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"The Churchman" says : "The building, of brick with terra- cotta trimmings, is the gift of friends of the late Bishop Coxe within and without the diocese, and was presented to the trustees of Hobart College for the purposes of that corporation. . .. It is in the Elizabethan style of architecture. Over the entrance is the inscrip- tion : ' A Memorial to Arthur Cleveland Coxe.'"
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The building contains a large assembly hall with platform and gal- lery, an attractive room for the Hobart College Club, offices for the president and other officers, and class-rooms for recitations, and is on the west line of the college campus.
In the afternoon of September 6, 1901, William McKinley, Presi- dent of the United States, while holding a public reception in the Temple of Music, at the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo, was twice shot by an anarchist assassin, who had approached him with the apparent intention of grasping his hand in greeting. The stricken President was removed to the Exposition hospital, and skilled surgeons hastily summoned, who decided on an immediate operation, following which the President was removed to the house of John G. Milburn, president of the Exposition, which had been set aside for his use dur- ing his visit to Buffalo. After an anxious week of apparent improve- ment and sudden decline, the President died there in the early morning of Saturday, September 14th.
On Sunday, the 15th, a brief funeral service was held at the house, after which the body was taken in procession through streets hung with mourning and thronged with sorrowing people to the City Hall, where it lay in state until nearly midnight, 100,000 persons pass- ing through the rotunda to look their last upon the noble and beautiful face of the dead President. The body was, on Monday, the 16th, taken to Washington, and from there to Canton, Ohio, the President's home, where the burial was held on the afternoon of Thursday, September 19th. In the afternoon of the 19th, memorial services were held in almost every civilized country of the world. In all parts of the United States, in accordance with President Roosevelt's proclamation, the day was observed as one of mourning, unprecedented in the his- tory of the country. Special daily services of prayer for the President had been held at St. Paul's during the trying days preceding his death. The memorial service at St. Paul's, in the afternoon of September
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19th, was a very solemn one, and was attended by a great throng of people, many standing throughout, and many more being unable to obtain admission to the church. The muffled tolling of the bells ceased, and the Service for the Burial of the Dead was said, preceded by Chopin's Funeral March, and the singing of the hymn, " Nearer, my God, to Thee." The church was heavily draped in black and white, and the American colors. The services were conducted by the rector, the Rev. Dr. Regester, and the music, consisting of anthems and hymns - among them "Lead, Kindly Light," which had always been a favorite with the President - was sung by the vested choir, assisted by the 74th Regiment Band. The service closed with the singing of " America," followed by Hartmann's Funeral March. The musical part of the service was under the general charge of Andrew T. Web- ster, organist and choir-master of St. Paul's. There was no sermon, and none was needed. The beauty and dignity of the President's character - long realized by his friends and intimates - had been fully and strongly revealed to the people during the patiently-borne suffer- ing of his last days. After he was shot, the President seemed to think only of others - that his murderer should not be harmed by the fury of the people - that his tenderly-loved, invalid wife should be gently told -that the interests of the Exposition might be uninjured. Of his assassin he spoke only words of pity, saying that "he knew not what he was doing." During his week of suffering, he made no com- plaints, but won the hearts of all his attendants by his brave cheer- fulness, his gentleness and thoughtfulness. Shortly before he passed into unconsciousness, which was only a few hours before the end, he spoke his farewell -" Good bye all, it is God's way, His will be done, not ours,"- and he entered into rest with the faint words on his lips, of the hymn henceforth to be associated with all memories of him - "Nearer, my God, to Thee."
The physicians of the President were many, during the hopeless fight for his life which occupied that anxious week. Among them, as
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the surgeon who, with Dr. Mynter as his chief assistant, performed the skillful operation which it was hoped, and at first believed, would save his life, was Dr. Matthew D. Mann, who has been for several years a member of the vestry of St. Paul's.
