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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1987,

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Cardinal Dennis Dougherty Blessed Local Children.

A. S. WATSON & Co., Ltd. FULL-CIRCLE blessed some hundreds of local island of Luzon and formally

ESTD. 1841,

Novel and Interesting

GIPSY NINA (Soprano)

SCOTT-WOOD (Accordion)

FRANCIS DAY (Soprano)

REGINALD FOORT (Organ) CAMPOLI'S ORCHESTRA

MOLLY PICON (Comedienne)

MAREK WEBER'S ORCHESTRA

COMEDY HARMONISTS

VON GESZY'S ORCHESTRA

NOEL COWARD

EIGHT PIANO ANSEMBLE

NEW MAYFAIR ORCHESTRA MARRIOT EDGAR (Talking)

LONDON PALLADIUM ORCH. JOSEPH HISLOP (Tenor)

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BD-253 Fortune Teller's Song

Like a bolt from the blue BD-209 Speak to me of Love

Stars Over Devon BD-323 Me and my Dog

Swing (Public Nuisance

No. 1) BD-338 Reminiscences of Friml BD-348 Teddy Bear Picnic

Mouse in the Clock D-0480 New York Symphony

What people make a living

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B-0213 Waltz Dream (Strauss)

Gipsy Love Waltz (Lehar) B-0274 No, no, Nanette-Tea for

Two Whispering 3-8434 Free and Easy

Gipsy Wine B-8414 We

were Dancing night 8.30) Parisian Pierrot

C-2414 Thapsody in Blue

(Gershwin

C-2674 Love Toles-Selection C-2707 The Lion and Albert

(To-

With her head tucked underneath her arm.

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RECK: To Mr. and Mrs. Fr. Reck Jr., on the 12th February, 1937, at the War Memorial Home, a daughter,

The

In the meantime, Bishop was made the city's first carings Office with which he has THE eyes of the entire Catholic.

world have been focussed Dougherty had returned to his dinal.

been connected practically all these past few days on Cardinal Pennsylvania hills and was in During the next 15 years the his service. He was appointed Dennis Dougherty, Papal the centre of active preparations Cardinal crowded his days with Executive Engineer in charge of Legate, to the Eucharistic Con- for his new mission.

a restless activity which was the the Office in 1928 and ho remain- gress at Manila and invested for

Plans and personnel were or- perpetua! amazement of those ed in that capacity, except for that occasion with an authority ganized, and. on Sept. 8, the close to him.

a few brief occasions from 1984. second only to that of indisposed Bishop and his five young teach- More than 50 churches, up- onwards, when he acted as Ae- Pope Plus XI.

ing priests sailed through the ward of a score of schools, and sistant Director of Public Works In Hongkong on Tuesday be--Golden Gate for Manila.

numerous chapels were built either for Hongkong and Kow fore the Tatauta Maru departed On Oct. 22, he entered the under the Cardinal'a administra- loon. He saw such large works for America, the Papal Legate episcopal city of Vigan on the tion in Philadelphia,

completed as the Queen Mary · But it is the preparatory Sem- Hospital, the Stanley Gaol and children as he had blessed thou- took possession of the diocese of inary at Overbrook, perhaps the the new Magistracy at Kowloon. sands upon thousands of devout Nueva Segovia. The 28th ruler largest of its kind in the world, Although he took little inter- Catholics in the Philippine of that See, he became the first that stands as a monument to est in sport of late years, Mr.. Islands.

American to occupy its cathedral the prelate's executive ability Lowick in his younger days was

and aesthetic sympathy.

an active member of the Royal To newspaper men he declined chair.

Hongkong Yacht Club and wAB to grant an interview, but the For more than four years he Many Souls In

a keen and able oarsman in the following impression of him is worked. Catholicism had almost

P.W.D. crew which competed in available from an American pen. perished in the remote reaches

the Hong fours. Swimming and walking were favourite pastimes with him and he was fond of ex- cursions on foot in the West River district. For 12 years he was in the Hongkong Volunteer Dofence Corps.

His Care

ALSO on board the Tatsuta Maru was Archbishop Mitty, heading the American delegation which represented no fewer than 22,000,000 Catholics in the United States,

Mr. Lowick was. appointed an Official Justice of the Peace in The day before his departure, June 1935.

Nursing child of Patrick and Bridget mountain missions and brought took his Bachelor of Arts degree he was the recipient of a token

Hongkong Telegraph. County and three years after among the people.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1037.

THE ELDERLY UNEMPLOYED

Dennis' birth moved from

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and three chlidren at Bristol. Founded His Firm

Perhaps the one word which of the islands, parishes were best pictures America's fifth destitute where they feebly ex- Stubbs Road prince of the Roman Catholic isted, and even the roof of the

Church is "scholastic," and in cathedral had caved in. the deepest sense of that word But during these years Rome the life and work of Dennis Car- was to witness a new life spring dinal Dougherty are firmly root- into action along the hills of

John Joseph Milty was born ed.

