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...Ormandy announced that, for the opening of the orchestra's summer season at Robin Hood Dell in Fairmount Park, the Pennsylvania National Guard had agreed to supply three 37-mm. anti-tank guns. The local musicians' union demanded that, since cannon are included in Tschaikowsky's score, a union man be hired to shoot them. Very well, replied the Dell management. But the orchestra wished to select a performer "who can play the cannon with due regard to its musical value." So there would be an audition for percussion men who wanted the job of "Symphony Bombardier...
Unlike almost every other big city in the U. S., Philadelphia had no real art museum until after World War I. In 1919 hardboiled, gimlet-eyed Quaker Lawyer Eli Kirk Price started pulling political strings, got a modest $200,000 appropriation "to build a museum of art at Fairmount," then strung the city fathers along year by year until he had a $12,000,000 building. "He knew if we did the ends first, we'd have to finish the middle sometime," says bulky, bustling Fiske Kimball, who in 1925 left his job as head of New York University...
Drinking water was so nauseous the mayor's office had to be provided with bottled water; thousands of citizens went daily to Fairmount Park springs to collect their drinking supply. Last week a bluish-black liquid stinking of chlorine, puckery with alum, gushed from many a tap. "There must have been a severe storm in the coal regions," the water bureau explained...
...Fairmount, W. Va., a certain John Albericon visited his doctor. He then went to see the district president of the United Mine Workers of America, who referred him to pickets at one of the little "wagon mines" which supply the odd-lot coal trade in northern West Virginia. The pickets let the mine supply Mr. Albericon after reading this entry on a medical prescription blank (as noted last week by Scripps-Howard Reporter Fred W. Perkins...
...their effort to sit quietly on Mrs. Samuel's bequest, the Fairmount Park Art Association reckoned without frizzle-bearded Joseph Bunford Samuel, Mrs. Samuel's husband. For Statue No. 1 in the series, Mr. Samuel himself commissioned Icelandic Sculptor Einar Jönsson to do a heroic bronze Viking, presented it to the Park. It was left to languish in a toolshed. Mr. Samuel thereupon began to fight. After several years he got the Viking put up at the end of Boathouse...