The Literary echo, and Pawcatuck advertiser. [volume] (Westerly, R.I.) 1851-1854, 1853-02-24
Che Citcrarp Grbc,
PawSaGuok Advertiser.
westerly. February "a, 1853.
New Public Hall.


uncomfortable audiences attending Mr.. q
Coughs lectures of Saturday and Sun
day evenings, in the Union Meeting
House, we would ask if the necessity of |
a public Hall in this place is not palpa-
ble to every one Echo answers-and
SO, We presume, do all others-to every
one And especially those who were
so fortunate as to obtain foothold in
the building; for such was the crowded
state of the house that it was not only
uncomfortable, but it was seriously detri-
mental to health. " 'Tis strange, it's
passing strange" that an intelligent
community like that of this village will
submit to the process of being packed
as close as the ingenuity Of man can do
it, and then breathe-not only carbonic
acid gas, but--the disease thrown from
the lungs of others, when they might
Just as we'll breathe the pure air of
heaven. As we said last week, the
Union House did very we'll for the village
when the number of inhabitants was
e small but it is disgrace to an enter
prising place like this to ask man to
!. ;, attempt to deliver lecture in so i'll
IT fitted room as that is, for large
s. audience. 1t is not only too small, but
le it is inconvenient and unhealthy, having
&c no proper ventillation-being built on
aS ,S the old fashioned style of building houses
h Of worship 1t will not seat comfortably
e, more than FIVE hundred people. and,
id judging from the number of tickets sold,
J. there could not have been less than
a about six hundred and fifty persons in
ID the house on Sunday evening. And
it, what was the consequence Why,
IT, those who gained admission were very
% uncomfortable, some two or three ladies
tainted, and large number went away
from the house disappointed because
they were unable to obtain an entrance
ing and it must have been most laborious t
,au ~ the speaker. 1t was very much like al
urt experiment recently performed il
* Chicago, to ascertain the amount o
rs. oxygen necessary to support life, where
're six hundred persons were placed in
n0 ;n hall of one of the hotels, all avenues o
ventilation closed, and the experimen
commenced. During the first half hou
nothing especial could be observed ex
:, cept sort of drowsiness, which wa
or or warded off by an ingenious device of al
raj eloquent lecture. During the secon
un- half hour some tainted, others felt a
ity- the time as if they should do so the ne'
'un' moment. At the end of the third ha
hour the speaker was nearly exhaustc
and the listeners would have been S
;. had not the lecture been deeply intel
-. esting.
s"!- And as to the idea Of using the hous
noh Cor concert room, it is entirely out {
hat the question, for no frst-class troupe {
orc- singers or musicians would be willin
no to mar their reputation ty attemptin
eel, to make music in a house SO poor
N Of adapted to the purpose as is the UniC
!, by Meeting House, to say nothing OF its II
from capacity to hold remunerativc nun
'rgss Der and, consequently, all such pa
h h;oh h US by, and we, therefore, are fain to P
: we up with second or third rate concert
if indeed we have any; while it
For, morally impossible to exhibit pa
Of in oramic or dioramic pai-ting with al
the degree Of satisfaction either to the e
unts bibitor or to the audience.
40 is We sincerely hope that the project
49, - which We spoke last weck-that of ra
cv of ing the roof Of Babcock & Moss bio
up. Of buildings, and adding another story
been will not pseve to be mere intangit
nuch nue., rumor but that it will be done. 1t
not only make lecture and conc,
COM room which would be an honor to I
duct, place and pleasing to the citizens, |
power without the least doubt highly benefc
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