New-York tribune., 1908-09-13
INSTITUTES SEASON
Brooklyn Organization WI Make
Manu- Changes This Year.

The Rrooklvp Institute OF Arts and Sciences is
now established in its new quarters IN the AcaueHS
OF Music Building. Lafayette avenue, between 81.
Felix street and Ashland Place The office suite
consists of seven large rooms and there Is an
auditorium on the third floor. The auditorium has
seats for five hundred persons, one hundred more
seats than could be placed in the art gallery audi
torum where many Of the lectures OF the instl-
tute have been delivered heretofore. Besides, the
institute can the music hall. seating fourteen
hundred persons. 172 nights in the year 1t may
also use the opera house, which seats Twenty-Five
hundred, for thirty nights.
For these accommodations the institute VIII pay
$50 900 year This is more than 1t has been paying
for its various offices and audtoriums but the
management believes that the additional expense
is warranted by the far better quarters.
This wear the institute celebrates its eighty fourth
birthday but there is no weakness Of age apparent
vet Indeed it is so healthy and vigorous and so
well supported by the borough that departures
are planned in many lines. One of the most inter
estng of the new features will be the weekly pub
lication of a magazine to be called The Institute
Bulletin" 1t has been the custom OF the institute
IN send out TO it's members every week a large
quantity of literature concerning the current
events The Bulletin" will do away with the
necessity for these circulars. 1t will contain an
nouncements of the anniversary meetings, ad-
dresses lectures concerts, rectas, dramatic read
ings department meetings schools, courses of in
struction. Besides, it will contain preliminary
and final announcements of programmes of concerts
and rectas advance notes and synopses of special
Illustrated lecture and information concern
ing musical artists and organizations. readers, ect-
urers and instructors who will appear under the
,,s,;ces Of the institute The publica ton may
eventually include portions of lectures, addresses
and papers department records and articles on the
nans purposes and policies of the institute. In
addition the annual prospectus and the weekly
members tickets ana coupons VIII oe sent 10 'He
members usual.
u is estimated that The Bulletin" will begin
with circulation of thousand, and it will prob
abv he read by fifty thousand persons A large
amount of advertisement matter has been secured
nv the agents of the institute for The Bulletin.
md n is expected to be self-supportng.
The institute has now between 1000 and sWo
oo,nbers hut Professor Hope: thinks the number
mill reach ten thousand within month when the
sessop,s work will be under In spite OF all
tn. exoense which has been incurred through the
ent changes the institute has increased the price
of membership only 81, the dues after October ]
hain ss wear instead of S.. The initiation fee will
remain S.
From now on the institute will be able to eonfne
itself to the Academy OF Music, the art gallery
and the museums In the Brooklyn Museum there
s large auditorium, where lectures nave oeen
given frequently by the institute. The art gallery
n.;,I hs used hereafter simply for exholtlon pur-
nasAs The institute has at the Academy a large
oor, FOR the exclusive of the scientific de-
.r+r,snt and another for the literary and art de-
nartn,ents third large room Will be held Tor
the use of the classes taking special courses OF IN
struction and a suite of three rooms for the de-
nsrtment of photography. The three rooms are
go ,i+t the necessary fixtures and apparatus
ard with lockers for one hundred studio members
rTr av include studio with north light The three
can be thrown together by means OF 1oidng doors
and used for exhibition purposes
n is MANNED to hold In the opera house the en-
tertainments which have taken place in the Baptist
Tenole and in Plymouth Church since the de-
struction of the old Academy OF Music The cham
her music concerts the special illustrated lectures
- prrton Holmes Dwight l.. Elmendorf and Garret
p Serviss the organ recitals, the lecture recials
the dramatic readings. the department lectures and
other events, held heretofore in the Young Mems
chrustian' Association Building. in Fulton street
will be heu in the music hall.
The institute, which now takes a new start In
life has been for years of the greatest educa-
tional and refining influences of the borough. II
was organized by Augustus Graham. whose picture
ornaments the first issue OF THE Bulletin and a
few OF his neghbors, in a building at Henry and