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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-08-12
EASEMENT DIED A CATHOLIC
NOTED IRISH NATIONALIST Exc
.cUTED AS A TRAITOR TO THE
BRITISH CROWN RECEIVED IN
TO THE CHURCH.

Roger Easement, former British
knight, condemned for high treason
against the British Crown because of
his participation in the Easter upris-
ing in Dublin, was executed by hang.
ing in the Pentonville Jail, London, on
Thursday morning of last week. The
condemned man faced his doom with
out a murmur and was the calmest
and coolest of the small party in the
escort. Apart from prayers, the last
words he uttered before the trap was
sprung we're: Il die for my country.
Following his conviction, at the
close of the trial, the noted prisoner
was received into the Catholic Church
by Fathers McCarrell and Carey OF
Eden Grove Church, near the prison
He received his first and only Com
munion at seven o'clock on the morn
ing of his execution when he assisted
at Mass in his cell He met his death
with calm courage and during the pro
cession to the scaffold responded in a
low tone to the litany recited by the
priests.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-08-12
UNITED STATES WOULD PUR-
CHASE THEM FOR $25,ooo, ,ooo-
THEIR ECCLESIASTICAL STA
TUS.

An open meeting of the Danish
Rigsdag was held on Thursday of this
week to discuss the ratification of the
transfer of the Danish West Indies to
the United States for the sum of $685.
100000. 1t is generally believed that
the majority of the Rigsdag will ap-
prove of the transfer, although there
has been considerable agitation
against the selling of the islands.
If the transfer is finally consum-
mated, credit for the transaction must
be given in large measure to the Hon.
Maurice Francis Egan, now serving
his second term as United States
Minister to Copenhagen, Denmark.
From the beginning of his incumbency
he tried to persuade the Danish gov
ernment to dispose of the islands and
urged the United States to buy them.
It would now seem as if his efforts
were to bear fruit.
The Danish West Indies lie about
fifty miles off the coast of Porto Rico
and are invaluable as strategic points
for the defense of the Panama canal.
The islands are St. Thomas, ST. John
and ST Croix. These islands were
discovered by Columbus. The popula.
ton, about 27,0O0, is nearly all negro
st. Croix, the largest island, lies
sixty-fve miles east of Porto Rico II
has two towns, Christfanstad and
Frederikstad. Discovered by Colum
bus, it was owned in turn by the Span
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-08-12
SOCIAL STUDY COURSE

same time it would give the Catholics
Of the East their first chance to be-
come well acquainted with the sys-
tenn of Solidarism which the Central
Verein holds forth as the Catholic
program of social reconstruction, op-
posed to Capitalism on the one hand
and Socialism on the other.
!. The course will open on the after.
noon of Thursday, August 25, immedi-
ately following the close of the con-
yention, and ends at noon the next
day. This arrangement will allow
visiting priests to return to their
homes and parish duties by the fol-
lowing Sunday. The course will be
given at the Gesellen-H Haus, which has
been chosen because of its convenient
and central location, and will consist
of three lectures: The Need of
Social reconstruction" "The Causes
of Social Malady," and "Solidarism:
The Program Of Reconstruction" by
the Rev. William Engelen, s. j.. the
well-known Jesuit authority on social
and economic problems, professor of
philosophy at st. Johns University,
Toledo, Ohio.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-08-12
JESUIT ASTRONOMER DEAD
FATHER FAReIs PERFECTED D
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.

The Reverend George A. Fargis,
s. j., noted as an authority on astro-
nomicaI subjects, died last week in st.
vincent's Hospital, New York, follow
ing a long Illness caused by paralysis.
Father Fargis was born in New York
City siXty-one years ago. He was
graduated from st. Francis Xavier in
1873, and entered the Jesuit Order
soon afterward. He studied at Mon
treal,, Can, Roehampton, England, and
at the University of Louvain, Belgium,
where he gained considerable note as
a geologfst He dropped this study,
however, to take up astronomy
Returning to the United States, Fa-
ther Fargis became associated with
the Georgetown College Observatory,
in Washington He remained there
for many years and became widely
known for his astronomical re.
searches. His most important con
tribution in this field was the perfec.
ton of photochronography, by which
the transit of stars can be calculated
to within 1-1,0O0 part of a second
This was in 1891.
Father Fargis also was an accom-
plished musician. He excelled at the
organ and the piano and was also q
singer. Before he went abroad to
study he had charge of the musical
program in the Church of the Paulisi
Fathers New York
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-08-12
SOCIAL CENTER
w. c. o. F. OF CHICAGO HAVE
LEASED SPACE IN VENETIAN
BUILDING FOR SOCIAL CENTER
AND CLUB FOR GIRLS IN THE
sINESS SECTION WILL
HAVE EDUCATIONAL FEATURES.

