The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-01-14
A FRENCH, NOT AN
ENGLISH, TOWER

The following letter from the chair
man of the Alice Macintosh Memorial
Committee will prove of much interest
to the large number of people who
are interested in the memorial:
Honolulu. Dec. 2Sth, 1907.
The Editor, The Anglican Church
Chronicle.
Sir: In your December issue there
appears an account of a meeting OF
the Women's Guild of St. Andrews
Cathedral, at which an anxiety was
expressed to knew what was the pres
ent position of the scheme for an Alice
Macintosh Memorial
| Unfortunately 1 must confess thatsit
is not surprising that the friends OF
the late Mrs Macintosh should won
der whether the effort was not dead;
for so much delay has occurred, as to
give people an excuse for forgetting
the history of the effort.
| 1t will be remembered that no move
ment towards a memorial was publicly
made for some time after Mrs. Mack
intosh's death, but that finally in 1906
st. Andrews Cathedral Parish took
the matter up and appointed a small
committee to report on the subject
This committees report was consid-
cred at a special meeting of the con-
gregation at the end of 1906. The COM
mittee had found in the community
conflicting ideas as to the form the
memorial should take. They submit
ted two alternative suggestions:
First-A Tower to the Cathedral. for
which they submitted a design and a
rough estimate.
Second-The Endowment of a Ward
in the Queens Hospital or the Leahi
Home
The meeting selected the first of
these proposals, and authorized the
appointment of committee-to be
partly drawn from outside the Epis-
copal Church-to carry the scheme in
to effect if practicable.
This committee, which is still in ex-
istence, consists of: Messrs. A. l. c.
Atkinson, Robert Cation. S. NJ. Da-
mon, Give Davies and D. P. R. Isen-
berg. The committee met, but they
decided that it would not be advisable
were in possession of very close esti-
mates of the cost of the undertaking.
The committee therefore sought esti-
mates for the cost of building the
tower of which the sketch. had been
handed to them. This was not an easy
matter without complete specifications,
and the two figures of cost that were
finally received differed so greatly in
amount as to show the necessity of
securing complete specifications before
proceeding.
aware that Mr.. b. Ingelow, the archi-
tect who had designed the cathedral.
considered the tower which we had
been working on as very i'll suited for
adding to the cathedral, whose style is
Early French Gothic" whereas the
proposed tower was English lPerpen-
dicular."
This was a situation that the COM
mittee did not feel competent to deal
with, and they recognized that mis-
take in architectural style would be a
serious one. Fhey therefore referred
the whole matter back to the Parish,
With the suggestion that ST. Andrews
Cathedral provide itself with fun plans
and specifications of the tower which
should be built, and that they then
instruct the Macintosh Memorial
Committee afresh.
This recommendation the Parish has
accepted, and Mr.. B. Ingelow-the orr
ginal architect of the cathedral-is
now engaged in designing a tower.
We have reason to believe that the
drawings will shortly be received here.
and then presumably the Macintosh
Memorial Committee will be requested
to proceed.
There seems little reason to doubt
that the tower will cost fully $50, 900,
and it remains to be seen whether the
combination of the desire to erect an
adequate monument to a noble lady
and the wish to add to the beauty of
Honolulu by thus enhancing the SYM
metry of the cathedral, will place the
committee IN possession of the sum
stated. >.
In any case there need be no hesi-
fancy in subscribing to the fund, of
which Mr.. S. NJ. Damon is treasurer.
if possible. the tower will be built, and
if it shall not prove financially a pos
sibility, the matter will be placed be-
fore the congregation to select some
other form of memorial.
I trust that this letter conveys the
information for which the Women's
Guild of ST. Andrews Cathedral are
enquiring.
1 am, sir, yours, ETC.,
T. CLIVE DAVIES,
Chairman of the Macintosh Memorial