Columbia College Site.

It has been decided by the Trustees of Columbia College to purchase the tract of land on the plateau between Morningside Park and Amsterdam Avenue and the lines of One Hundred and Sixteenth and One Hundred and Twentieth Streets. The trustees have a refusal of the property until May 1, at a price which is satisfactory to them. They have also had submitted to them an offer of the two blocks between One Hundred and Twentieth ond One Hundred and Twenty-second Streets adjoining, which will carry the grounds, if taken, to the turn in Morning-side Avenue which marks the northern boundary of the plateau. The trustees will consider this proposition at their next meeting.

If this contemplated action is taken it will leave only the two blocks between One Hundred and Fourteenth and One Sixteenth Streets of the plateau between Amsterdam Avenue and Morningside Park undisposed of. The remainder will be taken up by the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, which has the Leake and Watt's Orphan Asylum tract, between One Hundred and Tenth and One Hundred and Thirteenth Streets, and by St. Luke's Hospital, which last week purchased the block between One Hundred and Thirteenth and One Hundred and Fourteenth Streets. The property consists of a great ledge which will afford excellent foundations for the most massive and enduring buildings.