The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-07-14

cIaret in my drinking water. to kill the
germs" explained the bishop. 81 went
into the town to purchase it. At lit
tie wine shop / asked the proprietor in
the little Spanish 1 had picked up on
the trip kindly to Dame un pOquito de
vino tino.' He looked me in the eye
'Thiggumste Gaelic, he said. And we
talked the old Gaelic. He&was the first
Irishman 1 had seen since 1 left Dub
lin, and 1 starting TO talk to him in
pigeon Spanish. How do you suppose
he knew 1 was Irish?
Work In California.
TN San Francisco, | went right into
the cathedral with Bishop Allemany.
who is the ST. Peter of the Catholic
church expansion in the west. He was
the bishop of San Francisco for twenty
years and his name is yet remembered
and reverenced there. He was then
not On old man. but was bent and fee
BILE. as his health was never very good.
| He had however, within him the fire
of a dozen younger men. His scho-
| lastic requirements were wonderful.
He was a scholar of great repute, good
| speaker and remarkable linguist. He
| fought with the souls of the hard
! drinking mining kings and the reckless
| toughs and bad men of. those days as
nobly as did st. Augustin. OF the
great names that stand out in Cali
| fornia's early history those of Mackay,
Flood and O'Brien were inscribed final
| ly on the rolls Of our church. All of
them became devout Catholics and
were liberal donors to the cause of the
! church. Fair never Joined the church.
He was a north of Ireland man, but
Mrs. Fair was one of our Communi-
| cants, and I remember the daughters
well as little girls. One of them has
since married a Vanderbilt and one an
| OeIrichs. They were beautiful chill
dren. and one of them, I have forgot
ton which. had as child well mOdu-
/ lated singing voice.
His First Parish.
81 made several trips from san
| Francisco into the arid country for. af-
| ter the golden spike was driven at
! Promontory. Bishop Allemany would
not rest until he, too. had a girdle of
| faith to bind his communicates in the
] east and west of his district together.
! spent six months in Woodstock,
| Woodland, in Sonoma county, Cal, and
a rough place it was i'm those days. ]
/ can assure you. and was then sent to
/ my first parish-that of Phoebe. Nev.
/ 1t was the widest place you can inn
| and shooting were the principal diver
| sions Two hours after I got off the
/ stage I went up to the principal mine
/ owner. I asked him for the money
and labor and timber to build a Cath
Ole church. He was a tough, little
man, and he looked me over most
| Thoroughly. Then he spat tobacco juice
| and told me to take my church and GO
! to hell with it. / was young in those
/ days, and 1 felt the hot blood rise in
| me and l did not dare answer him
/ He was a little fellow. I turned and
walked away. The next day he came
/ to see me. Father he says, I'm not
much for churches, but you're a damn
| good man, and I'll build your church
/ for you And he turned over to me al
| wanted of the siXty-nine men he haC
in his mine and a bunch of lumber.
built a little board church and pre-
sided over it for two years. Before
left we had one of the finest church
equipments of the early days in Ne.
vada. There is nowhere so great heart.
ed and liberal giving man as the early
western pioneer. That is, if they came
to like you.
Il came to Salt Lake City and tn,
! parish Of st. Mary Magdalen on tn,