The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1880-12-04
PARDEE HALL.
A GIEAT DAY AT FASTON, PA
PRESIDED Hayes ard other Distinguished Govern
m" officials Witness the Dedication at
Lafayette College Description
of the New Building.

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of everybody here. Pardee Hall, l.afay-
cite College, was dedicated. The structure
has risen from its ashes-a magnificent evil
iencc OF the tact, energy and libera!ity OF
our residents and their SympathiZers. To
them is due the means which enabled the
insured to have money enough invested to
realize handsomely on the policies, on the
proceeds of which the new college was
} erected.
Among those present We're President
Hayes and son, Secretary Ramsey, General
Sherman. PostmasterGeneral Maynard and
son, Third Assistant Postmaster Hazen,
Assistant Superintendent of the Mail Ser
] vice Jameson, Gen. tadwalader, of Phila-
( delpliia, President of the Board of Trustees:
President Gilman, of Johns Hopkins Uni
versity; Governors Hoyt and McClennan,
and Senators Randolph and Cameron. As
the Presidential party passed the College
/ Hill the children of the public schools gave
them Il reception in the auditorium of Par
dee Hall from to . L. NJ. Thomas Dick
son, President of the Delaware and Hudson
Canal Company, accompanied by Il large
number Of persons from Scranton, arrived
in Mr. Dickson's car last evening
People who knew the main building as it
was would hardly recognize it now, with
its ancient hip roof gone and the modern
Mansard in its place, and the spacious IL
brary building on one side and the tasteful
chapel on the other. The library building
I'LL l.,
tains many thousand volumes, which are
placed at the disposal of the students and
faithfully used by them. Among its trea-
SureS is a collection of pictures OF General
, Lafayette from great variety of sources.
DIR. Catteil collected many of these pictures
in his travels through Europe. At the
head of Il wide stairway leading to the gal
lery is Healy' copy of AIRY Shelters famous
full length portrait of Lafayette. This was
presented by DIR. Thomas W. Evans, of
/ Paris, formerly of Philadelphia.
/ The new chapel is i'll happy contrast to
/ the cherries room formerly used for reli-
! sious exercises. 1t has stained glass win
dows, tinted walls, solid black walnut fit
tings and furniture. over this cheerful
place are the botanical laboratories and the
natural history museum. \ tower, with Il
graceful spire, contains IA clock which was
presented by one of the graduating classes,
and this clock gives the time to all the hill.
Near by is jerks Hall. 1t is Il substantial
building, of blue limestone, and originally
fitted up for the chemical department. but
now devoted to physics and engineering.
The Astronomical Observatory is in similar
style of architecture, and was given by DR..
Trail Green. A tower and two transit
rooms, with lecture room, and II good
equipment of astronomical apparatus afford
ample opportunity for the study of the
heavenly bodies.
The erection and furnishing of all these
buildings required large OUTLAWS, for which
Mr. Pardee and other friends OF the college
provided with liberal hands. Mr.. Pardees
original gift of 5000 has been increased
tentold. Not satisfied with having given
$500, 900, he proceeded TO do something bet
ter and larger. y building must be erected
with the most complete provisions for every
thing pertaining to Il scientific course. 1t
would cost, with its equipment, 100000.
The building was planned and erected, and
Mr.. Pardee's liberality paid the bills, max
ing his total donations about half a million
dollars. The building was begun in 1871,
finished in 1873, and, as already known,
destroyed by fire in June, 1879.
The exercises to-day consisted of speeches
by various eminent statesmen, clergymen,
and representative men in almost every pro-
feS$ion. There was an immense crowd.
This evening there will be an illumination
of the college buildings and 4 brilliant dis
play Of fireworks. Prof. +. A. March de
livered the principal address.
THE NEW HALL.
In its exterior, the New Hall gives no
hint of improvement or change, and this
for the best of reasons: it was felt that no
Improvement could be made upon the orig-
nal designs of the distinguished architect,
Mr.. John Macarthur, Of Philadelphia; but
the removal Of the Chemical Department
to jerks Ilall-the large building originally
constructed for its use-and the suggestions
of experience in the Use of the building the
last six wears, have given rise to important
changes in the interior; i'll fact, with the
exception OF the Grand Auditorium, there
is an almost entire change in the construc-
ton and arrangement of the interior and in
the uses to which the vast space has been
newly appropriated.
1t will be remembered that the orr Sinal
e,litce consisted of one center building five
stories in height, tttythree feet front and
eighty-three feet deep: and two lateral wings,
one on each side Of the center building,
measuring siXty-oue feet in length and thir-
ty-one in width, four stories high, includ-
ing Il ManSarl roof, the whole terminating
in two transverse wings, each forty-two feet
front and eighty-four feet deep, and four
stories in height. The entire length of front,
in :: straight line, was two hundred and
fttv-siX feet. The material was the Tren-
ton brown stone, with light ohio trimmings.
An ample corridor ran through the entir"
building from east to west, intersected by
another passing through the center build
ing from north to south. All of this de-
scrption applies of course to the present
! editice.
CENTER BUILDINGS
The Mathematical room of the students in
| Civil Engineering, the Hall of the Natural
! History Society, are the rooms on the first
/ floor of the center building. The Audito-
rum occupies, a> before, the entire second
| and third stories. The dimensions and gen
eral construction Of this splendid room are
identical with those in the old Hall, except
that the pewS III the former are replaced by
cushioned chairs with movable seats, large
/ ly increasing the seating capacity of the
/ Hall, and the freScOlng Is finished in the
! modern rrH"'SsdHr" stucco bronze, and llll
minated colors. Those who remember the
| fine effect of the old Auditorium will not be
disappointed in the new. Directly over the
! Auditorium, occupying the fourth and fifth
! stories, is the large Hall for the collections
/ in Geology, Paleontology, etc. To sustain
/ the immense wei ght of the specimens in
this department the floor is supported by
| heavy iron trusseS resting on walls of great
thickness. For the present, however, this
room will be fitted up and used rs 4 Gym
naSium. 1t is admirably suited for this
| purpose but the friends of the college are
/ hoping that some muniticent donor will
/ provide the means for the erection of Il sepa-
! rate building and release this room for the
large and important collections of the Col
/ lege which cannot be displayed to adyant-
/ age in other quarters.
WEST Lateral. WING.
[ The first floor is devoted to the collections
in Natural History. The room Oh the sec
ond floor, formerly occupied by the mineral
/ ngical collections, contains the College Ii
( brarv The third floor is assigned as the
/ Hall of the Washington Literary Society
( ana the fourth as the DRAWN. room OF the
/ Mining Engineers
WEST TRANSVERSE WING.
The Natural History class room occupies
the entire portion of the first floor north of
| the corridor. The south portion is appro-
priated TO the Botanical Laboratory, the