The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-12
Society" and the Sab

'FasulOHaUie SocAetS" ana inc SNo-
bath.
March 12.-speaking for the affirmative in
debate the resolution, :'Should the sa-
looms be opened in New York city?' before
the Nineteenth Century club in Sherry's, last
night, Rev. DR.. William S. Rainsford attacked
the demoralizing influence Of fashionable So
ciety as exerted against day Of rest, and
blamed the churches in general for attempting
to force men to change their views on what
is good and right when their mission is to
lead them by suasion.
There are two classes Of sinners against
the rest day, and those who run saloons and
those who frequent them are not the most
blameable,'.' he said. u say most emphat-
icaly that the chief sinners are the growing
class in our city, who deliberately, mex
cusably and fauntingly disregard Sunday
They are the people who are always seeking
to be in the public eye, who force themselves
into the newspapers. who fairly insist on hav-
ing reporters chronicle their entertainments,
who are even willing to pay their way into
the newspapers.
.'This class goes to dinners, musicals, the
theater and opera six days in the week, and
on Sunday must have extra elaborate dinners,
more people to be entertained at their houses,
more extravagant in music, and any costly
diversion their whims can invent.
I'm all this saloon agitation, the poor are
TALLY that favors the rich. 1t is a vital ques-
ton to the people living east of Third avenue
and west of Seventh, that you and can go
on Sunday to the University, the Players,
the Century or the Union club. and order what
we want to eat and drink, while they are al
lowed to do nothing of the sort. This thing
cuts and rubs. If it is right to close the sa-
looms on Sunday, every club in New York
should go dry
The Amen Corner.
The amen Corner, the members of which
have for many years had their headquarters
at the Fifth Avenue hotel, was incorporated
yesterday. The particular object for which
the corporation is to be formed is the social
enjoyment of its members. The name OF
the proposed corporation is Amen Corner.
There are eleven directors, as follows: Ed
ward G. Riggs, Charles Steckler, Arthur
Greaves Luther b. Little, Charles E. Fur
llong Harold Anderson, Louis Sebold, Walter
| L. Hawley, Robert G.. DILL Jr., Charles P.
! Norcross and John aW. Mcdonald The
| .Amen Corner will give its annual dinner
at the Fifth Avenue hotel April 4, at which
Senator Thomas G. Plat will be the guest OF
! honor. p
| The Pope Appears in Drama.
Henrietta Croscan is to produce an histor-
| ical drama written by Rev. John Talbot
Smith, Catholic clergyman of this city II
| is fve-act. five-scene play, entitled "A
Baltimore Marriage, dealing with the
| troubled history of Elizabeth Patterson, the
| Baltimore girl who became the wife of Jerome
Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon T., in 1903,
| and whose marriage was .annuiled by Napo-
1 leon two years later
| The scene is laid in France and brings on
! the stage Napoleon, the pope, Cardinal Con-
1 salyi. his brother, the famous Fouche, min
| lister of police and Nine. Patterson Bona
parte Beside the fact that its author is
| Catholic priest, another unusual thing about
/ the MAY is the introduction of the pope as one
of the leading characters. This is the first
/ time the pope has appeared In the English
drama, it is said
The General Assembly.
i The general assembly of the Presbyterian
/ church will meet in the Fifth Avenue Presby.
terrain church. this city, in May. II Rev DR.
Purves. the pastor of this church. had lived
lit Is believed that he would have been elected
moderator It will be remembered that ht
was the favorite Of many for that position
| at the last assembly. but was defeated BY
! Rev. DR.. Minton of San Francisco. The sud
/ den death of Dr. Puryes prevented his obtain
ling this highest distinction in the Presbyte
j rian church. He has been succeeded as pastor
| of the Fifth Avenue church by Rev. j. Ross
Stevenson, D. D., who will have assumed