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A in top the the LO her skirt sud- 10 stat THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. SUNDAY. MAY 5, 1912. 3 Many Changes in Church Choirs Mark the First Sunday in May Anna Case, Discovered Andreas Dippel, Comes Church of Pilgrims.

Other Changes. EW voices will be chancel and choir loft of Brooklyn's churches morning's services. first Sunday of May, in choirdom. are engaged from May those who have been for the coming year few important changes been made, and choir churches have appointed" As usual, there this spring among posts which were open. committees report that with applications from known that the salaries growing less in the and the eagerness this kind of work is prominent Brooklyn based on their desire and training which success in the more and concert felds.

choir also offers the only for the future opera start, and many of the the Metropolitan Opera season have not been of the choir loft. number of churches in the pay very large salaries. the highly- solo means as numerous as Case Comes to the of the Pilgrims. the most important of local soloists this Case, who has been of the quartet at the Pilgrims, succeeding Mrs. Bawden, who goes to East Orange.

Miss younger and 1 most 1 donnas of the Metropolitan and has won a reputation an unusually short occasion when she has had at the opera house, the Sunday evening has won her audiences good singing and a. Miss Case was Dipple, the manager Opera in Philadelphia, not ago, and her success rapid since. Her the Church of the no change has been of that congregation of the finest musical the greater city. A. Y.

as organist and him remain Paul Dufault, Cairns, basso. The position has not been but it has been rumored committee is planning prominent singer well who is at present abroad. retirement of William the First Reformed avenue and Carroll street, service as Dr. Farrar's director, is another important changes in was offered charge the Church for Tompkins next Avenue, consideration decided to decision to leave church of study in Italy. the music at the Union Hill, R.

which a colony maintains, and for Europe until beard from! in many at this It 15 the the day Singers and to May. chosen will begin of vocalprom- new orfor was keen musicians end ruthey were aspirants paid majority of singexplained organist and to gain will fit remuneraThe field in singer AmerCom- many There are greater to quartet formerly. Church additions to year is engaged Courch Harriet Calvary M. Case is promising Opera for On an opand especoncerts. and the charming "discovered" of the Company, at more than has engagePilgrims made in to reorganiza- Cornell director, tenor, condefinitely that to seknown to G.

HamChurch. after or one of choirdom. of the Congrebut after follow work He has Chapel wealthy he will after the el changes organists and today to serve their Not ists have inent ganists mary competition for the eic fooded It is well have been of churches, ers to do by a teacher experience them for tive church this country to get a icans in pany this years out still a city which loists, but is by no Miss Anna One of the ranks Miss Anna as soprano of the Woods E. Church, one of the prima Company, herself in each portunity cially at Miss Case critics by personality. by Andreas Chicagoa musical three been very ment at shows that the policy tain one tions in will and with and Clifford tralto filled yet, the music a Brooklyn, The mond from Seventh nine years ganist and the more Mr.

Hammond music at gational careful out his for a period charge of at Watch summer not leave summer season. Charles L. Gulick New Organist at First Reformed. The new organist at the First Reformed Church is Charles L. Gulick, who comes from the Crescent Avenue Presbyterian Church in Plainfield, 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 him to live in Boston. Mrs. McGuane was a great favorite at Dr. Farrar's, and her departure was greatly regretted.

The contralto position has been filled during the past two months by Mrs. Josephine Millham Andrews, formerly of the 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, tarian, on Pierrepont street, of which the PHOTO MISHKIN ANNA CASE, NEW SOPRANO, CHURCH OF THE PILGRIMS MRS. JOSEPHINE M.

ANDREWS CONTRALTO, I ST. REFORMED CHURCH Rev. J. I. Lathrop is pastor.

William K. Kraft, one at the professors in the musical department at Columbia University, takes his post as organist and didector and a new quartet comes in with him. Mrs. Bessie Clark Branion is the soprano; Miss Marguerite Dunlap, contraito: G. H.

Tamlyn, tenor, and Francis Rogers, baritone. Miss Dunlap comes from the Clinton Avenue Congregational 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 the 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 Church makes a complete change in its solo quartet, but retains Herbert Stavely Sammond as organist and director for his sixth year. Miss Alice Ralph, who has been favorably received in Brooklyn at several concerts the past winter, comes from the Strong Place Baptist Church to succeed Mrs. Albert E. Chandler as soprano. The new alto is Mrs.

