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Show K. OF C. CONVENTION. The national convention held its session of "rUOl-at "rUOl-at Louisville, Ky., beginning .Tune 7. The national directors, were in session at the Gate House Monday. The m vtiag acc-pted the report of the building committee and decided to erect a $ lnu,0M) office building on the property at Xos. !,) L!."):i Chapel street. Xevv Haven. Conn. The property was recently purchased for $7,.'!0. The building will be of the most modern type and the 1op floor v.-ill be reserved for the home orlices of the order. It is expected ilm the national convention con-vention next spring will be held in th.1 new building. The business sessions of the convention proper began Tuesday morning with. Suprenu jsnight II earn in the chair. In the report he made a brief sketch of tha history his-tory of the order, telling of its nccumplisjmients. He dwelled paH ieularly on the placing of a chair of) American history in the Catholic university in Washington at a cost of O.Owi). The chair is now filled by Professor Charles McCarthy of Philadelphia. Philadel-phia. . He suggested that those who did not give to the fund for the establishinen':, :ind ihoso who have been taken into the order since 'the chair was established, estab-lished, raise a subscription f r th" equipment of a library to go with the department of American history. his-tory. He review the establishment of the fraternity paper, the Columbiad. and told of its success. He described the plan for erecting the new building in Xew Haven, and expressed lhe hope that the next annual meeting may b held within its walls. "We may look upon 'the year with t'eoLngs of pride and satisfaction, ;md yd what may we nor look forward to io'.- the .uvseut year and the years 4n come? Since Jan. 1, P'dL sixty romx-ils have been in-'.inutfd. in-'.inutfd. an average eT t.vrhv councils per mouth, which, if maintained ior die uitimo year, will furnish, fur-nish, a grow th that wdl completely dwarf our prog-: prog-: ess in former yr a P. J. Brady, the national IrM.-urev, made a vo'b-r.iim.us vo'b-r.iim.us report, cov-ving all ihj jiiitv.ieia! transactions transac-tions of the order for th year. The assets. -of the order amounted, to S 1.000.000. .' V:V ,,-'e. .. . Dr. William T. jfcMar4pi.' :!;. i .iVti 'V.f.-t cian, in his annual report, sai J in p'i-t ; jjV.riiig the year I received 7.144 applioarrts for insurance. The'number of deaths was -'O-'J. Th death rate was 6.31 per thousand." In regard to the propose! plan f the society entering tli' field of Cuba and surrounding island.-, he said that he had made :i thoriwg!. investigation and that, while great impi-'n'omeuV had been made in the sanitary conditions, ho -would not advise that the step be taken in the near future. After a hot debate of two hou-s a ivsoi jti.m introduced by the New York delegation for the purpose pur-pose of increasing the representation of the states according to iheir numerical siromrth wa lost by an overwhelming majority, and the del gates from the Lmpiro stale were defeated in their fondest wish. , . Of lhe twelve men who compose :l board or j directors, four are elected each year for a ferm of three years, and those who were eiee.ed yosferday are: P. -LM- Xulty of lYnn.-vh-ania. W. .1. Cum-inings Cum-inings of Bhode Island. V. I). Thorn of Xew York and W. J. MeCulioch or Iowa, who was lv-ehvtcd to su'-ceed himself. The retinn gotfi'vrs of the boanl of dir"dors arc: William i'renrWgnst of Xew York. Hugh V. O'Donnell -f Khode .Plan,! and John P. K'avnnaug'i of .Men! real. j The entertaining of the knights was admirably i done by the Louisville council, no pains bei..g j spared "to make the stay of the vi-isors pleasant and enjoyable, lleeept ions, o inees, ban piers .in-l , a trip to Maiiimiah cave .were among the many dis- J tractions furnished hv the sociable Koncu-ky coin- j cil. . I |