Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-02-03 | Page 23 | Attendance at N. Y. Metropolitan Shows 10,000 Gain in Year

Attendance at N. N Y Metropolitan Shows I Gain in Year i NEW NEV YORK Feb 2 The comman cornmon corn com comI I mon man love of alt ait and culture Js Is not i ionly only holding its own but groWIng gro I In New Now York If attendance figures of the Metropolitan Museum of Art can be considered a barometer During 1928 1922 people vis- vis ite 1 New Yorks York's art center the secand see sec and ond largest figure In the history of the museum and an Increase of more than over 1927 It was announced recently at the fifty fifty- ninth meeting of the board of trustees trustees trus- trus tees of the corporation rho rhe acceptance of the bequest of Mrs II H. O. O Havemeyer by the museum mu- mu scum seum will wUl male make It Imperative for fOI forthe the tho museum to have an extension for which application to the city was made a year year ago It was said Robert W. W De Be Forest president of the board of trustees said sald that the thc wilL of Mrs Havemeyer left specifically SPecifically cally to the museum one ninety pieces with the remaining pieces of of the collection to be kept by the family or given to the museum mu- mu scum seum at the decIsion of Horace Clarence II U. U Mackay was eJected a trustee In the place of the late Dashford d Dean I