The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-25
INC New Catholic CathedrnI.

Every resident has an interest in the
building that is net UNCONVENTIONAL. It's
inception was a bold and spirited UNDER
taking, to provide for the anticipatlons OF
Fifty years, and its restoration, l trust,
Will be upon the same liberal outlook. y
glance at ruins shows what an oppor-
tGnity Is presented to erect an edifice that
will not be surpassed from the Potomac
to The Rio Grande, and to give our city
an architectural structure useful and or
namental The plan of the building may
be called composite and any attempt to
restore the old lines will be lamentable
and regretted long before it is finished
Take, as Illustration, the cathedrals in
Chicago, ILL.,, Providence. r. l., Albany,
N. Y, the Jesuit Church in New Orleans
all are studies and the visitor with their
exterior and interior beauties, the skill of
design and excellence of material and
workmanship abound in all parts, and the
religious influences are increased by the
beautiful surroundings, always seen ana
felt in the house of worship, where care
is taken to create an effect not felt where
the church is one vast room, as in our
Cathedral. 1t is simply an auditorium, and
we miss the consoling feeling which is well
explained by the dim religious light and
such is not experienced in mere space.
To those who have seen the shrines that
are famous i'm history a neglect of visit
which seems among the regrets of travel.
it is an easy task 10 state how comfortably
we can combine the useful and the beau-
tiful in the new Cathedral and it is not
presumption which offers suggestion.
Tear down what remains and obliterate
all trace of what was once our pride. Take
some design that mas a steeple and belfry
the riPhf- hand side with a clock
and light that will be landmark for our
people and a beacon for the mariner, as
he halls the steeple homeward-bound. The
interior, with supporting arches, in Gothic
and upper floors, where the services can
be seen and heard and no semblance OF
galleries, an effect seen in New Orleans,
to be admired and amplified. The side
walls to nave inches for small memorial
affairs, the space for affairs extending ten
10 fifteen feet beyond the building, pro-
ducing a pleasant effect and breaking the
dullness that belongs TO a straight line,
always a fear of architects. This might
make six memorial offerings that win
come in 4 brief lapse of time from those
who have lost near and dear and
deem this perpetuaton the most blessed of
memory. Georgia supplies a marble now
exclusively used in building the new state
house, in Providence r. l., selected after
the most exhaustive tests and similar to
the stone called Pelac marble) found near
Athens, Greece, and now in fine preser-
walton in buildings, erected more than 2500
years ago. What chaste and charming
effect will be produced by.this material,
and as Savannah is to provide for fifty
years hence, when Its population viii be
trebed, the wealth many fold by the in
crease of its manufactures, the compile
ton of the Nicaragua canal, and It's adj
vantages as a port of export are know in
many masts of the world. Yamacraw,
will be crowded with docks and ships
bringing the treasures of the Orient from
Bombay Calcutta, Singapore and Borneo,
will enllven it's quays and fill its ware
house, all coming by the canal. A wan
dering Mahajarah, or Nabob, from India,
may then purchase a part of his outfit in
some new bazaar In Broughton or Bull
street, and the salesman say how much
nearer we are to Hindoostan, since the
canal was made. This is not an lima gina
tive or overdrawn picture, nor an excess
of manifest destiny" 1t will be realized
but not in the time of men who fought
in the civil war.
The press mention 100000 as the insur-
ance, and it seems $4,000 will soon be in
sight This sum, In the hands of an intel
ligent building committee of laymen, mer-
chants and traders, who have the great
err experience in buying and selling, with
the present price of labor and materials,
can accomplish great and beneficent work.
Provide for the wants of the coming gem
Grafton, and if you make debt of $4,000
or $4,000, it can be funded at 8 per cent.
at par Make one notable day, known as
Interest Sunday, and the Lord will pro-
vide. Now is your great chance. Seize
it and let us say, as the poet to his verse.
"Posterity shall know thee
And thou shalt live when am no more"
Historicus.