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Show violins i:j gam vaults' Maker Says 20 Instruments Will Ee Worth $3,C00 Each in Future. In the vaults of the Mc.-. untile i Trust and Deposit company, where thousands of dollars' worth of securities securi-ties luitl other valuables have been placed for safe keeping, twenty or more violins of all descriptions have been packed carefully away by their owner in tho hi pe that some day they will make him independently rich, a Baltimore dispatch to the Philadelphia Record Mates. The owner is Frank Delia Torre of 1G2!i North Calvert street, prominent in society. The instruments do not represent much value now, but 20 years hence the owner says, there isn't an instrument among them that will bring less than $1,000 or $5,000. Delia Torre now is in England. Abou: eight months ago he was called to Europe on business, and has been there ever since. But for months before be-fore he sailed he occupied his time in collecting all kinds ot violins and remaking re-making them. In this sort of work he is remarkably skillful. But it is the ' old violin that produces the tone which appeals to the trained ear of the musician and commands high prices. Twenty years hence, it is believed, be-lieved, violins of Delia Torre will be classed with the best instruments to be found in America. |