poem certain wish And through the day our chief has added They loved King George and when his Writ out about our battle? Reach your troops, armies came hand Scant—spared from over river, till we To force them love him better, why they And lay it in my old one, sir, and touch count did! Your glass to mine! For this will be a Within the forts and on these miles of And gave their corn, and beeves—such as day hills were left To mark with gold in my long count of Almost a half of Lord Howe's thousand After our Woodhull rounded up the herds. years. score! An old, old man! and I have told the tale He lingers now in talk with Sullivan—■ So Donop's Jagers came and all the tales A score of times when no one heeded me. Grandfather saw him, saw our great chief, Told in our ingles, how the Hessians I think I have not had grandfather's art sir, fought Who held me breathless as a lad to hear. Clearly as I see you; they both stood near Like beasts and tore their victims limb I dryly drone the plain prose story out His sentry-post and through their glasses from limb, Naming its names like some dull gazetteer. viewed

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The plain that, peopled with the myriad Threading the darkness out along the There was a low bluff at the water's edge foe, plain Known to our Dutch folk as the "Blockje's Spread amply seaward far below our Steadily, hour by hour, mile after mile, Burgh." height. The hills and forest looming on their left. Here and along the slopes of Greenwood's Where would they strike us? How to meet They went no way uncertain—Tory-led; hills attack Three of our own town, shame to them Our patriots for the first time faced their With all those miles of ridge so sparsely and us, foe held Guided that silent circuit through the In open field; and well we stood the test. Save for the friendly forest crowding night. close? "Men," cried Lord Stirling, as we formed We lay thus: at the coast, Hand's rifles; They turned to northward just beyond the our line, here creek "This Grant who comes against us once Our Sullivan; and next, at Bedford Pass, This side the New Lots, parting from the declared Chester and Wyllys; only Colonel Miles road, In England's House of Commons (I sat Beyond, and half the Ridge still stretching Which curved a bit, to strike straight up there on across And heard), that given him five thousand Between his forces and Jamaica Pass. Hie fields, whereby they caught upon the men Oh for that doughty troop of stout Suy- flank He'd cross our continent from end to end! dam—• Our five young horsemen pacing that same He has his number now, I doubt not; we His fifty horsemen whom he proudly led bend, A fourth as many, yet I promise you Astride his rustic charger pricking forth And so with them as prisoners arrived He'll march no farther through our con¬ In search of ambushed foes! It puzzles Three hours past midnight at the Halfway tinent me House Than Denton's mill-pond yonder." With Beyond all else that in our sorest need, Upon the high road, in Jamaica Pass—• a shout In face of Washington's express command Howard's we called the Inn—it's standing Our men confirmed the sturdy boast and To guard the passes at all hazard, these still, met Our only troopers for patrol were sent As you may know, sir. Here they sum¬ The foe so hotly that his Highlanders To round up cattle! Woodhull, too, de¬ moned forth Wavered, and bit by bit we drove them tached Innkeeper Howard and compelled his son, back On such an errand, sir, at such a time! A lad of fourteen years, to be their guide Holding them dauntless through the sum¬ A meddling Congress made much mischief Around a devious way, for everywhere mer dawn. ; here They feared surprisal; and the doughty Nor knew we, flushed with seeming victory, And Washington repaired it as he could, three— That Grant was under orders not to urge Felt all his powerlessness and held his Our Flatbush traitors—seemed to fail The charge too closely ere his summons peace, them here. came. This great clear-headed noble-hearted man Will Howard took me once along the way Who knew no fear, fatigue nor any doubt. He led that night. He told me how they So with De Heister. Like a huntsman sawed keen Now as he turned to eastward looking The trees instead of felling, drew their He held his Hessians straining at the leash long, guns With mighty din and barkings, hour by Our Sullivan assured him: "Sir, tonight Six horses each with cautious bursts of hour, Five lusty horsemen watch the farthest speed And we the quarry tense in watchfulness Pass, Up through the winding cuts, and coming Still stood at bay. Until a vague surmise Young men, alert, intelligent—no fear out Of snares and hidden evils crept along Of Colonel Miles' surprisal; his patrols Again upon the high road were amazed The covert of our ridge. Then Colonel Go statedly to spy along the road, To find themselves unchallenged, unas- Miles, These five to them, and so the chain is sailed. Pricked it may be by thought of some made." At dawn they rested in the Bushwick Hills. neglect, And Washington made answer, "Sir, 'tis Turned through the woods to track this well. Where were our outposts? Why we let nightmare foe Caution and vigilance must serve our need ourselves