The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-15

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had not been able to do for over two
years. Your medicine has done me
more good than all the DOCTORS"
the completion of the great Cathedra,
Bishop Potter speaks always with pleas
ant confidence of the time when he will
conduct services in the great chanceI and
dedicate the building. His guarantee for
this is that he comes of a long line Of
Potters, three of whom were bishops. an
of them mighty aristocrats, and every one
reached a ripe old age before they wera
gathered to their fathers. Though not a
rich man, in the New York sense, nor as
Stunning the airs of one, he keeps his
health good and his back straight by in
du4gence in a single luxury Like MANY
another sensible Woodworking man. he
spends an early hour every day in Cen
trail park on horseback, whether it rains
or the sun shines. He learned this from
his friends, the athletic British bishops.
who assume far more style in living,
dressing and entertaining than the New
York prelate
A street car is his favorite CONVEYANCE
when he is not covering miles on foot
In manner, he is proud of being a good
American with broad church princinles
and his dress is as simple as that of a cur
ate.
AS his daughters grew up and got ready
to marry, he welcomed sons-in-law who
boosted nothing more than comfortable
means, and it is his habit, frequently
enough, to lay down his napkin in The
middle of the season to fill an engagement
in the slums of the city.
Bishop Potter is probably most at his
ease and seen at his best when he is
among his friends, the workingmen and
women. He heartily likes and eniovs
them, he understands all their sentiments
and the cold, naughty, sharp-to pre-
late, who rather frightens the debutantes.
and who knows how by the most exouis
lite diplomacy, to make a close-fisted old
dowager endow hospital bed with sin
gle check, is the simplest sort of a man
and a brother when he visits the striking
cloakmakers or gives an informal recep-
ton to the locked-out typesetters.
He can bring the temperature of a dir
ty red-hot anarchist down so degrees in
five minutes; he can talk angry men into
calm reasonableness and affectionate at
tention by half dozen sentences. and
the same man who would refuse a reporter
ten-minute interview will by preference
spend his summer among the Stun folk
and cancel dinner engagements because a
delegation of strikers want his presence
and advice. Down in Stanton and Riving-
ton street, where there Is more swarming,
degraded, poverty-stricken humanity TO
the square yard than anywhere else on
earth, Bishop Potter is regarded as a be-
nevolent, approachable, helpful friend He
enjoys himself at the social extremes and
he has about as much liberation for a re-
porter or a simple, easy-going, middle
class citizen as Tonquemada had for an
avowed hereto.
The average New York newspaper man
would just as leave be sent out on an as
signment on the shores of the open polar
sea as to get an interview from the master
of the white marble diocesan house on
Lafayette place. He is apt to get no inter
view and to carry in his memory ever
after the recollection of tall Well-pre-
served man, buttoned closely in a black
clerical coat, with a spare, clean-shaven
face, like that of an English ecclesiastic,
and pair of wonderfully hard steely gray
eyes.
Perhaps somewhere along in the class
with bores and reporters, the advanced
ritualist are relegated by the bishop.
A ritualst is apt to act on his nerves,
somewhat as the dissenters used to ef-
feet Sidney Smith, though on the other
hand he has small sympathy with
puritancal sentiments. A man can be
a good bishop and a good clubman at
the same time is his belief and if any
one doubts ms capacity as a jolly good
fellow, they should drop in to the Play
ers on Founders night or into the Cen
fury Club when some special function
is on hand. 1t is plain enough TO see,
then, that beside the great ladies of So
ciety and the horny-handed sons of toll,
the bishop of New York possesses a hold
on the affections of another element in
society. the business men, whether they
are brokers, bankers, actors, authors or
artists
On Founders night at the Players he
will toast Joe Jefferson in words that
bring tears to the eyes of the veteran, or
drop in with a couple of priestly collea-
CUES to a quiet chop and talk in a corner,
exchanging mods and handclasps with joan
Drew and Francis Wilson as he goes by.
OF the Century Club Bishop Potter has
now been president for several years. CIV
ing as great care and attention 10 the in
terests of that organization as to his vast
responsibilities in the cathedral, and ne
bids fair 10 enjoy the presidency as long
as he likes. The shrewdest members admit
his wonderful executive ability; they quote
his keen remarks; one of his toas IS OF
speeches will evoke more applause than
any other half dozen men speaking in any
evening and the non-believers and the
Catholics, the sternest Presbyterians and
the most loyal Jews will not hesitate to
serve and praise him. act on his commit
tees and forget all differences of belief IN
their confidence i'm this liberal Ulndeu
churchman. whom men, after all, admire
most for mis- utter fearlessness, anH Nho'
unfortunately, is the last of his n ame VI
the church, with no son to succeed MN
Emily Holt