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TELEGRAPH,
ST. PAUL'S.
HOW FUNDS ARE BEING
APPLIED.
On January 8 of this year the Daan and Chapter of St. Paul's, after consultation with the Lord Mayor of London, appealed through the Times for a sum of from C120,000 to £140,000 for the preservation of St. Paul's Cathedral. Thanks to the gen- erosity of the public the large sum was reached by January 29. On August 26 wa announced, that the fund had passed (250,000; and donations have not yet ceased to reach us, comments the Tiares in mail wook.
The time will come when the Cathedral authorities and the others now joined with them in this great task will be able to say to each subscriber: "Si oventum. requiris circumspice." The work you entrusted us with is done the Cathedral is safe. But that time cannot be yet. It is naturi that those who have given to any of the funds should wish to know that progress is being made with the work.
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the crypt. The lower parts of At present the principal field is
the piors supporting the dome must be made secure before, their upper parts are taken in hund. All dayand every day undisturb
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1925.
And
ovon longer and more difficult generously subscribed. That operation is the replacing of since no grout public work of this faulty stones by sound stones in kind can be too carefully guard- the masonry of the piers. The od against any possibility of re- failure of the cores has thrownproach, it may be well that the the weight of the drum and all | public should know the principle Above it of "the three domos of which the administrators of the St. Paul's" which we described fund have laid down and to the early days of the fund-on to, which thoy scrupulously adhere. the masonry, which was never The various works in the intended to bear it unaided, and Cathedral are divided by thom was rondored the more unfit to under two heads: those which hear it by the contractors' dik-
are necessary to the prosorvation regard of Wren's Instructions of the fabric, and those which are about the proper use of iron rods. not. The former are paid for out The effect has been to split and of the fund; the lattor are paid break a number of the stonow for out of the Cathedral's other number which on examination resources. A simple instance | as the Cathedral authorities will make the principle clear. found in their work upon the The removal and the future re- north-east and two southern placing of the organ are neces piers may be found to involve sary to the preservation of the) the replacing of many tons of fabric. because it could not havei mononry. And besides all this been carried on while the organ there is yet another great under- was in its usual place. The taking the bracing of the drum fund, therefore, will bear the with a motal hoop.
cost. But the long pverdue im- provements to the organ, for making which the present op- portunity is to be taken, are not! necessary to the preservation of the fabric; therefore no part of their cost will be borne by the fund. In the same way, the duty! of maintaining the services in a manner as little as possible un-i the Empire is a duty distinct worthy of the great Cathedral of
from that of preserving the fabrica and, though many a subscriber to the fund might be glad to fool that some part of his gift was be- ing spent upon so high a purpose.] tho Cathedral authoritíos bave decided that they have no right to divert any part of the fund from its specific object."
WORSHIP DURING REPAIRS. A great saving of time is now effected by the soparation of a part of the Cathedral where services may be held without interruption of the repairs. Before the works were begun on the present scale it was impossible to hold services in the din of the modern sub- and the regular and special ser- stitutes for axes and hammers:
vice in St. Paul's Cathedral take op many hours of the week. Now the high alter has been brought down into the nave and set up do
ed now by the Cathedral ser-cently and in order just east of vices the workmen are drilling the Wellington Monument. A the necessary series of holes in few of the choir stalls have also the piers and forcing into them been brought down, and Wren's the cement which is to make a beautiful wooden pulpit has been solid core in place of the rubble, set up hard by. Behind the altar now decayed, with which Wren bourding has been run up to the perforce filled in the stone top of the arch, stained a quiet casings. The foundations, it is green, and hung with fabrics. A held, may be trusted in go on separate church, as it were, has According to añ announcement|| bearing the enormous weight: it thus been made, where as many by the Post Office Department, is the piers that umst be fortised.
as one thousand people may the first of a series of Canadien When this has been accomplished worship, while east of it the ro-historical stamps is soon to be in the crypt, the same process pairs go on all the working day, will be begun on the, Cathedral floor, two of the piors having al- ready been made scoure by the Cathedral authorities before the present appeal was isound. The work in the crypt may probably he finished early next year. Let its suppose that, perhaps by the end of noxt year, perhaps later, the core of every pier has been made solid. Then will come an opera tion which, it is thought, may be
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POST OFFICE NOTICE.
All these diforent operations three in number-one bearing the are necessary to the preservation portraits of Baldwin and La! of the fabric, to the worthy main-Fontaine, a second, the portrait | tenance of the Cathedral as a of Thomas D'Arcy McGod and a Christian church in continues third, the portraits of Sir Wilfrid
Postage stamps should be afixed in the right-hand top corner at use for the worship of way Laurier and Sir John MacDonatif.. thousands of people, and to Es "In addition to their educational the address side of all postal articles.. convenience and safety as value" says the Department place of pilgrimage for men of att announcement, they are also races and creeds. But not all of; likely to be widely sought and them, obviously, fall under the highly valued by stamp collectors head for which the public has so in different parts of the woriti."
The Radio Service has reverted to rermal hours of working. Massages may he handed in at any hour of the day or night during General Post Office hours at Radio Counter, Main Ball, at all other times messages should be taken through the corner entrance at Pedder Street and Des Voeux Road to the Radio Office on the 3rd floor of the building, Those doors will be closed after 10 p.m. but admittance may be obtained by ringing the night-bell,
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BALLROOM MUSIC "EVEN ing."
.MORE AWFUL".
PAVLOVA CONDEMNS Daily Chronicle representative, MODERN DANCES. · "is too frivolous. It has not onough grace. As for the music, it is more awful than the danc-
Novikoff said dancing sa seon in many ballrooms to-day was vulgar. Perhaps the worst or- Modern dancing was severelyhibitions of public dancing were criticised recently by Mmc. to be soon in America.
"How can you compare the Pavolva, who with her partner,
fox-trot with the gavotte, the Novikoff, drow an audience of mignon, the schottische, tho many other old nearly 4,000 to the Manchestor minuet, and
danoos?" he asked, "The old Hippodrome."
dances ware lovely. There is "Popular dancing to-day, "phe "nothing to be be soon like them said, in an interview with
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