The evening world. Newspaper, October 26, 1922, Page 4

4s THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1922. With Armed Police Front and Rear, Paterson Besieged Parson Holds Fort 8 pane POR a THE REV.W: F. BERGER'S HOUSE in PATERBON. Affairs of Lakeview Presby- ned te Otome for them. But afte spoken, each wit terian Chiirch Still Mud-] -antious reserve, theyp found 0: sy 1 an, A W Nor, « dled, but ‘There’s Likely to} (YT oP" of th Li of Trustees, wi Be Trouble Any Minute.’ pened his mouth and released so words. y we u he f } “you want to know w pyc 1 Pa e Reey a trying to get Berger out and a n the parsonage of the Ldkeview Pres. | UYIME On Te said. “I'l tell you. It bers themselves audited the ac- counts,” he sald, this sum was die. Against that, however, Dresident Christopher of the Board of Trus Leos says the church has a rent.charge against Berger. Furthermore, he ys, the $182 found to be due was long ago turned over to the Presby- ter ‘Dr, Berger doesn’t want all this publicity and all this strife,” said his lawyer, “but the trouble is that he has no place to go if he leaves the parsonage without money, He has no other position, No other congrega- tlon has called him and he ts a poor man, care for.” Tt ts planned to install the new pastor formally at a party in the church to-night+-but not in the par- sonage, Tho police are there, they say their orders are to se: Bergor is not Atstucbed In hi supaney cnt tate CUSTOMS’ SEARCHERS GO De Squad of 20 Abot The Customs Searching Squad, members of which in their secret in- vestigations had corralled more than $2,000,000 worth of contraband in o bottles of Hayors, and which abolished three months ugo, iy coming back. This was announced to-day in an order given out by Acting Col- 000.000. lector of the Port Henry C. stuart." Considerable ¢onjecture was aroused over the abolishment of the squad three months ago, but now it Is de- clared that its twenty men were put to work supervising the examination of tourists, the influx’ of which had risen to record proportions. The rush now being over, the men will return to thelr original work, it was sald. The squad will be under the direction of Inspector Albert O. Hokensen. “and admitted that for Dr, Berger, RAILWAY EXPRESS ASKS He has his wife and family to A Denett of 839,171,101 Reputed for Year 1021. An application for an increase in rates for itself and in behalf of the railroads over whose lines It operates has been made by the American Rail- way Express Company to the Inter- state Commerco Commission, and hearings on the application will be held in Washington on Noy, 20. The company maintains that the present rates are inadequate, but makes no request for specific increas, BACK TO WORK AGAIN ed ‘Three Months Ago, Reinstated, stated that in 1921 there was a deficit} of $89,171,191, which did not includy return on investment of the express or rajlroad companies, This yoar the estimated og will be about $290,000, t 000 expenses, a deficit of $13,- . included in which were 15( byterian Church at Paterson, N. J. 4} yecause of the way Berger preache d _ 4 S policeman in blue uniform inspects | .nq the way he ran the church. W you carefully through a narrow open-| aian't like the kind /of lanruage Ing and signals brusquely that you] yseq in the pulpit. We didn’t lik must go argund to the back. The} she way ho ran things outside of th back door {@ smaller than the fron’ | jypit. one and much more difficult to carry | when he first came to us he an Uy-storm nounced that he was going to ‘All th But the btck door. too, ts guarded by! church or empty it.’ Well, he cam @ policeman—a policeman in khaki, | nretty close to emptying It. The mem an exceptionally large and powerfu |hership dropped more than 50 pe figure, able to hold his own agains’ | cent, The attendance dropped to + E probably a half dozen of the mere handful—sometimes only six 01 she mtribu a a athletic members of ehu seven. Tho choir quit. The ny certainly abld tobar the th dropped from $600 month Ms : jons droppe The CERBERUS at the PARSONAGE DOOR. any intruding reporter % down to $54. And somewhere between these two] “Ana no wonder. If Berger didn't inuitene Cathet an. adecttient guarded entrances, tn rooms with] tke a man for one reason or other ding in the Passaic Circuit drawn curtains, the Rev. Dr. W lhe managed to get him out of the an dthe case probably will not Francis Berger, former pastor of the] church. In some cases he sent out} ie reached until January—which {8 church, 1s Mving invisibly so far at] ‘otters of dismisaal’ without any cause. [said (9 be the main reason w! outsiders are concerned, holding th’ | that we could learn, In others he got Jor the congregation tried to Parsonage by force of arms and the] -csignations, And the way he talked pea by force. Jaw, defying the Board of Trustees 19 his congregation from the pulpit} jut g’Vincent Barnitt lawyer for defying the whole congregation, de-| vas sometimes—well, to put It mildls | ¢neetrustess, earnestly denies, that. he Claring that t won'§ get out untl'} —not very polite. I remember heay- | advised stich a violent coures, “He as Sileated RAnelAl matters have been} ng him say something Uke this: “My | ai}, ror letting the law take its natural 0. eh dog has more senso in his tall than aria fe . rtant some of you people have tn your Since Monday, when a militant} hendy.' You know ‘t's possible tolgun their siege, hurried! r . edly t honed group of the clitireh mémhers made ®} preach the gospel without ,talking| his own lawyer, Edgar M. hts who surprise attack and gained temporary] ‘(xe that. advised him to call in the police. control of two rooms of the tt: . . Lil Mepis Which Berger did, but not until the Dr. Berger and his police allies have “ . °! hele wudiepeted domsnien: So we decided that we wanted to|congregation, or a part of it, had man- cs . get @ new pastor and we calied Dr. d to clear two rooms of the par- ‘But: there's like! u- - age he p ble any. tataute,” ald the kaekioor| &udotph Mefer of West Milford. He's} sonage, making way, they sald, for Gop hapetilly. our pastor now, but we haven't been} s:me of the household goods of the A. careful inquiry through the able to get the parsonage for him | new pastor, who, until bf ote Selgkborhood tox as to the origina | Berger claims we owe him money—1] possession of his official homig must cause of the civil strife ‘was: met af {2R't know how much he claims, He] travel more than, fifty miles 18 reach firgt by the severest silence, ¢ Tho] tks of back salary, a bonus, some | his flock. ex-pastor, from the mysterious depths| Tent that he paid before the parson- ssi of his fortified habitation, sent a po. |&8¢ Was bullt. I think he even men-] Mr. Tilt, who says he took ,the liceman to announce that on the ad-| tions a telephone 8 a matter|case as « matter of friendship for vice of counsel he would receive no owes us}the former pastor, is trying to ar- visitors, answer no questions, make] money—rent for the #onage that] range an amicable settlement, but le no statement of any kind. he’s been occupying stnce last June,}insists that there is no question when he ceased to be our pastor,"' about the fact that the church does Members of the congregation werr aa owo Dr. Berger somo money—at léast not less reticent. They, too, had * will be a long time, probably, be- }§ their lawyer, who alone was author-|fore this money question 6 settled course Dr. Berger, when the members be- Aa CU TU BIC) | Sia Sw AS ae 1137-—+Poker oct in a Dutch silver design, silver plated chest, $45.00 me SS LSS LS a Gifts whose name is Legion! 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