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Show : frisco. : 4 4-4- 4- 4-,, 4 FATHER YORK AT 'FRISCO. Distinguished Young Orator and Writer Royally Welcomed Home. (Correspondence Intermountain Catholic.) San Francisco, Nov. 14. Rev. Father Peter C. York, who arrived here last Thursday, was given a glad welcome home. He came direct here from Salt Lake, where he was the guest of the Rt. Rev. Bishop Scanlan and the Very Rev. Father Kiely for a few days. Father York was absent In Europe fourteen months. Much of this time he spent in study and research in Rome. He also visited the home of his boyhood boy-hood in Ireland. Upon landing in San Francisco he was driven to his mother's home on Van Ness Avenue, where he is to remain re-main temporarily. Although accompanied accom-panied by a friend during' his travels in the eastern cities the trip from Denver Den-ver and Salt Lake to Sacramento was made alone. At the latter city Father York was met and welcomed by the Rev. Father McDonald, Rev. Phil O'Ryan and other members of the clergy of this city. He was overjoyed to meet his old friends and asked them many questions about the city and the changes that have been made since his departure. His chief pleasure was in the anticipation of again' meeting his mother. When the train reached Sixteenth street station in Oakland he met' his mother and a number of the members of the clergy and relatives and friends. After a hasty but cordial greeting to the latter he accompanied his mother back to the train, remaining in her company com-pany until her home was reached in this city. Among those who , met Father York in Oakland were the Rev. Fathers Lyons, Ly-ons, Kessler and Lynch, E. J. Murphy, William Judge, cousin of Father York; and J. J, Lermen. . A. score of other friends was awaiting his return at the ferry depot on this side of the bay. At 6 o'clock Friday the friends of Father York gaw a reception and banquet ban-quet in his honor in the assembly hall of the Sacred Heart College on Eddy street. Nearly every Catholic church in the city was represented. The Rev. Father McKinnon, late chaplain of the First' California regiment, regi-ment, who was on the train with Father York, stopped off at Rockier, where he will remain for several days before returning re-turning to this city. - -; - j |