New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-03-16

done with the $4,000 While no action has been
taken by its trustees since none can well be till a
later date it is known that the West End Church.
Amsterdam avenue and 105th street, has plans OF
enlargement and would like 20 take I'm the Fourth
Avenue church. One OF the West End officials
said last week that more room needed II
cannot be had at the present location little
further north land may he acquired. He said:
We are like the man who went counting We
are sutton for the Fourth Avenue Church. II It
is 10 be sold and to remove somewhere We are
free 70 say II may well move here. We need more
room and a largr plant No. not afraid OF
being overshadowed by the Episcopal Cathedral
We have enough people Of our own and they will
not be drawn away by a dozen cathedrals. There
arc enough people between lO2d and iO6th Streets
the park and the river already identified with US
10 MI our church. That IS the trouble. We are
already filled. and need more space for develop
meut.
1T does not follow. though. that II the Fourth
avenue money came here we would use it all here
Our church has long wanted work on the East Side
We would take over Hope Chapel. in 4th street
Not only So but would undertake 20 build
with the cooperation OF the Fourth avenue people
two or three new churches In the suburbs in The
Bronx. where people wanting places 20 vvor-
ship II does not mean that the Presbyterian
church on Manhattan Island is failing or that con-
dluons are getting worse. Nor does II mean fewer
churches. The Presbyterian Church has not In
many years been in good condition as .
whole It IS to-day This is the general sentiment
IN the Preshytcry. We want combination and then
expansion IN regions where expansion means peo-
PIE Il is purely sentimental this staying in an old
iaS sacred about q site. We hope the Fourth avv-
nue. trustees Will see things do. X they do
There VIII be a tremendous advance in Presby-
terrain interests in Manhattan and The Bronx.
II was learned on inquiry that the Fourth
Church, West End avenue and 9lst street which
IS now without pastor. and Of which former
Lieutenant Governor ~. Linn Bruce is an elder
is also negotiating with the Fourth avenue people
and hoping for combination Their plans could
not be learned with CctlniteUess. that Il was
said they are much like those of the West End
people Interest Is SO keen in the project that
Prcsby tcrian leaders downtown are taking hand
They declare that the uptown movement must
cease. and that II the Fourth Avenue Church Is
TO be sold the money must be used anchor the
ola First Church. in Fifth avenue at 18TH street
schemes are proposed. one IS "A sale Of the sue
cessfui University Place Church ana It's combina-
ton with tGe Old First but nobody could be
found 10 say that X is taken seriously II was
said that some REIMBURSEMENT in lower Fifth ave-
must come. since business blocks are taking
churches must go where dwellings are found many
10 indorse H.
The Fourth Avenue Presbyterian Church dates
from 1875. when II was formed IN Blocker street
and for more than quarter Of "a century
called the Blocker Street Church. It's name was
changed when il its present site, in 1854
A former pastor the Rev. DR. Walter ID
buchanan The latter went there a few years ago
whom IL proposed 10 combine IL ana the Thir-
teenth Street Church The property has a wide
church but a chapel the lower part OF which is
leased for business purposes II used 10 have sew
eraI East Side chapels. but the number has now
been reduced TO one.