The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-04-22

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Apostolic See, September 5th., 1910.
The mother-houses of the Sisters of
Loretto and of the Sisters of Charity
of Nazareth, remain in Kentucky in
the diocese of Louisville. About $50
Sisters are subject to the Mother
house at Loretto, KY, and about SO
are subject to the Mother-house at
Nazareth, KY.
Sister SoIicits Funds for Sanitarium.
Sister Theresa, head of st. There
sa's Open Air Sanitorium, Oak Grove,
Ore, is soliciting funds with which
to construct $4,000 building to re-
place the present structure in use as
sanitorium. Plans have been pre-
pared, and Sister Theresa confidently
expects to have the building complet-
ed and in use by the end of 1912.
New Altar for Private Chapel of
Thomas +. Ryan, Thomas F. Ryan is
to have marble altar built in the
chapel on the second floor of his home,
S5S Fifth Avenue, New York. The
altar will weigh four tons, and will
cost about $4,000, according to the
estimate of the architect, c. T. Mat
hews. 1t will be the most beautiful
altar in any private chapel in the
United States. 1t will be 71s feet
wide and feet high, and will be of
Roman classic design to harmonic
with the architecture Of the chapel,
which accommodates about 100 per-
sons.
Classic Design for Cardinal Gibbons
Memorial HaFl.-Architect Bucks de-
sign for the Cardinal Gibbons Me-
mortal Hall, at the Catholic Univer-
sity, is very classic It represents a
Norman-Gothic structure of three main
floors, with basement, of varigated
design, having a frontage of about
300 feet with turretted central facade.
Memorial for Former Bishop of
Brookfyn.-A movement has been set
on foot to erect a magnificent cathe-
dral in Brooklyn as memorial to the
pioneer Bishop of the Diocese, the
Rt. Rev. John LoughIin.
Mary Anderson Writes .PIay.-Mme.
Antonio de Navarro, who was known
on the stage as Mary Anderson, has
written, in collaboration with Robert
Hichens, five-act play, founded on
the latter's book, 'The Garden of
Allah
Nine. de Navarro and Mr. Kitchens
are both visiting at Biskra, an oasis
in the desert of the Sahara, where
some of the scenes of the play are
laid
American Nun Returns From Lis
bon.-Sister Johanna Lemon, the first
American nun to return to this coun-
try from Lisbon since the revolution
in Portugal, arrived last week. She
was born in Providence and went to
Lisbon several years ago. She said
that the American nuns were we'll
treated during the instruction, and
that the credit was due to the interest
taken in their welfare by the American
Consul at Lisbon, and by the Ameri-
can Minister to Portugal. Sister Lem
on was met at the pier by twelve
nuns from the convent of the Little
Sisters of Mercy of Brooklyn, with
whom she will live.
National Convention Of Catholic
Federated Societies.-The tenth ma
tiona1 convention of the American
Federation of Catholic Societies will
take place at Columbus, Ohio, August
20, Il, p and %. The national law
committee of the American Fedora
ton is composed of the following: A.
V. D. Watterson, of Pittsburg, Pa,
chairman; Judge M. Girten, Chicago;
Judge J. st. Paul, of New Orleans;
Francis J. Sullivan, of Brooklyn;
Henry V. Cunningham, of Boston; Jo-
seph Fargis, of New York; P. H. Mar
tin, of Green Bay, Wis.