The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1912-03-23

St. Clara CoIIege.-On the after
noon of the tenth instant, Miss Helen
Waldo, the inimitable interpreter of
Child Life in Song" gave a song
recital at st. Clara College, Sinsinawa,
Wis, for Dream Children and Real
Children and for all who, spite OF time,
have not lost the Child Heart" Miss
Waldo's beauty of voice, perfect enun-
citation and artistic Interpretation of
enchanting melodies swayed the au-
dience at her will
Win of Mgr. BurtseIl.-Cardinal
Farley, as trustee of Cathedral Col
lege, New York City, receives five
bonds of the West Shore Railroad and
$1,000 by the will of the late Mgr
Richard l.. Burtsell, of Rondout, N. Y.
The Church of the Epiphany, New
York, of which Mgr. Burtsell was pas
tor at the time of his transfer to Ron
dout, following the DR.. McGlynn con-
troversy of 1886, receives $500, and
three local charitable institutions
$1,000 each. Emma Burtsell, sister
in-law, receives $4,000 and house.
The residue of the estate, the total
nieceS.
Episcopal Minister Converted.-Rev.
Charles Daniel Meyer, late of st. Ed
mund's Episcopal Church, Milwaukee,
and of St. Mary's Church, Waupaca,
has been received into the Church at
Graymoor, N. Y, by Father Paul, S.
A. Mr.. Meyer, who will study for the
priesthood, graduated at Nashotah
Seminary in 1909.
Chauncey OIcott's Scholarship
Chauncey Olcott, the famous Irish
tenor, recently added another and a
very great favor to the many he has
already conferred on the Franciscan
Brothers, of Brooklyn. He endowed at
st. Leonard's Academy, 138-14O South
4th street, business scholarship in
memory of his mother, for the boys
of the Catholic schools of Brooklyn.
Church, School and Residence
Burned.-In the conflagration which
destroyed fifty-seven blocks of the city
of Houston, Tex, recently, st. Pat
ricks Church, school and residence
We're burned.
Liberty Bell to TraveI.-The histor-
ic Liberty Bell, whose home is in Phil
adelphia, will perhaps once more make
journey, and this time clear across
the continent Elsa Cohn, a little
school girl, aged II years in Los Angel
es, was the first child in the United
States to contribute to the fund for
the purpose of bringing the bell to the
exposition at San Francisco, to be
held in 1915.
Seeks use of Public School for Ca
thoIic Chil6ren.-Rev. Francis j.
Haley, pastor of the Church of the
Holy Rosary, Cleveland, Ohio, made
application to the school board for
permission to use the public school
building in his .neighborhood for paro-
chial instruction for children of his par
ish after the close of school hours. In
presenting his application Father
Haley pointed out that practically SO
per cent of the children of that section
are the children of Italian Catholic par
ents, that they were unable to have a
parochial school building of their own,
and that if the board granted the use
of the building it would simply be
opening it to all intents and purposes
for the use of that entire section of
the city. The application was referred
to the committee on welfare of the
board of education with instructions
to report within two weeks.
Alumni of American Coileee.-At
meeting of the executive commit
tee of the Association of the Alumni OF
the American College in Rome, which
was held in Cleveland recently, it was
tentatively decided that the annual
reunion of the alumni, which is to be
held in Cleveland this year, will occur
May and 8.
Catholics in Provincial Government
I'm the recently formed Conservative
Government in the province of Prince
Edward Island, Canada, it is worthy oil
note that out of nine members -four
are Knights of Columbus, members oil
the Charlottetown Council These are
Honorable J. A. McNeill, Commission
er of Public Works; Honorable J. A
Mcdonald, Honorable A. E. Arseneault
and Honorable Charles Dalton.
Cardinal Breaks Ground for New
Seminary.-On March IA, His Emf
nence Cardinal Gibbons turned tn.
first spadeful of earth on the site o
the new St. Charles College at Clout
Cap, Maryland, preparatory semin
airy for the education of the yount
men for the priesthood The new in
stitution will replace old St. Charles
. COIEnPo near E11icott Titv which wa,