New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-06-15
ZIP IN BUSY HARLEM.
ACTIVITY IN CHURCH cIRCLEs-REPUBLloAN
CLUB MEETINGS.


TIL. ,roe,, hec,n with flowers Chdrens Day, or
Flower Sunday as it was called in some Instances 10
d mono thar tho usnaI recognition this year, ana
nowhere were the services interesting tiah aO
Pilgrim Congregational Church lhree services WIZ
held during the day. and all were IaIsoH "'
At the morning service eighteen chlloTch "erc pap
TIED In the afternoon the regular sunday -schoOi
session was held, with special features, ana Ill Iio
eve,inr a floral festival drew immense consres@
ton Tho church deliberately decorated. nu
dresses were made by the pastor, the Rev. Dr. NHsl
and the assistant pastor the Rev. Mr.. Lewis ~
Virgin goes soon with his family to his MASSACHUSETTS,
farm to pass the summer. His assistant VIII pio"'
drr,rr Iuly and during August the church Will be
closed. ,,
Another of the growing and enterprising churches
OF Harlem is the Lexington Avenue Baptist Chnrch al
One hundred and .elevenhst., tho Rev. j. H. Camp
hell pastor. Last Sunday mOrnlng Mr. CampOeu ihade
statement to his congregation Of the amount re-
ouind TO renOvate and refurnish the church, ana
sum larger that asked for was at once subscribed
The work will be done during the August Nacauoh
and rededicatory services will be held lmmcda'eiy
thereafter. over $50 members have been added
10 this church in a little more than the year SINCE
Mr. Campbell became pastor, and acceSslOns by
baptism are received every sunday. The sunday
school will have its annual excursion on saturday.
The Young Mems League Of the Mount Morris
Baptist Church held its first open session and recep
ton at the church parlors on Monday evening the
affair was in every way pleasing social success,
rejecting credit upon the young men conducting and
taking part in it, The energetic officers of the league
are James Rodgers president; W. A. Crocker, jr,
vce-presdent; A. d. Sraton. tr, recording secretary
K. b. Elliott, corresponding secretary H. wallace
Heart treasurer.
The summer gardens not yet in the height OF
their season. but most of them well patronized,
engagements by clubs and societies will soon make
them scenes of estivity every night in the week
At Suffers Harlem River Casino Monday night the
was largely attended, and Thursday plight over 600
persons attended the nights festival of the
wyanoke Boat Club at Washington Park Sxty-nint
st. and East River.
The jewellers at Edgecomb.ave. and Ohehundred-
and fifty ffthst. thanking the Excise Com
nisSoncrs for refusing to grant license for beer
garden in the immediate neghborhood Of their homes
The Tuesday night crowds which gather 70 hear
the music in Mount Morris Park grow larger every
week
In club circles the week has been rather quiet.
AT the Harlem Democratic Club the only noteworthy
incident of the week the dinner given Thursday
night by retiring President c. W. Dayton to the
directors of the Twelfth Ward savings Bank The
Inauguration of President Mott and the other lately
elected officers of the club will take place Wednes
day evening. The Harlem Republican Club held its
regular monthly meeting Tuesday night
AT the regular meeting of the Excelsior Repub
lcan Club, Tuesday night, resolutions were unani-
mously adopted protesting against the employment of
any person in any department of the city who is not
bona fde resident and urging the Mayor ana
Controller TO have law passed which shall make
bona de residence in this city indispensable 10 any
person holding any position under the municipal
government.
Mr.. HammerStein, the builder of the Columbus
Theatre in East Onehundred and twenty fth-st hopes
10 have the exterior of the building completed In about
two weeks, that the Peck & Martin building trade
troubles settled. He expects to open the house at
an early date.
The Republican Club of the XXIIId Assembly Dis
trict is preparing for huge cambse. to be given at
Whitestone, l.. L. August 10.
Tomorrow night the Euterpe Choral Society will
sing Rossini's Stabat Mater" at the Congregational
Church in Onehundred and forty thirst., Willis
ave.
Although there is considerable activity in building
real estate affairs generally quiet. and compare
lively few transfers Of property reported.
AT a meeting Of the Walling Uniformed Republican
Club. on Wednesday night, a committee consisting
Of NJ. p B. Voullare, A. Ellis and W. H. Walling,
appointed to draw up resolutions in favor OF the Nc
Kinley Tariff bill. The following resolutions were
adopted:
Whereas, The Walling Uniformed Republican Club
OF NewlOrk, being composed of wOrkngmen interested
only in the welfare of this country and depending
trely upon protection to American labor for fair
days pay for fair days work, and believing that
American industries Of all kinds Will be enlarged and
Others will seek our shores and give more work TO
much larger number Of mechanics and tborers if fully
protected against the paUper labor of Europe: and
passed the Mckinley Tariff Bill which though ii may
not be perfect IN every respect. feel is big step
in the right direction toward the renewed success Of
American industries and labor. be IL
Resolved That this club most respectfully urges the
pnbSsa ps Ty Rrey3s to S people that the Re
Saondis s' Club No. g. had d nd pii and literary
s 0S Rn 81 Monday S eye61g at the in
twenty -ffth-st The programme included singing and
rectations and an address by stansbuy Morse entitled
saint The membership of the club was fully repre-
Ii Is said that detectives have been detailed 10 capt
ure the incendiary who was guilty of trying set ire
70 large double tenement house in one hundred and
in the elevator shaft and but for a timely discovery
many people As tbs Is reported T. have ef bee Ge' the Nl
third attempt Of the same kind the same place il
would seem as if it were time something were done 10
Indignation is excited again over careless or
One seriously hurt during The week. other.
had narrow esesPes hundreds were badly frightened
have already been held for trial for thus dangerously
little deenee IN tie an DeT Of DONG the 70 Wo se
In view OF these accidents, If such they may be
called the talk of public meeting TO consider the
subject is by no means unreasonable
oo The monthly praise service at St Johns Meth
a strawberry festival gwen at the Methodist
Episcopal Church of the Saviour on Thursday even
ms by the Ladies' Aid Society, was financial sue
.u5 AT meeting Of the sagamors Club Thursday
70 defer action upon the purchase of site for club
bership Of the club IS 59s and its financial credit
balance little over 81 900 Thursday nights meet
Ing was the last which will be held until september
At the Second Collegiate Reformed Church, Lenox-
ave. and One hundred and twenty third st.. mass
meeting Will be held tomorrow evening at O'Clock.
The meeting will be under the auspices Of the Kings
Daughters, and its object will be arouse interest
in and subscriptions for the establishment of
day nursery in Harlem sometime during the com
Ing fall. The growth OF the upper districts of the
city and the many working women who have no
place leave their little in during the dav seem
to make such institution extremely desirable. Al
the meeting tomorrow night prominent persons in
terested in religious and philanhropc work through
out the city are expected 10 be present.
Al the recent inspection of the list Regiment
Harlem Company was credited with 100 per cent