The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-11

persons and things worth talking about
here, even now, when the municipal
campaign is at it's height.
Bishop Potter, lately relieved of
much of his work as head of the
New York diocese by the election of
coadjutor bishop. is one of the men
much under discussion whenevr and
wherever politics are forgotten for a
time.
The Bishop possesses a very grace
full, not to say smooth" address, and
he is as fastidious as any seventeenth
century beau in the matter of clothes,
yet he lacks neither mental strength
nor virility. Nor is he one of those
clergymen who neglect the poorer
members of the community, despite
his wealth, and the far greater wealth
OF his newly taken wife.
The pro-Cathedral was founded by
him some years ago in the heart of the
East Side" as a sort of diocesan
mission and u place where he could
get as close as a bishop possibly could
to the conditions existing among the
submerged tenth" There for sew
eral years the Bishop spent a good
part of each summer and there he
came in close personal contact with
the men and women whom he wished
to reach on behalf of the church.
1t was there that he formed certain
opinions and acquired certain views
the later expression of which caused
no end of comment among church
people generally.
The most radical of these views
was given to the public three or
four years ago, when he said that the
saloon was "a social necessity" that
it served as the poor mans club
and had its legitimate functions. There
was a great cutlery over this, but
though the Bishop modified his origi-
nal utterance somewhat, in the main
he stuck to his guns and made sew
eral public addresses in support of
his position
The Bishop stirred up things lot
about five years ago by denouncing
those clergymen who speak in the pull
pit without notes, saying that they
often made addresses which he char
acteriZed as generally commonplace
often ungrammatical and almost al
ways slovenly and careless. He was a
great friend of the late Roman Arch
bishop of New York. the Rt. Rev. Mi
chael A. Corrigan, during the life of
the latter, and has always been con-
spicuous even among the clergymen of
tIle GIOleSLdIlI EplSCOpdi CuuTCH DIS d.
thoroughly poised man of the world.
DR.. David H Greer. the bishop CO.
adjutor, who will have charge of the
city churches of the diocese in future,
has been a closer student of the toll
ing masses even than Bishop Potter.
AS rector of st. Bartholomew
Church, attended and supported by
Cornelius Vanderbilt and several other
nnpr1herS of that YInIilt i1liOO ire M
lily. DIR. Greer has had money enough
and to spare behind him to ena BILE
the carrying out of most liberal plans.
The Parish House of st. Bartholomew
Church, costing $685. 900, and exceed
ingly active among the wage earners
of the middle East Side, has been his
most notable enterprise, and has I'M
doubtedly exercised great influence in
that part of New York lying just east
of the Vanderbilt Grand Central Rail-
road station. It's activities have been
manifold, and its expenditures have ag-
gregated many thousands annually, its
paid employees have been more numer-
Gus than a company of soldiers, and
the regular attendance at its different
club meetings, classes of instruction
and religious services have equalled in
number a full brigade.
DIR. Greer has refused severay bish-
oprics outside of New York before now,
because, as he said, he could not think
of leaving the work of St. Bartholo-
news among the poorer classes, but
his acceptance Of the newly created
coadjutorship of the diocese will make
it necessary to give UP this work.
The announcement that Ada Rehan
is preparing to return TO the stage is
very welcome to a large number of
New Workers, yet it is more than
possible that this charming actress
rr-sII Al 10
quer the public anew when next she
treads the boards. She had not been
seen in public since the death, two
or three years ago, of her friend and
manager Augustin DAILY, and in that
time, short though 1t be. conditions
theatrical have changed most signifi-
cantly.
known outside of New York than
would have been the case had she
been less acceptable to the public here
Always sure of an appreciative and
profitable audience here, she was sell
dom seen in America outside the me-
tropolis. London. in fact, knows her
better than provincial" America, for
I she has been seen in the British me-
tropoTis oftener and for longer en-
gagements than in any other New
World city than this.
Ada Rehan was born Crehan and in
Ireland. The change Of her name was
due to a printer who so set up the
type of a poster as to make her name
read Ada c. Rehan. The error was
not discovered till after the posters
had been put up, and the accidental
name they displayed was liked so
much better than Crehan that she
forthwith dropped the &C. perma-
nently.
Ada Rehans star career has been
longer than that of any other Ameri-
can actress. save Fanny Davenport.
Her admirers hope she will be able to
lengthen it indefinitely.
The longer the municipal campaign
goes on the hotter it becomes, and
there isa't the slightest doubt that
all parties concerned will be nightly
relieved when election day terminates
all the turmoil
At this writing the outcome is more
uncertain, apparently, than the result
of a municipal election has been in
New York for several years, yet down
to a few days before the Tammany
nominating convention the chances
were believed to be very strongly in
favor OF Tammanys success, the exact
date OF the apparent change in prob
abilities being the day on which Dis
trict Attorney Jerome wrote his now
famous letter, telling why Mayor Low
ought not again to be the Standard
bearer of the anti-Tammany forces.
One of the most interesting figures
in the Democratic discussions that
preceded the Democratic nominating
convention Is Hugh McT an J,li,, az