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CHURCH FEELS THE PINCH. St. Ms thit Episcopal Church, al Sheepahead Ray ii . tbe uoa unused race track, has come upon bad days. ii.. Rev. Hr Thomas . Hyde, Its lutstor, - truggllng hard to raise m.cmhi to I ee in.- church from its financial ilItBculties. If be rails to raise tbe money by April IT. it i- probable thai tin chnrrlt will ■■ taken awaj from the cob gregstioii M ii thi onlj Rpiscopal Church in SI epshead Bay. The • lurch i»ropertj was sold at auction two weeks sgo foi ,900 to satisfy a mortgage of ,300. There was only une bid. The land is easllj worth lb- mi bi.i and tbe churcb propertj Is worth a. .mi 0,OUO. Dr. Hyde said vesterdaj thai ilu- in., tgage i-oimiani had agreed to r«»store title to the church tor M.Otio. in the p.iim: days of racing man promineni in. ii attended nerrlces iu the church, including some of the V.iidei bilts and Augusl Belmont. Dr. Ilvii. -pnk. "i i Ing before the Legislature during the debt a the bill wbicb killed thai sport here. He li«l not uphold the gambling incl denial to the races, bt • argued thai to kill racing would work grcal hardship no thousands of people who deriviil pan of Heir uici.nie from it. Including the hotels and boarding bouse 1 pers n Sleeps head Bay. iLs praphec] that these people would have hard times has come true, for his congregation now j- unable to support the church.— New X"ik Sun.
