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

Francisco and other cities of the state
will take official recognition of the
sacred character of the day.
Gift of Old Jewish Books.-Jacob H.
Schiff, the New York banker, has pre-
sented to the Library of Congress an
other collection of about 1000 Jewish
books, extending over many centuries.
New Departments in Women's
League.-The directors of the Mar
quette Women's League of Milwaukee
decided recently to establish music
and a peace circle. The
latter will be affiliated with the state
association of which Chief Justice
John B. Winslow of the Wisconsin SUI
preme court is president.
Growth of Mission Society.-When
the Society for the Propagation of the
Faith was organized in New York a
decade ago even those most hopeful
of it's ultimate success could not fore
see that the result would be what it is
today. From a gift of approximately
five thousand dollars year, the figure
has increased to one hundred and fifty
six thousand dollars this year, the
highest amount that has thus far been
contributed to the Society for the
Propagation of the Faith. Again, for
the fourth time the Archdiocese of
New York leads the dioceses Of the
world in it's contribution to the mis-
sions.
Report on Canadian immigrants
Father Casgrain, Director of the Cath
Ollie immigration Association of Can
ada, has visited Rome to lay a report
of his work before Cardinal de Lai,
Project of the Consistorial Congrega-
ton. He reports that in the year pre-
ceding November %, 1913, 35,S43 Cath
Ollie immigrants entered Canada by
Quebec alone. Thousands also enter
yearly via Halifax, st. John, and the
American ports, of whom as yet no
statistics have been kept. Twenty
languages are spoken among these
people.
CoIored Priests Mission.-Reverend
H. J. Dorsey, S. S. j., the colored
priest who gave missions in the Twin
Cities year ago, recently gave two
weeks mission in Memphis, Tenn.
Memphis is city of one hundred and
fifty thousand people. Of this number
over seventy thousand are colored peo-
pie, not dozen of whom ever saw or
heard colored priest until Father
Dorsey's arrival. From the opening of
the mission, until the close, Father
Dorsey was the talk and wonder of the
town. The first week was given over
to the Catholic people, and the exer-
cises were held in St. Anthony's
Church. The second week was de-
voted to non-Catholics. There are
fifty adults in the instruction class
which was organized at the close of
the mission.
Colored People Organize.-Thirty-
five Catholic colored men and women
of the Assumption parish, Topeka,
organized st. Augustine So
ciety, the object of which is to foster
education and to look after the sick
and needy members of the colored
race.
Many Retreats at Manresa.-In five
years, laymen's retreats at Mount Man
resa, near New York, numbered 106.
This year no less than 25 retreats are
for.
New Works. Chinese Mission.-There
are fifty Cinnamon attending the Cath
Ollie Sunday school in New York City
every day, and Rev. VIM. J. Jordan,
the director, expects to baptize TWEEN
ty-eight of them before Christmas. The
work among the children has become
the feature of the mission. There are
classes several times a week for the
little ones after the regular school
hours, and the children are instructed
in their native language, and in the
catechism. Among his plans for the
future Father Jordan mentions a day
nursery and a kindergarten for chill
dren of Chinese and mixed parentage.
The teachers in the Sunday school for
men are all young business and pro-
fessional men, and in the school for
children, young women teachers from
the parochial schools.
Archbishop at CeIebration.-All the
of Chicago united to cele-
brate ST. Patrick's day this year in a
BETTING manner. The exercises be-
gan with Solemn High Mass in the
and ended with one of the
largest banquets ever held in Chicago,
in the Auditorium Hotel Most Rev. J.
E. Quigley, Archbishop of Chicago,
to one of the toasts; other
speakers were the Hon. Dudley Field
Malone, collector of the port of New
York, and the Very Rev. Francis
Clement Kelley, president of the Cath
Ollie Church Extension Society.