Imperial Valley press., 1914-01-12
News Items from
The Metropolis
By Carlton Ten Eyck
Written for the United Press)

written for the United PfeSS)
New York, Jan. 12.-There is today
in New York a three-week-old baby
who deserves to live for a hundred
years, if there is any law OF COM
pensation. The vicissitudes through
which the youngster has lived since he
was ushered, an unwelcome guest, into
this world would indicate that he has
a future before him.
Somebody threw paper shoe box
into vacant lot the other day. Per-
haps that was cold design and not
fate. Some schoolboys were playing
around a bonfire in the lot. One OF
them picked up the box and threw
it into the fire. That was either fate
or mischief. Another boy, prompted
apparently by nothing, pulled the box
from the fire before it had more than
been scorched on the edges. That
certainly was fate.
The fire had loosened the box lid
and the boys saw inside a bundle
wrapped in a newspaper. Again they
threw the box and bundle away. That
was fate again, Enthusiastically, knock
ing at the door this time. The bundle
revealed the baby. The boys thought
the youngster dead and were for
leaving it and running away, when
one boy insisted on taking the baby
to a nearby undertaker's shop. Fate
again. The undertaken found signs
of life and hurried the baby to a
hospital, where the little fellow soon
revived and proved to be sound in
every way. The child has not been
identified.
The multitudes of Greater New
York now have a daily temple, the
doors of which will never close, and
in which religions of every denomina-
tion and sect may hold services and
discussion. The little unpretentious
building on East Thirty-second street
was made possible by the enterprise
and generosity of Miss Elizabeth N.
Knopf, and will be open daily and
nightly the year through. Catholics,
Episcopalians, Methodists, Baptists,
Presbyterians, United Brethren, Uni
tarians, Christian Scientists, Bud
dhists, Confucians, Quakers, Seventh
Day Adventists, Latter Day Saints
any and every kind of believers will
hold meetings in the daily temple. 1t
is the plan of the promoters to make
the unique chapel sort of religious
clearing house, where devotees of var
ious sects and beliefs may meet and
discuss their varying creeds and ten
nets.
An instance of the kind of thing for
which the daily temple was built oc-
Cured on the night of it's formal open
ing, when w. T. Wei, a Chinese stu
dent in Columbus University read
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discussed them. He was followed i'm
mediately by Miss Knopf's young
woman secretary, who read several
chapters from Isaiah. Viewed Eyeub,
young Turk studying in Columbia
University, then read from the Koran.
He in turn was followed by the secre-
tary, who read from the chapters of
st. Paul, offsetting the Mohammedan
readings, as her chapters from Isaiah
were opposed to the teachings of Con-
fucius, read by the Chinese student.
Miss Knopf then read from Robert G.
IngersolPs "a Vision of the Future"
For the present the daily temple will
hold nightly meetings for the discus
sion of announced subjects picked out
by Miss Knopf; that is, one week will
be devoted to the discussion of each
subject, the same topic being taken
up each night in the week. After the
initial discussion the meeting will be
open to all who desire to say any