The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-04-03
A BELOVED BISHOP
Conservation Of DR.. Satterlee, EpiscO-
pal Diocese of washington.
A VERY IMPOSING CEREMONY
How He Narrowly Escaped Being
a Soldier-Works of Char
ity I'm New York
City.

New Yorw correspondent Spokane
Spokesman Review: The conservation
of Rev. Henry Y Satterlee as the first
bishop of Washington was held to-day
In Calvary Episcopal church. The con-
secrator was the Rt. Rev. John VIII
Jams. bishop of Connecticut, and pre-
siding bishop, who was assisted by the
Rt Rev. Bishops Potter of New YORK
and Paret of Maryland. The Rt. Rev.
F. d. Huntington. bishop OF Central
New York, delivered the conservation
sermon, and the presenters were the
Rt Rev. Arthur Cleveland Coke, bish-
Cd of Western New York, one of DIR.
Satterlees predecessors as rector OF
Calvary church, and the Rt. Rev. WILL
lam c. Doane, bishop Of Albany. The
Rev. DIR. Randolph II. McKim of
Washington and the Rev. Walter
Mitchell of Prince George county.
Maryland, acted as attending presby-
tiers. The clergy of New York and
Washington and other diocesses were
invited to be present. The rite of holy
communion was celebrated at o'clock
in the morning at Calvary chapel The
conservation service took place at 1880
O'Clock.
Those who remember the bishops
boyhood smile at the way the belliger-
emit propensities of his youth have been
sunk in his ardor for church work. He
was determined to enter West Point as
a cadet while yet in his teens, and but
for his fathers firm refusal might now
be wearing epaulets and breathing jim
go defiance to the nations of the earth.
SO. Welding to paternal preference, he
entered Columbia college, still clinging
to his military longing. During his
senior year the young man applied TO
% members OF congress for an appoint
ment as a cadet, without success. The
private secretary OF the last repreSen-
tative whom the young student APP
preached, said: How much will you
give?" mot a red cent" Indignantly
exclaimed young Satterlee We've al
ready been offered $780," replied the
secretary; and the youth turned away
in disgust and with less eagerness TO
enter the governments service.
Soon after he entered the general
Theological seminary i'm New York
city. For IL years after his gradua-
ton DR.. Satterlees light remained in
a measure hidden in the little Dutch
Reformed village church at Wappin-
gers Falls N. Y, where he was called
as the assistant of 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, locality with which
ne had become familiar in youth. DR..
Carlyle's Past and Present" had much
to do with determination which
brought him here. full of keen convic-
ton 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 began at once TO put them into prac-
teal shape one of thes ideas have
grown Calvary's famous east side in
situations. The principal of these are
the Olive Tree Inn, where 300 dodgers
find a clean, comfortable bed every
night for rs cents or less; the Galilee
mission, adjoining, where the spiritual
needs of the dodgers receive attention;
the Galilee restaurant, where a poor
man can get a roast dinner for 10 cents
and a breakfast of bread and butter
and coffee for cents, 900 a day some
times awaiting themselves of the privi-
lege during hard times; and Galilee
wood yard. where men without money
can always earn food and lodging by
doing a certain amount of work. Be
tween 5000 and 10000 were lodged and
fed last year, as a 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 club. a reading
room, gymnasium and boys club.
There are those who, knowing DR.
Satterlee's natural qualifications for
this kind of work and his special fit
ness for reaching the poor, regret to
see him taken TO a field of labor where
misery. such as he has striven to allie
viate. is practically unknown, and
where he will have little chance to put
into operation his great philanthropic
agencies. They say that IL he could
have reached a bishopric in some great
industrial district he might have done
10 times more good to humanity than
he Is destined 10 effect now However
that may be, Or. Satterlee in his letter
of acceptance, expresses a belief that
he can do a great work in the field be-
for him, He is in the prime Of life,
man OF fine appearance, with the In
SEPARATION OF a wife who shares all his
benevolent views and enters heartily
into all his remedial projects,