Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-04-27

stone, trimmed with Woodstock granite The
roof will be slate, with copper cutters and rain
pipes. The central portion Of the building
| will rise story higher than the wings, which
are to be but three stories high,
and will be surmounted by statue
of Christ The Light of the World"
The centrrl or main portion of the building
will have front of 70 feet and depth Of 1Oi
feet. The wings each extending out 30 feet
from the central building, will have a depth
will be IL feet, Of the first and second stories
each 10 feet of the third story lS feet in the CEN
trail building and Is feet on the wings. and Of
the fourth ssory in the central building l6
feet The main entrance in the front of the
central part Of the structure will be ap-
preached by fight Of granite steps and open
into a large vestibu!e finished in fine cut
granite. The interior walls of the basement
will be lined with pressed brick, and the entire
basement floor will be granolithic, The most
substantial materials and thorough methods of
construction are to be employed throughout
the building. The first story floors will be of
heavy timbers, with flooring three inches thick.
while the central large hall will be spanned
by, steel beams arched with brick
and encaustic tiling. Similar materials
will be used all through the building
The interior finish will be either OF ash or
quartered oak. The stairways will BIO of iron.
Besides the main entrance there will be an
entrance at the end of each wing. Tho plans
and plumbing. The heating will be by means
of heat conducted in pipes from power house
at some distance from the building.
Mr.. Z. i. Baldwin, who was the architect of
the Divinity building, made the plans for the
new building and Mr.. Edward Brady will su-
perintend the work Of construction.
HOW THE NEW BUILDING WILL BE APPoRrIoSEp.
The new building will present much more
than double the present capacity of the
university, for no part of this structure will be
used for domestic purposes. Every inch of the
space will be devoted to the cause of learning
In the present or Divinity building much space
is necessarily taken up by the apartments of
students, the refectory and other domestic
offices. The basement Of the new structure will
be finished and the rooms used for meetings of
societies, for store rooms and for other pur-
poses in connection with the university work.
On the main floor in the center will be the Of
fees OF the rector, the registrar and other
university officials, now accommodated in the
Divinity building. The whole eastern wing
from the ground up will be a great
biological laboratory. with the necessary
lecture and library rooms. In the basement
will be rooms for the reception of specimens
and on the floors above rooms devoted to vivi-
section and to other purposes incident to bio
logical research. In the west wing, on the first
floor, will be accommodated the schools of law
and social sciences. On the second floor in the
center will be an assembly hall Ga by A feet,
capable Of seating 600 people, in which for
time at least the public exercises of the uni
versity will be held. 1t is intended ultimately
to extend the central portion Of the building
back and providing in this way for a great
assembly hall that will hold thousands
On this second floor in the west wing will be
lecture halls and rooms devoted to the de-
partments Of art and languages. philology and
philosophy. In the east wing connected with
the biological laboratories will be museums Of
and lou nr,d lab fn~ la.
biological research.
On the third floor the west wing will be
given up to anthropology, history and compar
tive religion. while in the center space will be
provided for an anthropoioglcal museum. The
east wing on this floor as on the others will be
given to the biological department.
On the fourth or upper floor Of the center
building will be Photographic laboratory.
OTHER BUILDINGS
The intention is to ultimately devote the en-
tire building to the school of philosophy and
letters. The scientific departments, which
will occupy much of the space upon the COM
pletion of the building, are regarded as only
temporarily housed there, as buildings will be
erected especially for their Use. So with the
administrative offices. 1t is intended hereafter
that separate building shall be erected as the
rector's residence, i'll which all the offices con-
nected with the work of administration will
be located. The erection of two buildings to
accommodate respectively the physical and
chemical laboratories will be commenced in a
few months and as they are to be smaller than
the Mcmahon hall now going up it is planned
to have them completed at the same time SO
that when the university year begins in the fall
of 1894 the scientific schools can commence
their work with ample equipment
Special attention, it Is stated, is to be paid to
social sciences, and the faculties will be COM
posed almost entirely of Americans. Distin-
guished spe cialists will be drawn from famoua