The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-10-24
HIS TRIP TO ROME
The Occasion Of an Entertaining
Lecture by Bishop DOnahue
TO APPRECIATIyE AUDIENCE
At the Carroll Club Auditorium Last
Night-A Trip Abroad Urged for
the Bencft of American OIalcon.
tents-It VIII Produce Greater
veneration for American Institu.
-TheLeoture Greatly Enjoyed.


A large audience heard the lecture by
Rt. Rev, P. j. Donahue, bishop of the
diocese of Wheeling, at the Carroll
club auditorium last night, and the
audience was compliment to the lee
turer, embracing as It did men Of every
creed. To say Bishop Donahue's audi
tors were pleased is mildly announcing
truth. They were delightfully."- enter
tanned for nearly two hours. being held
spell bound at times with the lecturers
eloquent descriptions, reused again by
outburstB Of patriotic utterances and
convulsed with laughter at some rich
bit of humor.
Last spring Bishop Donahue. made a
pilgrimage to Rome, where he made the
report Of his diocese and was favored
with an audience with the Pope. In
cldentally he visited many places Of In
terest and his journey was the basis
for last nights lecture, which was en-
titled my Trip to Europe" The lee
ture win be repeated in the near future
in different towns throughout the state.
The bishop was presented by DR.. C.
A. wingerter, who performed this duty
quite happily. on his entrance across
the stage hearty applause greeted the
bishop, and in view of this fact, DR..
wingerter said It was unnecessary to
Introduce Bishop Donahue, SO he retired
with a wave OF his hand and remark.
ing: II leave him to your mercy"
Seated on the stage were the following
members Of the clergy: Fathers Hall,
Galway, Harris. Of the Cathedral
werneger. OF Benwood; Paquln. of Elm
Grove; Mcbride, of Moundsvllle. and
Boyce. Of slstersville.
Bishop Donahue was accompanied to
Europe by Mr.. George A. Truschel, Of
this city, and the latter's letters to the
Church Calendar. the local Catholic
Journal, formed the theme for the
bishops preliminary remarks, which
were of a highly humorous nature
Proceeding, the bishop detailed his set
ting sail from New York and features
of the trip across the ocean, thence de-
failing his arrival at Genoa. He waxed
eloquent in describing the beauties of
Naples and reversed the old proverb 20
say. "see Naples and then live" Ma
pies would always find place in his
memory, he said.
The bishop became philosophical Ia
telling OF his journey by rail from No
pies to Rome, and lamented the condI-
tions which imposed the burden Of toll
in the fields on women. THE Man
with the Hoe" was pathetic. but much
mora so, the girls of tender year1 COM
PEELED to labor with rude mnttocks. and
similar conditions were apparent even
in England, as the speaker noted in the
Lancashire mining districts. America
is the paradise of women" declared
Bishop Donahue, land here the highest
chlvalry obtains"
He continued along this line. and
later in the lecture, highly euloglzed
"the land of the free and the home Of
the brave" An American could not
prize his country rightly until he visit
ed the old world, he said, and he adj
vlsed all malcontents with our Institu-
tons to go abroad and observe the
handlcaps there. Nowhere but in the
United States could a citizen rise to the
same dignity of manhood. The bishop
said that at one time he had regarded
most spread-eagIe speeches as bun