The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-05-08
.EBW DIAGNOSES SCHOOL
CORNERSTONE LAID ~ CLOSE
or ~. JOINS CATHEDRAL.
Nstahlc Gathering u EplsrOpal CleFEy
aud I.AymeR at CeremSnN Blshop Of
kIsto PrrsidPs Made Possible ~ q
No,sI RuIlng On Ghurrh Architecture.

kIsto PrealtlPs Made Possible ~
No,el Rullng On Churrh Architecture.
The cornerstone of a neW building u
house the New York Trimming school to'
Daaconesses was laid Yesterday after
noon The building which Is already
np two stories. lies IN the close ct th'
Cathedral ~ ~ John the Divine on the
north side af West 10Th street. IL u
the g,ft Of the late DR. G q Tiffany, Shc
left a legacy Of $4,000 for the erection
Of a suitable building for the school
which vas founded in iss0 by The Atf
pr William r. Huntington, rector OF
Grace church. They said YESTERDAY
afternoon that the new deaconesSe-
school would serve as another memorial
to DR. Huntington.
Bishop Greer was 20 have been IN
charge u the ceremonies. hut &c was
announced that a slight indisPosition
kent him az home The Right Rev. > =
parridRe Bishop Of KiOto, took his place
Dr Partridge. who vas formerly a mis-
slonary clergyman in China. was ceoeh'C
transferred 10 Japan and made bishop
Others Of the clergy there yesterday
afternoon wer. the Right Rev. Frederic
Courtney. formerly Bishop OF Nova
Scotia. bun now rector OF st. James
Church. New York; DIR. William 0rosyeno'
and the Rev George ,. Nelson Aron'
deacon Of New York.
The Rev. Milo Hudson Gates Waraeh
Of the school. made one OF the addresses
This school said he, was one OF the
thineu clos.st 20 the heart Of our beloved
Dr. Huntington tie worked for u and ho
gave Il always his dihgent care agree
wholaaeaTtsdly with what was SAID IN
uo1r. Of tbs person IN Whose memory
this building IL crested, yet one canno;
hut feel that this n another nemoflai
20 the character and WORK OF "llilAih n
Huntington. ,1.
P,,riV's acceptance Of the gift on the part
Of the Trustees Of the school A. a memorial
10 Mra Tiffany. the wife OF the donor
Mr.. GATES went on 10 say that ne hoped
the school would continue 20 sarVe a. .
centre " missionary endeavOr' h0t ohy
in New York hut elsewhere.
BiahoD Partridge said that he came
from a Younger and lesser diocese. out
that that didn't make him any the leas
gyunpathstic with the work 81 the train
inQ schOol and Il the deaConesses, Ne
said that their work helped 70 build up
human beings in spirit. mind and body.
The choir Of the Cathedral OF ~ John
the Divine. under the direction OF Miles
FarrOW. the chOiTmmstsr and orgAnist'
lei the congregation in the hymns.
After the cornerstone was laid the at
tendanta At the ceremony went into the
SYNOD Han and were served with tea.
Some Of those there were Mrs. Richard
irwin. Justice and Mrs. Vernon VI. Davis,
FrAncia Lynde Stetson, ATchdeaoOn and
Mrs Thomas Of Highland Falls. lawson
PtIriy, Tax COmmiseioneT, and Mrs.
P1Irdv. DeacOnoas Jessie l.. Gardiner Of
Grace Church and Miss Greer.
The new building extends for 1875 feet
along West llOth street with ia front
on the Catheiral Clos. Somebody who
has had intimate connection with the
doinRn Of the EpiscOpalChurch in NewYork
sor q good many years and who knows A.
much about the traditions % the church
here a. anybody in town. told how there
wAs room for the Deaconesses' school
there At all He said that u the pre-
cisionists had had their way the great
Z MNufufAl nulNllnk N0AAN AAANN 7 AlA AFAAA ~
along the diagonal Of the lot and there
wouldn't have been room FOR anything
else in IT,
FITS a curious thing said he. you
know that traditional law demands that
the altar Of a church look toward the
east strict OOnatructiOnists would have
had the orientatiOn of this cathedral
precisely in accordance 10 that rule, and
you So what u would have done 10 the
lot Now York isn't laid out 40 that the
building could be exactly east and west
and saill square with the lines Of tho
streets.
II was DR. Nsvin % 81 Paul's in Rome
Who helped ~ out He told NJ that the
east intended was that point Of the com.
pass AZ which the sun Rises ON the day Of
the patron saint II the church Sc
Johns day Is the nth % December DO
YOU s@s' IN that day the sun risss con.
siderably To the south o. the true east
and that made everything all right