Evening Star Newspaper, October 9, 1927, Page 18

18 SN0 SEOA INGATHEDRALLAN $6,800,000 Needed Now to Complete Next Step at Mount St. Alban. < A matlon-wide campaign to raise witimately § 0,000,000 for the comple- | tion and r Washingto ‘mted institutions w ht. = effort as chairm; committee, with G per, former United from Pennsy s man and_ S Andrew W. ciated with Right R man, Bishop of W prominent cle men on_important tees, including the followi B. McClellan, former ma Herbert L. Satteriee of New . Trubee Davison, Assistant v of War; Ogden Milis T'nder Secrotary of the Tre fiam R. Ca . Assist of State; resi A Charles N ry For the pr Wi be cent § 0,000 need step in the Cathedral developn gram. This includes the construction ©f the choir, crossing north and south transepts and northeporch, with sufli- clent endowment to make these new (! units of the Cathedral effective for service. { New Yor nt campaign activit 1 upon the a Statement of Pepper. Inas shalf of | the execative com Pepper | said | “In an age that is witnossi | 2 quate, con gion of what the life and teachi Jesus Christ mean to our peoj ceate an endurin national spirit of d Tist it in helpful Christian ser’ Washington _Cathedral = proj cludes in addition to the great Cat dral church, a coliege of preachers, schools for bovs and girls and other valuable agencies involving ultimate- v for construction and endowment a cost of $30.000,000, “Daring as such an undertaking is, #t is not too daring in such an age as this. Our Federal Government is set- ting forth a plan for the enrichment of the Capital that contemplates an outlay of more than $100,000.000. Shall we not have in our Capital an adequate witness to the faith which we believe secures to us our national permanence and well-being? Presi- dent Coolidge has said that ‘the strength of our country is the otion and to en in- Secretary memorial_to the | ana piscopal ice the | fobiscond effect to W timate pre $16,100,000 $1,000,000 for the landscape .develc ment, under the supervision of Fred- erick Law Olmsted, of park, gardens and the winding approaches to the Cathedral itself, endowment to carry on the manifold Cathedral activities. The primary ob- UND ERWOO P Upper, left to rizht: Gen. J A. W. Mellon J. Pershing, George Wharton Pepper and left to vight: F. Trubee Davison, Ogden L. Mills, William R. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON; D. C. OCTOBER 9 1927—PART 1. ment. Flanking the western en- trances will be two other towers, each 195 feet high. The majestic beauty of the exterior {s forecast by the com- pleted apse, the gift of Mrs. Archibald D. Russell, in memory of her mother, Mrs. Percy R. Pyne. Regular cathedral services are now held in the Bethlehem Chapel, which was completed in 1912 as a memorial to Bishop Satterlee, the first bishop of Washington, It is located in the eath the apse and contains of Admiral George Dewey, Wilson, Bishop Satterlee, Bishop Claggett, Henry Vaughan, the cathedral avchitect, and others. Besides the great central edifice, which is now taking form, the Wash- ington Cathedral project calls for 30 additional buildings, all held to be es- sential to the complete program of nation-wide cathedral service. Two of the cathedral institutions have been in operation for ovi 20 vears. They are the National Cathe- dral School for Girls, built in 1900 by Mrs. Phoebe R, Hearst, and St. Al bans, the National Cathedral School for Boys, built in 1905 with the be- | auest irs. Harriet Lane Johnston, a niece of President James Buchanan Both institutions are recognized as umong the leading schools of the country. A memorial wing of the cathedral completed this year and 20,000 books made avail- able for students of theolog jects. It is planned to make this li- v one of the most complete of its kind in the country. The Cathedral's College of Preach- as established three vears ago. men already ordained in the min- is re admitted ay students, and the work is entirely of a post-graduate acter, More than 225,000 visitors and wor- shipers come annually to Washington Cathed Further “evidence of na- tion-wide interest is pointed out in the fact that more than £6,000.000 has al- ready been contributed to the project. UNDERWO QD strength of its religious convictions.’ Washington Cathe- ited institutions, I house of the play an important the religious completed try. ntial nature, Washing- is not different from The differ: > Nation naturally will_be widely 1d its influence felt in every enter of the country. on Cathedral, being built ed under Protestant ices, is conceived in s of the whole Christian fellow- cond Ttems of Expense. “Of the $£30,000,000 required to give shington hedral's ul- m of national ser needed for buildin; and $12,900,000 for ive of the campaign is to meet the nt pressing need for $6.500,000. ‘hen it is considered that single universities in the United States have raised funds comparable to these with- -|and with a trul Of this over $2,000,000 dollars is rep- resented by completed work on the thedral fabric, and the balance, by ds, buildings, valid pledges not yet and by endowment and building nvestments. in a year, the appeal of a great cathe dral in the Nation's Capital is filled with bright promise of accomplish- ment within a reasonable time. “To men of large business exper ence, and to all who are sinc v interested in stimulating t life of our count cem all the more worth doin pse it is to bhe done largely be national vision. 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