Physical culture . ndsbut by well meaning if mistaken casualhosts. This applies to the episcopalworld at large. But when, as in thecase of Bishop Potter, he comes of afamily that is in the most exclusivesociety the ordeal is all the more tryingand continual. Born in May, 1834, in Schenectady,X. Y., the subject of these remarkswas the son of the Rev. Alonzo Potter,who was Bishop of Pennsylvania in1845. His uncle, the Rev. HoratioPotter, was made Bishop of Xew YorkCity in 1861 and in 1883, he was madeAssistant Bishop of the diocese. Thisposition he retained until his unclesdeath when he succeede
Physical culture . ndsbut by well meaning if mistaken casualhosts. This applies to the episcopalworld at large. But when, as in thecase of Bishop Potter, he comes of afamily that is in the most exclusivesociety the ordeal is all the more tryingand continual. Born in May, 1834, in Schenectady,X. Y., the subject of these remarkswas the son of the Rev. Alonzo Potter,who was Bishop of Pennsylvania in1845. His uncle, the Rev. HoratioPotter, was made Bishop of Xew YorkCity in 1861 and in 1883, he was madeAssistant Bishop of the diocese. Thisposition he retained until his unclesdeath when he succeeded to the Bishop-ric, holding it with credit and usefulnessuntil his recent demise. Bishop Potter has been a tremendouslyhard worker. The office which he holdsis alone no sinecure, but quite the from his strictly clerical duties,he until recently engaged in a multitudeof affairs of a charitable, missionary,financial, literary and social right through, he never overlooked 202 PHYSICAL CULTURE. Bishop David H. Greer, New Yorkt Bishop Potters Successor the fact that the amount of labor whichhe performed daily was only possiblebecause he practically led a physicalculture life. He travelled, he was amember of half a dozen well known clubshe was the author of a number of booksand he worked hard on the lectureplatform and through the press toestablish cordial relations between em-ployers and the employed. But rightthroughout the most active portion ofhis career, he was faithful to his creedof the simple life. Thus he was sothrifty in the amount he ate, that anold and privileged housekeeper wasaccustomed to serve unordered daintiesat some of his meals in order to tempt his appetite. And it isrelated that the Bishop,with characteristic goodnature, would instructthe table maid to removethese special dishes with-out the housekeeper be-ing any the wiser, inorder to spare the feel-ings of the latter. When, before his sec-ond marriage, he wasliving on WashingtonSquare
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