The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-06-23
SOME OF THE FRENCH NUNS
COMING HERE FROM FRANCE LOCATING IN HARTFORD.

Taking Charge of the Barnard Home
 Now to be a Home for Catholic Young
 WOmen-Bishop Tierncy Has Forty
 Nuns in Training Abroad to Teach
 Catholic Immigrants In This Land--
 Ex-RaiIrOad Commissioner BacOn-
 Dorrance Atwater NObly Defended at
 MerideR.
 Hartford, June 20,-It is due to Bish- op Tierney that the French nuns, who have been deposed from the schools in France, have come to this country in large numbers. Many of them, through his advice, went to Detroit, which is an old French city, and have come into contact with the French families resld- ing there. They all speak English fiu- ently and are natural teachers. Visi- tation of the sick has been made one Of their special fields in this country. The home in Hartford of the great educator, Henry c. Barnard, is occupied by them and is being transformed into home for young Catholic women, who come into the city from the country. These young women are provided for and pro- tected by the French nuns in charge of the new home, the cost of maintenance for the beneficiaries being kept as low for so many years the home of MT. Barnard, being the center of his great educational work, is to be enlarged by q dormitory for the young women. The atmosphere of the place will be one of education and refinement, keeping up the ideals that prevailed there in MT. Barnards days. The costume of the French nuns, espeonally the headgear, is interesting from the point that it has been worn for four hundred years. In the pictures representing Miles standish and Prinoilla Alden, for in- stance, the bonnets worn by the women in the background are exactly like the bonnets worn by the French nuns now in this country. Pictures of the mar riage of Pocahontas and Captain Smith, whose life the Indian princess saved near Jamestown, Va, four hundred years ago. show the same type of bon net worn by the English women at the wedding. These nuns, who have come here rom France have a most impor- for orN E,,N o1, 0f will take an active part in educational work is to be expected. No man in the state believes more heartily in educa- tion than Bishop Tieney. He has in Europe at the present time upwards of forty young men acquiring the Ian guages in which they will preach to the immigrant populations in the state, Bishop Tierney says the Italians out number the Canadians in Connecticut. Resident in New Haven at the present moment are twenty thousand Italians. The Poles are Hooking rapidly into the state and American priests must be trained to preach to them in their own language Bishop Tierney is meeting this necessity by having young priests from the diocese complete their educa- lion in European centers. The Canada an population is the largest in the east ern portions of the state. They adhere closely to the French. With the Ital- ians the children quickly learn English and speak it. At confirmations of the Italian children Bishop Tierney invari- ably addresses them in English. The Poles have consecrated a new church in New Britain this spring and have a large population there. Bishop Tierney, in reaching the different nationalities in his diocese, says true education broadens and liberalizes men. He has welcomed the French nuns onAaccount of their high intellectual training in the schools of France. Purely from an ed ucational point of view they are equipped for work of a high order. Bishop Tierney is widely known as an ardent friend of education.
 Ex-Railroad Commissioner John w Bacon of Danbury is one of the few aged alumni of Trinity college, who will probably be here at the commencement of 1906. Mir Bacon graduated sixty years ago under President Toten. He was native of Hartford and began his railroad life as superintendent of the old Hartford and Fishkill road. He was made a railroad commissioner by Governor Richard D. Hubbard, being the republican member of the board 1 Governor Thomas M. Waller reeppoint- ed him, his services being of great value to the state. Governor P. C, Lounsbury appointed William o. Sey- mour as Mir. Bacon's successor in 1SS This was the surprise of the session Everybody expected that Commissioner Bacon would be reappointed. It was