The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-10-22
B1cENTENNIAL DECORATIONS.

have rapidly revealed themselves in
 gay colors. And hopes are high for
 four days of beautiful Indian summer
 weather during which the old college
 may put on her best garments and re- ceive cordially her hosts of sons, their
 friends and guests.
 Five gentlemen have given up much
 time to suggestions for the decorations.
 They are Howard Mansfield, Fl, Rob ert w. DeForest, 70, Pierre Jay, '92,
 Grosvenor Atterbury, '91, and Louis c.
 Tiffany.
 MT Mansfield, at the head of the
 committee, has for years been interest
 ed in Japanese art. MT. DeForest is a
 man of affairs, with time to indulge
 some art tastes, though an active
 worker on the New York Tenement
 House Commission. MT. Jay is the
 most recent graduate on the committee
 --he has spent some time in travelling
 and was in South America for some
 months few years ago. MT. Alter
 bury is very successful architect He
 has just designed a poster which will Y help commemorate the great occasion;
 1t will soon be on sale. MT. Tiffany,
 though not a college man, hardly needs
 comment He was trained as an artist
 under the late George Inness and Leon
 Bailly, of Paris Since 1880 he has
 been an academician. Long since his
 genius asserted itself in decorative
 work, and he is at the head of the Tiff
 fany Glass and Decorating company, of
 New York city. Some years ago he dnvented the now famous favrite glass. Without his experience the plans of
 decoration might have halted
 Decorations as an important phase of public celebration have received much
 Attention within few years. Fifteen years ago, when Harvard celebrated It's big anniversary, the art of decora-
 ton was chiefly confined indoors Cam
 bridge streets hardly suggested in dec
 Orative fashion the occasion. It was @ long step to the days of the Dewey pa- rade and New York's welcome to na-
 uonal hero Then decoration was
 everywhere in evidence. And the mag
 nif1cent arch was simply the most con-
 spicuous tribute; minor arches, col Sumns, banners, flags and streamers,
 wonderful in variety, harmonious in color or otherwise, were evidences of t4 fClly s HOHOTlllS. AIu lON IL IS 4NcW Haven's turn to display it's color and in twentieth century fashion to honor the name of Yale college and the tra- sditions which have made it great throughout the country.
 w It was not a difficult matter for the committee of five to decide early upon several simple colors. These would be effective; they could be easily obtain ed; and, furthermore-an important consideration-it was hoped that the general scheme of color might be car Iried out in the decorations of private houses in New Haven wherever indeed the spirit of loyalty to the college might on the great occasion desire to assert itself. Blue was a foregone conclusion Green, 1t was decided, should be used chiefly in the shape of evergreens for borders about the great Yale shields that are put up on all the important university buildings and for trimmings of various description. As decorations t0 columns the evergreens have proved most effective. Blues and greens, then, will be the leading colors. By way of marked contrast there will be thou- EHnds or orange colored Japanese lan- terms which will serve as well by day as by night to relieve the more sober colDrs. The Yale Y on the blue stream CTS and flags, which will wave on all hands, from parapets columns or win dows, will not glare unpleasantly in it's clear white against the dark back | grounds. It was further recommended | that at special points of fitness the na- tional flag, the stars and stripes, be | used for decorative purposes. About | the old campus large beacons have | been erected at short intervals on blue poles; these, with the Japanese lan- terms and numerous electric light bulbs | swung about the old elms, and here | and there in effective rows, will make | a brilliant show after dark. Of course, | 50 far as possible, electric lights will be | used Thus to have determined the col or and light scheme was but a begin hing.
 The college has grown slowly but surely to its present university dimen- sions Nothing is more indicative of | this gradual growth than the variety In college architecture A principle had to be discovered rather generally ap- plicable; outlines of buildings revealed no harmony, so it remained to suggest that a line some twenty feet above the ground be chosen as a sort of standard Df height for the chief decorations On large buildings as well as small, pri- vate residences as we'll as public struc- lures, the most effective work of dec- Drating could be done below such inc. The motif for every structure was the same: bands of green running | Iengthwfse, and not above the twenty Feet Cor second story) level. with blue flags at intervals and in the windows. All entrances were. Of course to be emphasized by massing with the same greens, and surmounting with flags. Towers were not to be ignored and oth- ar conspicuous points, And Phelps nall, with its large tower, offered a special opportunity for decorative pur- poses. A large blue Union Jack flag, made, will wave from the massive structure-a symbol for miles ,round of the center of Yale life on the ,ccasion.
 The buildings about the college cam nus are the real center of the decora- i've effects Osborn hall on Chapel md College streets, Phelps hall with ts tower and supporting arch and Bat ell chapel form naturally the features