The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-06-09
NEW WORLD ITEMS

Converts ReceiVed.-Five hundred
and siXty-nine converts were received {
into the Church in the Diocese OF Co
lumbus, Ohio, last year. II
Large Number Confrmed.-Bishop
McCort administered the Sacrament !
in four days last week to 1925 per-
sons in Philadelphia churches. II
ChapIains to Front.-The Bishop of
Hartford, Conn, Mgr Milan, issued an
: appeal last week on Monday for field [
chaplains for the front in France. So |
far, twelve priests have offered their
services.
Benefactor Dead.-There died at
Pasadena. California, on May "A, Mr..
William c. Mcbride, of st. Louis, who
gave the new Cathedral of st. Louis
its magnificent altar, costing 100000.
Descendant of Patriot. - Edward
Fitzgerald Emmett, grand nephew of
Robert Emmett, the Irish patriot, died
in New York on Monday, May IA,
aged 76. He was unmarried and is
survived by five brothers.
LARGEST Diocese in Area in America.
Few Catholics know that the Salt
Lake diocese of which Rt Rev. Bishop
- Glass, C. NJ, is the head, is the larg-
est diocese in area in America. Ter
81 ritorially it is as large as England,
- Ireland and Portugal, yet it has only
a Catholic population of $4,000.
Kniqhts Act.-Owing to the fact that
about sixty per cent of the men in
. the officers reserve training camp at
Fort Niagara. n. Y, are Catholics, a
movement has been started by the
members Of the local council of the
knights of Columbus, to arrange for
a suitable chapel and recreation room,
either in the camp or nearby.
Father O'Hara-Father E. v
O'Hara, chairman of the State Indus
trial Welfare Commission, which adj |
~ ministers the womens minimum wage
law, last week rendered his resigna |
5 ton to Governor Whitcomb, effective |
June 1. No successor has been
named.
Generous Acknowledgement Ed |
3 ward de V. Morrell of Torresdale, Pa, |
i an officer OF the Pennsylvania Nation |
n al Guard has given three more boats |
to the Naval Coast Patrol. They are
n being fitted out at Maine shipyard, |
n and will be assigned to the second sec. |
n ton of the patrol. The Restless
(which figured in the Spanish war, was
given to the Government recently by
. General Morrell, who is a Catholic.
Sell handsome of the biggest
deals in Westmoreland County in re-
cent years is a transfer by the Bene-
dictine Fathers, ST. Vincent Archab-
hey at Beatty, Pa, to the Mt. Pleas
ant Coke Company. The tract en-
braces $50 acres and it is about the
last of the Connelsville coking coal in
this region held by private owners.
The price is said to be about 100000.
The Mt. Pleasant Coke Company will
start operations on the tract immedi-
ately.
Irish Patriot Dies.-Rev. Patrick
Heating, rs years old, pastor of the
Catholic Church of the Immaculate
Conception at Norfolk, Conn, since
1889. died recently Father Heating
was born in Ireland and had been Wig
orous in his activity for Irish Home
Rule At one time he was under SEN
tence of death. One of his close asso-
ciates was John Boyle O'Reilly.
Chaplain at University-L'Abbe p.
Flynn, parish priest of the diocese
of Paris, was in Washington last week
Father Flynn was born in France of
Irish parents; is now chaplain in
the French army, and in America on
:. a three months leave of absence.
He delivered a lecture at the Catholic
University last week on his expert
ences in the European war, especially
around Verdun. He pointed out that
there is great religious revival in
France, and that chaplains can do I'm.
told good in the army.
MONDAY Mass.-With the approval
of his Bishop, the Rev. Michael P
Corcoran, rector of st. Johns Church,
Newark, N. j., has arranged that here
after on each holy day a Mass will be
celebrated, starting at 1926 o'clock
in the afternoon. This will afford
workers in the center of the city who
by force of circumstances are unable
to attend Mass in the morning before
going to work to do SO during their
lunch hour. Catholics are obliged to
hear Mass on holy days just as on
Sundays, but Father Corcoran found
that many were compelled to miss at
tendance at times The Mass will be
concluded in plenty of time to allow
the workers to return to their occu-
pations without delay.
Crozier Presented.-Happy to greet
their distinguished guest, who has