And hold the roads before him if our In place of numbers. Though the menace So easily be compassed? Questions, sir, dream seem Asked and unanswered all these years. Of fear proved true. Alas, it was no At front and west, at all points be pre¬ But think, dream ! pared." How all that night our scanty army strung The enemy had passed in all his force And so they parted. Along the Ridge was menaced at the front! Along the high road. Even now his guns De Heister on our center trained his guns From Bedford thundered signal out across VI And Colonel Grant soon after midnight The startled ridges to the waiting plain. The Secret March came Blank faces at their fellows looked dismay In force up from the Narrows—battle on Along our breastworks: was it crack of Even as he rode At both the points expected, so we thought. doom ? Back to the fern*, crossing toward New But look, before us! they are loose at York, last! A stir of stealthy moving crept along VII With roll of drums and flying colors The hostile camp, troops falling into line The Battle moved As darkness deepened for the secret march. The Hessians forward close, line after line, Cornwallis led from Flatlands where he Then Putnam hurried Atlee's, Parson's And charged unswerving through the steep, lay, men thick woods Then Clinton joined him, next Lord Percy, And Smallwood's Marylanders in command With terrible precision, swift as Fate, last Of brave Lord Stirling out beyond the As unrelenting. And those shocks of The chief himself, Lord Howe. Ten mills sound thousand strong To hold Gowanus Road, for Grant had To rear, with rattle now of musketry They moved in column like a stealthy passed (Where Miles was fighting through)—■ snake Red Lion Inn, forcing our pickets back. Hark comrades! Nay, THE SHIP MARTYRS MONUMENT From Photografh of Monument on Fort Greene Hill. 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To front, men! Hold those Hessian Devils You have seen And who could guess their fate or that of back The shaft upon the slope in Prospect Park? those Swarming upon us! at them, patriots all! 'Twas there they fell the brave young Already prisoners ? So they named their We fought as in a fever, all confused— Southerners names • Shouting of orders—warning bugle calls—■ Of whom, ten days before, their State had And crouching at the coals to cook their Some flying—others forming still to hold writ food The breastwork—soon all pressing sore This message, "We are sending all we Sighed in fatigue and terror. Just beyond amazed have. The fires, farm-wagons piled with house¬ Back through the woods and down the The people of New York whom much we hold gear road; whereat hold Were clustered; women's faces white and We fell on Clinton's squadrons of dragoons In our affection scarcely can receive wan Flanked by his solid ranks of infantry; More than our all." Peered out from them and frightened And thence recoiling in a broken rout children wailed. Were hurled against the Hessian bayonets And in an agony Back in the thickest gloom of night and That bristled in pursuit and cruelly Of sorrow, Washington this moment come storm Pinned men against the trees or penned in From watching lest the hostile fleet ad¬ Moved shadowy shapes uncouth and now herds vance a flare Their prisoners. Thus hounded back and Saw from the Ponkiesberg the final Of firelight, now a lightning flash be¬ forth charge— trayed A remnant struggled through and reached The terrible repulse—and then our few Sharp horns thrust forth or showed great, our lines. Struggling, still under fire, across the shining eyes, It was a trap, sir, not a battlefield. marsh Making men startle and cry out, then A cause decided ere the contest fell. After their comrades—saw and cried aloud laugh "Good God! what brave boys must I this VIII Ashamed, remembering our captive herds. day lose." Darker than night and heavier than the The Marylanders Many fell prisoner. Stirling, last of all, storm Meanwhile Cornwallis pressing swiftly on Disdaining British capture, forced his way Dread of the morrow weighed upon their And wheeling westward up Gowanus Road Through to De Heister, yielding him his hearts. Reached Cortelyou's—'twas standing in sword. Only that little line of strength between your time The stricken army and the victor's camp, The old house, sir—and fortified him there The day was over! Two hours after And at the river mouths those frowning Whence to assault Lord Stirling in retreat noon! ships! From Grant; for this way we must fly, And what does my Lord Howe—his army flushed But one heart quailed not. Though the the marsh battle lost Stretched elsewhere flooded and impassable. With victory and eager to assault? He measures camp, commands entrenching He still would save his army and the cause. Here was a trap again! And now befell So, ever watching Howe, our chief pre¬ What moves my old blood in the telling it. it, And sits at wine—we shaking in our shoes pared Lord Stirling saw one chance and only one Behind the perilled forts! But Bunker Hill The way of safety. To save his army—save the greater part Still haunted Howe and caution made X By sacrifice of few, and himself. excuse He chose the Marylanders, young men all For that strange sloth of mind that marred The Retreat