The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-07-21
CATHOLIC YOUNG MEN
The Y. NJ. l. Welcome Home
Their Grand President.
What Has Been Done to Establish an Ameri-
can Catholic Fraternity in the East.
Ihs Grand Parade.

The local institutes Of the Young Mems
Institute were largely represented yester-
day afternoon at Metropolitan Temple, the
occasion being a reception to Grand Presi-
dent Hon. jeremiah f. Sullivan on his re-
turn from tour of the Eastern States,
where he had been in the interests of the
organization, establishing branches in the
cities and doing the missionary work of
the national Catholic fraternity.
An assemblage of intelligent, respectable,
representative young men greeted the
Grand President with generous, hearty
welcome and round after round of applause
when he took his seat on the platform with
the grand officers.
Judge Murasky, who is an enthusiastic
member of the Y. NJ. l., delivered brief,
but appropriate and eloquent address of
welcome to the Grand President on behalf
of the San Francisco institutes. He said
that while the obvious purpose of the
meeting was the welcoming home of the
Grand President from his tour in the East
ern States, there was another purpose in
this gathering. Looking back over the
history of the institute there were eras,
epOchs that dated from just such occasions
as the present. Alter sketching the history
OF the order during the past seven years,
he referred to the time, two years since,
when the institute set its face toward the
east; and now there was a gathering in the
place of its birth TO welcome back its repre-
sentative and hear his story of his expert
ences on the Atlantic shores.
THE GRAND PRESIDENTS STORY.
Grand President Sullivan advanced to the
lectern amid rousing cheers. and when the
applause subsidized began his address. He
said he was delighted beyond power of eX-
preston to be home in his own city again
and amid the friends of lifetime. When
elected Grand President year ago he felt
it the greatest honor ever conferred upon
him. and since then he has felt he owed it
to the institute to organize and establish 1t
firmly beyond the Rockies. He had met
with some disappointments East, but with
some great successes, and had planted
mustard seeds in the great cities that would
grow apace.
In Nevada on his way East, he was roy
ally received by the institutes, and he found
the order in q fluurishing condition there
with membership of highly respected and
honorable men. In Salt Lake he was well
received. Bishop Seaman is in favor Of the
institute, and branches will soon be per-
manently established in that city.
lie was met with a pleasing warmth Of
feeling in Denver and predicts that the in
stitute will have many branches there be-
fore long. The leading Catholic people of
Omaha received him well. The institute is
prospecting there and will soon have more
branches than No. 13S with its 125 members.
An institute is being organized in Kansas
City.
The one great difficulty to be met in
Eastern cities is the number of local Cath
ole organizations on parish lines. so
strongly are these established in this way
that one parish society knows nothing of
that of the adjoining parish. The Grand
President told the people and clergy who
upheld these societies of the Y. NJ. l., its
i'll.
and its superiority over the narrow minded
ness of the small local bodies. You must
get beyond the precincts of the little par
ish," said he, ito have an ennobling fra
ternity of American Catholic manhood.
The time has come that Catholics have at
tanned that position numerically and finan-
cially, that Importance, they must establish
fraternity all over the land"
AN INFUSION OF RACES.
The institute is doing well in Cincinnati
and will prosper there, as 1t makes no dis
tinction of nationality. All races may be
infused into one American Catholic frater-
nifty. This was a strong argument in favor
of the order with Archbishop Elder of Gin
cinati. An institute is organizing in st.
Paul, and has the sanction of Archbishop
ireland, who told Judge Sullivan, You
have got the best plan of Catholic Or
ganization in this country"
In Altoona. Pa, there are two institutes,
one fi0urishing; in Scranton one with
large membership. The institute is doing
well in Kentucky, where there will soon be
at least half a dozen branches. 1t is also
gaining foothold over other societies in
the big cities.
Frank I. Shea spoke in response to a call
from the house He said the time had ar
rived when all doubts as to the success of
the institute had passed away forever.
George w. Paterson, Secretary of the
Committee of Arrangements for the Grand
Council next month, read full report of
work done by the various committees, aud
which has appeared from week to week in
THE CALL. Several country institutes will
come to the city and take part in the parade
on the morning of August 4th, some with
their own bands of music, and all display
ing the American flag and the institute
banner.
A mass-meeting will be held on the after
noon Of August Sd in Metropolitan Temple
to complete arrangements for the street
parada