Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1893 — A BEAUTIFUL CATHEDRAL. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

A BEAUTIFUL CATHEDRAL.

TwUl Be the Handaomeet Building: In America. The Cathedral of St. John the Divine, the corner stone of which has been laid in Hew York, is to be one of the most beautiful buildings in the new world, and perhaps as exquisite as any that have been erected anywhere in modern ages. It has often been asked 4rhat the cathedral and the grounds will cost when completed, but ttiat is something that no man can tell. Whqn pressed for an answer it is said that the total cost will not be less than $7,000,000 and may be more than $10,000,000. It is very doubtful whether the cathedral completed will be ready for dedication under fifteen years. Some idea of its size may be gained from a description of its dimensions. Its total length will be 520 feet, its front width 192 feet, the height of the towers 248 feet, the height of the central lantern, which will be at the topmost point of the structure, 445 feet, and the height of the interior dome 253 feet. A building of this size will contain easily not far from 10,000 persons. The first part of the structure to be built is to be the choir and ambulatory, and this is so large that it will contain easily 1,500; its height is 154 feet, and height of its tower iOO feet. It is larger than most es the churches in New York City. It is so large that a dozen ordinary dwelling houses in New York could easily be contained within its limits, and yet, in comparison with the cathedral, of which it is ultimately to be the choir, it bears the same proportions that an ordinary exten-

sion or single story does to a dwelling house. It will cost nearly $1,000,000, and, if no other part of the cathedral were ever to be built, the choir of itself would be esteemed an exquisite architectural structure, perhaps the finest in New York, and the subject of as much profesional interests is the much discussed and admired Trinity Church of Bqston.