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...missionary sighed. "Your Eminence, the Bishop of Durango is an old man; and from his seat to Santa Fe is a distance of 1,500 English miles. There are no wagon roads, no canals, no navigable rivers. Trade is carried on by means of pack-mules, over treacherous trails. . . . The Vicariate of New Mexico will be in a few years raised to an Episcopal See, with jurisdiction over a country larger than Central and Western Europe, barring Russia. The Bishop of that See will direct the. beginning of momentous things...
Indeed momentous were the beginnings made by the missionary of whom Author Gather wrote, Father John B. Lamy. He became Santa Fe's first bishop (in 1875 its first archbishop), mightily revived Catholicism's failing strength in the Southwest. Unlike the Bishop of Durango, he did not neglect the outlying parts of his jurisdiction. To Colorado in 1860 he sent another famed pioneer Catholic, Father Joseph P. Macheboeuf, first Bishop of Denver when it was still a village...
...resounding strike call read like a timetable. At 6 a.m. on Dec. 7 the five railway brotherhoods (engineers, firemen, conductors, trainmen, switchmen) would walk out on the Santa Fe, Rock Island, New York Central, Denver & Rio Grande, Katy, Pennsylvania, Southern Pacific, 44 other lines. Next day they would quit on the Chesapeake & Ohio, Chicago & North Western, the Gulf Coast lines, 40 others. By the third day, on 156 roads that carry passengers, food, coal, machinery and mail from New England to California, from Florida to Washington, not a wheel would turn...
Rawlins' mother took her son and left his father when the boy was two because Father Phillips, a dining-car steward on the Santa Fe, would not give up railroading. Father Phillips dropped dead in Kansas City last May. He had invested his earnings to good purpose. Fortnight ago his story was broadcast. Son Phillips and his wife had heard all but one of the Missing Heir programs. That evening they were-for the second time in two years-not listening. But friends told them about it. Last week they claimed their estate...
...famed Country Editor William Allen White last week suggested an "interesting game." He offered a book prize for the best list of ten Emporians most likely to be hanged to Commercial Street lampposts should Nazis capture the town. First entries came from an electrical-appliance dealer and a Santa Fe railway switchman. Like Abou ben Adhem, Editor White headed their lists...