The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1912-10-12
AMERICAN NEWS.

Chair in GaeIic.-The University of
Illinois has organized graduate work
in old Irish, and placed former stu
dent of the Munster College, Balm
geary, Cork, Ireland, Miss Gertrude
Schuepperle, Phi. D., in charge of the
department. The university authori-
ties have purchased library of Celtic
works.
Fresh Air Camp.-A fresh air camp
for poor mothers and children from
congested districts is being conducted
at Walnut and Isabella Streets, in
North Evanston, Ill, by the combined
sixty conferences of the Society of
st. Vincent de Paul.
Catholic Heads Bureau.-The recent
appointment of Gen. Frank Mcintyre
as head of the Bureau of Insular At
fairs, is most gratifying to American
Catholics who know the General as
devout adherent of the Church and
member of st. Matthew's parish,
Washington. Under the Bureau of In
sular Affairs of the government are
ranged the Island Possessions of the
United States: the Philippines, Porto
Rico, Guam, Tutulla, Wake, Hawaii
and other islands, and the canal zone.
It is one of the most important of
the many departments of the federal
government and requires man of
great executive ability and infinite
tact for it's direction. Such man the
president has found in General Nc
Intyre.
Negro Parish Growing.-Fr. LeBeau,
the Josephite priest in charge of st.
Dominic's Negro Catholic Church in
Carrollton, La, has paid off all the
Indebtedness ON the church, and now
is preparing $4,000 addition of four
rooms to his school building.
Pope Honors German Catholic
Joseph Frey, of New York, President
of the German Catholic Central Verein,
has been informed through Most Rev.
John BonzanO, Papal Delegate to the
United States, that Pope Plus has con-
ferred upon him the Order of Knight
of St. Gregory for his interest in the
welfare of the Church. The formal
presentation of the Knighthood upon
Mr.. Frey will take place later at the
Papal Legation at Washington.
For Mass at Seattle st. Raphael
Guild is doing very good and ever
increasing work in the Fatherland.
Its object is to provide for the cele-
bration of Mass at sea. When priest
is going on voyage of any duration
he sends to the Guild. Immediately
a trunk is despatched to the ship on
which the Father is to sail. These
trunks are specially constructed for
the Guild. They contain all the re-
quisites for saying Mass, and the top
forms the temporary altar. The Guild
has also arranged with various steam
ship companies to give facilities for
the saying of Mass.
Magyar Nuns in America.-The first
convent of the Magyar nuns in this
country opened on the arrival at KEGS
port, Pa, last week of small colony
of Sisters of the Order of the Holy
Sapron, Hungary.
Clubhouse for CoIlege.-St. Peters
College, Jersey City, has bought the
old S. P. C. A. building at the corner
OIL warren oAu OL1CCI0S anu
will build a fine new clubhouse on
the SITE. An adjoining building,
bought some time ago, will be con-
verted into school.
Pioneer Missionaries Remembered.
The 121st anniversary OF the foun-
dation of the Mission of Santa Cruz
was celebrated Sunday, September Is,
at Holy Cross Church by most impos-
ing and impressive services. 1t was
the Feast of the Exaltation of the
Holy Cross, the day of the founding
of the mission and the city of Santa
Cruz by the early franciscan Fathers
The quaint old city of Monterey, the
first capital of California under Am
erican rule, was recently the scene
of a series of most beautiful and i'm
pressive ceremonies, commemorating
the founding of the Mission of Car
meIo by Junipero Sierra. The princ1-
pal interest in the many pleasing
events centered around the Solemn
High Mass, celebrated by Rev. Father
Mestres, in the open field upon the
identical spot made sacred by the first
Mass celebrated there hundred and
forty-two years before by the Veneer
able Superior OF the pioneer MISSION
airy Fathers of California.
st. Charles ColIege.-Mr. r. G. Har-
per Carroll, of Washington, has en-
tered suit to eject st. Charles College
from the possession of 253 acres of
land granted to it by his ancestor,
Charles Carroll, of Carrolltown. The
gift was made on the condition that
the tract Of land be used as the site
of school for the preparatory train
ing of young men aspiring to the
priesthood. The college buildings
were destroyed by fire last year, and
the new college is now building near
Gainesville.
Mass on Detention IsIand.-The first
Mass ever celebrated on Detention
Island, New York, was said on a
recent Sunday for 600 detained Italian
immigrants. The health officers took
Drecauti0nS that the ceIehrant Father