New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-10-02


four reservoirs are placed The roof each containing
from !, 500 to 1000 gallons of water and connected
with them appliances Gdmi ing Of the flooding Of the
house in any emergency.
The building was comm need n May, 1853, and,
considering the vast amount Of work, has been COM
pleted with audable dispatch The cost of the lot is
stated at eco co., the balding ct $4,000, making in
bl s335,000.
Such a sum as this ought 70 have afforded house
capable Of holding the numbers which this processes
60 do besides the necessary music rooms for an
academy where troops Of Students could be accom-
tnodaed with the locality due their practice individual
and collectively. Thus seems tina, not only were
sbe REQUIRE ments Of the Theater impossible on such
Email lot, but the claims OF the Academy in connec-
lion with il az 10 practicing rooms, musical library,
declamatory halle, and other means Of instruction,
have been ooDtemptuously ignored.
As We have 80 condemned the shape OF this house,
Il is due TO the reader TO explain scientifically wha,
ought TO be its form. We do 80 not for the purpose
Of provoking discussion, bat to state law. The
,roner sbape for the auditorium Of q theater is the
reooment of circle with lateral dyergences. BY
This means the greatest opera house, with as many
chairs as the academy in question, admits of every
person in every tier having at least full view Of a
from foot-ghtsthat is to say the worst seat in the
house is equal to this Such plan was proposed for
an opera house Of this capacity in this City thirteen
years ago; and all the improvement which have
taken place in our theaors regards ghl and COM
sort have been tince borrowed from 1.-THE defects Of
abe new Academy forming an exception.
Afew words in conclusion. Neither he Boston Opera
House nor the New-York Opera House are what
they should be. Philadelphia is about to build an
opera house-s2OO, 900 having been actually
and paid TO- and grand site secured actually bought
in capacity equal to all exgencies being 200 or $50
feet or about twice the area Of Academy in Four
ieep,hst and aifordng ample space for the require
nents Of the largest popular theater, as vel as the
necessities of a musical college. Let the Phil
adelpbaps profit by the Of the two other cities
and make their house what ii ought TO be- If they d.
not the art which the institution proposes 10 sub
servo may be indefinitely retarded. With such q
width and depth lot they have it will be nexcusa.
bic il they do not sufficient of the first 10 give the
proper form TO the auditorium and sufficient OF the
second TO give ample depth to the stage; asd at the
Same time build many rooms for the pupils Of the
academy proper. They will otherwise have a house
400 small to be sustained at low rates Of admission
and they will ignore the means by which music can
be compassed without resort TO the trouble and IN
certainty of going TO Europe for artists aud paying
them an ordinarily coed years salary for opening
their mouths for single evening, AMI thus bankrupt
ing the opera periodically. IA it is, Mr.. Hacke will
have TO- and will, charge three dollas for each box
seat. That sum will be paid while the present Oper
ATTIC excitement lasts. But it must leave a certain
exhaustion for future operate enterprise and me an
while will exclude the mass Of hearers, unless they
choose to go TO the amphitheatcr for fifty cents.
Few persons anticipate any innovation. The idea
immaterialized is either the subject Of neglect or
scorn. They cannot comprehend the sprit-the
great abstract-the ideal. Hence the mean slow ap.
proaches TO perfection even where capital is abund-
ant and tale Mt and labor sufficient to carry it out
groatpan achieved and people wonder why it not
done before, though while in progress they would
suffer or offer any impedment to its success. The
world will regard the intellectual artistic defeats
connected with the Academy of Music in this City
and that Of Boston inherent in the nature Of per
ATTIC difficulties, without examining into the fact that
triumph comes from laws and not from accident
They have yot TO learn that abnegatOn OF the
Necessary economy, scope and grandeur Of any such
Enterprise is no reason for want of success when
were all the known means employed to secure the
end desired, the object would inevitably be COM
psssed