The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-08-23
PARIS PRIZE, GOAL OF ARCHITECTS, WON
 BY EX-0FFICE BOY
Lloyd Morgan, War Veter-
 an, Will Have 2A Years
 At Ecole des Beaux Arts.

At GCO1C uCS oOduA ka4 tS.
 New York, Aug. 23-Lloyd Morgan of 333 West Twenty third street, who
 started as an office boy and later was
 3 student in the offices of Dennison & Hirons, architects, 28S Lexington ave- Paris Prize of the Society of Beaux-
 Arts Architects, donated this year by Mrs Lewis B. Preston, and the most sought after architectural prize in America. The success of the young
 man will enable him to go to Paris to study for two and a half years at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. Young Nor gan is the only son of the widow of
 an engraver for a firm of Fifth avenue silversmiths.
 The national competition for the
 Paris Prize are organized for the pur-
 pose of selecting student for the first class of the Ecole des Beaux Arts of Paris, according to the regulations
 adopted by the French Ministry of | Public Instruction and Fine Arts. The
 money equivalent of the prize is $S,000
 and provides the winner with $500
 quarterly for two years and a half,
 dating from his arrival in Europe.
 The greatest importance is attached
 to the competition by the architects
 was established in 1904 there have
 been many prominent donors of the
 funds required to furnish the scholar i ship. The gift was made the first | year DY the nohDerS or the society. Andrew Carnegie made the donation | for the second. J. Pierpont Morgan furnished the prize for the third year, and among other donors have been | A. D. Juilliard, Robert Bacon, Edward | s. Hardness and Joseph G. Baldwin, Jr.
 In capturing the prize young Nor
 gan has upheld the traditions of the
 firm through which the opportunity
 was opened up for him. Last years xTi Mol .anOh1ir a
 colleague of Morgan's in the offices of Dennison & Hirons. The third prize, offered in 1906, was won by Frederick c. Hirons, a memoer of the firm and the coach Of both Mclaughlin and
 Morgan.
 Morgan made his first attempt to
 get into the Ecole des Beaux Arts in 1918. It was just after he had been
 discharged from the American Ex- peditionary Force for disability, due to a wound in the leg he received
 while serving in the Argonne with the
 309th Infantry of the Seventy-eighth
 Division. As soon as he obtained his
 release at Tours, he headed straight
 for Paris. In his pocket he carried
 letters of introduction from several
 architects in New York, who had
 studied at the EcoIe des Beaux Arts.
 With these he gained entree to the
 Atelier Laloux, and began to prepare himself for the entrance examinations to the Eco1e des Beaux Arts. When
 the test came his architectural knowl- edge was above the required standard,
 but his knowledge of French was tn-
 adequate. He remained in Paris for
 several months, and returned to New
 York.
 MT. Hfrons, a former prize winner
 of the Eco1e, and who, with his as- sociate, conducts after hour classes for promising students unable to af-
 ford the schools, was untiring in his
 supervision of the young mans efforts,
 and before the last examination ex- pressed every confidence that he
 would win.
 The problem set in the competition
 in which Morgan was the victor as
 sumed that rich municipality, in de- ve1oping it's city plan, had proposed to give great importance to a centre for
 exhibitions and assemblies. The
 imaginary authorities of that dream city, were convinced that national
 and international prominence would
 accrue from splendid setting for trial conventions, assemblies and ex- hibitions of all kinds. A circular site, with a radius of 750 feet, at the con-
 vergence of several thoroughfares, was fixed as the first condition, and the other requirements were: 1. A great hall to be used for in dustrial exhibitions. horse shows, ath- letic meets, Horticultural exhibitions
 Sc. The clear floor area in this should be not less than 50,000 square feet, around which should be disposed ex- hibition galleries which may be con- verted into seating space when re- quired.
 2. An art gallery adapted to an nual exhibitions of national and inter- national scope and loan exhibitions of different kinds, uch painting sculp- ture, architecture, furniture. Certain of these galleries should be lighted from windows in the wall, others from
 overhead. The floor area of this should be in the neighborhood of 30,- 1000 square feet disposed on one or
 more floors.
 8. An auditorium with a seating capacity of 10000 for public meetings, concerts, &c.
 4. An enclosed space available in connection with these units where, in the open air, concerts could be held and sculptural and horticultural eX- hibits shown in connection with those aeld under cover.
 5. A restaurant, installed some where in the group, to serve visitors during the time of exhibitions or as- 6emb1ies.
 five contestants and two alternates who had been selected through two preliminary examinations. They were required to make preliminary study for the advanced design ill thirty-SiX consecutive hours, indicating in a sketch the solution of the problem which was developed during ten weeks
 al drawings. In addition to Morgan the winners were:
 Second award, J. G. Schuhmann, IT,, Columbia University Atelier; third award, A. B. Westover, Jr.; fourth
 award, H. s. Atkinson and R. A. Fisher, all of the 'T'' Square Club Atelier, Philadelphia.