El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-07-08
CAMPAIGN TO WIN OVER SPANISH
AMERICANS PLANNED BY CHURCHES
Effort to Be Made to Do Away With Hatred of Amer-
cans; Many New York Churches Forced to Sell Out
by Expanding Sideways of the City; Mission
Conferences Planned in so Cities

OF the subway contractors with rev
iork city there has come the final
LOW 10 church conditions on Manhat-
c tan Island especially Protestant church
cohuitlons. Immediately S4,5OO,OOO
worth OF Protestant church property
- oLIered for sale, and it is known
mat many more millions viii be Of
1Sreu- indeed, churches to the value
VI $zV,OOO,OOO at least will be forced
upon the market within the next year.
1heSe churches are not down town.
some OF the largest of them are in
5I1iariem, and almost the only part of
Manhattan that is little affected is
w washington Heights.
building new sUbways will be begun
IN earnest in the early fall, and a sys-
tenn such as the world never saw be-
iore, Doth in length of miles and cost
IN money, will result. The effect is,
as al agree, to change Manhattan is
Idhd from New YOrk's local use, and to
turn It over wholly to the use of the
world Such change means complete
change IN population, and with that
change comes, it seems, the necessity
Ior wholesale removal of churches from
the island, or else, as is possible in
comparatively few instances, liberal
enCoWmentS that will insure perma-
nency in present locations.
Churches offered for sale include two
MethodlSt one of them large and pros
porous 10 years ago; the Orthodox
FRIEND in Gramercy Park; three Bap-
tlst only one of which viii rebuild in
Manhattan; one Reform, and 1t among
the largest of all; one Lutheran Jnat
happens to suffer more than others
because in the theater district; and one
Unitarian, that one made famous by
the ministry of Henry ". Bellows and
the organization within its walls OF
one of the great sanitary commissions
OF the Civil war period. Churches that
will soon be forced upon the market
PAL although in the case Of the latter
strong efforts viii be made toward
endowments yet to be raised
There are under construction on Man
haitian island at the moment new
churches, halls and buildings erected
for religious purposes, all under Pro
JeStaQt control, to the value Of $6,5OO,-
GOO, and other projects are talked Of
that viii take as much more. These
are chiefly Presbyterian and Episcopal
The condition is, not that Professionalism
is going to the wall, but that there has
begun the most stupendous readJust-
ment that any city in the world ever
entered upon. Final decision OF legal
points affecting subway contracts has
brought the movement to head In
short order, and these early announce
ments Of sales are the result
Leaders in all Protestant bodies are
individually sending out to the country
statements explanatory of these New
York changes. Early in the approach
ing autumn they will send out a unit
ed statement, giving further partlcu-
lars, and predicting further changes.
Their course is to break the force OF
the news, on its face disastrous, and tC
inform leaders in all bodies precisely
what it is that is taking place. Parts
of Manhattan most seriously affected
at the moment are in the vicinity of
Union square, a northern advance above
I4th street; the west side of Contra
park, where valuable properties are
facing for the first time socalled down
town conditions; and Harlem, where
prosperous negroes are going IN and
occuDins brown stone mansions. The
Fifth avenue region seems affected
least of all.