The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-01-06

was after office hours and the ques- ton was to find a lawyer qualified to draw up lease for this particular kind of matrimonial craft. All other sources having failed. application to the sll- night law company brought the desired result. At the hour of a. nN the lease was signed, sealed and delivered, and at the bridegroom steamed away up the Hudson apparently blissfully un- conscious of the fact that a railroad runs so close along the edge of the river that sometimes 1t falls in.
 District Attorney Jerome has prov ed a distinct and bitter disappoint- ment in the insurance cases, and no one admits 1t more readily now than George W. Perkins, of the firm of J. P. Morgan and Company, and ex- Secretary of the Treasury Charles 8. Fairchild. the two gentlemen who have just been indicted by the grand jury for forgery in the third degree in con- nection with certain dummy sales of stock. When 1t happened, the elec- ton of trustees was allovcr but count Ing the ballots, and even that had been satisfactorily arranged for by means of those convenient card index systems which are either elaborately simple or simply elaborate according to the ends it is intended to serve, and equally capable of proving any thing either way There were 100000 of those ballots; they had $cost some one dollar apiece to collect, to say nothing of the incidental expense of inducing policyholders to see the mat ter in the right light and it would never do, so the officials said, merely 10 count them and abide by the re- suit. First the ballots must be sorted and arranged geographically. Then they must be counted but simply to ascertain the total vote cast. After that the cards, each having forty-three separate and distinct entries for each ballot, exclusive of the signatures of the inspectors, would come into play. This meant something over 15,QO0,000 entries before the actual count and tabulation of votes could begin. Four years, the officials said sadly, would probably be required to complete the work; but, they added more cheerful ly, remembering that if few moro years were necessary. the matter would probably be heavily in favor of the presentadministratio anyhow. Then the blow fell. There Is no question that Mir. Jerome wa sto blame. The grand jury itself said that it would not have indicted had he not so stren- | uously insisted upon it. The charges | upon which the indictment was based
 
 statute of Limitations in another five days. As 1t Is 1907 promises addi- | tional trouble for the insurance mag nate whose fife for the past two years has been a strenuous one.
 The rapid change In the character of the population of NewiYor has led the authorities of the Episcopal Chur-h | in this diocese to adopt significant departure in enlarging the scope of ! It's work The new plan is one that | has been carefully studied by Bishop l Potter for some time and provides for conducting the services of the Church In every language spoken by any con- l siderable number of people in the city. ] It is pointed out that New York has the most polyglot population of any 1 great city of the world, not excepting | Cairo, including 100 900 Italians, TOO, l GOO Jews and 3o,0OO Armenians to mem | ton oTiY three of the many nationali- I ties, and that the church at present makes no adequate provision for reach l ing these elements of the population.
 The work among the foreign speaking l population is intended to be not so dis | tinctiy missionary work as to provide | means of bringing religious services within the reach of those who do not ] speak Englsh, and who otherwise would | be deprived of the facilities of tho church. Bishop Potter announces that | he has recently licensed man 10 ! preach in the Yiddish dialect. and tha' | he has fin view the appointment of | others tO conduct services in various ! other languages. Among other de- partures he suggests that German ser vices he held in Old Trinity Church if
 necessary, and points out the appro | priateness of this step on the part of 1 the church as symbolized by the chap | el of the Seven Tongues in connection | with the Cathedral of St. John the Di-