Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-08-20

streets are comfortably lodged, nour-
ished and taught how TO become vir-
tuous and industrious citizens Of our
beloved commonwealth. It is to aims
| deeds. to prayer and to the Holy Sac
rifce OF the Mass that the members of
ST. Joseph's Union owe the blessing
and the personal favor which they have
| received. To this is due. also, the d.
vine protection which surrounds this
work. work which counts among its
members Bishops. Archbishops and Car
dinals and which, on fourteen different
occasions. has received the solemn benz
edietion OF the Vicar of Jesus Christ
our Holy Father. Pope Leo KILL
The Mission of the Immaculate vir-
gin now gives secular and religious
, education to about 100 children. tt
receives destitute children between the
ages of 4 and Is years. without distinc-
/ tion as regards sex or religion. Both
the girls and the boys Institutions ara
thoroughly equipped to give instruc-
! tons in the various branches of manual
and industrial training. There is also
at Mount Loretto an asylum for blind
| girls under II years of age. The mis-
| sion at Lafayette place receives and
maintains temporarily. until employ
ment can be found for them. healthy
/ boys, Catholic or otherwise. from 16
to 20 years old. 1t provides meals and
lodgings at 81 a week for newsboyss
7 bootblacks and other boys able to pay.
aud gives them instruction. both spir-
itual and mental. The following trades
are now being taught the~boys at Mount
I.oretto: Carpenter, wheelwright
steam engineer. florist, butcher. machin<
ist, stenogrspher. cook, mixer, painter,
blacksmith, fireman, gardener. baker,
steam filter, typewriter, waiter, driver
and farmer.
One of the most important and suc-
cesshil features of the mission Is its
banking system for the boys savings
The money is invested to the best adj
vantage for the benefit of the youthful
depositors 1t takes seventy clerks TO
handle this part of the institutions
business, from which far idea Of its
magnitude may be drawn.
LETTERS FROM HIGH FRIENDS.
Out of the thousands of letters Father
| Drumgoole received from persons of diss
| tinetion in many parts OF the world ID
is not easy TO make the selection best
suited for so short a sketch as this:
but any choice of half dozen of these
letters would be as good as the best
almost in showing the light in which
men regarded him. Here are few
samples-some from persons within.
others from persons without the
Church. The first is from Lord Rose
berry. When Roseberry was in New
York he had delighted to sit by tho hour
in the Fathers scantily furnished room,
I talking with him. His Lordship had
interested himself in one Ct the lpiSsiap
boys, whom afterward he sent 10 ~
/ lege. Here is his letter.
Der. II. 1873.
My dear Father cannot get away
to say good-by to you to-day, but I
must in the first place send my address
to you--2 Berkeley Square, London, W.
that you may write and tell me how
your good work is getting on and how
Pat is progressing and what money You
want from time to time for him. And
in the second place | must express my
( thanBfulness to have been brought face
| to face with you and with your noble
. work | have never left you or your
! house without feeling better for it, and
/ without feeling that | had got an in
sight into higher and holier life than
men are generally privileged to lead,
or. indeed, capable of leading | hope
you may long be spared for IT, and that
I | may have the pleasure OF seeing you
and your institution prospecting and