The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-03
THE GOSSIP OF GOTHAM.
CHIRCHMEN PREPARE CHASTISE-
MENT FOR bishop POTTER.
strong l. AmbitiOus-aIr. Vanderbilt
VIII Take "A Hand in the Cup De-
Tending business - Preparations
for the Four Hundreds Haby show.

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verse action taken by a meeting OF Epis-
eopal clergymen recently it is said that
the Efforts to have an American arch
/ bishop established in New York will in no
/ sense be abandoned. Those of the high
church school. and they include all the
wealthy and influential families in New
I York. are known 10 be committed 10
/ the idea. but they do not consider il timely
to agitate the project until the compile
ton Of the new cathedral of ST. John
/ the Divine. This cathedral viii be the
/ finest church edifce on the American con-
/ tinent. and as the diocese OF New York
is far Weather than most of the sees
l in the mother communion. il is likely
/ that its growth will in time be sigualized
/ in the manner desired by the excessively
/ high church. AS for the opposition OF
Bishop Potter and his encourage. that
/ will hardly count. since the worthy
churchman Will probably be dead by the
time the great cathedral is ready for
/ conservation. and what he may think
will have no great hearing or consid-
Grafton then.
The archiepiscopal episode, as it has be
/ gun to be called, marks the acute stage
of that intercine war in the Episcopal
/ church in the metropolis over the ques-
! zion of sacerdotalism which has brought
! bishops and clergy into more than one
l unpleasant conference. There is no deny
ing that the high churchmcn have the
most at command from numerical and
/ pecuniary point of view, and the bishop
himself is known to have uttered a fear
that they are inclined to 80 rather far
/ Only the immense personal influence Of
/ Bishop Potter and the known excellence
4 of his administration have succeeded In
/ stemming the tide of ritualism. The more
/ much displeased with the bishop, and
/ through their efforts a resolution was
! passed at a recent diocesan conference
/ referring this whole matter to the gen
! eral convocation next autumn. The scene
/ of hostilities is thus transferred to an
| impartial body. and the Episcopalians OF
| New York are already hard at work in
/ efforts TO secure an ascendancy in the
sanctified body. AS for the low church
/ body they are abiding to their autag
onists as irreverent and as playing the
part of saints with barrels whose money
is their only claim to consideration. The
| opposition, however, applies the term
SANITY devil" to the leader OF the low
churchmen. and altogether the ecclesi-
astical situation is embittered.
When Mr. Cornelius Vanderbilt gets
back from Italy. whittier he has gone
with his wife and daughter, he proposes
| TO take an active part in the prepare
| international yacht race a great event.
| Mr. Vanderbilt has been, IL is alleged, re-
buffed by those who have assumed TO
take sole charge of the building and
| equipping of the cup defender, in spite
| of his well-known attachments In nautical
| matters Mr.. Vanderbilt is, in fact,
| yacht mad and at times spends all his
| leisure cruising about the shores of his
native land from sheer delight in the
| sight of the sea. On such expeditions he
| stands in true skipper style on his own
| quarterback, spy-glass in hand, studying
| old ocean like a veteran salt. The cold
| ness with which his overtures were re-
ceived caused him to retire from active
work of the preparation of the yacht,
but now that matters are going by no
means smoothly with the champions of
the cup defender, they have appealed TO
him to help them out. Mr.. Nanderbilts
departure for Italy prevented any hearty
| cooperation with them, but as he has
relenting disposition, il is confidently be-
Iieved he will roll up his sleeves and
| pitch in with the rest when he returns.
| This Italian trip is solely for a little rest
and is in no way occasioned by i'll health
/ in the family. Miss Gertrude and her
| mother were never better in their lives.
| The outcry raised against Mr.. Fran
| els I.ynde Stetson in connection with
the bond loan has been interpreted as an
| attack upon the President. In reality it
/ is an attack upon Mr. oLetSOut ana CT
forts have been made to implcate the
President in an act of bad taste. 1t is
charged that it looks Ill to have the
! Presidents law partner so conspicuous
in a governmental transaction in which
| Uncle Sam got the worst Of It, But MIR
Stetson acted for the syndicate in direct
opposition TO the wishes of the President
and he is by no means so closely iden-
tilted with the business interests of Mr.
| Cleveland as many suppose. Mr.. Stetson
has always had charge of vast financial
interests since he first attracted atten-
tion at the bar, and he has drawn up more
| financial agreements of quasi public char
acter than most members of the bar. 1t
was owing to Mr.. Morgan that Mr.. Stet-
son remained so closely identified with the
bond issue, and Mr.. Stetson did his best
II appears, to have some other man finish
the little business. But in the midst of
| his activity Mr. Jordan, sub treasurer it
is said, sent word in a. violent hurry that
he could hold out only twenty-four hours
| against the drain of gold that was sapping
| the vitals of the United States treasury
| and Mr. Stetson had fairly to rush the
/ matter through in order to save the treas
| ury. 1t was a very narrow escape for the
administration, and had even a train
been missed or a day lost, our national
treasury would have practically repudi-
ated its obligations. Mr.. Holman took
pains to find out the details of all these
/ incidents, and he is credited with the OBJ
servation that his glory as watchdog of
the treasury has been dimmed by the
/ greatness of its trick poodle, this being
the disrespectful manner in which Mr.
Stetson is alluded TO by congressman who
/ by no means relish recent administration
| financial transactions. The last two weeks
have. indeed, been very memorable in
I Wall street.
William Lafayette Strong has been
looked upon so far as ambitious solely
to make a record for himself as mayor
of New York, and that he has been
successful in that ambition no one doubts
But he has an eye on other things as
well, and his ambition to be governor
of the Empire state is understood to have
been the origin of alleged unfriendliness
between himself and Plat. 1t seems that
this ambition of the mayors has all
along been understood by Mr.. Platt, and
while not openly avowed the story is that
when it was intimated to Mr.. Platt he
/ expressed himself as not unwilling to aid
Mr.. Strong, but that it was rather early
in the season for consideration of such
a question. Immediately the story went
about that Mr. Plat has another man in