The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-09-13
TO The EDITOR
cATHoLIcITY IN DULUTH.
Minneapolis, Sept. 8. 1913.

WoTuS ABOUT CatnOllclty In the Zenith
City, at the head of Lake Superior.
may prove interesting to the readers
OF your widely circulated journal.
While all the rest of Minnesota and
adjacent states suffered last week
from the torrid temperature, Duluth
and vicinity had cool, pleasant
weather, which was thoroughly en-
1oyed by visitors and residents.
Everybody feels happy at the head
OF the lakes at this time of the year.
and victims of hay fever find it a
veritable paradise and soon get rid of
their nauseating malady. The people
or Duluth of all ages and sexes are
robust and healthy and full of life and
activity. Few of them ever die of
pulmonary complaints. Though there
are many physicians in the city /
never heard Of any of them becoming
rich by attending patients. They are
more apt to become wealthy by invest
Ing in iron lands on the range or by
speculating in mining stocks. But /
am DEPRESSING from my subject.
Bishop McGolrick has been a prom
inent citizen of Duluth for twenty-four
years. When his name was presented
as member of the library board in
1890, he was rejected by the civ
council because he was an emissary
OF Rome! Jefferson and Thomas. lib
eral aldermen, now dead, berated that
BODY In scathing eloquence, the former
declaring that the Bishop knew more
about books than the whole of them
combined. And Jefferson was right.
The library of the Bishop contains
over $4,000 volumes, covering everv
SUBJECT under the sun, ancient and
modern. The people of the city, stu
dents and scholars, have free access
to his great collection and there is
scarcely a volume that has not his
annotatlons on the margins thereof.
He is charming ecclesiastic. easily
approachable. and quite willing, to aid
every Individual, regardless of creed
or class. He is deeply interested not
only in the spiritual but in the ma
terial welfare of the city and county.
For twenty years he has. been mem
Der OF the park board, and the CITY
can legitimately boast of the dozen
beautiful parks and squares within it's
limits, chiefly because of his sugges-
tons for comfort and ornamentation.
He takes civic pride in the Zenith CITY
and his services are duly appreciated
by the inhabitants. Recently, under
the commission form of government.
ne was appointed chairman of the
| Work Farm commissioners. OF
course, he gives his services gratui-
tously He has done valuable work
in the cause of colonization in north.
ern Minnesota. He spent time and
money in bringing Catholic settlers
from Belgium and Holland and made
many sacrifices to see them happy and
contented in their new homes. But.
strange to say these Industrious and
skillful farmers have shown no prac.
teal appreciation of all he has done
for them. They think they are en-.
titled to it from the Bishop of Duluth
He has recently shifted part of his
burden on the shoulders of Bishou
Trobec of st. Cloud and Bishop Cor
bett of Crookston The latter, who is
OF a practical turn of mind, strongly
intimated that $4,000 in good Amer
lean money would be gratefully &C
cepted from them for the ornamental
ton of his new cathedral. AS they
do not understand the English Ian
,guage very well, the young prelate
of Crookston has not yet been glad
dened by contribution of the natur
allied Americans from the continent
of Europe.
When they become more American
lied and their ears become more
familiar with the sonorous language
OF Shakespeare, they may discover
that even Catholic prelates cannot af
ford to lavish their time in attending
to the temporal affairs of others with
out receiving some substantial recog
milton of gratitude in the way of con
tributions to churches and schools in
the diocese where they settle. The
Bishop of Crookston belongs to q
younger generation than the BishoI
OF Duluth and cannot be easily con
vinced that he should devote his time
to the worldly affairs of foreigners
or natives for nothing. He is toe
much of Yankee for that, notwith
standing the fact that he is most de
sirous of seeing the Catholic colony
flourish and prosper within his ecclesi
asticaI realm.
Prior to the carving out of Crooks
ton diocese from that Of Duluth, Bish
op McGolrick ruled over vast terri
tory-almost 10000 square miles il
area-larger than all Ireland in size
though incredible to the natives O.
the Emerald Isle, who see things OF
a miniature scale at home. Since the
division, he holds ecclesiastical SWAY
over 22,354 square miles in severa
counties extending from Frazee il
Becker county to international Falls
in Koochiching county on the Ca
madam border. He has fifty priest.
under his jurisdiction, not countin,
twelve priests of religious orders TIL,
Catholic population is rapidly ap
: preaching 10000 exclusive of 1000 In
dams. Three new churches are bein,
built in distant parts of the dioces
: at cost of $4,000 each, being tn
gift of Mr.. Thomas Feigh of Duluth
a worthy Irishman who made hi
money honestly in iron ore lands an
is generous enough to erect these ed
fees to the glory of God and for tn