Arizona republican., 1912-03-25
Plans Are Considered for Great Museum Which
 Will Surpass Gal :
 leries Abroad h
OTHER GOSSIP
 OF METROPOLIS
Scheme to Illuminate the Niagara Falls is to Be come Eighth Wonder
 of the World i
lSbcciaL COrrcStondcncel

l NfN 1OtSh. AldICn -4---i ndL NtW 1 York in the near future will become 1 the possessor of the greatest art
 museum in the country and in all | probability in the world. far sur ! passing the famous foreign galleries i is now becoming assured. By many ; this is looked upon as a most signifi- cant step in the movement which they ] believe will eventually make this city ! the art center of the world. The ar 1 rival here of a portion of the won derful Morgan art collection has [ brought to an acute crisis situation which has been impending for a num- | ber of years. that is. the proper hous- ! ing of the city's art treasures. At present there iS no adequate place for the exhibition even of that DOT tion Of the Morgan collection which has arrived and even the completion of the new wing of the famous Metro Dolitan Museum of Art will afford iOnly partial relief. Accordingly con- certed action is now being taken look ing to the establishment of the great est museum of it's kind in the world and already three plans have been suggested The first cOntemplates | cost of something like S4,OOO.000. but i objection is made t0 this because Of the fact that it would require about fifteen acres of land now used as part ! of Central Park a-.d blot il out from Firth avenue for distance of SIX [ blocks A second plan contemplates ! the removal of the museum from cen | tral park to an adjacent site. but the | cost of sn doing would run so Tar i into the millions as to make the price prohihitiVe The third plan which ! seems most feasible as being free ! from the objections to the other two proposes to drain the great reservoir 1 in the heart of Central park and erect in it a great group of buildings surrounded by sunken gardens ana carried out in every detail in the most splendid manner. This plan it ] is pointed out would not only save the park intact but would minimize expense and provide ample room l The reservoir iS now surrounded by d ] siXteen-foot wall and this. broken
 nnlv with entrances and exits, It IS | proDosed to cover with vineS- This plan has already met with much fla
 yor and if carried through will un- doubtedlv give to this city an art
 center of unsurpassed beauty and fa- cilities. Even the world famous Lux
 embourg and Tuileries galleries have
 no such great natural advantages as those available under the new plan which may eventually make New York the art center of the world.
 rfV-iff fsaz and the approach of the national con- lVention. Col Roosevelt has found tune
 tn get into controversy with a we'll known artist and naturalist over the question of which cOlorS make an ianimaI most easily seen in the jungle. and which render the most efficient
 protection from the eyes Of its nat iural enemies The two differ WldelE
 sr this question and as result all though the term nature fakir mas
 not brrn reSurrected and brought lnto the controversy. New York has been
 witnessing some ingenious and anus ling tests which have been conducted in Central park in an effort to settie
 the mailer Col Roosevelt holds that ithe stripes of the zebra and the spots , lof tbe leopard make them conspicuous i, their native haunts. and that the
 drab gray of the wild ass makes lt
 difficuIt of discovery. while ms au-
 ,-ersar-y takes exactly the opposite
 stand. To prove his contention Col
 RooseveIt'S opponent proceedeo "
 demonstrate that the stripes or tue
 zebra make it iuconspicuous- lie Se-
 cured A number of specimens ol f zehras and wild asses all or them
 stuffed and placed them about twl ' liobt at unknown points in the 1unSle T | in Central park A number or per
 sons were then called upon to m
 nersonate lions by crouchins on tne
 orouDd and to see which anifnals they couId discover first The queer
 test showed that in every case tht
 stripes of the zebra served |" cur
 ,uea inc eve and make it almost in-
 distinSuishable whereas the VIII" aS'
 with bis monochrome coiorlns ""S
 easily and clearly seen In we" oi : the fact that one of the subjects uSeu
 and the one which caused the over
 tbro,v of the coIoners theories, Is
 practically the same as the one Whlc1 . has an intimate pictorial connectioI 2 with one of the great political parueS n local politicians who beieNe
 ibunches are wondering whether the , .outcome of the test may be taken as
 an indication of the outcome ot the n next election.
 |, By the middle of next month we" :. York will ahave in operation one VI