The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-07-23
THURSDAY. JULY. %. 1885.
COLLEGE CEREMONIES.
THE CORNER STONE OF THE COLLEGE
or EMPORIA LAID THIS EVENING
With Appropriate Addresses and E1er-
els BETTING
The Event, Which Prcsag,s a Most
Fronting Institution.
Review Of tho wo;k Already Done
and that Now Progressing.
The Remarks of Rev. DR.. McCabe and
Rev. j. d. Hewitt.
The Stone Put in Place by Senator
Plumb.
LAYING rnE UoRNER sroNn.

VI bho Ihpiu progress OF the
masonry and other work until
the grounds were visited. In the center
and on the highest point Of the forty
acre lot forty men are engaged putting
in place the mortar, brick and stone OF
the wall which is already from fifteen TO
twenty feet high. When the photograph
picture Of the college building was ex-
hibited 1t seemed impossible to erect a
building In the west that would com.
plete the architects idea and be the
beautiful and massive structure repre-
sented In the picture which we
present today. But already the
workman are giving shape to the struc-
ture, and the building, though 17S feet
long, presents pleasing south facade
with massive wall, beautifully relieved
by largo buttresses and the
projection tor the tower in the
center. That part OF the wall
ON which the tower will rest is thirty
four inches thick and is made OF the
largest and beat stone used In the build
ing. When the tower IL completed It
will be 140 feet high. Just beneath this
tower ID the main entrance door, which
Is approached by stone stairway with
about twenty steps, entering the build
ing about twelve feet above the ground
and upon the second floor. Under this
stone stairway is an entrance door into
the rooms Of the first floor.
catering this door and looking 20
the right Is the boys dressing
room aud to the left Is the
ladies' cloak room. To the right of the
boys dressing room is what was first
planned as the janitor's apartment, but
what will probably be used as a gymna-
SUM for the boys. The Railways
through the building run through the
entire length and breadth Of it. There
are In the building, besides the anIi-rooms
and chapel, twenty-four apart
ments. On the west end of
the first floor are a suite of
rooms for the chemical department, con-
sisting Of lecture room. laboratory. q
private laboratory and and an assay
room. On the north side of the hall and
and west end of the same floor are the
rooms originally intended tor the boil
and fuel, but according to later plans
the coal rooms ana boiler building will
DO placed in an annexed structure.
The presidents Office is on the second
hoor to the left of the main entrance.
while across the hall at the right OF the
entrance Is the room for the trustees.
Two large stairways just opposite the
entrance leads from the north side of the
building to the third floor and thence to
tho chapel. There Is also another
entrance tothe chapel at the east end of
the building as shown IN the picture.
AS shown by the south facade the build.
ing is Of four stories, two gables show.
ing from the south or front view,
the tower arising from the center and
over the main entrance. The chapel.
which will be model one in every re-
spect, occupies the upper two stories in
the east gable, and is ornamented by
three large aud handsome rose windows,
two OF which appear in the picture. The
chapel will consist of q main floor and
gallery, and will be handsomely I'm
ished In Gothic style, with pilasters, and
arches reaching from pier TO pier. The
ceiling Will be ribbed in a manner some.
what similar to the old Gothic vaulting.
and will present very handsome APP
pearance. The chapel will scat about
700 people. The projection from the
south side Containing the rose window
and forming kind of easement for the
lower windows, will be made entirely of
smoothly dressed stone, and will be one
OF the finest pieces OF stone masonry IN
the west Two halls for the use of liter
AIRY societies have been arranged for the
west end on the third floor. These rooms
are each 23x35 feet and on opposite sides
OF the hall. These halls and all the
other rooms of the building are well pro
vided with windows and easy of access.
The building is so arranged that In case
Of fire or panic of any kind the exit can
be easilymade by students with safety,
The rapidity with which the masonry
Is progressing at present will enable the
window frames of the second floor to be /
put in place within about one week. There
Is large quantity of stone on the !
grounds dressed and ready for the wall. /
The pilasters aud columns and the bases /
and capitals for the same are all on the
grounds dressed. paid for and ready to
be put up. All the material on the
ground has been paid for, consisting not 1
only Of the stone, but also of the frame
work which is all seasoned and ready
for the building.
Although the College Of Emporia had
long before been conceived. the first In
dicatlon Of its naturalization was al
Ottawa in October, 1882, when the fol-
owing board of trustees was chosen:
Hon. A. II. Horton, Atchison; Rev. +.
3. McCabc, ID. D., Topeka; Rev. s. N.
81. John, Onaga; Col. j. d. Anderson,
Manhattan; Ed. Russell, esq, Law
renee: Rev. w. @. Porter. ID. D., Fort
Scott; Rev. VIM. Bishop. ID. d., Salina;
Rev. w. N. Page, ID. d.. Leaven-
worth; Rev. j. b. Hewitt. Wichita;
Rev. J. NJ. Bachelor. Osborne; Rev. ID. ]
SkingerY. Sterling;J j. A. Myers, ESQ.
Mcpherson; II. T. Walker, ESQ, Beloit;
49, o4Oos CAtoWoS ANCN u. =. hen- u
dy, Rev. Il. NJ. OVerstreet. Hon. p. b.
Plumb, Hon. II. G. Cross, y. d. Swan,
esq, j. NJ. Griffith, esq, s. b. Riggs,
esq, Emporia; Hon. A. II. Horton was
elected president of the board and s. B.
Riggs, secretary.
Since then a uay mas scarcely passed /
that has not added some encouraging
feature to the enterprise.
Rev. ]. +. Hendy, d. D., has from the /
first been one OF the most diligent and
jealous workers for the college and to
him much of the success Of the lnstItu- |
tion is due. The first years
work of the school has already
passed with an enrolment of
seventy-three pupils. The prospects for
the coming school year are very fiAtter
ing and It is expected that during the
second year of the school from 1876 TO
loo pupils will be Ia attendance. Until
the college building is completed
the school will be conduct
ed in the old Normal boarding
halls that have been fitted up for that
special purpose. Should the work on
be buildings progress as the present in.