The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-30
CATHEDRAL PLANS.
STIR ARCHITECTS
Hasty Protests of Local Men
Are Answered By Building.
Committee


Protests were registered yesterday
by several of the St. PAM ts srohi+ao+s,
on account of the expressed intantion
OF the committee on cathedral mans ~
select list of architects who are 10 ho
invited to submit plans for thes CON
struction of the big building.
They maintain that limiting tba lief
might shut off the most meritorious
EFFORT and intimate that among those
invited to draw plans for the catbedraI
the names of st. Paul architects,swiII
be missing. -
They declare that St Paul arcbi-
tects are as good as any in the coun-
try and suggest that the competition
De opened to every architect who thinks
ne has good idea for cathedral CON
s,ructlon. M They also want the plans of
all 10 De received and acted upon from
an exactly impartial viewpoint
w nile the members of the committee
90 not deny that certain number of
al arcnitects will be invited to draw plans.
eney say that there are two sides to the
question. --ie
Committeeman Explain 49,
According to the statements of mem
pers or the committee the selection of
..ie hst OF architects who will be in
structure has not yet been completed
The committee, advised by the con-
sulting architect, Glenn Brown. of
washington, is considering list of
forty names of eminent architects from
all over the country. The LIST was
coinpIled with reference to the ability
ana experience of the architects in re-
,a.ion Io TO church Work, say the MEM
bers of the committee
Z. II. f. Smith. of the committee. de-
ciared last night that the list under
consideration contained the names of
several st. Paul architects and denied
that they would be barred from the
competition because they were st. Paul
men. He said:
'.The committee aims TO securef,rbe
best plans possible without reference
TO, locality. With this idea in view Mr..
Brown has suggested list of about
forty names, including the leading
architects in the country making
church work speciality. on the list
are the names of several ST. Paul men.
from this list ten will probably be Sc
lected and invited to submit plans and
just VINO the ten will be we have not
yet decided.
1t would be sad thing if excellence
were overlooked in an out town
plan merely because it came from an
other city than st. Paul, and it would
be equally as bad if st. Paul plan of
highest merit were rejected because it
came from st. Paul"
Excellence the Standard
c. d. O'Brien, chairman of the plans
committee, agreed with Mr.. Smith, and
said further:
While the cathedral is to be located
in st. Paul, it is for the whole arch
diocese. Excellence is the standard by
which the plans for the building are
to be judged and not locality. ST. Paul
architects are on the list that we are
considering, and if they are on the
final list of those who will be invited to
send in plans, their ideas will have to
be better than the others in the, COM
petition in order to gain acceptance"
j. W. Willis, who is a member of the
original committee selected to further
the work of securing the cathedral, said
that he believed the construction
should be from plans of the greatest
excellence. He said he did not favor
any sectionalism in selecting the plans
for the cathedral. 81.