New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-04-03
BOROUGH GOSSIP
Postoffce Changes Planned
Methodists TO Burn Mortgage.

4 big upheaVaI is now taking place in
the postofice- Z. ". VOORHEES,. the new
Postmaster, is busy changing the Office
system 10 suit himself. In 9 few days he
intends making a number of recommended
tons 10 the Postmaster General for local
improvements Mr. VOORHEES, considers
among his most important changes the re
vision Of the routes of more than one
thousand letter carriers. The revision will
enable each of the letter carriers TO save
fifteen minutes a day-250 hours-which the
men zin be able 10 use for sorting mali
and taking care of details that have proved
troublesome in the past. Further. the saw
sng makes il possible TO send more men 10
districts that have been neglected. In sort
ing the mail each man is expected 20
handle on an average of sixteen pieces of
mail minute. The extra time allows each
man 10 sort $40 pieces more than he other
wise would have 10 handle. If the plans
gre found TO work well in Brooklyn. IL is
said. they VIII be adopted in other cities.
Only HYMNS composed by Brooklynites
VIII be sung at the coming Anniversary
Dav celebration by the Sunday schools
under the control Of the Brooklyn Sunday
School Union The hymns were distributed
% the churches last week Six different
ones have been selected for the celebration.
They We're composed especially for the oc-
casion by Samuel A. Baldwin. organist OF
the Church OF the Holy Trinity; John
HYATT Brewer oreanist of the Lafayette
Avenue Presbyterian Church; g Waring
stehhirs. organist Of the Emmanuel Bap-
fist Church: r. Huntington Noodman. or
eanist Of the First Presbyterian Church;
Dr. Frank z. A Stoney and Charles o
Beck. The coming Anniversary Day will
be the eighty-first celebrated by the Brook
1,1 churches. AS a special honor TO Fanny
Crosby. who recently has celebrated her
ninetieth birthday, all the primary depart
rnenis Of the Sunday schools VIII sing her
song. Our Anniversary Day" She wrote
the words in 1888. The music is by DR..
Stoney.
4 memorial window TO Henry Chadwick.
the Father Of Baseball was unveiled
after the morning services last Sunday at
The Church OF Our Father, Grand avenue
and Lefferts Place. The funds for the
window were raised by a committee headed
bv Charles II. Ebbets, president of the
Brooklyn Baseball Club. Mr.. Ebbets was
personally thanked At the service for his
efforts The services at the unwilling were
conducted by the Rev. Thomas E. Potter
ION Tastor Of the church Money for the
window was contributed by a large number
Of persons. only small sums were &C
sersted from each as the committee wished
80 make The tribute as general as possible.
The window is 2 reproduction Of Holman
Hunts painting, The Light Of the World
An inscription on the window reads:
Father OF Baseball by His Friends
The efforts Of the members of The Fourth
Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church, ex-
tending over the past decade. 10 clear their
building Of debt eliminated a few evenings
ago il the burning OF the mortgage for
S2eGga Through the campaign OF the Rev
Dr.. A Z. Burnes. the pastor, S5,4o9 OF the
amount was raised in three years. The
meeting al which the movement began was
held IN 1850 Controller Bird S Coler pre-
sided and contributed $3.50. Since then the
church has had three ministers. The two
who preceded Dr. Burnes We're the Rev.
Robert Jones and the Rev. John RiDpere-
At the meeting az which the mortgage was
burned the members bade farewell TO DR..
FSt5rnes who goes 10 Danbury. Conn His
successor VIII be the Rev. Arthur J. Smith,
Of Danbury Dr. Burnes's new church is
the largest Connecticut church in the New
York East Conference. The Fourth Ave
nue. Methodist Church was established in
1876 and has a membership OF 1,250. with a
Sunday school membership of l750. Its
church property is valued at $4,000. The
church building seats 7o0 persons. and the
Sunday school 750-
Miss Beatrice HEREFORD VIII give four
nonologues in the music hall of the Acad-
envy OF Music. under the auspices of the
BROOKLYN Institute Of Arts and Sciences, on
"Wednesday evening. Her topics are: The
Only Child a Cockney Lady The Tale
of the Train and The Country Store"
Frederick Nonsen will lecture in the hall
on Saturday evening on The Great South
west The lecture VIII be illustrated.