New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-03
Twenty Buildings to House.
Industrial and Peace
Art Exhibits.
MAY PUT STRUCTURES
IN CENTRAL PARK
Directors Have Meeting and
Consider Work to Mark
Client Treaty.

A group OF museums. twenty IN
number. in which will be housed perma-
nent exhibits showing the development
and processes of many industrial and
peaceful arts is to be erected in this
city. A number of the incorporators of
the association which will maintain the
museum for the public met yesterday
at the Lawyers Club, No. rs Broadway.
Among the directors OF the institution
who attended the meeting were George
F. Kunz Frank A. Nanderip. Charles II.
Strong. A. Barton Hepburn, Job F..
Hedges. Calvin w Rice. Professor Mar
ston Taylor Bosert. of Columbia Cniver-
sity; Thomas Commerford Martin and
John \. Stewart
Other directors of the new association
are Jacob II. Schiff Thomas A. Edison.
Ebert II. Gary, Nikola Tesla, Henry A.
Towne, Melville r.. Stone Louis Living
ston Seaman. H. J. Hardenberg. Henry
r. Huntington. Theodore y Vail, Robert
Underwood Johnson and Rear Admiral
Robert T. Peary.
Explaining the purposes OF the museums
Mr.. Stewart said:
The particular object for which tho
proposed corporation. for the museums
will be governed by such. will be formed
is to establish and maintain a perms-
nent and useful memorial of the century
of peace and amity. following the sign
ing Of the Treaty of Client. The museums
will be for the use and education OF the
people OF the city. state and country.
The cost of the buildings ard exhibits
will be approximately s25,0o00O0. but at
this day that is mere bagatele and we
do not expect any difficulty in securing
the amount.
According to the present plans there
will be separate buildings for electricity,
steam, astronomy and navigation, safety
appliances, aviation, mechanical arts,
agriculturing mining, labor, efficiency, his
toric records, health and hygiene. tex
tiles. ceramics and clay, architecture,
scenic embellishments, gardening. roads
and road building material commerce
and trade. and printing and books.
Each exhibit, Mr.. Stewart said, will
show the development of the art from the
earliest beginning to the present stage.
At a meeting to be held April %, at
which committees will nominate officers
the question of site for the museums
will be considered. 1t is possible that the
buildings will be located in Central Park
as the commission wishes TO have them as
near the centre OF the city as possible.
The proposed filling i'm of one OF the
reservoirs in the park has led to hopes
that the museums may be situated there.
IL is proposed to have them grouped about
a huge amphtheatre, part OF when Will
be under cover, where great public meet
ngs will be held.
That would be an ideal location MT
Stewart declared, although we also nave
under consideration a site north OF %th
street on the West Side
More than $4,000 has been promised
already. Mr.. Stewart said The cost OF
maintaining the museums, ii is planned
will be borne partly by endowment ana
partly by the public.
A library planned in connection WIN tne
museums will offer every facility 10 heip
students and assist in fostering the de-
velopment of the country's commerce ana
industry.