The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-04-23

of the famous fighting McCooks and one of PbiIa
delphias leading Presbyterian minister's walked
across the platform to grasp the archbishops hand
and to say that he, too had been chaplain in the
civil war. Now whenever DIR. McCook and Arch
bishop Ryan attend banquets at the Union League
| of which they are members, they always see to il
that they sit side by side and each in his sermons
frequently states that my good friend Dr. Nc
| Cook, or my warm friend Archbishop Ryan, de-
| clares."
As with the clergy, so with the laity; the arch
bishops tongue prevailed there, in one way or an
other
"Iour grace" said Wayne MacVeagh, when he
was counsel for the Pennsylvania railroad. "Mr
Roberts here, our president who always travels with
his counsel, will undoubtedly get you passes over
all the railroads in the United States if in return
you Will give him pass to paradise"
An, replied the archbishop quietly, 'EI would
do SO It 1t were not for separating him from his
counsel"
The archbishop's reply made him two influential
friends, and it is typical of the way in which he
has kept Philadelphia in good hunor for twenty
four years.
AT the same time he has not neglected the
Church When he assumed charge of the archdio-
cese it had 100000 Catholic families; now it has
double that number.
He has built, just outside of PHILADELPHIA. the
second largest AuguStinian monastery in the world
the largest Is IN Spain He has, erected protect
ory Tor boys, founded several large hospitals and
with the S25O0O0 which was collected as gift for
MIN on his recent golden jubilee and which he re-
fused to accept, he has started building an orphan
age.
The archbishop was once asked how he raised all
the money for his various enterprises.
Why" he replied II just talk to people and
somehow they give it.'
1t was just his talking that ended PhiladeIphia's
great street railway strike in 1895. This leading
citizen and that had tried, without success to get
the strike leaders to arbitrate. big bribe had
failed to them
Riot and disorder grew apace The city's busi-
ness was paraiyzed. Then somebody thought of |
Archbishop Ryan; he was approached and consent |
ed to see what he could do
He went to the place where the leaders were as
sembied; lie introduced himself and said he guessed
1t wouldn't hurt if they'd talk over the situation
little 1t turned out that the archbishop did about
all the talking.
He got the men with him at the start by funny
story, and he held them by the flashes of wit with
which he lnterspersed his argument. An hour or
20 later when he left the meeting he carried with
Inn the word of the leaders that they would arbi-
rate The next day Philadelphia was a peaceful
own again and street were running as usual
IN every line.
My boy, your tongue will some day make you
amous His fellow churchmen declare that if
Archbishop Ryan gets the red hat, as many of them
hink he will, it will largely be because of his eIo-
uence and his attitude on Church matters which
expressed, parable fashion, some few years ago.
,hen he was asked where he stood in a supposed
Inference between Cardinal Gibbons LIBERAL and the
'te Archbishop Corrigan. ultra ra-conservative:
As archbishop of Philadelphia, I naturally
and half way between New York and Baltimore"