The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-10-10


pages in Texas history, are at last to
have a great monument erected to
heir memory. The Alamo Heroes
Monument Association has been or
ganized in San Antonio. Auxiliary
are being formed in every
Texas county, and thousands of dol
lars have been subscribed The
will be erected in San An
tonic, and probably on the grounds of
the present Alamo.
Bordeaux and observation-disclosures
France, the seat of the French govern
ment at present, has an added inter
est for Americans, when we remember
that former Archbishop of that city
was Cardinal Cheverus, Bishop of Bos-
ton. Cardinal CheVerus became Arch
bishop of Bordeaux, on July 20, 1926,
was created Cardinal, February 1,
1886, and died on July 10, the same
year. Right Rev. John Lefevre de
CheVerus was consecrated first Bishop
Of Boston, November l, 1910, trans
ferred to Mantauban in 1923, then to
Bordeaux.
Catholic Papers 65 Years Aeo,-SiX-
ty-five years ago, the United States
had only the following Catholic
weekly publications: The U. S. Cath
Olic Miscellany, Charleston; The Cath
olic Telegraph, Cincinnati; The Cath
Ollie Herald, Philadelphia; The Catho-
lie Advocate, Louisville; Der Wahr-
heits Freund, Cincinnati; The New
York Freeman's Journal, New York;
lie Propasateur Catholique, New Or
leans; The Pittsburgh Catholic; Ko-
tholiche Kirchen zeitung, Baltimore;
Catholic Observer, Boston; Boys and
Girls Catholic Magazine, Philadelphia.
Printer Converted by Catholic Manu-
script.-The recent ordination Of the
Reverend James Young of the Jesuit
Order recalls the conversion of his
grand-uncle, the late Bishop Josue M.
Young, Bishop of Erie, Pa. Bishop
Young was born in the village of
Shapleigh, Maine, of Puritan parents,
old-time Congregationalists. He be-
came printer by trade, and it is said
that setting in type some Catholic
manuscript had great deal to do with
his conversion.
Negro School Opened in New York
The Mother Superior of the Sister
hood of the Blessed Sacrament. re-
Gently opened in Harlem new
parochial school, admitting 300 negro
boys and girls, and home adjoining
for the Sisters, the whole having cost
more than 100000. The Mother SUI
perior was Miss Katherine Drexel, a
daughter of the Philadelphia banker,
who is devoting her life and money to
educational work for negro and Indian
children. The school in Harlem is one
of four recently opened, all of them
costing more than 100000. Others
are in Boston, Cincinnati and st. Louis,
and these, added to schools already
open, make total of sixteen which
started a school in Harlem two years
ago. Now she opens the new building
as part of st. Marks parish, 138th
Street, near Lenox Avenue
Mother DrexeI Aids st. Louis
Negroes.-Recently Father MCGUIRE,
S. j., of st. Louis University, who has
charge of the ST. Louis colored people,
received some very substantial aid for
his charges, when Mother Drexel,
foundress and Superior General of tho
Congregation of the Blessed Sacra-
ment, purely American Sisterhood,
arrived in st. Louis from Philadelphia
with a band of three religious. The
community will reside at 2731 Pine
Street, the old Haseltine residence. It's
object is settlement work among the
blacks. The convent established in
Father McGuire's mission was the fif-
teenth foundation of the Order.
Catholic Immigrants in Helena Do
cese.-Immigration of Catholics has in
creased so considerably during the
last years in the Waller valley in
Montana, that Bishop Carroll of
Helena urgently requested the Very
Rev. p. H. Pennings. Superior of the
Premonstratensian Order in America,
to send two priests out to Montana,
to take care of the spiritual welfare of
the Catholic immigrants The Revs. M.
V. d. Elsen and R. Greven have left
for their new field of labor.
xaverian Brothers Open "Juniorate."
The Xaverian Brothers, whose CEN
trail house is Mt st. Joseph's College,
Baltimore, and who have labored in
the diocese for the past fifteen years,
have opened a "Juniorate" at Old
Point College, Va, for the reception
of aspirants, for their congregation
Here young men or boys, ages from
twelve to sixteen, feeling so inclined,
are received. Those having finished
the grammar grades, are given a COM
plete four years high school course
after which they are sent to the no.
vitiate at Mt st. Josephs, Baltimore,
to pursue the course of two years.
Then comes the normal course, which
entities them to teachers certificates.
Four Generations in Holy Name
Parade.-At the recent Holy Name
Parade in Erie, Pa, John A. Gems,
heimer, aged SO, covered the whole
course of the march on foot. In the