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Show THE BULLETIN. BINGHAM, UTAH , A New Memorial to Stephen Q. Foster, : Americas "Tragic Troubadour" Elmo ScottVPatson II lit i1iWrf fp ! Pwll 1 rib mfm l N IW! 1 4m GSOJ'rw.ys -f- L-"-- f Architect's drawing of the Stephen Collins Foster Memorial on the campus of the University of Pittsburgh. It will house a "shrine" containing a priceless collection of Foteriana. ody, is one of the valued articles. His Most Popular Song. One large bookcase, ready for installation in the Foster Memo-rial, contains 500 phonograph recordings of every Foster song, some made especially, but most including the Japanese version of "My Old Kentucky Home" produced for commercial sale. Many songs, such as the most popular, "Old Folks At Home," which had 250 editions before 1900 and many more since, ap-pear in several versions. Second most popular, the classification based on number of editions published, is "My Old Kentucky Home," according to Mr. Hodges. "Massa's in de Cold, Cold Ground" ranks third, and artist only one sitting. Whether the artist was not satisfied with the portrait or whether the pub-lishing firm cancelled the order, cannot be ascertained and no definite statement can be made in this regard.Thomas Hicks, the artist, gave the portrait to Wil-liam Hicks, a prominent mer-chant of Brooklyn, who was an admirer of Foster. William Hicks died in 1895. His widow gave the portrait to her grand-daughter, Mary Elizabeth Post Holmes, who in turn gave it to her daugher, Mary Elizabeth Case, she being the last of the family to own the portrait, and who sold it in the summer ef 1935. The reason for erecting a memorial to Foster in Pittsburgh Tf TfE DIED poor but he ly j "V left to his fel-"p- " j low-America- ns a jLV-l- l tJl wealth of melo-- - ' dies which have been their favor-ites for nearly three-quarte- rs of a century such songs aa "My Old Kentucky Home," "Massa's in de Cold, Cold Ground," "Old Folks at Home," "Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming," "Oh, Susannah" and "Nelly Was a Lady." And now such is the irony of fate they are building a memorial which will cost half a million dollars to honor Stephen Collins Foster, in whose pocketbook was found, when he died, 38 cents in coins and "shin plasters," Civil war paper money. The memorial will stand on the campus of the University of Pittsburgh in the shadow of Pitt's famed Cathedral of Learning and it will be dedi-cated early this year dur-ing Pitt's celebration of its growth in 150 years "from log cabin to skyscraper." Funds for the erection of the Foster Memorial building were raised by the Tuesday Musical club of Pittsburgh, in with the university and with musical clubs in 25 other states. In it will be a "Foster shrine," containing the collection of Fos-teria-which Joseph K. Lilly of Indianapolis, Ind., has gathered together at a cost of approxi-mately $160,000. This collection and its curator, Fletcher Hodges, who for six years directed the gathering of the original Foster manuscripts, first editions, books and personal belongings of the song writer, arrived at the Cathedral of Learning recently and began storing away these priceless rel-ics of "America's Tragic Trouba-dour." As soon as the newly-complet- ed stone work on the in-terior of the memorial is finished he will move the collection to its place in the shrine where, under the terms of Mr. Lilly's gift, they shall "belong to America." The building in which this Fosteriana will find a home is adjacent to the main building of the Memorial which contains an auditorium seating about 750 persons, with rehearsal and re-ception rooms below. It has been built of stone to harmonize with the other buildings of the Cathe-dral quadrangle in the heart of Oakland, Pittsburgh's "civic cen-ter." Depicts Foster Characters. Leaded windows, with colored medallions depicting the charac-ters in Foster songs, will be in-stalled this spring. The memorial room, connected with the audi-torium foyer by a covered pas-sage, will house the Foster col-lection and will be open to the public. Students of Foster's life and times will have access to the research facilities of the Lil-ly collection. The collection includes literal-ly "everything under the sun" relating to the composer. There are hundreds of books in which he is mentioned some in only a sentence including some mod-em histories of izz. One of the rare personal effects is the pocketbook Foster carried when he died, containing the 38 cents and a scrap of paper on which was written, "Dear friends " '''' ' "1 3$' v I - - r j i v- - ' , jP m if & ' STEPHEN COLLINS FOSTER -- (From the portrait painted by Thomas Hicks in 1852) Tioga Point, not far away. But the boy was homesick at Athens and spent much of his time with his brother at Towanda, attend-ing the Towanda academy as well as the one at Tioga Point. He was not a particularly apt student and about the only im-portance there is to this period in his career is that during this time he composed his first music, "The Tioga Waltz," arranged for four flutes and written for the commencement exercises at Athens. On that occasion Stephen played the leading part himself, while three other students played the remaining parts. In 1841 Stephen entered Jeffer-son college at