Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-10-19
$500 IN GOLD

zQ1NIMIuS0 eNA1Ah SI 4 ASAA~As ' -~ FaEher Kennedy al plainv.is. Yesterday morning twenty-five mem |ers of St Thomas parrish went to Slainville, where Father Kennedy, un- |l recently an assistant at St Thomas' now stationed, and presented him kath a purse of over $500 in gold as a
 hstanonial from the people among khom he had labored for tine past nVe Iears. The presentation address was hade by Commissioner E. b. Har'ue |f The depa -bment of public saIeS 'Tr Hardie gpoke as follows:
 Rev Father Kennedy: It has fallen to my lot to eSplhp
 p you the object of our gaEherlns .ere today. We have sclG'ted TOT "lt hotbo the words, "All together, Whhr host of thoughts rush through our .nandS as these words reach our ear! saennlbled here as we are in tn1S
 hved aDot, we are impressed with the |olemnity of the moment. We feel 'yr hearts combated by various emo hons-1oy and sorrow, pleasure anu kahn. Joy and pleasure because we know you are ever ready and willing lo 20 wherever duty may call you. borrow and pain because by this snne Ehoice you are forced to leave us. We |n know and feel that we sustaiu n sreat and irreparable loss in losing lou, our worthy father.
 The young folks in particular, wao turing the last five years have been fhe objects of your most tender solici- lude. they will miss you, but will not lorget you. Your name by them has leen indelfbly stamped in every home 'n our parish, and should 1t ever he hour lot to return you will find royal welcome.
 You can see before you to-day many laces that you have often sean before. Ne were all surprised when we learn |d that you had been called frona our midst to new fields of labor, and how hn1ust we would be were we to allow
 n occas. on of such importance to pass bnnothced. We feel the work that has been accomplished by his rever- 'nce. Father Crowley. and yourself for he past five years has been of great importance. We realize full we'll the fomdition of affairs when you came mong us and we'll we realize the con- Dition of affairs to-day, and for that leason we have journeyed on here to |xpress to you our feeling of grati- |ude.
 can assure you, dear father, the Inembers of St Thomas parish will fver hold dear in their hearts the hame of Rev William Kennedy, and Eheir earnest prayer will be that "suc- less wiM crown your labor" and when |he day has faded into night our npot- Io will then be as now. "All together Y And now in conclusion, beloved father. will say I feel it a ddstin- kJlished honor to have been selected to pffer to you srnall token, not as a reward or compensation for what you have done. as that would be beyond bur means. therefore offer to you oIl behalf of the members of St Thomas parish this, their small token of re- |nembrance.
 Father Kennedy was visibly affected py this manifestation of good win towards him and it was some time af- ter Mir Hardie had concluded before De could utter word. When he col Fected his thoughts he said:
 This occasion Is marked by one sad Feature, and that is, lIts absence who Is most dear to US all, I mean your beloved pastor, my kind friend, with whom lived and labored during five happy years, and whose life and trials nd af1icuons became so much a part pr my own life that 1t made our indi. gidual parting doubly hard for me
 This mark of kind remembrance Is stamped with sadness. too. It's mis- sfon Is to convey parting signs of es. teem from hundreds of friends-part- Ing signs, and I assure you it Is hard 20 part from friends. I accept this token and I thank you for 1t most sin eerely. entrust you with the mis. sion of conveying my thanks to the good people of St Thomas's parish. | appreciate t1lis gift not indeed for the value of ff-I should be ashamed to nd. init 1t if did, but. appreciate if be- canse l feel that every offering con.
 ained therein has come to me weight.
 ed down with the prayers and besl
 wishes of the donors. Tn ye4urn
 will say that when aspirations sIhoa1ld
 oe sweetest, when prayer should be
 most acceptable, when my laps are stll
 moist with hhe blood of Christ at tlis
 holy sacrifice of mass. I wau breathe
 a prayer for the pastor and people oi St Thomas's.
 I feel that the fewer my words are
 on this occasion the better. You peo. ple of St Thomas parrish know mo
 well. better, perhaps than any othol
 people ever will know me, and that
 not altogether on account of th< length of time have lived and la
 bored among you. but owing especial
 ly to the fact that Waterbury was nly
 nrst love, and this, suppose, ae counts for my tflorough acduaintanc,
 with you and your knowledge of me \ feel, then. that words are not neces
 Sary to express my feelings on thts oc
 easion. You all can read them. AT
 ovation of this kind. the form ana ey tent of which seldom falls to +te To
 of an assistant priest, might tempt mt
 so feelings of pride. did I not knov
 and feel that ann altogether un
 worthy Of It. During my years a
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