Unlike the skyscrapers further down Manhattan Island, Manhattan's Cathedral of St. John the Divine has been a long time agrowing. Already some $16,000,000 and 52 years of labor have gone into it—and it is still only two-thirds built. Last week the Right Rev. William Thomas Manning, 79, Episcopal Bishop of New York, whose pride & joy the Cathedral is, proposed to finish it. He asked cathedral-goers for $10,000,000 more to do the job. With that amount the job might be done in six years.
Some of the 52 years' work already in vested in the Cathedral stems from a concern for craftsmanship...
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