Evening star., 1922-03-24
THIRD STEP TAKEN
IN CONSTRUCTION
OF BIC CATHEDRAL
Entire Foundations Will Be
Put Down for Mount st.
AIban'S Structure.
CHOIR ALSO TO BE BUILT;
S750,CO0 WILL BE SPENT
Contract Let for Additional Work,
Which Will Make Edifce One
Eighth Complete.

Inc third great forward step in the
building Of the immense National
Cathedral Of SIS. Peter and Paul at
mount ST. Adams. planned as a ma
tional institution and now partially
erected. has begun
The board of rustees-cha pter. ae
II Is ofiicially styled-of the Protes-
tant Episcopal Cathedral Foundation
OF the District Of Columbia has de-
cioed to put in the entire foundations
through to the western end (about
'oo ieet) and also to build the choir
through to one bay east OF the cross
ing and to the height Of the clere-
story. Within the past few days the
board authorized the Bishop Of
Washington and the building commit
Tee to award the contract for th.
work. This has been done. The ONT
lay involved will be about s75o.ooo.
One-EiEhth Complete.
tremendous as this portion Of tn.
construction work will be. It will By no
means mark the completion of the secr.,
eaihce. With its completion the great
1aoric as the structure is officially
styled, will be only about one-eixht,
finished.
Il Is considered probable that the
chapter will be enabled to begin tn.
fourth step Immediately on completion
OF the third. This will include the COM
pletion of the choir and of the sun.r-
structure over the entire foundations.
including the crypt Chape of the Resur
| rec!lon, to the level Of the nave floor and
Will cost another 100000.
Inc nrst step in construction was
the laying of the foundation for the
choir, including the Bethlehem Chapel
In the crypt. This chapel is a memo
RAJ 10 the late Bishop Henry Yates
oatterlee. whose tomb is therein. Its
cost was betrayed through the gifts
OF thousands of donors
Inc second was the building Of the
apse' or sanctuary. This was accom-
plished through the generous ejft of
the late Mrs. Archibald D. Russell OF
New york In memory OF her mother.
Mrs. Percy r. Pyne
VIII Approximate Canterbury. =
In size the completed structure MI,
| approximate Canterbury Cathedral
and Yorkminster in England, and
will hold 5000 people. The style wilt
| be pure Gothic throughout. The build
! ing stands in the midst of q park
| OF forty-five acres. lying 400 feet
above the city, which will be beauti.
ned and adapted to form the most
advantageous and inspiring setting
possible: The $1,000 cubic yards Of
earth about to be excavated will be
utilized. under direction of Frederick
Law Olmstead, landscape architect,
will add both to the impressiveness
and the convenience of the plan OF
the grounds.
The cathedral" is properly an or
ganization. rather than a building. 1t
Is a corporation chartered in 1893 by
Congress and empowered to estab-
iish a cathedral and institutions of
learning for the promotion of re-
ligion. education and charity. The
cathedral building, or fabric" is but
one; although the greatest. of the
powers of this organization
FINAL payment on the property was
made in 1906. The foundation stone
was laid in 1907. Ground for the
Bethlehem Chapel was broken in
1903. The first services in the cathe-
dral fabric were held on Ascension
1915. '
The architects are Frohman, Robb
& Little Of Boston. Mass. and the con-
sultlng architects are Cram & Ferguson.
also Of Boston.
Not Long to Finish Work.
Contrary to the ideas held by many,
the building Of a great cathedral such
as this need not take a long time.
Saint Sophia in Constantinople, for
instance, one of the wonders OF the
ancient world. was completed in less
than six years. II such a church could
be built within that period in the
sixth century there is no reason why
the national cathedral here cannot
be finished in the same time, pro-
vided. of course, that funds are
available.
The s1o.oOo,oo needed is being
raised in two ways 1t has been sug-
gested that a group of 100 persons
able and willing to subscribe $1,000
a year will stand in the same rela-
tion to this great undertaking as did
prince of the middle ages who A.
nanced sanctuaries of that time. Tho
assurance of 100000 annually will
enable work on the fabric to be con-
tinuous. Such subscriptions can be
designated as memorials, thank Of
ferings or personal gifts. and will be
inscri ibed in a handsome book of re-
membrance" to be preserved forever
in a special "aumbry' or niche.
Among Washington subscribers to
this master builders fund are: Mr..
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