The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 24, 1897, Page 21

THE SAN FRANCI SCO CALL, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1897. 21 W THE CATHEDRAL OF THE HOLY NAME INENT«(H FORTY-FIRST The Cathedral of the Holy Name, on | plans of the architect conld not be carried | fessionals are more pictures illustrating State and Supe st is the large and most prominent of the Cath houses of worship in Chicago. In 1871 the eat fire d yed the old cathedral ilding, then standing on the southeast corner of State and Superior streets, fac- Superior. Bishop Foley, the ad- ator of the diocese, immediately took steps to rebuild the church, and the new edifice was located on the noitheast €r oi the same streets, facing is the busier ares. The rector B.shov’s di plans for the strocture drawn by the well-known Brooklyn architect, Keeley, who has planned & number of the bes built in recent years. Dur- 1871 money was cago, and the elaborate ‘Of the many expeditions to be under- taken to the Arctic in the near future,” said Elias Ruud of this city in an inter- v ‘thatof Captain Otto Sverarup just c civilized world. There are special reasons #hy the American people should follow vim with the keenest interest. Captain Sverdrup hasa record that justifies the greatest expectations, and his ship, tbe Fram, is the best known vessel of its gind in the worla. It carried UDr. Nansen through the Arctic Ocean to fame and for- tune. It has been nearer to the north pole than any other vessel and has won the admiration of seafaring nations. *‘Otto Neuman Sverdrup comes of an old family in Helgeland, Northern Nor- vay. Helis 42vearsold. He hasalways been adventurous and enterprising, With his brother he roughed it on sea and land as a boy snd at 10 years of age he had become a tireless bunter, an excellent ski-runner sna a daring sailor. At the age of 17 he sailed before the mast and he occupied that po- imsa large share of attention irom the | The church but the finishing touclhes were de- out. style, ferred. When the immo present pastor, Rev. M. J. took charge of the parish F nineyears ago, he immediately toimpreve the ¢ ch build plete the ylans of t The im- ortant exterior work was finished, and in the 8901 the interior work was ie original plan was im- eiling being plaster. made of e most the spa of tke transept are a series of pa gs setting forth life of I spaces over the the Savior, and in the side altars, doors and con- was built in the Gothic | Scriptural incidents. supporting the roof, the white marble il and the “Stations of the Cross” in keepinz with the decorations. ie sanctuary istiled in marble and the vestibule in mosaic work. The windows Che marble piliars altar all are works of art, creations of forsign ar- tists, ana were procured at a great cost. An expenditure of about $300.000 bas been invo!ved in theimprovementson the cathedral. Rev. M. J. Fitzsimmons. pastor of the hedral of the Holy Name, came to Chicago from Baltimore in 1882, Aiter a month spent at 8t. Mary’s Church he was removed to the cathedral, where he since remained as assistant chancellor and secretary of the archdiocese and pastor, to which office he was appointed in 1888, The Forty-first Street Presbyterian o P P Y&dbto o) o I 0 o = RESEBYTERIAN CHU Church is one of the handsomest church 1sxrucmres on the Southside. It is an im- lpr-.\in;; editice of brownstone, and is lo- cated on Grand boulevara m' the heart of ] the Southside district, | The church was built in 1590, has a beautifully decoratec interior and is hand- somely furnished. Durin: the past four vears nearly 900 new members have been received, and the church is now second in size in Chicago in the Presbyterian de- nomi D Agnew Johnston, the pas- tor, is a native of Ohio and has bhaa pastorates in Cincinnati and Des Moines, from which city he came to Chicago. He was elected the moderator of the synol of Iowa while pasior in Des Moines, being the youngest moderator that body ever | had. Dr. Johnston has been sought for professorships and has been offered a > HOWARD AGN Ew JOHNSTON..- DD PHD. R_CH | number of calls to Eastern cities, but has | Club publishes a vigorous monthly paper. thus far preferred to remain in the West. | The Men’s Club of 200 members discusse | The South Congregational Church is the | public questions, zna there are a Boys’ third largest of the seventy or more Con- | Brigade and a Girls' Drill Corps. A gregational churches of Cbicago. It is| Woman's Association conducts six de- | located on the Southside in the hand- | partments of work, grouped under one some Kenwood district, on Drexel boule- | general head. vard, the finest floral parkway of the city. | The rapid growth of the church the past Tne church building was dedicated in | few years, from nintn to third in member- 1887 and is a beautiful stone edifice se: ing about a thousand people. The ap- proach to the building from the souih up chapel room, and a strong “forward move. ment’” committee has been busy sine tne boulevard is picturesque in the ex- | Apri) last in mapping out a plan of en treme. { largement whnich promises to ‘result in Its constituency is in part from the | radical changes and the building of a new wealthy homes along the lake front and from the thickly settled resiaence district exiencding west to Grand boulevard and | | south to Washington Park. | fhe cluo life of the young people of the | church is promoted and the Lookout! parish-house alongside the church on the boutevard. The venevolences of the South Congre- gational - Church amount annually to about $10.000 through regular church channels. . About $3000 is sent to foreign ship, bas made heavy demands on more | “SOUTFCONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. missions, and the balance is devoted to home work and city missions. The pastor, Rev. W:llard Scott, D.D., who, several years ago, was invited to succeed Dr, J. K. McLean in the First | Chureh, Oaklana, Cal., has been with the | church'six years, coming to Chicago from | Omaha, where he had resided for nine vears. He is of Scotch descent, a graduate f Williams College =nd of the Unicn Theological Semisary, New York. a Phi Beta Kappa man and keenly interested n the religious movements of the day. | Asa member of the Cnicago Association committee on the Rey. Charles 0. Brown case, he has stood for orderly ecclesias- | tical procedure, and he presented the | protest against