Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-05-23
Two Bishops Elected.
I he Methodists Select ]. H. Vim
 cent and J. N. Fitzgerald.
FIVE SEPARATE BALLOTS CAST.
The First Is the Originator of the Well Known Chautauqua Literary Society. The Latter Is Recording Secretary of E the General NIfssionary Society.

NEW YORK, May 23.-After three sepa. rate ballots had been cast by the Methodists in conference assembled, Rev. Dr. J. H. Vincent, of New York, and Rev. Dr. J. N. Fitzgerald were last evening elected bishops of the Methodist Episcopal church.
 When their election was announced and Presiding Bishop Fowler declared that vote of 306 having been necessary and Dr. Vincent having boiled 3ll votes and Dr. Fitzgerald having received BIO, they were consequently bishops great excitement stirred tne anxious audience. Dr. Vincent sat in his accustomed aisle seat, q half dozen rows from the front, and there those who got the news first were gathered giving their hearty congratulations. Dr. Fitzgerald sat ill his seat further back, and receivel more by nod and beck and wreathed smiles across the hall his measure of congratulation.
 The third ballot, which was the one which elected two bishops, gave pr. Vincent, 5ll Dr. Fitzgerald, BIO; Dr. Newman, 227; Dr. Joyce, 260 and Dr. Goodsell, 25O. Tho fourth ballot, which again proved unsuccessful, al though but three men were being voted for. instead of five, b gan with 2lS votes for Dr. Newman, 265 for l. ". Joyce and 257 for Dr. Goodseli. Earl Cranston, the next highest man, received on tho fourth ballot 112 votes, against 143 on the third, and IA and 128 on the second and first respectively. The result of the fifth ballot will be announced to-day, and the voting, if necessary, will be con- tinued.
 John Heyl Vincent, D. D., IL. D., the leading successful candidate, is man whose name is probably more familiarly known throughout the country than any other Methodist preacher of the time, some few of the present bishops possibly excepted. Bishop Vincent is first and foremost an educational at WI ho Whn mt Chautauqan system, and it was he who advo- cated and carried into general use Sunday school leaflets and teachers guides, now so generally in use. He has written 0 number of books of the Sunday school order, and be has even put ill shape that most difh- cult of journals, a Sunday school paper, which should be both bright and interesting and pointedly moral as well. Al though now practically New Yorker, Bishop Vincent was born in Tuscaloosa, Ala He is now 56 years old, and served his church as an exhorter in 1S49, local preacher in 1850, itinerant preacher in 1851, in the Newark city mission in 1852, and since 1858 as regularly ordained pastor, agent of the Sunday School union and secretary of the Sunday School union. He is much traveled man, having been abroad for purposes of study in 1862. '63, '72, '78, 80, 'S6, 'S7. In 1868 and 1887 he travelled extensively in Egypt, Palestine and Greece.
 Bishop Fitzgerald is a big, jovial man, whose latter day oonvioraons of right and wrong were strong enough to make him some time since break off abruptly life long cher ished habit of smoking. He is at present re- cording secretary of the General Missionary society. He is notable for his genial ways with both friends and strangers, and is an able logician and finished orator as we'll. Although his voice has practically been kept hushed throughout this conference he is quite the man to take at once a leading position among his peers. He is indeed already spoken of as man who will become the judiciary leader of the bish- ops Bishop Fitzgerald was born in Newark N. J., and bred lawyer. He was educated for the law at Princeton, and studied for a time in the office of the late Secretary o1 State Frelinghuysen. He has served his church for five or six years ill his present | capacity, and before that was for twenty years pastor and presiding elder of the-N New ark conference.