New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-30

,ow Episcopal parish on the West
Side Of Manhattan enters on inc mover
rlan OF keeping store TO reduce FOR It's
rsrisboners tho high cost OF Twins. II
e tho Chapcl OF the Comforter In Hora-
80 8, near Hudson. This has been its
-, fo- wears. and now that IL has be-
,,,,,o = parish. and independent, II retains
dc old name. II was formerly a part OF
,ho par,sh OF the Ascension, Fifth av.
.nd 10Th st. but now starts of on its
own account. Bishop Greer will visit II
next week TO give It its legal start and
20 confirm its first parish class.
Groceries OF all kinds. new and old
r,o,hing. notions OF III descriptions and
coal are the things dealt in by this
church store. Customers must be men,
hers O. the new parish and must come TO
buv goods on certain evenings. TINS
they do because they get them az whole
sale prices, plus only the bare cost OF
handling. The store has already large
patronage. IL is a tump into INDUSTRIAL
welfare that has been tried elsewhere
with Indifferent success by various
churches. At the Comforter IT Is reported
20 have attained success.
This new enterprise has been taken
IN nv a few well-to-do men who nave
become vestrymen and hackers oeieNihs
that by the independent plan 1t can De
made a self-supportng parish. The Vestry
includes Clement \. Griscom, professor
II r. Mitchell. OF Columbia University :
J. F. X. Mitchell, X. II. Perkins ana
Charles Dav. The new rector is the Rev
DR. Clarence c. Clark. There is resi-
dent staff OF workers. consisting OF &. T.
Hargrove. Mrs. f.. G. Bell and Miss ksth-
crime Bell.
The new parish starts with 125 fam
uios Sunday school OF $50. a Bible
class Of IS men and a fun list Of social
organizations. including Penny Provident
FUND = kindergarten with so pupils and
school where fat-keeping Is taught
salvation Army headquarters IN this
CITY yesterday were greatly agitated by
the news Of the disaster in the -. Law
renee. but went on with plans for seven
hundred Of their number TO sail TINS
morning on the Olympic, where they &C.
c1nv the entire second cabin accomoda-
,ions They will form in line in 18TH
e. AZ $50 O'Clock this morning and
headed by Miss Booth and Commissioner
and Mrs. Estell, Of Chicago viii march
80 tho pier. one hundred and twenty
musicians will accompany them IN the
march and sail on the ship. They are
the national staff, the Chicago and the
Flint. Mich. bands OF forty members
each. the last named famous in army
circles all over the world because OF
prizes IL has won.
These 700 salvation Army officers ana
leaders are going TO London TO atteno
an international congress, where every
country except China will have SaNauoh
DELEGATES. The largest national oelesa-
ton will be the American, and particular
,nterest attaches 10 the departure TINS
rnornipc because the Salvation Army IN
,,oorica under Commander Booth, has
sccon,nlished more than has been zone
in any other field, not excepting Ensisnu
itself. II was said Yesterday mat oe'
cause OF this record Commander Booth
will be returned here for announcer Ten
Years and that she has been proI'liseu
that the next international congress
.bau be held in this city. The purpose
OF the present congress is to start an eou-
ca,ionai campaign, and TO make plans lot
the coming ten years. o,
great convention hall has been eTeo'-
ed nm the strand. in London, expressly ioi
the army. II will seat ten thousand Du'
IL is calculated that salvation Army uele-
c.tcs and their friends attending inc
,onercss will number fifty thousano.
.rhcre u,ill he i've thousand bandsmen ana
bandsvomen alone. The seven nuiuIeu
American delegates sailing TO-DAY 0o',e
,ron, every state Those on boaru tIe III
,,,ed shin sailing from Montreal OF
-,t,,~sdav we're officers Of army posts III
canada Great meetings are TO De heiu
~ cr,stal Palace and in Royal Al
bert Hall. or.ior NJ
u is known that a good proportion u
!, tho army leaders and officers sallihs Ao'i'
hora to-day will never return loI W.,
80 FuI,v q hundred OF them are Scahui-
,.,,isps and other Europeans. WIN sC''e
,,,,.ricans who have volunteered theS
90 no sent after the close OF inc I'o''
don congress to India, Africa anu ~. ''i
~ China. 10 lead in the founu'he ~
srr,v work. II is stated by inc No''uV''
I'm, officials that the Americans man
the hest leaders Of all for ne" WIN
- ,be drawing on their numoer SO
heavily FOR. salvation Army eA.e''s ~
This fall I'm this country an army 's sa
raien is 10 be entered upon 10 ra.so 80,
ooo 600. in large part 10 erect uen. t'I
Rootb memorial training schools III '"'S
city and Chicago.