New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-09-21
TO FIGHT VICE AND CRIME.
WORK UNDERTAKEN BY THE REV. MR..
PADDOCK, RECTOR OF CHURCH
OF THE HOLY APOSTLES, IN
DENERYS DISTRICT.
DEVERY'S DISTRICT.

The recent fight in the IXth Assembly Dis
trict for Democratic leadership has resulted in a
victory for Devery and the consequent disgrace
Of the neghborhood. Sheehan and his fol-
lowers were no match for the exChief of
Police and his money. But if Devery thinks his
bpponents in the IXth District now senced
Ne is mistaken. There is one potent influence in
that part of the city which cannot be discour-
need by the temporary triumph of evil and that
influence is ably represented there by the Rev
Robert Lewis Paddock, rector of the Church of
the Holy Apostles who has already warned the
voters Of the IXth against that distorted ideal
OF citizenship which pevery represents, and will
not fail to do all he can to nculcate its exact
opposite upon all who come under his ministra-
TONS
Mr. Paddock would be recognized by any good
Judge of men who him as hard man to
fight and not because he is a powerfully built
man or because he looks fierce and bloodthlrsty,
because he is neither big nor fierce. He is
small man. firmly and sody built, whose walk
and every movement show that he has had ath-
letic training No one would be surprised TO
hear that the young rector was crack football
player at college, for he looks the part His
face bears the lines of firmness and determine
ton and his whole manner invites confidence
and respect.
This is the young who came from the
Protestant Episcopal Pro-Cathedral, in Stanton
ST. where he had labored successfully for three
years, to the old Church Of the Holy Apostles, in
Ninth-ave. and Twenty -eighth-st., to help re-
store its usefulness and make it power for
good in neighborhood which requires such
influence to counteract that of the barroom and
the street corner. AS vicar of the Pro-Cathe-
dral, Mr.. Paddock lad the management of about
fifty organizations. These were clubs, classes,
schools, guilds, etc, and the work done in these
had a highly beneficial effect on the neighbor
hood. While attending TO the spiritual wants
of the district, he kept in mind his duty to the
city, and inculcated the spirit of municipal
purity among his followers. He was a prime
factor in the the red light" district and
it only natural that his advent in the Devery
region should be looked upon with alarm by the
people whose altar is the pump" and whose
idea Of earthly bliss is being in it, at a Devery
free beer outing.
The Church of the Holy Apostles founded
in 1886 at time when Twenty-first-st
known as Lovers Lane. The organization was
not a church at the start, but Sunday school,
which held it's sessions in the Twelfth Ward
Hotel at Eighth-ave. and Thirty seventh-st.
The school had various homes until 1887, when
a lot was leased for ten years in the name of
John Smith, who the only one of the found
ers who of age, and upon this lot, in Thirty
seventh-st. between Eighth and Ninth aves a
building ID feet by 80 feet erected at cost
Of $3.50. All the money needed for the building
was contributed by the teachers and their
friends.
In 1874 q church organization was effected
by the election Of Wardens and vestrymen. John