St. Landry democrat., 1879-01-04
kaI E I'M pity Maus0le1asaa.
| Newark Advertiser,l


About twenty-five miles from the city
prairie land, and from an elevation in
sight of the ocean, is a newly built town
called Garden City. Everything il new
about it, for ten years ago not Il house
was standing there, the trees themselves
are struggling with the soil for II secure
lodgment, the streets, good as far us
made, HI terminate in Unbr,ken or
freshly cultivated fields and the one hotel
seems wondering what it WAS put there
for, as of all places in the world Garden
City Is about the last to invite travellers.
These who live there are merchants or
clerks from New York; there il not IL
manufactory of any kind in the vicinity,
nor store except those miscellaneous
affairs found i'll every country village.
1t is IL farming country, rich in dairies,
hay, corn and cabhagpS, but Il more quiet
altl serenely peaceful country is not atty
where to be found. Garden City may
be tlsversetl ut monday without meet
ing II human being.
In the ceter of this ambitions town,
all Ot which belongs to one estate, that
of the late Alexander r. Stewart, rises
one of the stat-liest churches in this era
OF ercleSiastical nagniticence. 1t il yet
| unfinished, bnt its spire points heaven
ward and it hears all the evidences of
high art and of unlimited wealth. The
stranger unacquaintrd with the history
OF its construction would wonder over
it more than the hotel, for there il no
population there to till it. Probably it
will have It's active uses in the future !;
it may possibly he the centre Of great
educational movements; l,ut its chef end
WIS to- serve us IL monument to the man
whose money built it aui whose homes
were To rest in IL coStly and magnificent
crypt hrneatA its stately roof. NnciviI-
ian ever before had a tunIh so gland, II
ntauS"ltum =" ttrlnriug. A description
of it says: "On either side of the catlle-
.tral granite steps lead under tie church.
\ short passage, about twelve feet wide,
extends to a nrortnary chapel. This is
about twenty-SiX feet by thirty six feet.
There will be two entrances from this
chapel into the lnausOleun, which will
he directly under the chancrl at the
church proper. As yet it is only rough
brick walls, but these who have made IL
c,rrful study OF the plans say that it
will he one uf the finest of it's kind in the
world. Some declare that it will surpass
the IN III SoAun.uf N ,pplean."
Nearly all the fine marbles of the
world are used in the or.lamentatinn or
in the more solid parts ut the structure.
The sides, the fi-mr and the ceitiug will
all he of white. American statrary mar
bic, witt, elaborate tracings. At each
angle there will be three detached col
un,n>, f"lnling Il Triangle. the front
column of each Triangle will beof black
Irish foSsel marble, with Il beautiful
The remaining columns will I've of white
marble, but OF different kinds. At the
head of the crypt will te IL white marble
pedestal, three feet high, on which u
life -siz"d figure of the Angel of Result
rection will stand. In the middle of the
crypt II sarcophagus will be erected
1t will he of granite and about six feet
in height, with space for one coffin. And
there the great merchant was to rest
under the solemn light of the sixteen
stained glass windows, and here during
the winged centuries tO come he was to
point the moral of life and of earthly
mortality.
The story recorded of the theft is in
terrible coltrust to this other story of
the cathedral. and reminds It's that the
near men attain to Christian civilization
the hacker seeem the crimes that stand
forth us it's opposite. We have on one
side IL noble, beautiful and costly build
tHS1 SEttItIH tottI VIC IiltH VI tuc UdttoH
and its highest aims, and on the other
the miserable ghoulS, the unshrived and
soullcss hends who have robbed the
grave Of the body that was to rest be-
Meath its roof. Language has no words
to paint this atrocity, and it is a singu-
lar fact that the law has never fathun-
ed the depths of !. crime like this and
provided Il penalty. IL is far beyond
what we supposed men calntble ut doing,
and borders on t,arbari>n thar si,nctiuns
the eating of the eaemies captured at
war.