The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-06

ing good-by to his friends, which are legion,
at the Youths Directory. 2O35 Howard
street, over which he presides. There was
series of receptions during the day. Father
Crowley is one of the best known priests
in San Francisco.
1t was his zeal, skill and ceaseless energy
that made the directory the splendid
home for orphan boys that it is to-day. He
is to San Francisco what the late Father
Drumgool was to New York-father and
friend to the boys of the street.
Father Crowley will attend the centen-
airy of Maynooth, the great ecclesiastical
college OF Ireland, where thousands OF
brilliant young priests were graduated
and sent forth to teach Christian love and
doctrine in distant lands. The centenary
will occur in June. The Irish priests up to
1875 were educated in Paris or Louvain, at
Antwerp, Isle or Douay, at Bordeaux or
Rouen. at Salamanca or at st. Isidore's.
In 1879 the Irish Parliamen t-for Ireland
was an independent nation then and this
country had ceased to be colony-estab-
ished Maynooth College with a grant of
$4,000 a year. In 1845 the grant was in
creased to EGG, 300 a year, and from that time
forth Maynooth became great theological
school.
It was the intention of Father Crowley s
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OF their respect and esteem on the eve of
his departure, and at least a purse of $1,000
was in sight when the reverend gentleman
learned of the project and at once informed
the committee, notwithstanding the deep
gratitude he felt at the generous compli-
ment which his friends had intended to
confer upon him, he was nevertheless I'M
alterably opposed to accepting the testi-
monial for his private or personal use.
A lornra Of friends ~
Father Crowley, assembled last evening at
st. Charles Hall, Eighteenth and Shotwell
streets, and proceeded thence in a BODY to
the Youths Directory, for the purpose OF
wishing "God-speed'' to the reverend pres.
ident of the institution, Father Crowley.
The reverend gentleman warmly well
coined his visitors, and during the evening
was the recipient OF the most hearty assur-
ances of the esteem and good will which
they, in common with their fellow-citizens
in general, entertain toward him.
His long years of labor in providing
shelter, maintenance and education for
the homeless boys of the City, and his I'M
firing efforts for the moral and social well
fare of the working masses OF our
people with whom he is so deservedly
popular were themes upon which the
speakers dwelt with evident pleasure, and
it must have been gratifying to the good
father to observe the warmth and sincerity
of their utterances. In speaking of the
action of his friends in regard to the pc
cuniary offering which they intended to
present him, and which was abandoned in
obedience to his own positive and peremp-
tory request, the reverend father declared
that the proofs of their friendship in this
particular respect, although not accepted
by him, would, nevertheless, be always
held in his grateful remembrance.
Among the gentlemen present were:
Rev. P. ]. Cummins, Rev. w. G. O'Ma-
hony, Matthew l. Sullivan, jeremiah Ma
honey, DR.. NJ. c. O'Toole, John NJ. Bur-
nett, DR.. ]. f. Gibbon, D. J. Costello, John
B. Mcintyre, T. P. Riordan, Thomas r.
Zimmerman, Charles McAuliffe, DR.. John
Gallagher, Charles McCrystal, John Blake,
jeremiah Deasy, A. B. Mcguire, Thomas
Crimmins, George Lainey, Edward Fay,
Captain James Fallon, Thomas Fay, Ed
ward j. Coffey, ]. Kelleher and E. ]. Ma
honey.