The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-11-17
Made Valiant Fight Against Wealthy Trinity Church
 Corporation in New York
Rev. Father Gomph, the Leader of Opposition, to Plan to Discontinue Chap ell in Furtherance of Al legged Plan to Build Tene- ments In Its Place-As- sumes Duties on Sunday

Rev. Charles Lewis Gomph. the
 young Episcopalian clergyman who as
 vicar of Corporations St. Johns Chap eI in New York city made a hold and, determined effort to thwart the plans of the Corporation to discontinue the chapel, is to celebrate his first mass as rector of Trinity Church this city.
 Sunday morning. Father Gomph has accepted the call to the rectorate of the local church. A young man Of determination. vigorous policies and much scholarly attainment, he is ex- pected to prove notable addition to the ranks of the local clergy
 Father Gomph. comes as the success sor of the Rev. Father William B. Stoskopf, whose final act as rector of the church will be his celebration of the mass Thursday morning at 9
 o'clock A fellow student of Father Stoskopf in Amherst, 1900 he entered the General Theological Seminary. with Father Stoskopf and completed lhis
 theological training in the class of 1903. Shortly after being graduated he was I.assigned to the vicarship of St Johns chapel -----.
 Maintained under the auspices of the
 Trinity Church corporation. this chapel
 a few months ago was deemed by sew eral of the influential members of the
 corporation to be unwisely located for
 a continuance in church work. and plans were inauguarted for the discs
 tablishment of the branch
 ] Just about this time. Trinity Church Corporation was under fire. it being set forth by writers and playwrights that the organization was maintaining a number of sordid tenement houses, lthe laws of the state. ''The Handwrit- ing on the Wall'' played by Olga Meth | ersole directed the public gaze to the
 condition of Trinity Church Corpora ~fr,e- rrrf nf this agitation came the claim that the proposed abandonment of St. Johns Chapel was merely stepping stone towards another big realty project of the corporation
 Il Father Gomph at once stepped for ward as a champion of the cause of the chapel. and insisted upon Its main tenance. Disputes arose as to how the abandonment was to be effected. and i as to who should have the right tc decide upon the future of the chapel Members of the corporation maintain ed they had the sole voice. while the they had been maintaining the under
 taking and were entitled to pass upon Il the question of the proposed abandon
 ment of the enterprise
 At one time the agitation became SC } violent that the doors of the little chapel were barricaded against the would-be participants in the meetings at which the discussion was carried on. and all tnAs time ratner 5Ohnpl
 lretained his position. declaring for thS
 continuance of the chapel
 } At length the corporation vanquish, ed the valiant young clergyman. ana the church was only recently closed Father Gormph's predecessor in thi: 3 city. Father Stoskopf has been located
 in Bridgeport for about a year. sue . ceedinE the late Rev. Louis N. Booth He leaves to become rector of thu | Church of the Ascension. Chicago. Re eret at the forthcoming departure O. Father Stoskopf Is mingled with pleas
 ure at the success of the church 1T securing a young man of Father . Gomyih's ability.