Luzon. A band of zealous Bel- He was born of poor parents gian priests vivifled

the in New York in 1884, went to on Aug. 16, 1865, the fourth dilapidated structures of the the De La Salle Institution and at Manhattan College in 1901. Dougherty, Irish immigrants the people brick to the fold.

He then became a student at St. of esteem from his friends in who had plodded their way to To-day in these farthermost Joseph's Seminary before going the P.W.D., a suitably inscribed the Pennsylvania coal-fields. districts, churches and schools to Catholic University of Wash- silver suiver being handed to

They settled in Schuylkill dot the land, and the faith lives ington to qualify as a Bachelor him by the Hon. Mr. R. M. Hen

Director of Sacred Theology in 1907. In derson, Again the industrious, young Rome, he attended the Major Works. Ashville to Holmsville. A quiet, scholar was asked to move on and Pontifical Seminary, became a Mr. Lowick will join his wife studious boy, he must have begin life anew. In 1908 he Doctor of Divinity. appeared a strange figure in the took over his new See as the

Ordained a priest of the vigorous environment of the Bishop of Jaro, with a much Roman Catholic Church in 1906 grimy shafts where he mingled heavier responsibility and an he was curate of St. Veronica with hard-fisted miners who even more sprawling diocese. Church, New York, 1909, pro- hacked a living from the interior

fessor of Dogmatic Theology at of the earth.

St. Joseph's Seminary, 1909-

one of its best-known busi- 1917; pastor of the Sacred neas men in the person of Mr. Heart Church, New York and G. H. Wilson, managing director St. Luke's Church, Now York, and founder of the firm of finally being consecrated Bishop Robertson, Wilson and Co., Ltd., of the diocese of Salt Lake in who boards the motor liner 1926. In the same year Man- Tarifa for Home on retire- hattan College conferred on him ment after 26 years' residence

in the Colony. the degree of Doctor of Laws.

The Bishop's Church work in Mr. Wilson, who was born in America had been interrupted by London on January 30, 1879, re- the chaos of the Great War into, ceived his education at Heath which he ventured fearlessly. Brow College, Boxmoor, Hert There are many who still remem. fordshire, after which he began ber him for the services he ren- his commercial career in London. dered under conditions of the In 1902, he went out to Singa- greatest danger. He was Chap- pore, joining the staff of the Docks. This lain in the U.S. Army from Tanjong Pagar

There is a tendency, when considering the unemployed pro- blem, to think of it mainly in terms of young men, of whom C-2729 The English Rose (Merrie there are many thousands at

C2727 The Leck-Selection

Englund)

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For Love Alone C-2754 Soloist Delight.

Merch Heroique de Szabady

(Coloraturo-Soprano) C-2770 Shadow Song (Dinorah)

Doll's Song-Tales of Hoff-

LIGHT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA C-2759 Mannin Veen (Dear Isis of

Man) RAMON NOVARRO (Tenor) C-2778 Ramon Novarro-Medley

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Until he was 14, the young student worked as a breaker-boy among these sturdy men.

the

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In Hongkong HONGKONG also loses to-day

Above is General Sir Alexander 3. August, 1917, for two years and post he held for about three Godley, G.C.B., K.C.M.G., Colonel of served with the 49th Regiment years, when he joined his the Royal Ulster Ride's Regiment and 101st Regiment of US. In- brother in establishing the firm whose 1st Battalion is stationed in fantry at Camp Merritt, New of Wilson and Co., of Singapore. Hongkong. He is visiting his men Jersey, Leman Area, France, England, but the East was scon Some time later, he returned to present long service and good con- and during the Meuse-Argonne calling him again, and he accept- Offensive. In 1932, he was ap ed a post first in Colombo and pointed co-adjutor archbishop then another in Bombay. In:

from February 17 to 23 and will

duct medals.

bishop Ryan, he was sent to Here the groundwork was built of San Francisco. Rome for his doctorate; and afresh. By 1915 when he was from 1885 to 1890 he led a vigor- returned to his own country as A Civil Servant ously studious life in the Eternal Bishop of Buffalo, he was known City.

among church leaders as "the Says Goodbye

1908, on the serious illness of his brother, he returned to Singa-. pore.

It was in 1910 that Mr. Wil-

It was then that he applied work for many years. There is, for entrance to the Seminary at Overbrook He passed his ex- however, another and an even aminations with case but was moro difficult aspect of the deemed too young for the ad- question, and that is the pro-vanced philosophy of

finding jobs for neademy. blem of elderly men. Unemployed men Undismayed, he turned to the over fifty

Jesuits and for two year. Imbib- years of age, especially those who

ed their learning at St. Mary's have

in Montreal.

to Returning families of young children de- Overbrook two years later, he re-

particularly tragic position., Al-mitted, and quietly stepped to though they may be physically the leadership of his class. The sound they are too old to be youngest student, he retained transferred to other occupations this priority throughout his elsewhere. In their case what three years at the academy. was wanted was a system which Rome To Study would enable the parents to move into those districts where the demand for Juvenile labour, was good, and a scheme is now in operation which it is hoped will improve considerably the condi- tions of this class of unemploy- In that year he received his Missionary Bishop of the 20th MANY friends were aboard the 800 came to Hongkong, opening ed. An organisation entitled Doctor of Divinity degree from Century."