Anna Madeheim, who moves up from the second quartet, in which she has sung the past year, and succeeds Miss Mar-' guerite Dunlap. William Metcalf, from the Sixth Avenue Baptist Church, a member of the Apollo Club, succeeds Forrest R. Lamont, tenor. John Campbell also takes moves the up place from of the Willard second G. quartet and Ward, bass.

who goes to St. James M. E. Church in Manhattan. Mr.

Campbell is a prominent member of the Apollo Club and was chosen soloist at the midwinter concert. Mr. Sammond has built up a fine chorus, which has been recruited from vocal students who were attracted by the high quality of music rendered at this church at every service. Two Newcomers Heard at Memorial Presbyterian Church Today. Two newcomers, will be heard this morning Memorial Presbyterian Church, Seventh avenue and St.

John's place. Miss Annie L. Gonyon, who has been singing at Hanson Place Baptist Church, is the new soprano, and John R. Lonie, who recently came to this country from England, is the new tenor. With the organist, S.

Lewis Elmer, remain Miss Eleanor Fupk, contralto, and Robert F. Harmon, bass, for another year. Edward K. Macrum takes up his duties Winslow Homer Display In Institute Museum Group of Twelve Paintings from Brush of Famous Ameri- can Artist Purchased for Brooklyn Gallery-Distinctive Work Done by Noted Water Colorist. A group of striking water color paintings by Winslow Homer, recently acquired by the Brooklyn Institute directare now exhibition in the Mupro seum Gallery of American The subjects on exhibition are: "Bear Breaking Through a Canoe, "Shooting the Rapids at Grand Discharge, Lake St.

John, P. "Saguenay "Key West. Negro Cabins and "Palms, MME. STILWELL HAGAR, NEW CONTRALTO, TOMPKINS AVE. CONG.

CHURCH RUE PHOTO MISS FINNIE GOTIYON, NEW SOPRANO, MEMORIRL PRESBY, CHURCH MARGUERITE DUNLAP NEW CONTRALTO, CHURCH OF THE MISS. CONNER NEW SOPRANO, CLASSON FIVE. PRESBY. CHURCH TO FRANK P. BAL.COM NEW TENOR, SIMPSON M.E.CHURCH 2 MISS ALICE RALPH, NEW SOPRANO, CLINITON FIVE CONG.

CHURCH I MULLEN PHOTO TO MISS EVELYN DUTTON FOGG, SOLO CONTRALTO, -FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, BROOKLYN E.K. MARCUM, NEW ORGANIST TOMPKINS AVE. CONG. CHURCH SCHLOSS PHOTO yo MRS.R.F. MADEHEIM NEW CONTRALTO, CLINTON AVE.

CONG. CHURCH Ocean Grove Auditorium and has toured the country with several orchestras. The. Tompkins Avenue Congregational Church retains three members of its solo quartet, all of whom are prominent He did not enter any Paris studio, and it 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 of 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 In 1900 Homer exhibited four printings at the Paris Exposition of that year. His "Summer Night" WAS then purchased for the Luxembourg Museum and he was one of the seven American painters who were awarded a gold When his "Gulf was purchased by the Metropolitan Museum in 1906 this was done at the instance of the entire jury of the National Academy Exhibition of that year.

The Brooklyn Institute Museum has for some years owned 11 interesting and well -painted early Winslow Homer, "The Unruly Calf." which was presented by ex- -Mayor Charles A. Schieren. The present purchase adds materially to the importance of the Museum's 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.

and "Blown Four others are "artists pictures," color sketches of high rank, among which "Shell Heaps, Homois the most remarkable. The others of this class are "Palms, "Tampa, Two Flamingoes," and "Florida Homosassa." Three other pictures of the series are painters sketches, made as memoranda for practice, or for later development in pietures. These are "Key West, Negro CabIns and "Houses and Trees in and "Shores at Nassau." The "Bear Breaking Through a Canoe" is well executed color sketeh, apparently of a semi-humorous character, but in reality doubtless representing a matter of fact occurrence in the Adirondacks. PORTRAIT BY MISS WHITLOCK. Work of Former Brooklyn Artist Placed in White House.

Eagle Bureau, 608 Fourteenth Street. Washington. May 4-A life-sized portrait of Mrs. James Madison, the gift of the Colonial Dames of Virginia, was added yesterday to the collection of historic portraits in the White House. The portrait was the work of Miss Ursula Whitlock, a former Brooklyn ist, who made the copy of the portrait from the original Gilbert Stuart, now in the Academy or Fine Arts, in Philadelphia.

