New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-06-24
Church AND RELIGIOUS NEWS NOTES
Something Like So 100000 to Go Into New Buildings Here In
the Next Few Months

About $4,000 will 20 into new churches
In Manhattan and The Bronx. some part OF
II I'm Brooklyn. within the next few months.
Part OF this Will go I'm now. because church
officials regard the subway details as set
tied I'm so far as affecting them. Roman
Catholics have the largest number of prof.
ects in hand. although their amounts In
individual cases are not the largest. They
Will put into new churches this summer
about $4,000. Principal projects are the
Sacred Heart Church. at Highbridge. and
the new project, name not yet selected. In
the upper Bronx. west side. near the Yonk-
ers line. Parochial school buildings are
projected in several instances. and three
churches will be enlarged by the compile
ton OF Easements into upper stories.
Episcopal projects, outside Of the Cathe-
dral OF St. John the Divine, will take
s. 100000 Plans for most OF this amount
are already completed. II work be pushed
on the cathedral the amount Will be in
creased so the total this summer will go
above the three and q half millions named.
Pending decisions concerning the architect
It is not now thought likely that any prog
ress on the cathedral proper will De made
before fall.
Architects not concerned with the cathe-
dral itself have been engaged on the
chapes, and so the Huntin gton Memorial
is to take $50 coo, the Potter Memorial
500. Oo0, the Choir School $4,000 and the
whiting Memorial. a chapel similar TO the
Belmont and King $4,000. Trinity Church
will erect Dix Memorial Chapel, $4,000,
and an Intercession Chapel. 100000 A new
Holy Rood Church is planned. initial outlay
81, eco and there are other improvements
taking the total to the large figure named.
Presbyterians Will this summer spend
$4,000 improving the West Park Church,
and are having plans drawn for new
Washington Heights Church 70 cost $4,000.
Plans arc nearly ready for the new church
on Cathedral Heights. 70 cost 100000. in
The Bronx about 10000 Kennedy funds
will be used at once, improving some prop
critics and building on others.
Churches affected vitality by the subway
projects include the entire list in middle
Fifth avenue. The closing OF the streets
over the New York Central tracks in Park
avenue has seriously affected them for some
years. st. Patricks Cathedral. ST. Thorn
ass Episcopal and the Fifth Avenue Pres
byterlan have been the chief sufferers.
Park avenue, a new feeling has come into
these Fifth avenue churches. For years
much OF their East Side field has been cut
off, and when special meetings were held In
them approach was wholly impossible from
the east.
II is now said that the decision concern
ing the location OF the Fifth Avenue Bap-
fist will be affected especially By the Lex
ington avenue subway now certain to be
built by somebody The suoways are hav-
ing the effect OF helping downtown church
conditions, and indications are the Filth
Avenue Baptist Will not move, after all.
At any rate, an official OF it said yesterday
that the subway report had changed his
view and he believed Il had changed others
in his church.
The Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian,
Brooklyn, and the churches OF all names on
the Heights are affected by tho Fourth
avenue subway DECISION. and some dissatls-
faction is heard. In The Bronx two seri-
Gus situations develop because Of the SUD-
way route one is st. James, Fordham'
directly upon the Jerome avenue route. and
likely to be compelled to move The other
is historic St. Peters. Westchester, which
will suffer as Will ct. James. 1t Is on the
recommended route Of the PETERBOROUGH II
the Brooklyn company gets the contract
because the Interborough refuses IT, or-
Peters will be spared for time since the
line stops al the Bronx River.