Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-24
Progress and improvements
About the Institution.
stewart Hall, the Museum
Gallery, Etc, Etc.
of the Campus, Beautiful
Drives, Lakes, Basins, Base Ball and
Tennis Lawn-Four Hundred Or
namental Shade Trees Planted.

yOunS IueH WHO IcC6INC 7JnSlT cuuCd-
ton here and go out into the world
to achieve success. The work of
building up the University has beeu
slow but steady and thorough, and
the many brilliant young men sent
out are now making character for
the institution with telling effect,
and its prosperity is now easy and
assured, consequently it is pleasant
to note its progress and improve
ment. Those who attended the
splendid concert the other night, one
of the best entertainments of the
kind ever witnessed in the city,
were struck with the Improvements
on
STEWART CABINET HALL,
which has been reprinted and pa
pered and gallery extended around
the entire wall, suspended by iron
rods from heavy beams above, which
has been arranged especially for the
museum. 1t is well lighted and
now contains fourteen large cases of
specimens, minerals and natural Gu
riosities for scientific study. Six of
these cases, contributed by Rev. j.
w. Stagg and friends, of Nashville,
are of exquisite antique oak and so
arranged as to give perfect light
through the cases. The other eight,
presented by Rev. DIR. Shearer, are
cherry, very handsome and gotten
up in the same style with shelves
and glass in both sides. 1t is quite
interesting to an investigating mind
to go through this gallery and ex-
amaine the very many curious speci-
mems and fossils.
The hall is well seated and fitted
up for public exhibitions and will ac-
commodate about 500 people. The
rOstrum is well arranged, extend
ing across full length of one end of
the house. The library is on first
floor, west end of the building, and
is lighted on three sides. 1t contains
5000 volumes, books of every char
acter, one very large case of
scientific works, contributed by Prof.
VIM. M. Stewart, founder of the in
stitution. Chancellor Hersman pro-
poses putting in several tables and
making it a most convenient and
pleasant reading room.
The University building proper
has also had an overhauling, which
gives it a cheerful and pleasing APP
pearance.
THE CAMPUS AND COLLEGE GROUNDS
Contain twenty-four acres. Six acres,
on which the buildings are located,
fronting College street, is beauti-
full lawn well shaded with majestic
forest oaks, and is a most command
ing view. There is a gravel drive
through this lawn, circling around
by the University buildings and
entering the campus of eighteen acres
in the rear. The campus at once
presents view of the skillful land
scape artists work it lays in knobs
and basins, with winding drives,
following the ridge ways all through
the grounds. These grounds are
uniformly graded and covered with
stone gravel, and two beautiful lakes
add a romantic touch to the whole
scene.
Some two or three acres have been
laid off and graded for base ball
grounds, and in beautiful basin
near the center is the Tennis lawn.
There are six knobs or elevations
that have been laid off for hand
some buildings-houses for the pro-
fessors, while the entire grounds
have been planted in
ORNAMENTAL AND SHADE TREES.
400 trees of different varieties have
been planted during the fall, and
they are all putting out beautifully
not half dozen will be lost in all of
that number, and still more will be
put out next fall. Some rare selec-
tions have been made. Among the
most beautiful are SchwerdIer's blood
red maple and six or seven other
varieties of maple, purple leaf beech,
cut leaf beech, red Towering dog
wood, Irish jumpers, weeping elm,
red towering horse chestnut, purple
leaf hazel, mountain chestnut, hack
berry, Lombardy poplar, Kilmar-
mock weeping willow, European
elder, Southern cypress, elm, sugar
tree, American and European lindens,
tulip trees and many other varieties.
The grounds are set in grass and are
being constantly improved and cult
waited. Over $1,000 have already
been expended in this work, and i'm
a few years more this will be park
for ClarksviIlp. SIRE pnouph