Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-17

in 1904 added saessoe making total of
$3.50. 146 for rebuilding and extending the
gun factory, the power plant and other
shops at the Washington navy yard which
are now under construction. In the esti-
mates this year the Secretary of the Navy
asks money to put up the following new
Buildings:
Locomotive and crane house ........... g. 600
telegraph and fire engine station a. 0o
Firepioof building for models. ............ 10000
Iimpef Sneu 4uVuV
Tstll. .sa27 900
If these estimates are accepted by Con-
gress the total expenditures in new build
| ings at the navy yard will be $1.077. 146.
There several other enterprises of
minor Importance being carried on by the
| government, including the extension of the
| bureau of engraving and printing, which
| will involve an expenditure Of about $780,
| 600.
George Washington University.
The educational interests of Washington
are equally progressive. and promise ths
addition of several monumental structures
to the group of buildings have described.
The trustees of George Washington Univer-
sity have purchased the old Van Ness es-
tate on the banks of the Potomac at the
foot of 18th street. and propose to carry out
magnificent architectural scheme, sur
rounded by campus Of sixteen acres.
Hornblower & Marshall. the architects of
Washington. have submitted a general
scheme In harmony with the Burnham plan
for the Improvement of the Capitol, and 1T
has been approved by the Washington
Memorial Association. 1t involves a quad
rangle open to the south, composed of a
series Of disconnected buildings. On the
west side will be Corcoran Hall, containing
about forty class and lecture rooms with
ofhces for the professors. To the south will
be eight dormitories, costing about $4,000
each. and accommodating altogether two
hundred students. On 18th street ard i'm
| med1ately south of the memorial Building
now being erected by the Daughters of the
Revolution will be library. 74x15S feet in
size costing 100000. In the center of the
group Will stand the administration build
ing, to be known as the George Washington
Memorial. 1t will have a frontage of 30
feet, a depth of 40 feet. and will cost
SoO0,OOO. 1t will contain the offices of the
university, several lecture rooms and an
auditorium seating 1000 or ZOO people
south of it will be a club house. which will
be the social center of the university life
The main feature will be large dining
room. or commons, 56x5S feet in size. and
capable of seating 400 students, who will
take their meals there regularly. Surround
ing this stately apartment will be smaller
dlning rooms. Kitchens. reading rooms,
smoking rooms, Sitting rooms and other
apartments for social purposes including
halls for the fraternit1es and other student
and alumni organizations This building
will cost $4,000.
at Sl,2o0,OO0. The central memorial build
ing will be erected first and Prof Percy
ash IS now preparing program. Mr..
members Of the park commission with Ber-
nard r. Green of Washington, have been
asked TO serve as judges and select the
most suitable plan submitted by group of
compeutors, consisting of Hornblower &
Marshall. Washington; Parker & Thomas,
Boston; George B. Post, pelano & Aldrich
and Hale & Morse of New York
New Catholic College.
fhe Dominican fathers are erecting q
beautiful Gothic building of marble on the
Brookland road opposite the Catholic Uni
versity, which is to be called the College OF
the Immaculate Conception 1t will cost
about 100000 and accommodate about 40
students to be educated for the Dominican
order The college will be affiliated with
the Catholic University, but under separ-
ate management.
Trinity College. which stands in a slightly
spot near the Catholic University and Is
the highest institution of learning for Wo-
men under the care of that church In all
the world. Is so great a success that two
additlons have been made necessary within
ehe nrst three years of its existence. The
HTst enlargement now approaching COM
piet1on has cost $4,000. The second en-
largement, which will be begun at once.
VIII cost as much more, and when 1t is
completed there will be accommodations
for 300 Catholic young Women who other
wise would have been compelled to seek
an education in Protestant schools
School for Choir Boys.
The late Mrs. Harriet Lane Johnston.
niece of President Buchanan and the mis-
. tress of the White House during his admin
istration, In her will last summer bequeath-
ed the larger part of her estate for the
building and endowment of a school for
G G boys in connection with the proposed
t Irotes tant Episcopal cathedral. where
there Is already school for girls founded
by Mrs Phoebe A. Hearst Mrs Johnston's
idea was to train boys for vested choir
Tor the cathedral in school similar to
that of st. Pauls in London. The cathe-
dral trustees. with Bishop Satterlee and
Thomas Hyde, the treasurer, have decided
TO invest 100000 of the legacy in a build
ing which VIII stand on Massachusetts ave-
nue. near the Tennallytown road, little
southeast OF st. Adams Church, and south
west OF the Peace Cross. Designs have
been submitted in competition by Mr..
Vaughn of Boston and Messrs. Yorke &,
Sawyer of New York and a choice will
be made within a few days. Both designs
are of the architecture known as collegiate
Gothlc. Inc material OF the building will
be stone, and 1t will accommodate about
one hundred boys. The school will be of
a high standard. similar to st. PauPs at
Concord. Westminster and Lawrenceyille.
and furnish complete preparation for the
leading colleges.
AAS -. "A. w. oullQ1nP.
The Daughters of the Revolution mr.
chased plot of ground some wears ago
at the corner of 18th and d streets. lust
south of the Corcoran Art Gallery. where
eney are now erecting a memorial hall de-
signed by E. P. Casey. When completed ac-
cord1ng to the accepted plan it will have
cost S4OO,OOo but the daughters are too pru-
Gent to go into debt. and will stop building
When they lave expended the $100 900 now
IN nand upoo an assembly hall and Offices
winch are to De completed for their regular
annual a meeting. The design includes a IL
III y. q nistorical museum, an auditorium
that VIII seat =, 800 people, accommodations
c cGr the ofhcers and committees of the So
ciety ana apartments for receptions and
other social entertainments '0
,,, Inc following is recapitulation of the
n;uiiolngs mentioned now under construc-
tion and those that have been decided upon.
ana ana Inose which have been proposed for,
each: ~ INC eosl oi
Nor BUILDINGS BUILDINGS UNDER CONSTRUCTION.
National Museum - - i5' oUo , VVO
representatives office building. .. 3 500 00D
600. 900