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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1909-05-02

In other words. the group formed
practically a quadrangle open to the
south. with the City Hall the central figure
in the southern exposure and the giant
tower dominating the whole and holding
together or unifying the group. The
tower was to have been blank for the
most part Of it's height, partly in order
not In any way to detract from or conflict
with the City Hall, the most beautiful
building In the city, and also because
1t was TO supply storage space for the city
records. The tower was TO have been
the hall of records Of the city.
Mr.. Atwood received 5000 for his
effort, but the plan vas not executed
because the Legislature. in response
to q public demand for the preservation
Of the park space, refused to sanction
such an encroaohment.
Again. in 1893. there was another COM
p~etition with the aim Of providing
New York with an adequate system Of
public buildings for municipal and court
purposes. This in its result ranked as
one Of the most important and success
full architectural competitions ever held
IN th1b. country
There we're ITO competitors, who spent
more than $2O0. 900 in the preparation of
their designs. Six Of these were selected
by a professional jury as the most meri-
t~orious, and after a delay Of q year first
place was awarded TO the late John h.
Thomas and he received a prize Of s 1000
s? 600 more than that given Mr.. Atwood
some years earlier.
Once more the Legislature. in response
10 popular objection to park encroach-
ment. declined to authorize the carrying
out OF the plan. but as an outgrowth Of
his preparation OF this design Mr., Thomas
received the commission for the con-
struction OF the present Hall OF Records,
which was substantially a part OF his
general City Hall design. transplanted to
another site.
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and this has grown to double its former
proportions. or the various plans sug-
gested for the solution OF this problem
the design here presented to-day has
never before been published. 1t was
prepared by Israels d Harder, who were
employed TO work it up by a committee
Of tie Hall Of Records Association, the
association which secured the selection
OF the present site for the Hall OF Records
and procured the signatures of coo firms
to a statement approving plans for a
court house on the adjoining site on the
north side Of Chambers street and ex-
tending to or toward Broadway.
The committee was composed OF William
Manice, S. Stanwood Menken, Judge
~Isaacs, Sidney Wood and Thomas H.
Baskerville. The design here reproduced
takes in the Hall OF Records, presents a
similar building tat the Broadway end
Of the block, this wing not t. be higher
than the Records wing, and has in the
centre a higher section to provide the
necessary accommodations, the whole
being, as may readily be seen. architec-
turally in keeping with the City Hall as
to the main features Of the lower mas.
Our Colonial City Hall is Of course Italian
Renaissance; the Hall Of Records and the
design here presented for the courthouse
building are a French adaptation Of
Italian Renaissance, the French impulses
appearing in and about the roof, while in
the lower sections n may easily see the
motive Of the City Halls main section
practically reproduced.
Roughly speaking the requirements
for the lev court house indicate a building
about two and a half times the size Of the
present Hall Of Records. They are, in
general. forty-two court rooms about
so feet by so and rs feet high-in other
words each our room being about the
size Of four rooms in an ordinary Office
building thrown into one, for the court
room height means practically two stories:
Judges robing rooms, half as many jury
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rooms as court rooms, consultation rooms
for counsel, rooms for the assembling Of
witnesses, provision for prisoners. public
officers. clerks and the press, two law
libraries, Judges chambers, a restaurant
with kitchen for the Judges; rooms for
interpreters and stenographers, a system
OF separate elevators and private en-
frances and corridors for the Judges
use. DC.
In calculating the consideration which
led to the preparation Of the plan here
shown, and commenting upon he pro-
posal for a building or the Tweed site,
julius Harder said yesterday:
Restricting the area Of a new building
in City Hall Park to the area Of the present
Tweed Court House would necessitate,
il the new court house were to fulfil there
quirements which are specified, the cree
ton Of a building at least 250 feet in height,
or equivalent to an ordinary Office building
Of about twenty stories, So far As the
uses Of court rooms are concerned there
can be no more objection to a skyscraper
court house than to q sk~yscraper Office
building. And the problem Of design
might result az meritoriously in the one
case as in the other.
But the public may rightly consider
that a skyscraper in place Of the present
Court House constitutes quite al much
an e~ncroachment, in effect, upon park
space as would an extended area on the
surface Of the ground. The extent Of
this encroachment may be more easily
realized, perhaps, II expressed in terms
OF the height and depth Of the present
Court House, for the equivalent Of this
tall building 30 spread out would occupy
the entire City Hall Park front oil Cham
bers street from Broadway to Centre
street.