The first social center ana club for
girls working in the business district
of Chicago, will be open next month
under the auspices of the Chicago
members of the Womens Catholic
Order of Foresters. 1t will provide a
place of rest, recreation and entertain
ment for self-supporting Catholic girls
and women employed in the loop dis
trict. The tenth floor of the Venetian
Building, Is East Washington street,
has been leased for this purpose and
will be known as the Women's Catho-
lie Foresters Club. The $500 square
feet of floor space will be divided into
a lounging or rest room, 80 by 40 feet,
with reading room and library ad-
joining, each Is by 20 feet. Those
will be separated by roll-top parti-
tions and can be thrown into one
room seating four hundred persons
when necessary. The dining room
will be 80 by so feet with a seating
capacity of two hundred. An Office,
rest room, solitarium with bath and
lavatory, are included in the plan.
In addition to its social features the
new club will offer opportunities for
girls to continue their education while
earnings their living. A staff of com
petent instructors will have charge of
this phase of the work which will in
clude effective and intelligent train
ing in the industrial and fine arts,
domestic science, physical culture and
business. An employment bureau cir
culating library and art collection,
choral society and orchestra for girls,
are among the helpful features plan
ned. Luncheon and supper willf be
served in the club dining room for the
accommodation of the girls who de-
sire to attend class or lectures in the
evening, and medical and legal advice
will be given free at stated times to
those whose limited means and neces-
sity demands it.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-08-12
ST. VINCENT De PAUL SOCIETY
CATHEDRAL CoNFERE NCE
ADOPTS RESOLUTIONS ON THE
DEATH OF ITS SPIRITUAL DI-
RECTOR, REV. THOMAS J. GI5-
5oNs, v. G. "

The officers of the Cathedral Con
ference of the st. Vincent de Paul So
ciety held a meeting last Monday for
the purpose of taking suitable action
on the lamented death of the late Very
Reverend Thomas j. Gibbons, pastor
of the Cathedral, and Spiritual Di.
rector of the Conference. The follow
ing resolutions we're adopted:
Whereas, Almighty God in His in
scrutable wisdom has seen fit to re-
move from among us, our beloved
pastor and spiritual director, Rev.
Thomas J. Gibbons, v g., who by his
deep interest in and ready co-opera-
tion with us in our work for the poor,
had greatly endeared himself to us.
Resolved, That we, bowing humbly
to the will of the Most High, express
in our records a sense of the grief we
feel and of the deep less sustained by
us, by the Cathedral Parish and by
the Archdiocese of ST. Paul in the
death of this devoted pastor of souls.
Resolved, That copy of these reso-
lutions be forwarded to His Grace,
Most Reverend Archbishop Ireland.
D. E. O'CONNELL,
CHARLES P. J. YOUNG,
JAMES C. NOLAN,
Committee.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-08-12
NAVY CHAPLAIN APPOINTED
FATHER LoUeHRAN OF cALIFoR-
MA RECEIVES COMMISSION.

/Rev. Joseph S. Loughran, Of Long
Beach, Cal, has been appointed to the
Catholic Chaplain Corps of the Unit
ed States Navy, by Secretary of the
Navy Daniels.
Father Loughran is a son OF the
late Lieutenant Joseph Loughran, U.
S. A., who served as staff oficer to
Colonel Kit Carson. and was one of
the organizers of the famous First
New Mexican Cavalry, of which Kit
Carson was at the head. He was born
in Washington, June II, 1887, and re
ceived his early education in the
schools of the city, afterwards enter
ing Holy Cross College, Worcester.
Mass, from which he graduated. In
the autumn of 1910, he entered st.
Joseph's Theological Seminary, Dun
woodie, N Y, and on June 1, 1912. was
ordained a priest by His Eminence
Cardinal Farley, in ST. Patrick's Cathe-
dral, New York City He was then
sent by the late Bishop Conaty of Mon.
terey and Los Angeles. for years
study at the University of Freiburg,
Germany. Returning from abroad in
September, 1913, he came to Califor
MIA, and held assistantships in the
Cathedral Parish, Los Angeles, Holly
wood, and Long Beach, remaining al
the latter place for over two years
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-08-12

