Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-02-13

influential friends snd it is typical Of the
way In which he has kept Philadelphia IN
good humor for twenty four years.
At the same time he did not neglect the
church When he assumed charge OF the
archdiocese Il had 20 Oo catholic families;
now II has double that oumber
He built Just outside Of Philadelphia the
second largest Augustinlsu monastery IN
the world; the largest - m spain he
erected a protector, fot boys to,fnded sew
eral large hospitals and with the t2jo0D
which was collected as gift for him on
his recent golden Jubilee and which he re-
fused to accept, he started building an
orphanage
The archbishop was once asked how he
raised all the money for his various enter
prises
Why" he replied. Il Just tax to Seopls
and somehow they give"
Industrial Pcaccmaker.
II was Just his talking that ended Phil
sdelphias great street railway strike In
1850. This leading citizen and that had
tried without success to get the strike
leaders TO arbltrate A big bribc had failed
to move them.
Riot and disorder grew apace. The citys
rNNaaANee was fdAAig ecu. I men tOaOtnOUN
thought OF Archbishop Vvan; he was APP
preached and consented to sec what he
could do
lie went to the place where the leaders
were assembled, lie introduced himself
and said he guessed It wouldn't hurt ~
they'd talk over the situation little Il
turned out that the archbishop did about
all the talking
He ma vt,ft -.
a funny story, and he held them by the
flashes OF Wit with which he interspersed
his argument. An hour or so later when
he left the meeting, he carried with him the
word Of the leaders that they wori1 arbi.
trate. The next day Philadelphia was a
peaceful town again and street cars we're
running as usual on every line
Once when asked where he stood in a
supposed difference between Cardinal Glib
bons, extreme liberal and the late Arch
bishop Corrigan, ultra conservative, he re-
marked:
"As archbishop Of Philadelphia natur-
ally stand half way between New York and
Baltimore"
Hts Gentle HumOr.
One afternoon shortly after the late
Bishop Horstmann Of Cleveland had been
caused considerable trouble by the Polish
Catholic element In his diocese he visited
Philadelphia, his native city, and dined
with Archbishop Ryan, who was also en-
pertaining an ecclesiastical visitor from
New England. The latter INQUIRED Of the
Cleveland bishop resardlng the weather In
Ohio
ut has been unusually severe replied
Bishop Horstmann
No said Archbishop Ryan, Just a few
breezes from the Poles" So
When Archbishop Glennon was about TO
receive the purple robe his two strongest
competitors for the promotion wore fun
boards, which is unusual among the Cath
Ole clergy When the archbishop finally
received his appointment Archbishop Ryan,
It is said, wired as follows
Archbishop Glennon, congratulations;
you won by a close shave"
MY boy, your tongue will some day make
you famous" When Father Ryan visited
Rome, in 1867. during the eighteenth CEN
tenary Of the death OF St. Peter, he was
invited by pope to deliver the English
course OF the Lenten services and he occu-
pied the place that had been filled by Car
dinals Wiseman and Manning and other
brilliant orators. When Daniel O'Connelrs
Cehtehnidi was celebrated at Dublin, In 1915
Bishop Ryan was invited TO dsIiter the ora
ton, but he was compelled to decline. In
1872 when st. PatrickH cathedral In New
York was dedicated, he was the one Sc
lected by Cardinal McCloskey to preach the
dedication sermon and he preached from
the pulpit Of the magnificent pile when the
cardinal was buried near the altar and the
pallium was bestowed upon his successor,
Archbishop Corrigan. The archbishop of
Philadelphia preached the sermon on the
occasion of Cardinal Gibbons receiving the
red hat In 1886 and when Cardinal Martl-
nelli was elevated to the sacred college in
1901 Thus was OConnens prophecy full
filled.
Archbishop Ryan was a visitor to Omaha
on two occasions the first being the in
stallation OF Right Rev. James o'Connor.
first bishop Of the See Of Omaha, in Sep
tember, 1873 and again on the death OF the
latter in June. 1890
MRTHFUL REMARKS.