The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-06-25
NEW YORK HERALD WEDNESDAY JUNE 2 lss-rR1PLE SHEET

the prompt appearance and urbane attentions OF
partment OF rhetoric and OF the English language
and literature. 1t Is to this gentlemans Kindness
that your correspondent s indebted for having
say, for having explored vassar from top to bot
tom and visited everybody and everything. from
scope in the country is to be found. to the sacred
precincts OF the Kitchen, where strawberry short
commence and what to says vassar is an I'M
mense fabric and you desire something more
than mere mechanical and numerical de.
picturesque idea. But still mechanical and
numerical details you must have-though viii
throw in a picturesque idea or so OF my own you
are perfectly welcome. The main edfce, then. Is
roash the cene Of 200 the
verse wings OF 164 feet. 1t Is built OF dull red
brick, the joints pointed with black mortar. The
wings and centre building are five stories in
height and the connecting portions four stories.
Within the structure are i've independent dwell
students, rooms LOT full staff OF managers and
servants, ample suits OF rooms for Rotations and
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laboratories and cabinets Of natural history; q
walls are Of brick, and are carried up from the
ground to the roof On each door is corridor
providing means for exercise in bad weather. Iron
doors, connected with eight nreproof walls, enable
the corridors to be instantly divided IN case Of
awe awe ifs eRl ssss
nected. Over this stone flooring the iron doors
smoothly glide, so that, should fire occur IN one
portion OF the building that portion can instantly
be isolated. Iron pipes from water tanks on the
top floor pass down through the various floors, 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 fiat irons. The
building Is heated by steam by means q arrange,
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than Ell the price which The Crushed and
co Saus +nousekeepers OF New YORK are are
bottom Of the building are nine stairways two Of
which are ireprooD and eight passages for egress.
Of water, light and heat traverse the building and
not less than G,000 feet OF lightning rods transact
an equally important duty. The laundry was In
III fts wash room he fonhd 4 ave.horse power
steam engine for working the washing machines
the iron pipe which feeds is being 800 feet iii
length The ironing room was the scene OF an ami
able hubbub, the white muslin dresses OF the can
the Gnal finishing touches there. The bakery was
tempting to the last degree. Here fourteen differ.
an oven nine feet by twelve. Mountains Of I'M.
maculate dough here presented themselves to the
astonished eye and your correspondent felt az
though the facts he should have to relate might
seem TO SAVIOR OF Munchausensm. But
the young ladies Of yassar have appetites as
bakery for so well providing for them. Fam would
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 keeping everything for the table warm, ID
eminently Interesting to all entitled TO rank as
gOusnoes, and the silver and china room would set
up crocSery merchant or c16er 9 me m nesae
and contains. an annuncator in connection with
various official rooms. Electromagnetic 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 for meals
for the si!ent hour for study, for recitation LOT
chapel for exercise NC am almost AFRAID a,d OF
but the dining room is simply magnificent and
your correspondents only regret was that the
the young ladies we're at table, and that, even II
1t had been, strict etiquette would not, perhaps,
re- 6ea w s 10 e Saue e
ness OF the accessories and to the cheerlulness
and brightness OF thc.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 Will hold on
a pinch 1,o0o but the pinch must be very tight
At the upper end is pretty little organ standing
in recess with semicircular rows OF seats; also
platform used on commencement occasions, Inc
full and neatly elegant. IL was easy to imagine an
evening scene there:-
Called me- "ay d s e w hs Hh ~e hsi with those
Six hundred maidens clad in purest white,
the anal ri, p Ss court
4 long meo1ious thandey to the sound
OF solemn psalms and silver litanes,
The work of Ida, TO call down from heaven
A blessing on her labors for the world.
You will perceive that your correspondents de-
scription and that or Mr.. Tennyson differ in some
unilportant details such as the size OF the organ
and the GOO maidens clad in purest whites that
the college Interior painted by the poet is only an
ideaized VasSar and l therefore maintain my
right to the quotation.
THE ART GALLERY.
y,;n bo no Art
Gallery Of Vassar. The entrance Is immediately
opposite the gallery of the chapel and the apart
from central dome, which rises forty feet above
the floor; skylight in each wing and windows
along the western front. Among oil paintings Mr..
j. Crawford Thom Is represented by "A western
Hunter" and don Quixotes Attack on the Wind
mls;' W. H. Beard, by "a Lesson for the Lazy - A.
d. rShattucK, by .Sunset at Lancaster, N II. :" T.
l.. smith, by STiconderaga IN Winter;' S. II. Gf-
ford, by Sunrise on the Bernese Alps" +. T..
Church by Summer IN ns south =. America",J w.
also, are to seen William Harris 'Giamis CASTLE"
George Boughton's "Culprit Fay" Diaz's 'Turk.
James Harris Natures Nook" KensettAs ''Berk-
ley Rock at Newport," Taits Birds in the Bushes,
s.Old Elm by the River David Johnson's .Sunsetin
| Italy, with vesper Procession" "Rosyn-Bryants
Residence" and "Sunny side-1rving's uome," by
Shepherd" Sir David Wilkes Group from the
! Village Festival" BENJAMIN West IS seen in
| Evening in the Meadows;' d. Huntington, IN
''The Sibyl;r r. Gignoux, in ''Market Scene in New
| York; J. McEntee, in "Noon in Midsummer" and
| 'The Coming Snow !" Achenbach, in "Flower Girl
at the Church Door" and Mrs. Lily spencer, in one
or two effective little works The water coors are
more numerous and include four by Turner-viz.,
"Berne, Switzerland" "Bacharach on the Rhine y
| '.Pass OF st. Bernard" and ''Sandy knowe and
smaholm Tower" Cattermole, stanncd, Sir
Charles Eastlake, Prout, Copley Fielding, Millais,
| william Hart and David Cox are represented. A
small proportion of the students only lairsuc art,
! none being encouraged save those who evince
a very decided talent for it, Mention
! should also be made OF the bound
foios which contain thousands OF original water
| color sketches pencil drawings and engravings
| from the hands OF some or the most reputable OF
| our modern artists. some OF these drawings were
] found in the possession OF John Britton, John lie
| Keux, the Earrings, John Ruskin and Charlt s
ca,sen and the "Musee Royale,n "Caery of the
| Duke or Orleans" "Gallery OF Vienna" Knights
i ecclesiastical Architecture OF Italy," "Royal CAL
/ lery OF British Art,n Carters ancient Sculpture
| and Painting In EnRlnndM cngraYingS OF Yarious