Evening journal., 1900-07-03
PRIESTS PLAN TO
ENDOW COLLEGE
He Wants to Collect 100000 in
Subscriptions Of Twenty-Five
Cents Each
speeIal 70 the EvenIng journal.


Baltimore, July 3.-The name OF
the pretty village Of Walbrook a suburb
Of Baltimore, is being written by many
pens throughout the United States and
in many foreign countries as a result
of a plan to raise an endowment fund
for Epiphany Apostolic College, which
is located there. Journeying to Wal
rook for this institution are scores of
letters, containing the mites of those
who have been reached in the elaborate
scheme of correspondence through
which it is hoped to raise this fund.
The endless chain plan was adopted
by the Rev. J. NJ. kellogg, one Of the
professors in the school, who has un-
dertaken the task of collecting several
hundred thousand dollars. or enough
money TO secure an income that will
provide for about 100 students. The
college is now dependent upon volun-
tary contributions and its work is thus
limited
Twenty-Five cents is the donation
being asked from each correspondent,
together with the names of three
friends who may also be appealed to.
To raise 100000 i'm this way, even if
every letter brought a response, would
require the sending out Of a very large
number of letters.
An extensive card system has been
established, so as TO prevent. as far as
possible. the duplication of letters. By
a division into states and subdivisions
for every city of 1000 inhabitants OF
over, the names of correspondents are
easily available for comparison. The
repliesso farare regarded as very prom
Using by Father Kellogg. They have
come from all parts of the United
States. Alaska. Canada, Europe. South
American. Cuba, Porto Rico and the
Philippines
FOR MISSION WORK.
The college for which this endOw-
ment is being raised is for the training
of young men for the priesthood in the
Josephite Society.
The Josephite Society is the only So
ciety of Catholic priests in the United
States devoting itself exclusively to
missionary effort.
In 1892 the society in this country
was made entirely Independent of the
mother house. Its headquarters are at
st. Joseph's Seminary, on Pennsylvania
avenue, where the final studies are
made for ordination. There are not
more than thirty priests in this society
as yet. and missions already establish
e0 are one each in Louisiana, Arkansas
and Alabama, two each in Mississippi
and Delaware, two in Virginia and two
in Baltimore.
Plans are also being considered fol
locating missions in Cuba, Porto Rico
and the Philippines.
The students at Epiphany Apostolic
College come from every quarter oil
the world Among the sixty students
who are there is one from Korea ant
a number from Holland, England an(
Ireland.
Their work is not to be local in any
sense, further that they are to b'
American priests at work in American
dioceses.
Father Kellogg who inaugurated th'
novel plan for raising an endowment
fund, was born in Mississippi about 81
years ago, and was reared as an Episco
palian As youth he attended thl
public schools, and later entered col
lege at Oberlin. o. He became a Roman
Catholic in 1887 through the influenc
Of an aunt who was a member of tina
denomination and who, too, was
convert. Father Kellogg attended 81
Charles College, Ellicott City, Nd
and afterward went to st. Mary's Semi
nary, Baltimore. In the last year O
his course at the Seminary he decide
to -..er the Josephite Society. Hi
father is still living. All the member
of his family are non-Catholic. He wa
ordained a priest in 1897