Webster avenue, the classes were transferred in 1850. As 
the student body increased from year to year, more spacious 
rooms and grounds were necessary. This necessity was satis- 
fied in 1894, when the Academy found itself in the healthful 
and pleasant atmosphere of 3333 Fifth avenue. Here, for 
thirty years, the edifice, designed in French Renaissance, 
raised its towers and turrets far above the smoke and din of 
the city. But the night of October 24, 1924, witnessed the 
building aflame, and the grey dawn looked on its ruin. After 
this calamity, the convent library, study halls, and parlors 
accommodated the pupils; then on September 12, 1927, the 
classes were resumed in the new structure, designed in Col- 
legiate Gothie. 
Our Lady of Mercy Academy is affiliated to the Catholic 
University of America, to the Department of Public Instruc- 
tion at Harrisburg, and is in the Association of Secondary 
Schools of the Middle States and Maryland. Catalogues 
giving details may be had by applying to The Directress. 
PITTSBURGH MUSICAL INSTITUTE, Inc. 
What is perhaps not realized by many Pittsburghers is 
the fact that the Pittsburgh Musical Institute is one of the 
largest and most progressive music schools in the country. 
As a music school it has been conspicuously successful from 
its inception. It was incorporated in 1915 with about 150 
students and a faculty of 18 teachers. It has grown so rapidly 
that in 1928 it has more than 2000 students and a faculty of 
56 teachers, all specially trained for their work. For the 
first five years of its existence the Institute was located on 
Fifth avenue near the Masonic Temple, but in 1921 acquired 
its own building on its present location at 131-133 Bellefield 
avenue. Here are 36 teaching rooms and a recital hall with a 
fine three manual concert organ, and in another part of the 
building also a smaller organ for practice purposes. For the 
convenience of pupils living at a distance from headquarters 
the Institute maintains branch studios at Aliquippa, Am- 
bridge, Bellevue, Butler, Canonsburg, Crafton (two studios), 
Dormont, Elizabeth, Monaca, Mount Lebanon, New Ken-