The Jersey City news., 1898-03-26

women to the Blessed Virgin; This his is "a a
beautiful ceremony. The altar will be
decorated with flowers and Illuminated
with countless candles. and the entire
church will present a magnificent appear
ance Tomorrow afternoon the final SER
mon will be preached to the women, ana
they will then be dismissed. Tomorrow
night the mems mission will begin and
continue all next week
The masses tomorrow morning will be at
six. seven, half-past seven, nine ana ten
The temporary pulpit has proved a valu-
able acquisition to the new church. Ihe
sounding board is perfection, but the. s .ex5
act locality has not yet been determined
upon. When Father Ter Woert has nnally
found the exact spot in which the pulpit
will be at home for all time, then the
permanent pulpit will be placed in po-5
sition. Until then the present structure
will have to answer for all purposes.
The late Monsignor De Conciiio was
frequent visitor at the rectory OF st.
Johns, and was selected by Father Ter
Woert to preach the dedication sermon
in the new church last November Those
effort which the Monsignor made on that
occasion He had a great regard for the
pastor of st. Johns, and it Is needless TO
say that the feeling was reciprocated.
Ter Woert paid an earnest tribute to the
late Father Downes. He eulogized the
deceased priests work while connected
with st. Johns, and told several IN
stances of his devotion to duty and his
charity to the poor, after which the con-
gregafion knelt in prayer for the repose
of the deceased priests soul.
81. Lucy,s.
There will be grand dramatic per,
formance every night at ST. Lucy's Han
the week commencing Easter Monday.
April H. for the benefit of st. Lucys S
Church kitty, the Heiress; or. Sight
Seeing on the Emerald Isle showing
forty-five beautiful scenes of Ireland, will
be presented each evening. There will
be new music, new songs, new character
sketches and new and appropriate cos
The members of ST. Lucy's Club are in
possession of a splendid new billiard
table, which the Rev. Father Boylan pur-
the clubs parlor Thursday and has been
tested by many of the members. 1t gives
great satisfaction.
brated in ST. Lucy's Church for the re-
pose of the soul of the lat Mgr De Con-
clio of ST, MichaePs parish, by the Rey: y,
on . : the the day Of the late Monsignor's 5
~ ST. PauI,s, GreenviIle.
Hundreds of workmen who were in the
| habit of depending on the clock IN the
tower Of St. Paul's r. c. Church, Green
Vile avenue and Old Bergen road, for the
correct time these many years, have been
deprived Of that luxury for the last 5nree
of business men who depended largely
on that clock to catch trains and trolley
cars in the rush for work in the early
hours have also missed it greatly. The
heaxy rainstorm which visited this town
about the time mentioned above proved
very disastrous to the clock, for Il not
only knocked the mechanism out of ktlter,
but the wind carried away the faces on
two sides. The faces of this famous clock
are about foot and half in diameter.
and the time is easily distinguishable at
least four blocks away. The places left
vacant by the falling out of the faces
has been boarded up, but workmen will
start in Monday morning to put the clock
| in proper condition. Several loads of
heavy pine timber have been deposited
at the church door, which will be used
for scafrolding, the tower being nearly
a hundred feet high.
When the heavy wind succeeded in dis
lodging the faces and hands they fell
with crash and several persons who
were walking along the sidewalk in the
Immediate vicinity at the time narrowly
pscaped being seriously injured The re-
pairing Of the clock will be welcomed with
ioy BIZ the residents in that vicinity as
well as busiress men, AnOthe- thing
which has greatly pleased the parishioners
is the ringing of the chimes which are
also in the tower of that church. These
chimes were for ten years silent. until
Father Joseph Mcdowell became rector.
The first OF this year marked the ringing
Of the bells after so many years OF, ST
! lenee They are very sweet toned bells.
and some seem to think that. they are
! equal to- those of Trinity in New York.
| On cleac day they can be heard for