The Irish standard., 1903-05-30
Boys Work at Branches of Mechanics or
Farming Half the Day and Attend
School the Other Half.
Attention is Paid to Their Moral Advance
ment as Well as Their Mental
and Manual Training

Waits living in II palace! Street
arabs enjoying the luXuries of one of
the finest summer homes in the world
tumbling about on soft carpets and
great baustlndc of Il grand stairway!
Such is the happy transformation in
the lot of forty of the urchins ut ST
NIary's School for Boys at Fcchan-
vile, away out Oh the vcrdant banks
of the DcsplaincS river. says the Chi
| cago Chronicle. Until Il few days ago
these boys were crowded, with 2h'
others, into insufficient quarters in the
halls and dormitorics Of the school
buildings. Now they are "more than
comfortable" and in the full freedom
and enjoyment Of light and ar, rs
we'll as delightful surroundings, and
the 200 others in the school are given
more "elbow ROOM everywhere and
will have better opportunity to grow
and be strong and healthy, with
Drawn and brain and an increased
zest for joyous life and the struggles
that boy life entails.
For their fairyland palace "the for
ty" have Archbishop Quiglcy to thank.
If they had been told a few months
ago that their abode would so soon be
"in marble halls they would have
thought Il good fairy or an angel had
been visiting Fcehanville and that in
their dreams they hadc been trans
ported to the new living quarters. In
stead of a visit from an angel the
great Catholic Industrial school at
Fcehanvillc had visit from the arch
bishop. What occurred on that Oc-
caSion-:ln occasion which is likely to
be memorable among the schoObOys
is vouchcd for by Il wcll-inf0rmcd
Catholic, who relates it as follows:
ut was the archbishop's first
visit to Fcchanvillc, the seat of the
archdiOccsan school for homeless boys.
He noticed that the place was over
crowded; that many of the boys had
sleeping quarters that were crampcd
and narrow and that every available
inch of space in the school buildings
had been utilized.
"But in going the rounds of the
beautiful S0O-acrc farm on which Fee
;e, h,,;I 1,1 c,,1nn.
did mansion untcnantcd, but main
tanned in excellent taste and style. He
wondered what this fine building was
used for and made inquiries of one of
the Christian brothers in charge of the
school.
"'Why, your grace, that is your
summer residence, or at least it was
used as Il summer residence by Arch
bishop Fcchan in his declining years,
was the reply.
"'My summer residence, is it? Oh,
well, don't need summer residence
responded Archbishop Quigley. That
big house on North State street near
the beautiful park will do for me for
the present, both in summer and win
ter. No doubt Archbishop Feehan
needed Il summer residence, as he was
not very robust for some time. But
it would be useless to me. So throw
it open ut once to the boys Of the
school and house as many of them in
it as can be comfortably Accommodated.
1t is Il fine house, sort Of rustic
palace, but it is none too good for the
poor boys. About forty or fifty Of
them ought to be able to find good
quarters in it. Its accommodations
are needed, l think, and they should
not be allowed to go to waste while
the ovcrcrowding exists in the regu-
lar buildings Of this great school and
most worthy charity"
In this incident the waits as we'll
as the citizens of Chicago have the
first revelation of the great traits Of
character that have always been at
tributed to Chicago's new archbishop
by those who know him best. He sim
ply refuses to have two residences
when he needs only one, and to the
poor boys, who really need home,
he turns over one Of the two palaces
which the people of this great arch
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