Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-17
TO-DAY Is THE LAST.
Father Mollinger Expects to Rest
: After This Evening.
INVALIDS COME FROM FLORIDA.
One Little Girl Laid Aside Her Clutches
and Walked Away.
THOUSANDS STILL CROWD TROY HILL

NOTWITHSTANDING tne various reports tuab
Monday evening was the last occasion
upon which Father Mollinger would pub
licly receive the Mount Troy pilgrims until
after his return from his vacation. there was
scarcely any perceptible diminution in the
crowds of sick and infirm who thronged the
churchyard yesterday morning. From an
earlyhour the patients began to arrive in ones
and twos and long before O'Clock mass the
space surrounding the church was closely
packed with anxious worshipers. When the
doors were thrown open tho building was
crammed from one end to the other inside
very few minutes, and even then there were
hundreds outside who were unable to gain
admission. These followed the service as
best they could in the open air. This scene
was duplicated at the $ o'clock mass, a con-
siderable number of disappointed devotees
being obliged to content themselves with
the best vantage ground they could obtain
in street and churchyard..
At the close of the O'Clock service the
multitude, who had by that time been
largely augmented by fresh contingents, sat
themselves down to await the Fathers
pleasure. At least those who were so
fortunate as to secure seats did so. The
great majority were obliged to stand around
in more or less uncomfortable and pictures
que attitudes until the famous healer event
ually made his appearance about 1880. The
scenes of Monday were then again re-
enacted. Father Mollinger took up his posi-
ton in the office and proceeded to bless
pilgrim after pilgrim the motley crowd
passed through. A noticeable feature of the
morning was the great number of Southern
ers who were present. Numbers of people
have travelled from Georgia, North and
South Carolina, Louisiana, and even from
far distant Florida. Having received the
Fathers blessing they retired quite con-
tented most of them returning to the sunny
South by the afternoon trains.
During the morning, although the Father
merely pronounced his blessing and did not
supply either medicine or prescriptions,
some remarkable cures were reported.
Mamie Anderson Casts Clutches Aside.
Mamie Anderson, of Steubenville, O., a
bright little girl of some IA years, made her
second visit to Father Mollinger yesterday
morning. She had visited him last year for
the first time, and although her crutches
were not completely cast aside on that oc-
casion, she had expressed herself as much
benefited Since that time she had had an
attack of rheumatism, which almost nulllned
any good she had obtained from the Father,
and when she went in to receive the blessing
yesterday she was not by any means lkeIy
case for successful treatment. Marvellous to
relate after receiving the prlestly benedlc-
ton she left her crutches in the church ana
walked away unasS1sted. several OF the
residents on the hill youch 1or the accuracy
of this story.
Mrs. White, of Auburn, \. Y, arrived at
Mount Troy last week with her hands
swollen to an enormous size by rheumatic
pains. She left yesterday afternoon almost
perfectly cured.
r. L. Bisgood of Youngstown, o., who had
been treated by the Mount Troy healer ON
Saturday for blindness, has had his eye
Siui nd is Father
Mollinger's miraculous gift
What is considered to be the most wonder
ful case of the day was that Of Mrs. Frauen-
helm, wife of the well-known brewer of Pitts
burg. She was driven up to the hill yester-
day morning in a carriage, and had to be
carried into the church on an 1nvalld's
chair. She was suffering from paralysis ana
was unable to move without assistance.
Upon being taken in to Father Mollinger
that gentleman requested that the building
be cleared and when the necessary clearance
cure of the patient After short time
spent in prayer
She Rose Up and Walked.
Mrs. Frauenheim received the blessing of
the Father and was ordered by him to arise
and walk This she finally did after one or
two unsuccessful attempts, and with slight
aid from the Father she walked slowly to
the door of her carriage. At this point the
tension upon her. nerves began to tell and
she swayed slightly from side to side. She
would have fallen had she not been assisted
by friends. In the carriage she somewhat
regained her new found power and appeared
to be quite another person from the helpless
woman who was carried into the building.
Among the other cases of mira aculouS cure
may be mentioned that of a young colored
girl who entered the church on two
crutcheS and was able to return home on one
only. 4 young man also left his erutcheS
to!fnd and walked away with the aid of
some friends. These are but few of the
numberless cases which Troy Hill residents
claim to have been performed yesterday
morning.
Intense indignation is manifested by resi-
dents on the Hill at the statement that
Father Mollinger has made a good thing out
of the pilgrims who thronged to the Church
of the Holy Name during the past few days.
They.deny that either the Father or any of
the attendants everasked any of the patients
to contribute to the otfertory, and laugh at
the story of the enormous sums paid into the
treasury by the patients. In scarcely any
case, they say, do the patients give more
than dollar at a time. Many give 50 cents,
more q quarter, and some have even given
nothing more than dime. The poor, as a
rule, give nothing.
In the afternoon the Father denied him
self to all comers and refused to see any
patients. Most of the latter had, however,
been blessed that morning and had returned
home. A few still remained hoping against
hope and will try again tomorrow.
Father Mollinger last evening said he
would again bless the people to-day. He in
tends to leave the city after to-day and the
date of his return is uncertain. The rever-
end gentleman seemed completely broken
up and bore evident traces of the fatigue
which he has endured during the past week