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enthusiastic geographers have seriously proposed the substitution of
the name of Terrace City." However, between Louis Galtier, the
missionary priest who named the city after the disciple to whom his
log chapel was dedicated, resenting the earlier Pig's Eye (after the
proprietor of a small saloon), and Archbishop Ireland who built the
Cathedral of St. Paul, the enthusiastic geographers have gotten no–
where with their proposal. The city remains Christian in name ,as it
does Catholic in fact. Under the head of separation of church and
state, it should be mentioned that the St. Paul clergy get passes to
Lexington Park. On the other hand, Minneapolis has an FEPC law,
but St. Paul, with half the city employees, has twice as many Negroes
on the payroll.
The magnificent cathedral at the neck of Summit Avenue dom–
inates the city and surrounding country. Warned by a succession of
engineers that the lip of the hill would never support his dream, Arch–
bishop Ireland insisted upon the site and searched until he found
one who would agree with him.
If
he had not discovered his author–
ity, it is probable, like a king, he would have created an acceptable
one. And still he was a man of simple tastes, living in a cottage him–
self, and with Cardinal Gibbons an early defender of the Rights (and
Knights) of Labor. He remains, historically, one of the few great
American prelates to emerge from continuously poor crops. He was
a strong temperance advocate who would have no part, however, in
prohibition. He was an ultra-nationalist, too, who appears to have
been absolutely sincere about it, and so it seems tolerable in retro–
spect, but the effects are still to be seen in the fact that St. Paul's
two Catholic high schools for boys are both military academies. The
majority of young Catholics go to the public schools of necessity (the
military academies have scholastic and tuition requirements which
serve as a brake to attendance ) . The present archbishop, however, is
planning to build another high school. (St. Paul has had good luck
with its archbishops. The present one
is
exceptional, no cold execu–
tive, a New Englander like the one before him, and he is said to think
nothing of making the journey to Minneapolis by streetcar and to need
protection from the various loonies who seek him out, finding no
audience lower down.) ,
Dr. Miller writes: "What Man has done in St. Paul is scarcely
less impressive than what Nature did in the dim past, since the site
