The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-05-21
FATHER McNULTY.
How He Has Made Himself Terror to
 Eyil-.DQers.


 lsaloon, especially after half-past 9'ol 10 o'clock at night, mark that, young
 man. And am going to see that those Who do, have their names published and if they are any of my people, will call their names in church. And the venerable dean of St. Johns church
 in Paterson, the Rev. Father William 1 IMcNulty--terror of evil doers and strenuous advocate of temperance locked as if he meant every word of it. | The famous dean, although more than
 seventy years of age, is straight as an
 arrow. A pair of keen blue eyes, under
 thick, dark eyebrows, flash fire at times
 when they see something their owner does not like; or overflow with kind-
 ness when the old man picks up q little
 child who has stumbled on the pave-
 nent. They are the kind of eyes that
 admit of no parleying on the part of the negligent son or the drunken hus- | band or father. They are eyes from which corner loafers duck instinctive- 1 ly, and they are eyes which keep a steady stream of the sick, the poor, the
 suffering and unhappy ringing the front door bell of the poorly furnished rectory in Grand street.
 A mighty man is Dean McNulty, and
 bold. Alone, with thick raw hide
 whip under his famous gray cloak. has he gone into a crowded saloon late Saturday n ght and pluclked forth some erring husband who is spending his
 wages over the bar while his wife and little ones are cold and hungry at
 home. And that man has got cow
 hiding, the like of which was never eeen before on land or sea, and he has gone home, and the next week sees
 him at confession and .nlass, with his wages in his wifes pocketbook, where
 they belong. And as long as that man behaves himself he is a personal friend
 of the dean, to whom he looks up as a sort of god. The dean knows his peo- pie and they know him. They know he .s not afraid of anything that breathes and that, old man as he is, he is as good as two of the best of them in fight and when his grim old face comes through a saloon doorway it Is a case of quick action on the part of some luckless evildoer.
 The dean is a red-hot advocate of temperance, as every man, woman and child in Paterson knows, and for the last month or so he has been devoting his spare moments to cleaning out the women and girls from the saloon back rooms. Paterson is no namby-pamby town, by a whole lot, and nobody knows it better than Father McNulty. but the awful case of Jennie Bosschie- fnp Ia s T 1t isn't going to hapen again, if he can help it.
 The dean has q manner of cleaning out a saloon which Is all his own. He sallies forth about 9:30 o'clock some evening, after having selected place which his prescience tells him con- tains some women and girls drinking. He then walks in the frcnt door and looks around. The result is The women do not stand on the order of their going, they just go. If there is no door, they use window. Anything to get away from those all- seeing eyes and that roar of denuncia- tiois. d"s
 Mary Kelly so to your home and children Shame on you. Katie Flynn, sitting here drinking up your hus- bands wages Oh, see you hiding your face. Jennie Casey, but you can't fool me. know you. Take shame to all of you. and get off the streets, or I'll have you locked up. And come and see me in the morning, Jennie. I'll have no such doings in my 
 By this time the sole occupants of the saloon are usually the bartender and the dean. The latter, after making l few remarks tending to show his opinion of the former for serving the with drinks, then goes on to the next place. The plan is original but in ! majority of cases highly effective. As the old priest knows nearly everyone ] n Paterson-certainly every member of | ais rarish--his identifications admit of | 10 dispute, and well do the guilty ones | ,ealize it. Mighty few of the women of | lis church will be found in saloons for | awhile
 The dean was just coming out of the | school in Oliver street yester- l lay afternoon when he was asked how l lis female temperance crusade was get
 ing along. n
 Look at them,' he said, lovingly, | yeing a motley crowd of children around the entrance, every me of them Is being vaccinated by the loctors I don't know how many of hem there are, but I guess nearly a I thought it was better" lust then a small boy of about five ears took off his little cap to the dean md the effort toppled him over.
 ',rhere, there, sure you're not hurt, re ye?" asked the old man, running and picking up the child The title one started to cry, but after lance at the old man smiled instead.
 "Oh you were asking about the york I am doing. trying to keep the yomen out of the saloons? Well, I in end to keep 1t up. go out every other tight or so and usually catch some of hem. I went into place the other ight, but I could not recognize the wo women I caught in the nasty place rinking with young man. They got ut so fast I guess they must have recognized me-" This with a grim lluckle. 1T am looking for a few of the we'll nown characters among the women, nd if find any of them in back ! ooms I will go to before the grand jury . ith my evidence and get Prosecutor ;mley to go after the saloon-keepers ( ,r keeping disordcrly houses. The ,