Connecticut western news., 1885-04-15
TIE SEWART MEMORIAL.
The Cathedral Rt Garden City, Long
 Island.


 The finest ecclesiastical mausoleum ever erected to the memory of single individual, and the most elaborately decorated Cathedral in America, if not in the world, has been consecrated at Garden City, l.. I. It is the monument raised to the memory of the late Alex ander T. Stewart by his widow, Cornelia Nj. Stewart.
 The structure is of brown sandstone from the Belleville (N. J.) quarries. The woodwork and marble finishing in- side are elaborately carved by hand and an entire scriptural story is told in the bas-relief figures on the organ. Its ex- treme length is 270 feet, its transept 75 feet and the height from the foundation of the vane 70 and to the illuminated cross POT feet.
 Built in an angle in full view of the entire congregation is the largest organ in the world. It has 2, ,252 pipes and 115 stops, at a cost of over $100,000. The chamber in which the organ is built is 15 feet in diameter, extending from the basement floor upward to distance of 40 feet. A remarkable feature is its construction so as to distribute the sounds in four different parts of the Cathedral at one time, and under full control of the one organist at the key board of the main organ. Steam power is employed in infating the bellows. There are double engines of ten-horse power beneath the chancel division to supply it with the compressed air and the speed is governed as far as possible by the rise and fall of the bellows. In the room beneath the vestibule, and which is directly under the tower di- vision, is single engine of ten-horse power. The greatest novelty is the elec- tric chime action, by means of which the chimes, consisting of thirteen bells located in the organ tower, are played from the solo manual with perfect ease and convenience. The bells are rung with the same force and precision as though they were struck in the usual manner. They can all be rung in con- nection with the music that is rendered on the organ. The organ cases, the Bishops and Deans thrones, the clergy stalls and the choir stalls were made in Philadelphia and are magnificent speci- mems of carving in decorated English Gothic, profusely enriched.
 In the basement of the church is the marble mausoleum, severely simple in its construction, but made of such valu- able material that the construction of this single crypt entailed an expendi- ture of S150, 900. Here the body of the late Mir. Stewart is said to lie in spite of the report that the remains were never recovered.
 The stained glass windows, more than seventy in number, are the work of foreign artists and were all made after original designs in London. Nowhere else in America can the student find such collection, which studied as @ whole shows a consistent unity of plan and arrangement of subjects, and studied alone reveals the most careful historical accuracy in details.
 The name of the church, "the CaShe- dral of the Incarceration, is taken as the theme, and the windows are made to tell the story. The prevailing tone of the glass is light, showing to good ad- vantage the chiselled marble, the richly carved foreign woods and the hammered brass work. In the porch at the east end the glass introduces the visitors first to the progenitors of Christ, in type and prophecy, while the subjects in the vane, fourteen in number, carry forward the life of Christ, beginning with the Anunciation and terminating with his journey to Nazareth after the return from Egypt.
 Two of the finest school buildings ir this country, ore for boys and the other for girls, are connected with the church.