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...determined there shall be none. The Protestant Episcopal Church builds cathedrals, has a personable and dignified clergy, a body of communicants who are wealthy and social. It was an Episcopal foundation which in 1893 got a charter from Congress to build a great Cathedral of SS. Peter & Paul on Mount Saint Alban, highest spot (400 ft.) in Washington. It was this Cathedral, they decided, which should fulfill George Washington's plan, become the U. S. Westminster Abbey. This week eminent Episcopalians and national officials were to gather to open for public worship the first sizable unit on Mount Saint Alban...
...considered the nation's religious observance of that event. After the opening of the Washington Conference on Limitation of Armaments in November 1921, President Harding led all its 34 delegates to a special Cathedral service through the Bethlehem Chapel doorway over which is carved "The Way of Peace." On Mount Saint Alban in 1928 Calvin Coolidge addressed an open air meeting of the 49th General Convention of the Episcopal Church...
Power-House & Railman. Besides the 14th Century Gothic cathedral?a close copy of Canterbury?Mount Saint Alban plans call for a chapter house, administration building, synod hall, guest house, residences for canons and minor canons There are now schools for girls and boys, a college of preachers, the Bishop's house and garden. All of the 67½-acre wooded hill is to be enclosed by a wall with gates dedicated to the twelve Apostles. Ultimately it will represent perhaps $40,000,000 worth of pious enterprise?what Bishop Freeman calls a "powerhouse of religious energy." Of the more than...
Dean Bratenahl lives near the Cathedral, spends most of his time there. His wife is the Cathedral's landscape architect. On the slope of Mount Saint Alban to the south of the Cathedral is the Bishop's Garden, open to the public. Here are Gothic and Romanesque sculptures, collected with the aid of George Grey Barnard. Nearby are box bushes, ancient and costly, brought from Virginia. Mrs. Bratenahl plans the planting, often gets donations from ladies who are pleased with her suggestions: such as that a $5 gift be spent for moss at the base of an old cross...
...last attempt at art. Shy, he does not woo publicity, rarely lets his name appear in the magazine. Before joining the editorial staff of The New Yorker, Writer White was a poet without much sense of location. He had wandered from New York, where he was born in Mount Vernon, to the Aleutian Islands. After graduating from Cornell in 1921 he worked a year in New York City, then wandered West, worked a year on the Seattle Times as a reporter. Returning to Manhattan after a voyage to the Arctic on a trading ship, he got a job writing copy...