After a ceremony speechmaking, which followed a reception attended by about 20 President Taft dccepted the portrait on behall of Mrs. Taft. New Singers and Organists Seen for the First Time Today in Leading Brooklyn Churches. Churches. MULLEN PHOTO BRUMAN LONE, NEW ORGRNIST RIND CHOIR MASTER, ST.

BARTHOLOMEUS BKLYN MRS ELEANOR CHANDLER NEW SOPRANO, FIRST this morning as organist at the Tomp- king Avenue Congregational Church, ceeding Alfred G. Robyn, and Mrs. Marie Stilwell-Hager, contralto, is 8 newcomer in the solo quartet, succeeding Mrs. Wil11am G. Hammond, who has been Alling the position for the past month.

This 19 one of the largest churches in Brooklyn and its music is kept at a high standard. Mr. Macrum, the new organist, comes from Mount Morris Baptist Church, Manhattan. He is a native of Pittsburg and studied with Walter Hall, organist of Trinity Church in that city. On coming to York he studied with Dr.

Gerrit Sinter and has held several Important posts. Macrum is known as a fine accompanist and several years acted in that capacity for Dr. Carl Dufft. Mrs. Stilwell- Hager 1s a well-known singer in Brooklyn.

She came from Rochester and captured the Washington Avenue Baptist Church for her first New York. position, and has held positions of similar importance ever since. She was five years at the First Reformed Church under William G. Hammond, and from there went to Calvary M. E.

Church in Manhattan. Mrs. Stilwell -Hager is a favorite soloist with the big audiences at I died in 1910 at Prout's Neck, in Maine, where he had lived in strict seclusion and wholly devoted to his art, from 1884. He was educated at the Washington Grammar School In Cambridge. His first training as an artist was in a lithographing shop in Boston, where he stayed two years.

He was subsequently and for a number of years chiefly an illustrator in black and white. Seventeen years in all were occupied in this way. He was active in this capacity during the Civil War as artist-correspondent for a weekly magazine with the Federal armies in Virginia. At a later date, after 1876, he continued for some time to devote himself largely to scenes of Virginia life, espocially among the uegroes. As distinct from painters who have specialized in marines or in landscapes, Homer achieved greatness in both fields, and it has been said by John W.

Beatty, director of the art department of the Carnegie. Institute in Pittsburg, that "he painted the inspiring grandeur and nity of the ocean with a power not excolled 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. I He spent ten months in Paris in 1867. SHOOTING THE RAPIDS AT GRAND DISCHARGE, LAKE ST. JOHN.

PHOTO BANGS organist for th'rteen years. Mr. Lowe Is conductor of the Mendelssohn Glee Club of Elizabeth, and of the Crantord (N. Philharmonle. The soloists for nest year at St.

Bartholomew's will be Frederick White, baritone, and John 02s- man, bass. vested choir of forty men and boys will be under Mr. Lowe's charge. One change will be made today in the personnel of the solo quartet at the Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church, where John Hyatt Brewer commences his thirty -first year of consecutive service as organist and director. Mr.

Brewer has a new tenor. Emory Randolph, who comes from the First Presbyterian Church of Englewood and succeed3 Thomas M. Phillips, who goes to the Madison Avenue Baptist Church. The Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church is noted for the long terms which it keeps Its soloists. Of the present quartet Miss Elizabeth Tudor.

soprano. is now beginher seventh year. and Miss Mary Jordan, contralto, her fourth, New Soprano at Classon Avenue Presbyterian Church Is Miss Adah B. Conner. A new soprano 'comes the Classon Avenue Presbyterian Church this morning.

Miss Adah B. Conner, who comes from the Bloomingdale Reformed Church, Manhattan. Miss Conner has recently been appointed head of the vocal a department of Adelphi Academy, She is A Western girl who has met with much success in the short time she has been singing in New York. Miss Conner was one of the chief soloists of last season's Chautauquan concerts. The organist, Henry Oliver Hirt.

and other members of the solo quartet, remain at this church. At the South Congregational Church, where A. Campbell Weston enters upon his seventh year as organist, there is one change in the quartet. Mrs. Lilian B.

