New-York tribune., 1921-01-26
Another Boston
Rector Is Urged
As AsBishopHere
Rev. DR.. E. S. Rousmaniere
Mentioned as Factor in
Election for Successor to
Late DR.. Burch TODAY
New Yorker Seen Victor
Believed Episcopalian Hon
or Will Go to Drs. Man.
ming, Stires or Slattery

The name Of another Boston clerey-
man has been added to the list Of pos
sibilities in to-day's election Of q
Bishop Of the New York diocese OF the
Protestant Episcopal Church to sue
ceed the late Rev. DR.. Charles Sumner
burch. 1t was generally believed
among churchmen yesterday that either
the Rev. DR.. William T. Manning. the
Rev DR.. Ernest M. Stires or the Rev.
DR.. Charles L. Slattery, of this city.
rectors of Trinity. St. Thomas's and
Grace churches respectively, would be-
chosen.
lhe two Boston clergymen mentioned
50 Tar are The Rev. DR.. Alexander
Mann, of Trinity Church, and the Rev.
Or. Edmund SWEET Rousmaniere.
through whose prestige, it is said, St.
Pauls in Boston was recently desip-
mated a cathedral DR.. Rousmaniere
has been spoken of as q candidate for
the post before.
DIR. Mann, it was advocated yester-
day, would meet the requirements of
tnose churchmen who insist that an
Amerlcan- born bishop should be
elected; lie was born in Geneva, N. Y,
IN 1861, and married in Orange, N. j.
tie was rector of Grace Church in
orange and afterward Of St. James's
Church in Buffalo. Later he declined
an offer to become suffracan bishon in
Newark, and also to become Bishon of
Washington, saying he did not consider
ms work in Buffalo was finished. For
the last two years he has been presi-
cent OF the General Convention of the
Protestant Episcopal Church.
Strong Support for Rousmaniere
The Rev. DR.. Rousmaniere is fa-
vored by the Rev. DR.. George Clarke
Houghton, rector of the Church of the
TRANSPORTATION, who is expected to
nominate DR.. Rousmaniere 1t is un-
derstood that Haley Fiske, president of
the Metropolitan Life Insurance Com
pany and an active layman in the
church, also favors DR.. Rousmaniere.
Io-day's convention will be made up
OF clerical and lay delegates represent
ing l67 parishes and thirty-seven or
ganlzed missions. 1t will be preceded
by memorial service for Bishop Burch
at 10 O'Clock. The convention will be
presided over by the Rev. DR.. Harry P.
Nichols, rector of Holy Trinity Church,
IN Harlem, who presided at the election
OF Bishop Burch. The Rev. DR.. Charlie 8
X. Gilbert, secretary of the diocese,
will call the delegates to order. The
session will be behind closed doors.
Suburban Parishes for Stires
DR.. Stires, who is to. be nominated
BY the Rev. DR.. Leighton Parks, of St.
bartholomew is in high favor in
suburban parishes, it is said, and his
supporters predicted slight lead for
him over DR.. Manning andd DR.. Slattery
Neither DR.. Manning nor DR.. Slat-
terry would discuss the election, but Dr.
Manning let it be understood that he
did not approve the statement last
Sunday by DR.. Gustav A. Christensen
of Holy Rood Church, that DR.. Man
to use curb bit |on certain Of the
clergy" His friends were quoted as
saying that he considered DR.. Carsten-
sens statement as "wild and calculated
to do harm"
: Others mentioned as candidates in
cludn the Right Rev Nathaniel S.