The morning journal-courier., 1908-02-17
Yalt Art School and Peabody Museum Drew 1,500 and 1,30o Sightseers
 Yesterday.
JOURNAL L-CoURIER'S IDEA
Those Present Were Very Orderly, and Everything Points to a Contin. uaiicc of Plan on Com
 ing Sundays.

The opening of the Yale Art School building and of the Peabody Museum on sunday afternoon, as suggested first In the Journal-Courier, began under very promising circumstances yester- day. It Is safe to siy that at both of these buildings there was an atter- dance that exceeded that which they nave had uncer normal conditions dur ing the course of mlny months when they have been open on week days on- ly The attendahee at tho art school was far In excess of 1,5oO and at the museum the number who visited the exh-olticn rooms was fast approach ing the 1900 marx a; o'clock. which had been set fo. the hour of closing. The contention of this paper that there was real and pressing need for the opening of these buildings on sun- days was more than demonstrated In still another way has the college and the fcity, town and gown" been brought together. It had been thought that the attendance would be made un ln large measure of the foreign born of the city's population, that largely in- cludes the laboring classes which have not even had a chance in the past to attend the buildings on Saturday after moons, But such was not the case. Those who went to the art school and the museum included among their number some of the city's oldest resi- dents.
 Among them were many who, 1t might have been thought, had undoubt- edly been to the buildings scores of times before. But that they had not been there, was very evidently shown by the great interest they showed in all that was to be seen. There were many who went through both the art school and the museum but there were, as well, many more who went through one of the buildings thoroughly, evil dently with the intention of seeingsthe, other in the same complete manner on some subsequent Sunday afternoon
 Society was well represented and the laboring classes will probably be bet ter represented later on. The number of young couples out for Sunday af- ternoon strolls that dropped in for an inspection of the collection was large. At each building there was caretaker near the door with a hand-register in which every one that came In was counted by him. At the art school there was a continual stream of people in and out of the doors, which were opened at 1 o'clock In many of the smaller rooms of the building the crowds were so great that scheme. was put into practice whereby every body kept going around to the left. which avoided much confusion but did not allow anything more than a casual inspection of the pictures and statuary and other art specimens.
 1 Over at tho museum there was al- ways crowd about the big specimen i of a pot-hole. made by the friction of a stone whirled about the water in a depression in boulder of softer stone and an inter sting geological exhibit. | The specimen has been set up in the front yard of the museum for some i years.
 The crowds at both buildings were very orderly as rule. They gave the care takers no trouble whatever, except for the many questions which
 were asked about the exhibits shown, but they were gladly and cheerfully
 answered
 The perfect day doubtless had much
 to do with the success of the inaugur- ation of this Sunday procedure, but it
 did not look yesterday that there
 would be a material decrease in the