Of fiery spirit, well equipped and drilled the man. On the second night Above their fellows, placed him at their IX In silent haste, with secrecy so deep head That no man fathomed whither he was led, And gave command the rest should make The Night Camp Troop after troop was summoned from the escape— front So all that afternoon and through the Across the marshes, since the time had And stealing through the darkness found night come themselves Our fugitives were straggling slowly in For doing things impossible—the while Come to the river's edge and there a fleet Behind the forts. Worn, famished, sick He covered their retreat. And then, be¬ Of little water craft of every sort hold, at heart, That could be found to float with oar or They huddled round the campfires lit They charged! that little handful straight sail; against along And not far off the enemy's great ships. Our narrow streets. The fitful flames Cornwallis and his thousands safe en¬ And now the winds of northeast storm trenched revealed and rain Behind their guns! and whether from sur¬ The quaint Dutch houses round old Brook¬ That, staying them, had thus far friended prise lyn Church us, Thinking us all upon them or amazed Thronging with officers who filled their Beat back our sails; but turning presently At such mere hardihood, that mad assault doors Blew soft from south; and at the dawn Had almost driven them forth from Cor¬ Or moved among the men in troubled talk bore in telyou's. Or errand of command. The rain poured On sea-drenched wings a merciful, thick But gathering breath they thrust our down fog heroes thence But many a soldier slept too worn to heed. That covered our embarking. And backward up the slopes. Then Stir¬ The thunder shook the souls of those who ling's sword, waked All night long All fury, waved a desperate charge again; Like cannon knells of their dread doom Our boats low-laden to the waves, calmed And still behind him pressed the slim, that day. lips tense lines, They whispered of the missing—how the Plied forth and sped back empty. Sea-bred Breaking and closing up and rushing on rain men And ever beaten back; and all the while Would drench their pale, dead faces; or, Of Salem regiments and Marblehead Sight of their comrades struggling through perchance Wielded the noiseless oars or held the the marsh They still were lurking in the woods or helms Held them to their endeavor. marsh Of catboats, periaugers, little sloops THE SOLDIERS AND SAILORS MONUMENT, MANHATTAN From the Monument near Riverside Drive Overlooking the Hudson

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And twin rigged sharpies. Still the troops Of Howe; He stayed the fleet with adverse And pondering thus there comes a flash of came down winds; faith, And crowded at the shore. Men saw the And when we sought escape He curtained Insight, or what you will, that lights - my chief us life Spur through the throngs in silence ges¬ With fog—aye, lad, it was a miracle." Through all its ninety years, and lights the turing We may not think so, sir, or we may ask way His swift commands, that worn face calm Why He Who thus wrought for us, let Of nations and the ages of the world—• with cheer. us fall How through our hitter blunders and And when at dawn the last found place Upon that peril. He must answer much defeats he, too, Who claims to have the Lord upon his Is strength most surely, truth most purely, Dismounting led his charger to the boats side! wrought; And all were forth upon the severing Yet you with me I doubt not do maintain How what we name mistakes have their flood. That this our land was destined to be free. own place. And if the patriot army then and there With all things else that are—in God's 'Twas then, across the silence of the town Had been destroyed, this destiny of ours design ; Emptied of its defenders, one might hear If not annulled—which is unthinkable— Each stroke that looked amiss, each seem¬ The click of mattocks and the pickaxe Had met postponement and the world's ing rent stroke affairs And flaw is used to work the pattern out; Where, delving at his final trench, the foe Been jarred awry for this our palsied But none may change the pattern, jar the Made ready to assault that selfsame day. wheel. loom Or snatch the web from out the Weaver's XI Sitting beneath my tree which knows so hand. "What Good Came of It?" much Put this or something like it, sir, at end "A masterly retreat," the world declared. Of chance and change and changeless Grandfather said, "Lad, never dare to Providence Of what you write about our Battle Day. doubt I've thought the battle over scores of Your car is ready? Then farewell—no That miracles may happen. There we lay times— thanks! Two days betwixt the army and the fleet, A battle of mistakes on either side, 'Tis I who thank you. Should I live that Caught in the foe's palm, and the Lord Of weakness whence emerged a nation's long God willed strength. I ask that you will come on this day year Those strong relentless fingers should not For driven forth to serve those seven long And read the poem to me. May it prove close. years All that its sponsors wish it! Fare you He held the army through the coward We won—when we were worth — our well. heart liberty. Sarah J. Day.

