The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-06-06

the Bowery and Second avenue, com
manding the work of the densely
crowded lower East Side; St. Cor.
nelius' Chapel, on Governors Island
the most ideally situated of all the
churches the imposing St. Agnes
on Ninety-Second street, near Co1um-
bus avenue; and St. Luke's Chapel
on Hudson street.
THE WORK OF THE GREAT PARISH.
The activities of these chapels are
] varied. All of them have the regu-
lation pursuits, the mothers meet.
ings, the district visitors, the kinder.
gartens, the sewing classes, and the
like. In addition, each of them has
its own particular work in the world.
St. Pauls devotes a good deal of at
tention to seamen, in spite Of the fact
that Trinity Parish is one of the large
donors to the Seamen's Mission. The
old chapel is also the official place of
worship for the New York Chapter of
the Sons of the Revolution, an ap-
propriate choice when one remembers
that here Washington often came for
services, that here pew was reserved
for him, and that here his coat of arms
is still displayed.
In connection with St. Johns, in
Varick street, Trinity Hospital is run,
although it is an activity of the
parish in general and not of the
chapel itself. Last year it treated
two hundred and twenty-eight pa
tients. At ST. Johns there is also
a cooking school, one of those estab-
lished under the Eggleston Trust.
This bequest, by the way, made to
Trinity two years ago, has greatly
increased its practical philanthropies.
The house of Professor Thomas Eg-
gleston, on the west side of Washing
ton Square, included in the inherit
ance, has been fitted up for the work
for which he designed the fund. Here
are manual training school in which
carpentry, sloyd, joinery, and kindred
subjects, are taught. Here are
school for work in iron and leather, a
drawing school, and a school of ste
biography. Here, too, are cooking
and laundry classes. At St. Angus
tines Chapel, cooking, laundry, and
general domestic work classes have
all been established under the terms
of Professor Eggleston' will.
TWO CENTURIES OF TRINITY's HIS
TORY.
In Trinity Chapel hang the por-
traits of all the rectors from the Rev.
Compton to the Rev. DR.. Dix. To
DR.. Vesey, who was the rector for
nearly fifty years-from 1907 to 1746
the early prosperity of the church
is largely due. His salary was one
hundred pounds a year. Under him
the congregation grew rapidly, and in
1920 the church was enlarged. A
description of it written in 1887 de-
scribes it thus:
1t stands very pleasantly on the banks of Hud-
sons river, and has large cemetery on the east
the town.
1t was during DR.. Vesey' rule that
Trinity received the grant that was
the source of its great wealth. In
1905 a tract of land known as the
Queens Farm was made over to the
church corporation. 1t extended from
St. Paul's Chapel to Skinner Row,
now more pompously known as Chris
topher street. 1t was considered of
no great value, and was described as
"a wild marshy spot of no inconsider-
able extent, surrounded with bushes
and bulrushes, which in winter is a
favorite place for skaters, and at GER
tain seasons for gunners.
For long time this property yield
ed no income whatever. The first
mention of it as a source Of revenue
was in 1850, when it was rented to
one Adam Vanderburgh for two hun
dred dollars year, he promising to
cut no timber or wood off the farm,
and to leave on it one thousand one
hundred and ninety panels of suffi-
cient fence.
AS the growth of the city made the
immense value of the tract apparent,
Trinity was not ungenerous with it.
Most of it has been given away.
Columbia, Trinity School, st. Georges S
Church, St. Mark and Grace Church
all received considerable slices of it.
Even some of the Presbyterian
churches had gifts.
For eighteen years after DIR. We
sey's death DR.. Barclay was the rector
of Trinity. He was followed by the
Rev. Samuel Auchmuty, man of
Scotch parentage, born in Boston and
graduated from Harvard.
During the Revolution, Trinity was
not popular with good citizens. It's
connection with England was too in
innate, and the sympathies of its
clergymen were too widely known to
be Tory. During the occupation OF
New York by the Revolutionary
troops the church was closed, but
when the British captured the city, it
opened again, the Rev. Mr.. Inglis,
one of DIR. Auchmuty's assistants,
conducting services.
After the Revolution, in 1884, the
Rev. Samuel Provost was elected
the first rector under the new regime.
DR.. Moore succeeded DR.. Provost in
1900, and was followed in 1916 by
the Rev. John Henry Hobart. He
remained rector until 1890, when the
Rev. William Berrian followed him
Since DR.. Berrian's death, in 1862,
the Rev. DIR. Morgan Dix has beer
at the head of Trinity.
No history of Trinity is complete
without the story of Anneke Jams
She was Dutchwoman who died il
1868. To her and her husband, one
Bogardus, the Dutch colonial govern,
ment gave a tract of land west o.
Broadway. When Anneke died, the
Dutch governor resumed possession O
the grant, although there were heirs
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