The dedication of the first section of the museum of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences took place this afternoon with an impressive ceremony. At 3 o'clock the exercises began in the American gallery of the institute building on Eastern parkway. This large and handsome room will be the sculpture gallery when the magnificent home of the institute has been finished, but at present the walls are hung with the portraits of famous Americans.
We meet today, not indeed to celebrate the completion of the museum, or even of a considerable part of the whole, but to publicly note the fact, sufficiently momentous in itself, of the completion of the first section of our building - now, as you see, in the actual exercise of its functions as a museum - and to dedicate it to the cause of that popular education and elevating popular enjoyment which it is meant to serve.
Because of the aid his name, prestige, Protestantism and non-Tammany background will bring to Alfred E. Smith's candidacy for president, Franklin D. Roosevelt was nominated for governor on the Democratic ticket at noon today. The nomination was unanimous and viva voce.
In announcing that he would like to be nominated for the Senate, Mayor Walker, down in Washington, declared that he was 'through' being Mayor. A lot of people wonder when he ever started. He hasn't been in town long enough since his election to give the job a fair trial.
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