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New York - Buffalo - Points of Interest (Midtown) (East) ST.GERARD'S ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH, NE. corner of E. Delavan and Bailey Aves., constructed of limestone, is a modified version of the Roman Baroque basilica. Originally built in 1902, the structure was remodeled in 1913; the architects were Carl Schmill and Son. The central section of the façade is articulated by two pilaster orders, Ionic below, Corinthian above. The central one of the three arched portals is framed by a classic motif of two engaged Ionic columns and a pediment. Above, the western window of the nave is topped with a curved pediment, while the adjoining bays contain framed niches with statues. The nave gable is treated as a pediment and contains a cartouche. The ends of the side aisles are plain; and to the south a three-stage tower, 110 feet high, completes the composition. Within, the focal point of the interior is a life-size mural of The Coronation, by Harold Rambusch, in the semidome of the apse. Over the 12 massive granite columns symbolizing the Apostles is a richly paneled ceiling. The child in Christ's lap depicted in the baptistry window has the features of the first child baptized in the church. The CHEVROLET MOTOR PLANT, E.Delavan Ave. at the Erie R.R. tracks, an assembly unit, employs about 2,000 persons. ST.FRANCIS DE SALES ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH, SW. corner of Humboldt Parkway and Northland Ave., built of Indiana limestone, is of early Christian architecture with both Byzantine and Romanesque features. The structure, cruciform in plan, is very high, with the graceful campanile rising to 140 feet. The roofs of the buttressed side aisles reach to the clerestory windows of the nave. The interior follows the same style. The sanctuary and the two side-chapels are semicircular in plan and covered with semidomes. The crossing of the nave and transepts is covered by a low, shell-like dome. The edifice was dedicated in 1928; the architects were Dietel and Wade. HUMBOLDT PARK, entrance at Fillmore Ave. and Best St., 65 acres, is Buffalo's popular East Side resort. The grounds form an aboretum with 160 species of woody plants. In the Niagara Frontier Rose Garden, under the supervision of the Rose Society of Buffalo, new and established species of roses are cultivated. On the east side of the park is the City Greenhouse, where a chrysanthemum show is held each autumn, and where every year a 'pavilion' is erected, consisting of a 12-foot mound of densely growing flowers, with a century plant at the top. This novelty is on view from June 15 to September 1. The BUFFALO MUSEUM OF SCIENCE is in the NW. corner of Humboldt Park, south of the intersection of Northampton St. and Humboldt Parkway. The two-story building has an exterior of Indiana limestone in modernized neoclassic style with an ornamented frieze replacing the heavy classical cornice. The central feature of the façade is a two-story loggia with four Corinthian columns. The building was opened in 1929; the architects were Esenwein and Johnson. The exhibits, offering 'science in brief for busy people,' present a comprehensive and progressive account of the universe and of man, telling their story graphically and dramatically with the aid of specimens, individual and group models, and scientific devices. The museum program includes lectures, concerts, children's classes and clubs, courses for adults, loan services, and museum training courses. The NEW YORK CENTRAL TERMINAL, Lindbergh Drive, Curtiss and Lovejoy Sts., rising above bare surroundings, is neoclassic in style. The exterior is of variegated tapestry brick with limestone trim and granite base. The dominating corner tower is 17 stories high, with a fivestory office building adjoining. The architects were Felheimer and Wagner, New York City; the building was opened in 1929. The EAST BUFFALO STOCKYARDS, 1000-1200 William St., embrace the largest meat packing industry east of Chicago and the fifth largest in the world. The SS.PETER AND PAUL RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH, 45 Ideal St., Buffalo's White Russian church, is constructed of creamcolored brick in greatly modified Byzantine style, with three onion-shaped domes surmounted by crosses. It was completed in 1933; the architect was Joseph Fronczak, Buffalo. The interior is finished in a warm, buff, roughcast plaster, with decorative detail in the old Russian tradition. There are no pews, for the congregation stands through the two-hour mass. Icons hang on the pillars, and three-barred crosses are on the walls. From two standards hang the U.S. flag and the flag of old Russia surmounted by the imperial eagle. On the iconostasis (screen made of doors) are painted medallion-icons and brilliantly colored representations of saints and archangels. In the niche on the left beyond the iconostasis is a shrine to the Blessed Virgin. Before the icon, hooded with blue velvet, burns a wick floating in oil contained in a crimson glass globe which is suspended on brass chains. During the high Easter season, which in the Russian and Greek Orthodox calendar falls about a fortnight later than in the Roman Catholic and Protestant churches, the church is crowded with worshipers and spectators. The choir in the gallery sings the responses to the Slavonic liturgies set to the music of Tschaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakoff, and ecclesiastical dignitaries in the richly colored vestments of the Russian and Greek ritual offer prayers and burn incense before the iconostasis. After the day-long service, the social side of the Russian Eastern is observed, with music, tea from the samovar, and native cakes and fruit and cheese confections. At the turn of the century the worshipers were but a handful, but since the Bolshevist revolution their number has swelled to about 5,000, including several members of the old aristocracy. The NIAGARA FRONTIER FOOD TERMINAL (the ClintonBailey Market), NW. corner of Clinton St. and Bailey Ave., under private management, was opened in 1931. The site was provided by the Erie and Nickle Plate Railroads. It covers an area of 60 acres with a network of railway spurs for freight cars and groups of two-story buildings for produce, butter, egg, and poultry dealers. Opposite the terminal, on the south side of Clinton St., is the FARMERS' MARKET, covering 10 acres, with a series of aisles separated by broad concrete avenues. Farmers from the near-by agricultural areas in Erie and Niagara Counties market their produce here.