Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-11-09
A TACIT ASSENT TO A DUEL.
Col. GoodlOe Still Alive and Expected
TO Recover.
GENERAL STORM OVER THE COUNTRY
SUBSTITUTE FOR THE INTERSTATE COMMISSION
THE CATHOLIC CENTENNIAL.
Grand Preparations for the Street
Pageant and Poutificiai Mass.

BALTIMORE, Nov. 9-Preparations were in
full blast today for the great Catholic cele bra
tions to begin here tomorrow. The hundredth
birthday of the Catholic hierarchy will be the
first event, and, according to arrangements
confirmed at a meeting of the preliminary
committees this morning, il will tomorrow be
inaugurated with a magnificent street process
sion of clergy and lay societies. Arrivals of
delegates and Others are already well up in the
tho usands. and today il was with difficulty that
rooms could be secured at the hotels. while
carriages at the depots were at premium
Archbishops, bishops, priests and laymen
| seemed to be fairly tocking into the city. and
clean-shaven. clerical-iooking faces were TO be
seen everywhere
The cathedral where pontifcal high mass
the chief ceremonial of the day will take place
tomorrow, has been decorated with evergreen
| and ingeniously arranged electric lights. A
seminary choir of forty male voices has been
provided for the Gregorian proper" of the
mass. The ordinary" is TO be sung by the
| cathedral special choir of sixty mixed voices
Over six hundred priests are expected TO walk
| In the street procession before the mass,
weather permitting. Fears today are that the
downpour of rain prevailing will continue and
will stop all the outdoor pageantry. Ii every
| thing Is propitious however, the long line Of
priests will be Joined in front of Cardinal Glib
| bons' residence by several scores of prelates
! the bishops coming first. archbishops next and
| IN the place of honor. at the last the American
cardinal, Gibbons accompanied by his Cana
| dian confrere, Taschereau. In the line will be
| The pope's special delegate, the archbishop of
Lepanto; MonsIgnor O'Connell, rector Of the
American college at Rome, and Monsignor
| Gadd, the representative of Cardinal Manning
| of England. Monsignor Gadd il the famous
cleric who performed the last offices in 1868 for
| the Manchester martyrs" Alien, Larkin and
O'Brien.
The celebrant Of the mass has been selected
| in the person of Archbishop Williams of Bos-
ton. Archbishop Ryan of Philadelphia will be
| the orator.
| Among the distinguished arrivals is Wis
compte de Meaux and daughter of Paris. NJ de
Meaux bears address from the University of
| Lyons. He is the son-in-law of the famous
| Montelembert
| FINAL PREPARATIONS.
The last meeting devoted to preliminaries to
the Catholic congress adjourned at / O'Clock
this afternoon. 1t was a joint session of the
advisory committee. the committee on
papers and the committee organi-
| Zation. Archbishop Ireland of St. Paul
presided and among the prominent laymen
present we're Mayor Henry +. Brownson of De-
troit and City Controller w. J. Graham of Chi
cago. 1t was decided that the per-
| manent organization of the congress be
placed in the hands of a committee appointed
| by the temporary chairman, ex-Gov
Lee Carroll, of Baltimore. The committee will
| consist Of one member from each ecclesiastical
province in the United States. Each paper
read at the congress will be limited to twenty
minutes in delivery, and discussion will
| be confined to twenty minutes additional
Speakers are allowed not to exceed five min
| utes apiece. The final revised list of papers
| numbers fourteen, and with the order in which
| they will be presented in the con-
gress are as follows: Catholic congress"
! by Culinary Shea of New York; Lay ac-
ton in the church." Henry F. Brown
Detroit: "Papal independence" by Charles J.
Bonaparte. Baltimore; The new social order" !"
| Peter L. Foy, ST. Louis; "The right of the
state in education" Edmund ]. Dunno Of Flor
ida; "Religion in education" W. L. Kelly. St.
Paul; Catholic journalism" George ID. Wolff
Philadelphia; Societies" NJ. J. Spaunhorstt
St. Louis; Catholic American literature"
ance," Manly b. Tello, Cleveland; Temper
ance," John H. Campbell; Catholic achieve
ments in the century" Richard H. Clarke;
Labor and capital" VIM. Richards; Church
music" Herman Allen. Chicago.
The noteworthy features this afternoon were
| the arrival of Cardinal Taschereau and the
active work being done by the st. Louis dele
gates to secure the selection of their city the
place for holding the next congress. The ar
gument used in favor Of St. Louis Ii that next
| to Baltimore it is the Oldest Catholic see in
| America and is second to no other city as
| Catholic center.
MILWAUKEE, Nov. 9.-Archbishop Heisse left
| for Baltimore last evening to attend the Roman
| Catholic congress. He was accompanied by
Bishop Katzer Of Green Bay, Bishop Flasch OF
| Lacrosse, the Rev. Jos. Rainor of st. Francis
| seminary. Mgr Zeinger, chancellor Of the dio-
| cese; the Rev. Father Abbelon, chaplain of st.
| Mary's convent; the Rev. Geo. Brady of Por-
| tage, and Rev. Ambrose Murphy OF Lacrosse.
1 The laity of the Milwaukee diocese will be rep
resented by the Hon. Edward 0'Neil, Thos
| Shea and Jas. Conroy.