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Show HOILESS MEN SPEND NIGHT IN JEWS NEW VnK, J.n 1. Eight hundred homeless and unemployed un-employed men started the new year by sleeping in the pews of one of New York's most historio ehurehee 8t. Mark's in the Bowery early today. The men, part of a crowd of more than 1000 men in a Bowery hall en New Year's eve, had planned to break into the church for the night'a lodging if admittance admit-tance waa refused them. But when they approached the an- ii aisnt edifice in Second avenue they found t brilliantly illuminated illumi-nated and tha rector. Dr. William Wil-liam Norman Guthrie, waiting for them with an invitation to come inoids. "Msy the churches do thai-little," thai-little," he said, "to ehow them-eelvee them-eelvee worthy of the confidence of the friendless and surely the community will not compel the churches long to lend themselves to such irregulsr use." Dr. Guthrie then told the men . he had made arrangementa to give them a substantial breakfast. break-fast. There waa no disorder and the men lietened with respectful attention to the clergymen's remarks. re-marks. St. Mark's Protectant Epiece-pal Epiece-pal church waa organised in 1791. In a crypt underneeth the church is buried the body of Governor Petrus 8tuyvesant, one of the Dutch governors of old New York. Ik- J). |