The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1890-08-30
CA RD TN All. U GIBB'O MS.
" Good Aneodote Of the Well
Known Prelate. ssS s

Known Prelate
How He showed Bis Quiet and Una..
Stunning Traits In = fasssnger station
ut Baltimore-Ise lovsd and Respected
ssy Men of All Faiths.
/ had an experience rather out of the
usual way, one day, while taking my
departure from Baltimore for Washing
ton, writes G.. II. T. in the Chillicotte
Leader" Mr.. Edward Jones, the
ticket agent at Camden Station, is an
intimate acquaintance, and during our
stay in the Monumental City, q mutual
attachment sprang up between him and
my three-year baby girl; an attach
ment that justified unusual ceremony
in the leave taking.
And itso happened that when we ar
rived at Camden Station Mr.. Jones, as
soon as he saw he had a moment to
spare came out to bid Edith and the
balance of us good-by. He walked with
ns out in, the train shed, and down the
long platform to our car. There is
ordinarily throng Of people crowding
the platform leading to the Washington
trains, and oneis compelled to be alert
and somewhat aggressive to avoid being
crowded out of place.
Weshad reached the spot in front of
the car platform in safety, however,
and with view of securing the comfort
of the little ones as speedily as possible,
had assisted the nurse girl to the car
platform and placed the baby in her
arms. Then taking hold of the arm of
my wife, Twas about to crowd her onto
the car platform, when, observing an
elderly, apparently feeble, but quite
anass oming man, dressed in ordinary
attire, who was just at that moment
about to step out onto the platform,
drew my wife back to avoid crowding
him.
He, it seems, had noticed her attempt
so step up onto the platform, the same
instant, and, hastily drawing back as
had we, he lifted his high-crowned silk
hat as gracefully as would Sir Walter
Raleigh-had he ever worn one-and
bending gracefully, with q pleasant
emile and courtly wave of the hand,
he bade the lady proceed. But
wouldn't let any plain looking old gen.
tleman Guido either me or mine in
eourtliness or generosity, and SO 1
smiled sweetly, lifted my hat, INDUCED
in genufexion myself, and babe the
old gentleman proceed.
AS started my wife up the car plat
form, directly after the old gentleman,
and unintentionally checking the pro-
gress of three or four smooth faced and
clerical looking young gentlemen, whom
afterwards learned were the courtly
old gentlemen's attendants, Mr.. Jones,
who was at my ear, whispered:
"You did that quite cleverly. You
snust have known your man"
Who? The old gentleman (? don't
know him from Adam, was my frank
and positive reply.
'You don't Why that was Cardinal
Gibbons"
And that was my first view Of the
great Catholic prelate, who has been
distinguished by the head Of the
Church with the second red hat ever
sent to America. They told me that
he was greatly beloved and honored by
his people at Baltimore, and re-
epected by men of all faiths. I sat
but few seats in front of him all the
way to Washington, and was pecu-
aiarly struck by his intellectual face,
by the kindliness which beamed con-
stantly from his eyes, and by his plain
and unassuming manner. No one in the
car who did not know him would have
supposed for single moment that he
was man to whom special honor would
be shown in every portion Of the civil
lied world by the 200,0o0,0o0 of his
faith, and to whom the 1000, 900 Catho
lies in the United States bow the knee
iii reverence.