Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-03
CATHEDRAL HOLDS
SPECIAL SERVICES
Preparations Are Made to
Receive Large Numbers
Inaugural Week.

Washington Cathedral will be the
mecca for thousands of worshipers
during Inaugural week.
Preparations are being made at the
cathedral to provide daily services for a
record-breaking attendance. and the
crypt chapels will be open to visitors
throughout the week, including tomor-
row. Services will include the celebra-
ton Of the holy communion at 1880 am.
daily and evening prayer at $3.50 pm.
Cathedral vergers will be on hand
from $50 am. to pm. daily to con-
duct visitors through the structurally
complete portions Of the edifice and to
explain the construction now in prog
reSs. The curator's office, which con-
tains a model of the completed cathe-
dral ad other interesting exhibits, to
gether with a visitors register, will be
open from 9 am. to $50 pm, with lee
turers present to provide information
concerning the plans and purpose OF
the great undertaking.
Bishops Garden Open.
The Bishops Garden, one of the most
beautiful landscape developments in the
country, also will be open to visitors
from 8 am. to $50 pm, and there will
be guides to point out the many historic
paintings, which include lockwood plant
ed on Mount st. Alban by Thomas JEFF
ferson, cedarS of Lebanon, transplanted
from the Holy Land; lockwood from
George Washington's Hayfeld Manor
estate. and lockwood grown from Dolly
Madlson's inaugural bouquet.
Because OF its impressive services, its
interesting construction activities, and
because 1t Is the last resting place OF
such ulustrious Americans as Woodrow
Wilson, Admiral George Dewey, Am
baSsador Henry White, Bishop Satterlee
the f1rst bishop Of Washington; anc
Bishop Claggett the first bishop to be
consecrated on American soil; Wash.
ington Cathedral is becoming a shrine
OF increasingly national significance
During 1928 1t was visited by not less
than 100000 persons, more than 10000
worshipers and pilgrims entering the
Bethlehem Chapel alone.
visitors to Washington Cathedral en-.
| JOY the rare privileges of seeing how
| some OF the famous European cathedrals
OF the Middle Ages must have looked
! while In process Of construction. Fol
Washington Cathedral is being built ir
the architectural style known as four.
teenth-century gothic; and not for COT
| years has there been building opera.
ton really comparable to 1t.
Exemplifies Structural Truth.
| The basic principle Of gothic archi
lecture and the secret of its maiesti,
beauty is structural truth. Every stone
| including those often considered merely
decorative, is essential to the strength
and symbolic completeness of the who'll
structure. The thrust of the archie
which supports the enormous weight o
the stone roof is met and resisted b,
the flying buttresses. The buttresse
are themselves reinforced by the weigh
OF the Sculptured pinnacleS which res
upon them. And so, throughout tn
structure, beauty and utility meet to
gether in the most happy combination
In accordance with ancient custom
the ground plan Of the cathedral is IL
the form of cross of which the arm
are the north and south transepts. TIL
total length. measuring from the ex
terror of the apse to the western en-
trance. will be 534 feet, and the Width
at the transepts will be 1873 feet. Witt
its total area OF II 1000 square feet, at
fording standing room at great service
for 27,000 persons. and its central toWe
rising 262 feet, Washington Cathedra
will rank In size, when completed, will
the great church structures of the world
The portions of the cathedral nov
regularly open to pilgrims are thre,
impressive cha2els in he crypt-th