Evening star., 1941-05-03

Difficulty Of Placing
3Great Cathedral
Windows Described
Association Hears
Dean Powell and
Bishop Freeman

Plans for the dificult installation
of three great stained-glass windows
in the apse at Washington Ca
thedral were described yesterday
afternoon at the closing session of
the annual service and business
meeting of the National Cathedral
Association.
The three magnificent windows,
about 30 feet tall by 10 feet across,
will be raised soon to their places in
the rounded eastern end of the choir,
where their tops will be some 100
feet above ground level. This next
step in the development of the Ca
thedral, according to Dean Noble C..
Powell, will be feat to tax the
ingenuity of the engineers.
The final meeting of the two-day
session heard a report from Walter
B. Clarkson of Washington, presi-
dent of the association, that men,
bership has risen to new high OF
1O,5OO. and that record throngs at
tended services in the Cathedral
last year.
In his closing remarks to the
meeting, Bishop James E. Freeman
declared the Cathedral has become
one of the most important structures
in the National Capital and repre-
sents the only ideal that can save
the American Republic"
Miss Mary E. Johnston of Cincin-
natl, national chairman of women's
committees, reported on the activ-
tiles of her group, including plans to
raise funds among Episcopal women
throughout the country to help re-
build historic st. Paul's Cathedral
in London from the wreckage TO
which it was reduced by Nazi aerial
bombs.
The 40 women delegates, repre-
senting 20 States, approved unani-
mously a resolution stating: I'VE
have decided now to undertake the
raising of a special fund through
the women's committees to be a
voluntary gift from Washington Ca
thedral to the Cathedral of st.
Paul S, London.
The resolution, offered by Mrs
William N Bullard Of Lenox, Mass.
chairman of the Resolutions Com
mittee, recognized that the organ
izations first duty was TO continue
it's annual support of the Washing
ton Cathedral, mot forgetting the
building of the Cathedral"
Earlier in the day the tympanum
of the women's porch OF the
Cathedral, for which the Women
Committee raised funds, was &C
cepted by Bishop Freeman and dedl-
Gated to Mrs. Helen Gilman Brown
of New York, who served as national
chairman of the women's organiza-
ton from 1880 to 1910 Mrs. Brown
was present at the ceremony.
The lovely arch over the porch
contains figures carved by the sculp-
tor, Italo Fanfani, depicting the
Alteration of the Magi, with the
three Wise Men and shepherds on
either side of the Virgin and Child
An intricately carved stone canopy
surmounts the head of the central
figure.
The dedication followed a service
in the Cathedral In accepting the
tympanum, Bishop Freeman spoke
of the untold multitude who In
future years will pass under 1t and
receive fresh inspiration from its
beauty"
The women of the National
Cathedral Associa ton had presented
the Bishop with check for s91 ESQ
to complete the porch. Work is
under way and the porch is expected
to be finished by early fall, marking
the first permanent entrance to the
Cathedral. 1t Is on the north tram
sept of the structure.
The tympanum was presented to
the Cathedral by Mrs. William H
Schofield, of Peterborough. N. H,
honorary State regent of the Ma
tional Cathedral Association.