The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-27
The @GeIden-White.r

trustees had to go farther than Lake Mohegan.
 The "Golden-white.'
 There are three great clefts in q cer- tain hillside gutter with the tint, best described as '.golden-white," which makes the stone so desirable for St. Johns. When the new Croton reser- voir dam was being built some years ago, F. P. Roberts, then engaged as a consulting engineer in its construction. noticed in the course of the frequent drives he was compelled to take through the country forming the Cro- ton watershed, peculiar pieces of stone in the stone walls of the surrounding farms. These were granite flecked with reddish brown of a kind he had never seen before. Finally fence containing some unusually large pieces of this stone so excited his curiosity that he made inquiries about 1t at the neighboring farmhouse. He learned that the powders in question had been dragged from the side of brook flow ing past the base of long wooded hill. This was enough for Mir. Roberts, and before he left town that night he had the quarry rights to the hill in his pocket Originally he had intended to use the stone in the construction of the Croton dam. but further considera- tion persuaded him that to waste gold en granite on such utilitarian work was folly. The dam was built from excellent granite of more ordinary color obtained only a quarter of a mile from the new quarry and the product of the hill was reserved for the Cathe- drai of St. John the Divine, and a few other buildings such as those in the Bronx Botanical Gardens and the resi- dence of Charles M. Schwab on River side Drive.
 St. SnyiOur's Chapel.
 Fu 11anh he ncS fxya building for its size ever erected in New York Is the central one of the Cathe- drals Seven Chapels of the Tongues which are to form a semi-circle around e the choir. When the workmen leave 1t tn the fall it is probable that more than $200.000 will have been spent on the construction of an edifice 30 by 50 feet in size.
 What the chapel lacks in magnitude of dimensions is, however, more than offset by the splendor of its material and the richness of its decorations. The exterior walls are resplendent with golden white granite. and the plaster of ordinary interiors has in this case given way to Frontenac stone.
 Forty feet and more above the floor are the tiles of the vaulted roof. Over the sanctuary at the eastern end, glass mosaic work will be substituted for tiles: almost the whole of the eastern end of the chapel is as great stained glass window: the capitals of the many arches are elaborately carved, and along the walls and In the pillars are many statues of saints and angels. In fact, the chapel Is a bit of Gothic arch lecture transported from Europe and the Middle Ages to form one of the most characteristic features of Twen- tieth century cathedral in the industrial capital of America.
 Officially the little gem of ecclesias- tical architecture is known as the Chapel of the Oriental Rite. and Is dedicated to the Holy Name. In com mon use 1t Is to be called St. Saviour's Chapel, taking the place In relation to the rest of St Johns of the Lady Chapel, without which no Roman Catholic Cathedral is regarded as ec- clesiastIcally complete. While in course of construction. however the building has been loosely called the Belmont Chapel. from the fact that 1t was given by August Belmont a memorial to his mother. The older name of Lady Chapel was not consid- cred a suitable one for a post-reforma- ton structure despite the fact that probably the most famous building of this kind is the Lady Chapel of West minister Abbey, sometimes known as Henry WITS Chapel The committee felt, however. that there was an inn portant distinction between preserving a historic name and deliberately select ing a designation so little significant of the tenets of reformed church.
 Ready for Services in the Fall
 Sometime in the fall 1t is hoped that the chapel. a complete little church in itself, capable of holdi"G q congrega- tion of 150, will be ready for services When the whole of the great choir oi the Cathedral Is completed the entrance to St Saviour's will be from the am buIatory surrounding the choir and be tween two of the eight huge mono liths. which now tower so conspicuous ly above a maze of scaffolding and granite blocks. Tho chapel will, how ever, be completed long before the choil proper, and a temporary entrance will consequently have to be provided.
 At present it is planned to close the broad archway opening on the ambu' latory by an iron grill filled with glass With this accomplished. there will b' two churches already completed within the walls of St. Johns, for the service! nave been conducted regularly for som' years in the crypt under the choir IT addition open air services are held or the grounds every Sunday afternoon 1T the grove to the south of the old or phan asylum which Is now used for tn, Cathedral school, the diocesan hall ant other similar purposes. Already, al though many years must under tn most favorable circumstances elapse be fore the Cathedral or St. Johh the Di vine is an accomplished fact, the ex pectation that the great structur would be the center of manifold relig ious activities is being realized in way that augurs well for the time whel the whole gigantic plan shall have beer carried out.
 Externally St. Savfour's chapel I already finished. It fs rectangula edifice projecting over the steep de clivity at the eastern end of the ca thedral grounds The front wall i given over almost entirely to the en trance arehway. and at the rear abov the foundation wall is the great win dow in which the present ordinar, wire-glass will intimately be replace, by stained glass. Adjoining the chap al on the north men are now at worl