The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-03-07
GOING WEST.

The New Structures for tho Collegiate and
ScieLuhc departments OF the Universliy Of
fenbsS INuBin.
Yesterday afternoon meeting of the Building
Committee of the Trustees of the University OF
Peunsy lvauia was held at the Office of Cadwala-
der Biddle No 40S South Fourth street, when
the contract for the erection of the new build
ings for the collegiate and scientific departments
lot Of ground bounded by Thirty-fou
and 1hrty-f fifth and Locust and Spruce streets,
was awarded To Messrs. Struthers ~ Son, who
contract to do the work for ss23l 800. Bids
were received from thirteen contractors, the
amounts ranging from 522i, 300 To 1926 S37
The bailding, which is to be of collegiate
Gothic style of architecture, viii have a front
on Locust street of 800 feet and will be three
stories in height, exclusive of the basement
which. in the rear of the building, Is To be en-
tiTely above ground, making an additional story.
The wings OF the structure will be lO2 feet deep,
and the main or central building l25 feet deep.
The basement walls will be faced with grey
Lieperve stone to the first floor, capped around
the entire building with IIummestOwn brown
stone. All the exterior walls above the base
ment TO be faced with serpentine marble,
with cappIDgs, buttresses, gables, arches, etc,
of Ohio stone.
Tie main entrance will be through an ornate
Gothic porch in the centre of the north or Lo-
Gust street front. This porch will b. 40 feet IN
height TO the top of the gable, supported on
columns of polished Aberdeen grtnite, ana
| ornamented with brackets and finlal. Ia carved
Ohio stone. The body of the porch Is To Oe Of
grey stone, from the Franklin quarries. The
| window, ~ by "a feet in size, the millions OF
| which will form handsome designs in dultTc-
foil, clnquefOl, etc. at the heads ot The arches.
The basement will contain laboratories for
meIaluTgy, assaying, storage and machine
room, and also large ball for the assembling OF
| the students, provided with separate entrances
and water. closets and wash-rooms for each de-
| partment.
In the first story, on the west side of the main
| entrance, will be reception and Secretary's
| rooms, Provost's recitation room. and chemical
aud physical lecture rooms. Directly in the
rear of the entrance will be large open hall,
| connecting with the library, which viii be in
| The back part Of the centre building, aud will be
entirely fIe-proof. The eastern half of this
floor will he divided into rooms for qualitative
and qualitative laboratory, organic analysis,
| preparation of chemicals, balance rooms, ETC.,
with all the necessary ante-rooms.
The second story will contain chapel occupy
ing the entire front of the centre building, aud
| being 2S feet high in the clear, occupying the
| space of two stories in the wings. The chapel
| will have the wooden Taiters exposed, aud be
| lighted by the large stained window above the
| porch in connection with several other windows,
| all OTnamented With Gothic mulliODs, and filled
| with stained glass. This lOor will also contain
| six recitation rooms, three lecture rooms,
museum Of mining, metallurgy, and mineralOgy,
and several private rooms for professors and
| others. The third story will contain a large
| examination hall, recitation rooms, and three
large rooms devoted TO civil and mechanical en-
| gineering. The fourth story will contain four
rooms lOr students. society rooms, anu libraries.
| On each end of the building will be towers, l5O
feet in height, and % feet square, surmounted
with slated spires. The entire buildings are to
| be heated by low pressure apparatus, consist
| ing OF three boilers, any two of which must be-
capable OF heating the whole structure. The
entire edifee Is to be completed by the 1st of
| August 1872
| SEARCHING FOR HER HUsBAND.-Catbarin
| Bodisky arrived yesterday from New York in
| search of her husband, Carl Edward Bodisky, a
chemist, aged twenty eight years, who came
4 EeIe about tRo weeks 20 and ba@ not z.ace been