New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-09-16
CHURCH AND RELIGIOUS NEWS NOTES
Episcopaans to Spend in Extension Work On Man.
haitian Island

Bishop Greer, Of New York, will return
from Maine next week and will at once
enter upon a campaign for Church extern
sion. The magnitude of his tasks Is indi-
Gated by the fact that 100000 will go
into new Episcopal Church ventures on
Manhattan Island alone within the next
year or two. And this large sum Is exclu-
sive OF regular work upon construction OF
The Cathedral of St John the Divine. The
bishops new plans involve, however. ex-
tension Of the Episcopal Church on Staten
Island. in The Bronx and in Westchester
County because OF this rapid growth Of the
city in all Of those directions. A new So
clety to have charge Of the plans under
Bishop Greer, will be incorporated imme-
diately upon his return.
In former years there has been agitation
Just previous to annual conventions Of
division of the Diocese Of New York, cut
ting OF the Hudson River counties and
making a new diocese. All that is now
ended. and this year a committee will re-
port new plan OF general work. The COM
nittee was named last year. with Bishop
Burch as chairman. II Is understood thar
efforts will be made to improve the bust
ness methods of the diocese and II Is stated
on all sides that there is much need for IT,
With the bishops approval, laymen are as
sisting him In some OF these business plans.
new plan 10 be launched as part or the
extension work will be the erection on the
cathedral grounds OF 4 synod hall, TO cost
$3.50. 900 10 100000. It's location will be
the northeast corner Of the grounds, 'front.'
ing Morningside avenue. and sharing in the
prospect that overlooks Harlem. The I'M
mediate need for starting the project now
Is the meeting in New York two years
from now Of the Episcopal General Conven-
ton. New York does not afford, either
within or without the Episcopal Church, a
suitable building for such convention, such
for example as Music Hail. Cincinnati,
where the convention met a year ago. The
crly thing to 90 Is TO erect one.
The diocese being in need Of such hall
for its own purposes, the plan is to set
about erecting It now. II Is stated that
Bishop Greer will make known the plans
concerning It in his formal address this
year. but il is already known that 1t will
contain two halls. ample committee and
banquet rooms, and being built in perma-
other buildings on the Cathedral grounds,
II will be an ornament as we'll as a con-
venience. In II will meet public gatherings
of all sorts. including the annual conven-
ton. The present synod hall, a former
orphan asylum. will be torn down to make
room for the south transept Of the cathe-
Gral.
The largest single Episcopal advance on
Manhattan Island is the erection OF ST
Ihomass church in Fifth avenue. at q
cost of $1,000. 900. The new Intercession
Chapel on Washington Heights will cost
s500.0 Further north new Holyrood
Church is building, TO cost 10000. ST.
Georges Chapel, in Stuyvesant Square. Is
costing 100000. and the Seamen. Insti-
tute, at South street and Coenties Slip,
$500. 900. Potter and Huntington Memorial
cnapes. not part OF the cathedral proper
hut only chapels. will cost 100000. Work
Is TO proceed at once upon them. Then
there is the Dix Memorial Chapel Of Trim
ity.
People are saying that Manhattan Island
twenty years hence is 10 be wholly down
town, and that churches other than Roman
Catholic will be unable TO remain unless
endowed Many say It Is a mistake to erect
large churches on the island. All the same
the Episcopal Church, the Oldest body but
one on the island, goes right on building
them. and that in larger and more expen-
sive form than ever before.