The Irish standard., 1914-01-24
,,:ass@, SOME LArE CONVERTS.

Fond du Lac, Wis.,, and Vicar of st.
Mary's church, Oakfield.
The Rev. Richard Bodley Furley,
curate at St. Adams church, Leeds,
graduate of Keble college,
Oxford, and of the House of the Re-
surrection, Mirfield.
The Lady Elliot, widow of the
late Sir Charles Elliot, baronet, Lon
don, England.
Mr.. John w. Barney, for many
years managing editor of The Wall
Street Journal, and sometime secre.
tary of the Anglo-Roman Union,
society headed by Mr.. Carlton Strong
and Mr.. Ernest L. Prior, both of
whom are now Catholics.
Lieutenant-Co Colonel William Ger
ZACH, U. S. A., military instructor in
the Minnesota National Guard, Min
neapolis; German Lutheran.
Richard Blackburn Washington,
Washington, D. c.; son of Mr.. George
Washington, the last member of the
historic Washingtons to be born at
Mount Vernon, a grandson of John
Augustine Washington, the last owner
of Mt. Vernon.
Mr.. E. Hammett, of Oxford Uni
versity; received at Galley abbey.
Professor Cortlandt Van Wrinkle,
instructor in the English department,
Princeton university.
The late Louis Nolte, police lieu
tenant, st. Louis. Lieutenant Nolte
had been connected with the police
department for twenty-five years,
and for long time was known as
the Fighting Sergeant" He work
ed in the toughest districts. Dur
ing the police graft trials in 1906,
Lieutenant Nolte always was re-
ferred to as the square "copper""
meaning he could not be approached
with bribe money.
Mrs. Milbank, wife of the Rev.
John F. Milbank, rector of St. Pc
ters Episcopal church, Freehold, New
Jersey.
Mr.. Stuart U. Brown, manager of
the Schauwker Jewelry Co., Cleve-
land, Ohio.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Truax, Tenn
pie, Texas.
Miss Lillian M. Dryden, nurse at
Providence hospital, Washington, D. G.
Mr.. Robert Louis Stevenson, Mem
phis, Tenn.
Mrs. T. E. Smith, Mr.. Ralph Snoo.
er, and three others at Temple, Tex.
Cardinal Farley confirmed IS adult
Colored persons in St. Marks church,
New York, during the last week of
December.
At mission held at st. Patricks
ILL.,, during the latter part of Nov
ember, 45 adult converts were re
ceived
Dec. Z, in St. Cecilia's church, Brook
lyn, GO adult converts were received
Father Leyden, of st. Mary's, Free
port, ILL.,, received adult converts OF
Nov. 9.
Thirty-four converts were in the las
confirmation class at St. Mary.
church, Huntington, Ind.
During recent mission given b,
the Fathers of the Ohio Apostolate
in st. Edwards church, Cleveland
IL adult converts were received, ant
43 non-Catholics left under instruc
ton.
Nine conversions, three of white per
sons and six colored, were the imme
diate fruits Of the recent mission il
St. Marks church (for colored Cath
olics), New York.
Bishop Butt, of Southwark, Eng
land, confirmed 12 adult converts a
Burnham-on-Crouch, on Dec. Z. Oh
Dec. 12 he confirmed 40 adult con
verts at Southwark cathedral.
Miss Maria Tobias, Mrs. Mari;
Vaughan and Mrs. Anita Mcdonald
recent converts were confirmed b,
the Bishop of Monterey and Los An
geles, on Sunday, Dec. 81.
An Englican clergyman who mad'
his submission some years ago ant
who has been priest for about three
years, writes to The Lamp as follows
1--WE have been very busy here will
the mission. About seventy-five con
verts are to be confirmed next Tues
day; of these, fifty are the fruits O.
the mission, which was given by the
Apostolate Fathers of New York City
Since I was ordained l have myself
baptized over sixty converts. This
does not include most of the above
who were baptized by the mission Fa
theirs. In this parish during the pas
three years 12O converts have beer
received into the church."