New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-08-11

alogy, biology zoology, entomology paleontology
and botany The field work in botany will be
done in the new Botanical Gardens in Bronx
Park since Professor Nathaniel w. Brtton, OF
the botanical department Of Columbia VIII De
the scientific director Of the garden. The Scher-
merhorn Building will probably be a composite
structure Of brick and stone, although the plans
are not yet completed. 1t will be 200 by so feet.
TO PROTECT THE BEAUTIFUL GROVE.
It is delightful to the eye and restful to the
observer to enter the extreme northern grounds
Of the college site. for here, stretching from
midway between acknowledgements
and Observation-Disclosures SITS. and ex-
tending from Amsterdam-ave to the Boulevard.
is the most beautiful grove within the limits OF
the city. The trees are oaks and elms. Not one
Of them seems less In height than 100 feet.
They are slim and slender well as tall. Their
trunks are clean and their branches begin high
up from the ground. One looking upward may
well imagine that there is him closely
woven covering Of green, While at his feet the
spaces from tree TO tree give ample view among
the oaks and elms and enable him to see far
away in the distance. So high are the trees and
so thick the foliage that the ground Is moist,
the grass grows heavy and delicious GOODNESS,
even Of sultry summer day. invests the spot.
The grove extends to ndred-and-twen-
tieth-st the northen limit OF the college grounds,
and now that 100-feet wide thoroughfare has
been made Of the street. one looking for par
ticularly fine sight while out for drive will
find 1t In passing through One-hundred-and-
twenteth-st
A MAGNIFICENT FENCE BEING BUILT.
The greatest care is being taken to protect this
grove of grand old oaks and ems. and with a
view to this probably the most magnificent
fence in the country is being built around the
northern portion Of the college grounds. This
fence is being built upon scale corresponding
to that around the Tueries. 1t is an iron struct-
ure, with great and beautiful posts of pink stony
Creek granite. These posts are twenty-three feet
in height, and are capped with carved vases. The
iron palngs were modelled and cast expressly
for the college. They are tipped with spear
heads, for which models were first made in wax,
and then plaster casts were made from these
for moulds. The fence extends north TO one
hundred nd twentieth-st. from One-hundred-
and-eighteenth-st., in Amsterdam-ave. and the
Boulevard and forms the northern boundary or
the grounds 1t will be 1850 feet long, and VIII
cost $50 900. The sections are terraced along the
Boulevard The distance between centres Is
forty feet.
The work Of widening One hundred-and-twen
teth-st is about completed. The college, be-
sides contributing forty feet Of this. Is doing the
work Of excavation at It's own expense There
Is much blasting of rock involved In this
Were One-hundred -and-twentieth-st to be wild
ened through TO the Riverside Drive TO the ex-
tent of 100 feet another beautiful drive would
be added to the connecting links between the
Morningside and Riverside parks.
Looking through the grove from One-hunored-
and twenteth-st, one Will In time see great
broad granite stairways leading to the univer-
here nor on any side will one see the back en-
trance to any building. For there will be no
back entrance Each structure Will face tow
ard the street well as toward the centre or
the grounds. On the four sides broad granite
steps will lead from the street to the first level.
and from this to the third will be still other
flights Of steps There will be three gates on
the One-hundred- and -twentieth-st side.
A BUILDING FOR MECHANICAL ENGINEER
ING PLANNED.
The plan Of the college building sites shows
one structure corresponding in position to that
of the Schermerhorn Building. Yet this cannot
be erected until some one follows Mr. Schermer-
horns lead and contributes $3OO.O OO This would
mean the erection Of building for mechanical
engineering, which now forms a part OF the
School of Mines. IL Is urged In its behalf that
while NewYork City is the greatest manufact-
uring city of the country there is no school of
Cornell University or the Massachusetts lnsti-
tule OF Technology In Boston. Columbia has
the requisite teaching force and endowment, so
a building fund would now find propitious en-
bodiment at the northwestern portion OF the
building site proper.
or the other buildings projected, four rectan-
gular structures. lying two of them south OF the
Schermerhorn Building. and two In the CORE
spondns position on the western side Oh the
grounds TO be 150x50 feet and Will ne used
Tor chemistry. physics. metallurgy. architecture.
mining and the applied sciences generally. me
uses OF the four corresponding buildings on the
southern side Of the grounds have not been as
signed.