New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-03-11
FRIENDLY TO COLUMBIA.
THE COLLEGE SUGGESTS COMPROMISE.
eEopEErY.owxERs CHANGE THEIR MINDS ABOUT

-ON NEf,S OilANp's iAi~At' ~ " ar
CUTTING THROUGH THE SITE
The Association of the Alumni Of Columbia College.
II II possibly help IT, does not intend Z" nave inc
intended BloOmingdae site FOR That INSTITUTION
cut up by the opening streets and thereby greatly
diminished in value if not made wholly useless for The
purpose OF the college Residents and taxpayers are
being appealed to, and the memorial which was sent
out the other Is being extensively signed by many
prominent citizens.
Following are the names OF some Of me peVpo
who have already signed the memorial for the pro
lection Of the proposed site from the opening OF one
hundred andninetcenth-st. through the property Au
custine Smith, Frederic r. Jones, H. Henry Lacombc'
samuel Sloan. John II. starin. VI. Taylor Pyne' H. t.
Clarke, Jacob H. Schif. A. NcwbOld Morris Johh
A. stewart. II. {. +. Koch. Jesse Hehsmal'
Henry Seligman. Jefferson Selignan. simon Wofhlsel'
Isidor worInser Charles II. Marshall. John H. PeIi'
Arthur ID. Weekcs. F. D. Weeses. Frederick p Forster
Walston IL. Brown. a. f. Primer. NcVbOd Norris
Casimr de X. Moore, Francis DelaNcd, Bowcs Oosae'
Isaac Newton Segman. samuel d. babc"'h' Ah~" ~
Hard J. Il. Houston, John W. Timp,on. General Horace
Porter, +. X. lain, Edward Cooper. Arson fhelps
stokes. the Rev. Dr. Morgan DIX. Abram ;, Hewitt
Franklin Bartlett, George Haven Putnam, Warner Van
Norden, III. L. Horton Frederick T. Brown. Cleveland
II. Dodge, James Mclean, Edward WOOD, Judge T.
Henry Dugro, james sclgman, >. spencer Tempe
Bowdoin Andrew NILS JOHN ii. Rlker, h. W. Glider,
Brander Matthews, William Carey, William d. sloane,
Daniel McKeever Walter Watson, IT,, ). H. Van Am
ringe Charles Mnzcsheimer Willard Parker, Henry
Driser, Thomas Egloston, +. Il. COudert, John a.
Weekes, IL. IL. Rogers. William Lummis, James r.
woodward. L. ~ Dickerson, Walter r. y. Jones, John
Brooks Leavtt, Eugene Dutilh. W. a. Camp, f. A.
Palmer, Ex Norton John Iarsen Rhoades, samuel
Shetlar, George William Warren. Wilson q. Hunt, Asa
S. Ingehart, Mortimer G. Addoms.
w. ). Sloan the secretary of the Association OF the
Alumni OF Columbia College, in speaking of the progress
of the work against the proposal " open up street
through the college grounds said yesterday In add
ton to the signatures which obtained TO The
memorial an active movement has also been begun
by residents Of the West Side, and especially by own
ers Of property situated the proposed Site This
is q property owners movement, and Is led by such
men Dwight II. Omstead, Charles T. Barney. Butler
IL. Bixby, Francis NJ. Jencks Francis speir, jrr
Johnston Livingston and others who are largely In
teesed IN property situated In th, particular locality.
These men were formerly among the most active of
those in favor of opening streets through the property
Of the insane asylum, but they regard the college as
different sort Of nelghbor and using all their
Influence prevent street from being opened,
to enable the college W make the purchase. Petitions
being circulated IN the various clubs in Harlem,
and strong feeling of friendiness has been evnced."
President seth Low OF the faculty, and Cornelius
Vanderbilt, Of the Board Of Trustees, Of Columbia, called
Oh MAY or Grant Yesterday aud "a conference in the
Mayors private room followed III relation 10 senator
Pnnhtt's bl which provides for cutting in two the
proposed new site OF the college by opening West One
bundrc0 and nineteenth ~ Mr.. Vanderbilt explained
the desire of the college trustees 10 purchase the
bloomingdaie Asylum property for the site Of the
university and deprecated the injury which the Op,
ing Of one hundred and ninetecnih-st would to
the plot destroying II for the purpose intended The
proposition was made that when the trustees became
Of the land, they should IN lieu Of the opening
Of any street through the premises cede TO the city
ueth-st. between the and the boulevard, 100
feet wide Onehundred and tWentieths is the north
ceved by the Mayor, and the agreement Will prob.
ably DO Incorporated III tie measure pending at Albany