New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-06-22
BOTANICAL GARDEN PLANS
ADOPTED BY THE PARK bOAhO-"Ss
STILES DIssENTs AND EXPLAINS
rIyc VOTE

=, tho Park Board yesterday the
plans for the buildings for the new ho'"'p'a. -.
den In Bronx Park, which were 'ane' ~ 49,
las; meeting were adopted AT the open.hs =, s"s
meeting Mr. Miles, representing the pe"'
Property owners Association, ore" '"e 80. =.
NJ the members OF the Board to the Iac' TIM. "
the plans OF the buildings Scott-ave. nao n', 49,
placed. He said that an agreement eHi' 1880,
the Park Board and the New-forK Gnu
Railroad Company that the company s'ou r-.
a bridge across the tracks at that avenue ~"
commissioners had It recorded that they fes..ve
tho right 70 determine as to the placing OF "'''
way at the Scott-ave. entrance. which, ace''."s
to the plans submitted, has only pathway "'''e
Of a roadway. ,.. IN
The commissioners made a number OF chahe.s -
the plans before adopting them Comm'ss'one' go,
refused to vote In the affirmative ana ,ne ILL., ILL.,
uere adopted by the votes Of President Ac"'"'~N
and Commissioners Ely and Cruger
Professor ~ l.. Brtton secretary Oh inc I'm
mttee on Plans Of the Botanical society," eAp'a.~
the position Of the proposed buildings III ''e -.
The plans had been altered matera"y u
objections OF the committee of experts winch
eron,oved nv the Park Board. The home OF the
director and all other dwellings had been e'i'n'
mated from the map This left only "'e '"~
ings, all told, to be erected , A..
The whole group Of buildings was TO DC III '"0
southwestern portion of the park. Inc 'na'. 'S
scum building was on the map on high iahd e@s'
NJ the Southern Boulevard. The museum puhoihs
Is 10 be 900 feet long and 200 feet wde' i'S Wv
posed location is about nine hundred Ieet rum wy
Bedford Park railroad station. The site ID '"en'y
feet higher than the ground on which the s,a''o'
f. The horticultural building which is 10 Ne Wv
feet long and 300 feet deep. is TO be west OF inc
Boulevard and about fourteen hundred Feet "es'
nv south OF the museum building. The power-house
"a 70 be about five hundred feet north OF tne
horticultural house. Both the horticuiturai anu '
power houses had been placed on the east ''ue
the Boulevard until objections had peen faiseu'
They are now to be almost on the border Oh '"e
park and will not be more than two nunureu iees
AWAY from St Johns College. The propagaun"
house and the stables will be in the extreme sou'n
erly portion of the park. -. =.
Mr. Stiles in explaining his vote said ina. nc
considered the plan adopted an Improvement ..
certain particulars upon the original one presenter
by the directors of the Botanical Garueh' Ahe'o
were private dwellings in the first pan' ana theso
Objectionable features were now remo'eu' Aeo''
the power-house, with Its tall chimney "a' '"~e'
out of the border of the hemlock grove anu se'
close 20 the railroad. The beautiful dale OF dour
placed would have obliterated - i1r tne s sro
h afTn baeiv placed. and he thought that ade-
quate study had been given 70 the 6oTndarie e
the design was faulty both for garden purposes
and for popular pleasure ground Mr. Stiles
SAID that asot the PARK Board had advice from
cs Sf r. esns
the objections made by Professor Sargent, ana
Wessrs Olmsted, Hastings and Parsons nag NOT
been met by the notifications Of the plan Ihese
gentlemen st disapprove OF the desig sHnerts
OF recognized standing. ,....
The National Sculpture Society in communicc-
tiou decided the fate OF several applications 70
place monuments in the park. - . a.
one was from Bruce Price, president or inc
Municipal Art Society. who asked that place pe
allotted for the Richard Morris Hunt memorial
monument suggesting that the monument De
placed in the Fifth-ave. wall opposite the Lenox
library which Mr.. Hunts principal WORK
r,;.o oyaJ fhp
gested site. o, r,.-,.,
Another application was from General Daniel
Mount Tom. at Elghty-second-st.. In Riverside
PARK be assigned for the monument TO be erected
fo the officers and members of the 18th Regiment
who died in the war The experts disapproved the
II was decided to lay strips Of asphalt across
the plaza at One-hundred- and-tenth;st ana rttn:
ave so as to make through cycle highway OF
Eifth-ave from Eighteth-st. 10 Harlem.