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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. SUNDAY. MAY fj, 1012. ..3 Many Changes in Church Choirs Mark the First Sunday in May I New Singers and Organists Miss' Anna Case, Discovered by Andreas Dippel, Comes to Church of Pilgrims.

Other Changes. Seen for the First Time Today in Leading Brooklyn Churches. IEW voices will be heard from I I bert Murphey, who has been holdlr.f ths chancel and choir loft in many I of Brooklyn's churches at this morning's services. It is the 1 ipjsltior. January Intt.

ha found It to atteaJ to both his work at the and Metropolitan Opera Kou3i and resigned. His place la I taken ty ylranu 0. Ward, who ccnes from Rutgers Presbyterian Church, Man-' sattan. At the Central Prefbytcrian Church Charles Mitchell, who lia. been aa tenor ajleist.

Is retained with lie quartet. The organist, George Tic', continues In charge for another year, wltli trie following quartet, in ad- Jltion to Mr. iiell: Mi. Mjrie Stod first Sunday of May, the day of changes In choirdom. Singers and i organists are engaged from May to May.

and today those who have been chosen to serve for the coming year will begin their duties. Not a few important changes of vocal-1 iats have been made, and more prom Inent churches have appointed new or- and choir directors than for' many years. As usual, there, was Item I competition this spring among musicians) lor the posts which were open, and ton- I tic committees report that they wero; f.ooded with applications from aspirants It Is well knoivn that the salaries paid have been growing less in tho majority I of churches, and the eagerness of sing- ers to do this kind of work Is explained by a prominent Hrooklyn organist and teacher a3 based on their desire to gain I dard Gayl.T. soprano; Mra. Roan Bryant- Mllcke.

coi.traltJ. and Overton Moyi, bas-o. The music et Ht. Mark's P. E.

Church on AJi'lphl street has been placed lir, oliarge of Charles Parker for the coiu-i his yenr. Mr. Parker comes from St.f I TTi pxeur. church pijH I l.ulie's P. E.

Monu-lalr. At the Klatbush Reformed Cliurcfl th choir will remain the same aa list year. cf a solo quartet and chorus A f5FfA 6V1 fHCOnmfflTO, CHURCH OF Wit ifm Ha VJ of eighteen voices tl.e direction George Francis During the last year the choir lias rendered Buck's series of camatas fur the Christian Year, namely, "The Coming of the 'Story of the Cross," and "Christ tho experience and training which will fit them for success In the moro remunerative oratorio and concert fields. The church choir also offers the only field In this country for the future opera singer to get a start, and many of tho Americana In the Metropolitan Opera Com Victor." The music of the First Baptist Church In Williamsburg, wi'ieh has been under. pany this season have not been many years, out of tho choir loft.

There are still a number of churches In the greater oltjr which pay very large salaries to so- i the direction of t.iiriteno soloist, Nicnols his attracted attention land the special services at which parts of orator'ot) uer- giv n. have been spei' clally well attended during the past I Mr. Nichols Is a prominent member of the Apollo Club. The organist at this church Is Benjamin Kaekeit. At the Janes M.

K. Church it IS i planned to rebuild and enlarge the or-gan this season. No charges are made, in the soloists and Chester W. Beebe lolsts, but the highly-paid solo quartet is by no means as numerous as formerly. Miss Anna Case Comes to the Church of the Pilgrims.

One of the most Important aridities lo the ranks of local soloists this year is Miss Anna Case, who has been engaged as soprano of the quartet at the of the Pilgrims, succeeding Mrs. Harriet Woods Bawden, who goes to Calvary M. E. Church, East Orange. Miss Case Is one of the younger and most promising prima donnas of the Metropolitan Opera Company, and has won a reputation for herself In an unusually short time.

