The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1912-06-01
AMERICAN NEWS.

DR.. Egan to Farmers.-The Hon.
Maurice Francis Egan, minister OF the
United States to Denmark is, by per-
mission of the State Department, tour
ing the Southern and Western States
addressing the farmers on the CO.
operative dairying system which has
been so successful in the rural dis
tricts of Denmark.
Memorial to DR.. O'LaughIin.-A
committee has been appointed to take
charge of a proposed memorial to DR..
William Francis Norman O'Laughlin,
the ships doctor on the Titanic. The
Committee will undertake to raise a
fund for the endowment of patholog-
ical laboratory at st. Vincent Hospital.
The movement originated with life
long friend of DR.. O'Laughlin, and her
idea received the hearty approval OF
Cardinal Farley.
Gift of the French PeopIe.-The
final ceremony in connection with the
presentation of the bronze bust of LA
France" by the French people to the
citizens of the United States was full
filled at Crown Point, N. Y, on May 3.
Delegates of the Vermont and New
York Champlain Precautionary COM
mission waited in the morning at Fort
Ticonderoga, near the head of Lake
Champlain, for the arrival from New
York of the distinguished French dele
cation, the guardians of the sculpture
which eventually will be placed in
position at the foot of the Champlain
Memorial Lighthouse now under con-
struction.
Cemetery Sunday for Rockford Do
cese.-In an official letter Bishop Null
doom, of Rockford, ILL.,, says: ''In my
visitation of the diocese last year, it
was a source of great satisfaction to
find the cemeteries well-kept and CIV
ing evidence of love and respect for
the Dead. I have decided to set apart
one Sunday in the year for special
exercises of devotion in the cemetery.
This Sunday will be known as Gem
etery Sunday"-on the first Sunday in
June. The pastor and congregation
will meet in the cemetery and pray
for the Dead.
Military Field Mass.-Under the au-
spices of Gloucester Naval Camp 5,
United Spanish War Veterans, assisted
by the Long Island chapter of the
knights of Columbus, the annual mill
tary field mass will be celebrated on
Sunday, May 26, on the parade grounds
of the marine barracks at the Brook
Ign navy yard. A choir of $50 voices
will assist at the mass. Preparations
are being made to accommodate the
largest number that has ever attended
a mass at the navy yard. Invitations
have been sent to President Taft, Gov
ernor Dix, Mayor Gaynor, the Borough
presidents and all the federal and city
officials.
First Holy Rosary Society in Ameri-
ca.-Within the last few months it
came to light that the first organized
Holy Name Society in the United
States was in the Diocese of Louis
vile, at st. Charles Church in Marion
County, more than a century ago, and
last week, at the Loretto Centenary,
celebrated at the Loretto Motherhouse,
KY, the Bishop of Louisville, DR.. O'Don-
aghue, presented the Treasury of that
Motherhouse with a record, author
lied by Archbishop Carroll of Balti-
more, evidencing the establishment
at Calvary, KY, Of the first Holy
Rosary Society in the year 1806,-on
hundred and six years ago.
Superior of Alexians On VISIT
Brother Paul Overlook, Superior-Gen-
eral of the Alexians, of Aix-la-Cha-
pelle is on visit to st. Louis.
First American Religious Book
The first religious book published on
the American continent was printed
in the City of Mexico by order of the
Catholic bishop there. This was the
first work of any kind from movable
type issued in the new world, and
DCdAo uoCS 1ofO. LII punt vi CUlldUO-
rators the most pretentious work pub
lished on this continent is ''The Catho-
lie Church in the United States, "
which has 5000 different co-authors
all but a dozen of whom are actively
identified in some way with the
American hierarchy.
A Historic Catholic Stronghold
Santa Fee was an old place when the
Pilgrims landed at Plymouth. The
Franciscans founded a mission there
in two small Indian pueblos which
were then more than one thousand
years old-one on Fort Marcy, the
other on the site of San Migue
church, the oldest house of worship
in the United States. In this church
is an old bell cast in Spain more thar
a century before the discovery o1