Show I Bishop Potters Interest I the New Subway Tavern II CODMAN OC I POT II bishop of ut the Iho 11 diocese of New York hoNo recent r at lit thc tle opening of u IL high h h 8 In hlA Ole ece city been b n nIh Ih 0 at or much lIlon by hy byboth both HIP III and Imd tho secular press of or ill HII I countries In I an un ecclesiastic who hai q been regarded aa a u bellev believer er r in hI the most Uncompromising con It t not 1101 bo hc forgotten that tho attitude on Oil Ile IH hi not a II new i he h liaa hI held hetel the thc Mine view of or the tho matter mattor for rOl many ilia 11 f Ills toleration for fOl u II well regu tat latr In ll 1111 Ur U In la well 1011 known was publicly on moie nu e than one OliO occasion dur duri II i the th ui Imn my discussion lolI In Int ut t a 1 ccle cele ut u the of ot Pennsyl Potter lotter put himself on as liS follows When u II wine finn n made In the nimy III my pout for tor tho thoI I I decent relaxation of or the tho BO ill I r HIP th liquor men the body In tho land to tin end 1111 under tho gulso of ot ri to the Ihl of Mrs Carrie Ninon played squarely Into HIP Ii of tho saloon and Ind tho of at HH 1111 back Ih personal of or the In III keeping was did dU lo 10 his faith In the so 80 called Karl of ot regulating tho of The Subway tavern tin UK It ItI 1 I Is 18 to In be hc a II liquor Haloon with most of or the objectionable H elim eliminated It Is true that but tho Iho Hale Hilo of bov II of or all 1111 descriptions Is made n II I feature The object of or the I If f IH to tho I I B of ot In public from vice Ice I The bishop hl hop of ot the tho diocese of ot New NewYork N York comes cOlnes from n race of or churchmen father lr Dr Alono Potter was Willi of ot his uncle Dr Horatio Potter Palter wan e elIor nor In the metropolitan diocese dl Henry H nr Potter was horn born In lady V N Y May 26 1835 At l thc tho time of hlo hili birth his bin father was Willi vice president dent of Union college mid his grand grandfather father tho Dr Nott 1011 was president of ot the tho mime Institution tullon As A n II boy BIshop Potter was not lIot endowed with a II constitution tion and for that reason ho he was not required 1 to III prepare for college Ills His parents made up UI their minds to vary the family tendency to become schol scholars ars even to the tho extent of ot permitting Henry to 10 embrace a It commercial lire life After Arter Ids hili father wan lall elected bishop of Pennsylvania and the tho family removed to Philadelphia he ho became u 11 at lit atthe the academy In III that city He lie finished the rather eclectic course In the tho academy and afterward served H a II brier brief apprenticeship In the Iho commission busi hUKI business ness It wan soon Hoon evident however that the family It toward the tho theology was alive ami vigorous In the young youn mans haart When hen ho could not bo dissuaded and Inti on account of ot his classical preparation ho lIIK permitted to enter at nl the Virginia Theological At this small Jilt but Institution the tho future prelate won 10 distinction HH 1111 a 1 student Hu lIe applied himself with such to tho in which ho was deficient that ft t the of ot his lie he was credited by h the fac faculty ull with being one uno of the t he best b st schol niH over ever sent out from tho Institution Immediately lifter after his graduation ho howan wan married to 10 Miss lInH Imra It H Jacobs Jacohs Ho lIc then In his hili year not yet lt In being a n few tew months short of the Iho age children wro horn born of ot first and aft of them ate living m iS il r 1 I BISHOP HENRY CODMAN POTTER On Mav r of the following mr be he was l tI by h liln hl father In I It St t Lukes chinch In Philadelphia A year 81 later lator Dr DS I III bish bishop op of ot him priest In III Trinity church The Ihl young first charge was l church Pa In In a afew few tew months ho received a 1 call to St Johns church Troy X Y After he h had been heen In charge of that for years ho 1111 was Willi called to the tho rec ree of ot Christ church Cincinnati A year later he ho wall elected president of ot college Gambler 0 The rhe year Ht church Albany N r Y mado a bill bid for his services All of or orthe these the e overtures wore were declined l tho thu young clergyman cl to 10 ut III Troy After seven In that I parish he hc accepted n Ii call to Trinity church Boston that stepping to toBO BO much ecclesiastical preferment Two years afterward he ho wan IK called to Grace church New York where ho nerved I with marked distinction for fifteen years In 1877 ho was elected bishop of or Iowa but declined tho honor A quarter r of ot a century ago IlKO tile the proffer of ofIL n IL diocese In III the tho then thell tAr went was 88 no temptation to a I rector of or Grace church churchIn In 1883 Dr Potter WIS made coadjutor to his uncle who was wall becoming 1111 had asked to be he provided with an I assistant He lIe was Willi consecrated In III church chur h Oct Ocl 20 1883 I bishops of ot the th chuich chulch and over members of ot the clergy clEr being present Later the aged bishop Potters administration of ot tho affairs of or the loading diocese e In III the Iho country has hall been heen maik tI rul Under his prudent and businesslike oversight It has expanded 11 wonderfully He II has hll shown an all admirable ca capacity 1 for tor steering clear of the tho shoals of ot ecclesiastical and has 1181 been especially clever In III avoiding n Iho tho constantly differences be between Jr tween high and low churchmen Although antecedents and Ind the Ihl might rea rell reasonably bo te expected upI d to favor the no IO called low element he ha carefully 1 from making any marked dis distinction dl He lIe maintained J a II dignified fied lotI nce In regard to the growth of ritualism In the diocese and andin in III apparently quite a cleverly cl scions of o the advanced Inter Interpretation that prevails In certain quarters lelH An All an amusing Instance of or bis hIli ability to In mil mount an which might In compe competent tent hands made no end nd of 0 trou trouble ble hIe may be he cited bis hili diplomatic man management of or tho recent dedication of the new Monastery of the Holy Cross Croll at Il Wel t Park larl on the tho Hudson It was nb b for tor a 1 bishop Renting the to In be It would hardly do for the diocesan or his coadjutor the tho HIght Hov Dr Or er to officiate at such h an extremely ritualistic tic proceeding Bishop Potter was equal to tn the emergency It was waH within the scope HOOpe of liln hili episcopal authority to Invite the bishop of or another diocese to 10 represent him at nt tho function He lie ex exercised X his hili anti and Invited the tho bishop of or Dr nr Whitehead who Is 4 one of the extremists in the tho thelow tholow low church party and the genial doc tot 10 accepted and was 8 present on the occasion On Oct Od 4 1002 Potter tho wealthy wealth Mrs Irs Alfred Corning Clark were wre married nt at Fern lelAh the beautiful country home of the bride nt Al Cooperstown N Y Mrs Potter Is IH deeply Interested In the progress of nf the great Cathedral of ot St Rt StJohn John the Divine hall hau been pro projected j carried to Its 1111 present of ot erection by II her hOl husband It Is 18 an nn undertaking which will require mil millions lions for tor lt It II completion and Its pro promoters motell aie gratified by Mrs Potters Intel out In III Its 1110 development L 1 I |