Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1870-01-14

WILLIAMS HALLE is with pleas
ure that we are able to note the com
pletion of this beautiful hall. It was
opened last night with an entertain
ment given by the st. Paul's Sabbath
School.
The audience room is 81 feet square; !;
height of ceiling, p feet stage, 23 by
80 feet; dressing rooms, 16 feet square.
The hall is at present provided with
six hundred and sixty-fve seats-oak-
ed chairs, corresponding with the
grained work in the room. But this
is not, by any means, to be taken as
the full capacity of the hall. The su-
perintendent of the building informs
US that the hall is expected to seat one
thousand persons quite comfortably
1t is now heated by stoves, but these
VIII be removed in short time, when
the hall will be heated by a furnace,
thus giving considerable more space
for seats. 1t is very well lighted, there
being fourteen windows in the main
room, with eighteen panes of glass
each. This of course will also secure
good ventilation. The arrangements
for gas-light are equally first-cIass.-
There is a center chandelier, with
twelve burners four smaller chan
deliers, with three burners each; eight
foot-Iights, and two burners on each
side of stage. These will afford a very
beautiful and brilliant light. The
''foot-lights'' are under the control of a
lever which can prevent them being
seen when not needed.
The stage can be reached from either
side by steps from the audience room,
as also from the two dressing rooms,
which are very commodious and pleas
ant. The stage is provided with the
necessary fixtures of curtains, 'sflats, .
etc, which are very useful in certain
kinds of entertainments. The fresco-
ing about the stage represents a parIor
scene. Another admirable arrange
ment is the facility afforded to per-
formers to reach the dressing rooms
without going through the audience
room, by a stairway leading into the
north dressing room from the east end
of the building.
We have especial cOmmendation for
| the commodious and convenient stair
way leading to the main room It is
six feet wide, and the steps in first
rate proportion. There are two doors
at the bottom of the stairway, the in
| side one of which is after the sspush OF
pull" style, as is also the one above
leading into the hall.
But what makes Williams Hall 6
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to, and that is the freseoing. This, az
is generally known, was done by
the same gentlemen who frescoed
the Court Room, and the reputation
they there gained as slxillful workmer
has not been lost in this second exhi
bition of their ability as artists in this
line. We shall not attempt to describe
the beauties of the frescoine. ssPer
feetly splendid" does not even do the
subject full Justice, and we leave it t.
our lady friends if we could say more
It certainly gives the hall very hand
some appearance, and everybod,
seems perfectly ''taken in" with it,
manifest beauty. Among the Iarg
number of visitors who are daily fount
admirtng it, there are none who hav
not been loud in their praises of tn
beauty OF the frescoing and the gen
eral convenience of the hall.
We therefore congratulate Mr.. VIII
liams and the people of Delaware upol
, the final completion of this hall; an,
as the proprietor has been at the ex
Pense of providing such a beautiful
; room for the accommodation of tn
:, public, we are quite sure they will d
!. thelr part in patrOnizing it.
:. Mr.. Packard, under whose directiol
= the building was constructed, ha
. leased the hall for a short time.