, 1875-09-19
Sunday AND TIE ART-GALLERY.

It is unfortunate TINT the Executive Com
| mittee Of the Exposition failed to secure {
quorum at their meeting Of Friday, for this
postponed for q whole week any action on
the offer of the Directors OF the Sunday Lee
ture Society to take charge of the Exposition
At-Gallery on Sundny afternoons, provide
all necessary safeguards, pay all the expenses,
and divide the profits, if any are made, equal
" between the Exposition and the Sunday
Lecture Society. The delay to act is doubly
unfortunate, innsnuch as there now remain
only three Sundays before the closing day Of
the Exposition. If nothing is done before next
Friday, even if the Executive Committee then
decides to open the gallery on the only day
when the majority of the working classes can
visit it, it will bo difficult to get
the news before the public in time to insure
q good attendance on the next Sunday, Sept
26. is it not matter Of sufficient import
once to have q special meeting Of the Exec
utive Committee called to consider it? We
understand that the Directors OF the Sunday
Lecture Society would prefer to have the Ex-
position managers open the Art-Gallory on
yearn for the unpaid task they have proposed
to undertake, but they would prefer to benr
this burden rather than have the doors Of
the gallery inhospitably shnt to the masses
OF the industrial classes on the afternoons Of
the first day Of the week
II the Exposition managers are unwilling
to take the extra work upon themselves, but
accept the offer Of the Directors Of the Sun
day-Lecture Society, we are informed that
the latter will construct fenced passage,
running from the Adams street entrance Of
the main building and dividing it into two
forks to the two doors Of the gallery. AppI-
cation will ba made to the city authorities for
the services of sufficient force Of police
men, to be stationed On the outside
Of the passage, aud instructed to
keep the crowd moving to and from
the gallery. Their presence will prevent my
confusion and any attempt to visit other
parts of the Exposition Within the gallery,
competent custodians will be provided. If
the crowd is large,-as it doubtless will be-
n hint will be taken from the management Of
foreign galleries on holiday occasions. A
certain line Of march will be marked ont, 60
that each visitor will see all six rooms, and
will then ind himself at the door Of exit.
This is the plan pursued at Dresden, Rome,
Florence, and other cities, and it works to
charm. An added precaution can be taken
By stopping the sale of tickets II there seems
to be danger Of overcrowding the rooms.
The plan here sketched Gun be perfectly
well carried into effect by the Exposition
They Will find that SO per cent
of the Sunday spectators will be ready to act
as amateur policemen, should any occasion
arise, and the few improper characters who
may mingle with the .rowd will appreciate
this fact and bo kept quiet by it. The ex-
psrience Of the Sunday-Lecture Society has
shown that Sunday afternoon crowd
gathered for the purpose of innocent and re-
fined enjoyment is q model assemblago.
The Executive Committee Of the Exposition
owe it to the people of Chicago to open the
Art~Gallery on the first day in the week.
They are considerably indebted to the people
in other respects, and the discharge Of this
particular obligation would be graceful and
a just act. If they fenr the work or the ex-
pense involved, the Directors of the Sunday
Lecture Society are ready to relieve them of
both.