The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-10-15
THE CARDINAL DEAD,
Cardinal McClOskey Quietly Passes Away
Sketch of His Life.

fCSAoskey PaSSes Away
Sketch of His Life.
NEW YORK, October 1O.-Cardinal Nc
Closkey died at 1850 o'clock this morning,
peacefully and surrounded by relatives and
clergymen of his sect Thursday night was
quiet, and the Cardinal awoke somewhat
; refreshed early yesterday morning but the
weakness that precedes dissolution was be-
coming more pronounced. DR.. Keyes said
yesterday morning that his patient although
comfortable, was growing perceptibly
weaker. The Cardinal was only able to
speak III whisper and it was with diff
Guilty that he could make his attendants I'M
derstand his wishes. The condition of the
patient was such that it was thought that
he might drop off at any moment DR..
Reyes said that his patient had failed more
rapidly during the twelve hours past than
in the preceding fOrty-eight hours. He
did not then think it probable the patient
would survive SUNDAY, should he live until
then. Soon after two O'Clock the Cardinal
sank into Inconsistencies and so continued
throughout the evening. Grave aDprehen-
siOnS were based on this fact and Mons
Farley, Father DOnbreSSe and Mrs. John
Kelly, who was at home, We're hurriedly
summoned to the Cardinals house and bed
side. At ten o'clock those about the bed
side of the sick man were of the belief that
he woke again to consciousness. The Car
dinal's nephew had been sent for, he being
in Philadelphia. For some hours prior To
his loss of consciousness, the Cardinal had
taken no r9urishment, ard those who
watched felt that all that was now left was
the inevitable and speedy exhaustion OF the
unsupported vital force. At IL 80 the end
came, and so peacefully and painlessly
that those who watched him scarcely
| knew that the change had come until DR..
Reyes signified that all was over and that
the Cardinal was dead. Then the butler
Walsh, ushered forth to CAP the venerable
Rev. DOnbresse. The servants eyes were
wet, and DR.. Reyes, who supported the rev.
erend father on one side, said to the wait
ing crowd outside: "The Cardinal is dead"
MOnsignOre Preston remained with the rel
atives and offered prayers for the repose of
the dead prelate's soul The other dig
pitaries departed after the death. The dead
Cardinals remains will rest in the vaults OF
the Cathedral The interment will prob.
ably be one week from Sunday next
THE CARDINALS CAREER
was born in Brooklyn, n. Y, March 10,
1910. He graduated at Mount St Mary's
College, Emmettsburg, Md. and studied
theology in the seminary there. Having
received priests orders January 9, 1884, he
was sent to Rene, stud ed for two years in
the Roman College, spent another year in
France, and on his return was appointed
assistant pastor of st. JOseph's Church in
New York, and six months after became
rector of the parish. In 1871 Bishop
Hughes nominated him First President of
st. Johns College, POrdham, but in 1912 he
resumed the reciorship of St JOseph's. At
the solicitation of Bishop Hughes he was
appointed his cOadjutOr November 81,
1913, with the title of Bishop of
AXiere. and was consecrated March
10. 1874. In the division of the do
cese of New York which took place in
1917, Bishop McCloskey was nominated
first Bishop of Albany May 81. His ZEAL
eiOquence and popularity obtaiIfed him the
means of building churches in every city
and town. and of creating establishments
for charity and education. He introduced
into his diocese the Ladies of the Sacred
Heart, the Sisters of Charity, the Gray Sis
tiers HOSpitallers from Montreal, the Sisters
of st. Joseph and those of the Third Order
AuguStinians, Franciscans and Capuchins.
He began and completed the Cathedral at
Albany, devOting to it large part of his
own income. During his last years in that
city he purchased extensive buildings in
Troy, destined to be a general theological
seminary for the doceses forming the I
ecclesiastical province of New York, and
obtained for it from the University of Lou
vain staff of trained professors. After
the death OF Archbishop Hughes he
was appointed to the see of New
York, May 6, 1864, and took possession
of it August 81. Besides a large number of
Spacious churches built in the city and else
where, the Archbishop has established a
protectOrv for destitute children IT W"sf
Chester, in which upward OF LOO boys and /.
500 girls are educated; a founding asylum
in SiXty-eighth street, an asylum for female /
deaf mutes at FOrdham, homes for dest- .
tute children and young girls attached to .
st. Stephens and st. AIMS Churches, homes I
for aged men and women, and new orphan !
aSylums outside of New York City. TO di- /
rect these institutions and to cooperate with .
the secular clergy, he has established COM
munitieS of DomincanS, Franciscans. Capu- .
Chins, Little Sisters of the Poor" and Ger
man Franciscan Sisters for the German (
Hospital. He has also labOred strpnuously
to complete the new cathedral begun by his
predecessor, for which he has given $4,000
from his own private purse, and to procure
for which he visited Rome in
1874. The deceased prelate was the first
and up to this time only Cardinal ever resi-
dent in America. Since his elevation TO
this highest dignity age had been telling on
the great preate and he had been practi-
cally an invalid for some years.