Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-10

dispositions, as well as the tastes, of the
children. great variety of designs have
been introduced. combining the unitarian
and the beautiful: and 1t is to the credit of
the board of education that some of the
most artistic Gothic, Romanesaue and Fiem-
ish designs have been adopted down town
among the slums. The most beautiful of
all the New York school houses is the Nor
rfs High Schooi-an example OF the purest
collegiate Gothic, with tower nearly 2no
feet high. II reminds you of the pictur-
esaue colleges at Oxford and the Hotel
Cluny In Paris. and school boards through
OUT the country would do well to send their
architects to inspect 1t and initiate its de-
Signs ana arrangements. Another building.
Oh amsterdam avenue. is imitation OF
the French chateau--of gray stone and gray
brick, with great deal OF ornamental iron
work There are several others of similar
merit which might be examined with great
profit by school boards in other PARTS of the
country.
Building for the Engineers.
Another new building which is worthy of
attention is now being erected on West s9th
street. near 9Th avenue-a gift from Andrew
Carnegie to the American Society of Enst
neers 1t has frontage of lis feet,
depth of 90 feet and is 2l2 feet high. with
fifteen stories club house with forty
lodging rooms. which is also part of the Gift
OF Mr. Carnegie, occupies two lots on 10th
street, Immediately In the rear, and will be
structures complete win cost a million and
half OF dollars. and are designed to be
perfect models of modern construction and
appropfiate 70 the purpose for which they
are intended All of the several engineer
ing societies are to be accommodated The
clVll engineers have the eighth floor the
mining engineers the ninth, the electrical
engineers the tenth, the mechanical a,yi
neers the eleventh. and the twelfth floor will
De given up to library of reference which
as 10 De one OF the largest and most COM
plete In the world. The lower floors are to
De devoted to lecture rooms. assembly halls
reception rooms reading and writing rooms
etc, with restaurant and smoking room
Inc architectural design, by Mr. Herbert n
1laie, is after the French renaissance and
the facade of granite. limestone and terra
GOTTA VIII be broken by five rows of tall
decorated windows. paneled Ia bronze
mere are three ornamental balconies and
.he ROOF cornice and freze will be supported
Dy series of columns and pilaste,-s rising
from the thirteenth story.
1t is unfortunate that this beautiful build
ing is situated in such a narrow street for
lost.
New Broadway Tabernacle.
The Broadway Tabernacle recently COM
pleted, is the most notable of the ,nodern
churches In New York. ano has attracted a
great deal of attention. because of certain
novelties which have been introduced In Its
construction. 1t is not so sensational. how
ever, as some of the newspapers have rem
resented 1t to be. The old site corner Of
Broadway and 34th street at the other end
of the block from the Waldorf Astoria
which cost $4,000 in 1857. was sold for 81
3Oo,00o three years ago, and with the two
ad1oining dwellings, has since been sold by
the purchasers for s2,5oo.oO0 to Part. and
I1lford, the grocers. who intend to erect
a model grocery store there The act1IaI in
crease in the value of the property In three
years has been 81 900 900.
The new tabernacle at the corner of
Broadway and J6th street cost 81 ODoeJa
The architecture is French Gothic and the
great tower. similar to that of trinity
Church IN Boston, and the memorial chapel
at Stanford University, rises 1870 feet. This
tower, which is the principal innovation
is placed at the rear of the building instead
of the 'front.' which seems unfortunate be-
cause 1t will soon be completely hidden by
the skyscrapers that are being erected
around it, There are gymnasums or
billiard rooms, swimming pools or club
rooms in this tower as has frequently been
represented, but its ten floors are used for
church work exclusively. On the first floor
is the chapel, seating 400 persons for
prayer meetings and similar assemblies:
and a small chapel for weddings On the
second floor are the Sunday school rooms,
arranged in a novel manner, with accom-
modatiOns for GOO pupils. The third sioor IS
also given up to the Sunday school for mis-
sion work. The fourth floor is assigned to
the women's societies and clubs, with par
Tors for social gatherings Inc men 5 So
cieties have the fifth floor: the sixth floor
has the pastors study, q room for the as
sistant pastor. reception rooms. room for
the trustees and other administration Of
fees. The seventh floor is allotted to tho
sexton and his family; the eighth floor Will
have a museum of relics and historical doc
uments relating to the church, while the
ninth and tenth floors have not yet been
assigned to any purpose. All of these
rooms are reached by two elevators. and
the ladies' social parlors have a dumb
waiter service to well-equipped kitchens in
the basement The auditorium, which is
entered from Broadway. is a beautiful room
and will seat 1.500 people.
The First Tabernacle.
The present church is no more an inno-
walton than was the first tabernacle built
Worth streets. That building was de-
stroyed by an incendary fire at the heighth
of the anti-slavery agitation, because white
and colored people were allowed to sit in
the same pews. The mob applied the torch.
the tiremen refused to eXtnguish the flames.
and the building was burned to the ground
1t rebuilt Immediately, however, and.
being the headquarters of .he abolitionist
sentiment was frequently attacked by
mobs. In 1857 the church was moved up
town TO the corner of Saith street and Broad
way and has occupied that conspicuous site
until recently. The pastor of the taber-
nace is the Rev. DR.. Charles E. Jefferson;
his assistant is the Rev. Charles r. Sey-
mour; Cornelius n. Bliss Is president OF
the board of trustees; the church member
ship numbers $40 and there are nineteen
missions under the care of the congrega-