The Newtown bee., 1896-01-10

institution truly rare, a feeling of com passion arises for so many others to whom these things that are to remain un- known. The stranger within these hid. den gates may feel at such time that after all the "old boys" are "old boys'' everywhere. No schoolmaster was such a man as theirs; and no school mothet 90 tender and sweet; no school days compared with those passed here; no spot like this in natures lap was ever reserved for such an end. So think they all-the told boys" everywhere, yet none apparently with such intense and pervasive feeling as the graduates of the Gunnery. Informed that you are an told" somewhere else the Gunnery graduate looks surprised and disappoin ted and then he would pity your unfor- tunate fate. For 24 hours this sort of thing goes on and then the stranger be, gins to feel that, never having hugged 2 tree in retribution for some school-boy sin, his life has indeed not been ordered right.
 THIS ENTRACING TOWN IS CLEvERLY
 TUCKED AWAY.
 In reaching it a change of cars is of- ten necessary, but at last the Shepaug. Litchfield and Northern railroad, after 8 stern chase of the Shepaug river's tor tuous course, lands one in Washington Up the valley, the hills reach higher and higher into the air and the banks of the now turbulent stream become more pre- cipitous. At one point the waters break into foam as they dash through some narrow rapids, suggestive of that other river in the Deerfield valley farther north. In Washington one finds the hills even worthy of Vermont. On the top of one, facing the Gunnery stands an old, abandoned farmhouse, with four dark rectangular holes on a side and the resemblance to the Green Mountain state now seems complete. To reach the school one rides up steep hill, atop of which the main village lies, and across an old-fashioned ''green," over whose fresh-laid carpet a severe old Puritan church looks askance at the broken out. lines and plate-glass windows of a mod ern country house. Halfway down the other side of the hill is the Gunnery.
 A large reddish-brown building em. powered by trees and of most curious shape Is this structure. It is the an- tithesis of the factory-like buildings, an eighth of 8 mile long, more or less, with dormer windows every other yard, in which the students of some modern academies are housed. The Guunery's architecture reminds one of selfmade man, because the building seems to have grown from small beginnings and to have shot out in various directions as necessity demanded or opportunity offered. One's attention is first drawn to two-story hexagonal structure whose longest diameter is about 30 feet, con- nected with the main part by covered bridge under which is driveway lead, ing into backyard full of hillocks. There is veranda running around the front, and cupola proudly zurmounts the whole. On the other end is another wing while in the rear many Gdd pro- jections emphasizing the oldisaying that "there is always room for one more.'' The interior bears out this promise of wonders within. Was there ever such economy of space as here? A semi. circular niche in corner is made the receptacle of books. Passageways shoot out in the most unexpected directions, and here and there corner of the house expands into wee conservatory. Then there are bed rooms, which like hats, may be had in all shapes and sizes. Tn some of the stairways leading to them q very large man would be in danger of sticking tight like cork in test tube. Near this rookery, which is in fact one of the most homc-like places in the world, is the commodious classroom building, and across the street, on the edge aof the athletic field, stands the gymnasium with it's bowling-alley and apparatus.
 THE PRESENT MASTER or THE GUNNEnY and immediate successor of the founder,