November 14, 1901, at a meeting of the vestry, it was decided to continue the " envelope system " of offerings, which has been in suc- cessful operation since 1894. The publication of the " Year Book " for 1901 was authorized, and an appropriation of fifty dollars for Christmas greens was made. The rector reported that the sum of $28,000 had been secured on the subscription, now being collected by the rector and committee, for the payment of the floating indebtedness and the $15,000 mortgage on the Parish House. The vestry resolved that all excess of the amount should be applied to reducing the mort- gage on the rectory.
December 2, 1901, being Monday in the week beginning with the First Sunday in Advent, the annual election of the parish was held in St. Paul's Church for the election of a churchwarden for two years and three vestrymen for three years each. The rector presided, and the following persons were elected : William H. Walker, warden ; and Albert J. Barnard, Matthew D. Mann, M. D., and Charles R. Wilson, vestrymen. Those holding over from previous elections were : A. Por- ter Thompson, warden ; and James R. Smith, Edmund Hayes, James Sweeney, Sheldon T. Viele, Hobart Weed and John R. H. Richmond, vestrymen.
December 21, 1901, at Emmanuel Church, Boston, Mass., took place the consecration of the Rev. Charles Henry Brent, D. D., to be Missionary Bishop of the Philippines. The "Churchman " of Decem- ber 28th speaks of this as " in many ways a memorable event. For the national Church it betokened an endeavor to keep pace with the country's growth, . . while in Boston it stood for the offering of one of the city's best-known and most valued clergymen for distant missionary work." During the rectorship of the Rev. Dr.
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Brown at St. Paul's, Buffalo, previous to 1888, the Rev. Charles H. Brent was one of his assistants, and had special care of what was known at that time as St. Andrew's Mission.
December 23, 1901, at a meeting of the vestry, Charles R. Wilson was elected clerk of the vestry and William A. Joyce treasurer of the parish, for the ensuing year. At the same meeting, on motion, it was resolved : " That the rector be relieved from the further pay- ment of interest on the mortgage covering the rectory, and from the further payment of taxes on said property." (See page 200.)
Lorenzo Harris, who was appointed in September, 1893, is still the faithful and efficient sexton of the parish.
The close of the year 1901 brings the church to within a few weeks of its eighty-fifth anniversary, which occurs on February 10, 1902 - the parish having been organized in the then small Village of Buffalo, on February 10, 1817.
The tenth anniversary of the Rev. Dr. Regester's rectorate of St. . Paul's also falls in 1902, our rector having taken charge in July, 1892. (See page 193.)
A decade marked by the thorough organizing, systematizing and broadening of all departments of the parish work, upon every detail of which is left the stamp of the rector's earnest and stimulating per- sonality, guiding and directing most wisely and well.
A decade in which the loving respect and affection of his people have steadily increased, as they have come more and more to realize their rector's able and self-denying discharge of the exacting duties of his office, and how the constant demands made upon his time and strength by the growing work of the parish are never allowed to thrust aside his unfailing personal ministrations to the sick, the poor, and the sorrowing.
The growth of St. Paul's is most strikingly shown in the " Year Book," dated Advent, 1901.
The first "Year Book" of St. Paul's was published at Advent,
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1893. The nine annual books are most valuable, and in form, arrange- ment, and matter are models of what such publications should be. They are compiled and edited by the rector. Never, before these books were published, have the affairs of the parish - the finances, the various funds, the condition of the different societies, and the extensive work and membership of these numerous organizations - been so clearly and attractively explained to the people of St. Paul's. Never before has the entire congregation been brought so closely in touch with what is being accomplished, year by year, in the organized effort of the parish.
