San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-10-13
FATHER MAL0NE'S
GOLDEN JUBILEE CELEBRATION
Big Reception at the Brooklyn
Academy of Music.

BROOKLYN, Oct. 13.-Arrange-
ments have been completed for the
golden jubilee of the Rev. Father
Sylvester Malone, the pastor of the
Roman Catholic church of SITS.
Peter and Paul, Brooklyn. There
will be a high mass celebrated in
the church tomorrow, and Tues
day, Oct. 16, a big reception will
be rendered to Father Malone at
the Brooklyn Academy Of music.
Father Malone is one Of the Re-
gents of the University of the
State of New York.
1t was on August s, 1874, that
Father Malone ordained and APP
pointed pastor of the church Of
SITS. Peter and Paul, in what after
ward became the Eastern District
of Brooklyn. He has continued
in that relation ever since, with
constantly widening circle of in
fuence; and the final seal of APP
probation and approval of his SER
vices as good and useful citizen
was set in the action Of the Legis-
lature of the present year, which
elected him member Of the Uni
Yersity of the State of New York.
The observance Of Father Ma
lone's fiftieth anniversary will take
two forms. In the first place,
there will be religious celebra-
ton in his church tomorrow morn
ing, which will be attended not
only by the members of his own
congregation, who are devoutly
attached to him, but by the mayor
officers of the city government,
and various well-known citizens.
On Tuesday evening, October 16,
the civic part Of the jubilee will
take place in the Academy of
music. This promises to be one
of the important occasions in the
history of that building. To find
a parallel to it one must 60 back
to the public celebration of Mr..
Beecher's seventieth birthday in
1883. The people of Brooklyn,
without reference to religious lines,
will unquestionably assemble in
large numbers to testify their es.
TEEN and affection for Father Ma
lone. Mayor Schieren will pre-
side, and among the speakers, it is
expected, will be st. Clair Nickel
way, a fellow-member of the Board
Of Regents; the Rev. DR.. r. s..
Storrs, the Bev. DR.. Lyman Alb.
bolt, DR.. Truman J. Backus and
other men prominent in the re-
ligious educational and civic life of
Brooklyn. Even if the evening
should be stormy, it is safe to say
that the Academy of Music will be
far too small to accommodate the
people who will be eager to attend
this notable gathering.
Father Malone was born in Ire
land, in County Meath, about
twenty miles from Dublin, on
May s, 1921, and accordingly is
now in his seventy-fourth year.
His parents were in tolerably good
circumstances, and early in life he
was put in the way of good ed
vocational influences. When he
was S0NShOSSu JSblS VI dSO hO was
induced to try his fortunes in the
New World by his cousin, the Rev.
Andrew Bryne, then pastor of st.
James Roman Catholic church, in
New York City. Father Byrne
subsequently became the Bishop
of Little Rock, and urged young
Malone to accompany him to the
Southwest. The latter, however,
preferred to remain in the East,
and, as it proved, soon entered the
field of labor in which he was to
spend his life. He pursued his
studies at st. Jones Seminary, in
Fordham, and completed them in
1S43. On the 18th of August in
that year he was ordained in the
Mott Street Cathedral, in New
York, by Bishop McCloskey. 1t
was the first ordination performed
by that prelate-a fact which has
always been of singular interest to
Father Ma1Onn