New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-03-18
LOCAL MISCELLANY.
n uoRGAN,s GIFTTo WILLIAMS COLLEGE.

m uoPcAN,S GIFTTO WILLIAMS COLLEGE,
Williams College is about 10 become the recipient
81 . off from Ex-Governor Edwin d. Morgan, vi
his city in the shape of dormitory for studehtS
which will be one of the largest and most o9I,Pio! %
in the country. The college has so prospereG 81 ms
i'm regard 70 numbers that II has outgr1wh atS PaT
visions for students md the faculty mas DUO" w
fTTNS S n NJ Somtory designed by j. c. Cady &
Co architects, of this city, Will DC ,os looS III
length by fifty feet in width, ana Mn naN. nO
dnrmifory floors as we'll rs a high basement con-
talnIn0 offices ianitors' apartments, heating ap-
paratus. and y division for numerous batns' etc'
'The binding will contain lis rooms, with accom-
mndations for seventy-four students. The rooms
will be arranged with two bedrooms TO each sVuqqy
room. The study rooms will overlook me VII
lage common, while the bedrooms nave their VIII VIII
dows 10 the south The latter open uirecty iht 1
the study rooms, through which ventilation VIII
DE secured from front 10 rear. ! ne
rooms also have ventilatlng nues arrahgTn
IN shafts The study rooms Will have large mil
toned windows which will make them unnsualiY
light and cheerful. The plumbing VIII be erougn'
10 point near the entrance or each SCI OF rooiis
but Is excluded from them me study rooms anu
halls are 10 be heated by steam; The building IL
divided into four parts by fire walls, Wnch run lIoln
foundation 10 roof that fire could not under any
circumstances extend beyond its section. The style
of the building is essentially Oh English, with PIC
turesoue gables and outline. Inc walls are 10 DC ol
The LIGHT crcan-colorrd WilGmStown limestone,
trimmed with Kentucky limestone. The site Tor
the building Is a line one. .,, 49,, .
deem personal interest the details of construction
He desires that the building shall be more nearly
perfect than any school dOTnltOry in the country.
Ex-Governor Morgan. when spoken to on the SUB
iect by TRIBUNE reporter yesterday, sad that ne
had had this gltt seriously In consideration for sXy
DAYS and that il had been IN mind for a consider
ably longer period. He thought no better use OF
money could be made than IN gifts to colleges ana
eHucat onal institutions, and he Sald that nearly az
cfthcm needed money. Tie had decided that his
rift 10 Williams College should take the form OF Il
IornitOry, because the president had toid ma thd'
the accommodations We're entirely Inadequate me
number of new students which can he PROVIDED
with rooms in the proposed doImltory VIII largely
add 10 the income o the college,. -,
al am not an alurnuus of Williams" SAID TIE
cx-Coycruor " but the college Is situated IN the
ccunty where was born and brought up tl'l was
seventeen years old, when l Went TO work Tor my
uncle in Hartford" 49,, .,,.-.I1
When asked 10y the reporter if the building would
bear his name. cX-Govornor Morgan replied INA, ne
had not even thought OF that SUBJECT MS
W. solely to have the work begun soon as posi-
bic and carried forward TO completion with as Iltie
DELAY as possible II was learned th2i me outlay
nearly if not quite 100000.