The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-02-08

slow in coming in. Still he started the Church
of the Strangers. and the first service was
held in the chapel of the University on Wash
ington Square on July 20, 1865. There were
present at this service sixteen adults and
boy. A month or so after the policy of the
church was drawn up under the STRANGERS
Sunday Home."' Distinctions of secta-
rianism were abandoned and the church
was declared TO be especially de-
signed for strangers visiting the city.
The church was in existence three
years, when one Sunday morning two ladies
attended services there. and were introduced
70 DIR. Deems as Mrs: Crawford and her
daughter became Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt.
A friendship was thus established between the
Commodore and DR.. Deems, and in little
while the Commodore gave the Doctor $780,
900 10 buy the Mercer-street church. Since
then the career of the church has been one Of
uninterrupted prosperity, DIR. Deems has
passed his SEVENTEEN birthday and he still con-
tinues in active service, though his health is
not very good. His manners are very gra-
cious, and he has the true Southern eloquence
and hospitality. His friends are very numer-
Gus. and his influence seems to be exerted
with equal power on the learned and llllterate.
DIR. Deems daughter is married to Mr.. Marion
j. Verdery the well-known Southern Wall
street expert.
REV. JOHN WESLEY BROWN.
The rector of st. Thomas Episcopal church
comes from the Eastern Shore of Maryland.
His name is John Wesley Brown, and he is of
Methodist origin. He was educated IN Baltl-
more, and after q course of study IN Dlckln-
son Seminary, Williamsport, qualified for the
Methodist ministry. There he met Bishop
Whittringham and their intercourse changed
his doctrine. He received the order of dea-
conship in the Episcopal Church and he served
under the famous Or Schenck two years in
the Emanuel church. Baltimore. He was or
dained by Bishop Lee in 1886, and has since
then been rector in Philadelphia. Detroit,
Buffalo and Cleveland. A few years ago he
St. Thomas. which has the reputation of be-
ing the most beautiful Episcopal church In
America.
THE FOUR HUNDRED.
Do the 400 go TO church? was a question
under debate in a heightened club, and the
conclusion reached after much investigation,
and after many chosen names had been taken
up, is that the great majority of the set OF the
400 are pewholders in fashionable churches.
Some of them are church members, but Others
are merely worshippers not yet admitted to
all the privileges of the faith.
CURIOUS SOCIAL NOTION.
A curious notion has seized society OF
late and taken its most exclusive members TO
Delmonico's to supper on Sunday nights. On
any late Sunday one might, upon going about
$50 find that the usual run of strangers who
usually congregated there Sundays had all
gone away and hat the dining-room was given
over entirely to people whose names are
synonymous with all that Is large and
naughty III the social fabric of the town. They
all bob about from one table TO another,
speaking the jargon of their set with all the
fuency of long practice
TIFTH-AvENUE BUTCHER SHOP.
In few months there will be a butchers
shop on the northeast corner of Fifth avenue
and Nineteenth street. The appalling fact Is
announced by this sign: This store will be
occupied by A. Baer, Metropolitan Market,
now at 922 Broadway, corner of Twenty-tilst
street" There is at present only one such
store on Fifth avenue. 1t is one of a row OF
one-storv brick buildings between Forty
fourth and Forty-ffth streets, built for tenn
porary use Mr.. Baer. however, has secured
a lease for fifteen years of the building which
he proposes 10 occupy. 1t il a fOur-story
brownstone house. The former occupant was
William Reed, a lawyer. who is the owner Of
No. ll9. There are several stores on the
block. all brown-stone houses, but the change
which Mr.. Baer proposes to make VIII be
radical. On the northeast corner lives the
millionaire Henry Parrish On the corner OF
Eighteenth street is the Belmont mansion.
Robert L. Cutting lives near Twentieth street,
and John Il. Agnew lives on Nineteenth street