The Washington times., 1901-07-22
HONORED BY HIS FACULTY
Georgetown Professors Dinner for
Father Daugherty.
The Occasion of Quiet Nature
Father Barnum Transferred to a
New York Chnrge-Gifts to the
Church Discussed by Clergymcn.

The installation dinner in honor of the
Rev. Jerome Daugherty. the new rector
of Georgetown University. who was re-
Gently appointed to succeed the Rev. John
ID Whitney, was celebrated by the fac
uity OF that institution last night. The
| affair was quiet one, there being no
| formal speeches, and no guests outside
of the faculty of the university with the
exception of Father Fink. of Gonzaga Col
leye, and the Rev. John A. Quirk S. j.,
of Baltimore
The occasion was very enjoyable one.
however. and somewhat in the nature of
a reunion of the college faculty, a
number of members of which have re-
Gently returned from their brief summer
vacations, spent near Newark. Conn.
Father Daugherty has been discharging
the duties of rector of the university for
the last ten days. having assumed active
charge Immediately after the retirement
of Father Whitney.
Only one other change has as yet been
made in the faculty of the university.
Father Earnum, who is greatly beloved
because of his genial character and for
the valuable work he has done during
the last three years for the institution.
has been transferred to Blackwell's Is
land, n. Y. There he will officiate as
chaplain, and have supervision over the
spiritual welfare and needs of the con-
gregation of five thousand persons. The
duties of this position are very arduous.
and of such a character that only a man
of extraordinary talents can fulfill them.
lncl;ded in the Blackwell's Island con-
gregation are men of all races and nation
alities, and all conditions of misery and
depravity.
%, Ii.
linguist Father Barnum was selected for
the work He Is regarded as the best
student of phiology in the American
priesthood. He not only speaks English.
German. French, Italian, Spanish, and
Greek, but has a very comprehensive
knowledge OF the Russian. Danish. and
Scandinavian tongues. and in Blackwell's
motley population there are unfortunates
who can converse only in one of these
languages. For some time prior to COM
Ing to Georgetown, three years ago, Fa-
ther Barnum was at the Alaskan mis-
sion. and while there succeeded in gath
ering sufficient information of the Ian
guage of the people to be able to com
pile>an English-Alaskan dictionary which
is nearly completed, and will be of
inestimable value in ministering to the
inhabitants of that far off ice-bound re-
gion.
Father Barnum is also a remarkable
archivist, and during his term at George
town was engaged much of his time in
arranging the archives OF the university
which, when he took hold of the work,
were in great need of revision. He was
also engaged in compiling catalogue of
the 1000 students of Georgetown show
ing what mission each student had filled
in fa lff h1 inc f.rf al lima af..r
and giving interesting data regarding each
graduate of the university. 1t was a very
laborious task, and is still uncompleted.
His loss is deeply regretted by both the
faculty and the student body, with whom
he was very popular.
The Catholic clergy is deeply interested
in two handsome gifts which have re-
Gently been made to the Catholic
Church in America. One is the
Ryan donation OF s250,000 to erect
a cathedral at Richmond and the other
Schwab, of the Steel Trust, to the Iittle
church in a small Pennsylvania town
where he was married. The gift made
by Mr.. Ryan, of New York City, is said
to be the largest ever given at one time
to any church in America. For number
of years efforts have been made to start
a movement for the building of cathe-
dral at the Virginia capital, but without
avail.
Mr.. Ryan is native of the Old Domin-
ion and one of the five directors of the
American 1opacco company, ana ne ana
his wife have given away many hundreds
of thousands of dollars to Catholic in
stitutions, but this is the largest donation
they have ever made. Mrs Ryan is also
to build church at Manchester which is
just across the James River from Rich
mond She established the Convent of
Perpetual Alteration, adjoining st. Paurs
Catholic Church on V Street, in this city.
several years ago. and at that time had
founded twenty other similar institutions.
The fathers of Georgetown University
will go into annual retreat the last of
this week, and two weeks hence the
Richmond clergy will come here for four
or five days spiritual retreat at George