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ral for the diocese, has been one of the projects to which he has devoted his earnest efforts and which purpose gives promise of realization in the near future.
Seeing the great need of Catholic high-schools to complete the preparatory education of the boys and girls of the diocese to enter colleges and academies, a building is now under way in the city of Altoona and another building is being erected in the city of Johnstown. In these schools those who have graduated from the numerous parochial schools of the diocese, who so desire, may prepare for admission into the higher institutions of learning - the academies, colleges and seminaries. The education imparted in these high schools will fit the graduates for the ordinary avocations of life, even without any additional education.
St. John's Home for Boys and St. Mary's Home for Girls at Summit, Cambria County, are becoming, it is said, overcrowded, and additional buildings will in all probability be needed in there in the near future. The Infants' Home at Ebensburg is said to contain upwards of 50 infants and that institution will soon need enlargement.
En passant, the writer desires to state that those contemplating the erection of buildings for school purposes should first visit the capacious school building erected by Father Garret Welch at Portage. The writer has visited many school buildings both of public and parochial schools, but never before saw one which so well filled the requirements of sanitation, the admission of light, and every other requisite of a modern school building.
That Bishop McCort is deservedly popular, probably far beyond his expectations, was evinced by the grand ovation given to him in the city of Altoona on the occasion of his recent return from his trip to Europe in company with Rev. Fr. Jose P H. Farran, of St. Augustine.
Long may he live to see the fruition of his hopes, ere he shall be called to enjoy in Heaven the reward of his great labors in the Vineyard of the Lord here on Earth!
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