The Prefatory Notes of the "Year Book" for 1901 has the following :
" It is with great gratification that the rector is able to state that in this eighty-fifth year of its life this parish has freed itself from the burden of indebtedness under which it has labored ever since the rebuilding of the church after the fire of 1888. The sub- scription for this object, proposed by the vestry last year, has been quietly brought to the attention of our people and has found them ready with a most generous response. It was asked at first that the two anniversaries occurring in 1902 - the eighty-fifth of the parish and the tenth of the present rectorate-be marked by the gift of $25,000 to be applied to the payment of the mortgage on the Parish House and the floating indebtedness. That amount was secured in the course of the summer and early autumn and the subscription has been carried on as speedily as might be without interference with other financial matters of the parish, until now it has reached a sum of over $28,000. This increased amount has been subscribed on the understanding that after the discharge of the other indebtedness the balance is to be applied to the payment of the debt on the rectory. The rectory was purchased in 1895 for $20,000. Five thousand of this amount was raised and paid at the time of the purchase. The expense of the rectory to the parish since that time has been only the amount of one-half of the taxes and the cost of some slight repairs. As agreed upon at the time of the purchase, the other half of the taxes and the interest on the mortgage of $15,000 placed on the property has been paid by the rector. The liberality of our people will enable the vestry to considerably reduce this mortgage and the rector is to be relieved of any further responsibility for the interest. This action of the vestry is made possible by the large saving of interest which will be effected by the payment of the debt. By this happy result of its brave effort the parish will find itself in its eighty-sixth year in this position : The debt of $10,000 remaining from
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the rebuilding of the church paid, with a new Parish House and the $5,000 of debt on it entirely paid, with all floating indebtedness paid, with the rectory nearly one-half paid for, and the rector given the free use of his home, which has not been the case since Dr. Shelton's time ; and with an endowment fund grown large enough to make its annual increase, by accrument of interest alone, over five hundred dollars in the past year."
The names of subscribers to the above-mentioned subscription of 1901 will be found at page. 437.
The rector further says :
"This ' Year Book' shows in what spirit, and with what power of achieve- ment, the parish comes to its eighty-fifth birthday. The whole conditions of its work have as entirely changed since it set itself to its spiritual task as has its environment. But your rector thinks that it never had higher ideals or more loyal spirit of service for Christ and His Church than it has to-day. And perhaps it never faced its work with greater strength and braver heart. The development of its life and the path by which it has come to what it is to-day will be fully shown in the 'History ' now in press. . . .
" The endowment fund as given in the treasurer's statement last year amounted to $13, 131.99. This year the amount given is $16,570.44. This increase represents the addition to the fund of the $3,000 bequeathed by Mrs. Agnes L. Warren, a gift of $10 in the offering on Easter Day, and $528.45 of interest."
In accordance with the Act passed by the State Legislature in 1901, given in full at page 234, the fund known as the Shelton Memo- rial Endowment Fund, and the later gifts made for the endowment of the parish, are now grouped under the general title, " The Permanent Endowment Fund," prescribed by said Act.
THE PERMANENT ENDOWMENT FUND.
The Shelton Memorial Fund, $6,095.44
The George E. Hayes Memorial Gift, . 2,000.00
The Charlotte Kimberly Memorial Gift,
1,000.00
The Jane Wey Grosvenor Memorial Gift, 1,000.00
Bequest of Miss Elizabeth Bull, . 475.00
Bequest of Hon. James M. Smith, 3,000.00
Bequest of Mrs. Agnes L. Warren, 3,000.00
$16,570.44
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Advent, 1900, Total Fund, .
$13,131.99
Offering at Easter,
10.00
Bequest of Mrs. Agnes L. Warren,
3,000.00
Interest, Erie County Savings Bank, .
105.00
Interest, Fidelity Trust Co.,
233.52
Interest, Buffalo Savings Bank,
89.93
Balance, Advent, 1901,
$16,570.44
(See pages 256, 292.)
In order to place on record in this History of St. Paul's an outline of the organization and work of the parish as constituted at the pres- ent time, the following lists of the clergy, the vestry, the staff, and the various parish societies, compiled from the "Year Book " for 1901, are inserted here :
St. Paul's Parish.
Advent, A. D. 1901.
