Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-13

church disputes. IKE disputes Of ordinary
vintage. have AZ least two sides. SO much
In claimed for the causes leading up to
the resignation Of Rev. Charles r. Aked,
tho Liverpool preacher imported four years
ago and given charge Of the Fifth Avenue
Baptist church a. a salary Of $4,000 a
year. Recent dispatches carried DR..
Aked's reasons for tearing himself away
from New York and transferring his field
o. activity 20 san Francisco. The other
side Of the painful separation Is put for
ward by John p. Elder. a deacon, IN the
Sew York Tribune. The deacon says the
church now seats so persons Or. Aked
considers himself an orator and wants TO
talk 20 200o, and would rather have 500
church With that capacity could have
been erected on the Past Side or the West
Side, but the doctor did not want church
there. lie wanted II on Fifth avenue. on
corner lot and not above Fifty-ninth
street This would have cost, Mr. Elder
says, t2O0o.O0o but a lot Of hard-headed
citizens on the board OF trustees" thought
this was too large a sum 70 invest in one
man, particularly a man who has beso
sick three times in the four years he has
been In this country. First. there was fear
he was oOnsumptlve and he had to 90 to
the Swiss mountains. Then he had gall
stones and last year typhoid and, anyway,
! says Deacon Elder. 10 the church was
built they had no assurance that he would
be satisfied.
So much for the pastor Now, for the
congregation. Many OF the members are
attached 70 the present church and site,
which is too small for DR.. Aked's great
enterprises. They are not sure, says Dea-
con Elder that they want "a large audi
forum filled with rambling religious rub
bernecks, and that's about what 1t means
to have a great church and pulpit orator,
Young men bring their girls TO hear pop
ular preacher one sunday and go to a mov-
| ing picture show the next"
| The trustees were willing to invest 81 CO.,
900 IN q new church. but we're unable to
meet DR.. Aksd's specifications for that
sum, according to Mr.. Elder.
The contention that crime among chill
dren IL increasing seems to be dlsproyen,
so far as New York Is concerned. by the
current annual report Of the chlldren's
court, which states that each year shows
a falling off in the number OF Juvenile
dellnauents." These in 1910 numbered 9.f9l.
| 1000 fewer than IN 1909, and only 2.O8S-Z73
OF whom we're girls-were convicted. Cases
OF dlsorderly conduct showed the largest
decrease; burglary and larceny cases also
fell off materially. The clerk OF the court
suggests that the decrease IN arraignments
lie attributable largely 20 Mayor Gaynor's
order foFbidding foolish and unnecessary
arrests. Certain OF his statistics tend to
sustain that conclusion. The charge Of
| "dlBorderly conduct" for instance IS fire.
quently brought against a roguish boy who
/ k.a 80 h. - q
churlish policeman, and the ease with
which, in some communities. such boys
can be put into court has sometimes
wrought deplorable results.
Frank Helegretto. 80 years old. laboreT.
worked for twenty minutes with a com
| pound fracture Of the skull. and might
have continued working for several hours
had not a policeman. attracted by the
big cash In Heegretto's head, taken charge
OF him.
Helegretto was helping tear down a build
ing at 1857 Broadway. He was on the first
| floor. and a brick from the sixth floor
fell and struck him on the head For a
i minute he was dazed but wping the
blood from his head, muttered a few un-
pleasant remarks about the carelessness OF
some persons, and went back TO work A
at the wound and escorted Helegretto, pro-
testingiy, 20 the West Forty-seventh street
station. From there he was removed to
Flower hospital In a serious condition, &C
cording TO the doctor, but with mere
scratch according to Helegretto,
our church telephone II great help
In caring for the stranger within our
gates, said a minister quoted by the New
| YORK Sun. our regular pew holders are
urged TO call up the church and give notice
| N their pews are 20 be vacant and there
fore available for strangers. These tele-
phone messages begin coming In on Sat
urday, sometimes even on Friday. The
fashion OF weekend trips takes pew holders
away over Sunday more than was usual
several years ago, and as soon as It il
known that the family pew will not be
occupied on the following sunday our sex
ton IL advised by telephone and makes
proper record OF the fact, A stormy sun
day morning brings many telephone calls
Of vacant pews into which strangers can
be shown only ministers who are anxious
10 make the stranger welcome and ushers
who have had trouble In seating those who
are not pew holders can appreciate the
value Of this phase OF the church tele,
phone"
Al a fashionable New York restaurant,
whore women have the right 10 smoke and
where the privilege Is frequently exercised,
a young matron In a party Of four was
asked n she would lay aside her cigarette
and light a cigar She came from a part
OF the globe where 10 do so would be moth,
Ing unusual, but she had her doubts as 10
ia being considered proper here. She said,
! bpweyer IN tha man va IN mazda tho nrpn,,
stion; I'm do It II YOU light pipe" al
which proposal the man also baked The
head walter was called and asked what
would happen II the cigar and pipe bluffs