The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-04-17

lief and opinion and included uniVer-
sity professors as we'll as men from
the ordinary walks of life.
Vincentians Expended $29, 65e.-Ac-
cOrding TO a report submitted by Fes-
tus J. Wade, president of the Mercan-
tile Trust Co., and chairman of the
Finance Committee of the ST Vincent
de Paul Society OF st. Louis, ii is oSti-
mated that the society will require
about $4,000 to carry out its work for
the remainder OF the year. The So
ciety during the past year expended
$2S. 659.52 for the relief of the poor.
The report further shows that 80 per
cent of this amount went for charity,
the remaining per cent being charged
TO the expense Of administration.
Priests Granted increase.--For the
first time in twenty years pastors and
their assistants in Catholic parishes
in Butte, Mont, have been allowed an
increase in their allowance. The in
crease is from $500 TO 500 year for
pastors and from $500 TO $500 for as
sistants. The increase was announced
following conference with the Right
Rev John P. Carroll Twenty years
ago the former allowance was
fixed in the states of Montana, Wash
ingtOn, Idaho and Oregon. Increases
in living costs have brought increases
in allowances for priests in Seattle,
Spokane. Boise and other cities within
the past few weeks. This allowance
is in addition to the living expenses
of the priests. which are borne by the
various parishes.
| Jesuit Educator Dead.-Rev. George
J. krm, S. J., president of Brooklyn
College. died on April |. in st. Marys
| Hospital, Brooklyn, y. Y, of pleural
! pneumonia. Father Krim was born in
| Boston. November "a. 1870. He en-
| tered the Society of Jesus August a..
| 1888. at Frederick, Md. After his pre-
/ liminary classical studies, he made his
| philosophical and theological stud es
at Woodstock, Md, being ordained in
two years, rector of st. Anne's Church.
| June. 1906. Father krim was vice
president Of Fordham University FOR
Buffalo, and president of Canisius Col
! lege. Buffalo, for ten years. Last year
he was appointed president of Brook
| lyn College. The funeral was held at
| Poughkeepsie, n. Y.
It = DoAr
| X. of c. retreat at Iowa City, Ia,
ended Sunday morning, March %,
when the knights, about 25O strong,
gathered at the hall at 700 a. m. and
marched in a body to st. Wenceslaus
! Church, where Holy Communion was
received. The body then proceeded to
the hall. where the Daughters of Isa-
bella, always ready to assist. were
hostesses for the time being, and
served breakfast. Cahill's orchestra
also furnished magnificent musical
program. H. " Speidel presided at
mann, o. F. NJ, the retreat mas
ter, was the principal speaker. Grand
Knight c. B. Russell and Past Grand
Knight ]. E. Gatens each spoke briefly
All in all the retreat was most help
full and inspiring one and was largely
beneficial
Oldest Active Priest Dies.-Rev
Henry McHugh died recently in the
rectory Of St. Canice church, Pitts
burg, in his eighty-fifth year. He con
tinued to perform active parish worl
until week before death, when he
acted pneumonia. His death wa:
unexpected. Father McHugh was the
oldest active priest in the diocese o
Pittsburg. Faithfully and efficientl.
he served the Church in western Penn
sylvania for SO years. Monuments t
his energy and devotion are to b.
= found in every parish in which he wa
stationed in the form of churches
schools, converts and chapels, as vel
- as in the spiritual growth of the pee
pie among whom he labOred.
Church Property Menaced.-A pre-
posal that the city of Baltimore con
. denim the cathedral grounds to wider
= Mulberry street from Charles to Cattle
dral streets. met with the instant or
:, lection of Cardinal Gibbons and tn
- Cathedral trustees. This propose
- would take ten feet inside the side
>, walk from both the Cathedral propert
y and that occupied by the residence Q
the Cardinal. This property was lai
out in its present arrangement b
Archbishop Carroll, and is rich i
= Catholic American historic associs
tons Cardinal Gibbons, according t
the Baltimore Sun, declared neithe
he nor his trustees ever would cor
sent to the mutilation of the grounds
D. which are considered one of the chic
points of interest in Baltimore.