Vestey Tower

When churches and cathedrals arise in the U. S., there are Presbyterian Mellons to give money, Baptist Rockefellers, Catholic Bradys, Raskobs and Mackays, Episcopal Morgans, Bakers, Cochrans, Princes and Mathers. In Europe there are so many old cathedrals that a modern one is news. Last week Liverpool Cathedral was doubly news when it acquired a handsome benefaction from the Vesteys, one of Britain's richest families.

For 30 years this largest cathedral in England has been rising on St. James's Mount in Liverpool. A $2,000,000 edifice designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, it was dedicated by the Church of England two years ago. In Industrial Liverpool, where

Rome is strong, the Catholics are also building a mighty cathedral. But last week Rt. Rev. Albert Augustus David's cathedral seemed a little in the lead. To it Sir Edmund Hoyle Vestey, 68, and his brother, William Vestey, Baron Vestey, 75, promised -L-220,000 ($1,200,000) to build a vast central tower 327 ft. high in memory of their parents.

Born in Liverpool, the Vesteys rank with Swift, Armour and Wilson in the world's meat trade. When British retailers would not buy frozen meat 25 years ago, the Vesteys set up their own shops which now number some 4,000. When they could not get refrigerated space on ships from South America, they bought their own vessels, founded their own Blue Star Line, Ltd. Famed is Lady Vestey, born Evelyn Brodstone of Superior, Neb. Farm-bred, she became stenographer to Baron Vestey, later a $250,000-a-year executive ("highest-salaried woman in the world"), and in 1924 the second Lady Vestey.

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