On each occasion when she has had an opportunity at the opera house, and especially at the Sunday evening concerts. Miss Case has won her audiences and the continues as organist. Solo Quartet at First Presbyteriaa Church Remains the Same. The solo quartet at the First Preaby- t'hiiri'h will remnin u'H hont I A5r? yJosePHfe hwrewq 1 1 owe, rvs I mss jevpl ym cutton FMrHPBf7Jt.cof.rtcw VI KCOiTPfflTO, Isr.fiPfaZMfD I TrtOR riECHURCH MSS 7jLC yyy IcIiaiiKe, the organist and director, Huntington Woodman, entering upon his thirty-second year of service. 1111 "'II I II 'i wr 1 1 1 I The musical organizations of the Len- w'POT i critics oy gooa singing ana a.

cnarming i i nersnnnlitv. Miso Cimn Rev. J. If. Lathrop Is pastor.

William oruiinist for th'rteen venrs. Mr l.owe tral ConirreEiitlonal. Murev Avenue Bapr 'c r.n,,-!nrt.1i I a a .1, a I rr till til in SI. by Andreas Dipplo, the manager of tna lv' Kl'at' ot professors In the Chicago-Philadelphia Opera Company, at mU8lcal department at Columbia Unlvor-a musical in Philadelphia, not more nls f0B' as organist and dl-three years ago, and her success has doctor and a now quartet comes in with him. been very rapid since.

Her engage Club of Kllznbetli, and of the Cranforil John's M. E. and Reformed Church oil. N. J.i Philharmonic.

The soloists for the Heights, continue the same for year at St. Bartholomew's will be other year. Frederick White, baritone, and John Oss- A new organ Is promised In the near man, bass. A vested choir of forty men future for the Church of the Messiah, nnd boys will be under lyowe's It Is to be a four manual, electric strunient. nnd will be the equal of any One change will be made todav In the In the city.

The choir at the church, ment at the Church of the Pilgrims Bhows that no change has been mad tralto: G. H. Tamlyn, tenor, and Francis Rogers, baritone. Miss Dunlap comes from the Clinton Avenue Congregational i personnel of the solo quartet at the La- under the direction of George Arthur Ifayctte Avenue Presbvterian Church. Wilson, is a well trained body of thlrty- the policy of that congregation lo retain one of the finest musical organizations In the greater city.

A. Y. Cornell will continue as organist and director, and with him remain Paul Dutault, tenor, and Clifford Cairns, basso. The contralto position has not been definitely filled yet, but it has been rumored thai the music committee is planning to se- cure a prominent singer well known to Brooklyn, who is at present abroad. men and boys, of which Master Fred Wortinnnn Is soprano soloist and Ogdan W.

Ring tenor. Tho choir unites with those of Grace Church on the Heights I where John Hyatt Brewer commences his thirty-first year of consecutive service as oreanist and director. Mr. Brewer has a new tenor. Emory Randolph, who Church.

Miss Dunlap Is becoming widely known by the fine phonograph records she makes, as well as for her church work. Mr. Rogers has long been one 01 tho most prominent concert singers In New York and his coming to this borough Is another addition to the ranks of well known artists' who come over from Manhattan on Sunday to sing In our churches. The Clinton Avenue Congregational Presbyterian 1 and the Church of the Good Shepherd In comes from the First Church rf Knglewood nnd siicceeoj Thomas M. Phillips, who goes to the Ma lison Avenue Baptist Church.

The The retirement of William G. Ham- giving special mupienl services, wnicn are occasions of high musical worth. At the Simpson M. E. Church there Is a complete change, except In the bass Kisitlon, In which R.

B. McElvery Is retained. Organist Alexander Russell goes to the First Presbyterian Church In New- I Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church Is miA tmm Klnnl noted for the long terms which It keeps Seventh avenue and Carroll street, after i "rrh ps, complete change In Ms nine vr. rr p.p r. Quartet, but relalns Herbert Stave- rilne years service as Dr.

Farrar'e or Its soloists. Of the present quartet Miss hll.fihoth Tudor, soprano, is now begin ly Sammond as oreanist and director for his sixth year. Miss Alice Ralph, who I III. -fc I UW.ife..tit2-)Kffl'm iW.TJfW If ning her seventh year, and Miss Mary ark. taking with mm Ills soprano, Mrs.

BK. Jordan, contralto, her fourth. Louise MeMahon, and tenor, w. Wat OPGPNST I 1- TiU Vfft lILrr Wfiw fit lv f. IIS ZT -J I timCUM, WW son.

