The times., 1898-10-24
THE YOUNGER CATHOLICS
Convention of the Young Mems
National Union.
AT THE CARROLL INSTITUTE
More Than Three Hundred Delegates
VIII BE Prescnt-Many Prominent
Members of the Roman Church
VIII he in Attendance - Pinn of
business and Entertainments.

Elaborate preparations are being made
| by members of Carroll Institute for the
| twenty fourth annual convention of the
| Catholic Young Mems National Union,
which will open in this city tomorrow.
There will be in attendance about 300
! prominent Catholic delegates from va
! rious sections of the country, representing
/ societies similar in purpose to the Carroll
| Institute, of this city During their stay
! in Washington the delegates will be ap-
! propriately entertained and given public
reception and excursion to Mount YER
/ non. The local committee in charge of ar
rangements desires to make the program
reflect credit upon the Catholics of Wash
ington.
Among the prominent visitors will be |
| the officers of the National Union. They |
are Rev William T. McGuIrl. Brooklyn, |
president; Rev. Bernard NJ Began. Rah-
way, n. j., first vice president; Daniel p.
Toomey, Boston, second vice president;
John j. Brady. Albany, secretary and
! treasurer; Rev. James +. Laughlin ID.
~, Philadelphia; Thomas F. Ryan, St
Joseph, NO, and Rev. Malick A. Cunnion
| New York, executive committee.
The motto of the Catholic Young Mems
! Union is God and our neighbor." The
office of the secretary and treasurer is at
No. 50 State Street, Albany
A special Baltimore and Ohio train will
leave New York at 4:39 o'clock this after
noon with the national officers and many
of the delegates from Eastern cities and
States aboard. The train will reach
Washing ton about 10 o'clock tonight A
delegation from Carroll Institute will
meet the train and extend hearty greet
ing to the President, Rev William 7. Nc
CURL. and other officers and delegates
During the convention the front of the
institute will be brilliantly lighted by
electricity at night and the interior of
the commodious building, Sl2 to 500 Tenth
Street, will be tastefully decorated with
the national cOlors. silk banners and red.
white and blue bunting and plants and
flowers.
There will be business sessions Tuesday
and Wednesday mornings and afternoons.
! The delegates will assemble in the large
hall of the institute at $3.50 o'clock to-
morrow morning and will be escorted to
st. Patricks Church, where solemn high
mass will be celebrated. After the mass
they will return to the institutc and the
convention will be called - order by the
! president.
The visitors IA then be welcomed in
the name 81 the institute by Edward ].
HannEn, president of the local society.
f ana by District Commissioner John w.
Ross in behalf Of the citizens of Wash
: ington.
After these formalities the regular busi-
= ness of the convention will begin, includ-
2 ing the president 5 address and reports
t OF the secretary and treasurer.
4 Among the important matters before
a the convention Will be the presentation
2 of several papers which will be thor
I oughly discussed The principal subjects
are America, the Land of Genius
= which will be read by James Joseph
$ Bowen A NJ, NJ. D., of Brooklyn;
; catholics and Peace" by a representa-
= tive of the archdiocese of Boston: Leo
XIII, Arbitrator Among Nations by d
representative of the archdiocese of New
York; "Orestes A BrOwnson, the con-
vert TO Catholicism and author of Catho-
lie literature, by a representative OF the
archdiocese of Baltimore.
y A very important matter to be dis
=, cussed will also be the founding of
u scholarship in memory of the late Rev
j. H. Mitchell, LII. D., who was chan
/ cellor of the archdiocese of Brooklyn for
d many years. and who was prominently
T identified whit the Catholic Young
:, Mems Union, of which he was several
times president.
lie Reports from several societies con-
r nected with the union as to what Is be-
t. ing done in the interest of Catholicism
lie and the union will be submitted. The
" election of officers will be held Nednes-
p day.
D. Tuesday night there will be an enter
n. tainment for the delegates alone at the
Is Carroll Institute, and the minstrel or
Df ganization will occupy the stage in the
ut reception hall
e Wednesday evening aipublic reception
Is will be given, at which the delegates
m will be introduced to the members OF the
lie institute and their friends. The drama
IN tic club will give an entertainment, aitei
s. which there will be dancing.
10 As all business will be over by Thurs
Is dav. that day has been selected for thor
ID ough enjoyment, and trip will be made
Of IN historic Mount Vernon and the toni
a of Washington.
President Mckinley has been requested
he to receive the delegates at an hour con
Il, venient to him. and it is expected that NJ
I'd will do so. The delegates will also b'
a. massed on the steps of the Treasur!
r building for a group photograph.
X Altogether il is the hope of the mem
10 hers of Carroll Institute that every dele
ar gate will carry away with him recoliec
as tions of Washington of the most pleas
ct ant kind. and that the impression create'
A of the hospitality of the Catholics of tn
m | Nations Capital may long hnger IN tn
re- memory of each visitor.
-. Those of the institute who will endeavo
. 10 establish such memories as member
~ of the committee of arrangements ar
-, Edward ]. Hannah, chairman: II. W
~ Sohon vice chairman; Franz H. Ridgway
- secretary; James F. Shea, treasurer; E
- +. Buckley. DIR. ]. H. Burch, Matthey
-. - Brady, NJ J. Colbert James ]. Collins
,i Ie Joseph T Daily, Daniel Donovan, R. F
oe Downing. John A. Eckert Charles
io Govern. Rev. e A Hannah, A. c. JOY.
ne NJ. Mckee, Robert Mcdonald. DR.. c. Z
ru O'Connor. John Quinn. r. f. Sullivan
ne Thomas o. Varnell ]. F. White, P. S
Warren and John NJ. Henderson.
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nj Killed by II Collar Button.
S Joseph Thomas, a colored hoy. min
- years old, met death in peculiar mar
ner yesterday afternoon. The boy wa