Gillespie, who for seven years preceding the past year had been soprano soloist, returns, taking the place of Miss Jennie Kerr. Miss Florence- Detheridge, contralto; Justin Thatcher, tenor, and Nathan Meltzoff, bass, remain for another year. of Emmanuel Baptist Church comOne change is made in the quartet solo, ing of Forrest R. Lamont, tenor, to take the place of W. St.

John. Mr. Lamont comes from the Clinton Avenue Congregational Church. A new tenor is also the only change in singers at Plymouth Church, where Arthur Depew continues as organist. Lam- bert Murphey, who has been holding the position since January last, hag found 1E dimoult to attend to both bia work at the church and the Metropolitan Opera House and has resigned.

His place Is taken by Sylvanus 0. Ward, who comes from Rutgers Presbyterian Church, Manbattan. At the Central Presbyterian Church Charles Mitchell, who has been substituting as tenor soloist, 18 retained with LEe quartet. The organist, George W. Pink, continues In charge for another rear.

with the following quartet, in addition to Mr. Mitenell: Mta. Marie Stoddard Gaylor, soprano; Mra, Rose BryantMileke, contralto, and Overton Moyle, basso. The music et St. Mark's P.

E. Church on Adelphi street has been placed In charge of Charles Parker for the coming year. Mr. Parker comes from Luke's P. E.

Church. Montelair. At the Flatbush Reformed Church thee choir will remain the same as last year. consisting of al solo quartet and chorus of eighteen voices under the direction of George Francis Morse. During the last year the choir bas rendered Buck's se-.

ries of cantatas for the Christian Year, namely, "The Coming of the "Story of the and "Christ the Victor." The music at the First Baptist Church In Williamsburg. which has been under the direction of the baritone soloist, Alval Nichols. hag attracted attention and the special services at which parts of oratorios were given. have been specially well attended during the past year. Mr.

Nichola is prominent member of the Apollo Club. The organist at this church is Benjamin Rackett. At the Janes M. E. Church it is planned to rebuild and enlarge the organ this season.

No changes are made in the soloists Chester W. Beebe continues as organist, Solo Quartet at First Presbyterian Church Remains the Same. MISS LAURA LOUISE COMBS, SOPRANO SOLOIST OF THE 1ST. PRESBY, CHURCH. BALYN ers in the concert field.

Miss Juliette Selleck, soprano; George C. Carre, tenor, now beginning his ninth year, and Frederick Hastings, bass. Mr. Hastings has accompanied many of the great operatic song birds on their American tours, among them being both Mime. Nordica and Mme.

Tetrazzini. The Baptist Temple inaugurates a new organist and director this morning; Charles Taylor Ives, who comes tO Brooklyn after eighteen years service in Montclair churches. Mr. Ives is a founder and for ten years was treasurer of the American Guild of Organists. He is a charter member of the recently organized Musicians Club and chairman of the house committee.

Mr. Ives purposes to continue a large chorus at the Temple as in the past, and will special musical services on the first Sunday of every month. A new soprano soloist will be heard the Temple, Mrs. Ethel Powell, who comes from Seranton. and is the possessor of a voice of great beauty.

A new organist also takes charge at St. Bartholomew's P. E. Church on Pacific street, this morning. Bauman Lowe.

who comes from St. John's E. Church at Elizabeth, N. where he has been The solo quartet at the First Presbyterian Church will remain without change, the organist and director, Huntington Woodman, entering upon his thirty-second year of service. The musical organizations of the Central Congregational, Marcy Avenue Bapr tist, Washington Avenue Baptist, St.

John's M. E. and Reformed Church 011 the Heights, continue the same for another year. A new organ is promised in the pear future for the Church of the Messiah. It is to be a four manual, electric instrument, and will be the equal of any It the city.

The choir at the church, under the direction of George Arthur Wilson, is a well trained body of thirtysix men and boys, of which Master Fred Wortmann is soprano soloist and Ogden W. Ring tenor. The choir unites with those of Grace Church on the Heights and the Church of the Good Shepherd in giving special musical services, which are occasions of high musical worth. At the Simpson M. E.

Church there is a complete change. except in the bass position, in which R. B. McElvery is retained. Organist Alexander Russell goes to the First Presbyterian Church in Newark, taking with him his soprano, Mrs.

Louise McMahon, and tenor, W. L. Watson. These three are succeeded by Harry 0. Whittaker as organist.

Mrs. Helen A. Davidson, soprano, and Frank P. Balcom, tenor. Mr.

