The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-12-02

(The Anglican Church Chronicle)
Friends.
My Dear People; 1t is with a great
sense of thankfulness to Almighty God
that / present to you the copy of a
letter addressed to me by Mr.. Give
Davies as representing the family OF
the late Theo. II. Davies, offering to
build a parish house for st. Andrews
cathedral. The reading of this letter
will gladden. the hearts of many and
will be an inspiration for future effort
in the cause of Christ and His Church.
AS you grasp what this means, you
will, with me, thank God that He has
put it into the hearts of this family
to erect this memorial. 1 can not
write all that 1 would say. but must
go at once to an explanation of the
letter printed below and the cut as
given herewith. The sketch, from
which the cut has been made, is in
tended primarily to show the position
of the parish house in relation to the
cathedral: but there has been included
the tower, which is referred to in the
report of the committee on the Alice
Macintosh Memorial, which report is
printed below. The cathedral has
been extended to show the two bays,
on the construction of which tho
Building Committee is at present en-
gagged. I will call your attention to
the building as proposed in order:
Parish House-This contains a large
hall and three smaller rooms in addi-
ton to a kitchen in the basement. The
large hall lies parallel to the cathe-
dral and it's inside dimensions are Sc
feet s inches by q feet. You will get
an idea of the size of this when Z say
that this hall would be as long as the
distance from the entrance of the ca
thedral to foot beyond the com,
munion rail, and as wide as from the
center of one of the pillars of the ca
thedral to the center of the opposite
one. Or, again, about as long as the
present Sunday school room and the
room back of it put together. A
wing extends on each side, from the
hall. That on the Emma street side
contains a room for men, 10 feet 8
inches by 81 feet 8 inches Gncluding
the bow-window), and a room for
women, 10 feet inches by 26 feet |
The wing on the cathedral side con-
tains a study for the Bishop, Is feet |
6 inches by 10 feet inches. Each wing !!
is bordered by cloister leading to
the hall. That on the cathedral side /
leads, with right-angled turn TO the !
vestry door, the base of the tower. |
The picture does not show the Bishops |
study, nor does it give very good !
idea of the cloister on that side
The Tower-This is designed to stand |
about where the present vestry is. The
is proposed that this tower should be
with the cathedral choir by
a transept of the full clerestory height,
and the width of two of the choir
arches. The transept would then form
an organ chamber the floor of which
would be raised to the level of the
capitals of the columns at present in
the choir. This arrangement would
provide for the placing of the organ
m the proposed chamber, leaving the
am bulatory clear. AS to the tower of
course, you understand that it is yet
o be decided whether the tower shall
1e the form which the memorial to
Mrs. Macintosh will take. But I have
decided to make the report known in I
advance. taking the opportunity of
long this at the same time that the
picture is published.
Macintosh MemOrial-A meeting OF
he congregation is called for Tues
lay the 4th day of December, at 7:45
). M, 20 consider the committees re-
,ort and to take active steps for de-
iding on the form of the memorial
nd appointing a committee to carry /
out.
Theo H. Davies Memorial-As Mr..
live Davies invites the fullest criti- 1
ism of the plans for the parish house s
he plans. together with the sketch |
rom which the accompanying cut was I
will be exhibited; and c
II are invited to tender to Mr.. Davies
uch criticisms as may suggest them 7
elves both as to size Of rooms and I
features. I
Cathedral ExtenSion-It will interest
rien6s near and far to know that all T
he stone for the two bays has now =
cen delivered to the cathedral: it is !
eng cut there, and the building OF
he walls has been commenced. The G
,tal rea1iza tons of the Building Fund a