The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-04-24
YALE BUILDING.
'0N SACHEM 5
WOODS
Entire Tract Ultimately to Be
Surrounded by New Col
lege Structures.
BY r. II. BULKELEY,
international News Service.

NEW HAVEN, Conn.,, April a.
Sachem's Woods, one-time estate of
James Hillhouse, Revolutionary sol,
der and statesman of the early
United States. is rapidly being alb.
sorbed by new buildings of Yale
University, and eventually the en-
tire tract of about two square city
blocks will be bounded by college
structures, forming a new campus.
The latest structure is now rising
1t Whitney avenue and Sachem
street to house Peabody Museum,
xale's natural history collection.
While only a pair of units of this
structure are under way now. they
stretch a considerable distance on
either side and are about to be
Joined by a large hall Of reptiles.
Other units will join on either
street, and the time is near when
almost the entire Sachem street
'front.' Of the tract will have build
ings on it.
Osborn memorial laboratories,
sage Hall, the new forestry school
building, the vast Sterling chemical
laboratories, and the new Sloane
physics laboratory are lined up side
ny side on the Prospect street front
age. Several acres Of land remain
vacant in the tract which bears the
name of Pierson-Sage square and is
the gift Of Mrs. Russell Sage, named
IN her honor and that Of her an
cestor, Yale's first president.
Open to Public.
Sitting atop the hill, in the CEN
ter Of the square, is the Hillhouse
home, still occupied by the last Of
that family and to be used until
he dies, when Yale takes that over
also. Mrs. Sage provided that the
unbuilt portions of the square shall
be opened. to the public Of New
Haven forever. The public's use,
however, is restricted, to sauntering
in the paths of the square.
The new Peabody Museum is to
contain probably the greatest group
OF specimens of animal heads and
skeletons in the United States as
the result Of a gift by Thomas D.
M. Cardesa, of his own collection of
game heads, which have just
reached the museum. Cardesa, who
has an international reputation as a
naturalist and big game hunter, has
sent $50 mounted heads and skulls,
with horns, together with miscel
laneOus geological specimens and an
extensive series of implements used
by native hunters.
The Cardesa collection was orig.
inally in its owners hunting castle,
in Hungary, but at the beginning
Of the war was brought to this
country. Prof. Wesley r.. Coe,
curator of geological collections at
Yale, says: Altogether this col
lection is the most notable of it's
kind ever brought to America and
one which comes at a most oppor-
tune time in supplying the peculiar
needs of the new museum. 1t will
prove of great importance in fu-
ture studies"
Unusual Specimens.
Cardesa's hunting career started
in 1895, in the Maine woods, and
after he was graduated from the
University of Pennsylvania, in 1900.
he spent much time hunting in the
Rockies, going to Africa in 1909
for his first trip abroad. In those
days game was plentiful in the
Mount Kenya district of Eastern
Africa. Since those days the Brit
1Sh Government has placed a limit
on bags of june1e. animals, just as
In this country game birds and fish
are limited to the sportsman. As
q result of hunting when game
was fairly plentiful, Cardesa has in
the collection now being set up in
New Haven a head of the Greater
Kudu, taken on his third trip into
Africa. Then the collection ranges
from the tiny dik-dik up to a hip
popOtamus whose open mouth
measures twenty-three inches be.
tween lips.
With the passing of the Hill.
house estate Yale may arrange
some other memorial to the orig.
lnal owner Two memorials are
contained in Hillhouse avenue,
rated one of the most beautiful
streets in New England; and Sachem
street, named more from the owner
Of Sachep's woods than from
the, estate name, for James Hill
house, in appearance, resembled an
Indian chief and was a civic leader
Of repute. It was through efforts
Of Hillhouse that New Haven
eventually came to be known as
"City Of Elms," for he went about
what then was a village Of 1000
and, with his own hands, planted
almost as many elm trees as there
were residents there. The trees flour.
ished, some Of them still stunding,
though weak with age, having
passed the average life Of a century
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