Friday, October 31, 2014
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
Countess Annie Leary Philanthropy Lives on At Bellevue Hospital Catholic Chapel NYC
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Father Marani standing in front of the Leary Family Donated Stained Glass “Christ Healing the Sick” from the original Bellevue Hospital RC Chapel (1897-1938)
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Salvage
these days would seem to be a good business. I am glad that parts of beautiful
buildings live on in other architecture. Off topic I am poised with bated breath to hopefully follow some Salviati Venetian Glass Mosaics into their third home out of two defunct churches in Philly.
While
researching a lot of dead ends, no direct flow of info, on the Internet regarding the lost Leary Chapel
at Bellevue Hospital 1897-1938 I have found out that some of the Stained Glass
out of Miss Annie Leary’s so-called million dollar RC chapel at Bellevue lives on in
the present Catholic Chapel at the Bellevue Hospital complex in NYC.
"Chapel Hall
opened in the newly built administration building in 1940. In its coverage of
the consecration of the Catholic chapel, The New York Times reported that “the
ceremony brought to Bellevue the distinction of being the first hospital in the
world to have separate houses of worship for each of three major faiths.” (The
Muslim prayer room was added in recent years.)
The new
Catholic chapel, resplendent with stained-glass windows salvaged from the
demolished one, was placed in the center of the hall...."
The popular repeated over and over again from some one source meme is that the Arthur Leary Chapel at Bellevue Hospital 1897-1938 cost something like one million dollars to build. I don't see much bang for the buck when I look at old photos.
Doing some other research on some other gilded age micks like Annie Leary and her brother Arthur, one (one of the very few Catholics) of Mrs. Astor’s “400” in the day, I have to say that if Miss Annie Leary paid a million dollars for the little stone building on the grounds of Bellevue Hospital in 1897, she was sold a barrel of goods by the Archdiocese or the Architect William Schickel – a pig in a poke – or the press (MSM) of the day - perhaps using her grief for her older brother with exaggerated value in dollars - by using her charity work for filler and to sell copies of news to the masses or to orchestrate downright theft from the aging heiress.
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| NYPL - Bellevue Hospital - 1938 |
Doing some other research on some other gilded age micks like Annie Leary and her brother Arthur, one (one of the very few Catholics) of Mrs. Astor’s “400” in the day, I have to say that if Miss Annie Leary paid a million dollars for the little stone building on the grounds of Bellevue Hospital in 1897, she was sold a barrel of goods by the Archdiocese or the Architect William Schickel – a pig in a poke – or the press (MSM) of the day - perhaps using her grief for her older brother with exaggerated value in dollars - by using her charity work for filler and to sell copies of news to the masses or to orchestrate downright theft from the aging heiress.
That if Annie Leary paid
more than $200K max for this modest chapel, she paid too much, she got ripped off by the architect,
contractor or the RC archdiocese, depending on who was cashing Annie’s bank
drafts.
In searching
for this magnificent piece of superior European style workmanship that the New
York Times Article implies, I was greatly disappointed to see what
looks like a plain exterior stone chapel on the corner of First Avenue and
Twenty-eighth street in Manhattan.
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| Image: Catholic World, Volume 65 - 1897 (Original Copyright Expired) |
The Catholic
World illustration architectural drawings (above) of William Schickel is set in their
publication almost as a last minute thing and after the footnotes without any
of the NYT hype about the rich woman’s generous gift to the Catholic sick at
Bellevue Hospital who would not touch a secular or non-Catholic place of
worship in the perhaps W.A.S.P. controlled medical facility. That stays in the
hospital back then lasted days and perhaps weeks for things like pneumonia that
needed antibiotics by modern standards.
That the
Catholic World publication and its editors may not have cared about gilded age
New York and its narcissism even in the building of a Catholic chapel right on
First Avenue at arm’s length for the great new city institution.
That William
Schickel had already perhaps done a spec drawing, not according to Annie
Leary’s desire to memorialize her dead banker broker, but the spec watercolor
and some basic spec plans were perhaps already on hand to fit the needs of
Archdiocese trying to weedle its way into the Protestant ruling class
controlled institution of Bellevue Hospital, the city supported hospital. A lot of campaigning and negotiating there
and no doubt through the Tammany crowd on that. The project was envisioned but not financed at
this point?
