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Show (j ntarcb events Don Maguire Contributes Interesting ! Account of Cut-off Celebration Church and School. (Special Correspondence.) Editor Intermountain Catholic: The month of March, just closed in Ogden, was a month of .more than usual interest in our city. Early in the month it had been decided by the ! powers that bi that the much-taikei-of j change in the line of the Southern Pacific Pa-cific would take its course across the waters of Great Salt lake instead of one around to the south by way of Salt! Lake City. Such a decision on the part of the Southern Pacific railway people was to Ogden the greatest event in its history, inasmuch at it places it for all time as the central point, the midway mid-way city between Omaha and San Francisco. One of the cities of refuge on the great highway of commerce that crosses over the North American continent con-tinent on the route of travel between Europe and Asia. Such a position being secured for all time to our city, it was the most natural step that could be taken on hit iiat i vl uur peopie to cejeDrate tne event by gathering together the people of Ogden and the surrounding towns of the northern part of Salt Lake valley val-ley and creating such day of joy as our town never before knew. Committees Commit-tees were appointed and St. Patrick;s day was chosen as the most fitting of days for the event. Very fortunately, when that day arrived it brought with it good weather. Such a day as Patrick's Pat-rick's day was neier before known in Ogden. For weeks before it had been raining, drizzling, snowing and sputtering as though we were to wake up through pathways of misery for all the good weather we had enjoyed en-joyed during January and February; and many, very many, said it was most unfortunate that a day in March had been chosen for the Cut-off celebration, celebra-tion, as our chances for seeing a day of storm with slushy streets seemed excellent. However, the day before brought a warm wind from the south and that night brought a hard frost, and the morning of the 17th of .March, 1902, dawned clear and pleasant, with the streets in excellent condition for the marching of the civic procession. AT ST. JOSEPH'S CHURCH. Father Cushnahan celebrated mas? at St. Joseph's church, which was crowded to overflowing with a well-dressed well-dressed congregation. The music was excellent, and the sermon given by Father Fa-ther Cushnahan was of the kind that Mirs me uioott. tad it not been in church it would have drawn cheer after aft-er cheer. Services at c hurch being .over, many members of the congregation, amongst them the members of the Ancient Order Or-der of Hibernians, went to the Assembly Assem-bly hail, where they were in uniform within thirty minutes, and forming into line under the Stars and Stripes and Sunburst of Ireland, they took their place in the procession, which was fully a miie in length. The body of the procession was made up of, first, citizens in carriages, officers offi-cers of the city government, students of Ogden High school, Ancient Order of Hibernians other secret and benevolent benev-olent orders, such as the A. O. U. W., Odd Fellows U'Mrtmn f M Next, the trades unions and business men's exhibits, which in all made a most interesting sight, and with seven or eight bands of music done justice to the day and occasion. As to the color of green, it was everywhere on business busi-ness houses, floating from hotels and on the breasts of men and women, boys and girls. Every one wore it from the prattling babe in its mother's arms to the aged man of 90 winters. Americans. Amer-icans. English, Scotch, Germans. Italians. Ital-ians. Greeks, Japs, Chinese arjd the many from sunny Africa wore this most cheerful of all colors, in a work every soul in Ogden that day revered, or seemed to revere, St. Patrick as the first of saints. All proclaimed Ogden as the one original and never-to-be-1 changed Cut-off City. EVERY ONE WORE GREEN. I It was at the hour of 11 a. m. when Governor Wells reached the city. He was accompanied by Hon. Judge Marshall, Mar-shall, also Judge Miner and a rfumber of other high dignitaries from the capital, cap-ital, and all of them, from Governor Wells down the line, wore green to the strains of the "Star Spangled Banner" and "Patrick's Day." The long procession pro-cession marched, headed by the governor gov-ernor and others in their carriages, and when the procession was over, the governor, gov-ernor, from the balcony at the north side of the city hall, addressed a friendly speech to an assembly of more than 30,000 persons, gathered in the city hall grounds and in the streets before him. Remarks were also made by others, and when the speakers of the occasion , closed, the people were feasted in the i green field that lies around the city i hall. Ten sheep and three oxen and i four hrs and 3.000 loaves of bread dis- j appeared inside thirty minutes. The governor and other visitors from the , capital were the city's guests, and ; were dined and wined and feasted at ; the rooms of the Weber club. i At 2 p. m. tne citizens assembled ' again at the Grand opera house, and there was more music and more speeches. It was all now in celebra-! tion of the cut-off. Again Governor j Wells. Father Cushnahan and Judge! Marshall proclaimed in elnmient mc. urrs their faith in Ogden, and their former and present belief that it was I the city of destiny. Some of them drew glowing pictures of the future, when a double track would span the waters of Utah's great salt sea, and the kings and courtiers of the earth would go out of our city and over one of the greatest works ever constructed by the hand of man; of how the city would expand, how we would find homes here in Ogden for the 117,000 people that Salt Lake was going to add to herself if she got the cut-off. Judge Marshall, in one of the most beautiful speeches ever uttered, told j of how the .city of Ogden would spread j out to the north, to the south, to the east and the west; how foundries, machine ma-chine shops, ore reduction works, rolling roll-ing mills and car works would cover the waste places and the city become glowing and prosperous. When he fin- ' ished his spech, it is safe to say that Ogden real estate had advanced fully 40 per cent. The day was orderly, although