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Show THE INTERMOUNTAIN CATHOLIC 20 offered in Salt Lake City was sung for the repose of the soul of the late Pope Pius IX. Father Scanlan was Celebrant; Father Buholzer Deacon; and Father Kiely The altar boys who served this Mass were Henry Lannan, William Sloan, Egbert Lake Wiest, Thomas Murphy, Lincoln Milford and Michael Murphy. The choir was led by Miss Rose de Voto, who also presided at the organ, and Florian Bernard de Voto was solo ist. The sermon was delivered by Father Scanlan. In the year 1881 Father Scanlan .directed his attention to the erection of a church and school in Park City. He procured a lot and in that year built a combination school and church. The school was opened in September. Four years later a church was built in Eureka, Utah, and the first services were held on Christmas Day of 1885. In January 1886 Father Scanlan opened a school in Eureka. On January 1st, 1881 Father Scanlan purchased land on the corner of Second South and Fourth East Streets, Salt Lake City. It was his intention .to use this for the building of a new Hospital to take the place of the quarters on Fifth East that had been outgr6wn. The land, however, was not used for this purpose, as a little later it was decided to build the new hospital further from the city and the land of the present hospital was then acquired and the new building erected. Father Scanlan opened a school in the basement of the new hospital in 1882. About sixty pupils attended every day. This school continued for fourteen years most successfully. It was closed in 1896. On Sunday, November 4th, 1883 Salt Lake City was highly honored by the presence of the Most Reverend Archbishop Alemany and his coadjutor, Archbishop Patrick J. Riordan. In the party were also the Reverend D. Riordan, the Archbishops brother; the Reverend Dr. Zahm of Notre Dame University; the Rev. B. J. Spalding, the Rev. J. M. OSullivan, the Rev. Father Rolls; the Rev. M. F. Burke, later Bishop of St. Joseph, Missouri; and the Rev. E. J. Dunn, later Bishop of Dallas, Texas. Pontifical High Mass was celebrated by Archbishop Riordan, who had been consecrated on September 16th of that year as Bishop of Cabessa, with the right to succeed Archbishop Alemany in the See of San Francisco. After the Mass a reception was held in honor of the distinguished guests. At this reception the priests of Utah presented a handsomely bound copy of the Bible and the following testimonial to Archbishop Riordan: Sub-deaco- n. Most Reverend Archbishop Riordan: We appreciate your visit and warmly thank you for it, not only because it is an expression of your benevolence toward us, but especially since through it you have offered us the enviable honor of being the first to meet you on the threshold of your future Diocese and bid you, as we most heartily do, a sincere and cordial welcome. Although in the past the pleasure and honor of your personal acquaintance have been denied to most of us, yet we all have heard of your labors and of your noble qualities of mind and heart and have derived therefrom no little edification. Your priestly life, which has been that of an Alter Christus, a true priest of God, has long since sufficiently introduced you to us, and has made us feel that we are already acquainted with the learned and zealous and beloved pastor of St. James Church. Like your Divine Master, Who has been the ideal of your life, your works have gone before you and have told us, more forcibly than words could, who and what you are. The magnificent and beautiful Church which you have erected and which would be an ornament to any city in the world, the schools, charitable and beneficent institutions which ; sprang up and flourished under your guidance and fostering care, these noble works so successfully brought to completion by means the most commendable, stand forth as enduring monuments to your untiring energy and indefatigable zeal and perpetuate your memory and transmit your name to generations yet to come. Nor have we been denied the influence of your works of charity. These works, although commendably done in secret and by one hand unknown to the other, have come to light' at last and have found their natural expression in that universal wail of sorrow which so j ' ' j |