Evening star., 1932-05-04
Choir and Sanctuary Will Be
Opened Formally at
Public Festival.
TEN EPISCOPAL BISHOPS
LIKELY TO BE PRESENT
MANY Other Notables Also to Take
Part in Ceremonies to Begin
at 10 O'Clock.

Notable festival services, to be at
tended by President and Mrs. Hoover
and others prominent in national life
at 10 O'Clock tomorrow morning, will
mark the formal opening for public
worship of the great choir and sane
tuary at Washington Cathedral, the
first section of the Cathedral proper
to be completed.
The service. on Ascension day, will
include an impressive celebration ol
the holy communion Of the Episcopal
Church. The sermon will be delivered
by Bishop James E. Freeman.
The congregation, in addition to the
President and Mrs Hoover, will in
clude Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, widow
of the wartime President, who Is
buried in the Cathedral; Mrs. William
Howard Taft, Vice President Curtis and
Mrs. Edward Everett Gam, members
of the cabinet, the Supreme Court
Congress and the diplomatic corps ana
prominent persons from various sec
tions of the country.
Will Be Broadcast.
The service will be broadcast over a
Nation wide radio network. Very Rev. g.
C. F. Bratenahl, dean of Washington
will be the celebrant, while Rev. Or
w. L. De Vries, precentor OF the Ca
thedral will be the gospelier, and Rev
DIR. G. Freeland Peter, chancellor oi
the Cathedral, will be the epistoler.
Many of those who will attend the
service are active on the Cathedrals
national committees. Mrs. Hoover Is
honorary chairman of the National
Women's Committee, which Is building
the north porch in memory OF George
Washington as a tribute from Amerl-
f.. can womanhood. She Will receive laCe
in the afternoon at the White House
a group of members of that committee
headed by its national chairman MIS-
William Adams Brown OF New YORK
Among others are Undersecretary OF
State william R. Castle, jr.; former
Senator George Wharton Pepper ol
Pennsylvania and former Ambassador
Alanson B. Houghton. as members OF
the Cathedral Chapter, and Senator
David A. Reed of Pennsylvania,
member of the Cathedral Council.
An impressivs group OF clergy anu
laity will participate in the procession,
including 10 bishops and approximately
clergy of other religious denom1natlons,
presidents of the universities IN wash
inpton and Maryland, the architects OF
the Cathedral and lay members OF the
Cathedral Chapter and Council. In
the procession will be Bishops II. l..
Blrleson. Almon Abbott of Lexington,
T. C. Darst of East Carolina, Philip Nd.
Rhinelander, retired, of Pennsylvania; |;
Philip Cook of Delaware, Walter Mitch
ell of Arizona and William Lawrence,
retired, of Massachusetts,. -,
Lay members of the procession Will
include Philip H Frohman, E. Donald
Robb and Harry B. Little, the Catnedrai
architects: the members of the Cathe-
oral Chapter, Mr. Castle, Mr.. Hough-
ton, former Senator Pepper, DR.. w. c.
Rives and r. v Fleming, and the mem
bers of the Cathedral Council, Dean
Warren P. Laird of the University OF
Pennsylvania, Senator Reed and c. r:
r. OgiIby and A. B. Trowbridge OF
Washington.
Association to Meet.
The annual meeting of the National
Cathedral Association, composed OF ap-
proximately $4,000 persons, representing
every State of the Union and number
of foreign countries who annually make
offerings for the building and main
tenance of the Cathedral, will be held
at 2:3O pm at Whitby Hail. The sec
ond service Of the day IN the cholr ana
sanctuary will take place at pm. for
the members of the National Cathedral
Association and the public, at which
Right Rev. William T. Manning, Bishop
of New York, will be the preacher.
At both the morning and the after
noon services sections Of seats in the
choir have been set aside for the gen.
eral public without tickets OF admis-
sion and, in addition, for those who are
unable to obtain seats, loudspeakers
have been installed on the Pilgrim Steps
below the south transept entrance. The
public will enter the choir through the
south transept, the doors of which will
be opened at 9 am. Those having tick
cts of admission will enter through the
north transept.
Under arrangements Of the police,
Woodley road between Thirty sixth
street and Wisconsin avenue will be re-
served for the automobiles Of those pos
sessing tickets. These can enter the Ca
thedral Close at Woodley road and
Thirty-sixth street to leave their cars at
the north transept entrance. For per-
SC not having tickets, the MasSachu-
s.. avenue entrance to the close is to
be used up to $40 am, when it will be
closed for automobile traffic.