Canonsburg, Pa., 18 miles from his home at Pitts-burgh, and stayed in this institu-tion 'just seven days. Then, over-come by homesickness, he left college, never again to seek a formal education. A year later he composed the music of his first song "Open Thy Lattice, Love," a poem written by George P. Morris which had appeared in a supplement to the New Mirror. As a gay young blade of nine-teen in Pittsburgh, Foster had a half dozen boon companions, youths of his own age, who met regularly twice a week to sing at Stephen's home. They brought their banjos and guitars with them, and called themselves "Knights of the Square Table." It was for this group that Ste-phen wrote many of his finest and earliest songs, including "Louisiana Belle," "Uncle Ned" and "Oh, Susannah." The latter was immediately taken up by all the minstrel shows, of which there were a great number then on the road. For thi3 song Foster received $100, an event which determined his career for him. "Imagine my delight in receiving $100 in cash!" he wrote later. "Though this song was not successful, yet the two $50 bills I received for it had the effect of starting me on my present vocation." Disputed Authorship. Then E. P. Christy, head of Christy's Minstrels, asked him to write a song for him to sing be-fore it was published and the result was the world-famou- s "Old Folks at Home" or, as it is more familiarly known, "Suwanee River." By permitting Christy to sign his name instead of Fos-ter's to this song, the composer obtained an advance of $15. Later he received more than $2,000 in royalties from its sales but he had a great deal of difficulty in establishing his authorship for Christy copyrighted it in his own name. The decade 1850 to 1860 was Stephen Foster's heydey. In 1850 he was married to Jane Mc- Dowell. In 1852 he wrote "Massa's in de Cold, Cold Ground"; began efforts to have himself acknowledged as the rightful author of "Old Folks at Home," and with his wife took that memorable steamboat trip to New Orleans, the rich fruit of which was to be the song, "My Old Kentucky Home," copy-righted in 1853. But Foster's married life was not a happy one. He and his wife lived for a few years with Stephen's family in Pitts-burgh, then moved to New York. There the composer yielded more and more to the temptation of strong drink until at last his wife left him, mainly because she had to earn a living for herself and their child, Marion. Foster died on January 13, 1864, in Bellevue, a charity hospital in New York City. In his clothes they found the small purse con-taining 38 cents and a slip of paper with five pencilled words on it. They were "Dear friends and gentle hearts." Says John Tasker Howard in his biography of Foster: "No doubt this was to have been the title of an unwritten song, but whatever its intent, the phrase describes quite perfectly the dear friend and gentle heart who added 'Old Folks at Home and a dozen other immortal songs to the world's spiritual riches." Cl Western Newspaper Union. for fourth place "Old Black Joe" and "Oh, Susannah" are tied. Six of the rarest items in the collection are manuscripts from Stephen Foster's hand for songs containing both words and mu-sic. One notebook in the collec-tion, 220 pages long, contains practically all his drafts for verses written between 1851 and 1860. In addition to the Lilly col-lection the Foster shrine will display other contributions. One is the composer's flute, given to the university by the grandson of a personal friend of the musi-cal genius. Recently announced, too, was the gift to the university by the Andrew W. Mellon Educational lies in the fact that he was born in the Lawrenceville section of that city, much of his ca-reer was spent there and his body lies in Allegheny cemetery, not far from his birthplace, beside those of his father and mother. Considering the place which he and his songs hold in the hearts of his countrymen, it is appro-priate that the birthday of the nation should also be his birth-day. For he was born on July 4, 1826, and at noon on that day the ninth child of William B. and Eliza Foster was ushered into the world to the tune of "Hail Columbia," "Yankee Doo-dle," "Hail to the Chief'and "The Star Spangled Banner," played by blaring bands as Pittsburgh celebrated the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. William Foster was not present to welcome his youngest for, as a prosperous merchant trader and a leading citizen of the com-munity, he had been made an assistant to the mayor of Pitts-burgh in the conduct of the In-dependence Day celebration. So Eliza Foster endured her travial alone and it was she who named her latest - born Stephen Collins for the son of a neighbor and childhood friend of hers, a little boy who had died just before her own son was born. The Child Musician. The youngest member of a large family, Stephen was both petted and spoiled, but he seems never to have been very well understood by the other Fos-ters. He showed an aptitude for music early. When he was two, he would place his sister's guitar on the floor and, bending over it, pick out harmonies from its strings. When he was seven he was taken into a music store by one of his brothers. There he saw a flageolet, picked it up and was playing a tune upon it before his brother realized