New-York tribune., 1903-02-22
ARCHITECTURAL DESIGNS.
MANY PERSONS VISIT THE EIGHTEENTH
ANNUAL EXHIBITION.

Ten thousand people found time and were
sufficiently interested last year to visit the ex-
hibition of the Architectural League of New
York At the end Of the first week OF this
years exhibition, the eighteenth. 1t seems prob
able that this high water mark of attendance
will be surpassed. The cold weather has kept
,,eople away from the American Fine Arts
building, on West Fifty-seVenth-st.. to certain
degree but it can hardly last during the re-
naming two weeks of the exhibition
Who are the persons who come in such num-
bers to view an exhibition which on its face
must be largely technical and why do they
come? are questions that often asked OF
members Of the league. They are all sorts and
conditions of men and women. from the rich
man who Is looking for ideas for the house
which he desires to build to the poor woman
from the East Side who gets her only amuse-
ment out OF visiting free exhibitions.
Two DAYS in the week Tuesdays and Thurs
DAYS an admission of 25 cents is charged, a re-
duction of so per cent from previous years Thls
has the effect of making these two days in the
week practically private view days. The ex-
hibitors stockholders and their friends are then
in evidence The other days are free. including
sundays. The exhibition lasts until March Z, in
elusive.
The galleries of the Fine Arts Society are
as this. There is for more than one
thousand separate exhibits upon the walls OF
the six galleries. the lower hall and the entrance
hall, some of them, stained glass window de-
signs for instance. taking up considerable room
The average visitor, one who knows little or
nothing Of the technical side Of the exhibition,
but who Is there on account of general In
terest In things artistic, is first attracted by
the plaster models of buildings and houses
shown In the Vanderbilt Gallery.
Rich men who building houses are no
longer satisfied with carefully made plans and
brightly painted elevation drawings" a man
explained to his wife yesterday.
Il should think they wouldn't be- she inter
rupted. Think how lovely house looked
saper" They were suburbanites beyond shadow
Sf doubt.
IF it had been S50O.0OO house instead of
Eimply $1,000 one." he continued, "the arch-
tect would have made exact model in plaster
like this one"
The woman looked at model Of house in
Fifth-ave 1t beautiful in the pure white
plaster "I know that house." she said "and
the plaster model does not look any like
the original than the painting We had before
hand"
Then there is only safe way" said the
man, buy your house ready made instead of
having it built to order"
In another gallery largely given over to
sketches for decorations of various sorts, and
popular on account of the vivid colors which the
impressionists use. an old man and a boy were
viewing the exhibits carefully. They had
catalogue. because half the fun is imagining
what the artist is trying to show the boy
explained, and not looking it up to see if you
right"
They came in time to Fred Dana Marsh's
Earth Yields Her Treasures" one of his AL
icgories of Industry series.
Now, what do you suppose that is?" ques-
Toned the old gentleman after a close examina-