New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-09-14
C0ADJUT0R FOR BISHOP.
DR.. Greer Most Talked of-COnUen-
ton IN TzcO Weeks.

The Protestant Episcopal Diocesan Conven-
ton Of last year. meeting in Holy Trinity
Church in East Eighty-eighth-st.. appointed a
committee on the subject Of a bishop coadjutor.
and enlarged the committee on diocesan lines.
instructing the latter TO find out If a division
Of the diocese of New-York was desired. Bishop
Potter mentioned his willingness TO have an as
sistant. provided the diocese thought assistance
necessary and later on suggested in an open
letter the creation of Hudson River district,
whose bishop should give part Of his time to the
city. and who might have. to help out his salary
the free use Of a home soon to be built on the
grounds OF the Cathedral Of ST. John the
Divine to cost 100000.
The committee on the matter OF coadjutor
arrived at the decision last spring that assist
ance for Bishop Potter was needful and pro-
posed a special convention to elect a coadjutor.
To this proposition the standing committee OBJ
jected on legal grounds. and so the subject was
put over until the diocesan convention. to meet
two weeks hence in the Church OF the heavenly
Rest Fifth-ave and Forty-hfth-st- The COM
mittee on adjustment Of the diocesan lines can
vassed the members Of the convention OF last
wear. and learns it is stated. that large ma
ioritv are opposed to a division and opposed 10
the irregular plan suggested by Bshop FotIer-
II Is declared that the whole State OF New
York apart from Long Island ought 10 De
aligned anew and diOceses mapped out tna'
sbould have as see cities Poughkeepsie, Troy.
Utica and Rochester in addition to the present
sees of Brooklyn. New-York. Albany Syracuse
and Buffalo; that is. nine dioceses ms'edu VI
five All nresant divisions are too large. and
Oh Of the cities named. save perhaps Troy. have
clamored for the honor. The difticultles sur
ro,,ding sucb division are. however, so great
that they are regarded as hopeless, ana Coau
tutors seem to be the only plan OF IeHeL '''''
CA Attached to the diocese of New-York are the
rural districts of Westchester' Putnam -,Iiar
ess, Orange, Ulster. Rockland an, an srnad IL
counties and Staten Island. Inc last ndIlIVN, -
is admitted must remain with Mannaltdli' o1I
If was proposed by Bishop Potter thdt d IT,
district be formed from some or all OF the IE S
nT'rties Nv some members of the convention
II was also urged that The Bronx De mace .tle
see city; that the district be restrlcteu 70 VIC
east side of the Hudson. the Bishop OF the sdilio
10 receive part of his salary and give part OF MS
time to the parent district .. ,.t,t,
II Is this proposition that seems TO meet Wtsn
little favor although il was made IN the main
nv Bishop Potter. The rural districts want 70
remain attached to the city ana oecIaIe III
favor of a coadjutor. The electloll VI pisbon
coadiutor rests with the convention, Blsnop
Potter having no more TO do with IL thah the
granting of his consent to have such asslstdICe.
Bishop Potter's salary Is SII,OOO 9T ale oS g
Is thought likely he will relinquish haI1 oil II,
and that the salary of the coadJuIoF wiz Ce
made $4,000. the diocese making UP the pal
For years the rural parts Of the diocese have
complained of lack of supervision. me city
has they say, monopolized the time or blshop
Potter They and some city parts OF the lloCeoo
have frequently complained because the blshoP
went outside his church often to speak and 10
work leaving, as they charge, work neglected
which he is supposed to perform. RectoIS Oh
rural parishes see little OF their official superior
save as they see him in New-York- visits ne
pays to their parish churches are made on
schedule and often services are cut snort 10
enable the Bishop to make train connections
OF local problems he can know little. Rectors
and vestries of rural parishes solve their own
problems and for the most part work IN thelr
own way. Yet Bishop in the EplscopaI
Church in America works harder than does Ine
Bishop Of New-York -
The construction Of the Cathedral has been
the source of much anxiety to Bishop Potter
and in selecting q coadjutor for him 1t is need
ful to get a man who is in sympathy with the
project Not every EpiscOpalian in the diocese
is in sympathy with it. Not few. ana some OF
them prominent clergymen and laymen. regard
the whole project as medieval and great
waste of funds. So strong is the feeling IN THIS
direction that Bishop Potter has been unable
to raise funds rapidly as he expected 10. III
he gets an assistant he Will, II IS intimated
give more time to the Cathedral and TO the work
OF publicist.
In the selection Of coadjutor 1t seems to be
agreed that New-York will not look outside or
itself The only name seriously considered so
far as can be discovered is that OF the Rev
Dr. David H. Greer, rector OF St. Bartholomew
parish He has declined three or four elections
Including forbidding the of his name in
PENNSYLVANIA, where election was certain had
he not done So but ii is assumed on all sides
that he will accept New-York