Bisbee daily review., 1916-02-12

with great ueaI oI klnaiIness. rnese two had met often iii Vedder court. Our sins. such as they are. are more passive than active"
 It was, of course. old Nicholas Van Ploon who fell back again on the stock argument which had been quite sufficient to soothe his conscience for all these years.
 We give these people cheaper rent than they can find anywhere in the city"
 We should continue to do so, but in cleaner and more wholesome quar- ters,' quickly returned the rector. This is the home of all these poverty stricken people whom Market Square church has taken under it's shelter, and we have no right to dispose of it."
 That's what l say,' and Nicholas Van Ploon nodded his round head. We should not sell the property"
 We cannot for shame, if for noth- ing else," agreed the rector, seizing on every point of vantage to support his intense desire to lift the Vedder court derelicts from the depth of their degradation We lie now under the disgrace of having owned property so filthy that the city was compelled to order 1t torn down. The only way in which we can redeem the reputation of Market Square church is to replace those tenements with better ones, and conduct them as a benefit to the people rather than to our own pock- cts"
 That's a clever way of putting it, commended Jim Sargent. Its time we did something to get rid of our disgrace" and he was most earnest about it. He had been the most un- comfortable of all these vestrymen in the past few days; for the disgrace of Market Square church had been a very reliable topic of conversation in Gail Sargent's neighborhood
 The nasal voice of smooth-shaven old Joseph G. Clark drawled into the little silence which ensued.
 What about the cathedrai?" he asked, and the hush which followed was far deeper than the one which he had broken. Even Rev Smith Boyd was driven to some fairly profound thought. His bedroom and his study were lined with sketches of the stu pendously beautiful cathedral, the most expensive in the world in which he was to disseminate the gospel.
 Suppose we come back to earth" resumed Clark, who had built the Standard Cereal company into a mon- opoly of all the breadstuffs by that process. If we rebuild we set ou-- selves back in the cathedral project ten years. You can't wipe out what you call our disgrace, even if you give all these paupers free board and compulsory baths. My proposition is to telephone for Edward E. Allison. and tell him we're ready to accept his offer"
 Not while I'm a member of this vestry," declared Nicholas Van Ploon, swiveling himself to defy Joseph c. Clark 'We don't sell the property"
 'I put Mir. Clark's proposition as a motion," jerked w. T. Chisholm. and in the heated argument which en- sued. the Good Shepherd in the win dow, taking advantage of the shifting sun. removed from the room the light of the red robe
 In the end, the practical-minded members won over the sentimental ists, if Nicholas Van Ploon could be classed under that heading, and Ali son was telephoned Before they were through wrangling over the de- cision to have him meet them, Ali son was among them. One might al most have thought that he had been waiting for the call: but he ex- changed no more friendly glances with Clark and Chisholm, of the new. International Transportation con- pany, than he did with any of the others.
 We'll Allison, we've decided to ac- cept your offer for the Vedder court property stated Manning.
 1T haven't made you any, but I'm willing" returned Allison.
 Jim Sargent drew from his pocket a memorandum slip.
 You offered us a sum which. at three and half per cent, would ac- crue, in ten years, to forty-two mil lion dollars" he reminded the presi- dent of the Municipal Transportation comrany. That figures to spot-cash proposition of thirty-one millions. with a repeating decimal of one; so some body will have to lose cent"
 That offer is withdrawn" said Al lison.
 'I don't see why" objected Jim Sar- gent. "The property is as valuable for your purpose as it ever was"
 T don't dispute that; but in that offer I allowed you for the income earning capacity of your improved Since that capacity is stopped. don't feel obliged to pay you for it. or, in other words. to make up to you the loss which the city has com pelled you to sustain"
 There. Is some show of reason in what Allison says" observed Joseph G.