Should the proposition be established
in this case that n comparatively low
building may be replaced by Il skyscraper
without constituting an encroachment
upon park space, We may be prepared for
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CHANGES IN THE CHOIRS
NEW SINGERS WHO WILL RE
HEARD IN CITY CHURCHES.

Salary Cutting and RetrenchmcEt In
60 Good-Methods OF Some On
ganists Criticised Plans OF Singers.
II n one has figured that the engage
ment Of Mrs. Rider-Kelsey at S. 900 a year
by the First Church OF Christ, Scientist.
Indicated prosperity in the choir lofts OF
this region. it needs but a little investi-
eating to disclose that the outlook for the
year beginning May 1 is darker than it
was o year ago. So far as Mrs. Kelsey is
concerned the church which has am
ployed Ter seems to have chosen to pay
to her alone what other first class
churches. from a musical point OF view.
are accustomed to pay to a quartet, FOR
she will have no assisting singers.
In some churches in the metropolitan
district there has been salary cutting and
some more or less prominent singers
will begin the year without an engage
nent. Church singers say that when
there Is need 81 retrenchment in a church
the choir is first attacked.
Churches are charitable to their
pastors, their sections and the heathen."
said q choir singer, but they draw the
line at the choir. There charity stops and
business. as a rule. enters in.
Some OF us think that, particularly
In the cases OF women sin gers who have
no other source Of income than their
music. churches should welcome the oppor-
tunity TO help keep a deserving young
woman out OF the department stores or
musical comedy or opera choruses: but
that point OF view seldom seems to be
that Of the congregations"
When church choir singers meet and
GOSSIP one can learn that there has been
OF late an increase in the number OF organ
lists who have added the side issue OF teach
ing voice production and coaching in
terpretation to their stock in trade. There
is OF course great temptation for an organ
ist to do this. particularly In the case OF
those employed in the most prominent
churches. Singers believe that IL such
organists only had abundant opportunity
10 learn of their really exceptional ability
they would be quickly engaged; and
how could these organists be 30 readily
convinced as in the course Of a sea son oil
Lessons and coaching?
Some OF the most prominent organists
will not do this. In some cases they dc
not consider themselves competent to dc
IL and In other cases they realize the
motives OF aspiring singers and will not
put themselves in the position OF being
under obligations to them. Other organ.
ists trade upon these conditions and dc
their best to fulfil the expectations oil
their pupils.
One Of them informed a basso candi.
date this spring that he was sure the bassc
could secure O certain engagement II
the organist could go to the music COM
mittee and assure IL that the candidate
would study with the organist in order
TO eradicate several slight im%perfections
that alone held back the prefer Of an en-
gagement. Knowing the situation, the
basso said that it would give him pleasure
TO coach with the organist. and so he sub
s~equently received the offer.
The soprano and contralto Of this quar-.
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many and diverse applications OF the
theory. There can be no question N to
the temper Of the public with regard to
the parks. and the City Hall Park 10
probably more valuable to the city OF
New York than any other.
The cost would be practically the same
whether for a building 400 feet long and
$50 feet high, or $50 feet long and $50 feet
high. Tho distinction rightly expected
to be expressed by an important public
building is to be gained in this case not
by a repetition Of the characteristics OF
the neighboring buildings, but rather by
contrast with them.
mo skyscraping tower could SUCCESS
fully compete with the multitude Of other
skyscrapers already surrounding this ate
and which will be added to in the future.
Conditions have changed since the time
more than a score Of years ago whom
Atwood designed his tower; thero were no
s~kyscrapers then.
a design Of this chars cter rising from
the grass plot OF City Hall Park seems an
anomaly in itself. 1t is a very different
thing from a skyscraper rising abruptly
lTOUl u VAIN bOtV VVA WV ottNUto,
whore q gets the idea at once that there
is no direction in which it could reach but
upward.
"On the other hand, a comparatively
quiet horizontal mass fronting upon the
cleared park area and expressing the
quality Of dignity and repose, rather than
that Of strenuous aggressiveness, contains
the better promise of appropriate dis
tinction for this structure. So it seems
to me.
