Bisbee daily review., 1907-06-14
CHURCHES WITH NJ SIEEPLES
 FAVORED
New York Already Has Three Great EdifiCeS hat Lack the
 Time Honored Extension
 Toward the Sky.

NEW YORK, June 13.-SOme of the church structures recently built in New York City indicate that the old fashioned steeple is not popular with modern architects. The Madison Square Presbyterian church, the pas tor of which is the Reverend Dr. Charles H. P&rkhurst. which has an immense dome, is an examp:e Of the new style of ecclesiastical archi- lecture. Situated at the corner of Madison Avenue and Twenty-fourth street, it is one of a group of the most striking buildings in New York. To the southwest, little more than a nun dred yards away, is the tall Flat-iron; across Twenty-fourth street is the metropolitan Lie, one of the largest office buildings in the world; TWO blocks to the north is the Madison Square Garden; and across the square is the fifth Avenue hotel, the old time rendezvous of National politi- cians.
 The church proper and the parish house are joined so as to folm one structure. The exterior is of brick upon a marble base. The floors an1 dome throughout, and the partitions in the parish house are made of { terra cotta tile blocks So that a5so ute l safety from fire is assured. The cost of the church and parish house
 was s325, ,O00.
 Another house of worship even | stronger than Dr. fParkhurst's is the
 Broadway Tabernacle Congregation. all, at Broadway and Fifty-sixth street. It has the appearance of 3 1 combination church and office OGlld l ing. It is also of the most modern l fireproof construction, being built of steel protected by hollow terra cotta blocks. It cost $3500O0.
 The Tabernacle has a tower, but
 not the sort commonly associated
 with churches. All of it Is put to use On its first floor are the Sunday school rooms. Between them and tba l belfry there is room for all the ac. l tivities of the church organization. Mission rooms and a ladies' paIioT
 are on the 3rd floor, the Young Mems
 library on the, fourth, the pastor
 study, reception room and church Ii | brary on the fifth, the sextons livins ! quarters on the sixth and a museum on the seventh. Above that is the . DGlAA III ttAC DesoGifASLil dilf INO Slt1 cious halls for all sorts of gatherings
 Far outstripping either of these ir cost is the First Church of Christ
 Scientist, better known as the Christ
 ian Science church, at Central Part West and Ninety-sixth street One million. three hundred thousand dol lars was spent On this building, exclu sive of the cost of the land. It is moi ! accurate to describe it definitely as 6 1 church, because it has an organiza 1 tion that treats the sick, keeping oper seven days in the wek It is said
 that 5000 persons come there fol trsatue eat from the Christian Science
 practitioners every year.
 { Marbles were brought from every
 corner of the globe to line the walls of this ediflce Huge steel girders support the dome and the galleries { Terra cotta tile of the finest variety
 makes floors and walls irresistible to
 fire. There are forty rooms, besides
 the auditorium, in the building. Thert
 is no branch Of Christian Science ac
 tiyfty which is not represented there