The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-07-29
ROMAN CATHOLIC news.
History Of ST. Johns Parish
description of the Mag
nificent New Church.
INDULGENCE OF roGrIUNCULl
Father Corr Buried in County caven
Ills Parents at His Death
Bed-Parish News.
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Through the remarkable energy of the
Rev. Father Is. Henry Ter Woert. aud
the generous disposition of his people,
ST. Johns parish. though organized less
than ten years ago on the very outskirts
OF the Hill section, is to have the finest
housa of worship In Jersey City. 1t will
cost over one hundred thousands dollars.
and though its walls are assuming shape
II will be two ye airs and q half before II
is completed. Meanwhi lie the communi
cants of the parish will continue t
worship in the little frame structure
first organized. The new church will
face the new County Boulevard at the
intersection of Van Wrinkle street. Il
will lave a frontage of seventv-two feet,
and will be one hundred and seventy.
two feet deep. 1t will be of cruciform
clere story church. The upper portion
will contribute mainly to its cruciform
shape. Its seating capacity will
be one thousand. The material of
which the walls are being Constructed is
gray granite of rough rock face flush,
liimmed with fine cut work of the same
material. Every stone is being laid on
the level in straight ranges clear around
the building. The building will De ornai
mented on The Boulevard and Van Win
kle street corner with a tower, which
will be a FAC smile of IA OF the Madison
Square Garden, with an electrically IL
Illuminated cross substituted for the fam
Gus Diaua, two hundred aud twenty-five
feet from the ground. The tower at the
base will be twenty-eight feet square. I5
will be the only Catholic church tower OF
this design IN the United States. The
electric cross will only be illuminated
Oh special occasion. and when illumin-
ated NAV be seen from almost any sec
ton of the city, The three gables. for
the upper section of the cruciforn, will
be rounded off, and will be eighty-seven
feet from the ground. The apex of zach
will be surmounted by crosses. The roofs
will be of slate.
STYLE OF ARCHITECTURE.
The general style OF The architecture of
the building will be Romanesque. There
will be three main entrances, hanked
upon each side by a double row Of i'm
mense columns, Surmounted by capitals,
from which arches over the doorways
will be sprung. The taain windows will
be iu the clere story Il Will be 16x25
feet in dimension.
AS TO the interior, the ceiling will pc
barrel-sbaped. and at the intersection of
the transept, supported by spandrels from
the four main columns of the church,
will be a dome of the shape of an in
verted saucer. The aisles aud cIoister, or
passageway, from rectory to vestibula.
and the floors OF the coufessionals and.
baptistry and sanctuary will be tiled
The vestibule will be- laid in mosaic. The
entire church Is based gu the solid strata
of rock that traverses that 8 :ction of the
Hill.
HEATING AND VENTILATION.
The beatiug aud ventila5ing of tne
church will be q feature. 1t will not be
heated directly by steam. Fresh air will
be drawn from the outside with a fan
seven feet in diameter and one and one
half feet wide. Between this fan and the
cold ar shaft there will be u coil of three
thousand feet Of galvanized iroa pipe.
Through the openings between the coils
of this pipe the air will be drawn, and in
passing through will become heated. Il
viii then be forced by the fan through a
four foot tunnel that will run to a side
wall OF the church. AT this point branches
will be taken out of tue tunnel. aud
through these branches tine hot air will
be conveyed to the different parts of the
church. As the air becomes vltialed it
will settle toward the floor nd in differ
ent places in The floor. through register
openings it will be carried off to a foul
air dfscharging chamber aud sent upward
through a shalt running higher than the
church building. This same system is IN
operation on the Courtland street ferry
boats BY means of thermostats the hea5
can be regulated automatically. 1t Is
said to be the most through system of
heating in
HISTORY OF THE PARISH.
The parish Was founded i'll 1884. The
Rev. Father Ter Woert was assigned to
its charge by Bishop Wigger, aud is still
building erected in u lot in Van Wrinkle
street was an object of curiosity at first
TO the people In the neighborhood. soon
atterward some adjoining property was
purchased, aud a parish school was
erected thereon at a cost of 81, 600. 1t
was paid for six months after it was
built. Over six hundred children at.
tended the school, which Is in charge of
the Sisters OF ST. Dominic. The erection
OF u rectory cost of $4,000. which was
paid at its completion. Next the
balance of the block was purchased, with
the exception of WE lots. aud the erec-
tion of the big church building com
menced. The little frame shanty a
been moved around on the Boulevard
for the present. The rectory and
the school building are neal brick
structures, and stand ON q
mound terrace. overlooking the Boule-
ward. They immediately adjoin The big
church building now in course of con-
struction. The construction of the new
Boulevard has greatly increased The
value of the properly.
As an evidence of the generosity
and liberality of the people OF
the parish. it may be added That all
this property was acquired and buildi ngs
erected without incnrring auy mortgage.
which is something. probably, unparalleled
by any Catholic Church 10 the State. Tho
property has a frontage OF tour hundred
feet on the Boulevard. When the Pastor
fist started out TO build a new church
his parishioners cneerfully subscribed
5000 in six weeks.
THE INDULGENCE OF P0RTIUNCUIA.
The Manner in Which This Great In
diligence May tit Gained on TUESDAY
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