The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1934-08-30

and other facilities in connection
with the 51st Triennial General
Convention of the Church which
will assemble in Atlantic City
October 10th next and viii remain
in session for the ensuing fifteen
days.
Thus far in advance of the con-
cIave all indications point to one
of the most largely attended and
interesting conventions in the CEN
fury and half history of the Com
munion. Practically all of the larg-
er hotels on the Boardwalk will be
taken over for the housing of the
bishops, clerical and lay deputies,
delegates to the triennial meeting
of the Woman's Auxiliary and a
score of other cooperating agenc-
les, aggregating in all 5000 men
and women who will officially
participate in discussion of various
phases of the Church's work.
Hotels elsewhere in the city are
being taxed, and the housing COM
mittee is busy arranging for the
overflow in the homes of Church
folk resident in the resort.
One of the largest crowds ever
seen at a Church gathering is
expected at the impressive opening
session of the Convention at which
the Convention sermon will be
preached by the Rt. Rev. James
De Wolf Perry, d. D., Bishop of
Rhode Island and Presiding Bishop
of the Church. These recurring
sermons at Episcopal Church
triennials are regarded as signi-
/ ficant ecclesiastical utterances
whenever the English language is
j Bishop Perry's sermon will be
delivered hassa seating capacity
of 10000 which is expected to be
spoken. The auditorium in which
packed to the utmost on this oc-
casion. Bishop Taitt of Pennsyl-
vania is negotiating with the
Pennsylvania Railroad officials
to transport 10000 men and
women to Atlantic City for the
| opening session, from the diocese
of Pennsylvania alone, and the
Diocese of New Jersey, whose
Bishop, Rt. Rev. Paul Matthews,
Delaware, New England and the
Southern Diocese also are plan
mig to send large delegations.
Branch Post Office
! Charles A. Tompkins. Assistant
working in cooperation with
Rear-Admiral Reginald r. Bel
KNAPP, U. S. N. director of the
COMMITTEE on Arrangements of
the Diocese of New Jersey, an
lnounced that a special. branch
post office will be set up by postal
officials for handling the great
volume of mail in connection with
the convention. This post office
will be located in the Atlantic City
auditorium and will be devoted
wholly to convention uses. A spe-
cial telephone exchange, to be
identified as Convention, will
also be provided together with
Telegraph and cable service, and
a bank for the convenience of
those officially identified with The
gathering. Elaborate plans also
call for training institute for in
struction in missionary and gen.
eral church work.
For the time that the conven-
ton is in session in Atlantic City,
headquarters of the church will be
located there and all of its world
wide business will be transacted
from offices established for the
presiding bishop, the national
council and its departments. Pre-
ceding the assembly of the con-
,vention, the fall meeting of the
national council will be held on
the ground.
The bare details illustrate the
magnitude of these Triennial Epis-
copal gatherings in which church
men and women not only in the
United States but round the world
have lively interest through
their connection with the Anglican
Communion as well as the Greek
/ Orthodox and similar religious
gatherings.
i Many To Attend
When the convention is called
to order at noon on October 10
there will be present at least three
quarters of the $50 members OIL
the distinguished House of Bishops
who, fully vested, will be escorted
into the auditorium by the com,
bined choirs of a dozen Episcopa
churches. Among those who will
gather in, the House of Bishop:
win be the venerable John Mckim
Bishop of North Tokyo who, OF
June Ia. rounded out forty-one
years of missionary service fol
the church in Japan. during which
time he has withstood score OF
earthquakes and has made The
Christian religion in the Orient ;
force which has obtained recog
milton from the throne; Peter
Trimble Rowe, who, as Bishop OF
Alaska since 1903 has "nnnShed,