During Catholic Week'-the week
of August 20-it is expected that
there will be gathered in New York
the greatest assemblage of Catholic
clergy and laity brought together in
America since the International Eu-
charistic Congress in Montreal in
1910.
During that week there will be held
in New York the conventions of the
American Federation of Catholic So
cieties, the German Roman Catholic
Central Verein, the Catholic Young
Mems National Union. the Gonzaga
Union, the New York State League of
the Central Verein, the New York
State Federation of Catholic Societies,
and the Catholic Press Association of
America.
The Catholic Press Association will
hold its meetings on August 1919, but
the delegates will remain in New York
during the week of August 20, when
the conventions of the other Associa-
tions will be held.
The three American Cardinals-Far
ley, Gibbons and O'Connell, the Apos
tolic Delegate, the Most. Reverend
John Bonzano, many Archbishops and
Bishops, and prominent priests and
laymen from all parts of the country
viii be present at the convention
An attendance of 10000 persons is
expected
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ham, George Cunningham, Anna Gun
ningham, Nellie Cunningham, Patrick
Cunningham, Brigid Cunningham,
Maurice Ahern, VIM. Sullivan and
John Fling, $1,000 each; M. d. Fling,
Jennie Fling, P. E. Mccall, Mrs.
Mary Holland, Frank Judge, John
Judge, JAS Hartery, Arthur Ahern,
VIM Ahern, VIM. Powers, J. Fl. Nihil,
VIM Carmel, Harry Ryan, Jas. BERN
ingham, and John Kilroy, $500 each.
Donors from Miesville parish: Mrs.
Jas. Sherry, Thos. Brennan, $1,000
each; Thos. Dunn, VIM. King, F. King,
M. O'Shaughnessy, VIM. Elder, Mrs.
j. Cannef, Owen Judge, D. O'Keefe,
Mrs VIM. O'Shaughnessy, Thos.
O'Shaughnessy, M. E. O'Rourke, Jas.
Brennan, John Toner, John King, $500
each.
Red Wing contributors: D. J..
Fleming, $1,000; ]. ]. Ferrin, John
Fleming, F. S. O'Neill, j. +. Maher, C.
A. Cavanagh, Mrs H. j. Herder, Mrs.
M. Mulloy, JOS O'Rourke. John Null
10y, JAS H. Doyle, Mrs. Thos. Heiser-
man, $500 each
In addition to the foregoing, the
sum of $500 was contributed to the
fund, through The Catholic Bulletin,
by Thomas Geraghty, Knights of Co
lumbus Building, St Paul, and $1.OO
by John Colgan, Rosemount, Mimi.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-08-12
COURSE FOR TEACHERS ENDED
ON AUGUST 6-LARGE ATTEND
ANcE-sUccEssFUL SESSION..

The summer school for the teaching
Sisterhoods and Catholic lay teachers,
in session at Dubuque College, Du-
buque, Ia, for the past six weeks,
came to an end on August 6. Several
hundred teachers, representing, the
different Sisterhoods, were in att
tendance and all expressed themselves
as satisfied with the work accom-
plished during the term. The courses
were the same as those offeredfat the
Catholic University, Washington, D.
c., which is a co-worker of Dubuque
College in this line of activity.
The faculty of the Summer school
comprised leading members of the
staff of the CATHOLIC University, pro-
fessors from DUBUQUE College and
some of the best4known educators in
the West. This was the second ses-
sion of the school and on the whole a
most successful one.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-08-12
K. OF G. CONVENTION

The total membership of the Order
on that date was 368,135, of whom
252,1 ,113 are associate, and 116,022 are
insurance members. The net increase
in membership for the year amounted
to 21,517 The total nuber of coun-
ellis is 1,754, an increase Of thirty-one
over the preceding year.
During the convention the salaries
of the Supreme knight and Supreme
Secretary we're increased from $4,000
to $4,000 a year, and that of the SUI
preme Treasurer from $4,000 to $4,000
On the second day of the convention
the following Directors we're reelected
for three years: w d. Dwyer,. st.
Paul; John H. Reddin. Denver; Judge
Paul Leche, Donaldsonville, La, and
Dr. N A, Dussault, Quebec, Canada.
Old Point Comfort, Va, was chosen
as the place of meeting for next years
convention.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-08-12
THREE LECTURES WILL BE GIVEN
BY FATHER ENeELEN, s. j., IN
NEW YORK UNDER THE AUS
PIcEs or THE cENTRAL-vERElN
ON AUGUST 1926.

