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it was (it-rilled to construct an entirely new sys- tem, and Mr. Biiyles was made a t-ommissioner to j»Ian and carry on the work. He was a forcible and pithy speaker, presenting liis subject in in- teresting and comprehensive form. He lectured extensively in New York. New Jersey and eLse- wliere, and in 1886 lectured before the Sibley schl of engineering, Cornell university. He Ijelil variojis otiices of honor and responsi- bility, among them that of president of the New Jers«'y state .sjinitary association. Among liis published writings are: "House Drainage and Water Service in Cities, Villages, etc., With Considerations of Causes Affecting the Healthful- ness of Dwellings" (1878); "The Study of Iron and Steel (18841; "Causes of Industrial Depression " (1884); " Industrial Competition (1885); "Iron Manufacture in the Southern States" (1885); "The Engineer and the Wage- Earner " (1885); "Professional Ethics" (188G), and " The Shop Council " (1886).

BAYLEY, James Roosevelt, R.C. archbishop, was lK)rii in Kye. X.Y., Aug. 23, 1814; grand- sf)n of Dr. Richard Bayley, professor of anatomy of Columbia college. His preparatory education was acquired at Mount Pleasant school near Amherst, after which he entered Trinity college, Hartford, where he was graduated in 1835. His first idea was to make medicine his vocation, thus following his father and grandfather, who had both attained eminence in that profession. He abandoned the study at the close of his first year, since his preference had turned unmistakably to- wards the church, and re.solved to study for the mini.stry. accoin|)lishiiig liis ]iurpo.se under the tuition of Rev. Samuel F. Jarvis at Middletowii. Conn. He was ordained a priest and appointed rector of the Protestant Epi.scopal church in Harlem, a position which he filled during the years 1840-'41. When the cholera broke out, Mr. Bayley was di.stinguished for the activity and humanity of the ai<l he rendered the sufferers. Religious doubts whic-h had long assailed him {•uu-sed liim at the end of the j'ear 1841 to resign his rectorship and repair to Rome, and on April 28. 1H42, he was received into the Rfjman Catholic church. He began a theological course in the Seminary of St. Sulpice, but was recalled to America by Bishop Hughes, who ordained him a priest in 1844. In 1K45 he became vice-president of St. John's college, Fordham, and in 1846 its president. In this year he was made pastor of a church on Staten Island, near the quarantine station, and chaplain of the fever .ships anchored there. As private .secretary to Bishop Hughes he gave valuable assistance in maturing the bishop's plans to promote the growth of the dioce.se of New York. He also collated and arranged valuable historical matter concerning the early days of the

church in New York. He was at the suggestion of Bishop Hughes made first bishop of Newark and was consecrated, Oct. 30, 1853. He changed a weak missionary district into one of the most prosperous of the American dioceses. Bishop Bayley fovmded Seton hall college, at Orange, N. J., in 1856. and a theological seminary, which was Later attached to the college. He established St. Elizabeth's convent at Madison, N. J., for the education of young girls, having brought from Europe a colony of nuns whom lie placed in charge. He introduced into his diocese the re- ligious orders of the Passionists, Dominicans, and Augustinians, and founded the priory of the Benedictine monks. He travelled in Europe and the Holy Land, and was present at Rome, in his official capacity', at the canonization of the Japanese martyrs, in 1862; at the centenary of the Apostles in 1867; and of the Ecumenical council in 1869. The notes taken during his travels were given to his flock in the form of lectures. In 1872 he was, by a papal brief, trans- lated to the archiepiscopal .see of Baltimore, the highe.st honor the church had to offer in the United States, and in October. 1872, was installed in the cathedral at Baltimore and invested with the pallinm by Bishop W^ood of Philadelphia. He was consecrated Apostolic delegate in 1875 and conferred the herelta upon Cardinal McCloskey and the pallinm on Archbishop Wood. He freed the cathedral from debt and consecrated the edifice in 1876. He used the hot baths of Vichy in 1877,

but receiving no benefit he returned to Amer- ica. He wrote: ' ' History of the Catholic Church on the Island of New York "; " Memoirs of Si- mon Gabriel Brute, First Bishop of Vincennes,"' and " Pastoral for the People." He died at New- ark, N.J., Oct. 3. 1877.

BAYLEY, Richard, physician, was born at Fairfield, Conn., in 1745. He acquired his medi- cal training in his native country and his hospital experience in England, and began practice as a physician and surgeon in New York city in 1772. After practising three years, during which time he introduced radical changes in the ordinary treatment of croup, he returned to Lon- don and studied there for a year. Upon his re- turn he attached himself to the British army in the capacity of military surgeon under General Howe, retaining his commission until 1777. when he resigned and resumed his jirivate practice in New York city. In 1792-'93 he occupied the chair