Evening star., 1932-04-03
CATHEDRAL UNIT
BEING COMPLETED
Rush Choir and Sanctuary
Work for Notable Services
Ascension Day.

Construction work at Washington
Cathedral is being pushed forward at
increased activity to prepare the great
choir and sanctuary for the notable
services on Ascension day, May 5, which
will signalize the opening of this por-
ton of the edifice for public worship.
President and Mrs. Hoover, Vice Presi-
dent Curtis and other leading Govern
ment officials and friends of the Cathe-
dral from other cities will attend the
morning service, at which the Right
Rev. James E. Freeman, Bishop OF
Washington, will preach
The choir and sanctuary have been
cleared of the scaffolding used by the
skilled craftsmen in carving the SYM
bolic bosses in the vaulting, 95 feet
above the floor, and the nine angelic
figures which adorn the soffitt of the
arch. At present the work is being
concentrated upon the carving Of
statues of angels in the spandrels of
the sanctuary above the altar and the
laying of concrete bed for the ulti-
mate permanent pavement of the
choir.
Extra Employment Furnished.
These activities in the choir and
sanctuary have furnished work to 25
additional men who had been pre-
Yiously unemployed
In the sanctuary a model of the
great Ter Sanctus reredos, which will
later be replaced by the permanent
stone reredos, is being erected behind
the Jerusalem altar. The altar, FASH
Toned from stones of the quarries used
by Solomon in the building of his
temple and the gift of all the Protestant
Episcopal dioceses and missionary
Jurisdictions in 1902, will be used at the
Ascension day services.
A partition to incloSe the west epi
OF the choir and to afford protection
from inclement weather to Worshipsrs
at services in this new section is being
built and in the clereStory and other
windows, where the permanent stained
glass has not already been placed. am
Der glass will be installed.
Entrance to the choir will be pro-
v1ded through the erection of temporary
steps to both the north and south
transepts. 1I AT the north side, entrance
will be over the foundations for the
north porch, which is being built solelv
by gifts from American women and
t5fs first stone of which was laid Ascen-
81 IN day last year by Mrs. Herbert
II lover, honorary chairman of the Ma
tbonal Women'S Committee for Wash
1ngton Cathedral. The south transept
entrance will form an approach into
the Cathedral above the Pilgrim steps.
Summer Services.
Throughout the Summer It Is plan-
ned to hold all preaching services at
J; am. and 4 pm. in the great choir.
which have heretofore been held in
the Bethlehem Chapel, at the Peace
Gross and the Amphitheater. The choir
With its adjoining chapels will accom-
n.Qdate large congregation of 500
pe.sons seated and several hundred more
standing. The committee in charge
OF general arrangements for the OPEN
ing Of the choir and sanctuary is COM
posed OF the Rev. G. Freeland Peter.
!athedral chancellor, chairman; Under
iecretary William r. Castle, jr.. Of
Bae State Department, and Corcoran
Ehom, representing the Cathedral
lpapter. c. F. r. Ogilby of the Cathe-
Eai council, Comdr. J. w. Morse,
cathedral proctor, and the Rev, Raw,
Aaond L. Wolven, chaplain to the Bishon
OF Washington, as committee secretary,