Whittaker comes from the Park Street Congregational Church, Bridgeport, where he has been in charge the past five years. He is considered a fine organist. having studied under Harry Rowe Shelley and R. Huntington Woodman, as well as In the musical departments at both Yale and Columbia universities. Mrs.

Davidson comes from St. Mark's P. D. Church on Adelphi street. Mr.

Balcom has been for two years past at the Hanson Place Baptist Church. The contralto position will be filled by Mrs. Gertrude McCollum, from Trinity Lutheran Church, Manhattan. and a former soloist of New York Avenue M. E.

Church. One of the most notable transfers of organists Is that by which Herbert Braham, who bas been playing at Hanson Place M. E. Church, goes back to his former post at Bedford Presbyterian Church. Nostrand avenue and Dean street.

He is succeeded at Hanson Place by A. Howland Watson, who has been at Summerfeld M. E. Church, where his place will be filled by Harry Roessle, who leaves the Bedford Presbyterian Church. The Greene Avenue Church also reports a change of organists.

Miss Edith Blaisdell. A.G.O., who has filled the post suecessfully for several years, is to retire on account of her health and will be succeded by Herbert G. Hodgson of New Haven, Conn. The solo quartet remains. BEAR BREAKING THROUGH A CANOE, ADIRONDACKS.

"Tampa. Two "Shell Heaps. "Florida Jungle. "Houses and Trees in "The Glass Window "Shore at "Blown Away." There is a rapidly increasing interest in the work of Winslow Homer. The 50- curity of his position as a great painter l'ests on the absolute honesty and of his art.

Winslow Homer was born in 1836 in Boston, of good New England stock, and MOTHER AND CHILD FALL. Pitch Headlong Down Stairway. Tumble Probably Fatal to Child. Clutched in the arms of his mother, little Salvatore Pristi, aged 3 years, fell with her fifteen feet to the bottom of a stair yesterday and will doubtless the result of a fractured skull, received in the tumble. Mrs.

Mary Pristi of 625 St. John's place went to visit some friends at 144 Sackett street and was on her way up the first Might tuls are became at house woon denly faint. In the struggle to reach the with safely her baby, caught her shoe and she fell backwards to bottom. With the motherly instinct to preserve the child, and frightened beyond retsoning she pressed the baby boy closely to her bosom and down he went with the mother. Mrs.

Pristi only received scalp wounds and bruises and when Dr. Fisher of the Long leland College Hospital arrived she was well enough to take CAre of herself. But little Salvatore, It was found, suftered from fractured skull, resulting from the bumps of the soft little head all bannisters and stairs. He was 'taken the hospital where it not expeeled that he will live long. MRS.

CORCORAN'S FUNERAL. Solemn requiem mass for Mrs. Anna Corcoran, who was the mother-in-law of the late Patrick MeCarren. was celebrated at clock yesterday in St. Vincent de Paul's Church.

on North Sixth street. The celebrant W88 the Rev. Father Thomas E. Carroll. assisted by the Rev.

Fathers Flynn an Waters. The interment was in Calvary Cemetery. Those present at the services included Mrs. Corcoran's son. William H.

Hogan, a clerk in the Lee avenue police court: Mrs. Robert Plggot, a daughter, and David Hogan, Mrs. Corcoran's grandson. who is secretary of the Kings County Democratic General Committee. Mrs.

Corcoran died of bronchitis on Thursday, following all illness of several weeks, at her home. 100 North Seventh street. YOUTH MISSING FROM HOME. A general alarm has been sent out by the police of the Miller avenue station for Max Scheflin, 17 years old, who has been missing from his home at. 377 avenue, since Thursday.

The boy was employed by a manufacturing concern 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 black shoes, a soft shirt and a cap. MOTHER AND BOY IN DOORWAY Deserted Wife From Reading, Cared For Here. Policeman Jack Dalton of the Adams street co found a hatless and homeless woman, with 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 Schermerhorn street for the night. The woman described herself as Alice Coombs, who has a husband in Reading, Pa. She said that he abandoned her sad she came to Brooklyn, where her sister lives. She got work as a domestic in a house on Coney Island avenue, but because the people would not let her have her child with her she was forced to give up the place.

Miss Anna Connelly, the probationary officer of the Adams street court, had the woman committed for turther examination and will try to find her work in some place where the child will ba 110 objection. The woman, who is held ns a vagrant, was taken to jail..