Corporate Title : "St. Paul's Church in Buffalo."
The Corporation.
Rector. Rev. J. A. REGESTER, S. T. D.
William H. Walker,
Waardens.
A. Porter Thompson.
Albert J. Barnard, James R. Smith, Edmund Hayes,
Vestrymen. James Sweeney, Sheldon T. Viele, Hobart Weed,
Charles R. Wilson, Matthew D. Mann, M. D., John R. H. Richmond.
Clerk to the Vestry. Charles R. Wilson.
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The Staff.
Clergy. Rev. J. A. Regester, S. T. D., Rector. Rev. Coleman E. Byram, Ph. D., Curate.
Acolytes.
Merritt Cook, Harry Faulkner,
Charles Stimpson, Noel Bartley, Roy Van Volkenburg.
Howard Ganson,
Maurice Cooper,
Lay Readers.
Henry R. Howland, Thomas Lothrop, M. D.,
Philip S. Smith, Henry Adsit Bull, Henry R. Hopkins, M. D,
Norman Rogers,
Charles R. Wilson,
J. N. Frierson,
George T. Ballachey,
Matthew D. Mann, M. D., F. W. Abbott,
Alexander Hallowell, E. Corning Townsend,
John R. H. Richmond,
John K. Walker.
Parish Visitor. Miss Eva M. Smiley.
Treasurer. William A. Joyce.
Organist and Choirmaster.
Andrew T. Webster.
Serton.
Lorenzo Harris.
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Services.
Sunday.
8.00 A. M., Holy Communion.
10.30 A. M., Litany.
11.00 A. M., Morning Prayer, Holy Communion and Sermon.
3. 15 P. M., Sunday School.
4.00 P. M., Evensong and instruction (except in July and August).
8.00 P. M. (in winter), Evensong and Sermon, preceded by half-hour Organ Recital.
11.00 A. M. and 8.00 P. M., the second and fourth Sundays of each month, and 8.00 P. M., the first and third Sundays, services for deaf mutes are held in the Sunday School room.
Week=dap.
Morning Prayer, daily, except Wednesdays and Fridays, at 12.05.
Litany, Wednesdays and Fridays, at 12.05.
Holy Communion, Thursdays and Holy Days, at 11.00 A. M.
The present number of communicants is given as 882.
The Choir.
The singing in the church is led by a vested choir of thirteen men and twenty-two boys and six ladies.
The full choir sing at the morning service ; the boys and a volun- teer choir of the men at work in the Sunday School, at the afternoon service ; and the full choir at the night service.
An organ recital is given every Sunday evening for half an hour before the service.
Organist and Choirmaster.
Andrew T. Webster.
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Committees, Organizations, Societies, Etc., Advent, 1901.
*
The Parish Committees. (Co-operating with the vestry. See page 233 for members.) -
On Condition and Repair of Parish House. - On Church Grounds and Church Repairs. - On Lights and Heating .- On Church Bells .- On Pews and Pew Rentals. - On the Envelope System .- On the Sunday Morning Offering.
Committee of Ushers. - O. H. P. Champlin, Chairman.
The Altar Society. - President, The Rector ; Treasurer, Miss E. C. Cottier ; Sec- retary, Miss Florence Barnard.
Committee on Altar Linen and Vestments of Clergy .- Miss Amelia Stevenson, Chair- man.
Committee on Choir Vestments. - Mrs. M. D. Mann, Chairman.
Committee on Care of Chancel and Floral Decorations .- Miss Florence Lee, Chairman.
The Sunday School .- Rev. Coleman E. Byram, Superintendent. Teachers, 62 ; scholars, 363.
The Sewing School. - Miss Amelia Stevenson, Directress.
Dress Making Class, Miss Alice Hopkins, Instructor.
The Home Sewing Class, S
Cooking Classes. - Miss Clara E. Carr, Instructor.
The Kitchen Garden,
The Housekeepers' Class, S Miss Laura M. Weisner, Instructor.