These mree are succeeded oy Ytt.ei6ffH0R COrtS-. CHURCH lf New Soprano at Classon Avenue Harry (). Whitiaker as organist. Mrs. MS5 LffURP LOUSd COMBS.

rtcW oePRffyOj PRS rRtfORMPQ CHURCH has been favorably received in Brooklyn at several concerts the, past winter, Conies' frpm the Place: Baptist Church to succeed Mrs. Albert E. Chandler as soprano. Tho new alto is Mrs. Anna Madeheim, who moves up from the second quartet, In which she has sung the past Miss Mar guerite Dunlap.

William Motcalf, from tbn fHvth a mout Presbyterian Church Ls Miss I ri-ien a. nnviason, soprano, ana rrann i i P. Baleom, tenor. Mr. Whittaker comes Adali iJ.

Conner. (n(, pnrk street Congregational nn.f onn1 nn nnm Ac ft thn Clnninn 1 1, Un SOPRHHO SDL05T OP THP PPES8Y. CHURCH, B'HL YY -4 BUI'IUII" 7. tVF 1,1.7 1 I HUB UCCr, Avenue Presbyterian Church this morn- I charge the past five years. He Is con- Ing, Mif Adah B.

Conner, who eomoB gldered a fine organist, having studied Miss Juliette from the Bloomlnguale Reformed Church. I under Harry Rowc Shelley and R. Hunt- era in the concert field. her of the Annilo cinh vnrrw I tQls morning as organist at the Tomp Selleck, soprano; George C. Carre, tenor Manhattan.

Miss Conner has recently Injrton Woodman, as well as In the R. Lament tenor tohn r.mnhoii nu kins Avenue Congregational Church, suo- now beginning his ninth year; and Fred been appointed head of the vocal depart- musical departments at both Yale and moves up from the second quartet and I -r6 O. Robyn. and Mrs. Marie erlck Hastings, bass.

Mr. Hastings has ment of Adelphl Academy, She is a Columbia unlversltli s. Mrs. Davidson ganlst and director, is another one of the more important changes In choirdom. Mr.

Hammond was offered charge the, music at' the Tompkins Avenue Congre-, gatlonal Church for next year, but-after" careful consideration decided to follow out his decision to leave church fork for a period of study in Italy. He has charge of the music at the Union Chapel at Watch Hill, R. which a wealthy summer colony maintains, apd he will not leave for Europe until after the summer Beason. Charles L. Gullck New Organist at First Beformed.

The new organist at the First Reformed Church Is Charles Gulick, who comes from the Crescent Avenue Presbyterian Church in Plalnfield, N. J. A new soprano also comes to this church. Mrs. Albert E.

Chandler, who has been soloist at the Clinton Avenue Congregational Church for seven years. Mrs. Lora Lamport McGuane, whom Mrs. Chandlers succeeds, was obliged to give up her position on account of her husband's business requiring hlra to live In Boston. Mrs.

McGuane was a great favorite at Dr. Farrar's. and her accompanied many of the great operatic Western girl who has met with much 1 comM from St. Mark's P. E.

Church on song birds on their American tours, success In tho short time she has been Adelphl street. Mr. llalcnm lias been tancs ins piace-of Willard Ward, bass, who goes to St. Jfime M. Church In ln 1 80 succeeding Mrs, Wll-Manhattan.

-Mr. Campbell Is a prominent llam G' Hammond, who has been filling the position for the past month. This Is one of the largest1 churches In Brooklyn! memoer or ine Apollo Club and was chosen soloist at the midwinter Sammond has built up a fine and its music Is kept at a high standard. I Mr. Macrum, the new organist, comes wntcn nas been recruited from vocal stu dents who were attracted by the high from Mount Morris Baptist Church, Man- hattan.

