The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-03-17
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 l It is rumored that syndicate com posed of New Workers will in the neal l future erect on Chapel street, at the
 corner of Chapel and College street di- rectly opposite the Yale campus, s. ] 100000 ten story hotel. The matter is yet merely a rumor, and may prove as visionary as have some of the other ru- mors of skyscrapers, great hotels and stupendous theaters which from time
 to time have adorned the pages of To. cal papers.
 According to the rumor the aforesaid l s, 10000 hotel building will extend from the corner of College and Chapel streets to Warner hall. It is said that the plan of the syndicate Is to take over all of the property on Chapel street, op- | posite the Yale campus, extending from | the corner of College street past the en- trance of the Hyperion theater, to War
 her hall and on college street from the corner of Chapel street to the Yale Music hall.
 On this land are now standing two
 business blocks, the Union League club house and a block of private houses. It is said that a part Of the plan Is to
 give the club a home at the west end of the hotel, and that the theater en- trance will be underneath, and that the
 hotel will be designed partly for apart ment use.
 General Ford, president of the Quin- nipiac club. speaking of the rumor last
 night said that the proposed consolida- tion of the Quinnipiac club and the Union league club had no connection
 whatever with any project for the
 building of a big hotel building over
 the present site of the Union League club, although he said it had been inti- mated that in case such a structure was erected quarters would be provid- ed for the two clubs, if they consoli-
 date.
 The location which is said to have been decided upon Is an ideal one op- posite the famous Yale campus, and 1t has been said that it may, if erected
 be named "The Campus" The site is on the highest ground in the center of the city, being some forty feet above tidewater, and 1t is also of historical in terest. The Union league building for merly the Warner homestead) is on land that Washington tarried on, the house there being the mansion of Roger Sherman signer of the Declaration of Independence. It was a two and half story frame house similar in style to one just west. built later by MT Sher- man and occupied by his descendants, Henry Whites family The house. said to be the oldest in the city, was very substantially built of heavy hewn tim bers, low between floors; in fact the last occupant, A. Veitch, the well known florist, being a tall man. could hardly stand erect in the rooms,
 About half the land suggested for the hotel site was then owned by Yale col, Iege, and in 1859 was purchased by the late Gains F. Warner, the wealthy iron manufacturer, at about $l00 per front foot, He also bought an orchard of Professor Thatcher and other rear land so that he had nearly an acre and q half of land costing some s25,000, and in 1873 his son sold it for $i65000. The place was finely laid out in lawns and gardens with greenhouses and stables, and the substantial home now occupied by the Union League was built by Per kins X Chatfield A fine fountain stood where Champions store now is, and in winter, covered with ice. it attracted much attention. A large iron dog in the yard also afforded much amusement to people to See the chagrin of passing dogs when they found their teeth could make no impression on it. It is to be hoped the project will be carried out soon to completion, as it would be of immense benefit to the city, doubtless attracting many visitors here.