People We Hear About

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVI, Issue 24, 18 June 1908, Page 28

People We Hear About

, The American fleet of battleships under command of Admiral Evans, carries with it but five chaplains. Eev. Matthew C. Gleeson, the Catholic chaplain-, is aboard the Admiral's flagship. Sir Thomas Shaughnessy, K.C.M.G., the President of the ■ Canadian-Pacific Eailway, who was recently on a visit to England, . and whilst there was interviewed with reference to the AU-Eed route, is a Catholic, and one *6f the foremost business men of Canada. He was born in the United States, and is of Irish parentage. He is now in his fifty-fifth year, and, prior to settling in Canada, held responsible positions on some of the principal railway lines in the United States. Sir Charles Santley, who is, it is said, going to devote the rest of his life towards improving, as far as he possibly, can, the qualifications of teachers of singing, said recently that 'there were no fewer than ten thousand persons in London who professed to teach the art of singing. But if I were-to state the number of such teachers who are reajly and truly capable of doing it, from its ground work to its end, I should limit it to ten.' Cardinal Logue, who went to the United States in connection with the centenary celebration of the New York Archdiocese, and who celebrated the centenary Mass in St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York, on April 28, is the first successor of St. Patrick in the See of Armagh to obtain a seat in the College of Cardinals. He was created Cardinal by Pope Leo KITE. in 1893, in which year he was fifty-three, having been born in 1840. The Cardinal was educated at Maynooth College, where he had a very distinguished career. He was ordained priest in 1866, and, after some years as professor, first at the Irish College, Paris, and then at Maynooth, he was consecrated Bishop of Eaphoe in 1879. He was appointed co-adjutor to Archbishop^- McGettigan, ' with the right of succession, in 1887, and on the death of that prelate, before the end of the same year, entered into the full charge of the See, which he has ruled so ably ever since. In the course of a characteristic article in the 'London Daily Chronicle,' Mr. W. T. Stead says: — 'The present Bishop of London had hardly been twenty-four hours a Bishop before I called upon him and asked him whether or not I could count upon him to bishop me, for, as I explained to him, since Cardinal Manning died I had been an unbishoped man. When Cardinal Manning lived he did his bishoping gently but with great vigilance. He was a Eoman Catholic, I was Nonconformist, but he looked after me as if he had been my spiritual father. Never, was he interested in any public movement, or private person, in which he thought the ' ' Pall Mall Gazette could be of any service, that he failed to communicate with me, and if at any time — and there were a good many times — there was anything in my leaders which he did not like, he was .prompt to censure and to prevent, if he cpuld, a repetition of the offence. "I thought you had more sense, ' ' he would write ' sometimes ; "come and be scolded" — a summons which I always cheerfully obeyed. ' --;..{.. The announcement of the death of James Jeffrey Eoche, - the American Consul at Berne, Switzerland, was received with universal regret throughout the United States. "Mr. Eoche died in a private hospital in -Berne; after a prolonged illness. His body has been sent to his former home in Boston, where funeral services have been held. During the past year Mr. Eoche ably performed the duties of the consulate at Berne, and won the esteem- of the people there as well as the commendation of the United States Government. Previous to his appointment to Berne, Mr. Eoche was American Consul at Genoa. It is as a writer and editor, however, that the name of James Jeffrey Eoche is best known to the people of the^United States. As a young man he was a -frequent contributor to the papers of Boston, and in 1883 he became assistant editor of the 'Pilot,' where his work attracted a good deal of attention, and in 1890, when John Boyle O'Eeilly died, Mr. Eoche succeeded him as editor-in-chief of that well-known paper. This position he held up to the time of his appointment as Consul to Genoa, in December, 1904. ■„..", -j_l