The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-20
UCHlDA GOES TO THE POLICE
ABOUT TIE REV. r. ". CLARk'S
JAPANESE ORPHANS FUND.
Mr.. Clark Goes Ont OF Town. Process
Servers Seek Him in Two civil Suits
and ThereIl He No Academy OF Music
Bcnent July 10 Comm teemen quit.

The very great activity shown within the
past six months by the Rev. +. Warren
Clark, an Episcopal clergyman, in soliciting
| subscriptions from Japanese and others in
this town for the relief Of orphans in Japan
has been made the subject Of complaint
to Police Commissioner McAdoo by the
Japanese Consul-(ieneral here.
Mr.. Uchida made q personal call on Mr.
McAdoo and told him that many Japanese
had been receiving letters from the clergy
man, and that they had bought tickets for
a benefit performance and had also given
subscriptions to fund known as the
Japanese Orphans Fund. Nobody besides
Mr.. Clark knows anything about this fund.
MIR. Clark started 1t and his letterheads
describe him az the treasurer. When II
became known recently that Mr.. Clark was
peddling boxes for a benefit performance
to be held at the Academy OF Music on
July 20 to aid his fund, in connection with
| Mortimer Kaphan, theatrical agent, OF
1881 Broadway, Mr.. Uchida went to the
police. Mr.. McAdoo has turned the matter
over to detectives.
Mr. Clark with his bag age departed last
Sunday light from his boarding house Mt
II West Eighty-fourth street. Process
servers are now seeking him in two suits,
one begun by Mr.. Kaphan. who says that
as a result OF his dealings with the clergy
man he is out $500, and the other a suit
brought by Eugene H. Tower Of 1888 Broad
wy. Mr.. Tower wants 5000 for printing
some of the cir, ulars TIE clergyman has
been sending out for months past regarding
his Japanese Orphan Relief Fund and also
for printing several thousand copies of his
book 4Katz Ava" This book has been
selling at rs cents, Mr. Clark telling every
one that the pro eeds were for the fund.
Failing to find the cler y man, Mr.. Tow
er's lawyer, Edwin G. Harvey Of 200 Broad
way, attached yester lay an account said
to be several thousan doll rs which he
found standing in Clarks name at the
Mon Exchange Bank at 1872 Fifth avenue.
Mr.. Clark's circulars had announced that
the fund was being deposited there to the
credit of the -Japaness Orphans Relief
Fund" and not in his own ame, but the
lawyers did not find that deposit
In the meantime, it Is annou ICED that
the benefit performance scheduled for the
afternoon and evening OF the 10Th at the
Academy will not be given on that date
This Is because memLers Of the financial
and auditing committee have withdrawn
the use Of cir names. They were ad-
vised t this by r. Uchida
There was fund started last fall here
known as the Japanese Relief Fund. Seth
Low was the chairman. The starting Of
this fund appears to have also marked
the debut here Of the Rev. Mr.. Clark. MIR.
Clark claimed the credit for starting it.
Benjamin F. Buck, a publisher, Of 100 Fifth
avenue, the secretary of the committee,
said yesterday:
This fund was started through per-
sonal request made by Bishop Harris, that
/ get up something Of the kind. l tele-
phoned to DIR. Charles Cuthbert Hall, and
as a result committee was formed, which
had its first meeting in DR.. Halls study
at the Union Theological Seminary.
AT this meeting said Mr.. Buck, 4this
man Clark walked In. He knew DR.. Har-
ris, l think, but that was all. He talked
a great deal, but it was rather hard at
meeting Of gentlemen to ask such man,
especially clergyman, to leave. He
asked to be made secretary. No attention
was paid to him. We afterward had copies
Of the signatures OF members OF the COM
mittee made to affix to u circular MIR.
Clark came into my Office one day, took
these signatures away with him and had
them affixed to circular he had prepared
for his Japanese Orphan Fund. When
we heard OF this we made him return the
signatures and the plates, but he had had
thousands Of circulars printed, using the
names of our committee as members Of
committee which he stated had cha rye Of
his fund"
Mr.. Buck said that the fund Of which
Mr.. Low was chairman was closed up last
Nav. The Franklin Trust Company was
treasurer, and OF $27 900 raised, all but
a few hundred dollars has been sent to
japan. One Of the reasons why the fund
was closed was the confusion created by
the activity of Mr.. Clark. The circulars
bore the same names, except that on Clark's
he. instead Of the trust company, appeared
as treasurer.
Something about this got into the papers
about month ago. Kaphan, the theatrical
agent, according to his story, saw chance
to make money, at the same time aiding
worthy cause, and wrote to the Rev. MIR.
Clark suggesting that big benefit per-
Torrance be given here. According to
the theatrical man, Clark appeared next
day, took hold at once and said that he would
sell the boxes.
He said tnat ne was f1end OF the !
Mikados," said Haphan. II Japs look |
upon me as the greatest an in A erica,
he said few DAYS later he told me that
the Mikado had cabed him telling him to
thank me for what was doing.
He said that Baron Kaneko would surely
help us. One day insisted that we go and
nee the Baron. We went to the hotel, but
all we saw was his secretary. He didn't
know Mr.. Clark, and in response to his card
the Baron sent down word that he wasn't
feeling we'll. Clark said he had money,
but couldn't touch 1t because 1t was trust
fund. l had to put up $500 to secure the
Academy and then kept advancing Clark
money from time to time for his living ex-
penses / insisted that y Office should
be the headquarters where money should
be sent. Clark agreei, but few days
later / saw that he had had other letter.
heads made bearing his name as treasurer
and his address,.
Kaphan said he had secured Mr., Imanishi
to serve on the benefit committee and that
Clark had secured Takamine Japanese