Martinsburg statesman. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1869-1906, 1905-04-14
MODEL INN IS DEFENDED.
Bishop Potter Says He Is Glad
He Dedicated II.
POINTS THE RIGHT WAY
The Most Divine Of Men Came to Give
Us the Right Way--SeIf Control.
Says Barnum Was Good Disciple
Praises Tavern's Work in Re-
cent Address in New YORK.

Says Barnum Was Good Disciple
Praises Tavern's Work in a Re-
cent Address in New YORK.
At the seventh reunion of the En-
tertainmeut Club held at the Waldorf
Astoria Hotel, New York, Bishop Pot
ter yaid in part:
when Mrs Roswell D. Hitchcock
asked me to address you on the Sub
way Tavern l pointed out to her that
my knowledge was limited, as | had
been there only once, and then on the
occasion of it's opening. Since then
have received all manner of COM
munications from opponents of praet-
cal temperance work. most of them
saying that | have given countenance
to the tavern because / am making
money out of il. IL is a curious thing
that ideas in the abstract are less in
teresting that the contemplation of
facts.
Il grieve that the public took the
charges against me with equanimity
and did not aid in the practical work.
In the accusations much was said on
fundamental questions that were not
understood. 1t was held sacrilegious
that we sang the long metre Doxology
at the end of the exercises opening
the tavern. wish they could remem-
Der the text When there shall be holi-
ness in the bells of horses They
might take it that this means that
sleighbells preach dolorous sermons.
Study of the problems of intem-
perance shows 1t is the underlying
cause of the mischiefs, degradations,
and decisions substantially the same
iE the various countries.
Nevertheless. the most conspicu-
Gus note is the eonvivial note. Shall
/ shock you by saying that the con-
vivial note is in our physical and men
tai constitution because God put 1t
there. Remember. And the streets of
the city shall be full of boys and girls
playing there.
THE intercourse of recreation is the
proper and healthy part of life.
"Barnum. the Snowman, and Bishop
Cox were great friends ana often to-
gether. When the Bishop once said
to Barnum, 'Good-by,' adding that he
might never see him again except in
Heaven, Barnum, assured of himself,
remarked that he would be there If
the Bishop arrived. Barnum, with his
circus, rendered a service to society
emitting him to some reward. He en-
tertained those whose lives were hard,
SO that the farmer and his hands
could. with their women and children,
go to the circus when he came and
forgot their sorrows and their toll.
Have you thought of the conditions
in which you and / live and those of
our brothers and sisters? Have you
ever been in a New York tenement?
The day before | attended the opening
OF the Subway Tavern | was on my
way down Twenty-siXth street when
saw the tenement people literally
leaning out of every window Tor air on
a torrid day l thought of the
TiyoIi Garden in Copenhagen, where
you could see the workingmen and
their families, together with the more
fortunate, slipping their beer and eat
ing their lunches In peaceful COM
munity, and so was ready for my place
in the opening of the Subway Tavern.
Il am proud that live in New York
and not in Boston. but | am ashamed
that we have no gardens like those of
Copenhagen. But. with the Subway
Tavern we have begun in the right
way with place where a man can
drink like an honest man. and not of
adulterated liquor"
The Bishop told the story of a friend
WHO visited a country home. The
mother of the family said that for the
sake of her boy there would be no
wine on the table. and offered him d
drink of brandy The father Of the
family offered him a drink of whiskey,
and the son invited him to the barn
for a glass Of gin. Continuing, he said:
"The New Testament never mention
ed law-making as remedial for the
sins of man. The most Divine of men
came to give us the right way-self-
control"