Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-15
TROY Hill Resumes Its Normally
Quiet Aspect on the Departure
of Many Pilgrims, but
HUNDREDS ARE YET REMAINING
To See Father Mollinger Before He Leaves
for Trip to Some Quiet
Health Resort.
SOME INSTANCES OF CURES EFFECTED.
A Patient Refused at Hotels Spends the Day at the
Union Depot

undisturbed and suburban tranquility and
sleepiness, so rudely broken in upon during
the past week by the numbers of infirm peo-
pie of every degree who had arrived to par
ticipate in the ceremonies of st. Anthony s
| Dav. An air of general relief pervaded
the place, and big sigh of the same intan-
| gible quality-and also of satisfaction-was
| given vent TO by clearinghouse keepers as
they rested in their gardens during the aft
ernoon and made mental calculations of the
profits derived from the pilgrims. The
ordinary residents once more were
allowed some share of the sidewalks and
| bed to themselves, and reflected with pride
that the settlement on the hill was begin
ming to be recognized as worthy place on
the map. Probably 500 travellers hither in
search of health set out homeward on Sat
urday night and yesterday, but good many
| still remain to see the now famous remover
! of bodily ills.
None but the regular Sunday services
were celebrated yesterday. The first mass
was, as usual, said at 7:3O o'clock by Father
Mollinger, the aext at $50 o'clock, by
Father Schmidt, and the same clergyman
! Sd1u nlgn mass at ~ o CLOCK.
Father MoIlinger's Usual Blessing.
The attendance at the late mass was very
| large, and the space in front of the church,
on Cark street, was packed with people
when priest from Sharpsburg appeared at
| the door and delivered a sermon on Com
munication With Saints Father Mol
| linger stood beside him as he spoke. At
the conclusion of the mass the venerable
| priest-physician gave the blessing, as usual.
Making allowance for the ordinary con-
| gregation, some 500 persons would be an
estimate of the number of people suffering
from some disability or other who
still remain on the mount to
see Father Mollinger. The vespers at
o'clock in the afternoon were sung by
Father Schmidt, and about !, 800 persons at
tended them, 600 of whom found accommo-
dation in the church and the rest followed
| the singing of the canticles through the
open door. Benediction following closed
the exercises for the day. As soon as the
congregation had passed out, number of
people, mostly women, filed into the church
and took turns kissing the carved image of
an angels head, which embellished the
wooden pedestal of the pulpit. Hands
were passed over the woodwork and then
applied to the various parts of the head and
face.
The Collection Plate Not Forgotten.
Passing before the shrine of st. Anthony,
in going out again, many deposited coins on
glass plate in the midst of the bank of
flowers which decorated the altar Quite a
number of Pittsburgers visited the
church and vicinity during the day,
impelled through curiosity born of
the renown which the celebrated priest has
attained as a dispenser of health Among
them were several newspaper men not con-
nected with the hustling end of newspaper
work and a number of lawyers One of the
latter asked THE DISPATCH reporter what
! especial benefit was derived by kissing the
head of the wooden angel, but no answer of
a satisfactory nature could be returned.
''It reminds me-" he said, "of the father
of economic mind who locked up the cheese
in the cupboard instead of placing it on the
table. His boys used to rub their bread
against the cupboard door in expectation,
kindled of lively imagination, that some
of the tastiness of the cheese would exude
and attach itself to the bread The father
encouraged them in doing this, as the dry
bread would taste as pleasantly if they
thought they had cheese with it as if they
really had, and it was economical ~
One of the attendants who was asked for an
| explanation of this reverence for the frame
work of the pulpit could not afford any,
Nearly 90 people left the Miller, Hassen-
meier and Buch boarding houses on Satur-
day, and the proprietors were well pleased
| They were all worn out after the unusual
worry of the last week. Proprietor Miller
said his wife had beer so much worried that
they would not undertake the same con-
tract again next year. He said he would
sell his house and go away altogether The
Hotel Hoch did a land Office business during
the week. About $50 mealers were accom-
modated each day, and the amount of beer
| dispensed across the bar would have suffced
for three downtown saloons.
Big Business for a New Road
The Troy Hill electric cars were well pa
tronized yesterday There were IA running,
more than during Saturday, when they were
so badly needed, illustrating the fact that
the management was made wise after the
event. The number of passengers during
the week ending Saturday was about q, ,0OO
Among the travellers yesterday were two
ladies from Iowa. They were attracted to
through Dutchtown one of them asked
gentleman where Troy Hill was.
"Just above us, was answered.
Goodness me-" exclaimed the lady, "do
you call that hill? We would call it a
mountain out in Iowa. :"
''Oh, YOU are only at the foot of the
mountains now," explained the resident
There was a good deal of talk about
cure reported to have been effected in the
case of Lad named Martin Levin, of Bar
ker village, Niagara county, n. Y. 1t was
said he had come there totally unable to
walk and had quite recovered the use OF his
limbs yesterday. The DISPATCH reporter
called to investigate and found that the
boy had, according to his statement, been
| benefited.
The Story Told by Crippled Boy.
~ was crippled when only year old q" he
said, Sand the doctors whom mother brought
in did me no good L had to be carried to
the train at Buffalo, but when 1 came here
on Friday night l could walk with the
assistance of my mother. l must say that |
can walk much easier than could, and he
demonstrated the fact by walking from one
room to the other with the assistance of
stick"
James Goodwin, middle-agcd man from
Cameron county, was sitting in garden in
a wheeled chair He had been crippled for
eight years, but was much better. He said
he expected to walk vet.
Jerry Ryan, young railroader of Nash
vile, with his brothers, John Ryan and J.
W. Quinn, were at the Union depot last
night on their way home. Young Ryan
lay in cot in the lalies' waiting room from
IL o'clock in the morning until train time,
at 9:45 o'clock His half-brother, Quinn,
tried to get him the accommodation of