New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-11-22
FOR UPTOWN COURTHOUSE
MUNICIPAL ART SOCIETY'S CITY
HALL PARK PLANS

The Municipal Art Society's recommendations for
the removal from City Hall Park OF all the build
lngs except the City Hall and the County Court
House were made public yesterday. The Tribune IL
may be remembered. last spring told of these
recommendations, giving the reasons advanced by
the Art Society for wanting the changes made. A
special committee of the Art Society has had the
subject In hand for some months This committee
consisted OF Calvin Tompkins, chairman of the
committee on parks; Charles c. Haight chairman
OF the model city committee. and Charles R. Lamb
chairman of the committee thoroughfares
The committee recommends that all the buildings
In the park except the City Hall and County Court
House be removed; that the ground area of the
county Court House be not extended: that the
property between Chambers and Reade SITS extend
ing from the Hall Of Records to BROADWAY he
acquired by the city
The recommendations follow the suggestions of
TINS committee since the administration of Mayor
'Tliroy' and also the suggestions made by Con-
ToIer Grout. paving the way for a large municipal
building in the block to be condemned
Justice Truax. of the Supreme Court chairman
OF the Justices committee on the Improvement of
he county Court House. said in regard TO the first
recommendation of the committee that interior
alterations to the Court House the use of tenn
porary quarters the north side of Chambers-st
would solve the problem that both suggestions
were highly impractcable. The justices could not
approve, he said of the courts being separated-ons
JuSuce IN one place and another justice in another
place He said that under the discarded plans for
House the new portion of the building would have
run 20 feet in the direction of the City Hail. and
that II the work of construction were carried on
PIoperIy the erection of the extension would not
upt the sitting of the the present
pullulLs. IL mad also been proposed. he said. to
HdEt TWO additional stories placed on the present
nuLILlS' ana II was contemplated TO have this
WORK. done during the summer vacation, so there
would De no interruption because of II.
w nile, said Justice Truax. 1T might be posi-
pie 70 erect two additional stories on the existing
pulIdlnS, these two stories would not give us any
larger accommodations than now have and they
would pc subject to the structural objections
as are found TO the building at present. l may add
on pehaIt OF the committee that do not think any
such addition to the building would at all give the
accommodations required. and certainly they would
not De worth the expense entaied. The plans which
We adopted would, in opinion, have given the
supreme Court satisfactory accommodations for
many years come"
Inc plans which the justices advocated were de-
signed by Horgan & Slattery and rejected by Mayor
Low. -
justice IruaX also said.
MESS our plans carried out il is useless to
attempt to improve the present County Court
Rouse, and new building-a completely new Court
HFouse-shopld be built; at least as far uptown
IWenty-s1Xth-st, which If the city increases at
the present ratio will practically be Wall
ST. IN a rev years as Chambers-St. is now"
II mas been argued that if Court House is
built II should be erected downtown be con-
ventent TO lawyers.