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Buried in the musty minutes of the Washington Conference lies perhaps the perfect tribute to Gustave Henri Camerlynck-his rightful epitaph. As the Conference was about to adjourn, Arthur James Balfour. Chief of the British Delegation, rose with his usual majestic deliberation and sonorously addressed the Delegates...
Valuable autographs from the Amy Lowell collection make up the greater part of the display now being exhibited in the Treasure Room of Widener Library. One of the most prized specimens included in this group is the original copy of an unpublished epitaph by Ben Jonson...
After they buried Casey Jones, an old roundhouse Negro worker, Wallace Saunders, began to chant a song about him. In the railroad yards between New Orleans and Chicago, whites and blacks added verse after verse to Casey's epitaph. Soon there were some 50 verses and many a chorus. Eddie Newton and T. Lawrence Seibert converted them into a popular hit. Extracts...
...their "dear departed friend" and hero of many battle. Then "Football Fight, um," symbolizing the game, was buried in the Delta amid the wails and lamentation of the mourners. When the grave was filled gravestones of black board were placed at the head and foot with the following epitaph...
...Music has here entombed a rich treasure but still fairer hopes. Franz Schubert lies here. Born Jan. 31, 1797; died Nov. 19, 1828, thirty-one years old." This, the epitaph on the beloved composer's tomb in Vienna, was quoted last week when Katherine Bacon gave a stirring piano recital of his works in Town Hall, Manhattan. Meanwhile, it was announced that some 500 manuscripts had been submitted for the $20,000 prize contest for orchestral compositions in honor of Franz Schubert, sponsored by the Columbia Phonograph Co. National origins of manuscripts were...