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Show A Fitting Movement WASHINGTON IRVING is to have a most ap-propriate ap-propriate memorial in New York City. On the south side of Irving place a new Washington Wash-ington Irving high school structure is to be erected. erect-ed. Most elaborate plans have been prepared. The building will be eight stories and the naked ptructure will cost ?600,000. When fully finished and furnished the amount will bo swelled to over $1,100,000. That certainly is a good -vay to honor the memory of a man of letters. The structure will have a frontage, of 184 feet on Irving Place and 166.6 on Seventeenth street. The main entrance en-trance will be flanked by four large Ionic columns, and sixteen Tuscan columns will ornament each front. The building will have eighty-three class rooms and is intended for 3,000 pupils. |