The Girls' Gymnasium Class. - Miss Louise De Laney, Instructor.
Boys' Athletic Association.
The Girls' Friendly Society (Parish Chapter). - Mrs. M. A. Crockett, Branch Sec- retary ; 61 members.
Candidates' Class (Girls' Friendly Society). - Miss Katherine Burtis, Associate in Charge ; 52 members.
The Mothers' Meeting .- Mrs. Edward M. Atwater, President ; 81 members.
The Missionary and Benevolent Society. - President, Mrs. W. Bowen Moore ; Sec- retary, Mrs. Henry R. Howland ; Treasurer and Purchaser, Mrs. Etta Ware Hill.
The Evening Missionary Society. - President, Miss Josephine Persch ; Secretary, Miss Elizabeth Brinkmann ; Treasurer, Miss Gertrude L. House.
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The Guild of the Holy Child (Missionary). - President, Mrs. Elisha T. Smith ; Warden, Miss May Barnard ; Secretary, Miss Alice A. Schenkelberger ; Treasurer, Miss Charlotte Regester.
The Church Periodical Club. - Mrs. William Y. Warren, Parish Librarian.
The Sick Relief (in co-operation with the District Nursing Association). - Head Worker, Mrs. Thomas K. Mann.
The Shelton Society. - President, Mrs. T. K. Mann ; Vice-President, Mrs. Gifford Morgan ; Secretary and Treasurer, Miss Florence Lee.
The Boys' Club.
The Junior Boys' Club .- Rev. Coleman E. Byram, Director.
The Men's Meeting.
The Junior Department of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew .- Director, the Rector ; 18 members.
The Brotherhood of St. Andrew (Parish Chapter, No. 69) .- Director, George T. Ballachey ; Secretary, John K. Walker ; Treasurer, George Van Volkenburg ; 23 active members, 8 probationary members.
The Deaf Mutes' Meeting.
"Church District " (No. 50, in co-operation with the Charity Organization Society).
A full account of the objects and work of the above organizations, together with their working force, members, etc., is given in the " Year Book."
St. Paul's Church is represented on the Associate Board of Man- agers of the Church Home by eighteen women of the parish, and on the "Ladies' Hospital Association " of the Buffalo General Hospital by four women of the parish.
St. Paul's Parish is also well represented in the Laymen's Mission- ary League of the Diocese, which is an organization of men formed for missionary work in introducing the services of the Church, and forming new parishes in places throughout the diocese where the Church has never been definitely established. Services are also held by the League in prisons, hospitals, etc.
It seems eminently fitting that the parish of St. Paul's should engage largely in this work, when we think of its own beginning as told earlier in this volume. Through the missionary efforts of Bishop Hobart the Church was planted in the then wilds of Western New York,
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the first Episcopal parish on the "Holland Land Purchase" being organized in 1811 in the town of Sheldon, Genesee County. St. Paul's Parish, Buffalo, was organized February 10, 1817, the missionary being the Rev. Samuel Johnston, whose salary as missionary was paid from funds procured by the New York "Protestant Episcopal Society of Young Men." (See page II.) The "Missionary Stipend " of $175, and afterwards $125 per year, was paid to St. Paul's until the year 1831, at which time it was thought that the parish should be entirely self-supporting. (See page 43.)
Parishioners of St Paul's Church serving on Boards of Managers, Trustees, etc, of Public Institutions :
The Church Home .- Two members from St. Paul's on Board of Managers ; eight- een women of the Parish on Associate Board of Managers.
Buffalo General Hospital .- Two members on Board of Trustees; four women on Board of Managers.
Home for the Friendless. - Two members on Board of Managers.
Ingleside Home .- Four members on Board of Managers.
District Nursing Association .- One member on Board of Managers.
Newsboys' and Bootblacks' Home .- Two members on Board of Trustees ; two mem- bers on Board of Managers.
