The San Francisco call., 1909-10-17

and those who fall by the wayside and
7 In these institutions 1,O40 inmates are
sheltered. The schools number III.
and are attended by 12,4os pupils. from
among whom every year come most
brilliant successes in the public com
petitive examination. Mother Mary's
daughters are working in every state
In Australia and New Zealand.
There are at present four colored
priests in this country Three of them
are members of ST. Josephs society.
commonly called the Josephites; and
the fourth is a member of the Congre-
cation of the Holy Ghost
The first is Rev. Charles Randolph
Uncles, born in Baltimore, who was
ordained by his eminence Cardinal
Gibbons. in the Baltimore cathedral, in
1891. Since his ordination, Father I'm
cles, has been professor in the Epiph-
any Apostolic college at walbrook,
Baltimore. Md
The second is Rev. John H. Dorsey,
native of Baltimore, who was or
dained by the cardinal in Baltimore
cathedral in 1902 Father Dorsey is
now teaching in st. Joseph's college
for negro catechists in Montgomery,
Ala, and assisting in the management
of that institution
The third is Rev. Joseph ]. Plante-
vigne, born in Louisiana. He has re-
Gently been appointed assistant at ST
Francis XaVier's church in Baltimore,
one of the largest and oldest of coll
ored Catholic parishes in the country.
The fourth is Rev. Joseph A. Bur-
CESS, c. s. Sp., born in Washington, D.
c. At present he is professor at the
apostolic college of his congregation at
Cornwells, Pa.
Father Augustine Tolton, born in
Illinois of slave parents, was the first
colored priest appointed in the United
States. He was ordained at the pro-
paganda in Rome in 1885, and was
pastor of St Monica's hurch, in Chi
eago in which city he died some u
years ago.
To this number will be added, at
the close of the current scholastic year,
the name of Rev. Stephen ]. Theobold,
who is now reading a distinguished
course at the st. Paul seminary under
Archbishop Ireland's auspices. Rev.
Mr.. Theobold has lately been advanced
to the diaconate, and he will, after
his ordination in June. take his place
among the clergy of the diocese of st.
Paul.
The Compania Transatlantica of Bar
celona, Spain, grants old age pensions
and sick benefits to its men, conducts
a savings bank which pays per cent
on interest deposits, and has various
other philanthropic schemes for en-
couraging loyalty among it's employees.
t.. ctr rx-hia
is truly cooperative, conducted by the
men and for their benefit. All this
regards the persons in the actual en-
ployment of the Compania Transat-
lantica but there is another feature
which shows that not all corporations
are soulless.
It also conducts an orphan asylum
and industrial school for the children
of those who have died in its service.
The child is taken, even at a tender
age, and fed. lodged and schooled at
the expense of the company until he is
ready for a position in the service.
Neither is he condemned. through his
ignorance, to a life of common drudg-
cry by being thrown out TO work his
own way as soon as he can use his
hands, for the company maintains a
special free schol of mechanical and
electrical engineering for those who
show adaptability and fitness for such
work The asylum, with its elegant
chapel, close to the sea and in finely
cultivated lands, bears no sign of
hard fisted, hard hearted public char
ity.
Sociological features have received
the attention of many corporations in
our own country. If the principles of
Catholic brotherhood were more gen.
orally known and practiced the merci-
less grind of the soul driver" would
cease and the groan of the driven
tent.
The Catholics of the diocese of Cam
brai, France, have reopened $40 schools
to take the place of the 443 primary
schools closed by the religious congre-
cations law.
NEW SCHOOL STATUTES