The Central Verein, which holds its
meeting this year in the city of New
York, has long been noted for its work
for the advancement of social study
and social action. For a number of
years it has been giving social study
courses at Spring Bank, Wisconsin,
and twice in or about New York.
These courses have in the past been
very successful and have contributed
much toward the spread of interest in
the social question.
This year the annual course is to
be held in conjunction with the Cen
tral Verein's New York convention.
1t was thought that this course would
add to the serious character of the
convention itself, and would afford
many delegates a splendid opportun-
ity to combine valuable information
with their convention work, AT the
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-08-12
CANADIAN PRELATE DEAD
BISHOP BLANCHE, VICAR APoS-
4 ToLIc OF THE GULF OF ST.
+ LAWRENCE, DIED I'M PARIS
coNsEcRATED IN 1905.

The Right Reverend Gustave
Blanche. C. j. NJ. Vicar Apostolic of
the Gulf of St, Lawrence in North
eastern Canada, died recently in Paris
whittier he had gone to participate in
the General Chapter Of the Eudist Fa-
theirs of which he was member.
He was born in France in 1849. He
joined the Eudist Order and was or
dained in 1878. From 1890 to 1899, he
was stationed at the Eudist College,
Church Point, Nova Scotia, Canada;
he was located at CHicoutimi, Quebec,
from 1903 to 1905, as Prefect Apostle
lie of the Gulf of ST. Lawrence. On
October 28, 1905, heswas consecrated
Titular Bishop of Sicca, and appointed
Vicar Apostolic of that territory,
which has a Catholic population of
1900, including 5000 Indians. There
are seventeen priests Of religious Or
ders in the Vicariate. The Bishop re-
sided at Seven Islands, Saguenay
County, in the, Province of Quebec
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-08-12
PR|BfSPEAKS 3LANGUAGES
FATHER McEACHEN OF BARTON,
OHIO, LEAVES PAsToRATE FOR
UNIVERSITY WORK.

Rev. Roderick A. McEachen, pastor
of st. Mary Church, Barton, Ohio, will
soon leave for Rome and later become
instructor in the Catholic University
at Washington. Father McEachen's S
congregation is remarkable one. It's
members speak in nine languages, the
congregation being composed of coal
miners. Father McEachen delivers
sermons in all their languages. He
has mastered thirteen languages.
Father McEachen founded the
Church of st. Mary. He was once q
coal miner, and was arbiter Of al
troubles and disputes among the min
ers and frequently between the miners
and operators. He came into nation
wide prominence by his great work ol
relief Of the miners and their families
during the fourteen months coal strike
in eastern Ohio. s-
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-08-12
SCHOOL FOR M0TRERLESS BOYS
THE BISHOP QUARTER SCHOOL
FOR LITTLE BOYS FOUNDED BY
ARCH SHOP MUNDELElN
WILL CARE FOR MoTHERLESS
BOYS WHOSE FATHERS WORK
ON SMALL SALARiES-SISTERS
OF ST. JOSEPH WILL BE IN
CHARGE.

The latest addition to the list of
Catholic institutions in the Archdio-
cese of Chicago, is the Bishop Quarter
School for motherless boys Arch
bishop Mundelein has purchased the
Oak Park high school and surround
ing property having a frontage of 500
feet and depth of 150 The building
will be renovated and remodeled to
meet the needs of the new institution
which will serve as first-class
boarding school and home for mother
less boys from six to eleven years of
age. It has been named the Bishop
Quarter School For Little Boys in
memory of the first Bishop of Chicago,
and will be in charge of the Sisters
of st. Joseph who are at present con-
Quoting educational institutions at La
Grange, Ill. 1t will not be an orphan
asylum nor a charitable institution,
but will draw patronage from families
where the mother is dead and young
children are left to the care of a
father who cannot afford to send them
to high-priced boarding school and
does not wish to place them in an
orphan asylum. In the new school
these boys will be given home and
educated for $3.50 a week. The new
school will have accommodations for
about ons hundred and fifty.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-08-12
WEST INDIES

