The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-06-25
NEW YORK HERALD WEDNESDAY JUNE 25 l8-TR1PLE SHEET

the prompt appearance and urbane attentions OF
Professor Truman J, Backus, who controls the de-
| and literature. 1t Is to this gentleman's Kindness
that your correspondent is indebted for having
| say, for having explored vassar from top to bot
| tom and visited everybody and everything, rom
scope in the country is to be found to the sacred
precincts OF the kitchen, where strawberry short
cake was In process OF Manufacture But wnere 20
mense fabric and You desire something more
than mere mechanical and numerical de-
picturesque idea. But stu IL" mechanical cs and
numerical details you must have-though VIII
threw IN picturesque idea or so OF my own you
are perfectly welcome The main ednce, then, Is
through the centre OF 200 feet and at the trans
verse wings OF 1914 feet. 1t Is built OF dull red
wings and centre building are five stories in
height and the connecting portions four stories.
Within the structure are five independent dwell ell
students, rooms Tor full staff OF managers and
servants, ample suits Of rooms for Rotations and
several parlors, public and private, library, an
art gallery, rooms for PHILOSOPHERS! apparatus,
Kitchen. bakery and laundry. All the partition
walls are o. brick, and are carried up rom the
es TO re S sss On rsss each IN door SDs
providing means for exercise in bad weather. Iron
DOORS connected with eight nreproof walls, enable
the corridors to be instantly divided, In case or
fire, into I'VE separate parts. The walls are In pairs
and are ten feet apart, cutting the building into
floor Is stone and brick, that these wassare con-
nected. Over this stone flooring the iron doors
smoothly glide, so that, should q fire occur IN one
portion OF the building that portion can instantly
be isolated. Iron pipes from water tanks on the
top fioor pass down through the various hoors and
to these pipes hose Is always attached. Only two
fires are kept in the college building, one for cook
ing. ana the other for heating nat irons. The
ments made outside the main building, The
college also panuactures IA OWN gas OF less
obliged to pay PAY; From the top to the
when are dreproop and eight passages fSr sgress.
About twenty-six miles OF pipe for the conveyance
OF water light and heat traverse the building, and
not less than 60OO feet OF lightning rods transact
an equally important duty. The laundry was In
{gl! Operation when your correspondent visited II;
steam engine for working the washing machines
and the mange. Beneath the engine was boiler,
the iron pipe which feeds 1t being 800 feet III
length. The ironing room was the scene OF an ami
able hubbub, the white muslin dresses OF the can
didates Tor the baccalaureate degree undergoing
the lna finishing touches there. The bakery was
tempting to the last degree. Here fourteen differ
ent kinds Of bread daily prepared and baked IN
maculate dough here presented themselves to the
astonshed eye and your correspondent felt as
seem to SAVIOR OF MunchausenisIn. But
the young ladies Of vassar have appetites as
well as inteleots, and let US be thankful to the
we have fingered longer in the Kitchen Huge cal
drons of strawberries stood ready for conversion
into shortcake, and the fragrant steam Of cakes
and pastries issued from Cyclopean ovens. The
carving room, with its appropriate steam appa-
ratus Tor keeping everything for the table warm, Is
eminently interesting to all entitled rank as
gOuqTaetS, and the silver and china room would set
up crocSery merchant or cutler me ne mess sGa
and contains. an annunciator In connection with
various official rooms. Electro magnetic bells are
suspended at each end of the corridors, connected
with large battery In the chemical laboratory.
The head messenger presides over an Instrument
by which she controls the notion of all these bells,
and gives the various signals for rising Tor meals,
for the sient hour, for study. Tor recitation. for
losing myself in this labyrinth OF indefinite eulogy.
but the dining room Is Simply magnificent and
your correspondent's only regret. was that the
the young ladies were at table, and that, even II
1t had been, strict etiquette would not, perhaps,
repast To bear witness to the exquisite cleanli-
ness of the accessories and to the cheerlulness
and brightness OF the.vast apartment is required
by simple justice. The chapel IS Immediately over
the dining room, the same in width and about
ninety feet in length, with gallery. 1t VIII hold on
At the upper end is pretty little organ standing
in recess with semicrcular rows OF seats; also
platform used on commencement occasions. The
chapel is cushioned and carpeted is bright, cheer
full and neatly elegant. III easy to imagine an
evening scene there:-
Called ns; We lett the walks; we miSad with those
seora ho sroams isht II wa to VAIL
While the great organ almost s, burst his pipes pes
A long melo1ious thunder to the sound
OF solemn psalms and silver litanes,
blessing on her abors Tor the world.
You will perceive that your correspondents de-
scrption and that OF Mr. Tennyson differ In some
uniuportant details, such as the size OF the organ
and the GOO maidens clad IN purest white; that
the college Interior painted by the poet Is only
ideaized vassar, and | therefore maintain my
right to the quotation
THE ART GALLERY.
Some good pictures are TO be seen in the Art
Gallery OF vassar. The entrance Is imme diately
ment is thirty feet wide and ninetysix long. lighted
from central dome, which rises forty feet above
the noOr; a skylight in each wing and windows
along the western 'front.' Among oil paintings Mr..
J: Crawford fnom is represented by "A western
mills;" w. Fl. Beard by "a Lesson for the Lazy;'A
D. Shattuck, by "Sunset at Lancaster, N. L. !" T.
l.. Smith, by "Ticonderaga III Winter;" s. II. Gif-
ford, by "Sunrse on the Bernese Alps;' f. Z.
Church. by 'Snmmer in South America" J. W.
also, are to seen William Harris ..Giamis Castle"
George Boughton's "Culprit Fay" Diaz's Turk.
ish Interior" Cropsey's Evening at paestgm,"
ley Rock at Newport" Tait's "Brds IN the Bushes,
S. Colmans 'Tuckerman's Ravine," A.. Bellows
Italy, with vesper ProcessiOn;' 'R0slyn-Bryant's
Residence and sunny side-1rving's uome,n by
shepherd ;" Sir David wilkes Group from the
village Festival" BENJAMIN West IS seen in
Mprfn b sS A A t. asorge Hem5
Evening in the Meadows;' D. Huntington. IN
1ne spyl, Ggnouz IN MARKET Scene IN New
"The Coming Snow y Achenbach, in "Flower Girl
at the Church Doors and Mrs, Lily spencer, in one
two effective little works. The water colors are
more numerous and include four by Turner-viz.,
"Berne, Switzerland" "Bacharach, on the Rhine -
"Pass OF st. Bernardo. and "Sandy knowe and
Smaiholm Tower" Cattermole, Stanlcld Sir
Charles Eastlake, Prout Copley Fielding, Miilais,
small proportion OF the students only Iairsue art,
none being encouraged save those who evince
a very decided talent for IL. Mention
should also be made OF the bound
foos which contain thousands or original water
color sketches. pencil drawings and engravlngs
from the hands Oh some OF the most reputable Of
our modern artists. some OF these drawings were
found in the possession OF Jonn Britton John lie
Keux, the Barings, John Rfskin and Charles
Barry. Among the iohos are the "Musee Fran
casen and the "Musee Royae,n Gallery OF the
Duke OF Orleans" GALLERY OF VIENNA Knights
Ecclesiastical Architecture OF Italy" "Royal Gal
a British ArIN Carfer'a sAnclent Sculntnre