The site adjacent to the Hall Of Records
and bounded by Broadway. Chambers
and Reade streets, is of sufficient area
for the erection OF q new court building
of q size to provide the courts required
il the Broadway wing is OF the same height
as the Hall OF Records and the central
portion only is carried up about one-hatf
this height in addition
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new singers will be Miss Charlotte Tai
colt from the Church Of st. Mary thu
Virgin in West Forty-sixth street; Mrs
Browne. contralto, and A. d. Cornwall
basso. At st. Mary's Miss Talcott viii
be succeeded by Mrs. NJ. f. Carthew'
lorstoum.
At the Washington Heights Baptist
Church on Convent avenue the new sing
ers who will assist Organist +. NJ. Dudley
will be Mrs. Grace Wheeler Dutton, 20
prano: Rose Marie Campbell, contralto
and Try Slaughter. tenor.
Charles l.. Stafford is to be the new
organist at the Madison Avenue Pres
| byterian Church and his new singers will
be Miss Ellen Z. Learned, contralto: W
H. Taylor, tenor, and F.. Putnam. basso.
Bruno HUM, the %organist, goes from
avenue to the Mount Morris Baptist
Church on Fifth avenue in Harlem. Frank
lin Riker will leave the tenor position
at st. Paul's NJ. E. Church at Eighty-si1th
street and West End avenue to 90 10
All Angels Chucrh at Eighty-first street
and West End avenue in the fall. His
place will be taken by Ross Fenton.
1S5th street has dropped its auartette
and engaged Charles n. Granville, bari
tone, as precentor. Charles H. De Maris,
Jr., is to be the e organist at the Second
Church Of Christ. Scientist, at Sixty
eighth street and Central Park West.
In Brooklyn the Tompkins Avenue
Congregational Church will have two new
women soloists, They will be Mrs,
Frances Ii. Baum. soprano, from Cali
fornia. and Mrs. Clarence Eddy. Mr.,
Lamont will be the new tenor at the
Clinton Avenue Congregational Church
Mr.. Phillips Is to be the new tenor in
John Hyatt Brewers choir at the Lafay-
cite Avenue Congregational Church.
At the Central Congregational Church
there will be a new tenor soloist in Alfred
ID. Shaw. from the First Presbyterian
Church OF Pittsburg. n in g.. Warning
Stebbins's choir in the Emmanuel Baptist
Church. where the tenor position has been
untitled for a year, the new soloist will be
Don Carlos Buell..
At Plymouth Church there are to be
three new soloists, in addition 10 Harvey
Self, the present basso. They will be
Miss Leotod. soprano; Mrs. Cue, who was
once before the solo oontralto there, and
Mr.. Clough. tenor.
Miss Gretchen Heideklahge. who has
been the Plymouth Church soprano SOLO
list. is to go TO the Reformed Church on
the Heights. where her associates. also
new singers there. Are TO be Mrs. Magee.
7. R. sayTe and Donald Chalmers; VIII
Hammond's quartette in the First Re-
formed Church OF Brooklyn will have
Mrs. Bracket. a Boston soprano, as a
new soloist. and Miss Helen Waldo will
succeed Miss Cecilia Winter. who 10 to
study in Europe. Mrs. Reba Cornett
Emory has also gone TO Europe from the
Broadway Tabernacle. where the only
soloist left is Miss Margaret Reyes. the
contralto.
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SNAILS BEYOND THE Law.
Their Civil Status In France Fixed BY the
CSuncfl OF state.

PANS, April H.-The civil status Of
tbs snail has bsen decided by the Council
Of State. Last year tho General Council
Of The Yonns department passed q reso-
iution> that the snail should DO treated
a. game and 90 should receive the benefit
OF . close season.
0ourmets rsjoioed, for tho future OF
this deficaoy seemed onoe morn assured.
but the YonnS councillors forgot the
Administration without which nothing
moves in France. Their resolution WAS
forwarded to the project who sent Il
TO The Minister OF Agriculture.
fhs Ministry pondersd over 1t for nearly
. year and examined all the laws that
touched on the question. This inquiry
has resulted In q circular published In the
Bulletin do pAereShurs this week which
declares that the snail 10 -nsither game
nor hsh, but only an agricultural para.
Site and ~ such car b destroyed at all
timse and all seasons.
