Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-10-04

told Of it only for the abuse poured forth ou
the depository by the Boston journals. Taken
al IN all the the thing may be called
The wonderful wonder Of wonders"
ONE OF THE REAL GID STOCK
4 Chat scith Fa ther Nugenf, the Great
irish Ph'tcnfhropist---Hfs Colony in
Minnesota. and HIS "Boys."
Chicago Times.
keen-eYed, white haired, benevoient-look-
ing, and somewhat undersized gentleman of GO
Or thereabouts, clad in semi-clerical suit of
black, and wearing q wide -brimmed silk hat.
responded to the card of reporter of the
Times at the Grand Paciic-Father Nueeut. as
well known, perhaps, on this as on the
other side of the Atlantic aa a temperance
advocate and general friend of
humanity. Probably very few of
even professional humanitarians have
been the means of doing SO much actual
good IN the world as the unpretentious man
whose name furnishes the text for this article.
Kindliness for his fellow-men looks ont of
every feature and in connection with it is al
exhibition OF that element of business CAPACITY
which illuminates, with crisp frostipess the
features of that restless American business
genius, p. Il. Barnum.
Phllanthropists are too often largely theoret-
lcal IN their philanthropy, reminding one of
Charles Sumner, who was too busy with the
general good OF mankind to pay any attention
to individual cases.
Father Nugent's Jurisdiction, On the contra
ry, is mainly in the direction of individuals,
hundreds OF whom, If they are familiar with
the forms OF prayer gat all must, from
nearly every inhabited section of the globe.
send aloft daily good word fer the worthy
priest.
Seatip0 b:ro=alf o,, .,,,a = e a.. - = -
provided for interviewing purposes by MIR.
Drake, Father N. responded to the interroea-
tories of the reporter as follows:
''The subscriber has Called Father Nuseut.
for some information in regard tn yourself and
your work"
Il can hardly call it work that am doing in
America at the present time. My regular
duties as chaplain of the Liverpool prison are
quite severe, and l am now taking my annual
vacation
"And no business connected with itf"
''Oh, yes; you see some time ago brought
over three hundred immigrants, most of whom
are settled IN Minnesota. So have improved
the occasion OF this voyage to America TO visit
them and see how they are getting on
How did you find them!"
Doing well, indeed They have each re-
ceived 160 acres of land and comfortable
house and their situation is IA measurably super
lor TO What.lt was, or would have been in the old
country. In st. Paul the citizens bave raised
quite large sum of money, which has been
applied to the procurement of necessaries for
the immigrants"
How did you become interested in these
people?"
"Why, some years ago visited Minnesota
Manitoba, Nebraska, and other States, and was
deeply impressed with the advantages they Of
fered in the way of soil, etc. When / re-
turned to the old country i saw numbers of
hard-working, honest people who could hope
for no improvement in their condition if they
remained there. The result was that about
three hundred were brought over, and it would
not be too much to say that their prospects
| are very bright indeed"
''Now about your boys?"
"Ah9' replied Father Nugent with twinkle
of the eye, showing the direction in which his
heart was warmest, those little waits; I've
them in, and now have one hundred ard
| sixty OF them under my charge. Why, sir, we
have there two newspapers, all the work on
them done by the boys, and they gro as we'll
printed as any paper in Chicago"
What is done for them when you gather
them ?'
They come to US from the streets and the
alleys, neglected, iorsaken, friendless. While
| with us they receive a sound education and
are Taught trades, so that instead of adding to
the criminal element they are fitted to become
good members of society"
|
you?"
II do, often land the good priests eyes
glistened. Many OF them are now filling po-
sitions of trust, and frequently in strange
cities, am seized by the hand by thOse who
have gone out from the refuge. They are
scattered all over the world. 1 meet them
everywhere"
"How is the Refuge supported ?''
by voluntary contributions. established
| it in 1865. In 1866, LOG boys were permanent
| ly provided for. In 1868 the number was 155. In
| 1869 there were 10, and since then our labors
have been repaid with very encouraging re-
suits"
Much more was said upon the subject, show
| ing the amount of absolute good that may bo
| done in that direction by one man.
Have You been brought in contact with the
| famine in Irelaud!"
II was one of the Liverpool relief committee,
| and, with the other members, visited Con-
nemara where there was great suffering. The
land is simply rock and bog, and the potato
crop was almost an entire failure; consequently
| there was great amount of suffering"
rs there any truth in the reports that there
have been gross exaggerations in the accounts
! of the famine?"
"a single statement of aggregates will show
| you. The average crop OF lreland-conEumed
mostly at home--is about 100000 bushels.
Last year it was only about 5000, 900. So you
can see that, with two-thirds of the crop cut
off, there must have necessarily been some snf-
fering from hunger. This is aside from tho
actual individual cases saw, but those have
been spoken of at length in the papers, and
need not repeat them"
"What are the prospects for a crop this
year?'
81 may say they are good. During the last
winter and spring large quantities of CHAM
pion' seed we're obtained and distributed in
the stricken districts, and from last accounts
there seems to be no danger of crop failure" :"