Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-06-08


Emily haas. New York City; Miss
olannle Cannon, McKeesport, Pa; Miss
Agnes DICK, Canton; Genevieve Mo-
ran' Blanche Moran Barr, Emmelton.
Pa; Henrietta D. Murphy, 81, Pitts
ourg' Misses Lennox, Lynn, Mass;
Misses Mary, Sallle and Frances Tier
ney, weston, w. Va; Miss Mary Dor
sev' Grafton; Miss Lizzie Malady, Pitts
burg; Mrs. Slater, Washington, Pa.
In addition there were visiting Off
Gals of the church, not only from this
diocese out from many points remote
from IL, they including Archbishop
Martlnelli, the Apostolic Delegate to the
United States, of Washington, D. c.;
Rev. DR.. Booker, his secretary, Arch
bishop j. j. Kahn, of st. Louis, Bishop
Phelan, OF Pittsburg, Bishop Waiter
son, of Columbus, Bishop Horstmann,
OF Toledo, and great many of the Rev.
Fathers, including among the number
Rev. Father O'Connor, V. G., of Clarks-
burg; Rev. Father Stenger, of Charles
ton, and generally all the priests from
West Virginia, and a number from
Eastern Ohio and Pittsburg, as we'll as
the representatives Of the monastic or
ders.
When the train arrived at the Mount
yesterday morning the visitors were &C
corded that hearty welcome so charac-
teristlc of the sisters in charge, and
after the innumerable greetings and
salutations the arrivals dispersed
through the building or took seats as
signed to them in the chapel by the
ushers in attendance. About half-past
ten the
SOLEMN PONTIFICIAL MASS
which opened the jubilee ceremonies
began, with the following officiating:
Celebrant, RI Rev. Bishop Donohue,
D. D.; archpriest Rev. F. 2. Rocker, D.
D., secretary of the apostolic delega-
ton; deacons of honor, Very Rev. DAN
iel O'Connor, V. G., of Clarksburg, and
Very Rev. Joseph Stenger, R. D., of
Charleston; deacons of the mass, Rev.
John McElligott, of Grafton; subdea-
con, Rev. Robert e. O'Kane, of Parkers-
! burg; deacons of honor to His Excel
ency, Most Rev. Sebastian MartInelli,
D. D., Rev. j. Mullen, Wheeling, and
Rev. T. Duffy, of Wellsburg; deacons
of honor to Most Rev. Archbishop Kahn,
D. D., Rev. M. Fitzpatrick and Rev. H.
McMenamin.
| The altar presented a most handsome
| appearance, with its many candles.
| splendid furnishings and its decora-
lions of fresh flowers. The music was
| conducted by Mrs. George Feeny, of
| this city, with Mr.. Charles A. Buckley,
| of Parkersburg, organist, Miss Sullivan
| soprano and quarette consisting OF
! Mrs. Moran, Of Grafton, Mrs. Truschell,
Of this city, and Messrs. H. w. Hughes
and ]. Front, also of Wheeling, a COM
petent chorus, and the Opera House or
| chestra. The mass sung was Weber,
Mass in G., and during its progress q
notable Interpolation was the Inter-
mezzo from Mascagnis "Cavaliera Rus
tlcana," by Mr.. Hughes. At suitable
| moment Bishop DOnahue announced to
| the congregation the receipt of cable
gram from His Holiness the Pope,
| transmitting his benediction upon the
institution and those connected with It.
THE ADDRESS
| to the congregation was by Rt. Rev.
Archbishop J. J. Kahn, of St. Louis, and
was as follows:
And thou shalt sanctify the fiftieth
year.'-Levit. XIV. 10.
Most Rev; Apostolic Delegate, Rt Rev.
| and Rev. Fathers, my children of the
clOiSter, and my brethren of the laity:-
Fifty years ago, the National Road,
| which passes a few hundred yards north
| of this spot, the great thoroughfare
and artery of commerce between the East
and the territory lying west of the Ohio
river The public conveyance of that day
| was the old-fashioned stage coach, drawn
six, eight or ten miles, BY night as well
| as by day these coaches We're driven over
| the mountains from Cumberland to
| Wheeling and from Wheeling to Cumber-
| land-a long and fatiguing Journey. Such
| at least it would seem to us in these days
| of palace cars and rapid transit-and such
| doubtless it seemed to the travellers OF
! half a century ago.
Just fifty years ago, on chilly spring
| day, the 4th of April, 1S4S, one of these
| stages rolled along over yonder road and
| descending yonder hill, drew up in Wheel
| ing at the corner Of the streets now
known as Fourteenth and Eof-the loca-
ton at present of St. Joseph's Convent
| and Academy The house then standing
there, and still standing there. though
much enlarged. had been the residence OF
occupants of that stage coach? Eight
| Sisters of the Visitation from the Balti-
| more Convent and their faithful friend
and escort, Mr.. Moore. These eight Sis
| tiers We're: Mother Eleanora Walsh. Sis
ter Clara Agnes Jenkins, Sister Victoria
| Salmon. Sister Borgia Tubman, Sister Ra-
| phael Sewers, Sister NJ Frances Sprnal
| Sister NJ. Magdalen and Sister NJ. Mar
| garet.
"AIghting from their numbering con.
coined by the Bishop of the Diocese, Rt
| Rev. DR. Whelan-at whose earnest so
! licitation they had left their comfortable
! convent home and all the dearest asso-
| iourneyed over the mountains to found g
| new home and begin a new work on the
banks of the Ohio. DR.. Whelan was al
! that time still Bishop of Richmond. fol
| the Diocese of Wheeling was not estab
| lished until 1850 He was then in the
| prime of his young manhood. Physically
| he was tall. spare and athletic. His mint
| was vigorous, perhaps too active for his
| frail body His spirit was that of
| A TRUE APOSTLE.
| His zeal in the holy cause of religion was
| boundless. No labors could daunt him
| him He planned not alone for the pres
emit but for the future. Humanity speak