the admission of Dr. | Brown until his contention with the Bay | Conference had been ajusted by a mutual { council. { sition several yecars. He saw a great deal { of the worid, went from one ship to an- | otier, now leaving“a Norwegian ship to take a berth on an Am rican, now return- ing to a Norwegian ship. He passed an ! examination, became a male and served in that capacity for a numoer of years on a Norwegian vessel. Oncs he saved a whole | | crew through his cold-blooded fearless- ness. ‘'Atter a time he returned to his home | and took up various branches of trade and became a gaod blacksmith, carpenier, a | foreman in a logging camp or a steersman for a fishing-boat. He played his boyhood | games over again as a man. “He volunteered to make the trial trip in Nordenfeldv's submarine boat across the North Sea, and oniy the abandonment of | tue plan oy the inventor prevented Sver- | drup from showing his ereatcourage. He vlan to cross the inland ice of Greenland. Dr. Nansen understood that Captain Sver- ldrnp Was just the kind of man that he | was a mate of a small steamer for a while | after that, until be heard of Dr. Nansen’s | wanted and made him his second. With two other Norwegians and two Norwegian Laplanders was this great undertaking { accomplished by Dr. Nansen in the sum- mer of 1883, After incredible sufferings, the expedition reached an uninhabited spot on the west coast of Greenland. They were short of food and ragged and looked like a lot of savazes from an un- known land. They.made a boat of willow branches, pieces of wood from their sleighs and the canvas of their tent. “The boat was on the plan of a tub, only not as strong or as tight as a tub. A hoop of willow with pieces of canvas to fill out the space made an oarblade, to which they lashed the ski-sticks. Nansen and Sverdrup rowei in this boat, if boat 1t could be called, in four days out through an open bay, rounded a cape and arrived * the residence of the Governor of Green- land. Nansen sent a boat to rescue the remainder of the expedition. Nansen and Sverdrup passed the winter among the Eskimos and soon became good kayaks- men and hunters and learned the Eskimo language. After this Nansen and Sver- drup came to an agreement about the ex- pedition to the north pole, and the history of that expedition is well known. “Captain Sverdrup’s plan now is to fol- low the old and often tried road of the Americans to the far north. He has, fur- thermore, devoted himself to the solution of one of the great problems of the Arctie, the extent and the outline of Greenland. “With the Fram fitted out for five years and a great number of dogs for sleighinz excursions, he will sail north along the west coast of Greenland, pass through Smith Sound, the Kane Basin, Kan- nedy Channel, and by this way circum- navigate Greenland. “A glance at the map shows that the northern part of the west coast of Green- land turns east, but whether this indi- cates that the northernmost point Greenland is near by, or whether this | coastline only shows a great bay, we do do not know as yet. *‘Sverdrup will also try to penetrate the icepack and solve the problem, and if the suppo:ed north cape of Greenland can be rounded he will return by following down the east coast, where the many dotted Iines on the map indicate Jands unknown to the white man. “If Captain Svcrdrup fails to do this he has set up as an allernative to penetrate as far north as possible, the north pole be- | ing the ultimate point of destination. “Summing up the results of ail previous expeditions through Smith Sound, it becomes evident that the ice opens and closes at different times, thus giving the as- pect ‘of & solid frozen mass, as 10 Captain Nares, or as 2n open polar ecean, as to Dr. Kane and Dr. Hayes, and it is now generaily admitted by all scientists that a solid frozen mass of ice, capping the whole north of the globe, does not exist. Neither does an open ocean exist. “But the Arctic Ocean is always in mo- tion, now opening in wide cracks, stretch- ing for miles and miles, now closing with of | CAPTAIN OTTO NEUMAN SVERDRUP. irresistible force, crushing the ice, form- | will go as far as possible with the Fram direction ol 1he pressure. | chatce. An opening in the ice is sure to “Hitherto it was the belief that no ship | come sooner or later, and the Fram will | could be built so strong as to resist this | g0 in, taking the fearful chances of com- pressure, but the Fram has stood the | ing 1nto the strong grip of the Arctic most severe test for three years and re- | Ocean. turned safe and sound. Captain Sverarup| *Bold men, like Captain Syerdrup and | ing long fences of piled-up ice across the | and then quietly wait and watch his | his foliowers, do not consider this risky business atall. And the ice, that seemed ] impenetrable to Captain Nares or others, | may be comparatively easy to a man who | has traversed Greenland on ski, lived on a bit of floating ice for weeks and spent three years in the Arctic, farther north than man ever was before. “If Greenland oniy stceiches north to | about 84 degrees, and if Captain Sverdrup | can get the Fram past that point, he will | meet with the great Arctic current going | south along the east coast of Greenland. Ones in this current he canuot help get- ting south. True, he will be exposed to the dangers of the numerous icebergs to be met with in tnis section of the Arctic, but men going to the north pole are pre- pared to meet with all sorts of dangers. If Captain Sverdrup cannot get round Greenland he will, with his ship, his sleighs, kayaks and does, concentrate all his energy on pressing northward toward the north pole. Corsidering the superior | strength of the ship, the best possible out- fit, an excaptional fine lot of offic:rs and men and the great ability and exp:rience of the leader, it is evident thita great | many chances are in Captain Sverdrup’s | favor.” Death of Pima Indian Fat Boy. Fediral authorities on the Manicopa Indian Reservation, near PLeenix, in Ari- zona, nport the death of Mun-ca-Man, the ‘amous Pima fat boy, who was but 15 | years ad, yet tipped the scales at 440 pounds.| Occasionally Mun-c2-Mah used to come \p from the reservation on a visit to Piceak. This was excitement enongh for one dy for Pheenix. Crowds followed him aboujthe street and stered ut him as though hdwere 4 curio in a museum. He was a griat favorile among his owp people. the