THE INSTITUTE SEASON OF The Botanic Garden, which is comparatively new, is meeting a want in the city, and although its buildings are 1912-1913 not yet ready for occupancy, and only a portion of the It appears to be desirable that some preliminary state¬ Garden has yet been graded and planted, the attendance ment should be made in this, the last number of the is increasing from month to month. Uulletin to be published in the season of 1912-13, with Work on the construction of the fourth section of the regard to this season's work of the Institute, although the Museum, Divisions F and G, was commenced in the latter educational year does not end until the first of July. part of March and is proceeding rapidly. The pedimental It has been possible to say of the Institute during each group of sculptures designed by Mr. Daniel C. French, year for twenty-five years that its work has steadily grown, with the assistance of Air. Adolph A. Weinman, has been the amount and character of it being every year an im¬ completed and will he placed on the pediment during the provement on the preceding. early summer. One of the Plant Houses has been con¬ Up to the first of May the total attendance upon the lec¬ structed in the Botanic Garden. The heating plant and tures, concerts, courses of instruction, conferences and field the first section of the instruction building will he com¬ meetings conducted by the departments was 252,572. The pleted and ready for occupancy by the first of September. average attendance during the two preceding years was The appropriations by the city for the maintenance of 242,586. The total receipts from members of the Institute the Central Museum and the Children's Museum for the in initiation fees, annual dues, sales of tickets, tuition fees, current year were $115,332.18, and for the maintenance of subscriptions, etc., were $141,349.51, as against $140,897.68 the Botanic Garden $29,460. in the preceding year. The character of the lectures and The additions to the Museum collections during the year the courses of instruction was such as to create a deeper have been unusually large in number and have been of un¬ interest among the people of the city than has been ex¬ usual value. They include a collection of 28 paintings pressed at any previous time. presented to the Institute by the Hon. Charles A. Schieren The attendance at the Central Museum and also at the and purchased by him from the collection of the late Henry Children's Museum has been very greatly increased. This T. Chapman, who was for many years a member of the increase at the Central Museum has been due in part to the Board of Trustees and much interested in the Museum; 22 unusually favorable weather the past winter, in part to the paintings illustrating the "Life of Christ," painted by Mr. increased interest caused by the exhibits during the last Otto Walter Beck and presented to the Institute by Air. few months, and in part to the increasing interest which William T. Evans, a member of the Board of Trustees; the principals and teachers of the public and private schools a collection of English stained glass purchased through sub- are taking in the Museum. Continucd 011 page 407 THE BULLETIN OF THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES 407

1 P. M. Take Valley Stream and Rockville Centre The INSTITUTE BULLETIN surface car to Haze Creek. PUBLISHED BY The B rooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences Sat., June 21. Department of Agriculture. Visit to the Ardcn Farms of Mrs. E. PI. Harriman, at Arden, Annual Subscription, $2.00 Single Numbers, 5 cents To M embers Free Postage, extra, 3 cents N. Y. Take Erie Railroad (New York Susque- hanna Division). Leave Jersey City at 11 A. M. Life Membership in the Institute .... $250.00 Arrive at Arden 12.45. Leave Arden at 4.46 P. M. Associate Membership, Initiation Fee .... 5.00 Arrive Jersey City at 6.32. Carry lunches. Fare, Associate Membership, Annual Dues . . . 6.00 round trip, $1.90. Subscribing Members, Annual Dues .... 10.00 Sustaining Members, Annual Dues . . . 