El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1896-12-23
A MIGHTY INSTRUMENT.
The Second Greatest Organ in the
World Being Erected.


World Being Erected.
The finishing work is being done or
the great organ at ST. Ignatius
church, San Francisco. This is the
second largest organ in America, its
one superior being the instrument in
| the Garden City cathedral on Long
Island, which has fifteen stops more
than the immense producer of music al
the church of St. Ignatius.
For three months the erection OF the
new organ has been going on under the
supervision of w. d. Wood, of the
Farrand & NOtey company of Detroit,
which has the contract OF putting in
| the musical mammoth. The instrument
will be put into use on Christmas day
for the first time.
Surmounting the central columns
are two large figures of angels holding
speaking trumpets. Urns containing e
blazing torches form the coping of the
outer columns. The choir rail in front
of the beautiful array of decorated
outer speaking pipes is d highly orna-
mented brass affair.
Immediately behind the console, and
in the center of the case is a recess
capable of containing eight or ten solo
singers facing the organist, the console
of the organ. On the sides of the
console, there is room for a large
chorus, under the Organist's Immediate
control.
The organ has four manuals of sixty
one keys each and a pedal board OF
thirty keys. 1t contains eighty five
speaking stops, seventeen couplers,
fourteen adjustable com bination pis-
tons, fourteen com binatiOn pedals,
three swell pedals and $3.50 speaking
pipes. The case is thirty three feet
wide, thirty seven and one half feet
high and has depth, not including
the console, Of eighteen feet. The
organ is of the electro pneumatic
variety. The use of electricity brings
from the keys. This will be the only |
organ on the coast into the operation |
of which electricity enters.
So great is this organ that it has an |
ISOLATED producing plant, the bel |
ows not being located inside it, as is
he case with other organs. This plant |
5 seventy-ive feet away from the
'rgan in a tower room at the southeast
,orner of the church. Here, too, is
he electrical plant, the power being
upplied by one five horse and one two
nd one-half horsepower motors, the
electricity coming from public service
ines. There are six sets of bellows.
he wind for the main organ is con-
ucted through galvanized iron pipe
ighteen inches in diameter, and that
Or the solo organ through a ten-inch ;
ipe. Under the arrangement or wind {
ressure the solo organ gets seven {
1ches, the great organ and pedal four
nd one-half inches.
The greater base pipe OF the pedal I
rgan is thirty-two feet in length and {
Sx22 inches in its inner dimensions !
he scale of the pipes was copied from
nat of the celebrated organ at Lu
erne, Switzerland. The lower octave
the set was made in the church
ere of selected white cedar.
eSeryed Promotion on the Sauta Fe. 5
An important change will be made t
/ the operating department of the c
anita Fe system after January l next.
Z. ReSseguie who has been Superin- G
endent of the Santa F'e lines east Of /
lie Missouri river with headquarters 5
Chicago, will become assistant gen v
raj Supt. OF the entire system, with s
at Topeka: and w. G.
iXon, commercial agent at Chicago l
nd formerly local Supt. of terminals '
Chicago, will succeed Mr.. REESE guie. y
he latter is one of the most prominent t
men in that great railroad d
enter, Chicago. He originally came
ON the Burlington, where he was t
ON Potter's private secretary for a Y
miliar but thoroughly imbued with f
lat wonderful mans ideas of manage v
ent and views of railway administra- '
on generally. The value of this school I
g was made apparent in his subse- e
lent experience. Mr.. Resseguie did
ost excellent work as general man.
ger of the mountain division of the a
Mon Pacific which included /:
lie lines between Cheyenne on d
lie east, Milford, Utah. on the L
,uth, Butte, Mont, on the north, and b
huntingdon. Ore, on the west. Rank II
in the kaleidoscope t
langes following the retirement of s.
harles Francis Adams from the Union
acitic presidency, resulted in another
ans being given Mr.. Resseguie's "
eSk-a change for which no eXplana-
on whatever was vOuchsafed, and the .
announcement of which was confined to .
are, circular statement. =
However, the Santa Fe management
id not long leave Mr.. Resseguie out
job. He was made division super =
ltendent in Kansas with headquarters !,
t Wichita, and not long afterwards :,
as made superintendent of the Santa +
e lines east of the river, which posi-
on he has for years held with such Il
Iarked ability as to win unreserved .
from his superior Off b
ers. The Chicago division has long C
cen noted as a model division, and a
Ow the same careful and successful @
administration is to be extended ac- I
vely over the entire system. Mr..
,esseguie is being widely congratulate
d. 5
prn-iInnt Diaz