The evening world., 1892-04-25

BISHOP hDOSSEIL IN HIS ROBES.
With the exception or the conservation Of q
Pope or Cardinal, there is no service in the
Roman catholic church more solemn, more
elaborate or more beautiful than that cele-
brated this morning, and tho great cathedral
was !naGcquate to accommodate all who de-
sired to witness 1t.
The cathedral will mold 5000 persons, but
many more than that number applied for adj
mission. and the ednce was surrounded by
crowd OF people unable even to get near the
DOORS
orwecks Rcv. Father LaveIa, Rector OF
the Cathedral, has been making arrange
menrs for this conservation service, the
second to take place In the Cathedral. The
first was that OF Bishop o Farrell, Of Trenton,
who was elevated to the purple eleven years
ago.
Bishop Mcdonnell ret urned to this city yes
terday from Keyser Island, where he has been
making a retreat at the Jesuit house there.
Yesterday he and Archbishop COrrIgan
tasted.
The ceremonies were fixed to begin at 10
o'clock, and shortly after that hour the
Church dlgnitarieS and others who Were to
take part In the service entered the Cathe-
dral.
Archbishop Corrigan, whose Secretary the
new Bishop was for many years, and the as
sistaDt prelates were attlred In rich robes.
Among the distinguished prclates and
priests who were present during the
conservation ceremonies were Arch
bishops Edward Charles Fabrc, OF Mon
treal, and p. j. Ryan, OF Philadelphia |;
Bishops O'Hara, OF scranton; McNeirny, OF
Albany; Luddin, OF syracuse; Ryan, OF
Buffalo; Gabriels, of Ogdensburg; Harkins, Of
Providence; Mcmahon, OF Hartford; Wigger,
OF Newark, and O'Farrell, OF Trenton. Other
clergymen present made up total OF 600
visitors.
At o'clock this morning, Capt. Reilly, Of
the East Fifty-tlrst street station, stationed
thirty patrolmen, under command OF Sergt.
Woodruff, TO keep the crowd in order near
the Cathedral The doors OF the edince were
opened at o o'clock. No one was admitted
without card OF invitation. 1t was esti-
mated when the services began that not less
than 1000 people had been admitted, every
inch OF standing room being occupied.
Among the guests who were assigned
places OF honor were Mayor Grant, eX-Mayur
Grace, Commissioner Gilroy. John d. Grim
minis, Eugene Kelly, congressman BOurke
COCHRAN and many other distinguished
Catholic laymen.
OF priests and bishops, headed by the cross
bearer and attended by aColytes, passed from
tho sacriSty TO the sanctuary. AS the process
sion moved, Prof. Pecher, organist or the
Cathedral, rendered march from Wagner
by orchestra and organ.
The spectacle was one OF extraordinary
bTilliancy, and the vast audience standing
viewed the splendid pageantry OF surplced
acolytes and priests and prelates robed in
their yestments OF purple and gold with
eager expectancy.
Then the actors In this solemn but magnih-
cent ceremonial bowed low before the altar
and disposed themselves In orderly groupings
about .he chancel, prepared TO begin the per-
Torrance or the rites prescribed FOR the eleva-
tion and conservation OF priest as Bishop.
Archbishop COrrigan was the cOnsecrotOr
and the celebFant or the solemn pOntitlcal
mass. The assistant cOnSecratOrS were Right
Rev. Bernard j. McQuaid, bishop OF Roches-
ter, and Right Rev. Francis Silas Chatard, OF
Nlncennes, Ind, formerly rector OF the Amer
lean college at Rome, who ordained Rev. DR..
Mcdonnell TO the priesthood in May, 1878.
The attendants OF His Grace the Archbishop
were Very Rev. Mgr. Farley, v; g., as As
slstant Priest; Very Rev. Joseph f. Mooney,
Chancellor or the Diocese, and REV. DR.. Henry
II. Brann, rector ~ st. Agnes church, as Dea-
cons OF Honor Rev. Joseph II. Mcmahon and
Rev. William j. DAILY, OF 81. PatriCk's ca
thedral, a5 Deacon and Sub-DeaCon or the
Mass respectively.
The master OF ceremonies was Rev. James
n. Connolly, Secretary to the Archbishop,
assisted by Rev. Henry 4. Newey and Rev.
James W. Kelly, OF ST. Mary's church, Will
iamsburg,
The notary OF the conservation was Rev.
Join +. Kearney, rector OF Old 81. Patricks,
In Mulberry street.
Tho chancel choir OF surpllced boys, aug