Fresh Air Mission .- One member on Board of Visitors.
Homeopathic Hospital .- Three members on Board of Trustees ; three members on Board of Managers.
Charity Organization Society .- Two members on Board of Trustees ; four members on Council.
Women's Educational and Industrial Union. - Two members on Board of Directors.
The Prison-Gate Mission .- One member on Board of Managers.
Young Men's Christian Association .- One member on Board of Trustees ; one mem - ber on Board of Directors.
Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. - Two members on Board of Directors.
The total contribution for public charity from St. Paul's Parish for the year ending Advent, 1901, was $10,406.
SHELTON SQUARE
ALTAR
SANCTUARY
CREDENCE TABLE
VESTRY ROOM
GSHOW
CHOIR
ORGAN
ROOM
CRYPT DOCH
N-PORCH
BAPTISTERY
K
M. A. Bull E.C. Townsend
IT
Mrs Skimpson
54
$5
Mentice Patch
Henry English
Philip S. Smith.
M.J. J
SI
53
7
J.R H Richmond
109
5.
N
E. S. Warren W= 4. Warren
Geo. C. Greene
Thet.
48
44
L. G Sellstedt S. T. Viele
S. D. Cornell
Mus C.R. Walker
E. H. Hutchinson
Hobart Weed
140
159
MO
Jones
A. Porter Thompson
IST
DE FRYK
Spent
156
99
40
41
Mra. Thes. Rose
154
15
98
92
W. Bowen Moore
Marchew
H.R. How land
37
Jefe Faut Shepard
W. A. Joyce
Mrs. Cottier
MYs. A. D. Gail
150
2
m
Dr H.R. Hopkins
Miss A. Stevenson
Mrs. W.S. Siger
J.A Hall, Jr
MTi. Conrid Dickt Lus :
Mind E. Iralden
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176
Bartlett
Boniere J. C. Nagel
175
195
193
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M. J. Root
F. D. Bewley
Dr. A.M. Curtiss
Mrs . C. Streeter
8
22
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De Witt Clinton
Tremaine
21
J. D. Larkin
WG. Jones
77
8
19
MO EM
Gallagher
Wipper
17
Thempaar The s. King
73
14
15
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Henry Bull
2
13
C.E. Marvin
My A K
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67
6
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12
65
J. L. Kimberly
Stilwell Willst
7
5
62
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PLAN OF RESTORED ST. PAUL'S, With names of pew holders in 1902.
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Compiled from the records and a drawing contributed by William Carson Francis.
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175
80
Morgan
EL. Kimberly
J. Roits
Wheeler
34
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20
Dudley M. Inwary S. S. Jewett
197
M.C Carroll
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175
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Rev. Dr. J. A. Regester (Retor)
Mies Deals
79
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95
W. H. Faxen
34
A.J. Bamard
William H. Walker
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9
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15
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78
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1902.
At a meeting of the vestry held on January 30, 1902, the vestry signed the canonical certificate required in Arthur S. Mann's applica- tion to the Standing Committee for recommendation by the committee to the bishop, for ordination to the diaconate.
At the vestry meeting of April 21, 1902, a formal resolution was adopted in opposition to the proposed street railway track in Shelton Square. The president of the company was duly notified of the adop- tion of this resolution.
At the above meeting, William H. Walker, A. Porter Thompson and James Sweeney were chosen delegates to the Diocesan Council ; and Dr. M. D. Mann, J. R. H. Richmond and Henry Adsit Bull were chosen as alternates.
By the bequest of Matthew O'Neill, long a parishioner of St. Paul's, who died May 18, 1902, aged eighty-two years, Hobart College receives $30,000 and the Church Charity Foundation $5,000.
Mention has been made in these pages of the opposition of the vestry to the laying of a street railway track in Shelton Square to con- nect the present tracks in Erie and Niagara streets, so as to form a loop for running cars down Pearl, up Erie, and across to Niagara Street without going into Main.
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