Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-11-01


| BY PRoxY-ISCIDESTs OF THE TRIP
Yesterday was proud day for Bishop Hurst.
and he must have had a feeling of subtraction
as he received the commentator of the other
| fifteen ". f. bishops on the work hs has done
/ for the new university, and the good taste he
| has shown in the selection of the site. After
the morning session of the conference yester-
| day and after lunch had been disposed of by
! the visiting bishops, a number OF open and
/ close carriages drove up to the Hetrouolitan
/ Me. Church, SO that the neighborhood was
/ quite convinced that either a wedding or a
/ funeral the order of the day. The
neichbOrs were all wrong: tho Carriages were
/ on hand to take the party out to the site that
/ has been procured for the proposed institution
/ OF learning. All the bishops were provided for
IN addition to large number OF local ministers,
I churchmen and Few real estate men. The
/ trip out to the country was in charge Of = local
/ committee consisting Of 4. ". Tallm1dge
| chairman; q. W. +. Swartzeu and William ].
| Slbley. At o'clock the long line OF Carriages
started out by way of PeGusylvanue avenue
! town road and L0ughborough road to the
| scene OF future Methodist culture.
on The SITE.
| There the carriages were halted on the sum-
nit of the highest crest OF the site on a spot
/ 400 feet above the city, and overlooking tho
| country toward the north as far al Sugar Loaf
! mountain. forty-tige miles away. and the foot
| hills of the Blue Ridge, sixty miles off, Then
| all the visitors got out in order to better adj
| mlre the view of the site. To say that the
| bishops were pleased would be to express their
| evident pleasure IN very limited terms. They
| were interested in learning all about the extent
and boundaries of the land and their express
| slons OF praise and delight over the situation
and the magnificent outlook were warmer
much warmer, than the wind that came out
| of the north.
| DISPENSING WITH For NAL1TY.
| Plans had been made to celebrate the occa-
! sion III rather formal way, but few minutes
after the arrival of the visitors a sharp cold
wind began to whistle over the summit Of the
! hill, chilling everything but the enthusiasm Of
| the party. The bishops, who were unprspared
| for such cold welcome on their first visit TO
the university that-Is to-be, decided that they
/ could be as enthusiastic in the carriages going
/ home. so after facing the wind for q few min
utes all formaiIty was dispensed with and the
homeward journey was begun. A brief stop
was made at the old farm house on the eastern
side OF
/ THE EMBRYO CAMPUS
On the crest OF the site it is planned to have
| reservation for all tins, free from all build
| ings tina, would interfere with the magnificent
/ prospect. This summit 1t 10 proposed shall be
/ surrounded with circle o! trees and the pro-
I gram was for each OF the bishops TO plant a
I young tree yesterday to be known always as his
/ tree. But IL was too cold to wait for the trees
/ to arrive and be planted so that In
[ future generations, when each of those
/ trees Is known by the name OF its
. episcopal planter, there will be pleasant
little fiction involved somewhere. They either
4 have been planted by now or will be soon and
each will be appropriately named after one of
/ tue iIIustrlous visitors yesterday.
TREES OF SCRIPTURE
| The trees were selected on account Of their
biblical and classical significance. They are
I oriental plane trees, the sycamore of Scripture
and the same as tho sc under whose spreading
/ branches Socrates is reputed TO have taught in
the academic groves OF Greece. These particular
I trees, however. came from the Botanical Gar
/ dens IL this city, and were procured through
| the courtesy OF Commissioner Ross and Mr.
| VIM. L. Smith, superintendent Of the Botanical
| Gardens. and tine park commission and the
| transpiantIng Was under the direction of Mr..
| Truman Lanham OF the park commission.
| SOME ADVANTAGES OF THE GROUND.
On the grounds Of the university is a spring
OF splendid water that will probably be suffi-
Glen! to supply the new institution. 1t case il
| is not il is planned to tap ths reservoir At a
! point less than half q mile distant from the
center OF the campus. The Baltimore and Ohio
railroad already has a branch line surveyed
/ that Will run within . mile Of the university
| furnishing convenient means OF access for the
| materials Of the buildings that are to be
| erected and the students that are 70 study in
| them.