The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-04-18

attendance of Presbyterian churches
in the Borough of Manhattan. The
count showed a notable decrease in
attendance within the last ten years.
Notwithstanding an increase in mem
bership of 100 since 1904, the decline
in attendance has been 1900, or 1892
per cent; in other words, the 1928
| worshippers in the Manhattan church
es Sunday, March 20, represented
74.43 per cent of the membership, in
contrast to 1915 in 1904. Other inter
esting points are that the attendance
of men had decreased from 1926 per
cent to 1876 in ten years; while the
number of children at the morning
services has fallen from 2,029 to 855.
Convert Scholar Dead.-The cele-
brated archaeologist and ethnologist,
Adolph Francis Bandelier, died in Mad
rid, Spain, about the middle of March.
Mr.. Bandelier was born in Berne,
Switzerland, seventy-four years ago,
and came to America in early youth.
Years of study in ethnology and
archaeology placed him among the
foremost authorities in these subjects.
He was engaged in researches for the
Archaeological Institute of America
from 1880 to 1885, and for several
years thereafter conducted investiga-
lions for the Hemenway Southwestern
Archaeological Expedition, which was
financed by Mrs. Mary Hemenway, of
Boston, Mass. During the years that
he was engaged in this work Mr..
Bandelier made his home in Santa Fe,
New Mexico, and it was while a resi-
dent of that historic city that he be-
came a convert to the Catholic faith
and was received into the Church.
In 1892 he went to Peru to make re-
searches for Henry Willard, and later
continued the same work in Bolivia
under the auspices of the American
Museum of Natural History from 1894
to 1903. The Catholic Encyclopedia
is indebted to this scholar for the
many valuable articles which he either
wrote or supervised.
Sons of Revolution Aid.-Another
bond of international good will be-
tween the United States and France
is about to take form in the project
for monument to Admiral Francois
Joseph Paul de Grasse, commander of
the French feet whose aid made pos
sible Washington's final victory over
Lord CORVALLIS, thus ending the Revo-
lutionary war. The movement has
been started by the Sons of the Revo-
luton, and definite plans for securing
triennial convention of the organiza-
ton which began in Washington, D.
c., Wednesday, April Is. Admiral de
Grasse is the only foreign commander
who helped this country in the Revo-
luton to whom no memorial has been
erected. The monument most likely
will be erected in Lafayette square
facing the White House, although
Yorktown, Va, the scene of the final
battle, also has been suggested.
Statues stand here to Lafayette and
Rochambeau of France; Won Steuben
of Germany; Kosciusko and Pulaski,
Polish officers.
To Rebuild Guiana cathedraI.-The
rebuilding of Georgetown Cathedral,
British Guiana, destroyed some time
ago by disasterous fire which ruined
the work of many years, is already be-
ing seriously discussed, and Mr.. Leon
ard Stokes is at work on a design
which will include the erection of a
church capable of holding congrega-
ton of three thousand people. The
architecture is to be early Gothic and
the cost will be $150,00O.
Pennsylvania Federation to Meet
Arrangements for the annual conven-
ton of the Pennsylvania State FEEDER
alton of Catholic Societies, to be held
in Erie in July of this year, are prac-
tically completed. The convention
will be held July II, Is and IA. 1t
will open with Pontifical High Mass
celebrated by the Bishop of the did,
cese, Rt Rev. John E. FitzMaurice.
Brooklyn School and Convent-St.
Patriak's Parochial School and Con-
vent will be built at Glen Cove in the
Diocese of Brooklyn, N. Y, to accom-
modate seven hundred children. The
church is a picturesque gray stone
structure with rectory adjoining, the
present valuation of the property ap-
proximating $15O,O00, clear of debt.
When Rev. Bernard O'Reilly, the pres
ent rector, assumed charge of the par
ish there was only a wooden church
structure.
AIaska's Catholic Indians.-In Alas
ka there are 1000 Catholic Indians.
Last year 341 Indian children were
baptized there.
Philippine Indians.-The Indian pop
ulation of Nueva Segovia in the Philip
pine Islands number 100000 of which
$4,000 are Catholic.
Women of the PhiIippines.-Most
Rev. ]. J. Harry, D. D., Archbishop of
Manila, says: Nowhere is domestic
life more beautiful than in the Philip
pines; and if there is one place in the
world where woman stands upon a
pedestal, it is in that little group of
islands. She seems there to excel the