The fund at this time reached over fifty thousand dollars a year, mainly subscribed by the directors of our organization. Several of these had been supporters from my father’s time, among them Isaac N. Seligman, who, with his family, had been interested in music in New York for many years. Others had come into the organization when I became its conductor and had remained loyal supporters and close friends from that time on. Among them were: Richard Welling, a director since 1886, a well-known lawyer and reformer in municipal politics, and who as a member of the Naval Reserves promptly enlisted as an ensign when we entered the Great War, although he was then well over fifty years of age; Miss Mary R. Callender and Miss Caroline de Forest who had been directors since 1885. Miss Callender further signalized her affection for the orchestra by leaving fifty thousand dollars to the pension and sick fund after her death in 1919. The complete list of the subscribers to the fund at the time was as follows: Mrs. H. A. Alexander Mme. Nordica Mr. C. B. Alexander Mr. Stephen S. Palmer Miss Kora F. Barnes Mrs. Trenor L. Park Mrs. William H. Bliss Mr. Amos Pinchot Miss Mary R. Callender Mrs. Joseph Pulitzer Mr. Robert J. Collier Mr. Thomas F. Ryan Mrs. Paul D. Cravath Mr. Charles E. Sampson Mr. Paul D. Cravath Mr. Samuel S. Sanford Miss Caroline de Forest Mr. R. E. Schirmer Mr. Charles H. Ditson Mr. Henry Seligman Mrs. S. Edgar Mrs. Henry Seligman Miss A. C. Flagler Mr. Isaac N. Seligman Mr. Harry Harkness Flagler Mr. Jefferson Seligman Mr. Edward S. Flagler Mrs. Jesse Seligman Mrs. Frances Hellman Mr. Frank H. Simmons Mr. Otto H. Kahn Miss Clara B. Spence Mr. A. W. Krech Mrs. F. T. Van Beuren Mrs. Daniel Lamont Mr. Richard Welling Mr. Albert Lewisohn Mrs. J. A. Zimmerman Mr. Frank A. Munsey Mr. Paul Warburg Mr. Emerson McMillin