New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-02
It was learned Yesterday that tho two

IL was learned yesterday tnst INC wv
block fronts on the eas, side OF Park ave.
from 10Th TO 5lst St. arc to present
the finest architectural fronts in
al New York. ~ not IN all the world. In
their particular lines. Announcements
were made for the date OF the opening Of
the sz7Sooo Young Mons Christian Asso-
citation Building. the finest railroad
branch in the world. which is practically
completed on the southerly block front
mentioned. and concerning the new St
Barthoiomew's Church. which will rival
81 Thomas's Church. which is to MI the
whole northerly block front.
The now Railroad Young Mems Chris
tar Association Building. which resem-
blcs clubhouse Of the highest grade. is
q be thrown oren during the first week
IN June. II covers the entire two hundred
fee. FROM. IS forty-seven feet deep and
seven stories IN height. II is built OF
cream pressed brick and trimmed with
Indiana limestone. William X. Wander
bit Frederick w Vanderbilt and Alfred
G. Vanderbilt each gave $4,000 and the
New York Central and New Haven rail-
roads together gave $4,000. The first
named corporation gave tho lease OF the
site for a long term OF years.
At the top Of the building on the cor
ners. is the flying wheel. emblematic OF
Progress and Transportation. with the
open book on whose pages are the Lamp
OF knowledge and the Young Mems Chris
tan Association emblem, the whole tell
ing the story OF rairoading and Christian
education. on the first floor is a spacious
lobby, with association offices. On the
right as one enters is n social room. 10 by
70 feet. and adjoining is a correspondence
room. At the rear are lavatories, and on
the same floor billiard rooms.
Tho second floor has q restaurant. with
three dining rooms seating $50. Luncheons
here will be 10 cents up, and a regular
dinner will be served for 80 cents One
room offers club luncheon. with full
meal. at 30 cents. A great kitchen. II by
lso feet is 10 be a model Of what kitchens
ought 20 be, and IS to be a show place 70
al visitors
The third floor is combination OF
recreation and education 4 gymnasium
IS 20 by 70 feet two full stories in height,
with spectators gallery seating 100. It is
20 be used also as an auditorium. when II
Will seat 800 persons. There is on the floor
q bowling alley also with It's spectators
gallery. There are three spacious class
Iav
for camera club. since many trainmen
own cameras. and on the Park ave. front
the spacious and well lighted association
library. There is q lecture room on the
fourth floor and the balance Of the build
ing is given over 70 dormitories, with n
day and night capacity of $50. Every room
IS an outside one. on the roof are tennis
and handban courts and a spacious sum
ner garden.
1t is announced that many experiments
IN work among railroad men are to be
tried out IN this building for the benefit
Of railroad branches everywhere. Rail-
road men have Just completed fund,
none giving above q cents, TO place In the
building a tablet setting forth the appre-
citation by railroad men Of the Van0erbilts
and the railroad companies. This rail-
road branch. soon 10 move from Madison
ave. 70 45th St. was among the first in the
country. and owed much 10 the late Cor
nellus Vanderbilt, long warden Of St
Bartholomew's parish, which church has
always been it's neighbor. and is now to
move as Il moves. its neighbor still.
Some fears had been felt that St.
and SD st. whose official consent is neces-
sary before 81. Bartholomew can quit ITS
present site for the new one at Park ave.
and 5lst st. might object. as ST. Luke 3
parish uptown did. some time since, when
Trinity wanted 10 locate Intercession
Chapel in Amsterdam ave. instead OF
Broadway. u was learned yesterday that
ST. Thomass viii not enter any objection,
and that the standing committee OF the
diocese, meeting within a few days, Will
also grant its consent. Then there re-
mains only the consent Of Bishop Greer.
st Bartholomew's parish is doing nothing
in the way Of plans until these official
bodies have acted.
n was Yesterday said 20 be the feeling
e. both St rhomss's and 81. Bartholo-
news parishes, especially among the
officials % them. that while only few
blocks apar, they occupy essentially diff
rerent aolds and that, anyhow, one Is
merely likely 10 help the other than In
3ure IT, II was also learned yesterday
that IN the general planning Heavenly
Rest parish, Fifth ave. and 45tn st. dis
cussed the project OF removal, holding
conferences with ST. Bartholomew and
81 was definitely agreed that It Is 10 re-
r,ain where Il Sc. filing the field imme-
cistciy north OF 42d 81 1t regards itself
ss ssyO.c6 oy tho change.
One thiny has already been decided con-
corning the new ST Bartholomcw's That
decision is made b. the rector. tho Rev.
Or Leighton Parks. and agreed 70 by his
yestry. Il II that the interior OF the new
church Is 10 be made homolike. not too
large 70 prevent everybody hearing and
seaing. the whole adapted TO modern IDEAS
OF suditoriums. even II IN all respects 1t
docs not suit thc extreme worshippers of
middle age architecture u was said yes
terday that The plan adopted by the ca
tfedral of 81. John the Divine OF having
q consulting architect and not committing
the work wholly 20 any one man, however
s,lo mieht be followed. The new ST.
Rartholomcw's is 10 be. # IS declared. not
.,nething that costs az much money as
possible. but one that is comfortable and
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