After this consolidation was effected, Andrew S. Draper, LL. D., was chosen in 1904, first State Commissioner of Education, and is still the incumbent.* As soon as Dr. Draper sur

veyed the situation, he realized the inadequacy of the provision made by the State for housing its educational department, and beginning in 1905 he addressed arguments to the Board of Regents in favor of a building which should accommodate under one roof the various branches of the department which were scattered among different offices in the Capitol and other buildings in the City of Albany. The Board of Regents, not less alive than the Commissioner to these needs, represented them to the Legislature, with the result that in 1906 a bill was passed appropriating $3,500,000 for the building, exclusive of the site. The site, on the north side of Washington Avenue opposite the Capitol, cost $466,440. The plans of Palmer & Hornbostel of New York City were accepted and the work of erection was begun July 29, 1908. By the terms of the contract the building should have been completed by January 1, 1911, but the contractors were nearly two years behind time in finishing their work. This delay resulted in an irreparable loss to the State by the fire in the Capitol on March 29, 1911, which destroyed a large part of the State Library and many of the valuable collections of the State Museum. Had the State Educational Building been completed at the contracted time, the State's archives would have been safely housed in the new building and would not have been destroyed. The new building has a frontage of 659.6 feet on Washington Avenue and is 140 feet wide, with a wing in the rear 190 by 165.8 feet in size. The main facade on Washington Avenue consists of a huge colonnade of fluted Corinthian columns and presents an imposing appearance, particularly to a person ascending the Capitol Hill.

The order of exercises at the dedication was as follows:

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, AT 3 P. M.

Invocation by Rev. William Hopkins, D. D., pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Albany, N. Y.

Opening remarks by Hon. Whitelaw Reid, United States Ambassador to Great Britain and Chancellor of the University of the State of New York.

* Dr. Draper died April 27, 1913, in the 65th year of his age.

Address: "The Library and Educational and Social Service," by John Christopher Schwab, Ph. D., Librarian of Yale University.

Address: "The State Museum and State Progress," by Henry Fairfield Osborn, LL. D., Sc. D., President of the American Museum of Natural History.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, AT 8:15 P. M.

Address: "The Development of Elementary Education in the State of New York," by William H. Maxwell, Ph. D., LL. D., City Superintendent of Schools of New York City.

Address: "The Evolution of the Public High Schools," by Mr. William J. S. Bryan, Assistant Superintendent of Instruction in charge of High Schools of St. Louis, Mo.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16, AT 10 A. M.

Address: Carrying Knowledge to the People," by Dr. Charles Richard Van Hise, President of the University of Wisconsin.

Address: "The Private Schools: Their Place in American Life," by Dr. William Starr Myers, Assistant Professor of History and Politics, Princeton University.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16, AT 3 P. M.

Address: "The Aim of the Modern University," by Nicholas Murray Butler, Ph. D., LL. D., Litt. D., President of Columbia University.

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Address: Preparation for the Professions," by Henry S. Pritchett, Ph. D., LL. D., President of the Carnegie Foundation, New York City.

Address: "The Value of Historical Studies to the Higher Learning," by Canon H. Hensley Henson of Westminster Abbey, London, England.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16, AT 8 P. M.

Reception to all invited guests by the Governor, the Commissioner of Education and the Board of Regents.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, AT 10 A. M.

Formal presentation and reception of delegates, who responded briefly in behalf of each institution represented.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, AT 3 p. M.

Overture," Pique Dame" (Suppé), by Bendell's orchestra. Invocation by the Rt. Rev. William Croswell Doane, Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Albany.

Remarks by Chancellor Whitelaw Reid.

Presentation of the building to the Board of Regents by Governor John Alden Dix, on behalf of the State.

Acceptance of the building on behalf of the Board of Regents, by Vice-Chancellor St. Clair McKelway.

Music, "Woodland Whispers" (Von Blon), by the orchestra. Dedicatory address by Andrew S. Draper, Commissioner of Education.

Congratulatory addresses by former Governors Benjamin B. Odell, Jr., and Horace White.

Benediction by the Rt. Rev. Thomas M. A. Burke, Roman Catholic Bishop of Albany.

March, "National Emblem" (Bagley), by the orchestra.

Laying of Cornerstone of Chapel of the Intercession, New York

City.

On Thursday, October 24, 1912, the President of this Society, by invitation, represented this corporation at the laying of the cornerstone of the new Chapel of the Intercession on the historic. ground of Trinity Cemetery at Broadway and 155th Street, New York City. Further reference to the ceremonies will be found in the historical sketch of Audubon Park and Trinity Cemetery in Appendix C to this Report. (See plates 14-18.)

