The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-02-09

Catholic Benefit Success.-Former
President William H. Taft, was the
principal speaker at benefit enter
tainment for the United Catholic
Works at the Hippodrome, New York,
on a recent Sunday evening. The en-
tertainment was arranged by Rev.
Vincent de Paul Mclean, the Director
IGeneralrof the United Charities, which
maintains nineteen nurseries in
! Greater New York. More than $780,
600 was realized through the enter
tainment.
Requiem for Bishop FoIey.-On We'd
IneSday morning, January 30, at 10: 80
O'Clock, a Solemn Pontifical Mass was
celebrated in st. Martins Church,
Baltimore, for the repose of the soul
of the Rt. Rev. Bishop Foley, late
Bishop of Detroit. Bishop Corrigan
was the celebrant of the Mass.
James Cardinal Gibbons presided and
gave the absolution. Rt. Rev. Mgr. C.
F. Thomas, rector of ST. Patrick S
Church, Washington, d. c., preached
the sermon. Bishop Foley was the
founder and first pastor of st. Mar
tins parish.
University Gives 1000 to Service
More than 1000 former students of
the various departments of st. Louis
University, the big Jesuit institution
in the Missouri metropolis, now are
fighting under the Stars and Stripes
or are preparing to go into the
trenches, according to a tentative
service roster which is being com.
pleted by the University officials. 1t
is probable that the figures will run
much higher than the present esti.
mate when all of the alumni under
arms shall have been heard from.
Caring for Negroes.-The Sisters OF
the Blessed Sacrament in behalf of the
colOred race, have assumed charge
of the Negro Catholic schools at Beau.
mont, Texas, at Montgomery, Ala, at
Biloxi, Miss, and in the parish OF
CORPUS Christi, New Orleans. Sixty.
three priests of the Josephite Order
care exclusively for colored Catholics
in the United StateS-mostly in the
South. There are 81 Josephite Sem
lnarians and so students preparing fol
the priesthood. There are also IS
Josephite Sisters and 38 lay teachers
in the schools of the Order.
Archbishop Gives Park to CIty.-The
Board of Public Service has accepted
from Archbishop GlennOn a deed tt
seven acres of ground immediately ad
joining O'Fallon Park on the north in
st. Louis. The tract formerly was
Holy Trinity cemetery. In making the
donation, the Archbishop stipulated
that the ground when added to the
park shall not be used for athletic OF
playground purposes, and that three
years shall be allowed in which rela
: tlyes of persons buried there may dis
inter the bodies.
A Charitable Woman.-A reasonabl.
suggestion for wealthy Catholic
women is contained in the press re
port of the death of Mrs. Joseph J
, lODOnOhue, who, for sixty years, tool
, an active interest in works of CHART,
in New York. In her youth she Wis
tied the poor in their homes, bringin;
baskets of food and bundles of cloth
: ing, and almost to the end of her lon,
life she went to the Orphan Asylum
each Christmas and gave every child
gift. 1t is said that the first checl
in new book was always given to
charity by this devoted friend of tn
poor, and also the first she made GU
in the year.
Fire in SchooI.-Eleven hundret
children in Our Lady of Sorrow
. parochial school at Corona, n. Y, lef
the building within three minutes
: when slight fire was discovered il
the basement of the school at 11:3
O'Clock last Tuesday morning. TIL
ire originated in a waste paper chut,
: into which someone is believed to hay,
: accidentally dropped a match. Smok,
issued into the school rooms and tn,
Sisters at once rang the alarm bell
Forming in orderly lines, the children
left the building with admirable cool
7. ness, thanks to the experience gained
during the fire drills held frequentl,
, at the school.