lards, Dutch and British. In 1851 it
came into possession of FRANCE, and
in 1853 was given to the Knights of
Malta by Louis XIV. Denmark pur-
chased it in 1888.
On St John is the little village Of
Croixbay, containing practically the
entire population of the island. st.
John is 10 miles long by 21s miles in
width, and lies only four miles east
of Porto Rico.
Enthusiastically, these islands are
part of the diocese of Roseau, which
has its Episcopal See in the town Of
the same name, on the British island
of Dominica. This See is the only
suffragan of the metropolitan See of
Port of Spain, on the British island of
Trinidad. 1t was erected by Pope Plus
TX, April 80, 1850. The present Bishop
is Rt. Rev. Philip Schelfhaut, C.. SIS. R.,
a Belgian, now in his sixty-sixth year.
He was consecrated March 16, 1902.
In the islands owned by Denmark St.
Thomas comprises a single parish
with parish church and an auxiliary
chapel, served by three resident
priests. The Catholic population of
the island is about 5000. st. Croix
has two parishes, each with a church.
There is one auxiliary chapel Four
resident priests attend to the spiritual
wants of the 4,200 Catholics on the
| island. There are only few Catho-
lies on St. John, and no priest has
ever resided there. The whole do
cese of Roseau, with the exception of
two parishes, is served by Belgian
Redemptorists and the Fathers of
Mary Immaculate, whose motherhouse
is in France.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-08-12
THE STATUS OF ANCLICANISM

limits The state is but the nation
in it's political aspect, and it is for the
nation that our Archbishops have or
ganized the National Mission. Lord
Hugh Cecil asked what was the moral
or spiritual evil for which the nation
was to be called upon to repent as
evidently one of the causes of the
war. Again l say everything points
to materialism, the feverish anxiety
to build our heaven here, to regard
death far too seriously and to reck
little or nothing of the world to come.
A once Christian people have placed
celestial joys below social betterment
and main drainage, and tried with
appalling success to disbelieve in hell
altogether" Immediately following
this letter of Mr. Riley's, who writes
from the Athen8um Club, London,
appears letter from country
Vicar. the Vicar of Team, Noting
hamshire, in the course of which he
says: 1T is exceedingly difficult to
see at all distinctly what the Mission
is to be, We are hidden to prepare,
but we hardly know what for We are
to call together workers. but we can
hardly tell them what their work will
be. Preaching about sin and selfish
ness in the national life is quite plain
ly of great Importance. But it is quite
useless unless the responsibility for
the results is brought home to in
dividual consciences.' Then, from
"a Parish Priest" (Anglican), comes
a letter SO Illuminating that we take
the liberty to quote it entire:
Il have had various papers sent me
from time to time containing sugges-
tions and hints for the Mission. l
have carefully looked through them,
and the conclusion l have come to is
that the Mission is to be conducted
on sound but moderate Anglican
lines. Some of these papers contain
lists of books suitable for instructing
children. The titles are "Our Won
derful Church, Our Cathedrals," and
such like. From end to end cannot
find anything about sacramental teach
ing-instruction on the Mass, the
Sacrament of Penance, and important
matters of this kind. The whole
scheme seems to me vague and un-
satisfactory.
Il suppose no one except the priest
of country parish can possibly real
ize the absolute indifference to re-
ligion which prevails. Such religion
as may exist to the English rustic
is really sort of pantheism. God is
either, rather a disagreeable man,
responsible for all their troubles, or
a negligible quantity. People know
nothing about the Sacraments, and
care less. The proportion of COM
municants is infinitesimal
What we want is The Faith: not
Hope and Repentance. Without the
Faith, don't see where the other two
come in; with it, they follow as a
matter of course.
IF the object of the Mission were to
get the restoration of the Catholic
doctrines and practices of which our
forefathers were robbed in the six
teenth century it would be a success.
But if it is to be conducted on the
same indefinite vague lines which have
lost the people to the Church, then
failure is predestined"
1t will be observed that this Angli-
can clergyman writes that the mis-
sion is to be conducted on sound but
moderate Anglican lines" Amongst
Anglicans the word moderate" has
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