Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-08-27
SPENDING
sL,833,O0O FOR
NEW CHURCHES
Sacred Heart Cathedral Heads
the List, It's Cost Being
z Million.

While this city has been somewhat
thrilled and startled during the fas'
season ~ me costly and extensive real
estate operations and the erection u
several sk~g-sersping Office structures
few people have realized that Newark
during tae past spring n summer mas
witnessed - church booming" the
most remarkable era in rs history At
NJ time during the existence Of ne
city has II msde such %wondrous strides
III religious advancement among all
denominations and creeds as IN 1916,
when the records snow n a tt.ss3,A00
has been invested or set aside for the
erection Of nsarlg a score Of new re-
1igi0us edinees which are needed to
meet the deEominationai requirements
81 this rapidly growing city
Newark can truly be called a city OF
churches when the many new sdi1ces
nye added 10 the present roster OF
nearly 200 churches and chapels Of all
denominations II The eroakers do say
fhat the church and its spiritual unfit
eaee are waning. the long list Of speci-
6cations and plans which have been
drawn for the several local church
boards that nave become ~inocuisted
with the building bee clearlyN how
the failacy Of their assertion
cathedral u. cosf s~f.eoe,ac1.
The ono 10 head the list in the
church building boom is the Cathedral
Of the Sacred Heart. on Clifton avenus,
which when completed will represent
an outlay u $1,000. 900 Next comes
Ohsb shaiom Temple. on High street.
IN course Of construction, costing si00.-
600. the 81 Johns German-EDgIlsh
Lutheran Church. at Avon venue and
South Tenth street. at an expenditure
Of $4,000; the Forest Hill Presbyterian
Church. on Heller parkway. $780, 900; the
proposed new church OF 81. Antoninus's
*. G. parish. at South Orange avenue
and South Ninth street, 100000; the
Second Presbyterian Chapel, on James
street. $50. 900: the new First Methodist
Protestant Church, on Clinton avenue.
10000: the projected 9ummerfeld VI.
r.. Church. on Mt Prospect avenue.
so, 900. the new Emmanuel Baptist
Church, ut Montciair and clifton ave.
nues. 10000: the North Reformed
Chapel. on Bridge street. $4,000; the
Emmanuel NJ. + Church. at Clinton
avenue and Holden terrace. 10000: the
new De Groot NJ. e. Church, at South
Orange and Littleton n $4,000:
the new Sisters Home, Of st. Patrick's
Cathedral. on Blocker street. 100000;
the. Paramount Baptist Chapel. on Fair
mount avenue, 10000. ~. Joseph's X
e. Chapel. ~ Paramount and Thir-
teenth avenues, 10000; the Trinity
Episcopal Chapel. on Rector street.
10000; new church for st. Thomas's
Episcopal, IT Rosevilie and Fifth ave-
MUGS. $4,000; st. Andrews Episcopal
Church. Mt Clinton e and South
seventeenth street, $4,000: the pro
posed Lithuanian Presbyterian Church.
on Beacon street. $4,000. and the Wee
quahic Presbyterian Church. on Peshine
and Meeker avenues. $4,000.
Religion Not on the Wase.
The a-bove-compiied list shows that
fifteen new churches, four chnpeis and
a new parish house. costing In the as-
gfeRate 81 1888. 900. have been erected. or
planned for completion. during the
present year.
When you add 10 this vast sum the
thousands Of dollars that have been
spent this summer for improvements
10 the Fifth and Clinton Avenue Bap-
fist churches and many other edifces
II will be seen that church life in this
city IL not on the wane. but 10 IN q
most prosperous M progrcssive conf
dition.
The clergymen 20 whom considerable
credit Is due for tifz phenomenal show
ing In 1910 are the Rev Dr. Charles
l. Hoffman, MonsiRnor Thomas p.
Whe1au. the Rev. DIR. Pleasant Hunter,
the Rev. William 8. Phillips, the Rev.
Joha r.. Hefeftan. tho Rev. DIR. Louis
Bhreve Osborne. the Rev. Father Cor
rigan snd the Rev Father Clark. tie
Rev. DR. James !. Vance, the Rev. o..
n. Brauns. the Rev Frederick r.
Lewis. the Rev. George r.. Lombard.
the Rev. Everard p. Miller. the Rev.
d II. Pape, the REV. julius r. March
man, tins Rev. Warren Roberts Nsff,
the Rev. Charles H.. Wells. the Rev.
DR.. Sherman u Marcy and the Rev.
Vladimir Pyndykowski.
A feature Of the boom has been the
fact that both local architects and
builders have been successful in secur-
ing the contracts with but few sxcep-
tions.