25.00 THE INSTITUTE SEASON OF 1912-1913 Officers of the Board of Trustees Continued from page 406 A. Augustus Healy President Hon. Charles A. Schieren First Vice-President scriptions made by several of the trustees and other mem¬ Col. Robert B. Woodward Third Vice-President bers of the Institute at a cost of 1,400 pounds; a very valu¬ Daniel V. B. Hegeman Treasurer Herman Stutzer, C.E Secretary able collection of European crockery and silverware num¬ bering some 123 pieces, presented by the Rev. Alfred Officers of the Council Duane Pell. This collection, added to those previously Rev. James M. Farrar, D.D., LL.D President J. Herbert Low, M.A Secretary given by Mr. Pell, places the Museum in the front rank Director of museums in this country in that department of the fine Prof. Franklin W. Hooper, M.A., LL.D. arts. Through the generosity of several of the trustees and This is the last Institute Bulletin in the Educational other members of the Institute a painting by George In- Year 1912-13. The next Bulletin will be published on ness entitled "The Delaware Valley" was purchased at $5,- September 6, 1913. 500 and presented to the Institute. Mr. A. Augustus IIealv, President, and Colonel Robert B. Woodward, Second Vice-President, presented a valuable landscape EVENTS IN THE MONTH OF painting by DeBock. These and many other valuable gifts, JUNE, 1913 together with many purchases with the income from the endowment funds and from the Museum collection funds Sat., June 7. Department of Agriculture. Visit to of 1912 and 1913, and the valuable collections made in the Cottage Gardens, L. I. Mr. Charles W. Ward, Orient by Mr. Stewart Culin, Curator of Ethnology, will Proprietor, at Queens, L. I. Take Long Island be published at length in the year hook, and other annual Railroad train leaving Flatbush Avenue Station reports issued by the authority of the trustees. (Queens Local) at 1.32 P. M., arriving at Queens The prospect for the coming year is fully as promising at 2.10 P. M. Returning trains leave Queens at as in any previous month of May. 4.47, 4.56 and 5.32. Round trip ticket, 60 cents.

Sat., June 7. Department of Botany, lueld Meeting at CONCERT and DEMONSTRATION Grassmerc, Staten Island, to be conducted by BY THE Mr. John McCallum. Take Staten Island PVrry, Battery Park, N. Y., boat leaving at 1.30 P. M. THURSDAY EVENING Fare, round trip, 20 cents. SIGHT SINGING CLASSES Sat., June 14. Department of Botany. Field Meeting OF THE INSTITUTE at Kissena Lake, L. I., to be conducted by Mr. Charles Ericson, of New York. Take Long Mr. WILBUR A. LUYSTER, Conductor Island Railroad or Elevated train to Jamaica. M usic Hall, Academy of Music Meet at the terminus of the Jamaica-Flushing trolley line at 2 P. M. SUNDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 25th, at 3.30 Sat., June 14. Department of Agriculture. Visit to the Floral Park Plantation of Mr. John Lewis Childs at Floral Park, L. I. Leave Flatbush Avenue Station, Long Island Railroad, at 1.57 P. M., arriving at Floral Park at 2.37 P. M. Return ET FAIKCHILD SERVICE in trains leave Floral Park at 4.44 and 5.28 P. M. Funeral Directing means the lat- ^ Fare, round trip ticket, 75 cents. est and best of equipment and a service in zvhich every detail receives its Sat., June 21. Department of Botany. Field Meeting . proper share of attention. at Hazu Tree Creek, Jamaica South, L. /., to be 702 Fulton St. 158 Reid Ave, conducted by Miss Anna B. Gallup, Curator of 2807 Jamaica Ave. 873 Flatbush Ave. the Children's Museum. Meet at foot of Elevated stairs City Line (Fulton St. Elevated R. R.) at 408 THE BULLETIN OF THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

Chandler Co. MUSIC NOTES iEustcal Sfastructton 222 LIVINGSTON STREET The following is reported from Paris: "Claude Debussy, the composer of Pelleas Arthur Claassen The vary best Pianos, for SALE or for et Mclisandc, is to enter the field of mu¬ Musical Director: German Liederkranz, RENT New York: Arion Singing Society, Tuning and Repairing a Specialty sical criticism. He has joined the staff of Brooklyn: New York Mozart Society. the well-known Paris musical review, ^o- Tslsohon* 159 Main Teaching Specialty Singing cictc Internationale de Musique, and will 341 Jefferson Avenue Tel. 3370 Bedford contribute a monthly article." Wholesale Grower of Cut Flowers Perlee V. Jervis floral Becoration* for jSK £tra*fon* * * * Pianoforte