the city was fuil of life. No place in j which liquor is sold was open to the public, and during all of that day no arrests were made for drunkenness or disorder. DRAMATIC ENTERTAINMENT. In the evening, at the Sacred Heart academy, there was given by the good sisters a dramatic entertainment, for the benefit of St. Joseph s new church now nearing completion. The scene of the drama was laid in Grenada, in Spain, during the old Moorish wars. The actors, of course, were from among the pupils of the Sacred Heart academy, acad-emy, arid to state that it was well rendered ren-dered does r.ot do full justice to the actors who took part in the play, nor to those whose genius within the walls of that institution prepared the play. In scenic effect it was rich and ar- tistic. The accompaniments of music were also good and if numbers present would indicate appreciation on the part of the public, it can be said that there was not a foot of room within j the vast hall that was not occupied. The old adage that nothing succeeds like success, can be ve-ified in this case, for tne proceeds of the entertain- ment netted St. Joseph's church about , $800, and the good sisters of Sacred Heart academy certainly, as also the pupils, deserve the thanks of the entire en-tire congregation of St. Joseph. So much for St. Patrick's day and the'Luchi cut-off. Our Lenten season was here as elsewhere (and as it ought to be everywhere) the solemn, sad season sea-son of the year. St. Joseph's old church, down on Twenty-fifth street, looked through this Lent more than ordinarily aged and Lenfen-like. An expression of dilapidation, sadness and decay rests upon it. For thirty years it has served as the house of God in Ogden. Within its humble walls the services of religion have been performed per-formed there. Young hearts have been plighted at the altar, the wee infant has come into the fold of the true faith at its Vn,vV,l oltor Mil- rlr.vn its narrow aisle the dead have started on their last and mournful journey. ; But soon the days of its usefulness ; as a gathering place of the faithful, j shall have ended, for never again will the happy canticle of Christmas, or songs of praise for a risen Savior at Eastertide go up from its choir. A few more months and the doors of St. Joseph's Jo-seph's new church on the hill will open its doors to the faithful, and then the little old wooden church down on Twenty-fifth, that Bishop Scanlan built in the long ago, will close its doors forever and become a thing of the past. EASTER AT ST. JOSEPH'S. Easter in St. Joseph's congregation was a day most creditable to our parish. par-ish. Our little old church was for the last Easter time of its history very tastefully and artistically prepared by the same ladies who for years have attended to this work at Christmas, Easter time, and on all other days whereon more than ordinary attention is supposed to be given to the altar and its surroundings. Thanks to them on this account it was prepared with more than usual care. On Easter morning the church was filled to overflowing at each mass, and the number of communicants was greater than any during the history of the parish. During Easter week All Hallows college col-lege was represented in our city in a visit, from Rev. Father Lechner, and I Charles A. Masruire and Arthur Sulli van came up to spend Easter in their home city. Father Roser, of the same institution, came up on an antiquarian and neumismatic tour for a day or two. He also visited the Prince of India In-dia gold mines, north of Ogden. Mother Perpetua, who is mother general of the order of the Holy Cross from South Bend, Ind., was the guest of her order in Ogden during the past week. She is on a tour of inspection to all of the houses of her order throughout the United States. She I came hither from California, and from I here went to Boise City, Ida., in company com-pany with Sister Superior Celsus of the . Sacred Heart academy in Ogden. ST. JOSEPH'S SCHOOL. den is in a most flourishing condition. It is yet under the able management of Sisters Ethelbert and Leona, with an attendance of over 100 boys and girls under the age of 12 years. As to Sacred Heart academy, never in its history was its attendance as large as during the present year, with an excellent ex-cellent prospect of having an attendance attend-ance much increased for the academic I year 1902-3. Father Cushnahan's labors for the j past year in St. Joseph's parish have i been of that class which may well be deemed onerous. Church building and watching over the requirements of a growing congregation and the atten-i atten-i tion that must be given to many that 1 by divine light seek entrance into the ! true fold, the hours of his life have I been of late very, busy ones. God has seen fit to bless our parish I by bringing into it during the past : year not a few from the gentile world, j On Easter day there were five converts j baptized at St. Joseph's church. Of ! these four ' were adult ladies and one little girl of 7 years. I Of the above, two had been lifelong Methodists and two Episcopalians. And j still they come. ".'DON MAGUIRE. J Ceremonies of Holy "Week. - fFrom Anothev Correspondent.) : The beautiful ceremonies of Holy Week were conducted by Rev. P. M. j Cushnahan, with ajl their wonted sol- ! I enmity. A fitting crowning of the week's functions was the baptism of five adult converts. Father Cushnahan's Cushna-han's Easter joy must have been greatly enhanced, too, by the unusually unusual-ly large number of communicants, and it was probably this reflection that gave such increased eloquence to his Easter discourse. The church was : thronged at both masses, and no doubt j each individual in the congregation ut-I ut-I tered a fervent wish that the next great feast would be celebrated in more l suitable surroundings. Be this as it i i may, the ladies of the congregation ' deserve unqualified praise for their successful efforts at beautifying the old church. The tasteful repository they prepared for Holy Thursday's solemnities sol-emnities lent a : look of beauty to the old place that almost made one forget ; its dinginess. j W. A. Conley spent last week in Park City. ; Mrs. Dr. Joyce has returned from Salt Lake. Miss Ella O'Hornett has returned from San Francisco. Mr. and Mrs. McEntire have returned , from Rawlins, Wyo. |