Show Oriental Rug of Vast Value r Go to J Museum seum ST ST. LOUIS United Press Two Press Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars worth of Oriental rugs th the fruit of 25 year of it adventuring in the corr cor cor- r places ner-places of ot the world will enter the St Louis art museum this fall fallis is tho gift of Tames James F. F Ballard Aged ged e Explaining h his s gift Ballard said he he- wanted to do 10 something for his home town He recently i gave an another another another other collection at t to the Metropolitan m museum seum of New Newyork York City The St St. Louis collection n is composed composed com- com posed aed of or 70 rugS rugS' from nearly every natio nation natio o of of the Orient OrIent The Tho dates ran range rane e from the tho tho fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries The torY story of the the aged collectors collector's quest foi fo for the rare i Is tilled filled with stra strange lg eastern astern names and incidents of danger and Adventure ture Twenty-five Twenty years rears ago go Ballard Ballar p passing a a. New York shop window w was was attracted by the bright color Ing lag of some rugs that hung on display dis dISplay dIS- dIS play From that time till illness forced him hinto to retire a short time ago rug collecting has has' his been een his hobby It has led him on ona a trail trall miles mil es long three times es around the world and into 42 different countries countries coun coun- tries trips On On one occasion he was held pr prisoner so by the by-the y the Greeks Jn n the te city of Smyrna Asia Minor and was re released released released re- re leased just before the city was s atta attacked attacked at at- ta tacked l d and and andt burned by the Turks In one one of the tha greatest disasters of or the century J I I traveled miles mUes to get this sixteenth-century sixteenth Persian Indo-Persian Is Is- Is Ballard said I I learned there w were re two o of tn them m in Delhi India but but- when I found them they were in n tatters At last in in Bombay a wealthy see Pin invited me to dinner at his home After the the- meal he hc brought out before me the just the rug I wanted I bought it it This rug is only fourteen by eight and antI one half halt feet but is distinguIshed distinguished distin distin- by the rich red of an ancient an an- lost dye dye of of India Included in tl the St St. Louis collection is Is a P Persian tent made mado ot of Genoese velvet It was made nade for forthe forthe forthe the Persian emperor m eror Fatima AH AU Pasha Pashia It served as an audience tent for six of the kings Icings of ot Persia until th the present Pr Persian i n government government govern govern- govern govern- m ment t gave gaie it to a British Arm Army of officer aff- aff f i for tor a rendered render il to Persia Ballard bought it H In England He Intends gift to be only the tIle nucleus of a a. still greater collection at the museum here e |