Waterbury Democrat., 1902-10-23
Luxurious QUARTERS AT YALE.
Students Seek Learning Amid Eastern
Rugs, Bric-a-Brac and Mahogany.

Rugs, Bric-a-Brac and Mahogany.
The rooms at Yale which are most
handsomely finished and furnished IN
the most costly manner this year, says
the New Haven correspondent of the
Sun, are occupied by Franklin Farrel,
Jr. of AnsOnia, Conn, and William ).
Fulton of Waterbury, Conn. The suite
is known as Vanderbilt hall. 1t in
cludes four rooms covering space OF
100 feet square. There are sitting
room, two bedrooms and a bathroom.
This suite is the one occupied by
members OF the Vanderbilt family
when any of them are in the UNIVERSE
ty 1t is on the first floor of the
81 100000 dormitory that Mr. and Mrs
Cornelius Vanderbilt gave to Yale
few years ago. The rooms are di-
fectly over the arch which connects
the eastern and western wings of the
Vanderbilt hall and overlook on one
side Chapel street and on the opposite
side the interior of the campus.
The rooms are very deliberately fin
ished in Flemish oak with high oak.
paneling and ceiling. The floors are
of the finest of hard wood and it is
estimated that the wood work alone
cost several thousand dollars.
The study has tiled fireplace and
all the rooms are lighted by electricity.
There are eight large windows in the
study, with two large window seats
running the entire width of the room.
The present occupants of the room
have furnished them in an expensive
manner. The furnishings include
rosewood piano, library of several
hundred books and two large desks,
besides several tables and diyans and
many pictures and pieces of bric-a-
brac which the young men have been
collecting for four years both here and
abroad. The value of the furnishings
! is put at figure well up in the thous-
ands. This is the first year that the
| suite has not been occupied by a mem
Der of the Vanderbilt family.
The most representative college room
on the campus, as well as the one on
the furnishings of which the most
time and money have been spent, is
the reception room of the .tJolly Eight
| as band of seniors call themselves
They have four suites in the Fayer-
weather hall. Three of the suites they
use for sleeping and study purposes,
andsthe fourth they have arranged as
a general reception apartment where
they will entertain their friends at
| football time and during the junior
promenade festivities.
| The eight owners of this apartment
are A. p. Lamb of Waterbury,: H. NJ
Wallace of >Ansonia; @. w. Little
field of Rockland Me-; G. b. Leon
ard of New York; H. c.. Holt of
itBrooklyn; III. p. Wilhelm of New
York; Ralph Bristol Of sAnsopia and
| w. p. Johnston OF Washington. Del
The main room of the suite is
about 16>feet square and opening out
of it are two rooms u by feet The
/ walls of the main room are hung with
green tapestry paper and the large rug
in the center corresponds with the col
/ oring.
The window seat which takes up
one entire side of the room, is uphol-
4 stored to correspond and from here a
/ view of the entire campus is obtaina-
sble Directly opposite the window seat
/ is the fireplace, on the mantel of
which is stacked trophies of past ath-
letic events. intermingled with stems
and mugs of varied sizes and. descrip-
lions. liza
A Turkish diyap, an upright piano. a
large massive center table and book
case complete the furnishings of the
/ room, while the walls are covered with
i Copley prints and other pictures.
On the center table are pipes and
tobacco jars, stems and knick knacks,
which delight the college youth. be-
+ sides the registry book in which each
young woman visitor is obliged to in
scribe her name on entering. Carrie
Nation, Home Defender" was the last
guest of honor.
The room opening out of this room
on the left is a Turkish room. In one
corner is an Oriental diyan with q
canopy overhead, while in hesopposite
corner is a tea table with china closet
and everything in readiness to furnish
refreshments to the guest.
The walls are covered with pictures
of fair maids and dark maids. short
girls and tall girls. but only the friends
of the "Jolly Eight can leave theil
photographs in this gallery
The room corresponding to this OF
fhe other side is an athletic room an6
here reclining on the window the Wis
itor can see the trophies of MANY :
Yale victory. with pictures all abou
Of Yale heroes. past present and f
be in the athletic world.
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