The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-09-18
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ST. ALOYSIUSP PARISH
Bids for the New West
Side Church Opened
Last Tuesday.
CORNER STONE SOON TO BE LAID
Sunday School Now Established
With Two Hundred Pu-
pils-Gsnsral News.

1T the Office of N. e. Smith q son,
architects. of Newark avenue, for the con-
struction of the new st. Aloysius Church
on West Side avenue, between K~enslngtoh
and Belmont avenues. The property was
bought from the Condict estate iasl
spring for 5000. The different branches
of the work were awarded to the folioW-
ing contractors:-Mason work, James Bill
nngton; carpenter work, John Lane,
plumbing work, Ferguson & Kelleher, ana
the iron work will be furnished by the
Pagan Iron Works of Hoboken. N
building, when completed, will cost S2o,Voo-
Thomas Fallon is doing the excavating
and getting the ground ready for the
mason work. ssss7
The work was started yesterday morn
ing and the e~xcavating will be hnlsheo
by this evening. None of the dirt VIII
b taken away, but will be used for ming
in purposes. around the, new church when
1t is completed. The building will be
ninety-hve feet deep and forty-two feet
wide. The building will be a two-story
one with a basement. which VIII De con-
crete. Iron columns at each corner VIII
be used as supports, with four iron giraefs
running raoross,ia support the beams OF
the first floor. ~
The first floor will be used as the church
and whenefinished will be very handsome.
The seating capacity. win be about nine
hundred. The top, .tieoE will be used as
the Sunday School room and hall for
lectures and entertainments. This Will De
fitted up with newechairs and benches ana
will be a very cosy room indeed. me
church will be of red brick with granite
trimmings and will sit back about thirty
feet from the sidewalk. Gardens and
flower beds will be laid out after the COM
pletion of the church, which will give
the place a very beautiful appearance
1t was last May that the first mass
was celebrated in the new Roman Catholic
parish OF st. Aloysius, and since then it
has grown very rapidly indeed. There
are now twelve hundred \souls in the
parish and the need of new quarters be-
comes more and more apparent every
day. Father John A. Sullivan has charge
of the parish and it was, he that said the
first mass last May.
The present quarters are in Donohue's
Hall on West sid avenue near Mont
Romery street. To be sure the place is
invested with but little of the atmosphere
of a grand cathedral. but sincerity is a
characteristic of the members of the
parish and they are helping Father Sull1-
van along with all their might. The seat
ing, capacity of the hall is about three
hundred, just about one-half large
enough to accommodate the Catholics of
the rapidly rising parish. As the work on
the new church is being pushed very
rapidly this unpleasant state of things VIII
not long continue.
OF course there are no peWs in the nan
and the chairs are of various descriptions.
The altar is of wood, but despite its plain
ness it is kept r~esplendent with flowers
and lighted candles which gives 1.-THE
beauty It lacks. At both Of the masses
on Sundays the little hall is always
crowded and Father Sullivan is COM
PEELED to say massAfor the children at
half-past ten.
The childreH take great delight in pick
ing wild flowers to decorate the altar, of
which a statue of st. Aloysius constitutes
the principal adornment. There are no
side affairs in the hail.
A Sunday school was established last
week with an attendance of over two
hundred little ones. Father Sullivan has
this work in his personal charge, though
twelve teachers have volunteered assist
ance. For the present instructiontwil be
given in the hall.
The ladies of the parish have organized
Sullivan along with the work. Confess
sions are also heard each Saturday even
ing in the hall. Father Sullivan is a man
of great personal magnetism and is an
excellent preacher. He never fails to
charm his listeners. He is highly graft
fled with the admirable spirit displayed
by the people of West Side avenue and
the new parish. Under Father Sullivan's
parish and with the help of the congre--
CATION st. .Aloysius' will soon be up
among the leaders.