Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-09-11


ness men have not neglected the school
facilities and as result Wichita up to
date has spent more money in that line
than any city in the state.
The Garfield university, built and man
aged by the Christian church is one of the
finest buildings of the kind in the state. 1t
has an east and west front of two hundred
and thirty-four feet north and south, two
hundred and four feet, four stories with
basement, built of brick. The tower is
one hundred and ninety feet and the build
ing in every respect is one of the finest In
the state.
The university was opened last year and
was attended by over two hundred stu
dents 1t was most successful year and
only assured the management that they
had made no mistake when they decided
that it was good idea to erect and set
going Just such an institution. The
faculty is composed of fourteen members,
including long experienced and learned
gentlemen of reputation in eastern uni
versities. The departments coincide with
other similar institutions and for pro-
ficiency and worth are far above the
average.
This year at the university promises to
be even more successful in the line OF
students than last. The enrolment is al
ready about two hundred and seventy,
which is considered very fiattering be-
ginning.
The Wichita University is another very
creditable institution under the control of
the Reformed church. The building one
hundred and ten by ninety feet. three
stories with basement. The faculty con-
sists of eleven members including num-
Der of gentlemen who have in eastern
institutions won for themselves enviable
regulations in that line. The institution
at its opening a few days ago found one
hundred and seventy-three students wait
ing for open doors and the institution
has most encouraging outlook.
The Lewis Academy is another OF the
leading educational institutions of the
city. Located near the center OF the city
it gives increased facilities for attendance.
The building is one hundred and ten
by ninety feet, with main building three
stories The building is divided into fif-
teen class rooms, which are now, at the
opening Of the school year, accommo-
dating over two hundred students The
faculty consists of eleven members, with
Professor Naylor, a leading educator,
president. The institution Is supported
by the Presbyterian church and is one OF
the creditable educational institutions OF
the west. In due time university will be
added, coming with increased buildings,
and the academy will serve as the prepare
tory department.
The Fairmount college building is being
built at Fairmount by the enterprise OF
the Congregational church and will
be devoted to the education OF
ladies' 1t will be ready TO open 10 another
year and will be one of the leading institu-
tions of the kind in the west.
The city school buildings are fourteen in
number. Eight of them being ten roomed
buildings, highly creditable to any city.
There are eighty-three teachers with
school population over nine thousand.
The Y. VI. c. A building is one hundred
and forty by one hundred, four stories
and basement and is nearly completed. 1t
is built of stone and cost $4,000 1t will
be one of the finest buildings OF the kind
west of the Mississippi. The gymnasium
department will be fitted up by the Hon.
r. E. Lawrence, president of the West
Side National bank The building in
every department will be elegantly fitted
I'D and library not to be excelled by any
in the state.
The Southwestern Business College is
one of the institutions of which the south
west and especially Wichita is proud. 1t
gives a complete and thorough course in
penmanship, stenography, type writing
and all the branches entering into strict
" business educating Last year over six
hundred students were enrolled and the
college starts off this year more prosperous
than ever before.
CHURCHES
st. Johns Cathedral-Wichita calls at
tention to this sacred ediice with pride,
and it is built of native stone. Its archl-
lecture is pure early Norman. IL is en-
tered under heavy arches, between massive
pillars with huge rock-faced capitolS.
One finds himself first in an open vestl-
buIe, the walls of which are ASHER stone
work. as are the outside walls of the
cathedral. Standing in this vestibule you
face stout oaken doors, supported and
ornamented with great bronze hinges.
These open into the nave. One pauses
there TO look under the chancel arch and
the sanctuary arch to the altar, the
lights of which seen ND this
vista impress one deeply. Ascending
by three steps to the chancel, by three to
the sanctuary, and by three TO the altar,
the priest. when officiating. is seen suffi-
GENTLY above the level Of the nave and the
transept to impress the congregation with
the dignity of his Office and of the altar at
which he serves. The space above the
altar gives room on the east wall for a
handsome seredos. On the north side of
chaucel is large organ loft-sufficlentiy
large TO hold So, 900. 1t would indeed
hold one costing much more.
Under this loft there is room
for the passage of the process
In this chancel there are stalls on either
side for the supplied choir. and on the
south gallery so that the female voices
need not be SO lost from the music. Back
of the organ loft is the choir room, and
back of the gallery for women singers" Is
the vestry room. Taking all in all, there
are few churches more commodiously and
handsomely arranged than this interioraly,
and there is not a more handsome exterior
anywhere in the country. Dean Adams
takes great pride in having peo-
pie go with him round about"
st. Johns Cathedral and in calling atten-
tention TO the fact that no part of 1t has
been neglected. The ASHER stone work is
no finer about the arches in front or in the
the tower which overlooks the city than
in the rear or hidden side elevation. The
has about 500 sittinss, aud will
about 100 people. In the
crypt is large Sunday school room or
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