The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-05-19
EPISCOPAL WORRIES
St. Thomas and St. Barna-
bas' Monkey and Par
rot Time.
RECTOR 1HRoo rs DEPOSITION
Shocking Condition of Hudson
County's Almshouse DIR. Jen-
yey's Report on Missions.
RECTOR THRoop's DEPOSITION
Especial to 1.-THE Jersey CITY News."l

Convention of the Protestant Episcopal
Church. was the severe handling of the
Hudson County Board of Freeholders for
their care of poor children committed to
their care. Last year the convention ap-
pointed a special committee to inquire
into the case of poor children and they
made their report yesterday. That part
which dealt with the Aims House at
Snake Hill said as follows
Our Aims Houses are no longer merely
| the refugees of those unfortunates who
nave suffered from the storms of life
| ana need quiet harbor, but into these
same, same harbors there now drifts mass Of
social Wreckage, dangerous fragments of
| abandoned lives depraved in themselves
and demoralizing in their influence, and
TINS Is Isl literally true of the Hudson Coun-
for the aged and iilfirm poor, but it is
aiso winter resort for tramps, lying
| general receptacle for the waste speci-
mems of humanity.
such are the men and women with
constant contact, who form their only
| environment and create for them their
only ideals of family life. New Jersey as
a state which boasts that it has some of
| the pest prisons in the country, makes
| no provisions for its destitute and inno-
| cent children. For all the class of de-
/ IectlonS generous provision is made but
Tor the sound and innocent child who is
| SIMPLY poor and neglected, and who has
60 LIZ PutSilleIiu6s5 OIL uSeIuI cltlZen-
ship. the State does nothing, and the
County Freeholders provide only the Aims
House. save only in few instances. The
| dren in this State is defective in princi-
pie and lax in practice. Children are
committed to the Aims House by the
Judgment, a responsibility entirely with
out any judicial proceedings, and the
Boahd 2 a,,a, OF I Freeholders may subsequently,
II rney see ht place the children out
| either by indenture or adoption but they
| DO so with little precautfon to safeguard
| the child's welfare.
| rs severe arraignment of Hudson county
| off officials" is exercised by the officials.
simply Is shocking. Practically all infants
Gle The Hudson County Aims House
| mas not succeeded in raising founding
oi tnls institution is that the children
are are fairly well fed and clothed and re-
feiye f IA moderately good schooling with
county are exhausted
The reader Of the report moved the fol-
loving vang resolution to meet the situation,
Wnich Inch was unanimously carried:-
That we advocate the passage of a law
prohibiting the commitment of children to
Aims Houses for over thirty days;
That we urge the clergy and others of
. the diocese to cooperate with the com
m1ssl4n ,Es 2 IN IN every way possible;
providing that the trials of young per-
sons apparently under the age Of six
iiit isJti ears snalI rake place without pub
merry, separately and apart from fhe
trials of other accused persons; '--o
tnst sI.st we recommend the enactment of
a, system fgse1 ~ OF State control of dependent
cniidren based upon the Michigan plan
with an, unpaid Board of say nine .5irec- rec.
TORS, whose terms shall vary and who
dren when necessary. ~
line Inc committee was continued and Coun-
sell9r p. A. S. Lewis of Hoboken was
made member of it, '
An application to admit tho NON, o1.,,.,.
OF st. Thomas into the convention stirred
up g, veritable hornets nest The parishes
peen having monkey and parrot finoe
for years because of the contigIlitv nf
me new church to ST. Barnabas, the rector
or which claiming that the canon ner-
tanning to the distances Of cbl1rcbas pa
peen violated, and of course when the
appllcatlon game up to admit the new
opposed it, on' iio.iy
From From some words dropped yesterday
his honor as a bishop, Christian. church.
man and gentleman had been assailed
ana an ne recited the history of the fight and
Ine reasons which induced him to give
permission for the erection Of the new
st. Thomas Church
q, am m sorry, Bishop, you have said
higher opinion of you than 1 have but
we are having monkey and parrot time
ana sein even II you had abused me as
pirate would say the same thing
daughter and applause)
rector Miller, of St Thomas Church.
Idae Ins pete noire OF every convention since
IS9S, mildly begged that his church be adj
m1tted, SO that It might be permitted to
bear its share of the canonical expenses
OF OF rne ad di9cese. s ,i Even if the permission
parishioners
Speeches 9 a1, s on one size and the other were
Osborne. Rev; J. s; Miller, Rev. W. W.
Holley and Rev w. Gwynne, and then
n4fe was Of tasen s M6h this
fore admitted,
This vexed question out of the way
and laity was at once rivetted on Arch
deacon W. r. Jenvey of Hoboken. who
asked sss leave to make his report of the
Now for Throop's case murmured
the clergy and the case Of the dismissed
rector Of St. Matthew's Church, Sussex
street, Jersey City, was at once intro
duced.
The Archdeacon briefly reviewed the
troubles between the rector and the ward
time to time appeared in the columns of
Tho Jersey City News and these
troubles, he said, had been carefully gone
into by the Standing Committee, which !
sat as both judge and jury. Evidence
was taken and the committee made its
report TO the 1olSnOps
Archdeacon, ''the Rev. Mr.. Throop re-
quested the committee to give him a re-
hearing; but we denied his request for
the reason that the evidence for that re-
opening, which he adduced, we considered
threw no further light on this painful \
case. We then advised the Bishop to
terminate the relations between the rec
tor and the wardens and vestry and this |
was accordingly doIie."
That part of the report was received in
silence and the Archdeacon proceeded to
say that the committee had given per-
Church of the Holy Cross on Arlington
avenue, Jersey City, to sell two lots at
not less a price than 81, $50 lot and to
apply $1,000 of that sum to the reduction
of the church debt ard the remaining sum
to the paymentSof assessments and build
ing a parish house.
Those who yesterday looked forward to
a lively debate, and there were many |
on the canon pertaining to the election
of rtctors for vacant parishes, were COM
plets.ly disappointed, when the Commit
tee on Constitution and CanonS made its
report. This question came up at last
years convention OH motion by the
Rev. Edwin A. White, to introduce a new
canen to be named x. One of the pro-
visions of this new canon was as fol-
lows:-
Within one month from the receipt Of
such notice, the Bishop may nominate in
writing to such parish, as At persons to
hll the rectOrsNp thereof, not less than
three nor moye thar! flve clergymen, and |