He is a native of Pittsburg and quanty oi music rendered at this church at every service. Two Newcomers Heard at Memorial among them being both Mme. Nordlca singing in New York. Miss Conner was for two years past at the Hanson Place nnd Mme. Tetrazzlnl.

one of the chief soloists of last season's Baptist Church. The contralto position The Baptist Temple inaugurates a new Chautauquan concerts. The organist, will te filled by Mrs. Gertrude McCollum, organist and director this morning; Henry Oliver Hirt, and other members of from Trinity Church, Manhat-Charles Taylor Ives, who comes to the solo quartet, remain at this church, tan. and a former soloist of New York Brooklyn after eighteen years service in, At the South Congregational Church, Avenue M.

E. Church. Montclalr churches. Mr. Ives is a foun- Where A.

Campbell Weslon enters upon One of the most notable transfers of der and for ten years was treasurer ot his seventh year as organist, there Is i organists Is that by which Herbert the American Guild of Organists. He Is one change ln the quartet, Mrs. Lilian B. j.I. Brahani, who has been playing at a charter member of tho recently organ-; Gillespie, who for seven years preceding Hanson Place M.

E. Church, goes back Ized Musicians Club and chairman of I the past yar had b-en soprano soloist, to his former post, at Bedford PreBby-the house committee. Ives purposes returns, taking the place of Miss Jennie terian Church. Nostrand avenue and to continue a largo chorus at the Tern- i Kerr. Miss Florence Detheridgo, con- Dean street.

He Is succeeded at Hanson pie as in the past, and will give' special tralto; Justin Thatcher, tenor, and Place by A. Howland Watson, who has musical services on the first Sunday of! Nathan Meltzoff, bass, remain for another been at Stimmerflold M. E. Church, where, every month. A new soprano soloist will i year.

his place will be filled by Harry Roessle, be heard at the Temple, Mrs. Ethel i One change is made in the solo quartet who leaves the Bedford Presbyterian Powell, who comes from Scranton, of Emmanuel Baptist Church by the com- I Church. and is the posseassor ot a voice of great; Ing of Forrest R. Lamont, tenor, to take The Greene Avenue Church also reprtu beauty. I the place of W.

St. John. Mr. Lamont a change of oreanists. Miss Edith Blais- new organist nlqn tnUea eharen at comes from tho Clinton Avenue Congre- dell.

A.G.O., who has filled the post auc- Presbyterian Church Today. Two newcomers will be heard this studied with Walter Hall, organist of Trinity Church In that city. On coming to New York he studied with Dr. Ger-rit Smith and has held several important posts. Mr.

Macrum Is known as a fine accompanist and for several years acted In that capacity for Dr. Carl Dufft. Mrs. Stllwell-Hager Is a well-known Binger In Brooklyn. She came from Rochester and captured tho Washington Avenue Baptist Church for her first New York position, and has held positions of morning at the Memorial Presbyterian MRd.RF.

nfffiEHJEAt TO, cirroy rv, COVG- CVURC departure was greatly regretted. The Church, Seventh nvenue and St. John's contralto position nas Deen nnea during i plilce, JIifi3 Annle Gonyon, who has been singing at Hanson Place Baptist similar Importance ever since. Sho was the past two months by Josephine Millham Andrews, formerly of tho Madison Avenue Reformed Church, who has been engaged for the year. Benjamin Chase, tenor, and William Wield, basso, remain.

A complete change goes into effect today at the Church of the Saviour, Unitarian, on Plerrepont street, of which the five years at the First Reformed Church i Ocean Grove Auditorium and has toured inurcn, is tho new soprano, ami John R. Louie, who recently came to this country from England, Is the new tenor. With the organist, S. Lewis Elmer, remain Miss Eleanor Fufk, contralto, a'nd Robert F. Harmon, bass, for another year.

Edward K. Macrum takes up his duties st Ttnrthnlnmew'K P. K. Church on Pa- cat onal Church. under William G.

Hammond, and from the country with several orchestras. jcessiuliy lor several years, is to reiiro A new tenor is also the onlv change in ion account or nor neaitn ana win ne suc- there went to Calvary M. E. Church In The- Tompkins Avenue Congregational I clflc street, this morning, Bauman Lowe, Manhattnn. Mrs.

Stllwell-Hnecr lo it anlo who comes from St. John's K. Church 'singers at Plymouth Church, where Ar- ceded by Herbert O. Hodgson of New favorlto soloist with the big audiences at I quartet, all of whom are prominent sing-! at Elizabeth, X. where ho has been thur Depew continues as organist.

