People We Hear About

New Zealand Tablet, 13 March 1913, Page 41

People We Hear About

Mr. Dudley A. Malone, a son-in-law of U.S. Senator James Gorman, of New York, has accepted the post of secretary to President Woodrow Wilson. Mr. Wilson's present secretary, Mr. Joseph Tumilty, is, like Mr. Malone, a Catholic, and Mrs. Wilson has selected as her social secretary Miss Isabella Hagner, a Maryland lady who professes the old Faith.

Along in the course of the present year the Nestor of our hierarchy, Bishop Hogan, of Kansas City, will be 84 on May 10 (says the Milwaukee Catholic Citizen). Bishop Foley, of Detroit, will be 80 on November 5. Cardinal Gibbons will be 79 on July 13. Bishop Richter, of Grand Rapids, Mich., will be 75 on April 9. Archbishop Ireland will be 75 on September 11. Bishop Gabriels, of Ogdensburg, will be 75 on October 16. Archbishop Keane (retired) will be 74 on 12. Bishop Burke, of Albany, was 73 on January 10. Archbishop Spalding will be 73 on June 2. Bishop Grace, of Sacramento, will be 72 on August 2. Archbishop Riordan will be 72 on August 27.

Great satisfaction is expressed in his native Tipperary (says the Clonmel Nationalist) at the announcement just made officially that the King has been graciously pleased to approve the appointment of Mr. Michael Francis O'Dwyer to be Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjab, in succession to Sir Louis Dane, whose term of office expires in May next. Mr. O'Dwyer comes of a prominent and respected Clanwilliam family, and is a brother of Mr. John O'Dwyer, solicitor, Tipperary, and of Dr. O'Dwyer, M. 0., Tipperary. His appointment is the culmination of a splendid record in the Indian Civil Service, and the reward of devoted labors in the Government of one of the biggest sections of the Indian Empire. His case affords another remarkable evidence of the ability and capacity of Catholic Irishmen to fill the highest offices of executive trust.

The New York Sun calls attention to the number of Irish names in the next House of Representatives. There are five from Connecticut — Mahan, Reilly, Donovan, and Kennedy. The Macs and the O's will also be well represented— and McAndrews of Chicago, McGillicuddy of Maine; McDonald and McLaughlin of Michigan; the two McGuires, one from Oklahoma, the other from. Bryan's town of Lincoln, Neb. There are O'Leary and O'Brien of New York, O'Shaunessy of Rhode Island, and O'Hara of Illinois. And one mustn't overlook Curry, Hayes, Keating, Madden, Gorman, Gallagher, the two Connollys, Murray, Curley, Kelly, the two Quinns, Scully, Walsh, Egan, Maher, Griffin, Sullivan, Conry, Dooling, Clancy, Driscoll, Buckley, Donohue, Casey, Burke, and the two Dillons. 'Verily,' comments the Sun, 'the list reads like the roll of the Irish members of the British Parliament.' ' -.

The death of Sir James Coats, first baronet of Auchendrane, leaves Catholicism, in Great Britain the richer by a baronet in the person, of Mr. Stuart Auchincloss Coats, who succeeds his father. Sir Stuart Coats, who was received into the- Church in 1899, has 'been identified with many Catholic movements during the last dozen years or so. His father - was formerly a member of the United Presbyterian Church, as was his father before him, but later he joined the Church of Scotland, although he continued to subscribe liberally to the funds of his old denomination. Sir Stuart was born in 1868. Having been nominated Private Chamberlain to the Holy Father in 1905 he was created by the Sovereign Pontiff Knight Commander of the Order of St. Gregory four years later. In 1908 Sir Stuart Coats was attached to the Pontifical Mission to the Eucharistic Congress at Westminster. A founder of Westminster Cathedral, he is a member of the Catholic Education Council and of the committee of the Catholic Truth Society. He has two sons and a daughter. The new baronet is a member of the St. James's Club and the Junior Carlton Club.