The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1911-04-19
The Episcopal Cathedral Of St.
John the Divine Is Sol
EMMY Consecrated.
20 YEARS IN BUILDING
1t May Take as Much Longer to
Complete Structure-Total Cost
Of The Edifice viii Be
Sl0,000.0OO.
Associated Press Special.

Associated Press Special.
| New York, April 19.-The Epis
copal Cathedral of St John the ID
vine, the Observation-Disclosures strut
ture in the country and the fourt
largest in Christendom, was solmen
| ly consecrated here today. Althoug,
only partially constructed, it has al
ready been twenty years in building
at cost of $3,500,000 and it ma,
take as much longer to complete it
| at a total estimated cost of $40,
| 000, 900.
| Seating accommodations are now
| provided for about 700 persons
| put although consecrated for pres
ent use, four-fifths u the work re-
mains to be done, and the full ca
paeity will approach 1000 At pres
ent the interior walls stand in great
part as they were laid, in jutting
tiers OF rough granite; the vaulted
roof of the crossing is only a make
shift of ,terra-cotta to be torn down
later; the arches from which the
TRANSCRIPTS will spread are blocked
with temporary concrete battles; the
flooring itself is but a cement on
which the mosaics will yet be sup
erimposed; only a hint of the full
glory appears; and yet so noble is
the harmony of the ample dimen-
sions, and SO rich the promise of
f lfilment, that the fragment open
ed TO tho public today is itself an in
vitation to worship
'How has this mighty undertake
ing been financed?" asks Canon
Robert Ellis Jones. "By the same
devotion and sacrifice" he answers,
which actuated the best of the me-
diaeval cathedral builders. The
cathedral has no official source of
revenue. No organized effort has
been made to draw on the interest
of Episcopalians, and yet gifts of all
sizes have flowed in, from all quar-
ters. Five dollars come every year
from a seamstress up the Hudson.
The inmate librarian of city refuge
gave one-tenth of his salary, and a
dozen old men in church home
earned by making nets and ham
mocks $3.50, which they begged
might be built into the cathedral"
A revenue thus derived cannot be
estimated in advance, but bequests
are now known which, as they ma
ture will be sufficient to insure con-
tinued progress. Tne cholf is nov
rooted and partly cased with the
limestone which will later finish the
ennfn interior The eight giant col
umns, eacn So feet high. exclusive
OF the capl.dls' Nhich cluster about
and the chancel, are In Lace with
the names carved upon tins, of
those whom their donors wish,
commemorate Two of the seven
chapels in the apse of the chancel
have been completed, and with them
their stained glass windows. These
are the gifts of August Belmont ana
Mrs. Edward King. Seven tapestries
depicting sacred subjects and woven
originally for Pope Adrian VII III
1870 at Rome, already hang in the
snaces between the windows OF the
anse and the fun complement VIII
adj three more. The organ and cary
ed choir stalls, the gift OF Lew r.
Morton, are in place. the great
crossing at the intersection OF the
nave and the transepts, designed
for the main assembling place OF tre
congregation, is rooted over, ana
with the Unfinished transepts aho
the nave shut in from the weathe'
by concrete screens, the rcma1nihi
wings and work on the lantern ant
towers above can go on without an
noyance to worshippers, each finish
ed unit to be thrown open upon tn
main body of the edifice as II De
comes ready for use.
In style the cathedral is late no
manesque, with strong traces OF by
zantine influences, or as the archl
tect in chief c. Grant LaFarge,
i son of the late John LaFarge' de'
cribes it, $50 far as the cathedral !
the larger sense is Gothic, it is tn
Gothic OF a very early period ID
time OF transition from the simpl
FRomanesqe to the more compile
organism. Nowhere is the constru
t tive scheme based on the pointe
! arch. The mystery of long visti
) down dim, pillared aisles has bee
D exchanged for the solemn granie'
iof a great central crossing, where
t the congregation may mass with
: sound of the preacher voice, ligf
: ed from above by a domed lante
e of sixteen windows, surmounted
Z. turn by a central tower.
= The site is the most commando
u in the city on what once was t
n BATTLEFIELD of Harlem Heights, ov'
IS looking the main plain OF Manh
ie tan. the Hudson river, and Long
land Sound. 1t occupies three c