New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-24

for more than two years the congregation has
been without home On Sundays services have
been held in the gymnasium of the Prospect
Park Branch Of the Young Mems Christian As
ISOLATION, in 9th-st., it being necessary to carry
in the carpets, pulpit and chairs each Sunday.
All the other services have been held in the
homes of the members In spite of these dtsad-
vantages the congregation has hung together
and actually been strengthened by the trials.
The new church building is of a pink stone
quarried in Scranton Penn 1t is something
like granite but coarser in grain. The founda-
ton is of bluestone. The architecture is a mod
ernized early gothic, accentuated by tower
100 feet high on the corner. The building is
what is known as the combination type. con-
sisting of church and a Sunday school chapel.
The entrances to both are in Sth-ave The in
terror arrangement is what is known as the
Akron combination church plan. making 1t
possible to throw the main auditorium and the
Sunday school room into one large auditorium.
The former is arranged with BOWED floor.
amphtheatrical seating. a commodious gallery.
choir loft and pulpit. The auditorium is
tered from the vestibules and the foyer running
along the Sth-ave side. separated from the au-
ditorium by rich, artistic glass screen. which
NAV be thrown open If desired The pulpit
platform is in the rear just next to the large
sliding doors. which shut off the Sunday school
room TO the left Behind the pulpit Is the place
has not yet been let. The choir loft is to the
right of tGe pulpit and directly in the back.
The galleries do not extend around 10 the rear.
The entire arrangement is 50 that when the
large sliding doors are run back side by side.
each on separate track. view of the pulpit
may be obtained from every seat in both
ditoriums The throwing of auditorium into
the other may be accomplished in minute. ana
two separate audiences may be merged into
one harmonious whole without a person chang
ing location.
The Sunday school room is a model, 1t
sists of large rOtuuda or auditorium, around
the rear of which are grouped sixteen class
rooms in two tiers three sides, the second
tier being accessible from the balcony. These
claSSrooms may be used singly or in comblna-
ton by the of partitions and may be shut on
from the auditorium or rotunda by sliding paru-
tons for the work of teaching and opened again
into the general room with scarcely any effort
On the Sth-ave. side of the Sunday school room
are the library and rooms for the officers. In the
is primary room. winch NAV also De
opened into the main room
Back of the pulpit is the pastors study. with
a passage leading under the organ At the end
of the 2d-st. side is a wOmeUs paClor. Above
this is anteroom for the choir, and below II,
in the basement, IS a kindergarten room. III
the basement the various rooms for carry
ing the institutional and social side of the
church work. There is a large room for tie
boys club in the 2d-st. side also small room
for the trustees. In the centre is room for
entertainments and on the other end nanqu-t
or dining room. Each room will seat abo~t
three hundred and they may be thrown into
one large hall for any purpose that may Be de
stairs seat about seven hundred persons and the
Sunday school room about five hundred
In the of the basement is a perfectly APP
pointed and commodious kitchen and serving
room The building is lighted throughout with
electricity. The Ventilating apparatus is OF the
most modern type. The heat is 70 be driven
into the rooms by electric fans through registers
high up in the walls. In summer cold air can
be forced into the church through the same
pipes. The motor that runs these fans VIII also
the organ.
The woodwork throughout the church is solid
oak finished in Il golden shade The peWs are
to be shaped to the form and viii have no
cushions which are considered TO be out or
date The windows are of artistic glass. in
tracery patterns. Rich brown ana yellow tlhtS
prevail and the light in the church Is OF q
much better quality than II the windows We're
Of the heavier tones used in memorial WINDOWS.
The color scheme of the walls is rich cream
In the centre of the auditorium ceiling IS what
is known as an internal dome. with glass 10
correspond to that In the windows SkNhshts
have been provided in the side toward 5d-st. 50
that the light can never be cut of when build
ings are nut ND on the other hair OF the block
When the organ Is put in the church VIII nave
a plant worth more than 100000. y. A bar
CLAY is chairman OF the building commttee'
His associates are II. Z. Smith, a. \. SMITH
C-barIas Sayles c. L. Lockhart and DIT TaHIof:
The nastor T. V. r. Talnlage IS chairman o.