A guest at
Annie Leary's Stag Breakfast after the Chapel's dedication by the Cardinal lists John
Crimmins as one of the select 40 males to dine in the nearby Waldorf Astoria
banquet hall. Crimmins was known for both his Catholic charity work and his
business was of course construction. And he was associated with the architect
on other projects, Crimmins' upper east side mansion in particular.
Here is an
excellent link to one of William Schickel’s masterpieces of Most Holy Trinity /
St. Mary’s in Williamsburg Brooklyn btw.
Also cursory
reading on the internet has Schickel’s name not only associated with noteworthy
New York church buildings but hospital buildings in NYC such as Lenox Hill
(German) Hospital as well as with Bellevue.
Schickel
changed his company name according to Wikipedia in 1895 which is why I think
the Spec Illustration of W. Schickel and Co. was painted long before Authur
Leary went to his reward in 1893. Leary's sister somewhere along the timeline
probably got conned into footing the bill for the Catholic archdiocese plans to
plant the Catholic flag on Episcopalian Bellevue and with its Christ the Consoler Chapel as the
only place of worship on the premises.
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As for cost
of the Leary Chapel, as far as I can tell the land was donated by
Bellevue. The stained glass was made in
Munich, which was the architect’s native region. Do not know if this is a
preference for homegrown workmanship or for cost effectiveness.
Going back to the deadends in terms of tracing salvaged stained glass windows at a secular medical facility.
Going back to the deadends in terms of tracing salvaged stained glass windows at a secular medical facility.
With all the
hype of the Chapel in the elite New York Times of the Elites of Society
honoring a dead knight of "the" Mrs. Astor's "400", it all lost its luster very quickly in time.
By 1915, a
publication by Bellevue has the "Leary Memorial Chapel" reduced to
the Roman Catholic Chapel and Miss (later Papal Countess) Annie Leary's
Catholic charity reduced to a marble altar within that RC chapel at
Bellevue. This within 18 years of
dedication - willful ignorance - bureaucratic indifference - or both?
Whatever.
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| Image: A Short History Of Bellevue Hospital And Of The Training Schools – 1915 (Original Copyright Expired) |
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| NYPL - Bellevue Hospital - 1938 |
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| Bellevue Hospital - First Avenue and 28th Street NYC (Jan 2013 Google Maps) . |
Sunday, October 26, 2014
Arthur Leary Memorial Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament - Bellevue Hospital NYC - 1897 - W. Schickel & Co. Architects
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| Image: Catholic World, Volume 65 - 1897 (Original Copyright Expired) |
“The first Roman Catholic
Chapel at Bellevue Hospital was the gift of Miss Annie Leary in memory of her
brother, Arthur Leary. Designed in the French Gothic style, the chapel was
built of stone quarried from the banks of the East River. The interior was finished
in hand-carved oak that was executed under the personal supervision of Miss
Leary. Walls were hued in an old rose shade, while the ceiling was pale blue,
darkening in color as it neared the arch above the altar. Within the chancel
rail were three marble altars, and above the altar was a window representing
Christ healing the sick. Nine additional windows, executed in Munich,
represented patron saints. The chapel was dedicated on February 27, 1897, in
impressive ceremonies officiated by Archbishop Corrigan. Music was furnished by
a double quartet led by William Pecher, organist at St. Patrick's Cathedral.
Miss Leary sent invitations to 300 friends, and after the service gave a very
handsome breakfast in the banquet room of the Waldorf Hotel. The two-hour
breakfast was attended by forty gentlemen, including clergy who had officiated,
friends of Mr. Leary, and others who had been interested in the building and
dedication of the chapel. Guests were received by Miss Leary, assisted by Mrs.
Stuyvesant Fish, Mrs. John Dahlgren Drexel, and Mrs. Charles Oelrichs, but when
breakfast was announced Miss Leary and her female friends left to have
breakfast in the restaurant downstairs.
The chapel was razed in 1938…”
The chapel was razed in 1938…”
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| Image: A Short History Of Bellevue Hospital And Of The Training
Schools – 1915 (Original Copyright Expired) |
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Saturday, October 18, 2014
A Christmas Dream - By James Topham Brady - New York 1860
James T. Brady, one of
America’s most famed jurists of his time.