Lam- I Haven, Conn. The solo quartet remains. BEAR BREAKING THROUGH A CANOE, ADIRONDACKS. I i Winslow Homer Display In Institute Museum Group of Twelve Paintings from Brush of Famous American Artist Purchased for Brooklyn Gallery Distinctive Work Done by Noted Water Colorist. i Wikb-JJ 4 (lit i kUf JtSfcV- died in 1910 at Prout's Neck, ln Maine, where he had lived In strict seclusion and wholly devoted to bis art, from 18S4.

He was educated at the Washington Grammar School In Cambridge. His first training as an artist was ln a lithographing shop In Boston, where he stayed two years. He was subsequently and for a number of years chiefly an Illustrator In black nnd white. Seventeen years in all were occupied ln this way. He was active ln this capacity during the Civil War as artist-correspondent for a weekly mngazlue with the Federal armies In Virginia.

At a later date, after he continued for some time to devote himself largely lo scenes of Virginia life, especially among the negroes. As distinct from painters who have specialized in marines or in landscapes, Homer achieved greatness in both fields, and it lias been said by John W. Bcatty, director of the art department of the Carnegie Institute In Pittsburg, that "lie painted Hie Inspiring grandeur and dignity of the ocean with a power not excelled by any painter In the entire history of art." The interest In subject matter, as distinct from technique, was not only apparent In Homer's pictures, but Is also notably apparent In his personal history. He spent ten months In Paris In 1SU7. A group of striking water color paintings by Winslow Homer, recently acquired by tho Brooklyn' Institute directors, are now on exhibition in tho Museum Gallery of American The subjects on exhibition are: "Bear Breaking Through a Canoe, "Shooting tho Rapids at Grand Discharge, Lake St.

John, P. "Saguenay "Key West. Negro Cabins and "Palms, "Tampa, Two "Shell Heaps. "Florida Jungle. "Houses and Trees In "The Glass Window "Shore at "Blown Away." Thcrn la-a rapidly Increasing interest In tho work of Winslow Homer.

Tho security of his position as a great painter rests on the absolute honesty and sincerity of his art. Winslow Homer was born In 1S36 In Boston, of good Xew England stock, and He did not enter any Paris studio, and If he paid any attention to the old masters the fact Is unknown. When his money was spent he came home and went to work again. No painter of Importance is quoted as his early master. No school or, design boasts of having taught him.

He Is known to have said that the only way to paint good pictures was never to look at them. Homer first began to achieve' general fame at the time of the World's Fair In Chicago. In 1HO0 Homer exhibited fuur pointings at the Paris Exposition of I hat year. His "Summer Night" was then purchased for tiie Luxembourg Mufieuiii and he was one of the seven American painters who wer" awarded a gold medal. When his "Gulf was purchased by tho Metropolitan Museum In this was done at the instance of the entire Jury of the National Academy Exhibition of that year.

The Brooklyp Institute Museum has for some years owned an Interesting nnd well-palnted early Winslow Homer. "The I'nruly Calf." which wan presented by ex-Mayor Charles A. Schieren. The present purchase adds materially to the importance of the own collections and also offers a valuable supplement to the fine examples in the Metropolitan Museum. At least four of these water colors are "collectors pictures," which are equal to any that the artist ever painted.

These are "Shooting the Rapids," "Saguenay River," "The Glass Window. Bahamas," and "Blown Away." Four others are "artists pictures." color sketches of high rank, among which "Shell Heaps, Hotni-eassa." is most remarkable. The others of this class are "Palms, "Tampa, Two Flamingoes," an 1 "Florida Jungle," Homosassa." Three other pictured of the series are painters sketches, made as memoranda for practice, or for later development In pictures. These are "Key West, Negro Cab-Ins and "Houses and Trees In Nassau" and "Shores at Nassau." The "Bear Breaking Throneh a Canoe" 13 a well executed color sk. tc'i.

apparently or a semi-humorous character, but In reality diubiless representing a matter of fact occurrence in the SHOOTING THE RAPIDS AT GRAND DISCHARGE, LAKE ST. JOHN. jsw 'WA tr'V mrs. corcoran-s funeral, i MOTHER AND BOY IN DOORWAY MOTHER AND CHILD FALL Solemn requiem mans for Mrs. Anna PORTRAIT BY MISS WHITLOCK.

