The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-10-04
Another Cronin Sensation.

Especial to THE HERALD-Examiner Dispatch. J
CHICAGO Oct. "a new sensation in the
Cronin affair was given publicity yester-
day, and it would seem that the celebrated
case is having a marked if quiet influence
in business cirles. The matter is peculiar
one. bringing in the Rev. Father Tighe,
pastor of the Church of The Holy Angels,
the fine Catholic edifice near Vincennes
avenue, on the aristocratic Oakwoods
boulevard.
Mrs. John Sullivan, a worthy lady who,
in a well-meant effort to add to her hus-
bands none too extensive income, hit upon
the expedient of taking orders for coal from
her circle of acquaintance. was the limo
cent cause of the hubbub. Mrs. Sullivan
canvassed with more or less success,
until a friend suggested 10 her the
ACCESSIBILITY of trying to secure
the contract for supplying the Church of
the Holy Angels and its parsonage with
coal for the coming winter. One hundred
tons are required for this purpose every
year. Acting npon the friendly suggestion,
Mrs. Sullivan visited Father Tighe, her
parish priest, and with little difficulty
secured from him the contract for the
hundred tons of coal. 1t appears that
Father Tighe did not question Mrs. Sull-
van as to which coal firm she was agent
for, but merely agreed to pay for the fuel
when it was delivered.
There was no immediate hurry for the
delivery of the coal. For some time all
went well. Mrs. Sullivan rejOiced in
securing so large an order and Father
Tighe enjoyed consciousness of having per-
formed a worthy action.
Meanwhile Mrs. Sullivan placed her order
with w. p. Rend & Co, and it was TO
have been delivered last week Tuesday
or Wednesday the first ton arrived and was
NsbOut TO be dumped on the pavement and
shoveled into the capaciOus cellars of the
parsonage the Holy Angels, but what
was Father Tighe's dismay when looking
from his parlor windows he beheld the
firm name of "W. P. Rend & Co." in
scribed on the coal wagon in front of his
door.
Mr. Rend, it appears, is the treasurer of
the Cronin committee, and has been con-
spicuous locally in the unsuccessful effort
to identify Alexander Sullivan with the
case Instantly Father Tighe made a
break for the front door. "Send that coal
back he called to the servant, and back
the coal had to go. Now send for
Mre Sullivan said the reverend
father. Mrs. Sullivan, it is hardly
necessary to say, is no relative of the gen
tlaman of that name who was so vocifer-
stration when Senator Grady referred to
him as Parnelps famous lieutenant in
America. and with whom Mr.. Rend's com
mittee are at outs Perhaps if she had she
might have Jared better in what followed.
In any event, when Mrs. Sullivan came
before the priest, the reverend father
countermanded the gcOal order instantly.
Mrs Sullivan was astOnished. "Why this
action?' she inquired Father Tighe re
piled that he wanted to have no dealings
with a man who had taken so prominent a
part with the Croninites as had Colonel
Rend. Thus Mrs. Sullivan lost her order
for the hundred tons of coal. and thus
Colonel Rend lost the contract for supply
ing the Holy Angels parish with fuel.
1t is learned that the order has since
been placed with Peabody & Co., retail
coal firm composed of Americans who have
taken no particular interest in either side
of the Cronin case. The members of Mr..
Rend's committee are said to be very
wroth. One Of them charges that Father
Tighes parish, which is one of the most
prominent in the city, IS perfect hot-bed
of 'sstriangleism".