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Friday, October 17, 2014
Ted Rafael Cruz Defends Privileged Class - “Free of Tax” Class Religionists and Right to Discriminate
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| Ted Cruz Defending Discrimination Right of Privileged TAX-FREE Religionists in Houston Texas |
The city of
Houston wants to subpoena “sermons” urging discrimination in Houston against minorities,
women, gays, coloreds – and Cuban / American White Trash (via Canada) Texas Senator "Ted" Rafael
Cruz-Darragh steps up to bat and defends his favorite class of people, rich “untaxable”
religionist Texans. No separation of church and state when a greedy illegal
immigrant “constitutional” lawyer defends privilege over democracy.
In May, the
City Council passed the equal rights ordinance, which bans discrimination of
gay and transgender residents among businesses that serve the public, private
employers, in housing and in city employment and city contracting. Religious
institutions are exempt, but city attorneys subpoenaed five pastors, seeking
all speeches, presentations or sermons related to the petition, the mayor,
homosexuality or gender identity.
Christian
activists sued after city officials ruled they didn’t collect enough signatures
on petitions to put a referendum on the ballot to repeal the ordinance backed
by Houston Mayor Annise Parker, who is gay.
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Ebola - Don't Tread on Me - TEAbola Monster
No ACA funds to Texas, Ted Cruz's sequester, no Surgeon General... It's TEAbola. #inners pic.twitter.com/RStWUI4Ank
— larry dimaio (@larrydimaio) October 17, 2014
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Thursday, October 16, 2014
National Epidemic - Who Ya Gonna Call? - Wayne LaPierre - NRA
National Epidemic -
Who Ya Gonna Call? -
Wayne LaPierre - NRA?
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Bill Donohue / Catholic League – Wet Dreams for Actor Tom Selleck No More?
I have been trying for the sake of my own physical and mental health from commenting on anything related to religion lately. My good. But this I think is more a grown man’s attraction for another man and closeted (suppressed) in the name of superstition and or religion (RC religion to be exact). Not quite legitimate religion I think.
While traveling down low so to speak to try and find how tortured souls, closeted homophobes like Bill Donohue at the Catholic League Mimeograph machine website might be commenting (not thinking) on the recent headlines of kind words for gays from the pope and his crew or tortured souls, closeted homophobe bishops I ran into Bill’s disgust at an actor Tom Selleck.
In another article BTW at the CL site is an article about how “Confused” both the Pope and the Media are about leaked unfinished kind words for “gays” at the current “Synod of Bishops” in Rome…
Well I confess to a certain prejudice. I stopped watching anything the actor Tom Selleck was in long ago once I found out he was a big contributor and card carrying member of the GOP. Mediocre actors need mediocre audiences?
I had to look up what Blue Bloods is as a TV show. See commercials. But don’t want to have to waste any of the precious time I have left on earth in watching a grade “B” Hollywood actor actor like Selleck on a TV Cop Soap Opera show. The grade “B” Hollywood actor Ronald Reagan comes to mind when I think of Selleck and guess what.
That is the name of the fictional character that Bill Donohue has been getting off on in the past five seasons of “Blue Bloods” of a family of Irish Catholic Cops doing their stuff in New York City with get this, overseen by dad, Commissioner “Frank Reagan” (Tom Selleck) – a load of pre-cum on that fictional name and load of brute power as chief of Police. AHH! Release! (Oh Bill).
Well anyway, Chief Frank Reagan says something nice about da “gays” on his TV show and Bill Donohue wants CBS to cancel the show. Great wet dream if you can pull it off Bill. Have a nice bigoted life.
Masturbation Foreplay (in words):
We’ve (the royal we? Bill and little Willy?) been impressed with the underlying positive message of “Blue Bloods” over the years, as well as its welcome treatment of Catholicism. But after last Friday’s show, we’re now wondering whether CBS is turning on its audience. We’ve been bombarded with complaints following the last episode.
Police Commissioner Reagan cannot defend the Church’s teachings on homosexuality, so when Catholicism is branded an “anti-gay faith,” he replies, “Well, I do believe the Church is a little behind the times on this.” Indeed, he goes so far as to say, “I do believe the Church is backwards on this. And of all the stands to hold onto. In the midst of the scandals of the past decade.” Viewers also meet a conflicted Cardinal Brennan, and a proud lesbian, Sister Mary.
