The San Francisco call., 1897-07-18
THE PLANS
FOR THE
UNIVERSITY
Europe and the East En-
thuSiastic About
Them.
DELEGATES WARMLY RECEIVED.
At Least Twenty-Eight Build
ings Will Be Required
for the Ideal.
IDEAS on THE MODE OF COMPETING.
Regent Reinstein Returns From
Europe and the East-Will Soon
Make Report.
IDEAS on THE MODE OF COMPETING.
Regent Reinstein Returns From
Europe and the East-Will Soon
Make Report.

At last something has been determined
in the way of formulating the plans Tor
the magnificent buildings which will at
some day in the future grace the Univer-
sity of California grounds and be an ever
lasting ornament and pride to the Golden
State. Nothing definite has been deter
mined on however, for the time was too
short to do that when such stupendous
undertaking was the theme, but the very
methods gone about to secure the plans
for the buildings must prove of great in
terest to the public al larg'.
Attorney J. B Reinstein of The legal
firm of Reinstein d Eisner and one of
the Board OF Regents of the university,
has just returned from a visit of two
months and half to the Eas' ern States
and TO the principal cities of Europe. the
trip being partly professional and partly
with a view to further the obtaining of
the permanent architectural plan OF the
grounds and buildings OF the university,
for which Mrs. PLebe Hearst has appoint
ed three trustees-Governor Budd, repre-
senting the State; Professor William
Carey Jones, representing the university;
ana Mr.. Reinstein, representing the
Board o! Regents. She has also furnished
the necessary moneys for getting such a
plan.
The leading authorities of Europe and
the East think that at least twentV-eight
buildings will be required for an ideal
university. Marble and stone are the IA
VUred materials.
Last winter Mr. Maybeck teacher of
architectural drawing in the university,
and Attorney Reinstein visited the lead
ing architects IN the principal cities of
the Eastern States, and Mr.. May beck has
been Tor about seven months in Europe,
seeing the great architects, artists and
andscape-gardeners of Europe, with a
view Of obtaining their ideas in reference
to Mrs. Hearst's scheme, and with view
of enllsting their aid and sympathy for il.
From about the middle of NAV 10 the
end OF June Attorney Relnstein has been
with Mr.. Nav beck, partly on the same
errand. They took with them q topo-
graphical map # the grounds and build
ings OF the university and photographs
taken with an idea of illustrating every
portion of the grounds and the situation
OF the university with reference to the
surrounding country.
They had lantern slides of the situation,
which were exposed in the different cities
OF Europe as well as in the principal citir s
OF the Eastern States last winter.
The two have been to London, Edin-
buTgh, Manchester and TO the towns and
cities of Great Britain containing TIE prin-
cipal monuments OF architecture, and
have interviewed the leading architects
artists and landscape gardeners of Eng
land. They have been in Paris, Brussels,
Hamburg, Denmark, Berlin, Dresden,
Leipsic, Prague, Frankfort, Strasburg,
Heidel berg, Munich, Vienna, Buda-Pesth,
Milan, Verona, Venice. Rome, Florence
Geneva and other cities, interviewing &
lnad icfo and Inn IN
gardeners of those cities, and listing
their interest and aid in the scheme
OF obtaining this architectural plan,
and are more than gratified with
the result; for the greatest and most
renowned architects, artists and land
scape gardeners and those most promi-
nent all over the world in educational
matters have not only given most cheer
fully and most freely tnelr time and at
tention, suggestion and counsel, but have
received the proposition with un bounded
enthusiasm, and have entered into its ac-
com p.ishment as zealously as though it
were matter in which they were person
ally emp.oyed. And all this has been
done without any hint or thought of Pc
cuniary recompense, and everywhere
Maybe and Reinstein have been told
that The obtainment OF this plan afford S
the greatest opportunity that has ever
been offered in the history OF architecture.
The beauty of the site OF the university
the large area OF its grounds and their
situation on a gently rising hill over
looking the Golden Gate, and a glorious
panorama of the bay of San Francisco,
and the surrounding bills, and the lac c
that Mrs. Hearst has not restricted the
amount of money necessary to obtain tn is
plan, all tend to make great opportunity,
which the architects. artists and land
scape gardeners of tbs world have appre-
cialed thoroughly and quickly.
The method OF obtaining the plan will
be determined by The three trustees, but
the general i'm preston of those consulted
seems 10 De, though nothing has be- n de-
cided as yet, that there will be an inter-
national concurrence Of architects. with
the aid OF artists, sculptors and landscape
gardeners, to bring about the best results.
There Will be programme, as i. is tech
nlcaily called, OF the requirements of the
university, and this, together with the
necessary dala-such as a typographical
map OF the grounds, photographs, elc.-
would be sent to the various architects of
the world, who would send in, by a given
date, preliminary drawings, not in great
detail, but something In the nature of a
axe ch, from which a certain number of
the best would be selected, ard their an
thors requested TO enter into second
competition, with more definite and de-
tailed and com prehensive drawings. the
best one Of which will be selected as the
permanent plan for the grounds and
buildings. The idea Tor the first competi-
tion is to have German. an Englishman,
a Frenchman and an American, togei he r
with university regent act as the judges
In the record petition they could have
the power to name four more.
This programme has been in course of
preparation in Paris now for some time
by Professor Guadet, who has had, per-
haps, the largest experience on such sub
jects OF any person living, and Messrs.
Mayb beck and Reinstein have had frequent {
consultations with him in this regard.
The programme should be finished within
the leading authorities Of the world .or
suggestions and criticisms, and will then,
together with the,e suggestions and crit
cisms, be finally passed upon by the trus-
tees nr0Yided the trustaes admit the