New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-01-05

tended foe public refectory which. by The peculAi
arrnDgem6ut Of the stars can be reached from two
streets without entering any other par. Of the budiieg
| Tire frt story is occupied by me stores runrin,
| from avenue TO yepue, each having large show WIN
&c We and entrances. The doors and skaters OF
irr. Tie s"uth entrance leads into vrsti5ule OF
sn-ple lots, iom which two dshts Of stone
staruays each ten feet vide, extend 10 The seyera
.tori,s The fight in the south conner carried
srosnd circular shst of ten feet diameter which
opens into the several stories aud Affords opportunity TO
elevate persons or articles. Each sbi has large sud
conn odous lsndngs and the s'eps Of easy sscent
or DE- scent We msy here ro ice III, pecu ar circlm.
sance that Tie stone stairs Of ungsual width Gov
cred With brick aches and lead 10 the very roof of ae
building. so essy is the accent tta notwithstanding
the roof Of the structure il more than one hundred
feet above the sidewalk, the sensation 81 fatigue or
exhaust ou generally experienced in clambering to the
top Of other high buildings in this city sni elsewhere
do, not III this nsts nee prssent itself.
The second story is designed for Offices. 4 hail,
twenty-five feet 10 width extends from Seventh b
Eighth street on each side Of which arranged
seven fine Offices.
With the thiId story commences " The Uoior. In
asc. r6ing To this door enter through spacious
ve.tlbule into grand ball one hundred and twenty
Eve feet long eighty two feet wide and thtyiwo feet
high, surrounded by a gallery twenty-five feet wide,
supported on fourteen iron C0rinthiar columns, with
dome twenty feet in diameter 10 the center On the
east eide of this ball and connecting with IT, eight
rooms, designed for q sculpture gallery below and
picture gallery above. To facilitate com nuucaton
between the main floor snd the gallery, in addition TO
the grand stsways iron winding sarcases are put up
in The disgonsl co,rers Of the hall. This hal is Tger
than "Tripler Hall was, and is unequaled in the
world.
The fourth story contains two lecture rooms respec-
lively eighty two feet long by sixty feet wide, AMI
eichty-,wo feet long BY forty fee, wide also library
for the specific Of the institution chemical labor
atorv end six rooms intended TO be rented studios
The building Is entirely ireproof The wrougat-igon
beams in the upper stories being connected with Hat
brick archer ieveled up with concrete solid, u con-
structon fnt INTRODUCED into this building and now
almost universally adopted in bankiug-houses and
buildings for similar puToses-one point in which the
generous Undertaking o. Mr. Cooper has already been
ben, fetal to the country at large. The floors Of the
several stories will be made either of marble tiles
oorpaLk or glars according to the purpose for which
they designed.
To convey an adequate idea Of the extensveness Of
> $50 iron Cooper beams in the building which, 20
feet long each. weigh about 6CO 600 pounds. Fly
sirders at about 3 500 pounds each OO) pounds;
IS columns at 3 500 pounds each, 900 ponds
mski1g total Of 900 coo pounds of rcn in the interior
Of the structure.
THE OBsERYATnIkNr ------------
In the center of the south front of the building is to
be a revolving Astronomical Observatory Of some
{, a ,f tVhip will ha
ported by six iron columns reaching down to the very
foundation of the structure, which peculiar arrange
meut affords larger bass, and more isolated from the
surrounding BUILDING and consequently better pro-
tccted against vibration than Jingle granite pillar
used generally for the same purpose.
The attic coutaias ore large hail in the center, and
four large side rooms all Of which intended for the
ACADEMY Of Design for Women and which Mr..
Cooper Las donated for that purpose. III regard Ia
light air aud spaciousness these rooms are admirably
calculated fOr the purpose designed.
RELIC
In one of the side rooms in the attc yellow pne
column about eight Inches in dismeter attracted our
attention from its being unlike the other column IN
the adjoining room, On inquiry we learned that this
column was turned hrty years ago by Mr.. Cooper
with tcol. made By k,nsdf For a number of years 1t
avenue, af nrd put upiu q factory in Williams
burgb whence it was removed To a lumber yard, aud
at length { has again been brought into usefulness,
and found restirg-pace in "The Uriou.'
THE MANAGEMENT.
The income to be derived from the stores, lecture
hall refectory and offices, il ia expected will amount
TO about $40 coo per anDum, which viii be n)propr-
aed IN meeting the expenses and urtherrg the inter
ests of the institution. The Of lectures, rs
well as the librsry ard readingroons ar intended to
be free Tie detail. Of the management are not yet
fully matured but Mr.. Cooper has suggested that
the following should be included in the Board OF
Directors, viz: the Judge of the Dsric' Count Of the
United States in New-YoIk, three OF the Judges OF
the Superior Court. the Mayor. the President Of the
Board Of Education, President of the Chamber OF
Commerce the Oldest male men ber of Mr. Coopers
family, ard one Director to be elected each three
YEAR by the EDITOR Of the daily and weekly Lews-
papers Of the city.
The ground on which the building lie erected c)st
about 1860 Coo and the structure 10 the neghbcrhood
of the same amount and when athe circumstances Of
this nuniicent endowment are considered IL wild be
fot to rank beyond that Of Mr.. Aster in lberalty,
ana in the importance and tle grandeur of its results
Such monument W Il secure for its founder
fame more enduring than the Pyramids.
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