People We Hear About

New Zealand Tablet, 15 November 1906, Page 28

People We Hear About

\ Apropos of a grandson.!, of r f Gari^aldicr-entering" <r the novitiate for the priesthood; "ifie"jE*aris ,f. Temps, ' says that ' the old : Garibaldi tdok-"4mriierisV pains-. tEat'. -his"' children,- ainongst' -whom -was Riciqtti, -tlie; father pi the youn'g^nfaii^in. question,"'should f be educated i ! ii;; Rome by the'-iVLeWod.isisA The -young ~Ricibtti\later ''qb?l 'wneV he had children of his^ own, and,' J was leaving foV" South America, took equal* pains. Lo have them baptised^Cath- ■ "olios /before he left Italy. *.■>-.. .-;',.•£ ,-,-<: ;' - ■*?'.' -I 3 "Fa\'h?i^'B'erriard : Vaugh'aii( ; S.'Jr; on Ahe^'neW) i General, of the Jesuit Order :—'. Father-- VVernz is pern'aps better acquainted with, the; ,; Society as a" whole' than ' "any other man in it. lie is a tremendous worker, and he t believes thatj-jbrue progress will be iiuthe measure- of^ ■j real work. " At ' my examination." }h r theology : ; year's^ ago'-Jie-ya'tt'ackei'me "on " the Divinity of Christ, and" fired off a rapid succession of "telling -Latinnsyllogisms - from German rationalists for me to take 'up '"Sinxi tear to pieces. ~ 1 recollect what' a good" marksman heVwas. and ;,, how- I^gbt:pelt£d t - with his. shot. '/ j; : '.„;.,* .■■ 'j\lr« Daniel O'Day, business associate of Mr. , , Rockefeller,- whose death is announced from Paris, "was born *• in Ireland sixty-two years>ago, and /went* trp"* the Una-* . ted States in infancy. In 18G5 he wenttofthe Penni* sylvanaa>%il i_ regions, and became connected- 'wiW "^the 1 -" x . r . oil .transportation business there, constructing ;ih 1-8.73^76;? ijthe.: pipelines which were afterwards consgridated'With.' , the United Pipe Line system-.' 3 This -was* aft^fwards . ciSoi-j. solidated ' with-other " systems^ in ..the; National "Transit' Company, of which Mr. O'Day' became" V\vic£pr'esideht.', He v was"*-*also president J of the N'orthrWestern^Ohio Natu-ral-Gas Company arid, of the Peoples-B ank] of -Buffalo. His, body will be-conveyed>to the :- United "States for,, burial." '" . * ' ' ~, ' - The- '-Palp Mall- Gazette ',;,, say.s : " Mo&trßey".. IJr.. r "Ardhbisliop" r of^ Dublin,-, who has" escaped from, shipwreck on; the /Zuydeir Zee, betrayed onejfside of hi's versatile ~ character; the 'moment- he s go.fc safely on shore'r" H'C^is- a, skilled photographer, ' arid carried his -» camera* wathhim, whereby he was "enabled to take a " snapv, shot ', of. the-, wreck! Walsh, has., founds -time, ' amid&t- a strenuous" performance of '" spiritual duties',^ to -master 1 than'" the Mysteries of tKe 1 camera. 'He" is '•? an - : expert r shorthand writer ; he has v written, a- gram- • mar of Gregorian music ; he has touredr/th'e 'Continent" ~on his /bicycle , and far from regarding the motor-car as ,' .an ; invention ..of .the" "devil,' he wasXone ( of its^ yearly patrons',- and 'rode in— one to witness '-tne r Gordon--Benne ; tt Cup Race, which was run partly in his own arch-diocese. • _ ~.J Sir . "/ Thomas GraCtan 'Esmonde, Bar.t., M.P:,""cSle=;; .-.brkted his forty-fourth' birthday on September'2o.The" whip -of -the' Irish'" Party- is, a greatly grandson? Qi^Henry, Grattan/. He might- have '■■' beerf'Lord Hsmon-dejr Baron: of Limerick, says ; the/ Evening Standard.' -'Sir Lawrence Esmonde obtained, largetgrants of confiscated, land -in; -Irelaad^in the reign of.. James 1., .'aivd'' was -created Lord," Esmonde. During;a '^military ex.- ■ a .podition into Cpnnaught he married a fair daughter of . O'Flaherty. TKe bride was a Catholic, the bridegroom ~a~ Protestant! "A "son was born ► -to ".Jfche'mf'"buC* La-dy" Esmonde, fearing that the- boy was to be brought up' a Protestant; fled with him. into, hiding. Her. husband , then ' took' action " and - repudiated;- his . marriage^ as being between a Protestant; andrr'a^Xatholic, and married again. He had no further issue, andrin his 1 death-bed ■v he left his estates-, to - his _.only son. The peerage could ' not descend, but the .son was made a baronet. Lord Gerard, whose marriage to Miss 'Gosselin at . the Brompton -'Oratory the other day made a brilliant "interlude in- the' dull" season, is the grandson -of - the first peer. Sir Robert Gerard, who was called to the House in- 1876, was the only -Catholic common- ~_ etr' raised to the Peerage . by Lord Beaconsfield. The « late XordfDerby- is reported ( to have- said" 5 that he did not think .it likely that- the ' third;' baronet, in the ' realm- would of a' nineteenth-century barony:"'Mrr Gladstone's creations of Catholibx peers during -.the." pre-, coding 'Administration werc^mimdrbus.' -Besides > -givingLord Ripon- his marquisate, he; reebmniended "Lords .Ac-^ ,;^' r ton, Howard de Glossop, and Emly for .-their respec-. I'tive honors. In the first years of 'Queen "Victoria's • accessionf • there was -' a remarkable -revival, of ancient peerages claimed" by v Catholics. The baronies- of Camoys, Brayej Beaumont, "and -Vaux of Harrowden were recalled -into, .existence. - The aggregate number* of Tearsin which . these four titles were in abeyance to 1175.- Up •to "George III; no abeyaricej save one, had been terminated which had lasted for ' more than .thirty years. - • - - < „ , • - '