Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-12

matter OF opportunities for developing that
talent are due to her Massachusetts father,
who realized that better schooling could be
secured in Boston than in Santiago, and 50
placed his daughter there with his own peo-
pie at quite an early age.
She Is a Natural Artist
Only the first six years of Miss Hayden's
life were spent among the adobe huts and
white stone palaces of Santiago. Spanish
was her first speech and drawing her first
pleasure, which is said to have been almost
from the beginning strong and rich in fancy
and full of the manifestations Of natural
talent.
Physically she follows her mothers
model, and in nature and traits of mind she
is decidedly Latin. If we accept the
authority of Vasari, cautious and circum-
spect writer of the sixteenth century, we
are to believe it undeniably true in art that
it is chiefly from this division of the human
race women of distinction in art have come
In his ''Lives of Most Eminent Painters,
Sculptors and Architects" he devotes q
whole chapter to women, and from this
source, which we must accept as reliable,
we learn that in those days commonly
called clark" there were enough women
personally known to the great writer who
had achieved distinction in these arts to rob
our own enterprising age of much of its as
sumed novelty.
But let us not quarrel with tne service of
Miss Hayden's talent, but rather rejoice
that she has it. and in such remarkable de-
gree. 1t is degree many more might take.
Obviously there is room for women in
architecture, yet l understand there are at
this time but two studying at the Boston
Institute of Technology, conceded the best
equipped school of its kind in the country.
1t was from this school that Miss Hayden
was graduated. She stands alone as the
only woman having taken full course
The Other Prize Winners.
the competition for woman's building, was
"a classmate of Miss Hayden, but had only
taken two years course. She is now prac-
ticing successfully with q well-known Boz
ton firm. Miss Hays who received third
prize for pleasing design has had no espe-
cial training or art education. She is more
inclined to literature, for which she possesses
demonstrated talent.
When Miss Hayden read the announce
ment by Mrs. Palmer, President of the
Board of Lady Managers, of prize for the
best design for woman's building for the
Worlds Fair, she had not yet entered upon
the practice of her profession, but was
teaching drawing in manual training
school at Jamacia Plain: After school
hours was Of course the only time she could
call her own. Yet in the incredibly swift
time CT three weeks she had her plans per-
fected and sent in. After they had been
accepted it was thought necessary that a
few more committee rooms be added, and
proposed that third floor and the novel
feature of roof garden, or open air sitting
room, be included in the plans, there being
none on any one Of the other buildings; also
that the central portion of this roof garden
be inclosed, thereby giving several more
committee rooms in each wing. These changes
being somewhat radical, Chief of Construc-
tion Burnham feared Miss Hayden might
not be able to satisfactorily make them.
He supposed her capable only of pleas
ing design. but that she was not likely to
thoroughly understand construction and
doubted whether Mr. Richard Hunt, Presi-
dent of the Society Of American Archi-
tects, who was first intrusted with the i'm
portant commission Of the Woman's Build
ing, would not have to be appealed to for
such notifications and changes in the origi-
nal plan as were now thought necessary.
She Astonished the Old Professionals
However, Miss Hayden was called to
Chicago April 1 by Chief Burnham and
given a trial at the changes to be made,
upon which she showed such remarkable
talent, facility and originality of thought
that she won the highest praise from Mr..
Hunt, MI. Burnham and all other archi-
tects who noticed what she was doing.
Her ability was noted with all the
more pleasure by these men long in
the profession because she was both young
in the work and young in years, having
been graduated only few months before,
and at the time but % years old.
Upon her call to Chicago, Miss Hayden
OF course resigned her position as teacher,
and it almost goes without saying she is not
likely to keep the future wolf from her
door by resuning her WORK in the school
room. 1t is prophesied she will make her
future home in Chicago, and that her for
tune will come to her faster than she will
be able to accept it
The cost of the woman's building is $780,
600, and on this sum Miss Hayden receives
the usual fee accorded architects, which
alone would enable her to sit down in luxury
and enjoy the laurels won upon this monu-
mental work while waiting tor
work to come. She now occupies
one of series of Offices set
apart for the construction department
Of the Worlds Fair. Her Office is contigu-
GUS to Chief Burnham's. Young men work
by her side with pride rather than jealonay.