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Show AFTER FIVE YEARS' WORK NEW WEST POINT FAST NEARS COMPLETION WEST POINT, N. Y.. Dec. 26. A I glanco over the famous reservation I shows that the great Improvements j that have beeu quietly going forward 1 . there for more than live years are nearlng completion. - Everywhere ! there ore new and magnificent structures, struc-tures, the like of which the West Pointer of twenty-five years ago never dreamed of. The most striking silo among the new builders war auardel the beautiful memorial chape on the mountain side Jut back of the barracks. bar-racks. Architects say this building is ; oue of the best examples of ecclok- I iaetlcal architecture In this country. It i is a memorial lo West Pointers and in ; It Is to be erected a wonderful window in stained glass and a memorial from living West Pointers to those of their number who have passed away. The old chapel, which Lee. Grant, Sionu- : wall Jackson, Sheridan and a host of other famous Went Pointers attended ! as cadets, formerly stood near the I new administration building. This I has been removed. In Its place a no- 1 J academic b inding will U erect d. Th , Id chapel will be re trcUed In the j I West Point cemetery as n mortuary I chapel. The old administration bulld-i bulld-i '"g Just to the north of the newer I biilMIn-- Mill stnud". but Irs days are numbered. Next to the new chapel the new admlr Ifutlon building Is ! the moot Rtt i!lt;y of the new structures. struc-tures. It Is of male doKlgn and, besides the ndmlvlsi rath e offices, includes in-cludes the postoftice, museum, board i rooms, prlntirg mid Imo!, binding shops and the vaults In which the records I of the academy ore kpl. This building, build-ing, which Is entirely tompleted, cost the government l.'ilu.lu::. Another historic structure im being destroyed Is the former gy mtiutium. adjoining the c'd barracks building and facing the parade ground. Its place will be taken bv the new gymnasium, which j will Mand Just north of the new north i wing of the end -t bjrrleks. Athletic trainers ho have Inspected the plan for the new bwDd'ru iy that no gytu- , minium in this country surpasses It. The swimming pool Is eighty reel long by forty feet wide, ond it varies In depth lro:n four feet and a half to eUbt feet. There Is a hall for fennng aDd another for boil tig uud wrc-itllng which will accommodate fifty cadets. The main gymnasium is equipped with every modern athletic appliance. Another An-other room is fitted up as a gymnasium gymnas-ium for officers with baths ot every kind, f-astly there is a trophy rojm, where the uthlelle prizes won by West Point will le kept. Other building now completed are the north win;; of the cadet barracks, which cost $-03,-0(C; four sets of double houses fr married ofllcere, costing $232,50.1; bachelor officers' quarters, which cost $285,32; a sot of three houses for married officers, costing $SJ.27S; tho chaplain's quarters, costing $37,oS0; aud the battalion guardhouse In the war ot the iie-- barracks, which cost the government $29,841. A building j half completed, but which Is already ! In use, Is the groat riding hall. This has a tanbsrk urena . more than a quarter of a mile long. The building , will be completed In a year. It stands facing the river on the bluff at tho foot of the rldgo on top of which is the new headquarters building, tho old library building and where within :i few months tho walls of the ne academic structure will stand. |