The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-05-19
PARSON TO RUN A HOTEL.
NEW DEPARTURE OF THE REV. r. 8.
HIPKINS OF LlRCHHO N MANOR.

Formerly Rector OF st. John'a,b but Now Un-
able to Get an Assignment from Bishop
Potter, He Becomes Host OF tho Mitchell
House Says He Must Earn n Living.
Frederick SouthRate Hipkins. some time
rector OF the fashionable 81. Johns Protestant
Episcopal Church at Larchmont Manor on the
Sound. has leased the old Mitchell House. not
far from the church. and has opened the hotel
for the coming season OF yachting. Mr.. Hip
k!ns ia one OF the non-parochial clergy men OF
Bishop Potter's diocese. and he has gone
into the hotel business because he
hasn't had a call to q new parish.
Some time ago he wrote to Bishop
Potter asking II there was not an opening for
him somewhere in the diocese. The Bishops
answer was that. as there were more than a
hundred %clergymen In the diocese without
churches, he could offer Mr.. HipKins no en-
couraRement. The churchless preacher sought
work in this city as a writer for the newspapers.
Failing In this. he leased the summer hotel In
his old parish.
Larchmont cottagers do not all take kindly
to the return of their former rector IA an inn
keeper. hut az Mr.. Hipkins has a ilve-year lease
OF the Mitchell House. 1t looks as though
the L%archmont folks would have to bear
It. But Mr.. Hipkins does not lack
for warm friends. Among the yachtsmen
and sportsmen who rendezvous at Larch-
mont Manor and the neighboring Sound
resorts every season the former rector
OF st. Johns is known as a lover OF athletic
sports. and last season. when he was a guest at
the Mitchell House. he was often seen on the
links and on the water. Although past so. Mr..
Hipkins Is as muscular as a boy Just out OF
college. Among his warmest supporters at
Larchnont when his church was torn up over
him was Miss II. T.. Mitchell. who has con-
Quoted the Mitchell House for twenty years.
From her he has leased it.
Two years ago last fall Mr.. Hipkins resigned
as rector Of st. Johns. Some said that the
vestry called for his resignation. but he said he
gave up the parish voluntarily because OF his
wife's il-health. He took her down to
her old home in Alabama. The Rev. Richard
Golden OF st. Marks Church. New York.
succeeded Mr.. Hopkins at st. Johns. Mr.. Cob
den. last summer. was Chaplain Of the Twenty
second New York Volunteers. stationed at Fort
slocum. in the Sound. In the spring follow
ing his resignation it was reported that Mr..
Hipkins had obtained a divorce from his wife
in North Dakota. alleging extreme cruelty.
Not knowing much about hotel management.
Mr.. Hipkins has engaged a man from a Phila-
delphia hostelry as manager OF the house. Be-
sides. he has associated with him his son,
Howard Hipkins. who went to the war as a
volunteer in the infantry. He was stationed at
Baracoa and other north-coast towns in San
Tor three months. Mr.. Hipkins himself is a
war veteran. having, served IN the southern
Virginian by birth. One OF his sons is in bust
ness in Savannah.
What is a man going to do p asked Mr..
were discussing the ethics of inn-keepiug.
to s eSTn + his s'e IlSlna 4 &'e cl srTs as!"e you snf fno oTs
s Is in a loep ssffniiais Tor sisue ehHpch; he he's saR nG. &c &c
saying that cIereymen don't sometimes. go in
search OF q .parish-lve even heard OF them
sending their photographs around the coun-
try. I've written the Bishop asking II there
wasn't a church ! : without vii a rector t t r
this diocese Just in my condition. Since l left
st. Johns I've done some church work. preach;
ing here ere and thsrs' a gear ago e i9 Yan winter s t
Johns Church"
From some OF the summer hotels along the
and sDdt the MAI LareR Rm ei resorts have often fieured
In these tales. The clerical host at the Mitch,
ell House means to keep his hotel above sus.
This is the aristocratic hotel Of Larchmont,
to run q Sunday school here; I'm in the hote.
am going to run this hote+to please my guests
This ought to be. a good season.. for. it's going
to be a great yachting year-the Defender and
know. They launch the Columbia on June q
and she'l be around in the harbor here soon
Pacing up and down the broad veranda Of
the rambling old hotel last evening, gazing of
across the darkening Sound. Mr.. Hipkins ap.
pcared as contented with life as any man could
what more could one ask than to have the
privilege Of spending, the rest Of ones days In
fnds peace and c~ontentment. and who can say
that !. a clergyman. a priest OF the Church
have not the same right as any other man &c
come here and earn my living