The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-28
CATHOLIC YOUNG MEN
THEIR NEXT NATIONAL CON-
VENTI0N IN ELIZABETH.
Will Be Third One Held on New Jersey
Soil-Arrangements Made on
an Elaborate Scale.
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ELIZABETH, Sept. 2S.-For the third
time in the history of the Catholic
Young Mems National Union its annual
convention is to be held on Jersey soil.
This, the thirty-third convention to be
held by the organization, will v
in this city on Tuesday, October 8, and
will continue for two days. The ses-
sions are to be held il the Young Mems
Catholic Lyceum, PAL Court street.
The union was organized in the build
ing of the Young Mems Catholic Asso-
citation of Newark, and the late Right
Rev. Monsignor George H.. Doane, for
more than forty years rector of st.
Patrick's Cathedral, vas it's first presi-
dent. The tenth anniversary conven-
ton and also the golden Jubilee con-
yention were held in the building which
was the cradle for its birth-the Insti-
tute, of Newark.
Thus it is with pride that the Cath
Ollie young men in the various societies
forming the Newark Diocesan Union
gave up their time and pleasure n
worked tooth and nail for the success of
the coming convention. The Newark
Diocesan Union delegates have planned
for the convention and will have full
charge of all the arrangements, I'M
der the leadership of Bernard Owens,
of the Father Mathew T. A. B. Society,
of Newark. 1t is estimated that all of
the large cities will send delegates to
the convention and that the aggregate
number of qualified representatives will
reach 600. New York, Boston. Philadel-
phia and Newark will be well repre-
sented. The latter city will send about
ninety-five delegates.
The delegates will assemble in the
convention hall and from there proceed
in a body to St. Patrick's Church, to
attend a pontifical mass, which will be
celebrated by the Right Rev. Bishop
John J.O'Connor. Dean Gessler will be
present and it is probable that the SER
mon on the occasion will be delivered
by Bishop Bernard j. McQuade, of
Rochester, n. Y.
The delegates will be received in the
convention hall at the conclusion OF
the mass by Mayor Ryan, of Eliza
beth, who will welcome the delegates
and extend to them the freedom of the
city. The spiritual director of the
Newark Diocesan Union, the Rev. j.
w. Corcoran, of Paterson, will make
an address of welcome, and h presi-
dent of the National Union, the Rev.
Thomas j. Leonard, of Brooklyn, will
speak for the National Union.
Dinner will be served in the
Lyceum's large hall, n after dinner
reports will be made by the various
societies affiliated. A feature of the
afternoon session will be the reading
of a paper on Catholic Education
by Delegate Stafford, of st. Johns
Sunday School Teachers Association,
of Paterson. Tuesday night there will
be a reception and dance in the Ly-
ceum Hall, in which all the societies
are to participate.
Most important of the next days
work will be the revision of the con-
stitution and bylaws. One change to
be made in the constitution, that is, If
the delegates who favor it are success
full in carrying out their plans, will be
the insertion of a clause which will
make a layman Neligible for election to
the office of president of the union.
Under the ruling of the constitution
as it is today only a priest may be
elected to this office. If this change is
brought about there will be an excit-
ing, but friendly, contest among the
for the honor of being the
first layman to have been elected to
the office,