New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-04-25
WHO WINS =?
CORRIGAN SERIOUSLY ILL.
ARCHBISHOP ATTACKED BY V1RULENT
PNEUMONIA.
TWO PHYSICIANS IN CONSTANT ATTEND
ANCE ON HIM AT THE ARCHIEP1SCO-
PAL RESIDENCE


Archbishop Michael Augustine Corrigan Is
seriously i'll at his home the archiepiscopal resi-
dence in Madison lave. At a late hour last night
Dr. Francis Delafield, one of the attending phs-
sicians. said that the Archbishops temperature
was 1O2 and that his malady was pneumonia OIL
a virulent type.
Dr. Edward J.. Keyes, of No. 1 East seventy
fourth-st. the Archbishops regular physician.
was called in by DR.. James n. Connolly the
Archbishops secretary. at 2:30 p. m yesterday.
He found the Archbishop suffering from con-
gestion of the right lung and symptoms of pneu-
mona.
He at once called in DR.. Delafeld. whose home
is at No II West Thirtysecond-st. and up TO
a late hour last night their attendance on the
Archbishop was almost constant.
DIR. Delafield. when asked last night IL the
Archbishop's condition was serious, said:
Il should say so.
What is his temperature?"
"One hundred and two
rs that dangerous?"
No; rather serious. though"
DR. Keyes said early this morning:
On "Wednesday evening the Archbishop caught
cold which by the night developed so far as 10
longest one of his lungs. resulting almost GER
tainly in pneumonia.
At / o'clock this morning the condition of the
Archbishop had considerably improved. 1t was
said at the archiepiscopal residence at that time
that no bulletin of his condition would be issued
until 9:3O O'Clock this morning.
Archbishop Corrigan. though attending to the
duties of his office. has not been active as
usual recently on account OF accident that
befeu him some weeks ago While going from
his home to st. Patricks Cathedral he slipped
and fe on some timber lying around an add
tion TO the structure in course of construction,
and narrowly escaped falling into excava-
ton. He was painfully and severely, though not
seriously. hurt, and il was some time before
his injuries allowed him TO leave the arehiepis-
copal residence.
Archbishop Corrigan became Bishop of New
York in 1889. He succeeded Bishop Bailey as
Bishop Of Newark in May. 1878, and was at
that time the youngest bishop in the United
States for he born in Newark, n. j., in
August 1899 Before being made bishop.
Father Corrigan, his title was then. served
as vice-president Of Seton Hall College. in New
Jersey, and succeeded to the presidency there
when Bishop McQuaid resigned that office to go
to Rochester. In 1868 he became vicar general
of the Diocese of Newark. Finally. after ad-
minstering the diocese as bishop for seven
years, he was made Archbishop of Petra on
October l. 1880 and appointed Archbishop of
New-York five years later. receiving the pallium
in 1886 In APRIL 1887, he assistant at the
Pontifical throne.
New-York is one of the greatest doceses in
the world, and has the odd distinction OF eX-
tending it's Jurisdiction beyond this republic into
the territory of Great Britain, for the Bahama
Islands form a part of IT. Archbshop Corrlsal
has also to supervise st. Patricks Cathedral. in
+ Fifth-ave. Every morning in the year, except
when absent on diocesan work elsewhere, ne
saws mass at Z o'clock in the chapel or the
! Blessed Virgin. He is present also at every
/ confirmation in the one hundred Cathoiic
churches here. He is a graduate Of the Ameri-
can College at Rome.