The Irish standard., 1914-10-10


Rev. A. ]. Donlon. S. j., Chief JUS
tice Covington, of the District of
Columbia Supreme Court; Dean
George e. Hamilton, and John w.
Davis, solicitor general of the Uni
ted States. were among the speak
ers.
Special lectures by judges and at
torneys are planned this year. and
1t is hoped to have Judge De Courcey,
of the Massachusetts, supreme court
lecture at one of these meetings. He
was graduated from Georgetown in
1873.
Rewarded by Navy Department.
Recognition and rewards are being
handed out by the Navy Department
for the good work that was done by
the officers and men in the difficulty
with Mexico at the siege of Vera
Cruz.
The highest honor that can be CIV
en- to one in the naval service for
gallantry in action, or for conspicu-
GUS duty, is that to be mentioned to
the service in general orders.
Already two well-known officers
have been recognized for most eff
cient service by desirable assign
ments to duty. Rear Admiral Frank
Friday Fletcher, who commanded
the United States fleet that was sent
to Vera Cruz, has been rewarded and
given the best and highest command
in the navy, as commander-in-chief
of the powerful Atlantic fleet.
With Admiral Fletcher at Vera
Cruz, was Lieutenant James Patrick
Lannon of the battleship "New
Hampshire" whose gallant conduct
attracted the attention of the ad-
miral, who mentioned him most
favorably in his report to the navy
Department, and later on, Lieuten-
ant Lannon's conduct and gallantry
was announced in general orders.
Lieutenant Lannon has just been
assigned to special duty at the naval
academy, one of the best of shore
duty assignments.
He was born in historic Alexan-
dria. Va, on Columbus day (Oct. 12)
1878, and was appointed to the
Naval Academy on Sept. ~, 1898.
Lieutenant Lannan is a Catholic.
American Nuns at Namur Told to
Leave.
The Sisters of Notre Dame who
have several converts in Washing
ton. including Trinity College, have
had the horrors of war brought vivid
ly home to them in the receipt of dis
patches telling them that the Ameri-
can sisters in the mother house at
Namur have been instructed to leave
Belgium and return to the United
States.
The mother house at Namur is now
being used as a hospital by the
Duchess of Sutherland, who brought
there an ambulance, eleven trained
nurses and several eminent surgeons.
The New Red Cross Building at
Washington.
With the sailing of the Red Cross
ship for European waters on its in
ternational errand of mercy. ground
was simultaneously broken in Wash
ington for the Red Cross building,
which will be erected at total cost
of 100000.
The site of the new building will
be on Seventeenth street, facing the
historic White Lot, and in sight of
the executive mansion. 1t will have
as neighbors on one side the beauti-
full home of the Daughters of the
American Revolution, known as
Memorial Continental Hail." and
on the other side, the world re-
nowned Corcoran Gallery of Art. On
the same side of the street (Which
has already been christened Marble
roadD is the Pan American building
Of all the South American republics,
which has no architectural superior
in this city of magnificent distances
and superb buildings.
The 100000 for this building
(Which is erected in memory of the
women of the civil war; is now avail
able-$4OO.O0O of which was appro-
priated by congress and 100000
was contributed by private individ-
uals.
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