Morning journal and courier., 1885-10-16
CARDINAL nu,CLOsKEY.
Imposing Ceremo mics in the Cathe dral-vast Throngs of Mouriier Within and Without-Partlcular

Imposing Ceremonies in the Cathe-
 dral-vast Throngs of Mourners
 Within and Without-PartIculars
 of the Event.
 NEW YORK, Oct 15-The funeral services over the body of the late Cardinal McCloskey to-day was the most elaborate and solemn ceremonial of it's kind ever seen in the Ro man Catholic church of this country. All the magnifcence at the disposal of the Church of Rome was employed helping to make the scene in the cathedral this morn ing one long to be remembered.
 It was not o'clock when crowds began to gather in the neighborhood of the cathedral, taking possession of every place whence sight of the entrances to the cathedral could be obtained. The police arrangements were admirable, no one being allowed to enter Fifth avenue between Fiftieth and Fifty first street without showing ticket. Upon the steps of the cathedral long rows of police men guarded each door, the holders of tick cts being directed to their proper places by ushers wearing large purple badges. Before 10 o'clock, when the office for the dead was sung by the boy choir to Gregorian chant, unaccompanied, the pews of the cathedral were filled and every foot of standing room, except in the aisles, was occupied.
 With the exception of the choir of boys chanting in unison from the chancel, scarcely . sound was heard. Near the center of the cathedral in the middle aisle, WAS the cata- falque of black, purple and gold, the cardi- nal's body lying in full view clad in his robes of office, with the cardinals bretta at the foot of the coffin, and the crozier at the side of the body. Upon tho four corners of the cloth of gold upon which the coffin rest ed were embroidered the cardinals arms. Upon each side of the coffin were twelve candles, with three at the head and three at the foot. Twenty papal zouaves stood in the aisle at the foot of the catafalque, and twenty at the head. The seats of the mid dle aisle were reserved for invited guests and the clergy of the city not of the Roman Catholic church, many of whom were pres lighted.
 During the chanting of the office thurifers swung censers at the head and foot of the catafalque and before the altar. With the close of the office the procession of priests and dignitaries of the Roman Catholic church entered from the sacristy. In all about 200 clergy were present in the chancel when the great organ began the Requiem Eternam of Cherubini
 The music was under the direction of Pro lessor Pscher, the usual organist of the thedral, and was given with double quar- tette and chorus of 100, including such singers as Miss Beebe, Mile. Cor1adi, Nine. Barron, Messrs. Fritsch, Trimont, Coletti, Lawton, Morawski etc. After the Requiem came the five numbers of the stDies Ive," the offertory, 'tSanctus," and "Agnus Dei."
 Archbishop Corrigan was the celebrant of the pontifcal mass, Monseigneur Farley was the assistant priest and Fathers Donnelly of St. MichaePs and Mclean of St. Peters tie deacon and sub-deacon. There were four masters of ceremonies.
 Archbishop Gibbons delivered the sermon, in which he eulogized the many virtues of the dead cardinal. He closed his discourse as follows:
 70 beloved pontiff may thy soul be this day in paradise We cherish thy memory, and even in the years to come when thy life shall be viewed through the meilowing at mosphere of time thy memory, like the mem ory of Josias, will be as the composition of g sweet odor made by the art of the perfumer, thy memory shall be sweet as honey in every mouth and as delicious as music at ban quet. They will speak of thee as the kind and gentle and fatheriy Cardinal McClos- ksy."