New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-06-09
TO NINE UNDER CAMPUS.
Columbia Students UyM Sink Shaft
-AdOIph Lezcisohn's Gift.

The plans for the new building for the School
OF Mines Of Columbia University for which
Adolph Lewisohn, president Of the United Met
ais Selling Company, recently gave $3.50 600
were given out yesterday. They provide for q
Tour story and basement hreproof building sim
lIar In design and material to other buildings
on the Columbia campus 1t will be placed on
the Broadway side of the quadrangle. just south
OF Earl Hall, with which it will be connected by
a tunnel
When the new building is completed-and the
work on IT will be rushed during the summer
Columbia mining students will not have to take
summer trips to Colorado and other Western
States to study the practical side of mining. A
mine is 20 be dug under the university campus
and in it each student will have his turn at
tunnel driving and shaft sinking.
The professors have discovered that the rocky
formation of the heights which the campus
stands contains a slight percentage OF copper
This will. it is expected, furnish ore for smelt-
ing. assaying and other operations.
The entrance TO this first college mine will be
from the sub-basement of the building. A.
shaft. feet by l.. will be sunk TO a depth Of
fifty feet or more and tunnels run out from it.
The shaft will be equipped with modern ore
hosting machinery. and compressed air and
other modern devices will be used in the mining
work.
1 nave large mining interests, said Mt
Lewisohn yesterday. and have been consider
ing for some time what I could do TO help the
mining industry in general way and to ele
vate the profession of mining engineering. Co
Iumbia already had a school OF mines which
doing excellent work under unfavorable
conditions, and it seemed advisable to help them
along. I have given the university $4,000 for
the construction of a building for the mining
students It will be large enough to accommo-
date all who will care to take up the study and
as complete as can be designed. My idea has
been to make the knowledge of practical min
ing available TO the greatest possible number.
Ny gift is for the building alone. and does not
provide for the equipment. much OF which the
university already has"
Arnold W. Drummer. architect. No. 80 Union
Square. has drawn plans which have met with
the approval OF Mr.. Lewisohn and the univer-
sity authorities. The structure is intended as
a companion to the engineering building. and
viii resemble 1t IN a general way. The base
ment win be OF granite. and the rest Of the
building of Harvard brick. The decorations will
be Indiana limestone, window arChitraves and
corner Quoins OF the same material There Will
be 4 striking portico of the Roman-Doric order
with two tlUted columns. The building will be
- by l45 feet In size and fireproof in every
particular.
In the sub basement. beside the entrance TO
the mine. there VIII be a furnace room two
stories high. for smelling and assaying work
In the basement Will be the crushing and sam
ping labora tories. and a soom for ore dressing
machinery ON the first floor will be- the
metallurEiCal laboratory, small furnaces and
ore testing rooms. Two museum rooms will be
on the second floor. one for mining and mining
machinery and one for metals. The third and
fourth floors Will have large draughting rooms
student and graduate research laboratories. and
library and conference rooms