New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-03-06
Christian Scientist Gives
Prisoners 2-HOur Talk
DR.. Wise breaches. Too.
CHAPEL CROWDED
WITH 500 CONVICTS
Similar Services VIII BE Held
Each Week for Next
Two Months.

sing sing yawned .hivered,
stretched. awakened and dressed At .
yesterday morning Oatmeal. buns.
coffee ana sing Sing vas ready for
religion. A. 5 last night sing Sing
rolled itself IN ITS blankets and went
10 sleep Sing sing had had strenu-
Gus day Of religion.
Wien Bliss Knapp. Of the First
Church - Christ. Scientist. OF Boston,
began TO ,peas az 10 o'clock ne faced
an audience of 500 prisoners. They
had shufled into The chapel 30 groups
of three and four, CARRIED in their gray
suits. some were carefully combed
and brushed. with eager. smiling lace =.
Others we're close-crorped. lecrlng and
detected. Put all were interested.
Blind Charley Simmons. who has lost
Dis sight since he became a prisoner,
seht wears ago. was well up front
with his little Italian guide beside him.
Charley leaves next week. He thinks
Science may restore his sight. lie was
more than interested. On the left OF
l,m sat = big. red-headed Italian.
known simply a. The Wop. He doesn't
Understand word Of English. but he
listened attcntively. Somebody told
him that if he believed IN Science he
could make believe he understood and
he would. lie sat still and waited the
whole two hours with an expcctant
CLEAN in his eyes.
Behind him was big. handsome
George Schan. the dentist al Sing sing
- lifer. George began the first of
h.s sixteen years behind bars IN an in
-titution for the criminal insane. lie
once treated a violent inmate who told
lin he had often had the toothache,
hut used mystic influence 20 drive
away the pain.
Egbcrt. d. D.. Expounds.
"Thst was Christian Science and the
clap didn't know it, said George.
But" he said. with a sigh. III they all
Use il up here | won't have much 20
do"
Under the chapel windows sounded
Nh, shouts Of the prison oGllplayers in
carly spring training. From across the
yaIda came the strains OF Back Home
in Tennessee" Tony de Genoa. lfer.
was putting his brass band Of thirty
five pieces through syncopatic PAGES.
Tony directs with his right hand and
fingers cornet with his left. His au-
dience was one English Paddy, who
doesn't believe in Science. lie listened
attentively. however. when Egbert
Blake. "D. D." a dapper little negro
with big gold tooth. who says he used
70 be parson in Baptist church. eX-
pounded at the conclusion Of the lect-
ure his ideas on Science.
"It suttinlv am fine said Egbert.
when dat gemmen was talkln' ] dun
thought was clean outside de bars
Rabbi Wise. of New York, eloquently
pictured Moses and Abraham and the
sraelitic hordes IN the desert.
The Count, gray-haired and scholarly
looking. who is doing forty years. sat
beside the French chef. in FOR a TWEEN
ty-Gve-year bit. Both succumbed com
pletcly 20 the eloquence. Even Eng
lsh Paddy was present. putting balm
or troubled conscience with the
knowledge that he had attended mass
i'm the early morning. Judge" Sweeney,
lifer. and Arthur Mallon. who used
TO be . New York policeman. ga. to-
gether in the front row. Egbert. "D.
D." paid rapt attention 20 the dis
course. bu, forsook giving his usual
diagnosis by hurrying TO the mess room
for o'clock tea. with rice and ginger
bread
A. = O'Clock last night the big gougs
claugcd Sing sings curfew. the lights
h,ckcrcd out and the prisoners day Of
religion had ended. Similar addresses
will b. delivered weekly for the next
two months.