Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-03-15
(From Our Regular Correspondent.


(From Our Regular Correspondent
New York. March H. 1896.
March came into the city meek as a
lamb-even a Wall street lamb-but 1t
is making preparations to go out, un-
der the old proverb, as lion, assuaged
i'm temper a little perhaps by Lehleh
services. vow il is very Impressive
when one is proddng his way up the
rises from the side door of the Mann
mon of the stock exchange 10 the sub
lime front of Trinity Church to hear lts
chimes summOning banker broker ana
speculator to Lenten service at
o'clock of each Lenten afternoon and
somewhat pathetic TO enter the church
while Mammon goes to worship God.
WALL STREETS GOD AND NAM
MON
Thus the Scriptural text is modified,
for many Wall sreeter, afte" wor-
SHINING MammOn since bank hours
began. proceeds to worship God also.
Yes. there is many broker VINO wor-
ships both Even the much abused
Russell Sage and at times Hetty Green
strays past the gorgeous bronze por-
tails. which the late John Jacob Aston.
the second. erected for the greeting of
Trinity church-goers.
GEN DIX AND son.
Inever enter Trinity and take a seat
fronting the pulpit without recalling
the late Maj.-Gen. Dix (who never had
occasion to shoot any one pulling down
the flag like the Barcelona mob a fort
night ago.. seated as yestryman in &
front pew. gazing up proudly yet fond
lv i'm the face of his son. Morgan, the
rector. as he stood preaching in the
pulpit. The old General, a hero in
three wars-nayal Mexican and civil
occasionally looking around to the
congregation, as if TO repeat aside in
Biblical language, this is my beloved
son in whom | am well pleased
LENTEN SERVICE IN WASHING
TONS PEW.
There is also another down town Len
ten service for business men i'm St.
Pauls church. opposite the postoffice.
and the stately edifice of the Mail and
Express newspaper. / took a London
visitor there afew afternoons ago to
hear the litany read mot intoned) by
an assistant minister who has a voice
as musical as that Of Col Ingersoll
whom TO feelingly hear read the litanv
] would journey hundreds of miles a.
much Inconvenience. l. by the aid of
"a gratuity to the pew opener. seated my
London friend in Gen. Washington's
pew which amid all the changes Of
time in the church remains as il wac
when after taking oath as President he
sat in IL. and for years afterwards.
An Inauguration was then a pious af-
fair. and when The exercises were over
at the State House. standing where
now is the Treasury building. fronted
by the Washington statue. a procession
escorted the first President to st.
Paul's for praise and prayer.
DIR. SAM JOHNSON'S LONDON PEW.
This use of the Washington pew was
a compliment in return for my London
friend having once taken me into Dr
Samuel JOhnson'S pew in St. Clements
Danes Church. whose bells. according
to Mother Goose say oranges and
lemons. ~ whenever they are rung.
A FASHIONABLE LENTEN SER
VICE.
But society has the Lenten fad of
going TO yerpers at half-past five every
afternoon in the quaint chapel of the
Protestant Episcopal Seminary. at the
corner of Twenty-first street and Ninth
avenue. Society girls throng the yes
per services. and in their subduedlv
gay tOilettes. they. together with the
theological students i'm Oxford cans
and silk gowns. make a picturesque
congregation. But ] noticed ON occa-
sion of Lenten visit that the sleeves
of the officiating minister were much
more expansive than those of the girls
and the latter did not show looks of
jealousy.
BIG SLEEVES.
ApropOS recently asked fashion
able modiste lfresh from he Worth fills
IN Paris. and the fashion makers Of
South Audley street. London. whether
il was true that the big sleeves of LADIES'
were on the point of disappearance
and she answered. Not for som time
for, We sell more material when sleeves
are large. and those in my craft know
that the majority of our customers do
not have tn rounded shoulders of Gle
opaTa. and The beautifully moulded
arms of Marie Anjoineite TO DISPLAY
with The right sleeve"
GOOD DEAN HOFFMAN.
But to return to the Lsa-sn chapel
servics in question. l. is a plan az he
good Dean Hoffman. of The Seminary
which. wiki the Hoffman House hos
telry on Madison Square. that he owns
constitute the pes Of his existence So
that he TOO w0rships God and Nam
mon. And 10 return to Trinity Church
Sryice.
WALL STREETS TWO POETS.
Il is sometimes attended by Edmund
Clarence Stedman who shares The title
of banker poet with the memory of
Samuel Rogers of London and the l9--
Charles Swain OF Boston. I. is natural
that S-edman. so grand a poe and so
sublime q critic should take pleasure
in listening TO the reading of poems
from Job and the Psalms. or the rvtbm
Of the Litany H has recently pub
liShed the Victorian Anthology-a COL
lection of the best poems of the poets
Of the Victorian reign And in doing so
has also done a good turn for the
Queen new Pos, Laureate Alfred
Austin. by placing in the pages some
excellent specimens Of mis- earlier verse
which gOes far toward rtScuing Alfred