New-York tribune., 1912-01-27
East Side, Manhattan,

| Manhattan. lust east of Union and Mad
| Ison squares. is teeming with religious ac-
| tivitv The Gramercy Neighborhood AS
sociation. organized not long since by the
ministers of this section, includes Prot
| estants and Roman Catholics, Settlements
and all employment and relief agencies.
Its aim is a survey: TO know its neigh
borhood and it's needs. Leaders in it are
ST. Georges, Calvary and Grace Episcopal
churches. Epiphany and Immaculate Con-
cention Catholic churches, Second Avenue
Rantist. Christ and the Swedish Lutheran
churches, the Hedding Methodist Church
and such general agencies as the city Mis-
sion, the Childrens Aid and the United
Hebrew Charities.
Reports have Just been made on tene-
ments and their conditions and on night
schools. as offered by the city, and condi-
tions and attainments Of young people at
tending them. Information is given TO
residents. especially those who cannot
speak English, about hospitals. baths
libraries and organized religious clubs OF
all kinds. Cooperating and recently max
ing reports are John j. Murphy. on tene-
ments, and L. W. Sttt, on vacation
schools.
Adams Memorial Presbyterian Church,
IN 18th street, east of Third avenue, has
long been a part OF the work OF the Madi-
son Avenue Presbyterian Church, the Rev
DR.. Charles II. Parkhurst although 1t has
been organized as an autonomous church
It has shared in the Madison Square
Church House privileges. Now II has been
sold by the church TO the extension COM
al -bsFtar n
$50, 000 and will set up independently or
DR. Parkhurst. The arrangement Is
friendly one, but is made in part because
the Madison Square church felt 1t needed
additional income. Its endowment has
been 1910, 900. and with the $4,000 added
II has now $3700O0. The new pastor or
Adams Church, who Is TO begin at once
is the Rev. i. D. Niedermeyer, formerly
with Mlzpah Chapel. He has had expert
ence in East Side work. With the help OF
the Presbytery committee, II needed, the
Adams people feel sure OF being able TO
maintain themselves
St Marks Episcopal Church, the Rev
w. ~. Guthrie rector. has enterprises on
hand I'm great numbers. IT Is leading In
the development of this East Side. Its
new rector came recently from the South
and has been an educator. Every Sunday
afternoon al o'clock he has inaugurated
university extension lectures in the par
ish hall, and every Sunday night, in the
same place and following the evening SER
vice. there is a Student Club that has sup
pers and brings students into personal ac-
Guaintance In the hall there are also
talks aiming TO develop the sociological
90 igio Tho Sunday night
Of each month the talks are on missions.
the second social service. the third labor
and the fourth citizenship. Men are at
tending 1t is purposed soon to have pub
lie worship. with addresses, in some OF the
many tongues other than English that are
spoken in this East side region.
The Second Avenue Baptist Church, at
the upper end of the Bowery, describes
itself as the greatest mission church IN
America 1t has services every Sunday in
no fewer than seven languages, and there
are sixteen services in all. The list COM
prises Slovak, Chinese. Italian, Magyar,
| Polish Greek and English. Cooperating
with the Gramercy Neighborhood Asso-
! citation. OF which II is a part, 1t has just
| completed n census OF children on two
| block fronts. From First TO Second ave-
| nue. in 10th street IL found 500 children.
and I'm 1lth street between tho same ave-
/ nues l,O2s. II Is known that in these
blocks there are not as many as there are
| further east The blocks were selected TO
| begin the canvass because they were in
| the same block with the church. The point
| Il makes Is that the number Of children is
enormous, and that religious work. accord
! ing TO the views OF parents, ought TO be
prosecuted in far larger measure.
| 81 Georges new chapel. fronting Stuy-
vesant Square and costing 100000 has
been delayed in its work. and its conse-
Grafton has been put off indefinitely. The
interior work Is not as far advanced IA
I Ind been expected. The Presbyterian
! Labor Temple. also n part OF this East
! side activity. Is 10 have "A new superin-
! tendcnt, but the purchase OF the property
/ by the extension committee OF tho Pres
| bytery. releasing 100000 that is TO be-
come the endowment of the Greenwich
| Church, in 18th street. in no way affects
! the status OF the Rev. Charles Stelzle.
! The latter remains at the head of the de-
partment OF labor OF the Board of Home
Missions. The board regarded the temple
! as only one OF several agencies OF which
] GtoIzIa charge