The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-12-02


Ollie Church. Miss Grant. it IS said, ignor-
ed the request, and the result was an
appeal to Bishop Wigger, who issued the
letter mentioned.
One fine day the home on Harrison ave.
was closed and the neighbors imagined the
Bishops letter had driven Miss Grant out
of the business, but they were mistaken.
She hired No. SO Ocean avenue, once a
boarding house and lately DR.. Kelley
Gold Cure Institute, and here the home
was re-established.
The house stands back from the street,
and is surrounded with a large garden.
On one of the pillars of the portico is
the legend, Home for the Blind and as
light is not necessary for these unfortun-
ate people the blinds are always carefully
drawn and the shutters on the top and
side windows securely fastened.
About the time of the removal of the
home Miss Grant had the institution in
corporated, she says, under New Jersey S
laws under the title of Our Lady of Per-
petual Help with herself president
To ascertain the facts about the cor
poration a News" reporter called on
her this morning.
4sAis-s Nj dail - d NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
aged woman, the darkness of whose eyes
is intensified by a pair of speetacles NShe
was very polite, but exceedingly uncom-
municative. She didn't care rap for the
newspapers, she said, and philosophically
remarked that if they said false things
about her she wasn't going to bother to
set them right, and if they praised her
she didn't care for praise.
who are the officers of your corpora
tion?" she was asked.
Il am the President and who the other
officers are is not of any public impor-
tance," she coldly replied. On being pres
sed to talk about young Clifford she
became very indignant and said
"That boy is bad, very bad. He never
had any money when he came here, al
though l. have heard him tell the chill
dren that he had $1,000. He was taken
care of; but he is untruthful, deceitful
and gave me lots of trouble. l was oblig-
ed to separate him from the others be-
cause he was perverting them.
Miss Grant admitted that she was the
person referred to by the Bishop, but re-
piled that it was due to the jealousy of
the Sisters of Peace and certain priest
who induced Father Hennessy to write to
the Bishop. As for the name Catholic
Home" which she was accused of using
when making her collections, she replied.
Eyes, / use the word Catholic of course;
but I did not say Roman Catholic
mean by Catholic, something which is
broad and universal as the names implies.
l have a perfect right to say my home
is a Catholic home because its spirit is
Catholic Have I not Protestallts as well
as Catholics in it?
Beyond this Miss Grant had nothing to
say and tremendously bowed her visitor
out.
A very prominent priest was afterwards
seen, and he said that the Bishop had
sent the letter concerning the Home. be-
cause many Catholics were contributing
to it thinking it was the duly authorized
place for the blind children of the parish.
You know we have the Sisters of
Peace, whose blind institution in Jersey
City is affiliated with our church. The
institution presided over by Miss Grant
as foreign home. BY the way, she is
not sister, although she wears the dress
of one. L'habit ne fait pas la religieuse,
you know"