Dedication of West 59th Street Playground.

On October 26, 1912, the Society was officially represented at the dedication of the playground house on West 59th Street, between 10th and 11th Avenues, New York, under the auspices of Park Commissioner Charles B. Stover, assisted by Mr. William J. Lee, Supervisor of Recreation.

Inauguration of National Indian Monument.

On February 22, 1913, this Society co-operated with the National Indian Memorial Association, of which Mr. Rodman Wanamaker of Philadelphia, Penn., is President, in the cere

monies attending the breaking of ground by the President of the United States for a national Indian monument at Fort Wadsworth, Staten Island, in New York Harbor. There was a notable gathering of Government officials, Indians, and prominent citizens, and the ceremonies were extremely interesting. (See plate 21.)

CIVIC CENTER OF NEW YORK.

New County Court House.

In our last Annual Report we recorded the crystallization of the plan for a Civic Center in New York City in the decision to make the new County Court House a part of it and to locate the Court House in the area bounded by Leonard, Lafayette, Baxter and Park Streets. When this and the supplementary plans are carried out, New York City will have in close proximity to each other a remarkable group of public buildings including the existing City Hall, Hall of Records, Municipal Building, Tombs Prison and Criminal Courts Building, the projected County Court House, United States Post Office, and other public buildings.

In 1912, the Court House Board, consisting of Hon. Morgan J. O'Brien, Chairman, Hon. Edward M. Grout, Mr. L. Laflin Kellogg, Mr. E. Clifford Potter and Mr. Charles Steckler, with Mr. Kellogg as Secretary, made much progress in the work of planning the new structure and some of its environments. At first, the following twelve architects or firms were invited to submit designs without competition: Messrs. McKim, Mead & White, Messrs. Carrere & Hastings, Messrs La Farge & Morris, Messrs. Tracy, Swartwout & Litchfield, Mr. James Riley Gordon, Mr. H. V. Magonigle, Messrs. York & Sawyer, Mr. Charles Butler and Mr. Charles Morris associated; Messrs Trowbridge & Livingston, Mr. A. W. Brunner, Mr. Cass Gilbert, and Messrs. George B. Post & Sons. On October 28, 1912, ten more architects or firms were selected by means of a competition in which there were forty-seven participants. The ten thus added to the list of final competitors were Messrs Howells & Stokes, 100 William Street; Messrs. Maynicke & Francke, 25 Madison Square;

Messrs Charles C. Haight, A. M. Githens & Aymar Embury, 452 Fifth Avenue; Messrs Griffin & Wynkoop, 30 Church Street; Messrs. K. M. Murchison and Howard Greenley, 298 Fifth Avenue; Messrs. Wilder & White, 156 Fifth Avenue; Messrs. Shire & Kaufman, 373 Fourth Avenue; Walker & Gillette, 128 East Thirty-seventh Street; Messrs. George and Edward Blum, 205 Fifth Avenue, and Mr. Guy Lowell, 225 Fifth Avenue.

In December, 1912, the Court House Board sent to these 22 competitors a statement of the terms of compensation and the particulars of what is to be included in the Court House. This may be modified after the Board of Estimate has approved the contract which is to be entered into with the architect who is chosen to design the building. The architects submitted their plans to the Court House Board on April 1, 1913, and on April 10 the award was unanimously given to Mr. Guy Lowell. The jury was composed of Mr. R. S. Peabody of Boston, Mass., Mr. Frank Miles Day of Philadelphia, Pa., and Mr. J. L. Mauran of St. Louis, Mo.

The style of architecture to be employed is left to the discretion. of the architects. They are also to determine the exact dimensions of the building and the number of stories it is to contain. Each of the competitors has received a map of the ground to be used for a civic center, of which the Court House will be a part. The successful competitor must draw plans which are acceptable to the Court House Board, the Board of Estimate and Apportionment, a majority of the Judges of the Supreme Court, and probably the Municipal Art Commission.

Condemnation Commissioners have been appointed and have been at work since last July with proceedings for the acquisition of the site. They are expected to finish their labors by May 1, 1913. As soon as the site is acquired the plans will be completed, the site cleared and the foundations for the building begun.

It is estimated that the total cost of the Court House will be $20,000,000, and of the grounds acquired for it, $10,000,000.

At a meeting of the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects on February 20, 1913, Borough President McAneny announced that it was his intention to ask the Board