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Through the reaches of a great department store, empty of its shoppers, drifted one evening last week the sound of sweet, incredibly sweet strings, played on by sensitive, appreciative fingers. It was the first concert given with the Rodman Wanamaker collection* of rare Italian violins, violas and cellos, in the auditorium of this Manhattan store. Alfred Casella, famed Italian composer, musicianly, masterly, led the string orchestra picked from the New York Philharmonic,' Dr. Alexander Russell played the organ; Josef Szigete, Hungarian violinist, played on the famed "Chant du Cygne" made by Stradivarius in 1737, when he was 93, Saint-Saens...
...Rodman Wanamaker bought four Stradivarius violins, "Conte La Chesnaie" (1687), "Dancla" (1710), "Joachim" (1723), and that consummately powerful and resonant violin which is called "The Swan" because it is the last one the master-carver made before he died. It bears the inscription, "In My Ninety-Third Year." Mr. Wanamaker will not use these instruments himself. They will be played in concerts in the auditoriums of Wanamaker Stores in Manhattan, Philadelphia...
Samuel Rea, President of the Pennsylvania Railroad, retired last week, at 70. He will remain as a director. Mr. Rea, who rose from rodman in a chain gang, through every department of the railroad to election to the Presidency in 1913, is an industrialist of a school that is rapidly passing into legend- a school whose favorite reading matter is the Bible, whose favorite exercise is obtained with an ax handle, who believe that work is the secret of their success, and who - nourished in the fervor of an epoch fat with expansion -have an impugnable faith in every...
Last week, his wife, Grace, his son George C., a group of his onetime subordinates (the present Admirals Charles J. Badger, George P. Colvocoresses, Hugh Rodman, Spencer S. Wood, retired; Admirals Edward W. Eberle, Hilary P. Jones, active; Marine Corps General Dion Williams) escorted his body from Arlington to the crypt of Bethlehem Chapel, Washington Cathedral, Mount St. Albans, D. C, where lies the body of Woodrow Wilson. Bishop James E. Freeman offered prayer ; the choir sang...
...Eugene Rodman Shippen. Minister of the Second Church (Unitarian), Boston, will conduct the services in Appleton Chapel at 8.45 this morning...