The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-05-22
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o'hcr New Workers Given TIiIe.,
NEW foRS, May 9l.-The news from
homo that Colonel George Bliss has
pech ennobled by ropc Loo XIII, giyos
that Now York lawyer aud politician II
notable distinction, Ito has boon iMado
q commentators Of tho ordor Of 81.
Gregory tho Groat, and rs tho number
Oh theso II llmi,od to sovonty, Colonel
Bliss thds himself In u select circle, nn,I
q scattered II at that, ainco lis mem d.
Dots nfe Of all countries. II Is doubtful
II tho nope. who Ia II man Of q thousand
cafos. knows Colonel BlisS vol enough
tosiiglc him out for especial distinction,
and 1t was tho Metropolitan OF Now
York, Archbishop Corrlgau, who recon.
mended tho honoring OF the colonel, rs
isMaual IN such casus.
There Ia moro "homo rule" n, Amori.
can politicians put 1t. in tho Church Of
Romo than 10 generally known. 1t is
on record that tho former cardinal
nrchbishopotN Now York, DR.. McCloskev,
ilatly refused to endorse ono appoint.
mont that had been whoedled out Of
good natnred Plus IN. And thoro have
been othor cases. But Colonel bliss
now tito will stand.
Colonel Bliss Is n convert TO tho
Roman Catholic faith, aud is an on.
thnsiast, A number OF years ago, when
William Waldorf Astor represented tho
United States at Rome, tho bankrup.
Italian government seized tho Amori.
can College, and even threatened to
loot tho vatican with its priceless works
oil art and literature. American Catho.
lies wore aroused, and mono moro so
than Colonel Bliss. Tho Republican
secretary OF state, a friend Of Colonel
Bliss, rs was the then President, was
appealed to. with tho result that Italy
was warned through Mr.. Astor, 10 keep
its hands of the American College,
which it did. 1t is for this tina. Colonel
Bliss has beon rewarded with n tito.
There arc three classes in the order
Of ST. Gregory tho Great Tho "Grea.
Gross" Is limited to thirty, the common.
da,ori to seventy and tho chovaliers to
800. Colonel Bliss may hereafter wear
n cross OF eight points, tho points In rcd
enamel bordorod with gold and radiat.
ing from n gold centre having on Il tho
head OF St. Gregory. Tho cross Is at.
lachcd to q small wreath OF gold and
green enamel, which ia hung around
tho neck from n broad red ribbon with
n yellow border. Moreover. Colonel
Bliss may wear n uniform, though he Is
not compelled to 10 80. in which q blue
coat embroidered with silver, white
trousers. a sword and n cooked hat lg-
ure. As the colonel is q plain Ameri-
can in spite OF his title, he will proba.
bly, foreso the uniform.
These honors really mean no moro in
one sense than 4 honorary degree con-
fered by q university. but, offered to so
few, that excite lcmulation, and 1t ia n
fact that many Catholics look upon
them much as a Frenchmsn does on tho
cross OF tho Legion OF Honor, or an
Enclishman on a membership in tho
Order OF the Bath. Colonel George Bliss
ia the second New Yorker to become Il
commentators OF the Order OF St. Gre
cory. The other is Major John D.. kel.
ley, a New York business man, living
in Brooklyn, and the close personal
friend o.! Cardinal James Gibbons, Of
Baltimore.
Another New York business n who
has boen honored by tho Pope is John
Good, who is a count OF the holy Roman
empire. He is n rope manufacture,
whose fight against tho Cordago Trus:
attracted 40 much attention.
Colonel Coppinger. who married n
daughter OF James G. Blaine, and who
served Plus IN in the papal Zouaye,,
was honorcd with n title and decora.
lions by that prelate. There is a printer
in New York, James Ladley By name,
who was decorated BY the pope for sim
liar service. Red Jin" McDermott.
the intormer whom the Clan.nu.Gael
run out OF America some years ago, was
4 chevalier in the Order OF St. Gregory
the Great, and is yet il he is alive. Elo
ran away from his home in Ireland. and
joined the papal army. II is not on re-
cord that he did any fighting, but he
had a soft post of duty near tho pope,
and his assumed piety rather than his
rash bravery led Pope Plus 20 honor
him with a title.
1t was widely circulated at one time
that James G.. Blaine wore a phpal dec
Grafton, especially after he was sun
struck, in 1876. on the steps OF tho CAPT.
toll At Washington. The friends who
rushed to his assistance, on ieaEng
open his shirt, found n small medal,
which had been hung about his neck
by his mother. who was a devout Cath
Ollie. though his father was not. Mr..
Blaine WAS no, 4 Catholic. and was not
decorated by a pope, though it would
probably have Caused him no uneasi-
meas il he had been.
Tho pope cmpha,ically indorsed the
comforting OF n modal on Augustin DAILY
By the University Of Notre Dame for
the theatrical managers work in ele.
waiting the drama. There arc other
Americans, too, whom the pope has
honorod when recommended to do so.
Tho late Eugene Kelly, OF Now York.
could have been decorated any number
OF times owing to his philanthropy and
love OF his church. But he shrank from
publicity OF and sort. Tho same is truo
OF Patrick Farrelly. president OF tho
American News Company. Of New York.