Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-08-27
The Stewart College Scheme-A Grand
Undertaking.

JUDGE Huron and Mrs. Stewart, ex-
ecutors of the estate Of the late Alexan-
der 7. Stewart, have lately been en-
gagged in perfecting arrangements for
the endowment of between 5000, 900
and S4,0O0,000 TO be devoted to the
erection, equipment and perpetuity of
institutions that will exceed in scope
the capacity and sphere of the largest
college in America. The munificent be-
quest of Stephen Girard, of Philadel-
phia, will be surpassed in detail and eff
feet. The college buildings are to be
located at Garden City, Long Island,
where the remains of the great mer-
chant will also repose, after the cathe-
dral now building shall be completed.
All the buildings are to be dedicated to
the memory of the late A. T. Stewart,
who originated, devised, and perfected
the establishment of Garden CITY.
There is one edifce nearly completed
for this purpose. 1t is the finest build
ing 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. In the base
ment will be monster swimming bath,
where 800 can bathe or disro be at once
The culinary arrangements equal those
of large hotel The dining-room will
seat 500 persons. The public parlors,
reception room, and library comprise
200 feet.
Mrs. Stewart has ordered 5000 vol
umes for the library. An elaborate art
room with gallery is placed on the third
floor. A museum, lecture-room, and
chapel seating half thousand; a gym
nasium, a laboratory with extensive
philosophical, scientific, electric, and
astrOnomic apparatus, and other feat
ures are also introduced. The building
is absolutely tire-proof, and ventilated.
There will be 800 students rooms.
As soon as this edifice is completed,
another similar in size and for the same
purpose will be commenced. A third
for advanced collegiate studies will also
be finished as soon as consistent, making
accommodation for 1900 youths.
Sixty acres of ground have been set
apart for these three buildings, the an
neXes incident thereto, and the drives,
walks, gardens, and shrubbery that will
surround them. The students will be
educated by the best of talent at cost
Of less than 800 per year, including
travelling expenses. Ten acres of ground
have been devoted to a campus for mill
tary drill, baseball and cricket fields,
and other athletic sports. Boarding or
day students will be accepted. During
the next five years the studies will be
below the Freshman grade in Harvard,
but afterward will include the full col
legiate course, all to be at the same
nominal charge. AS fast as these build
ings are finished they will be sufficiently
furnished and equipped by Mrs Stew
art. They will be transferred to the
charge of the Episcopal Diocese of Long
Island through its Bishop, in order to
insure its perpetuity and conduct acbord-
ing to the desires of the late Mr.. Stew
art. The institution will be non-secta-
rian, though in charge of the Bishop.
Other college buildings will also be
constructed, where girls can be educated
on the same terms and conditions as the
male students.
Twenty-Five acres of land are devoted
to edifices and annexes, where female
students will be accommodated. The
latter will have equal advantages with
the other sex. Beautiful lawns, paths,
fields, walks, groves, etc., will encircle
each building. The girls college is now
being constructed.
Divinity College, to perfect young
men for the ministry of the Episcopal
Church, has been started also in Gar
den City, which will provide room for
200 students. The home of the Bishop
will be in Garden City, after the Cathe-
dral is finished, a magnificent edifice
being built now for that purpose. 1t
will be the first Episcopal Cathedal in
America.
These plans are done in pursuance of
an intention of Mr. Stewards to convert
Garden City, which is a singularly
healthy place, into what he termed
"The Oxford of America" 1t is be-
lieved that in ten years there will be
nearly 5000 students in this place. The
erection OF these buildings, their equip
ment and finishing, the cost of the
grounds allotted for such purposes, use
of city water and gas, together with the
endowments necessary to guarantee
their perpetuity, will require nearly four
millions of dollars, it is believed. .-NeU
York Cor. Chicago Tribune.