P. and O. liner Rawalpindi Singapore firm, which subse-

the Hongkong branch "the Land Settlement Associa- North American College, follow-

The work of re-organization last Saturday to bid farewell and quently became Robertson, Wil- tion" has worked out a scheme of ing his ordination by Cardinal abated in no measure when the God speed to Mr. Henry Capell son and Co. From a small con- what is called "cottage home- Parocchi on May 31. On the bishop faced his problems in Lowick of the Public Works steads." Actually there are two next, day he celebrated his first Buffalo. The diocese was crush- Department, who was going into the prominent position it cern, he built the business up separate schemes. One of them mass at the altar of the Chair of ed under a debt of G$1,600,000 Home on leave prior to retire holds to-day. During the war, deals with self-supporting small St. Peter in the basilica of the and the prospect was bleak. ment..

with his then partner on active holdings; the other is particular-great cathedral.

A native of North Hants, Mr, service, Mr. Wilson joined the ly concerned with the needs of The young scholar returned to the new task. But during his Lowick was born in 1882 and Volunteers, serving at Belchera. elderly men and it is organised Overbrook and the old familiar short span as ruler of the was a Sergeant in the North Fort on searchlights duty and on a system of group-holdings. scones. Here he launched into diocese, the debt was wiped Hants Yeomanry before coming also as a Special Constable, in In the latter case the men will his new duties as professor of away, differences which had to Hongkong. On his retire which capacity he was called work together on small plots in dogmatic theology in the semin- made the See a trying one were ment he was one of the senior upon during the big, strike of groups of ten or twenty. They ary. For 18 years he taught soothed, and the diocese of Buf- officers of his department, hav- 1925, will devote only a part of their Thomism to future priests in the falo rose to a-new prominence, ing joined the service as a surve- Apart from his business. time to the plots, and they will Seminary of St. Charles Borro In April, 1918, he was appoint- yor in 1910. He was transfer- activities, Mr. Wilson has been still be entitled to unemployment meo. Likewise he taught. ed Metropolitan of the Arch- red to the Engineering Grade in a keen motorist and golfer. He relief. The plots will be in dis- Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and diocese of Philadelphia and three 1913 and went to the Architec has been on the Committee of tricts where there is a demand French.

years later, on Feb. 13, 1921, he tural and Maintenance of Build- the Hongkong Automobile Asso for juvenile labour, and so the

During these years he was de- children of the unemployed men will have an opportunity for a signing a broad pattern of schol- asticism which has now earned decent start in life. So far for him the distinction of being these group holdings proved highly successful and the one of the great scholars of the demand for them is growing in church. He is widely known as [a translator, writer, and preach-

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clation since its inception, and was actively associated with the Royal Hongkong Golf Club. He formerly belonged to the Hong- kong Cricket Club and was a member of the Hongkong Club. In his younger days he played for the Olympic and Wigwam Tennis Clubs, both of which are long defunct.

Mr. Wilson's firm is still be-

Ing carried on under fte old name, with Mr. G. W. Sewell,

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all districts. They provide usc-er and is considered an author- ful outdoor work for men who ity on Anglican orders. would otherwise be idle; they

It was during Holy Week of help to grow fresh food for the

A man was charged this week! Cracker-firing is said to have families of the unemployed; they 1903 that an important word with passing off parcels of been less than usual this year. keep the men interested and was sent to the future cardinal. bricks as sweets. Edinburgh Residents in city hotels doubt

The voice said "...appointed rock, perhaps, make life worth living. It is

a partner for many years, as ita the bishopric of Nueva conceded that this method only to

This is the year of the Cow

principal. touches one part of a tremend-Segovia in the Philippines, Does

The cross-harbour pipes are and Fire, according to the wife at Home and it is their in- Mr. Wilson will rejoin his ous problem, but its value, with- he accept?" question. Not only do these City of the Soven Hills, and at/shall get that tunnel after all should now figure more pro-South of England, most prob in restricted limits, is beyond

The now bishop sailed for the not big enough. Looks as if we Chinese calendar. Roast beef tention to settle down in the group holdings provide work for the Vatican he received his in-

minently on the menus, the elderly, but, perhaps more structions. The consecration It looks as if, in addition to

ably in the New Forest district.. Their friends will wish them Important still, they give child of the first American bishop to supplying the cup, the Talo A man was caught hawking ren an opportunity of really use the Philippines took place on graph" will also have to provide cigarettes made from sawdust. many years of good health and ful occupation, and aid in their Sunday, June 14, 1903, in the some shooting boots for the Wo imagine that one would happiness In the Old Country. general development,

baallica of Saints John and Paul.'next Interport,

soon discover their drawback.

Pop Parker.

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