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Twenty-five years of the Philadelphia Orchestra, 1900-1925

Chapter 60: Appendix K
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The narrative traces the orchestra's emergence from earlier civic musical traditions through its establishment, early concerts, and formal association, documenting leadership transitions and artistic development. It details financial strains and fundraising strategies, highlighting the role of women's committees and guarantors in securing support and organizing endowment campaigns. Coverage includes wartime performances and civic engagements, programming milestones under successive conductors, and anniversary celebrations marking institutional growth. An appendix compiles administrative records, concert lists, and personnel rosters that supplement the chronological account.

Appendix K

The Women’s Committees for the
Philadelphia Orchestra

1924-1925

(Formed March, 1904)

Miss Frances A. Wister, President
Mrs. Harold Ellis Yarnall, Vice-president
Mrs. Charles W. Henry, Vice-president
Mrs. Charles R. Wood, Recording Secretary
Mrs. William W. Arnett, Corresponding Secretary
Mrs. Alfred Reginald Allen, Treasurer
Miss Frances A. Wister, General Secretary for the Endowment Fund
 
Honorary Vice-presidents
Mrs. Alexander W. Biddle Mrs. Arthur E. Newbold
Mrs. John Cadwalader Mrs. Morris Pfaelzer
Mrs. A. J. Dallas Dixon Miss Anne Thomson
Mrs. George W. C. Drexel Mrs. Wm. Austin Slaughter
Miss Mary K. Gibson Mrs. Edward T. Stotesbury
Mrs. Austin S. Heckscher Mrs. Charlemagne Tower
Mrs. Charles E. Ingersoll Mrs. Alex. Van Rensselaer
Mrs. C. Hartman Kuhn Mrs. J. William White
Mrs. James McCrea Mrs. Charlton Yarnall
Mrs. Thomas McKean  
 
Directors  
Mrs. Thomas G. Ashton Miss Nina Lea
Mrs. Russell Duane Mrs. Joseph Leidy
Miss Gertrude Ely Mrs. Thomas Robins
Mrs. Simon B. Fleisher Mrs. John B. Thayer, 3d
Mrs. Joseph M. Gazzam Mrs. Sydney Thayer
Mrs. Frank T. Griswold Mrs. John B. Townsend
Mrs. Henry S. Jeanes Mrs. George F. Tyler
 
Ex-officio  
Germantown—Countess of Santa Eulalia    
West Philadelphia—Mrs. L. Howard Weatherly
Delaware County—Mrs. Matthew H. Cryer  

Germantown and Chestnut Hill Women’s Committee

(Formed March, 1905)

Countess of Santa Eulalia, President
Mrs. Charles E. Morgan, First Vice-president
Mrs. Henry W. Raymond, Second Vice-president
Mrs. William Jay Turner, Third Vice-president
Miss Rossmässler, Recording Secretary
Mrs. W. Beaumont Whitney, Corresponding Secretary
Mrs. Richard Rossmässler, Treasurer
Miss Frances A. Wister, General Secretary for the Endowment Fund
 
Directors  
Mrs. Franklin Baker, Jr. Mrs. Theron I. Crane
Mrs. Wm. L. Barclay Mrs. Norton Downs, Jr.
Mrs. George C. Bowker Mrs. Wm. W. Frazier, 3d
Mrs. Wm. P. M. Braun Mrs. Frederic Gardiner
Mrs. Henry W. Butterworth Mrs. George Horace Lorimer
Mrs. Charles S. Cheston Mrs. Joseph A. Louchheim
Mrs. J. Hamilton Cheston Mrs. Wm. Price Newhall
Mrs. Edw. W. Clark, 3d Mrs. Edward A. Schumann
Mrs. Morris Llewellyn Cooke  

West Philadelphia Women’s Committee

(Formed April, 1905)

Officers
Mrs. L. Howard Weatherly, President
Mrs. C. Lincoln Furbush, First Vice-president
Mrs. William S. Newcomet, Second Vice-president
Mrs. Alfred H. Peiffer, Recording Secretary
Mrs. Charles L. Mitchell, Corresponding Secretary
Mrs. Samuel S. Fels, Treasurer
Miss Frances A. Wister, General Secretary for the Endowment Fund
 
