The record-union., 1898-02-13

chinks and crevices that q biting wind
would otherwise take sinister ad-
vantage of; also, many thousands of
dollars find their way after every snow
| into the erstwhile empty pockets of an
army Of ragged shovelers who often
| find in it the only employment of the
winter.
I And speaking of snow, q respect for
! truth compels me to state that the ef-
/ forts of the new Street Cleaning COM
/ missioner to remove the article from
| our streets are not meeting with the
| applause of the people. In the frantic
| effort which Tammany is making to
"cut down expenses" she entirely ig-
nores the Importance of the causes of
/ these same expenses and thus the citf-
zens of the greater city go floundering
and slipping about in streets which
under similar conditions and the de-
| funct Republican party were compare
| lively immaculate.
| Then, there's another matter over
which our new rulers have decided to
be different and here they do possess
the sympathy of their subjects I re-
fer TO the action of the new Police
Board in reorganzing the once famous
|
day alike the terror of drivers, the de-
/ light of shoppers and pedestrians in
general on Broadway, and the pride of
all Gotham. The members of this
| picked squad were all men who stood
at least six feet in their stockings, While
few lowered around seven They
also had to be broad in proportion Our
present Secretary of the Navy-pardon,
! r -lxz al
oped many radical views while a Police
Commissioner, and one of these led to
the dissolution of the Broadway
squad" 1t was a long time before
New Workers became accustomed to the
ordinary sized men who replaced it, and
they now hail with acclamation the re-
| appearance of those towering beacons
of assurance that could always be dis
covered in crowd, and who, it is said,
could with single stern glance, stop
a runaway horse or cause a cable car
| to run amuck.
DR.. John Hall, who recently resigned,
and more latterly resumed the pastor
age of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian
/ Church, is probably the high toned
clergyman of the metropolis, both as
| iCSpCStS Ills SoilS C6dliOII ctllu tiiiiSCAA-
That his services are appreciated by the
majority Of his wealthy flock is shown
by the amount Of his salary, by the
| length of his pastorate, and by the
fact that his congregation pleaded SO
earnestly against his resignation that
it was withdrawn.
| The Fifth Avenue Presbyterian
Church is located in the heart of the
district rendered beautiful by the man
sions of many of the wealthiest families
of the new world, and it is from these
that the congregation is largely drawn.
In fact, only one other, the Episcopal
Church, of which DR.. Greer is pastor,
stands at all in the same class in this
| respect
DR.. Hall has had his present charge
since 1867, and the story of how he was
called to it is interesting.
| 1t was while the doctor was a clergy
man of but modest reputation in County
Armagh, Ireland, that he paid his first
visit to America While in New York
| he was invited to officiate at the Fifth
Avenue Church on a certain Sunday,
principally because the pastor had not
yet returned from his vacation, and the
! young Irish parson was hit upon hap
| hazard. His address upon that occa-
| sion. however, made such an impress
sion upon his hearers that when the
post was made vacant shortly after
ward DR.. Hall was called from across
| the sea to occupy it.
Unlike certain other well-known di-
vines of the city, Dr. Hall has a deep
| rooted aversion to anything like no.
| toriety: His sermons We're all charac-
| terized by their plainness and severe
| lack of needless rhetoric, and were i'm
| pressive as much because of the spirit
of sincerity in which they were deliv-
cred as because of the true genius dis
played PRESTON JONES