The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-10-28
WORDS OF THREE BISHOPS
CONCLUDING SERVICE OF JARVIS
CENTENARY EXERCISES.


Massachusetts and Whitaker of Penn
sylvania on the Work of tho Second
Bishop of This Decentralization of
Bishop Coadjutor Brewster To-day.
The meeting of last evening at the
Trinity church closed the exercises of
the Jarvis centenary proper. To-day
the conservation of Rev. Dr. Chauncey
B. Brewster as bishop coadjutor will be
marked with exercises equally as i'm
pressive and interesting.
The evening meeting closed a day of
unusual interest and significance to the
communicates of the Episcopal church
Of the city and the state while the
promise of an exceptionally fine musi-
cal programme and addresses by such
prominent clergymen as Bishops Whit
taker, Potter and Lawrence, attracted
an unusually large number of the public
at large.
IN the beauty and inspiring force-of
the meeting realization surpassed the
popular anticipation.
Many missed the meeting who would
gladly have been present but were so
unfortunate as to be among those who
were refused admission because the
church was already full. Of this num-
Der were many of the clergy.
AS it was, fully fifteen hundred peo-
\ pie, or hundred more than the seat
Il ing capacity of the church. found ad-
mission. A large crowd was waiting
patiently for the opening of the church
i doors at Ills. Fifteen minutes after
that hour had arrived the church was
full and many were standing in the
aisles
The fire marshal, apprehending ser
ious results in case of a panic, ordered
\ that the doors be closed and all fur
( ther admittance denied.
The order was easier than it's execu-
ton, for it took the combined efforts
of two fire marshals, four police Off
Z GERS, the sexton, ushers and marshal to
clear the aisles and vestibule and close
j the doors on the crowd outside. Prob
N ably 500 were thus excluded.
The three above named bishops, the
successors in their respective dioceses
L
4 chusetts of the three bishops who Off
8 ciated at the conservation of Bishop
ID Jarvis one hundred years ago, brought
greetings to the Connecticut diocese
" from their own.
@ The bishop of Pennsylvania, the Rt
III Rev Dr. Whitaker, began by sketch
81 ing the scene at the conservation one
ia hundred years ago with Bishop White
n of Pennsylvania, Bishop Provost of
Il New York and Bishop Bass of Massa-
# chusetts as consecrators.
He then spoke ofthe contrast between
u the circumstances of that conservation
and the one appointed to take place on
q the following day, of him who is to be
81 the coadjutor of the present bishop of
4 Connecticut, but who In the course of
q time will naturally become it's fifth
Il bishop. He illustrated the changes
that had taken place in two respects
y methods of transportation and the
strength of the Protestant Episcopal
e church in the United States.
Among other things the bishop said
u in 1897 Bishop White had his choice of
three modes of conveyance between
Philadelphia and New Haven. First by
II horse back in about six days; second,
+ by boat to Bordentown. then by stage
a to South Amboy then by boat to New
B York, and thence to New Haven by
II stage or boat, taking, if close connec-
tions were made, three 20 five days
III But as the boat left Philadelphia only
q once week, and the stage left Borden
town only once in two weeks, the trip
4, was liable to consume a much longer
E time The third method was by the
y stage called the Flying Machine"
d which left Philadelphia twice q week
q and conveyed it's passengers to Newark
the first day, and to New York the
+ next morning, whence one could pro-
Il ceed by stages, not easy at that time
to New Haven, arriving here in three
Il or four days. 1t is not known by which
i route Bishop White travelled to New
ii Haven, but it is probable that the boat
offered the greatest degree of COM
u fort for it was represented as possess
II ing unusual attractions. 1t was adver-
Is tised as having dock over which was
N an awning to protect passengers from
A the rain and sun, and having a commo-
b doious cabin fitted up with a tea table
Il and other conveniences. John Pitch's
Is steamboat, which began making trips
81 from Philadelphia to Burlington in 1888
had been abandoned in 1850, because of
es the difficulty in making the machinery
awori1 satisfactorily.
M How would Bishop Jarvis on the day
8of his conservation had regarded the
sprophecy, had 1t been made, that when
hone hundred years hence the anniver-
sary of his consecation would be OBJ
& served, it would be possible to make
Sthe journey from Philadelphia to New
AHaven in four hours and half, or if
1.-THE greatest convenience and luxury
were required, in seven hours without
4leaving q luxurious seat; or if the
siourney was to be made by an invalid,
Mwithout rising from his couch; and
that there would be thirty-five express
Etrains running daily each way between
Philadelphia and New York and con-
meeting with equally well appointed
#and swift trains to New Haven.
Speaking of the growth of the church,
&the bishop contracted the general con-
kvention of 1899, which met in Philadel-
isnhia with that OF 1895, which met in
minneapolis; and the body of clergy
land laity which the respective conven-
E.;o.,s .anrasanted In the convention