New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-09-22
S79O,OOO MORGAN WING
IS PLAN FOR MUSEUM
work on Structure to House
Collection Awaits Estimate
Boards Approval.
NIL AYED 2 YEARS ALREADY
Dark Commissioner Hopes Ex-
cavstors Will Start This Fall
Temporary Exhibit
Next Year.

The so-called Morgan wing of the
Metropolitan Museum Of Art will be
-.r realization tomorrow than at any
.,,,e since It was suggested. more than
.ro years ago. Park Commissioner
...o- will then transmit to the Board Of
estimate for its approval plans for the
.zom structure which will house the
.r,ire Morgan art collection. However. a
Cav more routine steps must be taken
h.,ore asking for bids.
aJ shall do everything in my power TO
hasten matters" said the Park Commits
.,oner yesterday. Il hope work on the
excavations can be begun this fall
other park officials. however are not
a. sangline as the Commissioner. They
hsusve. unless it is an open winter. that
u,ork on the excavations cannot be
s,srted until next spring. Should this be
che case. the link" which seems TO have
,o,,oved the plans from the first would
s,ul be in evidence at the beginning Of
building operations. 1t was thought that
this fall would see all the excavating
work completed.
Commissioner Slower. while saying
that his department had done all II could
70 hurry along consideration Of the plans,
which were all ready when the money
Vas set aside last April by the Corporate
Stock Budget Committee, would not say
ANYTHING about another department,
where the plans were mulled over from
July / TO September Is. on which latter
date they were returned 10 the Park De-
psrtment This delay. however, may
mean postponement Of actual work on
the structure until next spring.
More than two years ago the money was
requested for the Morgan wing IT may
take three years before ii is ready for
the art treasures, which are TO be ex-
hbited temporarily in Addition II early
In 1914. a wing which was built for other
purposes The Morgan wing. known as
Addition J-K, was planned specifically TO
hold the entire Morgan collection. and
was approved by the financier. II was
because OF the delay in appropriating
money for ii that the report arose shortly
before his death that the collection was
10 90 elsewhere.
Surveys OF the park territory which is
to provide site for the double wing have
already been made.
The Park Department will be ready to
make the necessary changes in the park
roads" SAID Commissioner Slower. Just
as soon as actual work is begun. hope
II can be started this fall. as some OF
the younger trees could be saved then.
Besides. mean 10 make use of all the
top soil"
Some fifty or more trees will have 10
come down-one Of them a beautiful elm,
as fine as any in the park. This tree Is
too old 10 save under any circumstances.
The new wing will make necessary the
pushing further south Of the present We
hice entrance at 18th street. other
changes in the landscape will be neces-
ssry 10 meet the requirements of the
building plans. While efforts are being
made 10 hurry along the Morgan wing
the officials Of the Metropolitan Museum
Of Art are bending all sheir efforts
toward preparing for exhibition early in
the new year the 400 art objects Of Mr..
Morgan
II will necessitate the construction OF
10 cases to hold the small objects. Mr..
Morgan expressed the desire that his
fourteen Fragonard panels should be ex
heited in a setting similar TO that in
which they are hung in his Princess Gate
house. This will be done. a room being
nected in Addition II similar 10 that in
he London house