Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-08
DEP ART TO GREET
NEW ARCHBISHOP
Delegation Goes to Buffalo
to Escort the Very Rev.
d. ]. Dougherty Here
NEARLY 100 in PARTY
Thousands of Laymen Will
Welcome Prelate at Station
Tomorrow Night
| NEARLY 100 in PARTY

A delegation of priests and layinen
to escort the Most Rev. Denis J. Dough-
erty. archbishop-elect of Philadelphia,
from his Lake Erie see to his wider
field of ecclesiastical authority here
The new metropolitan, the successor
of Archbishop Prendergast. who died
February 26. is to be installed Wednes-
day morning in the Cathedral. East
Logan Square. Hundreds of bishops,
monsignori abbots. priests and men,
bers of the laity will be present at the
enhancement.
with the Rt Rev Monsignor NJ, J.
Crane in charge of the party the Of
ficial escort left at $40 a. m. from
Broad Street Station. They are sched-
uled to arrive in Buffalo at o'clock
this evening.
Four or five special cars will be at
tached to- the train leaving Buffalo for
Philadelphia at o'clock tomorrow
morning The new archbishop and his
escort of Philadelphia priests and lay
men and priests Of the diocese he Is
leaving are due at Broad Street Station
at 1855 o'clock tomorrow night.
Archbishop Dougherty will review
thousands of laymen formed in long
line on Broad street tomorrow night.
From an unorganized diocese In tho
Philippine Islands to one of the largest
and most important archdioceses in the
United States. or in the world, Is the
long arc of Archbishop Dougherty's epis-
copal career.
His arrival in Philadelphia will be
really a home coming. Ordained priest
in the Church OF st. John Lateran In
Rome May 81, 1890. he was appointed
by Archbishop Ryan to the chair OF
philosophy at st. Charles's Seminary,
Overlook, and later to the chair of dog
matte theology at the same institution.
He labored there until his selection
in 1903 as the first American bishop in
the Philippines. He was in the island
possessions twelve years. when, Decem-
ber Is. 1915, he was appointed plshop
of Buffalo.
Archbishop Dougherty was born in
Ashland, Schuylkill County. August is,
1865, and is the first Philadelphia met
ropolitan to have been born within the
archdiocese.
There were nearly 100 clergymen and
laymen in the delegation that left here
this morning for Buffalo. Among them
were Monsisnor Nevin F. Fisher, rector
of the Church of St John the Evan
Wednesday; Monsignor Edmond J. Fitz-
Maurice, chancellor Of the archdiocese; !;
MoIsignor Charles F. kavanagh, for
mer chancellor: Monsgnor Henry #.
Drumgoole. rector of the seminary at
Overlook. and Monsignor Peter Mas
sen. Allentown.
The lay delegates included James j.
Ryan, who has a papal order of knight
hood Joseph P. Gaffney. chairman OF
Councils Finance Committee: Judge
John Monaghan and Congressman
Joseph Mclaughlin
AS bishop of Buffalo the prelate had
jurisdiction over more than 100000 Cath
olcs AS archbishop of Philadelphia he
will have ecclesiastical authority over; a
Catholic population of about 725, 900 and
over about 500 priests and 325 par
ishes.
The archbishopric includes five episco-
pal sees-Pittsburgh. Erie, Scranton. AL
toona and Harrisburg-each headed by
a bishop, whose immediate superior V
the new archbishop.