The Irish standard., 1903-03-21
He Was Engaged as Tutor to Pope Leo XIII
When in the Eternal City
Many Years Ago.
Is Said to Have Instled in the Mind of
the Present Pontiff Many
Democratic Ideas.

ground that had already been purchas-
cd near the Bowery in 1901 The first
plot of nine lots. on the northwest cor
nor OF Prince and Mott streets, was
bought for this purpose on May % of
that year. Other pieces wern secured
at various dates by gift and purchase,
up to June 10. 1924, when the last
three lots, completing the Mulberry
street front, were bought from Mrs.
Jewel
The trustees of st. Peters then
were Dominick Lynch, Andrew Nor
ris, Thomas Houghton, Michael Roth,
Patrick Mckay, John Hinton, james
Walsh, Mylcs j. Clossey and Bernard
DORM. At their meeting on May "a,
1909, 1t was resolved chat in conse-
qucnce Of the public notices from the
altar, they would carry into effect with
he greatest expedition, the building of
the contemplated now church in the
burying ground belonging to st. pc.
tcrs Church, situated between Mott
street and Catherine street, and that
thc said church. which is to be callcY
ST. Patrick's. shall have the following
dimensions. 100 feet in length, so feet
in width"
Another resolution provided that new
graves should he given for the rclntcr-
mcnt of such bodies us might be found
within the building area required, and
that the removal be made in the pres
cncc OF relatives and of the pastor, the
Rev. Anthony Kohlmann, "with all pos
siblc care, dcccncy and expedition"
The Oldest inscribed tombstone in this
graveyard is "Philip Kelly, died July
2, 1907 The cemetery was closed
for in!crmcnts in 1898, and the num-
her of recorded burials is 32,153.
Father KO,lmann laid the cornerstone
OF this church on June 8, 1900, but It
was not finished until 1916, when Bish-
op Chcvccns OF Boston, afterward
the Cardinal Archbishop of Bordeaux,
dedicated it on May 4. The church as
IL now stands is longer than the origi-
nal building, having been extended to
Mott street in 1S3I-42 by Bishop Du-
bois.
All Of the church but the four walls
was destroyed by fire Oct 6, 1866, and
within the walls the structure was re-
built rs it appears today. A curious
feature Of the building operations was
the appointing on Sept. Z, 1910, Of
committee, consisting of Andrew Nor
ris, Thomas Stoughton and Fathers
Kohlmann and Fenwick, to wait on the
corporation of Trinity Church and ask
for assistance toward the construction
of the new cdifice. There is no record
Of what their success was.
Fr. Kohlmann was thus the founder
Of old st. Patrick's Cathedral, and he
was intimately associated with new st.
Patrick's in Fifth avenue as well. He
started classical school in Mulberry
street, and wrote of it in June, 1900:
ut now consists Of about thirty-five of
the most respectable children of the
city, both Catholics and of other persu-
nsions, among whom four are boarding
at our house; and In all probability we
shall have seven or eight boarders next
August"
He estimated the number Of Cath.
olcs then in the city at $4,000, and,
believing that they could support
college he purchased land for it op-
posite the Elgin Botanical Garden,
which ran from what is now Forty
seventh to Fifty-fourth street, on Fifth
avenue. On the land Father Kohl
mann then owned st. Patrick's Cathe-
dral now stands.
Here he opened what he called the
New York Literary Institute. The bull
ding was subsequently used by Bishop
Hughes as seminary, and afterward
as rectory Of st. Johns Church,
which disappeared when the Cathedral
was built. Father Kohlmann, writing
Of it to the Rev. Father Strickland in
London, on Sept. ID, 1910, says:
'"The college is in the centre not Of
Long Island, but of the Island of New