New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-06-11
Bridge, Hall,
Arch, Suggested
War Memorials
Art and Executive Board
of Mayors Committee
Makes Report, but Action
Is Deferred Six Weeks
Mayor Opposes Bridge
Wants Music Conservatory
Included in Plan for
Madison Square Garden

liberty bridge over the Hudson
River; the purchase of Madison Square
Garden either as site or to be re-
constructed into liberty hall and the
erection of a liberty arch upon a suit
able site in the heart of the city, in
the order named, were the three sug-
gestions made by the art and cX-
ecutive committee of the Mayors
Committee on a Permanent War Me
mortal in its report submitted yester-
day at meeting of the Memorial
Committee at the City Hall. Less than
fifty out Of the $50 members of the
Mayors Committee attended the meet
ing, and it was finally decided to adj
journ until July %, before taking any
action on the report. The committee
will entertain further suggestions in
the mean time.
Paul w. Bartlett, the sculptor, as
chairman of the art and executive
committee, read the report and made
the suggestion that, since it would
require about seven years to build a
bridge and several years to build the
hall, it might be we'll to enter immedi-
ately upon the construction of the
liberty arch, for which the committee
already has in hand about $2OO.OOO,
"the good will offerings of the people
freely. given at the time of the sign
ing of the armistice, where there was
a universal feeling that a memorial
should be erected in honor of our
brave men who served so CALAMITY in
the great war;
Mayor Opposes Bridge
There was considerable objection on
the part of members of the general
committee in regard to the proposal
for bridge across the river Philip
Berolzheimer, City Cham berlain, repre-
declared that the Mayor was strongly
opposed to the bridge proposition and
favored the purchase of Madison
Square Garden for the erection of
suitable structure as a Liberty Hall,
provided that there is to be included
in this building "a conservatory of
music on the highest scale possible
for the benefit of humanity"
"The Mayoc directs me to explain
to you the reasons for the inclusion
OF such an institution" said the Cham
berlain. THE principal musical insti-
buttons are located in London, Paris,
Milan, Berlin. Moscow, Petrograd and
Vienna. But some of these institutions
have not functioned since 1914, and
others only spasmodically. The United
States, while it has some very good
music schools, though not many, has
no such institution. Artists are COM
PEELED to go to Europe to study and
poor artists with talent have no oppor-
tunity whatever for a musical educa-
ton.
Having charge of all public music
in New York by request and under the
direction of the Mayor, am in a posi-
tion to know, both after consultation
with members of my advisory board
as we'll as from personal observation,
that such musical institution as de-
scribed would be a great success, if
included in this Liberty Hall and if
run on the same high plane as the
College of the City of New York, the
Museum of Natural History or the Art
Museum, Geological Gardens or the
Botanical Gardens"
Wanamaker Favors Hall
The Chamberlain moved that the
report Of the committee be accented
and that the entire question be re-
ferred to the art and executive com
mittee for quick action in favor of a