The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-06-19
THEY LIKE TO SEE PICTURES.
NO OBJECTION IN DELhNCET STREET
40 SUNDAY OPENING.

Though II Wa. Hotter In-ide the Un,ver-
| rity Settlement ssociety'r Buiidinr Than on
| the Sidewalk, the Rooms Were Crowded
| Yesterday with East Side Amateurs.
| Down on Delaney street, just of tho Bowery.
| where on hot summer nights the tenement
| dwellcra and the small storekeepers. the small
| boys and the babies. block up the sidewalk
| and line the curb, glad to get out OF doors for
| a breath OF scanty breozc. there was last night
| an unusual spectacle for this heated time Of
| year. In threo-story twenty-nve-foot front
building at ~. where hundreds OF gas Jets
| Nere glowing with fervent heat under low
old-iashioned ceiling several hundred people
| were crowded at - o'clock. and the crowd still
kept coming in steadily. apparently Indifferent
to the sizzling atmosphere.
There was great attraction within. 1t was
tho first fine art exhibition that the toilers OF
| tho tenements hal had n chance to see In
Delaney street on Sunday, or any othor day
for that matter. 1t was the first Sunday show
OF the Loan Exhibition OF tho University Set
Element Society. and, what's more. 1t was FREQ.
1t wac tho socety's second experiment in try
ing to popularize art In the tenem emit uurters.
and the attendance proved that it was u hit.
1t was ns IL a section OF tho Metropolitan
Museum had been moved down town for the
entertainment OF Delaney street Five assem-
bly, rooms Ia the settlement House were taken
up with the display OF the pictures lent. They
included art paintings. etchngs. water colors.
sketches In black and white. and large photo
graphs OF works Of the old masters. The pic
lures are all lent BY their owners. They are
hung against dark background and are
lighted by shaded gas Jets.
The Sunday crowd YESTERDAY began with the
little folks. Girls and boys in their best Sun
day clothes tripred in to get n peep at the pic
lures. They came from Grand aud Houston
and Chryste and adjacent streets. as well as
from Delaney. These little ones know tho
building like q book. for In it are the kinder
garten and library and gymnasium which the
Settlement Society have established ex-
pressiy for their instruction and diversion
Their fathers and mothers came with them.
More than 800 adults and little folks were in
the building between 10 A. NJ and o:3O =. NJ
Considering that the Thermometer was up in
the seventies out IF doors and still higher lr
inside, this attendance was remarkable. II was
surpassed last night. though, when 1000 per
sons crowded into the building and took II long
and Interested look at the 100 pictures dis
Everybody got a card on entering beneath the
big sas-lit Transparency. The card reai Vote
for your iav"rtc picture. like hest picture
No. -. Many Of the grown folks. especially
the women. didn't understand why they got
D., we got a picture il we name the right
one 10 woman Woman in 10 ihGnred Shliso gown
"uh. no. madam. they cost too much. You
are sImryt vote on the picture YOU like hest.
and, pardon me- you'll have to check that
lie reached out and took away hor rarasol.
much to her surprise, and gave her a brass
check for 1t.
Together with the voting card everybody got
and VINO the makers were Eacn person
was asked TO tahe til. catalogue home
and study it aiterwarl. By this device
to teach the frcrucniers Of the building
something Of art and artists. Wien the east
sidets bad seen al tho" wanted to SET, and 1t
took long time. for thcy seemed to / e hugely
loGue carefull,. they went ont of u side door
instead Of the front one and DROPPED thei"
iiiled up voting card In "A hoN. where they Will
be kept until the exhibition closes.
All sorts o: odd. intelligent. and incomrre-
hcnsihle comments were made hy the thronG
IN going out. IN" au"ercst thing said last
nlcht Wa the innocent remark of Little
hebrew girl from tIhrystle street:
say. mister" she -atd. will you give me
that picture? It looks like ms father"
The pa nting she wantei was Tamburinfs
mendrr, stitching up rip in an old green
umbrella.
Last night the voting on the most popular
picture picture, rpt raul GIolIeron.s big ,r,anyas.
ahead OF the others, II represents n French
farmhouse. where u party OF gayly uniformed
soldiers are getting supper after the days
march.
Experience in these matters proves" said
one OF the managers. that it is an excellent
thing to keep these shows open on sundays
The working ,ndn EScopIe will come t" sst them
Their" Is no relig ion about the exhibition. any
way. except. perhaps. the religion Of art. Be
lieve what you like. but like art"
he society will Keen tho exhibition open
day and night for the next eight weeks. Ali
the pictures are insured.