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Show KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS. Twenty-five Thousand Guests at the Ball in New York. The charity ball given by the Knights of Columbus of New York in aid of the hospital be fund of the order in that locality, which was held at Madison Square Garden on Wednesday evening, Jan. 22. was an unprecedented success. suc-cess. The affair was given under the auspices of the New York council, and every counci in greater New York was represented. It is estimated that fully 2.1.000 attended, among them being representatives rep-resentatives of the order and prominent promi-nent Catholics, both clergy and laymen, lay-men, from every section of the United States. Every seat in the vast amphitheater was occupied, and so dense was the gathering that the doors of the garden had to be kept closed, to the exclusion of many hundred who had come late. There were 140 policemen In the hall. At 9:30 a concert was riven under the direction of Professor Fanciulli. of the Seventy-first regiment, and Professor Pro-fessor Ryan, of Daly's theatre. Half an hour later the Fourth Degree drill corps, which is composed of many of the most prominent Catholics in the country, to the number of about 2.000, appeared on the floor in uniform and gave an exhibition drill and dress parade. pa-rade. Their evolutions were enthusiastically enthu-siastically applauded. Among the intricate in-tricate figures formed was that of a living cross. The drill was under the direction of Victor J. Dowling, supreme master of the Fourth degree corps, and Commander P. J. McGuire. Among the national and state of-, ficer who reviewed the drill were: Edward Ed-ward Hearn, supreme knight; Daniel Col well, national secretary; Rev. William Wil-liam McGivney, national chaplain: John W. Hogan, state deputy; Rev. James B. Curry, state chaplain, and Paul T. Brady of Syracuse. At the close of the drill the national officers of the order marched undsr an "arch of steel." made by the crossed swords of the Knights. -Js The Michigan Catholic is informed that the Knights of Columbus. Port Huron council have taken up the good work of having missions given to Tion-Catholics Tion-Catholics in the diocese of Detroit. The first mission is to be given in Central Cen-tral hall, Yale, St. Clair county, by the Rev. Francis B. Dohert-, one of the Paulist Fathers of New York City. Similar missions hav- Oeen given with "treat success under the ansnices of the Knights of Columbus in several sev-eral of the New England states during the past three years, and we are rejoiced re-joiced to learn that arrangements have been made by members of The same order to extend the work of the Apos-olate Apos-olate in Detroit dioces6. |