The Yonns councillors are o thinking
Of introducing . special law into the
Chamber TO protect the snail, .
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The transfer OF the Hall OF Records to
the north side Of Chambers street at the
corner Of Centre was a distinct gain for
City Hall Park and for the beautiful City
Hall itself. More recently the building
for municipal Offices. which was a factor
OF both the Atwood and the Thomas plans,
has been provided for outside the park,
another emphatic gain for the park.
This building, which is to 60 up at Tryon
and Park rows and to be- carried over
Chambers street.. tells in its plan and
features the story OF the stress Of circum-
stance in its irregular and peculiar site
and the exacting demands it is to fulfil
"a part Of the price paid already In de-
fence OF the City Hall Park. Coinciden-
tally. although through other fortuitous
circumstances. the old Registers ONCE
and the old brownstone fire engine house
at Chambers and Centre street cor
ner have been taken from the park.
Excellent for the park as the results
have been, II will be almost a pity for The
sake OF general congruity that the Hall
Of Records and the municipal office
building have been placed outside the
park il now the other requisite. a court
house building, is TO be placed within the
park precincts. Thus say the aesthetic
defenders Of thelpark, who hold that I'M
less the park is to be cleared Of allIbuild-
ings except the City Hall it would be
better il the whole park were built over,
the buildings taking a quadrangular plan,
with the City Hall as the central pile and
the quadrangle being left open to the
south.
1t is worthy OF note in passing, too,
that the Hall Of Records design adopted
ia one which in its lower mass is in keeping
with the old City Hall, and that the new
municipal building is seen, in connection
with the former general plan for the City
Hall neighborhood, to be practically the
Atwood tower, with wings.
OF the requirements Of twenty years
ago there still remains that Of the courts,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1909-05-02
The OLD HORSE CAR AFL0AT
4 CALIFORNIA WOMAN'S WAY
or MAKING a HOUSEBOAT.
Summer Comfort Ia n Home Made Out
OF a Barge and " Discarded Horse
Cars-Devices OF Convenience and
Adornment-TTn me Example Followed.

Cars-Deytces OF Convenience I'M
Adornment-Th Example Followed
According to her friends It was a young
California woman who discovered tina,
discarded horse cars would make good
households. She moored her house.
boat in a bay near a seaside resort ir
southern California soon after the adven,
OF electric cars pushed the horse car into
the rubbish heap. To-day such boats
are seen all along the California coast.
1T was before my marriage and | val
teaching school, the California woman
explained to a party Of New York friends
X was anxious to spend my next vaca
ton on the coast. but the expense oil
going to a good hotel made II quite i'm.
possible for me.
We thought OF buying a tent and camp.
ing on the beach. but ever that seemed
expensive when we priced comfortable
tents and learned what " would have
to pay for beach room. Then i happened
to run across a lot OF old unused horse
cars. When l suggested to my friends
that we see il we couldn't rent one Of them
instead Of buying a tent they thought
tne luta WOTlu IOOhln& lutO.
1T took quite a little hunting TO fno
the man who had authority to sell those
cars. Tired out by being SEN from one
man to another / determined to 60 to the
president. / called at his Office and
fortunately found him at leisure and in
a good humor.
.On learning the object Of my call
he began firing questions at me until
within five minutes he had the private
history Of me and my three friends.
together with our hopes and ambitions.
After he had pumped me dry he informed
me that though he didn't feel he had the
authority to dispose OF the old cars with
out consulting the stockholders OF the
road we could have as many as we could
use for any length OF time and he would
have them taken to the point on the street
railway nearest the spot on which We
decided to locate.
"While looking for this spot to locate
we saw a houseboat calmly sitting in the
bay back Of Termilan Island. or all
things I had always wanted TO be able
to spend a summer on a houseboat. We
discussed the subject and finally called
on q boat builder.
-He s~cornfully referred us to a car
penter, saying it was a barge, not a boat
we wanted. Then We set out to see II
barge wasn't to be had second hand or
maybe for nothing. just As the horse cars
had been obtained. Though we found
plenty Of barges, large and small, none
was to be given away. 30 we decided
to rent one. II was the largest we could
find, as we had decided to take i've carr
instead Of n
Following the advice Of the boat
builder who referred us to a carpenter
we had the cars securely fastened TO the
barge + prevent their being washed
Oh. One of the cars we divided into
q kitchen and a living room.
