The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-06-17
YALE'S NEW ORGAN.

Which Will be Formally Dedicated
 Next Saturday Evening.
 The New York Tribdne of Sunday contained a large picture of the Wool sey Auditorium of Yale University,
 showing the Newberry organ, the gift of Mrs. Helen H. Newberry, of Detroit
 Fine copies of photographs of Professor
 S. s. Sanford of Bridgeport. who was a committee on the installation of the or
 gan, and one Of Harry Benjamin Jep- son, B. A., Mus. B., of this city, is also shown. The accompanying dispatch to
 the Tribune says:
 Professor Samuel $. Sanford, of the
 Yale Music school, who has acted as the committee on the installation of the Newberry organ, and on whose sugges-
 tion many of the appliances were adopted, will formally hand over the key of the organ to President Arthur T. Hadley, of the university, who in turn will deliver it to Assistant Professor Harry B. Jepson, who has been since his graduation from Yale in 1893, the college organist at Battell chapel, and who has just been officially chosen to be the university organist in charge of the Newherry organ.
 ''The Yale commencement programme will begin this year on Saturday even ing, June 20, when the beautiful new Woolsey Auditorium, the third of the Yale bi-centennial buildings to be com pleted, will be formally dedicated and the magnificent NeWberry organ, said to be the most remarkable concert or gan in this country, will be opened for it's first public exhibition. Both the
 Woolsey Auditorium, seating three thousand persons. and the Newberry
 organ will be used on Commencement day, Wednesday, June "A, for the first time at a Yale commencement.
 "Woolsey Auditorium, named in memory of President Theodore Dwight Woolsey, completes the bi-centennial group of buildings at Yale, which have been under construction for three years, and which have cost in the ag-
 gregate considerably over three hum ! dred thousand dollars.
 "An immense amphitheater, with a wide floor space. the auditorium has a l big stage at the south end, back of which is the great Newberry organ, and at the north end two deep galleries, the lower of which runs on both sides of the l pit. The auditorium is itself two hun | dred feet long by seventy feet high and seventy feet wide. It has been treated 1 entirely in white. the massive pillars surrounding the floor space and sup porting the roof in front of the galleries all being white as is the elaborate fres- | coing of the arched ceiling. In time the panels left on the ceiling and walls will prabably be filled in with tapes tries of paintings. The lighting of the auditorium is to be entirely by electric | ity, and massive hanging candelabra of old brass have been put up throughout the hall. The Woolsey Auditorium alone cost two hundred thousand dol lars.
 But the acquisition of prime impor- tance to Yale university is the great Newberry organ, the gift to Yale of ! Mrs. Helen H. Newberry of Detroit, in memory of her husband, John S. New berry, and of her son. This organ which has interested musicians throughout the country since it was planned, is to cost on the aggregate sixty thousand dollars. It has been visited and studied since it was put ur by scores of organists and musicians
 from all parts of the country, and when it is opened next Saturday bril-