The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-04-25

surrnounted in turn by q central tower.
The site is the most commanding III
-be o.+v on what once was the battie-
field Of Harlem Heights, overlooking
the main plain of Manhattan me
Hudson river. and Long I>l2id sound
Ii occupies three city blocks, u
Ok 11Oth and 18TH sire Is .u~ncrth
aud south. and Morningsi1e Drive ana
Amsterdam avenue to east and west
The cathedral itself is q crucltorm
structure $50 feet n l6o feet woe
across nave and aiSles, 23S feet "lue
across transeDts. having two western
towers in angles made by arms OF the
cross. with a central and Splr.
planted on q base 100 feet square ana
rearing its final cross to a he.sat ~
425 feet. AS the gr1a- d'1ae Of the
crossing dominates the Interior. 81 the
lofty tower, soaring froEl the iedgeS OF
Norningside Heights Will dominate the
exterior.
It's Size Compared With Others.
Some idea Of the size OF the cathe-
dral is to be gained from q cOn1parl-
son it'll other notable cathtGra's. The
central tower Of Trinity Church, Bos-
ton. hitherto the most MASSIVE III
America, could stand Witain ST. Johns
crossing and leave three quarters Of
its area bare. The dome is Of almost
equal span with that OF the mosque or
ST. Sophia at Constantinopie and near
~ 100 feet higher. The dorle "f st.
Paul's. London, is slightly wider, but
Sc feet lower. The rOtunda of the
Capitol at Washington is of the same
superficial area, but the ceiling STANDS
1873 feet above the floor ana that of
ST. Johns 252 feet.
The total superficial area of ST.
Peters. the greatest Of al cathedrais.
double that Of the e largest. at
Seville, Spain, which has 124.0O0.
Third comes the Duomo, of Milan.
with 10000 square feet. and fourth
ST. Johns with $4,000. Other notable
churches are Cologne Cathedral. a.
464: st. Paul's, London, S4,025; st.
Sophia, Constantinople. 10000; Notre
Dame. Paris, 64,108; Westminster
Abbey, 61,72e
The construction is everywhere de-
signed for all the ages. The oute:
walls are Of cream colOred granite
| side with a beautiful, soft. buff lime
stone from Frontenac. MINI. The
| groined vaults above the choir will be
brilliant with primary colors, and the
lofty dome of the crossing will blaze
with mosaics and gold. AT its four
orrers sand four masonry piers, sup
porting the ceiling Of the DOME, and
the weight Of the tower above. Each
of them is 26 feet square, it's lOad ia
a4,71S.00O pounds, and it stands on
concrete foundations, bedded forty feet
below in the living rock. 1mpinging
upon the piers, and now visible in all
photographs Of the cathedral, but later
to be completely enclosed by the exte-
rior walls, are -four flying buttresses,
tn1 hea G t eve built, which will take
up the thrust of the arches and dis
tribute their o evenly on the piers.
It was not felt wise in SO savage a cli-
mate as that of the Atlantic coast to
| expose them. constituting, as they do.
the only guarantee of the structural
integrity Of the whole, to the attacks
Of rain and frost, imperceptible at first
but implacably destructive in tho
course Of the centuries.
No Iron Or Wood III frame Work.
No iron and no WOO is used in the
frame WOrn of the cathedral proper
The floors are of hollow thing, the
thing again, with a copper sheathing
over all needed only for a weather
screen. An elaborate heating and ven-
tilating plant is already in operation
Hidden electric lights will rim the
arches of the choir with incandescence.
A closely woven system of telephone
wires will cOnnect the vast wings for
the use of it's governing clergy. AS the
choir withdraws in the occasional, its
blended voices will be brought back to
the kneeling congregation through
sounding horns with apertures inside
the walls. The building will be as
nearly imperishable, indestructible,
and responsive to the needs that have
called it into being as it has been pos
bic for human ingenuity 20 make 1t.
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