ALTSCHULER, MODEST

(1873) a liev, Ru ia. He graduated from the Warsaw Conservatory in 1886 and later studied in the Imperial Conservatory in Moscow. After serving a year in the Ru ian Army, he came to the United States, in 1896. Here he later organized the famous Ru ian Symphony Orchestra with which, as its leader, he toured the ’ country. Of recent years he has been a conductor of popular concerts in New York City. potash alum, is a colorle salt crystallizing in octahedra, used as a mordant in dyeing and in medicine as an astringent and styptic. The term is also applied to salts in which pota ium may be replaced by any of the other alkali metals or ammonium, and aluminum by ferric iron or chromium. The most important minerals from which a. is obtained are