Show H HIS S P FAME FA WAS OF OTHER OT DAYS A Noted Violinist of Half H Century Cent J Ago and al ad Jenny Lind's Linds Lids Lid's Accompanist Is Dead I Ded I J I At the ripe age of f 87 years yeal there pAssed p away in inthe the Park PaIk Avenue hot hotel 1 a few days ago a man who hl his boy boX 1 hood was h hailed as a musical prod and who half haifa century ago was fe re as a a violinist In this thi country 1 and trough throughout ut Europe Many of ot of the ta elder generation iry Iy recall recal the famous name of of J Joseph S Jh Burke flurke To t the present generation n I. I 1 14 1 not pt ot even a 41 memory He lie was wag born br in lb d Ca t ty vay y Ireland about 1811 his father b being I a He early manifested a f the tf The h violin vio- vio lin ho ln and before he heas was as In 1 hat had C toured EUl Europe e as a a child V r the name nae of Master aster Burke hf Before re reh h he reached his year yer he J q t tempo temporarily laid aside ashe the te violin tb di r 9 buskins and the fame of th t boy 1 became ds as a great as that of ot th tIie'S r musician had been leen I I t t Master Burke Burk tame re to t this s count Countr itlO 1130 on a theatrical tour and in In 1 files fes of the New ew York Mirror and ot ot- ot papers of that bygone day ay may 0 b found column after column lumn devote t the child tragedian For the the- the next net or seven years years' Master Burke his tours as as or a athen an anthen anthen then began to study study law V l in Albany Alban the office of William L. L Marcy Macy subs I Iq q enty Governor of New York York f was admitted to o the bar in tn 1840 D b t found legal egal lore lor distasteful and to tooTS J i Jup up once more his beloved violin He went to to Europe the same yean iJ and for five years studied in tn under under the then famous violinist D n I Berlot Burke returned to this couri coun country coun 1 a atry try tr in m 1845 and for ts gave r concert tours with wih much success suc Sa tr f Among his papers is a letter leter requesting him to give a a concert in 18 1845 In Albany bany signed by hy Thurlow Weed We Erastus 4 J. J Corning Edward L. L Marcy Mar and John John A A an When Phineas Phines T. T Barnum bro brought Jenny Lind to to- America In 1850 e le he could not at first find any violin I who suited the Swedish i t Finally Finaly Burke was wa t tand and so acceptable le did he prove to t ih the V singer that he toured the country with wih her Iter during durn her her- t two tua Q years' years American triumph and remained her lifelong friend Jenny Lind gave Burke a valuable valuable valuable able violin an and many other presents including a gold seal seal ring within which the had ha her name engraved After the Jenny Lind concerts Burke abandoned the violin took up his residence residence resi rest dence in this thiS City as an Instructor of the pianoforte and achieved a wide reputation retiring to to private life about a quarter of a C. a century ago Since then he had lived Ind during the winter in this ci city and in Washington on The summers summers sum sum- mers mer he spent at his home In Batavia 1 Genesee county this St State te I IThe The aged musician was never mar mar- ried ned He leaves several nephews and two brothers William Burke of oC Washington Wahington Wash Wash- Wah- Wah ington for many years ear an examiner In itt Inthe the patent office and Walter Vate Burke of oC Batavia He lie was wa the oldest m member of the Philharmonic society society and and V Y in his younger days a a member mezer of of Union League Leas club New club New York He Her |