Directors  
Mrs. Perley Dunn Aldrich Mrs. John S. W. Holton
Miss Marguerite Bement Mrs. Wyllis K. Ingersoll
Mrs. Harold Boericke Miss Amelia Justi
Mrs. John J. Boericke Mrs. John M. Kennedy, Jr.
Mrs. Edward W. Bok Mrs. H. McKnight Moore
Mrs. John F. Braun Mrs. Edward L. Perkins
Miss Mary Burnham Mrs. Frank Read, Jr.
Mrs. Charles Carver Mrs. Harold E. Roberts
Mrs. Lewis R. Dick Mrs. A. M. Starr
Mrs. F. W. Ferguson Mrs. William A. Sullivan
Mrs. G. W. B. Fletcher Mrs. W. Moseley Swain
Mrs. Collin Foulkrod Mrs. Arthur Wilson
Mrs. James Woods Fry Mrs. Camille Zeckwer
Mrs. Herbert T. Herr  

Delaware County Women’s Committee

(Formed May, 1911)

BOARD OF MANAGERS

Officers
Mrs. Matthew H. Cryer, President
Mrs. Samuel S. Burgin, First Vice-president
Mrs. J. S. C. Harvey, Second Vice-president
Mrs. Harry H. Battles, Third Vice-president
Mrs. Henry Volkmar Gummere, Secretary
Miss Beulah C. Garretson, Treasurer
 
Directors  
Mrs. Frank Aydelotte Mrs. S. Leonard Kent, Jr.
Mrs. J. Claude Bedford Mrs. Gibson McIlvaine
Mrs. William H. Biester Mrs. Robert L. McLean
Mrs. Samuel Dyer Clyde Mrs. John A. Miller
Mrs. Morton P. Dickeson Mrs. T. Haldean Moore
Mrs. William Easby Mrs. Charles Musser
Mrs. Albert Fox Mrs. George Bispham Page
Mrs. Harold C. Goddard Mrs. A. A. Parker
Mrs. Edward F. Hitchcock    Miss Edith Peters
Mrs. Benjamin R. Hoffman Mrs. Richard Peters, Jr.
Mrs. Edward K. Innes Mrs. J. Frederick Petry
Mrs. Robert F. Irwin Mrs. J. Lord Rigby
Mrs. Willis D. Jameson Mrs. John David Shattuck
Mrs. E. R. Keller Mrs. Channing Way
Mrs. N. B. Kelly Mrs. Henry M. Wirz

COMMITTEES OUT-OF-TOWN

The Delaware Committee (1907-1508)

(Wilmington)
for
The Philadelphia Orchestra

Formed May, 1905

Mrs. Lewis C. Vandegrift, President
Mrs. Joseph Swift, Vice-president
Mrs. William Betts, Secretary
Miss Annie T. Flinn, Treasurer
Mrs. Otho Nowland, Chairman Guarantee Fund
Mrs. Ellwood C. Jackson, Chairman Auxiliary Committee
Mrs. A. H. Berlin, Chairman Press Committee
 
Mrs. John Bancroft Mrs. Alfred R. Jones
Mrs. John B. Bird Mrs. A. E. Kruse
Miss Martha Bradfield Miss Kurtz
Mrs. Daniel M. Bates Miss Lore
Mrs. T. Leslie Carpenter Mrs. D. J. Reinhardt
Mrs. Allan J. Colby Mrs. J. E. Smith
Mrs. W. F. Curtis Mrs. Harry J. Stoeckle
Mrs. William K. du Pont Mrs. Calvin Swayne
Mrs. Harlan Gause Mrs. William F. Sellers
Mrs Charles E. Griffith Mrs. Henry B. Thompson
Mrs. Norman Huxley Mrs. James P. Winchester

The Washington Committee (1907-1908)

for
The Philadelphia Orchestra

Formed May, 1906

Miss Aileen Bell, Acting Chairman

(The names of a large Committee and a
list of Patronesses are unavailable.)