.The kitchen was a tiny affair. but
quite large enough for our three burner
oil stove and a broad shelf that served
as a table with narrower shelves above.
In the living room we changed the long
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1909-05-02
Wedding Veins.

As to the Wedding veil, it's disposal
Is q matter Of taste. II worn over the
face, a separate short piece for this pur-
fure. to be taken OF ut the ohanoel nil
by the maid q honor or one Of the bridss-
maids. and not put back again. Most
brides In this country wear The veil, %
the face. The same rules - TO dres1
apply at homo ~ II the bride ID married
at church.
. The bridesmaids r1sssU d,is, ossa3 3Gn. wsss bats ,.as, but vt
Europe 10 the wearing Of q tulie veil in
stead OF a hat. This veil, which 10 Ad-
justed with . wreath Of flowers and Of
worn back from the fscS 10 a.
ways becoming. The veil matches the
gown In color. and thu hovsrs E ethsss 20
as those In the bouquet. The bridesmaids
and maid Of honor both wear gloves.
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s OR IRSHIPS IN EUROPE
GERMANY no TEST PASSENGER
CARRYING BALLOONS,

A Cross Channel Aerial Service Planned
by Freneimei-Cost Of Public Es.
peTiments IN Aeronaatics-seho0ls
Of Aerial Navigation Do o. Work.
LONDON, April a1.-At the international
exhibition for ~aeronnutios which opens at
Frankfort-on-Main On July 1 tests will be
made OF the commercial possibilities Of
dingible airships a passenger vessels,
Facilities will be offered visitors to make
trips in airahips and excursions along the
Rhine arc planned. The four airships
used for this purpose will be Of the Yep
pslin and Parseval type and four large
balloon halls are being built to house
than. A committee Of manufacturers
and bankers has been formed at Dussel-
dorf to promote q regular airahip service
betwssn Dusseldorf and Frankfort.
1t In announced that several wealthy
residents Of Berlin, encouraged by the
SUCCESS OF tho Parseval airship. have
ordered q vessel OF that type to be COM
plotted before the end Of July. 1t is to he
ussd for pleasure trips.
The Aero Club International de Ia
Manohe; q French organization, proposes
to establish a cross Channel aerial service
between France and England. English
~aeronauts look upon such a project as
altossther premature and declare tina,
neither the dihsible balloo nor any
other type Of airship as constructed to-
day he. practical commercial value as q
passenger carrier.
The British War Ofioe has just issued a
return showing the amounts spent upon
experiments in aerial navigation for
military purposes by European Powers
during the last e The following are
the particulars given:
LOOMING. establishments, training OF
batloonIsts and experiments ..,s.t.-. St,Oh
terial and constructions ,..........,. .fn.m1
Upkeep OF ealloonlng units ...'........ iE'1'
Total ........ tcs, ;6,
ENAST.
"' f asm. pS Ssase r yoss for the Zeppelin
Expenditure on BALLOON battalion,
pay, .,..,.''...'.. ''.''''..'t '"i'io'
Sos. ass
Airshlp Fund ...'.'" si.a.S.on
AutrRIA-HUSoAnr.
keen Of the balloon establishment AZ
balloon detachments ,'.'-'''.''y-~ $1,000
Extraordinary expenditure for nrovidinr
balloon eQuIpment aud organizing
neld balloon attachments. ..'..,..'.. i2.0
--
Total. s2I,sO
GREAT BRITAIN.
Army expenditure In 1903 CO:
On dlrigiNie balloons. &. .............. seem
ON aeroplA 1880
---
Total .,..,.... SO, so
The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1909-08-13
a Lot of Influence.

The following anecdote well illus
trates the exalted position Sir Wilfrid
Laurier occupies in the minds Of the
less educated French Canadians: Some
years ago an iliterate old Canadian
came into Quebec from the country,
where he met a friend whom he had
not seen for years. In the course OF
conversation the old fellow happened
to mention the name Of Queen Victoria
and was much astonishcd to learn that
she was dead. Dead" he echoed.
"And who has taken her placer When
he was told that the Prince Of Wales
was now the ruler Of the British en-
pire he exclaimed: Gee. The prince
must have lot Of influence Svith Sir
Wnfrid to get a big job like thatT-
London Tit-Bits.