The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-06-20
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1duS lOT dSSISIIAS Iu0 pOOI VI TWO
Catholic parishes of Camden, are be-
ing considered by the Rev. B. j. Multi
gan and M. E. Brio, selected by John
Hoey, cab driver, to distribute more
than $4,000 of his $4,000 estate.
Communicates of the churches of the
Sacred Heart and the Immaculate
Conception are to receive the money.
Mr.. Hoey died May 1. His career of
| forty years as cabby at stand near
the Federal street ferry made him one
of the best known characters of the
New Jersey city. He also left sums
ranging from 5000 to $500 to st. Mi
chaePs Industrial School and Orphan
Asylum at Hopewell; st. Joseph's
Home for the Aged at Beverly and the
Day Nursery of the Church of the I'M
maculate Conception, Camden.
Aviation in Fifteenth Century.-Mr
Claude Grahame-White has found an
interesting anticipation of the art of
aviation, in which he excels, in Merej-
kowski's Romance of Leonardo da
Vinci," recently reissued by the Put
mans. 81 have followed with great
interest" writes Grahame-White,
''Leonardo's observations and ideas in
regard to flying, which, although crude,
are surprisingly apt in view of the
progress in aviation these last ten
years. I think it is wonderful to
know that the principles upon which
modern artificial flight is based were
recognized and studied so far back as
| the fifteenth century,"
To Organize German Youth.-With
the approval of the president and
other officers of the Ohio Staatsver-
band, Union of German Catholic So.
cieties of Ohio, plans for junior
branches of the organization are be.
ing perfected. The president on May
10 wrote circular letter in which he
says: "You are, no doubt, well in.
formed on the new sub-organization
of the CentralVerein, founded last
year at Buffalo for the young mems
societies under the name Gonzaga
/ " HULL A0 plan AOW ID W OISdu1LS
within the several states. Missouri
has taken the lead by organizing a
young mems section with % societies
to start with. We in Ohio can, with
a little cooperation from various eli
ties and sections of the state, start
with about % societies"
Fifty Diplomas for Catechists.-The
Normal School for Catechists of New
York City, held it's annual commence
ment exercises at the Church of st
Charles Borromeo, West One Hundred
and Forty-frst street, on Monday
June 1. 1t was notable gathering Of
the members of the Confraternity Of
Christian Doctrine The norma
school has closed one of the most sue
cessful years of it's history Fifty
graduates received diplomas.
Convent Preferred to State Home
In the Bates criminal libel trial al
Columbus, Ohio, instituted by Judge
Black on account of slanderous
charges of socialists, published in the
socialist sheet, an interesting bit OF
testimony was given by Miss Virginia
Murray, chief probation officer or
Tuesday, May 26. Miss Murray swore
that Judge Black sent girls to the
Price Hill convent at Cincinnati in
preference to the Girls Industrial
school at Delaware because the latter
was a penal institution and fit fol
hopeless cases only" When asked
which institution in her own opinion
was the better place, the witness an
sWered: "The convent. consider
the religious influence there beneficial
to any girl, Protestant or Catholic.
Miss Murray said the convent hat
proven superior to the State school il
variety of ways, and that but few
girls had to be returned to the former
when girls are parOled by the State.
she said, they seldom get back t.
their own families"
Street Cleaners in Church.-For thu
first time the men of New York's Cit.
street cleaning force attended a me
mortal service for those of their de
ceased fellow workers on Sunday
. June IA. For several years the polio,
and fire departments and the lette
carriers have annually met to pa.
religious tribute to their deceased
companions, but the men who labo
in heat and cold and keep the street
in good shape have been overlooked
On Sunday afternoon memorial serv
ice for the deceased members of tn
department was held in the Churcl
of st. Anthony of Padua, Sullivan
street, near West Houston street
Commissioner Featherston with hi
deputies and other members of tn
city government accompanied tn
men who marched to the church il
uniform.
Thirty Years Away From School,
The spectacle of busy man, VIII
draws four times the salary of tn
Governor of Nebraska, attending CO
lege with his own son has just bee
concluded at Creighton University
says the ST. Louis Post-Dispatch, b
the award of degree in law to E.
McVann, manager of the Tran
Bureau of the Omaha Commercis
: Club. His son, Donald, is a freshma
: in the same school McVann, at tn
/ age of sixteen, entered Creighton thil