The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-01-25
Catholic high school and four of the
nine won scholarships.

D. III me june I1S1AJ COnp0Il"
ton, open to all students in the city of
Philadelphia, for three free scholar
ships in the Drexel Institute Offered
by the Junior German-American ALI
ance), Joseph F. Monahan, student
of the senior class of the Catholic
High School, won the highest of the
three scholarships. This success re-
peats that of last year, when William
A. Steiger won the highest of three
scholarships. Both students were in
the manual training course of the
High School, and the competition was
in mechanical drawing.
4. In a competitive examination
held in 1911 for candidate for West
Point Military Academy in the fifth
congressional district of Pennsylvania
there were eight candidates from the
public high schools, of the district
and one from the Catholic high school.
The latter obtained the highest aver
age.
San Antonio's New orphanage.-
The plans prepared for the new st.
Johns Orphan Asylum, San Antonio,
to replace the one destroyed by fire
on the morning of Oct. 80, have been
accepted by Bishop Shaw.
tuberculosis Hospital in Brooklyn.
The new hospital of st. Anthony,
in Brooklyn is now under the charge
of the Little Sisters of the Poor of st.
Francis. It will be retreat for
tuberculosis patients, the only one of
it's kind in Greater New York.
Panama Canal Opening.-The day on
which the Spaniard Balboa first set
eyes on the Pacific Ocean has been
selected as the date for the passing
of the first shipping through the
Panama Canal. The fourth Centenary
is Sept. Is, 1913.
Dongan De Peyster Convert
Dongan De Peyster was baptized and
received into the Catholic Church on
Dec. by the Rev. J. F. x. O'Conor,
S. J., at st. Francis Xavier's church,
New York City. Before making his
profession of faith Mr.. De Peyster was
under instruction for several weeks
He takes his first name from Cover
nor Dongan, the first Catholic Cover
nor of New York.
80
L. Flood of San Francisco, at Christ
mas, sent out checks to the principal
charities of the city, most of them
Catholic, aggregating $500.
Chicago Official a X. c.-John A.
Mccormick, prominent Knight of
Columbus, of Chicago, has been elect
ed treasurer of the Sanitary Board.
Funds aggregating 100000 annually
will pass through his hands.
Work of ApostoIate Fathers.-The
New York Apostolate Mission Band
has completed sixteen years of success.
full missionary work. During these
sixteen years the Apostolate Fathers
received into the church $3.50 con
verts. They conducted SGT missions
of which 3S3 were for Catholics and
1874 for Catholics. Forty of the
Catholic missions and 149 of the non
Catholic missions were given gratis
The number of confessions heard by
the Apostolate Fathers is 545,526, the
half-million mark having been passed
about a year ago. Books and pamph
lets to the number of 57,415 we're dis
tributed through the rack at the door
of st. Stephens church, the head
quarters of the Apostolate, and al
the various missions.
Poor in Louisville HospitaI.-The
fine ST. Anthony Hospital of the
Franciscan Sisters, in Louisville, Ky.
cared last year for 1923 patients O
all nationalities and religious beliefs
The sick-poor or charity patients mum
bered 325.
Archbishop with Fellow Alumni
Archbishop Moeller officiated thi'
month at the celebration of the st
Xavier College Alumni Association
Jubilee, Cincinnati. The Archbishop
is one of the Alumni.
Texas Academy 6urned.-The new
ly acquired Academy of the Sisters o
the Incarnate Word at San Angelo
Texas, purchased last year at a cos
of $4,000 and improved at an add
tional cost of $4,000, was destroyed b,
fire. The insurance was about $4,000
Christmas in the Greek Rite.-Th
Catholics of the Greek rite are som
thirteen days behind in their caler
dar of the year. Consequently Christ
mas day or Dec. 25, falls upon what i
our Jan. Z. The change introduced b
Pope Gregory in 1882 was never mad
obligatory upon Catholics of the East
ern rites, who continued to use tn
calendar they had been always accus
toned to have. There are in NeN
York two Ruthenian Greek Catholi
churches, that of St. George, No. 2
East Seventh street, and that of tn
Patronage of the Mother of God. O
Tuesday, January Z, both of the1
were filled to overflowing with tn
worshippers, celebrating the grea
event of Bethlehem.
Citizenship for Porto Ricans.-Ge1