Morning journal and courier., 1893-04-08
NEW YORK EAST CoNREaENoE.

Third Days. DoinGs-A Number OF
Transfers Approved-The Conven.
ton Addressed by Bishop Hurst OF
washington-Dr. Buckley Speaks-s
Six Thousand Dollars Raised for
the New Methodist University-Rev.
DR.. =. o. Peck.
DANBURY, April THE third days
proceeding in the New Nork East confer
ence began with q business meeting at Q
o'clock this morning. Bishop Ninde ap-
proved number of transfers to the Now
York East conference. Mark White, F.
A. Spencer and Elijah seeley were elected
trustees for three years of the Forsyth
street church of New York. John s. Nc
Lane was elected trustee for two years in
place of s. N. Browne, resigned. A COM
mittee on resolutions was appointed con-
sisting Of Rev. J. A. Wilson and Rev. Z.
I. Thorpe. Bishop Hurst Of Washington
was invited to address the conference. He
spoke of the American university OF
Washington, DC, of which he is chancel-
lor. He asked the aid of the conference to
establish and maintain q room in the uni
versity, to be called Asbury hall, for
Methodist preachers.
DR.. J. n. Buckley, editor of the Chris.
tian Advocate, who has been i'll, arrived
Unexpectedly, and made an address, his
object being to further the purpose OF
Bishop Hurst. Then others followed, and
an hour was devoted to raising subscrip-
lions for this object. The president, J.
w. Barnhart of Tarrytown, headed the
list, subscribing $3.50, and others sub
ecribed 800 each Altogether Sc 900 was
raised.
Rev. DR.. Names was elected treasurer
and secretary of the conference fund de-
partment of the American ministry. Rev.
e. R. Foley of Mt. Vernon was appointed
assistant treasurer of the endowment fund
collections.
Rev. DR.. Raymond, president of the
Wesleyan university, addressed the con.
ference on the necessity of more generally
endowing eeminaries and other educational
| institutions.
Rev. DR.. J. o. Peek of Mount Vernon
was granted q superannuated relation
Rev. Nelson Porter of Windsor Locks WA
granted location at his own request
Rev. DR.. Wing of Stamford, presiding
elder of the New York east district, re-
ported for his district, the work of tn,
year and che candidates for elders of tn,
district reported their missionary none,
and their characters we're passed. Tn
session adjourned at 1915. -~
GREAT KVENT IN NEW YORK.
The Press Club Fair Next Month VIII
be Second only to Chicago.
Donations are coming in rapidly to tn
New York Press club fair, which will b
held in the Grand Central Palace in May
A department has been opened for the re
csption of goods and for their distribution
to the booths for which they are intended
and the complicated machinery of prepa,
ing for the great fair is running smoothly
Attractive posters were put up last wee
on all the elevated railroad stations in tn
city, and New Workers are BEGINNING
wake up to the fact that the Press club fai
will be the great event of the year.
| As On instance of the generous support whic
the club is receiving from all sides, may be mel
me aGSion MEX tsKen last oy the ~
the most prominent conductors in the union
was decided to furnish the music for the ia
} | gratis during the whole month. This meaI
, forty musicians day, selected from the be
orchestras in the city, and not only insures Il
best Of music but is saving to the club OF seve
al thousand dollars.
, But this i, not all the musicians have don
They have arranged for six Sunday evening co
certs at the Palaee, beginning Apri! 80 and endh
I June Z, which will be the most varied and ints
{ esting musical en-, ertainnent ever given In Ne
| York. Among the musical organiz atoms whi
have rendered their services for these concer
are Seidl's orchestra, Sousa's Marine conce
| band and combination, Twenth third regime
band and combination, Thirteenth regiment bal
Of Brooklyn, the Seventh regiment band, t
Sixty ninth regiment band, Mrs: Thurbel
conservatory Of music, 8. G. Pratt
allegory of war and song; the Blumenberg attrs
tons, including Madame Ostberg, tho famo
| Swedish prima donna, the Metropolitan amate
orchestra Of sixty pieces, Conterno's Fourteen
regiment band, Eoen's Seventy-first regime
band, Lander's orchestra, Bernstein's orchestl
and the orchestra of the Musicians Mutual p
| tective union. A feature of the fair which b
just been determined upon by the committee a
which will be attractive to q large portion of t
community, will be the college hight 1t /
bsen decided to devote each Saturday night d
ing the month to particular college, in the
lowing order: Columbia, Princeton, Yale a
Harvard. On these nights the floral Decorate
| will be principally in the colors Of the cole
| The ladies in the booths will wear the cole
| colors. The musical program will consist par
l of college airs and other attractions, which '
| appeal TO the undergraduates and alumni