The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-08-22

over the world, thus advertising one
of the city's greatest show places.
Work in the Cathedral is being rush
ed. In the last two weeks $50 pews
have been installed. 1t is thought the
Cathedral may be opened for public
worship in October or November
Religious Oil king.-Edward D..
Dohney, California oil king, is paying
half the cost of erecting a new
$250,O00 Catholic church at Los Ange-
les, Cal
Mother General Stuart.-Like her
predecessor in the Office, Madame
Janet Erskine Stuart, Mother-General
of the Religious of the Sacred Heart,
who is at present visiting the houses
of her order in this country, is a
convert. She is daughter of the
late Hon. and Rev. Andrew Godfrey
Stuart, son of the second Earl of Cas-
tle-Stuart, and direct descendant of
the royal Stuarts (from Robert, third
son of King Robert the Second of
Scotland). Madame Stuart's uncle,
the third Earl of Castle-Stua1t, was
also convert.
Artist Becomes Sister of Charity
Miss Melva Beatrice Wilson, who is
now engaged in carving the sacred
sculptures in the transept of the new
st. Louis Cathedral, will, as soon as
her work is finished, become Sister
of Charity. She is now a novice at
Mount st. Vincent on the Hudson
Request to Church.-The will of
Elizabeth Brinkmann, filed recently in
Probate Court, leaves $4,000 to ST.
John Church, Covington, KY, to be
added to the fund of the new church
building. 1t also leaves $500 for the
chapel in st. John Cemetery, Coving-
ton.
New Churches in Detroit.-Three
new churches are projected for De-
troit, Mich, to cost over half mil
lion: st. Georges (Lithuanian),
ST. Florian's, and third in Ford City.
Rev. Patrick J. Cullinane, for Is years
pastor of the Church of the Sacred
Heart at Yale, Mich, will be pastor
of the new church of st. Thomas the
Apostle, in the northeastern section
of the city.
Church at Center Burned.-The
church at Center, Neb., about six miles
east of Garrison in Butler county, was
burned to the ground two weeks ago.
Priest Invents Berry.-By polleniz-
ing the Oregon wild blackberry with
the Cuthbert raspberry, Rev. George
Schooner, parish priest of Brooks, Ore,
and famous as a breeder of roses, has
produced an entirely new variety of
berry, which he tentatively has named
the Willamette" in honor of the
valley in which it was created. The
new fruit is dark red, in form like
raspberry, but three or four times
as large. 1t is firm and of a delicious
distinctive flavor.
Colorado Croatian CoIony.-Pueblo
County, Colorado, is being seriously
considered in a 100000 colonization
plan undertaken by the National Croa-
tian Society," Of this amount $125,000
will be invested in farm land, to be
parceled out in small lots to the ten
ants, who will work on the co-opera-
tive plan, and under scientific in
struction. The balance of the money
appropriated by the organization will
be for the erection of home for the
incapacitated members of the society.
AS nearly all the Croatians are Ro-
man or Greek Catholics, the Catholic
population of Colorado will be materi-
ally increased.
New College in San Francisco.-The
new Sacred Heart College, of the
Christian Brothers, in San Francisco,
costing about 100000, was recently
dedicated by Archbishop Riordan.
Charity in PhiIadeIphia.-The annu-
al report of the ST. Vincent de Paul
Society of Philadelphia shows an ex-
penditure on the poor of about SAL 600.
The society relieved 1883 families.
Mexican Ecclesiastical Provinces
Mexico is enthusiastically divided into
eight provinces (eight archdioceses)
and thirty-two dioceses and the vica-
riate-apostolic of Lower California.
Irish in South America.-The Irish
born population of Argentina, s. AM,
is 100000. In Chile are several hun
dreds of Irishmen.
Los Angeles Gift to Holy Father
The harbor commissioners of Los
Angeles have sent to the Holy Father
a magnificently bound book of views,
illustrating the wonderful improve
ments lately made in the harbor of
the Californian city, accompanied by
their expressions of profound esteem
for the Holy See.
New Hospital in Mason City
Work is soon to commence on the
new 100000 hospital at Mason City,
Iowa, which will be conducted by the
Sisters of Mercy. The building will be
four stories high with everything up