The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-15
THE STORY OF AN aEIREss.
The Girl who Gave 100000 to Aid
in Founding a Catholic University.

In rounding catholic University.
From the Ne,o York Graphic.
The presence of Miss Mary Gwendoline
Caldwell at the Madison Avenue Hotel re
calls the fact that she is the young lady who
some time since gave 100000 as a nucleus
for fund with which to build a Catholic
university at Washington.
Shakespeare Caldwell, her father. was an
old time Kentucky gentleman who loved a
good horse and lived pretty generally as the
best people used to live fifty years ago in the
blue grass region. When the years began
to hang heavily upon him Shakespeare took
a religious turn, and for a time surprised
chums and neighbors by the strange evan
gellstic methods which he employed to turn
them from the old ways in which he and
they had been accustomed to walk A few
years afterwards he joined the Catholic
Church in Richmond, Va, under the minis
trations of the present Cardinal Gibbons,
who was then Bishop of that city.
Mr.. Caldwell was as enthusiastic for the
new faith as he had been for his former be-
liefs, and before he died gave a couple of
million of dollars to the charities of that re-
ligion in the Richmond diocese. His
daughter, Miss Mary. is as fervid in her
zeal for the progress of Catholicity as her
father was, and, as her contribution to the
university shows, takes a very practical
way of expressing her disposition toward
the church.
She is i1ot past 20 years of age, and was
one of the bellies Of Washington and Balti-
more society last winter Indeed it was said
that she and her elder sister had both ended
the season by marriage engagement with
two of the members of a foreign legation in
Washington. Nothing has been since heard
of the matter and both the gentlemen have
sailed across the ocean to their distant
homes.
1t would not be surprising if the pretty
lady went the way that others like her have
gone before and ended her career behind the
closed grating of convent She had an
example of such changei in life few years
ago in her own family.
Miss McTavish, of Baltimore, is Miss Cald-
wells cousin. Four years ago she was
among the richest, most petted and most
brilliant girls in that city She loved socl-
ETY.. and the world about her fairly wor
SHIPPED the stately and beautiful girl. One
night she was at one of the most fashionable
gatherings in the Monumental City. She
was lithesome, joyous and entertaining as
ever. and the circle of her admirers was as
wide as it always was. She kissed the tips
of her gloved fingers to her crowd OF friends
as she stood in the doorway of the dancing
room and smiled them farewell in the
early morning hours.
One of Italys greatest painters of to-day
has made picture of her as she stood in the
gloss and simmer of her fieecy robes, and
With the mellowed light cleaning from her
diamonds, waved her last adleus to her
friends and to the world.
She was seen no more in the city that she
had loved so well, and where hearts were
literally at her feet Next morning she was
driven to convent just outside the city,
and there all that was human of the brill
liant, beautiful and wealthy girl is hidden
under the sombre veil of nun in COM
munity whose members are shut out entire
ly from all communication with the outside