, 1880-08-01
MUNIFICENT ENDOWMENT.
The Stewart College Scheme-A Grand
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Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune.
NEW YoRK, July 31.-Judge Hilton and
Mrs. Stewart, executors of the estate Of the
late Alexander 7. Stewart, have lately been
engaged in perfecting arrangements for the
endowment of between 81, ooo, 600 and 81 900,
600 to be devoted to the erection, equipment,
| ard perpetuity Of institutions that will ex-
ceed in scope the capacity and sphere of the
largest college in America The munifcent
bequest Of Stephen Girard, of Philadelphia,
will be surpassed in detail and effect.
The college buildings are to be To-
Gated at Garden City, where the remains
of the great merchant will also repose,
after the. cathedral now building shall be
completed. All the buildings are to be dedi-
Gated to the memory Of the late i. T. Stew
art, who originated, devised, and perfected
the establishment Of Garden City. There is
one ediflce nearly completed for this pur-
pose It is the finest building devoted to
college purposes in America. Five hundred
students, all male, will be accommodated
therein. The building is four stories high,
275 feet front, 100 feet deep. III the base
ment will be monster swimming-ba
where 800 can bathe or Gisrobe at once.
The culinary arrangements equal those
Of a large hotel. The dinlng-room will seat
500 persons. The public par1ors, reception
room, and library comprise 200 feet.
Mrs. Stewart has ordered 6,000 volumes for
the library. An elaborate art-room with
gallery is placed OH the third floor. A
museum, lecture-roonl, and chapel seating
half thousand; gymnasium, a laboratory
with extensive philosophical, scientific,
elecIr1c, ana aStrOnOmlc apparatus, and other
features are also introduced. The building
is absolutely fire proof, and ventilated. There
will be 500 students rooms
AS soon as this edlice is completed, another
similar in size and for the same purpose will
be commenced. 4 third for advanced col
lesiate studies will also be finished as soon
1,500 Youths
Sixty acres Of ground have been set apart
for these three buildings, the anneSes incl
dental thereto, and the drives, walks. gar
The students will be educated by the best Of
talent at a cost Of less than 500 per year, in
Gliding travelling expenses. Ten acres Of
ground iaye been devoted to q campus for
military drill baseball and cricket fields,
and other athletic sports Boarding or day
students will be accepted. During the next
i've years the studies will be below the Fresh
man grade in Harvard, but afterWards will
include the full collegiate course, all to
these buildings are finished they will be suf-
tlciently furnished and equipped by Mrs.
Stewart. They will be transferred to the
charge Of the Episcnpalian Diocese Of Long
Island through its Bishop, in order to insure
Its perpetulty and conduct according to the
desires Of the late Mr. Stewart. The institu-
tion will be nonsectarian, though in charge
Of the Bishop.
Other college buildings will also be CON |
structed. where girls can be educated on the
same terms and conditions as the male
students.
Twenty-Five acres Of land are devoted to
will pc accommodated, The latter will have |
hfnf lawns, paths, fields, walks. groves, ETC., |
leGe Is now being constructed.
DIVINITY College, to perfect young men for |
the ministry of the Episcopal Church. has
oeen started also il Garden City, which viii
provide room for 2W students: The home Of
t TIE Bishop will be in Garden City, af tel. the
Cathedral is finished, magnificent edifce
being built now for that purpose. It will be
me ne first Episcopal Cathedral in America.
These plans are done in pursuance Of an
Intention OF ar. Stewards to convert Garden
Jitv, which is singularly healthy place, In
2 what he termed 1.-THE Oxford Of America
ltls believed that in ten years there will be
hearty 1000 students in this place. The
erection Of these buildings, their equipment
ND finishing, the cost of the grounds allotted
or such purposes, use OF city water and gas,
ogether with the entiowments necessary to
guarantee their perpetuity, will require
learly four millions OF dollars, it Is believed.