New-York tribune., 1907-01-17
TRTNITYS FINANCES.
Disposition of the Income Of a Great
City Church.
To the Editor OF The Tribune.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: Last night The Evening World" in its
leading editorial. headed Rescue Trinity" asks
What becomes OF all Trinity Corporations in
come? It's rents amount to over 100000 year
According TO the last diocesan annual report all
the money 1t paid out for charitable or religious
purposes was s1sOss1 II. and OF this $40 POI 81
was voluntary collections, leaving only S10!,
$40 10 chargeable to it's great income.
Where does tho other half million dollars Of
annual income go?"
These figures evidently taken from page p
NJ THE Year Book for 1906" where the items
are given Under the head OF appropriations
for parish objects. etc, by the vestry amount
ing to S70.19s Al, find the items are: Pa
rochal schools. night schools, industrial schools
cooking and laundry schools, manual training
schools Trinity Hospital for the sick poor. for
beds in St Lukes and st. Mary's hospitals and
in the House Of the Holy Comforter. for German
mission work in the parish. for Sunday school
festivals. for aims the poor. medical services
for the poor and funerals and burals OF the
DOOR Besides these appropriations the vestry
appropriated for purposes outside the parish
| $31. .4S1 10.
The collections and contributions throughout
the parish are stated TO have been SI9,2Ol e.
AS a. member of one OF the chapels in the parish
7 know that all these collections and contribu-
tions were for charitable and religious pur-
poses.
The World" asks: Where does the other
half million dollars of annual income go?" This
assumes that the total income of the parish must
be at least a million dollars. Yet, just before
this THE World" claims that the rents amount
to over 100000 year. What other income it
has over it's rents / cannot imagine.
Not single dollar is allowed in the article
anywhere for the maintenance of the different
churches In the parish.
! Trinity Parish consists Of the parish church at
the head Of Wall street and eight so-called
chapels all of which. with a single exception
are maintained s first class churches
! Connected with these churches are over twen-
ty-hve cergymen. with large number of paid
lay assistants.
What must be the total expense Of maintain
ing these nine churches, including salaries, care
and preservation of buildings heating, lighting.
| etc?
| Add to this the care and maintenance of Trim
/ ltv Cemetery Amsterdam avenue and 155th
street practically closed for burials and nom
productive OF income? This cemetery now is
really a public park open to every one in the
vicinity.
prominent church In this city, not in Trim
! ity Parish, pays for its music S25,OO a year
| So 600 being paid to the organist There are
! other churches not in Trinity Parish, that make
much larger appropriations for their music
How much more. then, must it cost not only to
keep up the music really subordinate item,
! but to maintain in addition the numerous clergy.
the large number of their lay assistants, the sex
tons and their workers and the buildings them
selves of the nine separate churches Of Trinity
Parish?
All these expenses. and their aggregate must
be very large. entirely ignored by The
World" n. o. NJ.
| New York, Jan 15 1907