The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-23
TIE new ST. ALOYSIUS.
The Corner Stone impress
sive1y Laid.
CEREMONIES THAT ATTENDED IT.
A Club Room for Workingwomen
will Be One of the Features of
the New Establishment.
EREMON1Es THAT ATTENDED 1T.

The threatening weather yesterday
Of several thousand people to witness the
ceremony of laying the corner stone of
the new ST. Aloysius Academy, on Grand
street.
There was no elaborate programme,
however; yet the ceremony was impress
sive The Rev. Father Thomas Campbell,
Provincial of the Maryland-New York
Province, performed the blessing.
assisted by the Rev. Father Cassidy,
rector of ST. Peters Roman Catholic
Church, the Rev. Father Heidenrich, and
the Rev. Fathers Lynch, McTammany.
Quill, Corrigan, Gillian ana Quinn.
The Rev. John SculIy, president of st.
Johns College, Fordham; the Rev. Father
James Becker. vice president of St
Francis, of Xavier College, of New York,
and the Rev. Father Smith, OF Plainfield,
were also in attendance,
THE SPECTATORS.
Every available inch of standing room
on the temporary platform was occupied
and the immense piles of brick and lum-
ber beyond the curbstone and the pave
ment on the opposite side of the street
were jammed with spectators when the
procession of priests left the door of the
Sisters of Charity Home, but a few feet
away from the site OF the new building
and moved directly to the spot occupied
by a hoiSting machine, from which was
suspended the massive and ornate block
of red Long Meadow stone ready to be
swung into position.
THE CORNER STONE
The ceremony did not last more than
ten minutes. 1t consisted simply of the
blessing, responsive prayer and placing
the stone. Among the articles enclosed
in tin box and sealed within the stone
was record of the old St. Aloysius
Academy written in distinct and legible
hand on sheepskin parchment, of which
the following is brief synopsis
The cornerstone of the convent known
as St. Aloysius Academy of the Sisters of
Charity of st. Elizabeth, was laid by the
Rev. Thomas j. CamDbel, S. j., Province
of the Society of Jesus for the New York
and Maryland Province, on the I'D day of
December, A. D. eighteen hundred and
eighty-nine. The Rev. p Cassidy, S. j.,
delivered the address.
The Sisters of Charity of ST. Vincent de
Paul came to Jersey City by re-
quest of the Rev. John Kelly, pastor
of ST. Peters, in 1868, for the purpose of
bdhluE CblC VI tAC pdIoCAlil SCAOO1 anu
visiting the sick and the poor in the vicin-
ity In 1866 the Rev. John Kelly died and
was replaced by the Rev. Father Corri-
gan. In 1867 the Sisters purchased the
parochial rectory to which the Academy
was removed from a small frame build
ing in York street. In 1871 the Sisters
purchased the old church building. In
1889, August Il. the work of denolishing
the old church building and the erection
of the St. Aloysius Academy was begun.
The names of Pope Leo XIII, Bishop
Winand M. Wiggec, President Harrison,
Governor Green, Mayor Cleveland, Ar
chitect Herman krei.tler and Michael
Gain, and Patric}. Byrne, mason and
carpenter, were also deposited, together
with statues of the Holy Family, Catho-
lie periodicals and copies of the daily
papers of Jersey City, the ST.
Aloysius and Saint Benedict medals, pic
lures of st. Barbara and st. Vincent de
Paul and piece of ST. Vincent de Paul's
heart, relic brought from Rome by
Father Mercer.
THE BLESSING.
AS soon as the ceremony had been per-
formed the priests in procession mounted
the structure, and after marching to vari-
ous points, bestowing blessings, sur
rounded an elevated platform, from which
Rev Father Cassidy delivered short ad-
dress.
He said in substance that the occasion
which brought together so many of the
people of St. Peters parish was one OF
D ride and thanksgiving, of congratula-
tion and soul lifting. He explained the
part the priests took in the ceremony and
said it was proper that they, as Gods rep
so nobly begun by the Sisters of Charity
in connection with the education of the
young.
God, he said, should be placed fore
most in all works, whether of public or
private import. He spoke of the good
work Catholics were doing, and said even
t ose outside the church understood and
gave credit to Catholics today where they
did not in the past. He wished the Sis
ters God speed in their noble work.
COLONEL M'ANERNY'S SPEECH.
Father Cassidy introduced Colonel
John McAnerny, who made q stirring
appeal to Catholics and all others inter
ested in the work of educating the young
to assist the Sisters in carrying out their
noble project The building, he said,
would cost $75, 1000 The Sisters had
raised between $4,000 and 600 They
We're at present looking after the educa-
tion of 250 children.
The new building would increase the
facilities. It was to be five stories in
height, and would accommodate hundreds
of others. One of its best features was
the first floor, which was to be devoted
exclusively to evening entertainment for
the young shop and factory girls. Ar
rangements were to be made to have
them spend the evenings in profitable en-
ployment in the society of the Sisters; the
main efforts would be to make these en-
tertainments more attractive than street
promenading.
Sergeant Carroll, of the First Police
Precinct, with Gordon of police, kept the
sidewalks clear, and the gentlemanly
ushers from st, Peters Sodality Lyceum,
courueously managed the crowds admit
ted 60 the platform. They were Messrs.
Joe Martin, d. and I. Sullivan, W. Hart.
w. Fitzgerald, H. Laveny, X, Moylan, n.
Fitzhenry, Ralph Jordan, t. Rooney, 4.
Branagan, P. j. LiIlis, J. B. Conley and
Vice President J. j. Kelly.
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