New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-05-14
BOROUGH GOSSIP
AdeIphi College ReneWS Cam
paiun for an Endowment.

paign for an Endowment.
Now that the Young Womens Christian
Association has succeeded in raising the
sano go it needed for erecting a new board
ing house for the working girls OF the
borough. Adephi College has started in
again on it's campaign for an endowment
fund Of $4,000 The campaign was in
sugurated at a mass meeting. which was
held at the Academy Of Music, on the even
ing Of March %. but was abandoned tenn
porarily out of consideration FOR the cam
paign for the boarding house fund. so far
the college has secured pledges aggregating
$4,000, made up OF nine hundred suoscflp-
tons ranging from 81 to $1,000.
The college was opened fifteen years ago.
being the outgrowth OF the old Adephi
Academy. To date the collegiate depart
ment has graduated more than four hun
dred men and women, while the normal
school has turned out more than three hum
bred. The college began with an enrol
n,ent Of 81 and now has ass. It's first gradu-
ating class had pupils. Its present senior
class numbers &C. At the same time its
faculty has increased from 10 to %.
feature Of its work Is the opening it offers
after completing their days work
BY means of these classes they may Sc
cure college educatons. II has at present
twenty-three scholarships at its disposal
Some Of the pupils reduce their expenses
by working in the library. In the fifteen
years the college has gradually piled up a
deficit which threatens its success. the
endowment fund is needed TO provide an
10
year 10 year Though the members OF the
faculty have suffered through the lack OF
an endowment fund perhaps more than
any one else. they have contributed gen
erously toward It, None has given less
than $50 toward the fund, and nine have
contributed 1000 each. Altogether. the
faculty has subscribed $1,000 The alumni
association has made large contributions
also The committee in charge OF the cam
paign consists Of Professor John 7. Coar,
chairman Dean William G. Peckham, Pro
fessor W. W. Share and President Charles
II Levermore.
The Brooklyn Home for Ccnsumptives, In
Kingston avenue opened its renovated chill
dren's wards a few days ago. a new porch,
which will enable twenty-five of the little
Al
exposed. was also opened While the chill
dren are out in the air in all sorts Of
weather. the porch will give them shelter
from the rain The youngsters who are
too weak 20 run about the grounds will be
able 10 lie in couches on the porch. making
the open air treatment more successful, It
f. thought. This work of the institution f..
conducted under the supervision of Mrs.
Fannie NJ. Perkins.
More than 100000 a year is required for
the maintenance OF the boulevards and
LA acres Of park land in Brooklyn and
Queens. The chief boulevards are the
Eastern 'arkway. Fort Hamilton Park
way. Highland Boulevard. ocean Park
way. Ocean avenue and Rockaway Park
way. a large expense recently has been
the replacing of the chestnut, hickory and
black birch trees that have died off. most
Iy through new diseases that have APP
peared among them. but also from old age.
This spring the Department Of Parks has
set out three hundred new oak and chest
nut trees TO take the place Of the ones
which have died. The replanting of the
forest areas of the parks began about four
Years ago. Some Of the young trees died
and had to be replaced The department
has three hundred day laborers at work
all the year round, with one hundred
extra men in the spring and summer
Many improvements are under way or are
about to be started. These include the
MeCarren Park improvement. costing $780,
o. the Red Hook Playground, $4,000; the
Bushwick Playground. $4,000: the laying
out of Dyker Beach Park, 143 acres in ex-
tent, $4,000: the Shore Road Improvement,
$4,000. and the improvement of several
entrances Of Prospect Park, not yet def
nttely decided upon.
The money for improvements of this
extensive nature does not come out of the
annual appropriation. The money for the
Brooklyn Museum does. however, as will
the money for the Botanic Gardens, which
have just been begun.
Brooklyn has lost another Of its. Colonial
houses. In the last few days workmen
have been tearing down the old Suydam-
Ditmas mansion. in Flatbush avenue, be-
tween Cortelyou Road and Ditmas avenue
The building was erected a couple of cen
turtles ago on land which Governor Stuyve-
SAINT gave the first Dutch Reformed clergy
man of Long Island in 1862. It has been
going TO pieces lately. For the last two
years it has been untenanted. 1t is the
tenth Colonial building to be torn down in
the last couple Of years The building is
opposite the Vanderveer homestead. which
IS 10 be turned into a museum of Dutch
relies. The odtimers expect some articles
viii be discovered in the destruction Of the
house which will be worth placing on ex-
bbition IN the museum across the way.
on the evening Of Wednesday, May q, a
mural painting of The Ascension" will be
unveiled in 81. Johns Lutheran Church.
Richmond Hill. II is the work Of Rudolph
J.. Zachow and is a gift TO the church ny
the artist and his brother. Arnold a.
Zachow.
A PECULIAR SECT.