Instruction Pouch Gallery: 345 Clinton Avenue The Etude for May gives the following Tel. Prospect 6400 Res. Tel. Prospect 3538-R account of the Flonzaley Quartette: "In 1903 E. J. Coppet, a wealthy Swiss Carl Fique music lover, resolved to form a string Piano, Theory; Director, quartette, which should take rank with the Fique Musical Institute leading string quartettes of the world. He 128 DeKalb Ave. Tel. 6332 Prospect engaged three former pupils of Cesar Thomson, the famous Belgian violinist, Messrs. Adolfi Betti, Alfred Pochon, Ugo Mrs. William Grafing King 3 and 5 Greene Ave. Tel. 6800-1-2 Prcpect Ara, as the first and second and Piano Instruction 339 to 347 Greene Ave. Tel. 3908 Pro.pect viola, and Iwan Archambeau as 'cellist. Rusurban, 105 Lefferts PI. Telephone BROOKLYN, N. Y. He guaranteed these artists permanent po¬ GREENHOUSES - - SHORT HILLS. N. J. sitions with liberal salaries, with the under¬ standing that they were not to teach, to THE CENTRAL MUSEUM play in orchestra, or to accept solo engage¬ Eartern Parkway and Washington Ave. ments. Their entire time was to be de¬ Open from 9 A. M. to 6 P. M. Monday voted to the quartette, so that constant to Saturday (inclusive) ; Thursday evening CELEBRATED from 7.30 to 9.45; Sunday afternoon from practice would result in a perfect ensemble. 2 to 6. Free to the public at all times, ex¬ Rehearsals were held at the beautiful resi¬ cept Mondays and Tuesdays, when the ad¬ dence of Mr. Coppet, on the shores of Lake mission is 25 cents to adults; 10 cents to Geneva, known as the 'Villa Flonzaley,' children. which gives its name to the quartette. "Had the quartette been founded for THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM profit, as are so many musical organiza¬ UNDERWEAR tions of mushroom growth, it would have Brooklyn Avenue and Park Place, is been rushed on to the concert platform Open to the public from Monday until Also Automobile Rugs, in a few weeks; but this was not Mr. Cop- Saturday (inclusive) from 9 A. M. to 5.30 Steamer Coats, Coif P. M., and on Sunday from 2 until 5.30 pet's idea at all. The quartette was found¬ P. M. The Children's Museum Library Jaokets, etc., etc. ed for the cause of art, for a musical or¬ is open at the same hours. PUaaa oall to aaa thosa famous goods ganization to keep alive and advance the best traditions of quartette playing. Almost Brooklyn Branch: 504 Fnlton Street daily rehearsals were held for two years before a debut was thought of, hut when THE "FERRIS" it came it was a triumph. Further engage¬ ments followed in Switzerland, but two Trade-mark Hams more years were spent in developing the and Boneless Bacon DO YOU INTEND quartette before it took on a cosmopolitan character and began to visit the world's MOVING? great music centers. (Incidentally Certified by Let us estimate. We have "It would he a revelation to violinists if The Westfield Board of Health they could know of the wonderful care Motor as well as horse drawn which the members of the quartette give to Do you read Collier's Weekly?) Vans. Our men are White, Clean, their work, the selection of strings, the Courteous and Careful. Our Vans balancing of parts, the smallest point of Our Patented Burlap Covering Protects are fumigated Every Night. interpretation, the choice of instruments, from all germs and filth so that there shall be a perfectly even scale Your table deserves "The Best" if you Long Island Storage of similar tone color from the lowest note say so. Many dealers buy and crowd Warehouses of the ', on up through the viola, to the Brands that cost them less. Telephone, 3100 Bedford highest notes of the violins. Quartette Nostrand ■nd Gates Avenues playing is a branch very much neglected Is it not worth your while to PERSIST in the United States, and it would advance in being supplied with "FERRIS?" the cause of music greatly if we had a few THE BEST 'Coppets' to found quartettes in this coun¬ try." A LITTLE HIGHER IN PRICE—BUT!

THE BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN Elatbush and Washington Avenues Open to the public daily from 9 A. M. until sunset. Entrances on Elatbush Avenue, oppo¬ C. P. BRUSH, JR & BRO. site Prospect Park, and on Washington Avenue, south of the Museum.