The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-08-08
The New Catholic Cathedral.
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LETTER If'UM NHtHHIsHVF HIUHts.
10 TIE EDITOR of .THs MyfRopoi TAN BgoHRD.

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s1R-Tbc new cathedral on Fifth avenue, between FIT
teth and Fifty first streets, has already begun
public attention and even admiration, as great monu
ent II art and science not unworthy Of the metropolis Of
the United states regret but not very deeply that for
the present the work must be temporarily supendei.
The walls ten eleven feet lge,
the surface and give earnest G what the strac
will be when finished. But II Is known TO all the
Catholics OF New York that whether should ever be
completed or not will allow tho labor,r 10 be
franded of his wages carrylng the work. aud
sucnty, whenever the funds too low TO pay the la
borcr the work must stop
This happens 10 be the al the present time The
expenses preparatory were very considerable Tue
nocal Of the superncumbent rock the whole surface
quite serious item in tho expenses Next, the
cays,ion the foundations 10 the solid rock and
here and ihe dip OF earth between two slides OF rock,
meeting each other he base, added little the
expense Finally, however. the base course Of granite
laid and the slcred ed6ce began 10 rise, slowly in-
decd but yet day BY day so a. TO Interest the eye Of even
tbe casual spectator.
The plan originally proposed by me was that the .pa
irons Of tke inst year, subscribing one thousand dol
lars each, sho ia see the result Of their aggregate
contributions before any appeal shouh be made
to the patrons OF the second year The whole
has bee paid 10 vet but Understood
that should not call upon the Subscribers except pro-
portion the work .ercd IL necessary have funds
baud Il tere those who have yet paid their
subecrptons tis lest remark should be taken into
court Some Of them are in Europe some absent from
toe city: aud Ia general they do not know that
quencc Of these crcumstauces the work has TO he
pended for time. Bu, there 20 doubt Of their meet
ing their gagcmcSs, whether cxpTesed in direct
commuI icaii0n implied by promises made through
other parties shall not call upon the second years
dfpoted Of. Many persons have offered their coutrbu
tors II 500 AID $500 20 ard the work but the pince
Of these would b. entirely out OF my plan Of carry
ing Il forward.
On the other hand many Of our people OF towns
the is bot my htah is not very robust and
before appealing 20 tbs patrons ~ the new cathedral for
the year the final result Of the generous
subscriptions maize for the rst and probably that will
bring the middle the third u October Of the
coming autumn In the meantime. do not think IL IL
much be regrct;c that the building should have
little repoec, and time settle ts Foundations II
would be melancholy thing hereafter lind or
breaks IN the walls OF such edince has been
tempatcd the foundations or the St Patrick 8
cathedral.
VIII mabe further remark, and that that since
Columbus discovered this continent there has been
example of such generosity that by which seventy
three pcrsors New lorS out Of a population OF be
and three hundred thousand Catholics have
paid for the expenses Of carrying on the new caihe
dral NJ 20 present condition. On the anniversary OF
the syrg Of tie soue-namey, the 18th instant
Feast u the Assumption OF the Blessed Nrgn-the
enerossed parchment shall be deposited In the cavity
OF that stone. and the wall built IL 20 the average
height of the other portions Of the structure Other
have since been added 10 that noble list OF first
subscribers, and they too, shall be recorded.
of course the list of subscribers that II 10 remain
side Of the stone the only OF those who
shall have aid be Inscribed But the hrst Intention
and the noble impulse that actuaed the primary patrons
Of the cathedral entitled 10 the of being
Incorporated and recorded the stone which 10
AL probability Will never be disturhed by hum agency
JOHN. archbishop OF New York
Nfw YoHK, August Z, 1850