Evening star., 1896-01-04


been offered $500" replied the secretary
and the youth turned away in disgust, and
with less eagerneSS to enter the govern
ment's service. Soon after he entered the
General Theological Seminary though so
ignorant of church affairs at that time that
he had some trouble in finding the institu-
ton.
Work Among the Poor.
For seventeen years after his graduation
Dr.. Satterlee's light remained in a measure
hidden in the little Dutch Reformed village
church at Wappinger's Falls. N. Y, where
he was called as the assistant of a pastor
who was born before the revolutionary war;
Then came the desire to return to his native
city to labor among the poor on the East
Side, a locality with which he had become
familiar in youth DR.. Satterlee's friends
know that Thomas Carlyle's "Past and
Present. had much to do with the deter
mination which brought him here full of
keen conviction that the wrongs of the poor
should be righted. The views of the rector
on this subject were well matured when he
came to the metropolis. in 1882, and he be-
gan at once to put them into practical shape
Dr. Satterlee started with the theory, which
he still holds, that the poor and degraded
need not only the gospel. but fresh environ
ment, to lift them out Of their wretchedness
His observations convinced him. however
tfat it pauperiZed able-bodied men to give
these ideas have grown Calvary's famous
East Side institutions The principal Of
these are the Olive Tree Inn, where 800
dodgers find a clean, comfortable bed every
night for fifteen cents or less; the Galilee
Mission, adjoining, where the spiritual
needs of the dodgers receive attention; the
Galilee Restaurant, where poor man can
get roast dinner for ten cents and a break
fast of bread and butter and coffee for five
cents, 6OO I day sometimes availing them
selves of the privilege during hard times
and the Galilee wood yard, where men with
out money can always earn food and lodg-
hyr6 5ntr tofv
this way these benevolent institutions have
all been made self-supporting, asking aid
from the church only for the relief of spe-
cially needy and helpless individuals
brought to their attention. and, In fact con-
tributing to such cases themselves. Between
9.UU and 10000 men were lodged and fed
last year as n result of work in the wood
yard. Some other environments which Dr.
Satterlee supplied to keep East Side men
from evil associations are workingmen's 3
club, reading room, gymnasium and boys
club.
This "rescue work." as it is called, is not
confined to the men and boys. The corps
or East Side women workers which DR. Sat
terlee has organized is probably the most
able In the city. 1t numbers one visitor who
Is famous the country over as .'the angel of
the tombs,' Mrs. Foster, a lady of wealth
and many accomplishments. who deyotes
her life to the service of unfortunate and
destitute women whom she finds in the
police courts and jails. There are a num-
ber OF angels connected with the Arch
deaconry Society of Calvary, and wrongs
which they have righted for ignorant and
oppressed women have commanded for their
work the respect of the whole community
only glance at a few of the many be-
nevolent enterprises of Calvary parish is
permitted here. Enough have been recited,
however. to demonstrate the practical ideas
of the bishop-elect, and their practical exc
cution under his capable and business-like
| management. which will soon be applied to
the affairs of the new diocese of Washing
ton.