Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-05-18
REMARKABLE MEMORIAL.

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able TO give away much money while he was
alive, but before his death made arrange
men,s for posthumous philanthropy upon a
large scale-that is, if he Is really response
bic for the use Mrs. Stewart and Judge Hill
ton have been making OF his millions. The
Stewart hotel for women proved dismal
failure, and one of the dead millionaire's
plans that suffered signal defeat. A far
grindcr and much more enduring memorial
is now in process Of construction. II is moth
ing less than the erection of q cathedral city,
with grand cathedral, palace for the Bishop
and great school. The site is in Garden
City, Long Island. In that locality Mr..
Stewart owned large lrac. of real estate,
and twelve years ago he began the work of
building village upon 1.-THE village now
known MS Garden City. Not long after his
death Mis-. Stewart and Judge Hilton began
the erection Of the cathedral aud other build
ings alluded to, and which are now approach
ing completion, as an enduring memorial of
the merchant prince. The church building
ia called the Cathedral of the Incarnation.
Exteriorly the base, TO line with the mar
bic floor, is of granite, above the base the
walls are continued of brown stone of the
finest quality. The facade is impressive in
the imposing height of tower and spirc, fin
ishcl 10 the topmos, with carvings in the
solid stone, fanked on either hand with butt
resses resting upon moulded bases and sur
mounted by pinnacles ornamentcd with carv.
cd foliage. The tower, monumental in dc.
sign, rising to height of 124 feet. supports
the delicately tapering spirc, 2O6 feet from
the granite base. springlng from the corner
abutmeuts aud resting against the pinnacles
at the walls of the spirc arc flying butt
resses, with their under arches moulded and
finely finished with moulded coping, the pin.
nacles terminating in gablels with carved fin.
ials, the windows in the sides Of the spire
ornamented with buttresscs and gablets fin.
ishcd with carved pinnacles and tracery.
The cathedral is cruciform, the junction
of nave and transept being nearly in the cen.
tire of the building. Scores OF different mar
bles form the floors and walls, and all are
either glttcring with polish or carved into
exquisite or grolesque forms by the chsels
OF skilled artists. The light falls through
seventy stained glass windows, each one OF
which is study in art and each OF
which is an inscription of some
quoted word or phrase from Scripture.
Around the chanccl thirteen OF these
windows are glowing colorcd pictures
oi the Christ and his twelve disciples.
el by carved lattice or framework OF solid
white marble, isthe crypt which is to hold
the urn or casket containing the remains OF
Mr. Stewart. This crypt is white marble
the graveIs tools White is The color, ant
yet around the room the thirteen small pillars
that stand in the architectural design arc eacl
three fold and CT different colored marble
from all parts oil The world. In each group
OF three lie central pillar Is Oh The Deautliu
Dlack clouded marble iound only IN ireland
The organ Is qulntupie' or rather there arr
hve organs IN the calhearal' all OF which ar'
paris oil one harmonious whole, and can b.
played upon at a single Keyboard. 1t is claim
ed that this is the largest organ in The world
and has more stops than ANY other. From
his keyboard at the right OF the nave, JUS
above The transep!, the organst may play OF
the main organ, the chapel organ in the room