The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-01-13
NEW WORLD ITEMS


The Friendly Sons.-The Friendly
Sons of St Patrick followed their
usual custom December 20 of dis
tributing, through Treasurer John G.
OKeefe, $4,000 among various char
liable organizations in New York city
Wireless at st. John's.-A radio sta
ton is being installed at st. Johns
Preparatory College of the Xaverlan
Brothers, Danvers, Mass. The steel
towers for receiving wireless mes
sages will be 80 feet high.
Baptist Preacher a Convert.-Wil-
liam H. Sloan, for twenty-eight years
a Baptist preacher in Mexico, but now
u convert to the Church, recently
addressed the members of Leaven-
worth Council of the knights of
Columbus on his experiences in Mex
leo. Mr.. Sloan now makes his home
in Leavenworth, Kan, and is a fourth
degree member of the knights of
Columbus.
Future Great Church For Brooklyn.
A campaign has been started by
the RedemptoriSt Fathers of Brook
Ign, n. Y, to raise funds for the COM
pletion of the $1,O0O,O00 Church of
Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Bay
Ridge. This structure, at present
only basement, will be the greatest
church building in Brooklyn when
completed.
A Notable Society.-The Charitable
Irish Society of Boston, now nearly
$50 years old, is to have its history
written. 1t will be the first full ac'
count of the organization. The COM
mittee in charge of the work are, Pat
rick OLoughlin, John M. Harvey,
John J. keenan,, Edward F. McSwee-
ncy and Philip p. Coveney. The card
index they have made gives total
enrolment of $3.50 members. At the
beginning the membership was eXclu-
sively Protestant. Now it is nearly
all Catholic.
Catholic University. = During the
past two years the grand sum of
100000 has been donated to the
University of Santa Clara, California.
This announcement was made recent
", after a donation of $4,000 had
just been received from certain
benefactor whose name is being with
held from the public.
Chancellor Dies.-Word has been
received in Denver, Colo, of the death
Of two well-known priests of the
Santa Fe archdiocese. The Rev.
Charles Bopst, chancellor of the arch
diocese, died recently after an illness
of few days. The Rev. Augustine
n. NJ, is also dead Father Bopst
was connected with the Cathedral Of
San Francisco de Assist, Santa Fe
He was operated on for appendicitis
and later caught a cold. He was a
young and very promising priest.
Converts in Observation-Disclosures in
ganda more virulent than in Florida,
and nowhere is the conversion move
ment making more rapid Roadway.
There may easily be a connection be-
tween the two circumstances. At
Pensacola in the parish of st.
Michaers, "a converts have been re-
ceiyed in little over year. They
have come principally from the Epis-
copalian and Baptist denominations,
but some have professed no religion
whatever.
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Chaplain Duff.-Rev. Z. A. Duff,
chaplain of the battleship Nevada -
recently introduced to President Will,
son at the White House, the Oldest
and the youngest sailor in active
service in the navy. They are James
Mccarthy, siXty-one years old, and
tor Twenty-Five years in the navy
and Lloyd Cornell, sixteen years old
q novice. Father Duff brought num-
Der of sailors to Washington on a
holiday trip, with whom he seems to
be as popular as he was with the con.
gregation at the Cathedral of St. John
the Baptist, Charleston, S. c., where
he was stationed previous to his ap.
pointment as chaplain in the navy.
L. c. 3. A.-One thousand candi.
dates for membership in the Ladies
Catholic Benevolent A c i a o n
branches in New Jersey were initiated
at a monster mass-meeting of the
order held recently in the Broad
Street Theater, Newark. The initia.
tion was the largest ever conducted
by the order in New Jersey and the
officers prepared to entertain a big
crowd. The candidates were seated
first, and after that the remaining
seats, about 1900 were thrown open
to members of the association. The
initiation was in direct charge of the
advisory senate of New Jersey.
Gifts for CathedraI.-Rev. d. P
Harrington of st. Cecilia's parish
Omaha, Nebraska, for which the new
cathedral is now being finished, an
nounced the donors of the altar, bish
ops throne, pupilt and organ. The
altar throne rail and Dulnit all will