Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1901 — A Dispute Over VestmentS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

A Dispute Over VestmentS.

The Episcopal Church in the United States is stirred by a controversy over the right of bishops to wear the miter, the cope and other gorgeous vestments of the medieval church. Last November the bishops of Chicago, Marquette and Indiana were commissioned to consecrate Bishop Weller of Fond du Lac, Wis., and it is claimed that they used rubrics and vestments unwarranted by the Book of Common Prayer and by the usages of the church. Responsibility for the service has been disclaimed by Bishop Clark of Rhode Island in a letter which he signs as "Presiding Bishop of the Church,” but the seven western bishops, who officiated at Fond du Lac, dispute his right to make any such disclaimer, and they have now challenged the

church to try them for the alleged breach of canonical law. “Steel Trust alley” is the new nickname given to upper Fifth avenue,

New York, where Warner Leeds, Henry Phipps, Andrew Carnegie and other manufacturers have purchased property. “Paradise alley” one impecunious clerk has dubbed it. John Pollard, a bell ringer in Lancashire, bom in the same year with Victoria, rang his bells for her coronation and for each of her birthdays and tolled them at her death.

J[?]PIERPONT MORGAN