CHARLES LEE TRACY.

Piano Teacher Was on Faculty of University of Vermont.

Charles Lee Tracy, pianist and piano teacher, reputed to have been the first tenant of the Carnegie Hall studios, occupying since 1892 one especially designed for him, died of heart disease yesterday morning at the home of his nephew, Dr. Martin C. Tracy, a dentist, at 770 Fifth Avenue, in his sixty-ninth year. He had been ill for two weeks.

Mr. Tracy, an early exponent of the pedagogical principles of Theodor Leschetizky of Vienna, was born in Shelburne, Vt., on Jan. 2, 1865, the son of Lee Tracy and Adeline Peckham Tracy.

For many years Mr. Tracy headed the music department of Rye Seminary and the music department of the Comstock School for Girls in this city. In recent years and until his death he held the rank of Professor of Music at the University of Vermont.