Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1912 — NIGHT WORKERS PROTEST AGAINST RAZING CHURCH [ARTICLE]

NIGHT WORKERS PROTEST AGAINST RAZING CHURCH

For Half a Century It Has Been Place of Worship/ of Hundreds. NEW YORK—(Special)—Night workers in the down town section oi New York have started a strong fight against the proposed destruction ot 3c. Andrew’s Roman Catholic Church at Duane street and City Hall Place, to make room for a new Court House. The little “red church,”. as it is best known, has been standing since 18l»8, and is a landmark in lower Manhattan. For the last 50 years particularly, has it been the place of worship for the “night owls.” To scores of newspaper men, compositors and men of various callings who earn their livelihood by night work down town, the little red church has become an object of peculiar affection. For many it has been the only church they in Between 2 and 3 o’clock in the morning When the rush is over in the composing rooms of the newspaper offices, Father Evers has regularly held mass for the “night workers,” and the masses have been well attended. When it was proposed to use the two blocks surrounded by Park Row, Duane, Pearl and Park streets, for a new .court Jiouse, 700 night workers held a meeting, formed the Night Workers Association and adopted res-’ olutions protesting against the destruction of the little “red church.’’ It was declared that St. Andrews filled a place in the city life as few other churches do and to destroy it would remove the only place of worship of which many hundred men and women can avail themselves. This building which was formerly the Carroll Club, named after John Carroll, one of the slgnetwnf the Declaration of Independence, has been used as a Catholic Church since about 1836.