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After midnight, when the fourth floor guard had passed the collection of the late Col. Michael Friedsam. the lurking thieves walked silently up into the dim-lit gallery. Swiftly & neatly they unhung ten famed paintings, turned them over, knifed out the wooden panels from the back, removed the canvases on their stretchers. They unrolled a 70-ft. length of heavy sash rope, tied one end to a newel post on the fourth floor landing, dropped the other out a window. There was no moon...
Died. Col. Michael Friedsam, president of B. Altman & Co. (Manhattan department store), art collector, philanthropist; of heart disease; in Manhattan. Born in Manhattan some 70 years ago (not even his friends knew his exact age), son of Collector of Internal Revenue Morris Friedsam, he entered at 17 the employ of his cousin Benjamin Altman. In 1913, at Mr. Altman's death, he became president of the store and of the Altman Foundation (philanthropic). His military title was earned as Quartermaster-General of the New York National Guard during the War. His $10,000,000 art collection he bequeathed...
...dinner, and $5,000 in gold. Second, he had just engineered for his museum the largest exhibition of Rembrandts ever assembled in the U. S. There were 78 paintings, ten of them owned in Detroit, many loaned by the nation's wealthiest private collectors -John Pierpont Morgan, Michael Friedsam, Charles M. Schwab, Jules Semon Bache, et al. Of another event-of-the-week Director Valentiner was prouder still. He was able to announce that, thanks to his own astute connoisseurship, his Detroit Institute of Art had acquired a genuine Titian, the golden, mellow portrait of a Venetian Doge...
...buildings reached up to Manhattan skies out of the Fifth Avenue district. Nearly all are strident homes of commerce. But the most beautiful is the new Aeolian Hall dedicated to music. So recently decreed the Fifth Avenue Association, wherefore its president, Colonel Michael Friedsam, (also president of B. Altman & Co.) awarded the Aeolian Co. the annual gold medal in token of its building's pre-eminent beauty. Said the Colonel: "This splendid building is a Fifth Avenue-New York message of inspiration and good will to the country. Such structures . . . insure our country the commercial leadership of the world...
...Architect Whitney Warren rose from his chair to deliver remarks appropriate. "The soul is not always in haste, the eye does not always seek the restless gesture of the skyscraper, never attaining its sky. A little rest, a little peace, a simplicity complete, a dream symbolized, as Colonel Michael Friedsam has so fittingly said, by the sounds of lute and viol in castle parks-I hope that the Aeolian Building conveys something of this. In its interior it contains all that modern musical demands may require...