Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1898 — Tribute of the Children. [ARTICLE]

Tribute of the Children.

New York, May 6. —Over 5,000 children from the parochial schools of New York paid tribute to Archbishop Corrigan at St. Peters cathedral on Fifth avenue Thursday afternoon. The gathering of the children was a part of the second day’s programme of the silver jubilee of the archbishop’s episcopate. Under the direction of Rev. John Kean, pastor of St. James church, the children sang their songs of praise.