The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1889-05-23
'-Ii:Il CENTRAL ! Al UNION CHURCH.
Report Of the Committee on Plans
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The following IT, the iull text OF
The report Of the committee Oh plans
for the new church, submitted 10
The congregation Of Central Union
Church vest, rday evening;
To the Members Of the Contra
Union Church and Con ..re CATION
Your Com miitee on Ch irch Plans
beg to submit the following report
for your con sheraton. Since their
appointment tn re has been barely 6 |
time VIII, n some one member has
not been absent from the kingdom, |
but this has not worked altogether |
to disadvantage, for during travel |
the proposed Church blilding haS
been in mind, and number OF new
churches have been examined in diff
ferenJ parts Of tie United States,
with \ view 10 our requirements
here, and We have thus tried to do
duty when away. Some of the
buildings seen were far TOO expen-
sivc, while Others were not well
adap,,d to our tropical climate. We
have also examined many plans
given in leading architectural pull
locations, but have found little help
from this source. Early after our
appointment, the attention of your
committee vas called to he picture
and description published in the
Christian II Jme. Of the rev PrrsbN-
terian Church of brooklyn, of which
DR.. Chapman is pastor; this plan
met with Just criticism from some
persons who preferred that the sun
day School room should join the
auditorium by means of sliding
door, SO thai the two apartments
could be thrown in one when so re-
Quired; another objection made TO
the plan WAS, that there seemed I"
be no available lot of sufficient size,
but this reason WIS removed, when
the Committee OF Building Site re-
| commended the lot on the corner OF
Beretania and Richards streets, which
report was finally adopted. Although
| other plans were discussed our cum-
mittee fell back on the plan OF the
Presbyterian Church, ard our opin-
ions were strengthened in its favor,
as being the best adapted to our
wants, rroll reports of the building
received from several of our church
members aid one of our committee,
who had looked over the church
with Our wants in view. We fe,t
more confidence also in this plan,
after hearing that Rev. w. Frear
had said it was fine church, and
was about what we reeded here.
Rev. j. A. Cruzan wrote one of the
members o. our church thus: This
chu uSch auditorium wculd be too
small tor you (it seals 550), but
with galleries il woul seat 75O.
OF course this auditorium could be
increased 10 any size d sired. But
the Sunday School and social appa-
ratus Of ii is building, l have never
seen eeual1d, ano hav. seen nearly
all the noted SUI day School build
! inga 1t Sc 1t is far superior
to the cele grated Akron Ohio, NJ. +.
Church, or Wanamaktr's Bethany
Sunday School blildng of Philadel-
phia." L. seems wise 10 your cCm-
mittee to recommend a plan that las
been SO cal efully studied, Ivy one
who has had SO wide All experience
in Chnrch buildings Especially in
relation to comp etc Sa0ba,h school
apartments), as DR.. Cha ,man has
haG, who alter making careful eX-
am'nations OF MANY of The recently
built churches liz the U. 5. incorpo-
rated their improvements into this
new church. In March as another
memb,r of our committee was tC
visit San Francisco, we requested
him to make still further examina.
tions of the Brooklyn Presbyterian
Church, and to call upon Mr.. Bord
well the architect, and obtain from
him preliminary plans with certain
notifications, as follows: size of tl'
auditorium, rear gallery, enlargins
certain rooms, and choir loft, etc.
estimate of cost of the church h re
If built of wood, and if of brick, ii 4
to look at other churches more es
pecialiy the Methodist Episcopa
Church OF Brooklyn recently finish
ed. OF this building he ohtaine'
sun prints Of plans and copy O
the specification, bu, those who hav
seen both sets of plans, are almos
l unanimously i'll favor of the plan
| before yCu this evening.
: The depth of our lot from Bere
tania street in the centre is 1881 1T.
y the ground plan of the propose
: church has been cut out of past,
It board on the same scale and paste
v on the survey of our lot. to sho
: how the building will 1T, and the pt
sition we propose 1t would occup
on the land. Should the churc
e be built of wood in accordance /
y sizes given in these plans. there wi
3 remain only u feet in the rear, ,whic
i, is.not su lcient width for a drive
), way, ano should we decide to bull
u Of brick or stone part of this spat
n will lie taken by the increased lhcl
c ness of als; such being the cas-
+ we would suggest that no horses an
carriages be allowed on the ground
u and that the lot be well laid out vii
J. cement walks, lawns, gardens, ell