The Baltimore Committee (1907-1908)

for The Philadelphia Orchestra

Formed May, 1906

Lawrason Riggs, Esq., President
His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons
His Excellency Governor Edwin Warfield
Right Reverend Bishop William Paret, D.D.
Vice-presidents
 
Hon. Charles J. Bonaparte Mrs. Bernard N. Baker
Bernard N. Baker, Esq. Mrs. Charles J. Bonaparte
Frank Frick, Esq. Mrs. David L. Bartlett
J. Swan Frick, Esq. Mrs. William Ellicott
Gaun M. Hutton, Esq. Mrs. T. Harrison Garrett
Dr. Henry Barton Jacobs Mrs. John Gill
Signor Pietro Minetti Mrs. Gaun M. Hutton
Philip Ogden, Esq. Mrs. Henry Barton Jacobs
Wilson Patterson, Esq. Mrs. Howard Munnikhuysen
Dr. Thomas L. Shearer Mrs. William Paret
R. Manson Smith, Esq. Mrs. Wilson Patterson
John Marshall Thomas, Esq.   Mrs. Nelson Perin
Edwin L. Turnbull, Esq. Mrs. R. Manson Smith
Jere H. Wheelwright, Esq. Mrs. James Madison Thompson
J. B. Noel Wyatt, Esq. Mrs. Edwin Warfield
  Mrs. Jere Wheelwright
Miss Shearer, Chairman
 
Honorary Managers Active Managers
Mrs. W. S. Belding Miss Bloodgood
Mrs. John S. Berry Miss Bessie Campbell Clark
Miss Octavia Bates Mrs. Isaac Dixon
Mrs. Frederick M. Colston Mrs. J. Hamsley Johnson
Mrs. J. S. Ellard Mrs. Ernest Knabe
Mrs. Charles M. Franklin Miss Lurman
Mrs. Richard Griffith Mrs. Edward H. McKeon
Mrs. Paul Haupt Mrs. S. C. Rowland
Mrs. David Hutzler Mrs. Sigmund Sonneborn
Mrs. Grier Hersh Mrs. Oscar A. Turner
Mrs. Charles Keidel Mrs. Clarence Watson
Mrs. C. Manigault Morris Mrs. Robert W. Wood
Miss Mary L. Parker Mrs. George L. Zell
Mrs. Frederick B. Stieff Frederick M. Colston, Esq.
Mrs. William S. Thayer Charles E. Dohme, Esq.
Mrs. Sidney Turner Frederick H. Gottlieb, Esq.
Rev. F. Ward Denys Dr. John Hemmeter
Miles Farrow, Esq. Rev. Oliver Huckel
Dr. Charles M. Franklin Ernest Jenkins, Esq.
Edwin Frank, Esq. Robert Oliver Lehr, Esq.
Maurice Gregg, Esq. Theodore Marburg, Esq.
Dr. B. Merrill Hopkinson Rev. John Timothy Stone
Edwin Schenck, Esq.  
Charles Weber, Jr., Esq.  

The Women’s Committee for the Philadelphia Orchestra
invites you to be present at a meeting in the interest of
The Philadelphia Orchestra
to be held at the
Arundell Club
1000 North Charles Street, Baltimore,
on
Thursday afternoon, December fourteenth (1905)
at half after three o’clock

Under the patronage of

  • Mrs. Josiah Law Blackwell
  • Mrs. Alexander Brown
  • Mrs. George Dallas Dixon
  • Mrs. S. Naudain Duer
  • Mrs. William M. Ellicott
  • Mrs. George T. Gibson
  • Mrs. Daniel C. Gilman
  • Mrs. John P. Poe
  • Mrs. Harold Randolph
  • Miss Mary Butler Shearer
  • Mrs. W. Plunkett Stewart
  • Mrs. Jesse Tyson
  • Mrs. George L. Zell

Music by
Mrs. Thomas S. Kirkbride, Jr., Pianist
and
Mr. John Witzemann, Violinist
and Mr. Alfred Saal, Violoncellist
Members of the Philadelphia Orchestra