The Bible is “anti-gay.” That is the logical conclusion that unfolds in this episode. The show also misrepresents the sexual abuse scandal: almost all the molesting priests were practicing homosexuals. Moreover, the scandal ended in the mid-1980s, thus showing how far behind the times the show’s writers are. As for the wavering cardinal and the wayward nun—it is what we would expect from writers who have decided to pivot….
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
Tuesday, October 14, 2014
Saturday, October 11, 2014
Sandusky Penn State Style Locker Room Football More Popular Than Ever? - Sayreville New Jersey
The players taken into custody — who ranged in age
from 15 to 17 — were at home with parents or guardians when police arrived, law
enforcement sources told NJ Advance Media. Those sources, who were familiar
with the arrests, asked not to be identified because they were not authorized
to speak publicly about the matter.
The charges were
brought by the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s office, which confirmed the
detentions after they were first reported on NJ.com.
According to
Prosecutor Andrew Carey, three were charged with aggravated sexual assault,
aggravated criminal sexual contact, conspiracy to commit aggravated criminal
sexual contact, criminal restraint, and hazing for engaging in an act of sexual
penetration upon one of the juvenile victims. One of those defendants and four
others were charged with various counts including aggravated assault,
conspiracy, aggravated criminal sexual contact, hazing and riot by
participating in the attack of some of the victims.
According to the
complaints filed in the matter, one or more of the players held victims against
their will, while others improperly touched victims in a sexual manner. In one
case, one of the victims was kicked during an attack, said the prosecutor's office.
Prosecutors said
the events took place in four separate incidents at Sayreville War Memorial
High School, between Sept. 19 and Sept. 29.
Friday, October 10, 2014
The Guastavino Arch – Vaulting – Cathedral of Saint John Divine – Temporary Gaustavino Dome - 1909
Beautiful
arches, like the art deco skeletal system of a lost urban era, can be found
throughout New York City, from Grand Central Terminal to bars and restaurants.
Created with tiles by the Spanish father-and-son duo, Rafael Guastavino and his
junior namesake, these structures were also marvels of artistic engineering,
combining intricate brickwork with functional arrays of vaults and pillars, all
leading to a kind of Mediterranean dreamworld of colonnades “hidden in plain
sight,” as a new exhibition suggests, around the city.
Indeed, in
some cases, these extraordinary arches form almost entirely unnoticed and even
somewhat surreal ceilings for such mundane facilities as supermarkets and zoos.
The largest
dome created by the Guastavino Company was over the central crossing for the
Cathedral of Saint John the Divine in Manhattan: it is 100 ft (30 m) in diameter
and 160 feet (49 m) high. This dome was intended to be a temporary structure,
to be replaced by a high central tower. In 2009 this "temporary" fix
celebrated the 100th anniversary of its construction. In large part, Guastavino
received this contract due to the much lower price he could quote because his
system served as its own scaffolding. This was an extreme test of his system,
however. The masons had to work from above, each day adding a few rows of
tiles, and standing on the previous day's work to progress. At the edges, many
layers of tile were laid, and the dome thins as it rises toward the center.
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Tuesday, October 7, 2014
“Cardinal Quinn” of “Gotham” aka “the diddling priest” Being Killed by Vigilante Justice in this Batman Inspired TV Show
Dig the crazy way vigilantes kill corrupt officials of Gotham, a new TV show on FOX TV, before Batman arrives on the scene – by handcuffing the murder victims to weather balloons that disappear into the horizon and pop at high altitudes. Bizarre.
http://moviepilot.com/posts/2014/10/07/the-penguin-shines-in-our-gotham-episode-3-easter-egg-roundup-2323908?lt_source=external,manual
"Cardinal Quinn may not have appeared in the comics, but could his...departure lead to the arrival of Cardinal O'Fallon, who had some trouble with The Scarecrow back in Batman: Gotham Knight?"
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Too Much GOP Government Can Be A Good Thing
Too much republican bred government (GOP Tea Party Statehouses) can turn around and bite you in the ass anti-LGBT Red States. Okla Utah LOL
— Mike McShea (@mcshea33) October 7, 2014