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Show Cathoiic University Not Crippled. Baltimore, Md., Sept. 5 In a statement today Cardinal Gibbons said he did not feel any anxiety over the future of the Catholic university in Washington, Wash-ington, nor does he fear that its prosperity will be affected by the bankruptcy of Thomas E. Wagga-nuin Wagga-nuin of tliat city, who was the depositary of large funds belonging to the university. "I shall do everything in my power to assist the university," said the cardinal. "My interest in its success and prosperity is well known. There need be no apprehension that the work of the um-versitv um-versitv will be impaired. .There will be no diminution diminu-tion of its work, students will be taken as usual, and the courses will go on during the present year preciselv as if there had been no shrinkage in ag-gaman ag-gaman funds. There is money belonging to the university which was not in the hands of Mr. Wag-gainan." Wag-gainan." Washington. Sept. 5 Dr. Stafford, rector of St. Patrick's church, tonight, in speaking of the condition of the Catholic university in view of the Waggaman affair, said that there might be for a time a shrinkage in the funds in. consequence of the Waggaman trouble, and perhaps a temporary suspension of interest; but admitting all that, at the next meeting of the university board it could safely and truly be said, there would not only be money enough to meet the eirrent expenses of the university, but, something left over for a sinking fund, and that every dollar of trust money would be. invested in first-class securities. Dr. Stafford further said that in this matter he was speaking with authority. |