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2 Paulo Veronese now at 640 5th Ave “Between Virtue + Vice” “Wisdom + Strength” Price $200,000 Payable January 1/1913

14, NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, APRIL 14, 1912., FIRST SECTION. MR. HENRY C. FRICK PURCHASER OF TWO PAULO VERONESES Collector Suddenly Decides to Postpone His Return from London AMERICANS ABOARD THE MAURETANIA Two Hundred First Class Passengers Leave Liverpool on Way to the United States [SPECIAL DESPATCH TO THE HERALD VIA COMMERCIAL CABLE COMPANY’S SYSTEM.] HERALD BUREAU, NO. 130 FLEET STREET, LONDON, SATURDAY. Among the two hundred saloon passengers who left Liverpool for New York aboard the Mauretania to-day were Mr. and Mrs. J. Horace Harding, who have been touring in Egypt with Mr. Henry Clay Frick. Mr. Frick relinquished his berth at the last moment and decided to remain in London for a week. Mr. Harding said Mr. Frick had purchased important pictures, including two examples of Paulo Veronese. Mr. Frank L. Brown, representative of the Panama Exposition at San Francisco in 1915, who had been in England for some time, said he was endeavoring to induce the Cunard company to send the big new steamship Aquitania from Liverpool through the Panama Canal to San Francisco, and the directors were considering the proposal. The British government probably will be officially represented at the exposition. Mr. A. Bertram, who is going to New York to arrange the production of “Oedipus Rex” there by Mr. Martin Harvey, said Mr. Harvey will take over his entire Covent Garden company in September next. Mr. Cherry Kearton, the naturalist and photographic expert, is going to New York in connection with valuable cinematograph films depicting animal and bird life. Mr. H.P. Wallace, of New York, who has been attending fur sales in London, said the prices of furs are very high, but the dealers expect a big drop. Mr. D.C. Reid, New York representative of the English shipbuilding firm of Swan & Hunter, said he had concluded contracts for the construction on the Tyne of two passenger steamships and one cargo steamship for the Canadian service. He found shipbuilding in England in a wonderful condition. Swan & Hunter have contracts for more than thirty steamships, and one splendid four turbine steamship is in course of construction for the Spanish transatlantic service to New York. Other passengers include Mr. George Nixon Black, of Boston; Mr. R. Arbuthnot, chairman of the Central London branch of the Y.M.C.A.; Mr. W. De la Guardia, Mr. Albert Halstead, American Consul General at Birmingham, and Mrs. Halstead; the Venerable T.J. Madden, Archdeacon of Liverpool; the Marques de Olivares, Mrs. John C. Phillips, of Boston, mother of the First Secretary of the American Embassy in London, and Mr. E. Thompson Seton, a friend of Mr. Roosevelt, who is taking over a collection of stuffed British Mammals – not delegates.