what he was doing. At the age of thirteen Stephen was taken by his older brother, William, to Towanda, Pa., so he couid attend Athens academy at a v, , jjr: , - , aw. - ; ' T' - t "! A .... ( - - .. - m inmnn First Pages of "Massa's In De Cold. Cold Ground." and gentle hearts," probably the last thing Foster wrote and tne likely title for a song. It, too, is in the collection. Eighteen letters written by Foster, principally to members of his family in Pittsburgh in-cluding his brother, Morrison, one of the few contemporaries to appreciate his genius, are also included. Foster's melodeon, only four and a half octaves in range and, hence, not suitable for the finger-in- g seeking a mel- - of a composer and Charitable Trust of a por-tra- it of Foster which belonged to the famed Thomas G. Clarke col-lection of American portraits. A Portrait of Foster. The portrait, 25 by 30 inches, excellent state of pres-ervation, and in an shows the composer in three-quart- er length pose, and a depicts him as a young man m his early twenties. It was painted Thomas Hicks, a noted artist, for Firth, Pond & Co. of New the publishers of pffirtmusle. Foster gave the uife o IhJmhd about Streamlined Grandmothers. SANTA MONICA, CALIF. I've been won-dering what has vanished from the city landscape. I'd grown reconciled to service stations where blacksmith shops used to be and a beauty parlor where once the livery sta-ble spread its fasci-nating perfumes. So it couldn't be that All of a sudden it dawned on me. Since coming here I've seen mighty few 1912 model grandmothers bar ring in the movies, IrvIn S Cobb-exceptio- n and then, with the of dear May Robson, they had to wear makeup. We don't so much mind the young girl who has gone prematurely old we're accustomed to her but the old woman who has gone prema-turely young, so young that she seems to be advertising the ap-proach of second childhood by dressing to match it well, that's different. So now I know what I miss. It's the lady who was neither streamlined nor a four-colo- r process. Penalties of Old Ate. MENTALLY or physically, or IF, a man of seventy has so slowed down he no longer can func-tion usefully, what are we going to do about Secretary of State Hull and Secretary Roper, and Senator Glass and Senator Norris, and both Cal-ifornia's senators, and a sizable pro-portion of the outstanding member-.shi- p of either branch of congress? And, to avoid cluttering up the words, so to speak, what disposition should have been made, at seventy, of Thomas A. Edison and John D. Rockefeller, Sr., and Henry Ford and Queen Victoria and Cardinal Gibbons and Von HIndenburg and Clemenceau and Professor Eliot and Carrie Chapman Catt and Mark Twain and Elihu Root and Melville W. Fuller, Just to mention a fewt names that come to mind? Going still further back, one gets to thinking, among others of Henry Clay and Ben Franklin and Glad-stone and Bismarck and Victor Hugo and Alexander Humboldt ' Open Season on Bears. NEW Brunswick is granting free for sportsmen to kill bears this spring. I regard this as an error. It reduces bears, which are picturesque features of forest life, and increases amateur gunnerr barging through the wilderness plug-ging away at every living object they see, including guides. A green-horn might miss a sitting union depot probably would but he gar-ners him a guide nearly every time. On ail counts, the black bear should have game protection. For every shoat he steals, he eats thrice his weight In grubs and ants and bugs; and he's a fine scavenger, for he likes his dead meat high. If he were a veteran member of a Maryland Duck club, he couldn't like it any higher. Even so, he has been preyed on until, in parts of our north woods, he's practically extinct Yet, next to a Vermont Democrat he's prob-ably the most inoffensive mammal found in New England. Tyranny of the Soviets. through the Soviet SEEPING free speech and free press and even free thought, stories came out that the five-ye- plan shows signs of utter collapse and also that in their striving for ab-solute despotism, Stalin and his for the moment intimate lieuten-ants are preparing to "liquidate" by execution or remove by a wholesale campaign of exile all such of their recent ruthless associates as might, through private ambitions, stand in the way of this latest desperate tyranny. Of course, we hear all sorts of tales about the real inside of the Russian situation, some inspired by I hostile prejudice and some by sym-pathetic partisans. Women's New Freedom. EVEN in olden days, before they loose, women envied us every masculine perquisite we had, except the moustac'ue cup and pos-sibly chewing tobr.cco. Since eman-cipation, seems like they've taken over practically everything we ever had. j The bars are crowded with wom-en, and the smoking rooms and the barber shops and the gambling clubs and the prize-flght- s and the wrestling matches and the political caucuses. If it weren't for them, the race-track- s and the night spots ' would languish and the cocktail mixers might get an occasional rest. Mabye, as a distinguished scientist .now arises to proclaim, they could have excelled us in our then ex-clusive fields, only before this they didn't get a chance to prove it J IRVIN S. 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