The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-26

time, when the enemy were still crowd
ing and fighting for the gap, the cry
went out from the Union soldiers for
mere ammunition. Many Of our boys
had used up their forty rounds and
were replenishing their cartridge box
es from those of their dead comrades
L was then that, walking amid ths shot
and shell, came I smooth-shaVen, tall
angular young man in the dress of a
chaplain. Upon his shoulder he carried
a heavy box, and as he walked along
just back of the soldiers he yelled out
from time to time:
Here are cartridges for you, boys.
Here are more cartridges for you!'
And so he went along the line. the
soldiers reaching back and grabbing
the cartridges by the handfuls and
then turning again with new ammuni-
ton upon the struggling enemy. And
so through all that fight this smooth
shaver chaplain moved back and forth
carrying ammunition 30 the men to
whom he had preached only a few
nights before. He kept it up until at
last when tire eVeriCg. shades began to
fail the battle closed with a victory
+ fer the Union ftrces. Then it was dis
covered that the brave chaplain was
missing. Father Ireland, for it was he
who carried the cartridges to the men,
could nowhere be found. The greatest
concern prevailed. and almost all
thought that his bravery had cost him
his life. There was an anxious search
among the wounded, when in an i'm
provised hospital on the outer edge of
! Corinth the young priest was found
unhurt. but still at work speaking
words of comfort and cheer to the
wounded and the dying"
FATHER IRELAND's FUTURE.
Such was the Father Ireland OF 1882.
| He was only twentyfour years old
| then. He is fiftynine years old today,
| and the thirty-fve years which have
gone by since the battle Of Corfnth
have been years full of work for him.
Every one knows his ecclesiastical Ia
bcrs Outside of this he has done great
! things for the country and his people.
! One of his schemes was to establish
colonies in the unoccupied lands Of
| Minnesota and Dakota In order to take
| care of the poor people of the tenement
| districts of the big Eastern cities and
! to save the emigrants from the tempta-
| items and dangers which are found in
such quarters. He founded number
of such settlements, and several thriv-
| ing little towns are due to his efforts.
Another great thing which he ATTEMPT
! ed, but in which, through the panic, he
! failed, was the building of a n1agnifi-
| cent cathedral here in st. Paul. and in
connection with this well endowed
school He expected to do this out of
his own means. He was q man of good
| business ability, and his real estate in
| yeStmentS a few years ago were such
! that [ am told had he sold out at that
| time he would have been worth some
thing less than $2,000000. The hard
| times, however, made such a Shrink
age in real estate that suburban prop
erty dropped from the value of several
| thousand dollars an acre to almost
nothing, and the archbishop's wealth
| faded away under the shadow Of the
depressed money market. He had bor-
roWed upon his holdings in real estate
about one-tenth OF their value. but this
tenth was hardly enough at forced sale
to bring the amount of the debt, and
without there is a great revival
in real estate the archbishop VIII not be
able to regain the immense fortune he
had.
TALK WITH THE ARCHBISHOP.
The archbishop has beautiful house
about two miles from the center of the
| CITY. 1t was by telephone that we
| arranged for an appointment there,
and later on 1 met him again in the
pastors house next to the cathedral
! in st. Paul. He was at first rather
averse to an interview for publication,
but. as he grew interested in my ques-
lions, his words came forth hot and
| fast. and had trouble in holding them
in all their meaning. AT times the
archbishop spoke slowly and medita-
lively, and again. as he warmed up to
his subject, he arose and walked up
and down the floor. giving me striking
ideas at the rate of zoe words per min
ute. Throughout the talk l was struck
with his evident earnestness and his
high-spirited points of view. One of
my first questions was as to whether
we should ever have universal or O