People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1895 — ABSTAINERS IN NEW YORK. [ARTICLE]

ABSTAINERS IN NEW YORK.

Mgr. Satolli Takes Part in the Jubilee of the I nion. New York. Aug. 8. —The Columbus hall of the Paulists was filled to overflowing yesterday witli delegates representing nearly 70,000 members of the Catholic Total Abstinence Union of America. This was the silver jubilee of the organization, the first state union having been brought into existence in Connecticut in 1870. In the morning the delegates marched to St. Patrick’s Cathedral. Here there was a celebration of solemn high pontifical mass. Mgr. Satolli, the papal delegate, was the pontifieant, Archbishop Corrigan and several visiting prelates assisting. Archbishop Ryan of Philadelphia preached the sermon and made a strong plea for total abstinence. When the delegates came together again at 2 o’clock General Secretary Doyle presented his annual report, showing a total membership of nearly 70,000, of which nearly 10,000 had been added since the beginning of the year.