The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-11-11
NEW WORLD ITEMS


Church, Rochester, N Y, in charge OF
the Redemptorist Fathers will cele-
brate its diamond jubilee on Novem-
Der u.
School to Cost s2oo,oOo.-st. Ber-
nard's parochial school in New York
cost 100000. 1t has five stories, base
ment, embracing twenty-seven class
rooms, 1,4O0 children, gymnasium,
and an electrically lighted roof gar
den.
Denis Mccarthy, Editor.-It is said
that Denis A. Mccarthy, the poet and
associate editor of the Sacred Heart
Review, has been appointed managing
editor of The Catholic Standard and
Times OF Philadelphia.
For New York's Belgians.-The first
Belgian Catholic Church in New YORK
CITY will be finished in few weeks.
There are 5000 Belgian Catholics in
the city.
First American Hospital.-The very
first hospital in the New World was
founded in 1880 in Mexico, and dedi-
Gated to St. Martin, the patron of hos
pitalitv to the afflicted and distressed.
New Day Nursery.-Cardinal Glib
bons has blessed and formally opened
the new day nursery of the Gibbons
Guild. in Baltimore. 1t is parish
nursery and Kindergarten for Is chill
dren daily.
Baltimore Hospital Campaign.-A
number of prominent business and
professional men of Utica, N. Y, have
undertaken the management of cam
paign to raise $4,000 to pay Off the
debt due on the new st. Elizabeth's
hospital now nearing completion.
New HospitaI.-The Right Rev. P.
]. Donahue, Bishop of Wheeling, w.
Va. has purchased large building site
On Beechhurst avenue and Front
street, Morgantown, and is considering
the erection of a modern hospital, be-
sides a dormitory for use of Catholic
students of the university on it. He
recently acquired property in Hunting
ton for hospital use also.
Priest Drowned.-The body of Rev.
erend Stephen McGill, curate at the
Church of the Immaculate Conception,
North Easton, Mass, was found in
swimming pool on October 9Th. 1t is
thought that while he was swimming
he was taken with cramps and
drowned. Father McGill was 2S years
of age.
ChiId-pIacing Society-The Denver
Catholic Register" is urging the Cath
Ole women of that city to form a
child-placing society. There is a
Colorado law, enacted through the
efforts of Judge Lindsey of the
Juvenile Court in 1912, which provides
for the placing of dependent children
in homes of the same religious faith
as their parents.
Hospital Destroyed.-The explosion
of an oil lamp in a patients room
early on the morning of October s
started a fire which destroyed the
Sacred Heart Hospital at Athabasca,
Alta, Canada, and caused the death
of three patients-a woman and two
young girls. Heroic efforts we're made
4hn CiCtn in oh fn
them, but without avail.
The Fenian Ram.-One of the most
interesting exhibits of the great Irish
Bazaar held in New York City last
week was the "Fenian RAM the first
submersible boat built by John P.
Holland, the Irish Catholic school.
master, in 1879. The craft is egg
shaped, measures thirty-one feet in
length and weighs nineteen tons. For
over thirty years it had lain on the
bed of the Mill River in New Hamp
shire.
Bishop Receives Degree.-The de-
gree of Doctor of Laws was conferred
upon Right Reverend Ferdinand Bros
sart, d. D., Bishop of Covington, or
Saturday by the Kentucky State
University. The honor was given al
the one hundredth anniversary of the
university, celebrated at Lexington
KY.
Retreat for Catholic Actors.-Begin
ming on Sunday, October 20, four
day retreat, marking the second an
nual exercises of the Catholic Actors
Guild of America, was held in thu
Church of st. Malachy, on Forty-nintl
street, between Broadway and Eight
avenue, New York City, under the di
rection of the chaplain, the Rev
Joseph F. Delany, d. D. The sermon
were preached by the Rev. William
B. Martin, S. T. L.
New Catholic HospitaI.-In addition
to a new 100000 Catholic high school
Burlington, VT, is to have one of tn
largest and most efficient Catholi
hospitals in New England, which
to be erected in the near future i
commemoration of the one hundredt
anniversary of the birth of the venel
able Bishop Louis DeGoesbriand, frs
Bishop of Burlington. 1t is propose
to erect the building on lot adjoinin
the grounds of the University of Vel
mont, the former site of st. Joseph