Show church several I years ears ago when ini i the slums oi of new york I 1 WAS told that thai some come of the foulest tenements tene menis la were owned by trinity church but I 1 found it 11 so difficult to lo get at the real owner snip ot or property without expending arnow money r I 1 could not command ra fia tto io give elve up the sarat what I 1 lentil could not compass has been done now nov ty by new yorks mara board ot of ilein ki in defer r ence to ti nubile opinion why ue ube board 04 0 health so long ions filled to do its very pap pa abc duty duly lone of those mysie politics alone can explain that a D democratic city should alow its ir enod ast democratic walow in nuh filth and dis disease diss aase asci Is 13 e proof how little politicians care for I 1 or the welfare ot of the wretched tools they use tor for their own oil benefit at the tha request of Pres president dent ot of the heath health rt board oaid trinity corporation has furnished a list of one hundred and arty eight tenements belonging to 1 it containing a liton of a toler able village it Is claimed that many of these buildings are A leased eased lor nine ty nine years and are thare tha retoe fare not practically controlled by the th finiest church in the united stites it la Is ques tion able however lait ht ther a 1 rat organization worth over wadi art an income of has a IM inorio ral right to ignore a con condition dalan of things fraught with dinver to the community and certainly contrary to the teachings of christ were the savior to walk the streets of new york he ha would surety surely consider the building of comfortable comfor taLde homes for tho the poor far more n Import 1 arit than the erection erae clon OZ 0 chapels chapela or the founding fou idling of charitable listl institutions tut ions the preeminent pre eminent I 1 duty of churches la Is to bep the poor to help themselves decent homes hoines are ara the first requisite of decent souls admitting their direct control over certain tenements trinity corpora ton cann cannat 71 essays the censure or of press and aad bubile pu bile var per the lait live years the average death rate in new kew york fork has haa been twenty four aej one hundredth hundred Lh in a thousand out ot of trin itys population of 1681 there has been a mortality of making mahln the death rate of trinitas Trin itys tenements 35 per cent higher than the general death rate of the city la Is not this awful 19 surely had tw they perso personally nany inspected Inspect ednie the property held by them in trust so inhuman a dis disregard it of the tha first principles of christianity would not have been rated detailing two responsible physicians ile to investigate these tenements president wilson has haa submitted reports on nineteen of them the varick street state slate that the root and skylight ky light leak the cellar is filthy with rags gs wet wood straw and stagnant water this arising from the soil kofl othor houses are in still worse condition closets being filthy and plumbing very detective drinking water Is in certain cases liable to contamination and yenti ventilation ti Is vitiated dr drain who seems seema to be well named says that the closets of NTO no 26 dominick street are 96 offensive thit tire alone can purify rb them earn that a majority of lot these tenants do not know how to take lake care of themselves la Is probably true that their unhealthy environment Is aggravate d by their own ignorance ig norance and neglect can call be taken for granted Br anted but does not this hypothesis make it incumbent on tho the landlord to keep a watchful eye tin an them cleanliness being next to GOI god alnea should riot not its iti precepts be inculcated oy by the professed followers ot of the golden rule should there be any greater glory for trinity corporation than the salvation of 1681 human beings upon whose wretched earnings it fattens what greater blessing could trinity confer on the people of new kew york to who choso whoso s existence la Is due Us its abounding wealth we 1 than to destroy desti oy the rookeries rook eries that ire are an awful satire on human habitations I 1 ta eions ani and to replace thioni wa with lb model tenements at reasonable rents unless such a reform re form be instituted gradually grad bally effected hut but begun at once nce 0 a great cri calms e wa will 11 rest on an the stoward s 3 of a god given trust are consigned by christ to the lowest depths do of hell bell there Is no hypocrisy so dam n nible ab le R as S p preaching re a the love ot of the meek an and d jo lowly w 1 y J jesus e a and nd walking in the walking in the ways of the es FIELD |