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Show TO ENDOW A COLLEGE. The name of the pretty village of "Walbrook. a suburb of Baltimore, is leing written by many pens throughout through-out the United States and in many foreign for-eign countries as a result of a plan to raise an endowment fund for Epiphany Apostolic College, which is located there. Journeying to Wolbrook for this institution are scores of letters, containing con-taining the mites of those who have been reached in the elaborate scheme of correspondence through which it is hoped to raise this fund. The endless chain plan was adopted by Rev. J. M. Kellogg, one of the Professors Pro-fessors in the school, who has underlain under-lain the task of collecting several hundred thousand dollars, or enough money to secure an income that will provide for about 100 students. The college is now dependent upon voluntary volun-tary contributions, and its work is thus limited. Twenty-five .cents Is the donation be ing asked from each correspondent, together to-gether with the names of three friends who may also be appealed to. To raise $2W,00 in this way, even if every letter brought a response, would require the sending out of a very large number of letttors. An extensi-e card system has been established, so as to prevent, as far as possible, the duplication of letters. By a division into states and subdivisions subdivis-ions for every city of 2,000 inhabitants or over, the names of correspondents are easily available for comparison. The replies so far are regarded as very promising oy r atner i.enogg.. They have come from all parts of the United States. Alaska, Canada, Europe, South America, Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines. i The college for which this endow- I ment is being raised is for '.ie training 1 ! . of young men for the Priesthood in the 4 Josephite Society. The Josephite Society is the only society so-ciety of Catholic Priests in the United States devoting itself exclusively to Missionary effort. In 1S92 the Society in this country was made entirely inJeoendent of the mother house. Its headquarters are at St. Joseph's Seminary, on Pennsylvania avenue, Washington, where the final studies are made for ordination. or-dination. There are not more than thirty Priests in this Society So-ciety as yet, and Missions already established es-tablished are one each in Louisiana, Arkansas and Alabama, two each in Mississippi and Delaware, two in Virginia Vir-ginia and two in Baltimore. Plans are also being considered for locating Missions in Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines. The students at Epiphany Apostolic College come from every quarter of the world. Among the sixty students who are there is one from Korea and a number from Holland, England nd Ireland. Their work is not to be local in any sense, further than they are to be American Priests at work in American dioceses. Father Kellogg, who inaugurated the novel plan for raising an endowment fund, was born in Mississippi about thirty years ago, and was reared as an Episcopalian. As a youth he attended the public schools, and later entered college at Oberlin, O. He became a Komajx Catholic in 1S87, through the influence of an aunt, who Was a member mem-ber of that denomination, and who, too, was a convert. Father Kellogg attended at-tended St. Charles' College, Ellicott City, Md.t and afterward went to St. Mary's Seminary, Baltimore. In the last year of his course at the Seminary he decided to enter the Josephite Society. So-ciety. His father is still living. All the members of his family are non-Catholics. He was ordained a Priest in 1S97. |