The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-31
In New York

1 not a good time to prove to an out | of-townster that Gotham has much religious reverence in its nature. For it seems that the proletariat has glanced over its morning pa per, selected the Fifth avenue fashion parade as the best show available, and has come eli masse to watch the top-hatted minority going to and from it's worship.
 The ogling. spirit is about that of gold tournament solemn gravity and whispered wise- cracks, with plenty of gawking at the movie cameras and the newspaper photographers scurrying among the social registerites. Attending
 service in one of the big churches is out of the question, because they already are filled by people who belong there. So the specta- tors crowd as far as they can into the vestibules q practice quite l. d deleterious to Easter frocks and flowers, and to the Easter tempers of distraught ushers. Usually they
 have to call the cops.
 New YOrk's Got Religion
 The Easter season is good time, though to write about churches, and to point out that New York really does have a religious nature.
 Every Sunday something like a
 million people attend the 6o0 churches scattered the length and breadth of the city, from the Cath edral of St John the Divine, up on Morningside Heights, down to aged Trinity at one end of Wall street, ,na tha ho1IaI,,iah h mi iSaiOnS of the Flower East Side.
 It is easy to be statistical about the Cathedral because the figures are so impressive = $20,00O,0O spent so far; $10,00O,000 more required to complete the build- ing; another $10,000,000 needed for interior furnishings; central tower 445 feet high; begun in 1891, to be finished by 1865; will
 seat 10000 people.
 The ROckefellers have giv- en tapestries and q lot of money. Tho Stuyvesants gave a baptismal front. The King or Siam sent Q massive lockwood cabinet, and CzckOslovakia 8 huge crystal chandelier.
 Church Picturing
 It is all very Gothic, and doubt less will be the grardest piece or
 architecture this country will
 see for e long time. Nearby lies a lady named Mrs Walter l.. Her.
 vey, who began taking photo graphs of the Cathedral almost since construction was started. Her collection has been accepted as the official record of the gt- gantic work. She has photograph ed it from every angle from scaf- lords swaying in the wind. from precarious perches high in the chapels.. She has prowled about recording sunlight and shadows | through the grillwork and sculp-. tured stone, and has stayed up all night to each the magic or the
 moon. She waited five years be fore she got a certain light for photographing part of the nave.
 think that certain rich men could l learn from her that money isn't
 all it takes to build 2 church
 l Where Society Worships :. There are several society l churches to be- seen on the way down town Church of the Heaven l ly Rest at Ninetieth street and
 Fifth Avenue; St. James at Madi-
 son and Seventy-first; St Barthol-
 omews', Romanesque in stead of
 Gothic, and with a portico given
 by the Vanderbilts. St Thomas | church has some especially note
 worthy carvings, and some of them
 around the chancel created a fur | ore n few years ago when it was discovered that they looked suss piciously like caricatures of var | lous snooty people.