Work of Former Brooklyn Artist i Placed In White House. Corcoran, who was the mother-in-law of 'the late Puirlek II. McCarren, was celebrated lo ycstci-iiay in St. Vinci lit de Paul's It Church, en North S'xth street. Tho ecbbrao't was the Rev.

Father Tlmnma Carroll, assisted by the Rev. Fathers Klymi an Waters. The Interment was In Calvary Cemetery. Those present at the services Included Mrs. Corcoran's son, William H.

Hogau, a clerk ln the Lee avenue police court; Mrs. Robert Plggot, a daughter, and havid Hogan, Mrs. Corcoran's grandson, who Is secretary of the Kings County D'-mooratio Committee. MrB. Corcoran dl-d of bronchitis on Thursday, following an I'ln'ss of several weeks, at her home, loo North Seventh street.

YOUTH MISSING FROM HOME. A general alarm has been sent out h.v the police of the Miller avenue stntlun for Max Scbeflin, 17 years old, who has been missing from his home at 377 Georgia avenue, since Thursday. The boy was employed by a manufacturing ron-cern in Manhattan, and nothing has been heard of him since he left the establishment on that night. His mother reported his disappearance today. He wore a dark "'t, black shoes, a soft shirt mid a cap.

Deserted 7if3 From Reading, Cnrrd Fo- Here. Phlton or the Adanis i fnnnd a hatleps and homeless woman, a three year old child, cowering in a doorway on Concord street at about 10 o'clock Friday night. He took them to the Adams street station and the child was sent to the Children's Shelter on Schcrmerhorn street for the night. The woman described herself as Alice Coombs, who has a husband In Reading, Pa. She Bald that he abandoned her t-nd she came to Brooklyn, where her lives.

She got work as a domestic In a house on Coney Island avenue, but use the people would not let her have her child with her sho was forced give up the place. Miss Anna Connelly, the probationary officer of the Adams street court, hai the woman committed for further exam-i Inatlon and will try to find her work In some place where the child will no objection. The woman, who Is htll as a vagrant, was taken to jail. Pitch Eeadlong Down Stairway. Tumble Piobsbly Fatal to Child.

Clutched ln the arms of his mother, little Salvatnre I'ristl, aged .1 years, fell with her fifteen feet to the bottom of a yesterday and will doubtless die as the result of a fractured skull, rccr ived in the tumble. Mrs. Mary Prlstl of (123 St. John'a place to visit some friends at 1-14 Sackett street and was on her way up the first itlll! Ot. toiri hulC Wli fi! sa-1- deiily faint.

In the struggle to reach the top In-r hul.y. lit skirt r.nmilt in he shoe and sho fill backward to 'he bolt'Jlll. With I he ini'thr-rly Instinct to preserve child, and frightened beyond reasoning she pressed the baby boy closely to her bosom and down he went with tho mother. Mrs. Prlstl only received scalp wounds and bruises and when Dr.

Fisher of the Long Uiland CoIIoko Hospital arrived she was well enough to take care of herself. But Pttle Salvatore, It was found, suf-f -t from a fractured skull, resulting from th" bumns of the sort little head on i'ic Ijc.noist'-rs and stairs. He was taken to ih hospital it iH n't ilc.it wlil 1U; L'ng. Eagle Bureau, 6n Kourfcntli Street. Washington.

May life-siz-d piir-trait of Mrs. James Madison, the gift of the Colonial names of Virginia, was added yesterday to the collection of historic portraits In the White House. Tho portrait was the work of Ursula Whltlock, a former Brooklyn artist, who made the copy of the portrait from the original Gilbert Stuart, now In the Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. r- of speechmak-ing, foil i a attended by ah' ut 1' i Pi-esioent Tafl uc-cepicd the on behalf of Mrs. TttU..