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Show J li.l JV They Will Erect a Magnificent Building Build-ing in Cincinnati. Cincin-nati. IT WILL COST JUST $100,000. Plans of the Structure and What it Will Contain An Elegant Edifice. The plana for the new Y. M. C. A. building ! of the Cincinnati association have been com-1 pleted by the architect, and as soon as the JjpeciUcations are drawn contracts will be let. The present quarters are at Sixth nnd Elm streets, but this property will be sold. The new building will stand on the northwest corner cor-ner of Seventh and V.alnut streets, two squares from the government building. The old dwelling houses that occupied the ute have been removed to make way for the new structure, which will front 100 feet on Walnut Wal-nut street with a depth of 73l feet ou Seventh. Sev-enth. Its con will be tlOO.OOO, of which $70,-000 $70,-000 has already been pledge t. It is exited that with the money realized from the sale of the present property and additional suuscrip-tiona suuscrip-tiona iu eight, the association will move into the new building free of debt. In the accomplishment accom-plishment of this improvement in life the association is mainly indchte.l to the euer-getic euer-getic work of Secretary George T. Howser, who went to Cincinnati five years ngo from Chicago, where he is o! wefl known for activity ac-tivity in Y. M. C. A. lubora. The new buildins will be built of stoue and pressed brick, with drense.1 stone finish. The entrance from Walnut street is 15 feet wide and leads by granite steis to tha main floor, upon v. hich is the secretary's room, an assembly assem-bly hall, 4.'px()T feet, with seating accommodation accom-modation for 500 in the auditorium nnd 10 in the gallery; a lecture room, 2."ixa3 feet; a reception hall, IGxL'S feet, anil association associa-tion offices, toilet rooms, coat rooms, etc. The secoud floor, from which entrance is bad to tho gallery of the assembly hall, contains members' parlor, goneral hall, recreation rooms, and a reading room with accommodations accommoda-tions for a library of S.0S0 volumes. The third floor contains the Indies' parlor, six claw rooms, a hall for tho literary society of the association, Clld a nromenada corridor I ft fol THE T. U. C. A. Bni.DttfO. wide by 30 long. On the fourth floor are additional ad-ditional class rooms, committee and other office rooms, a students' room and the Camera club quarters. The last named is an entirely new feature in Y. M. C. A. building, and the Cincinnati association is the first iu the country to provide pro-vide a special department for amateur photographers. photo-graphers. Three rooms, each IfixIM feet, have been asslgued to the Camera club. They are on tne norm side o the building, anil pnv vided with fine gallery skylights. Kach room will have a complete dark room attached, ami there are in all twenty-six feet of li-Ut space for finishing pictures. Kvery facility and encouragement en-couragement possible ts extended to t he great armyof amateurs, whom the inauguration of this novel feature will attract. Above this floor, in the attic, are the laundry rooms and janitor's quarters. Below the main floor is the mezzanine or half floor, containing the locker boxes for the members who use the gymnasium. There are 1,000 of these boxes. On thit, floor, also, is the visitors' gallery of the gymnasium and the bicycle storage room, with sixty stalls for the rolling steeds. The entrance to this depart-I depart-I ment is directly from Seventh street, and the quarters are HSxiA feet. Below this is the semi-basement. Here Is the gymnasium proper, 44 feet wide by 8.1,! feet long. The celling is 23 feet high. This room is to be fitted fit-ted up with the latest improved and most approved ap-proved appliances for physical culture, including in-cluding a running track of thirty laps to the mile. This floor also contains n bowling alley 50 feet long; a lavatory and bathrooms, occupying occu-pying a space 90x50 feet ; a swimming tank, isx.10 feet. The remainder of this basement, 85x30 feet, is devoted to engine and boiler rooms, elevator machinery, etc. The present hope of the management of the association it to have the building ready for occupancy by the arrival of cold weather. fiirq B. HcDowelu |
