The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-10-15
CARDINAL GIBBONS.
Greatest Prelate in the Catholic
Church in America.
Passes Through Topeka on His
Way to Santa Fe.
a Journal Reporter Talks
With the Cardinal
ABOUT PROHIBITION
And Subjects That Are of In
terest to Catholics.
Cardinal Gibbons Says PrOhibi-
tion Won't Work
IN THE LARGE CITIES.
And Subjects That Are OF In
terest to Catholics.
Cardinal Gibbons Says PrOhibi-
tion Won't Work
IN THE LARGE CITIES.
He inquiries About Senator In
calls and Praises Him.

His eminence, James Gibbons, cardi-
nal priest of the Holy Roman church Of
the title of ST. Mary's beyond the Tiber,
and archbishop of Baltimore, the highest
ecclesiastic of the Roman Catholic church
in the United States, passed through To-
peka yesterday afternoon en- route to
Santa Fe, New Mexico, where Thursday
next, October II, he will invest Arch
bishop P. L. Chapelle, the arch episco-
pal official of the territory of New Mex
leo. with the pallium or insignia of arch
episcopal authority.
Accompanying Cardinal Gibbons was
party of eight distinguished prela!es of
the church, who take part in the cere-
monies of the Investment, consisting of
the following: Archbishop Kain, ST.
Louis. Mo-; Bishop Donahue, Wheeling,
w. Va; Dr. Butler rector of St. Johns
church, Chicago, III: Brother Pauline,
president of the Christian Brothers col
lege. St Louis, ifc.; Father Kenny, Bal
timore, Md; Father ReardoD, chancellor
to the cardinal, Baltimore, Nd; Father
McCabe. rector of the Church of the Sa-
cred Heart St. Louis, Mo-, and Father
McCaffrey, rector of ST. Patrick's church,
St. Louis.
The party arrived in special cars mo.
800 and "katharyne,3 belonging res
! pectiyely to w. F. White, general traffic
manager of the Santa Fe, and Richard
c. Kerens, a prominent railroad director
and politician of ST. Louis, both of whom
are Catholics, and both accompanying
the cardinal to Santa Fe.
Mr.. White is very prominent and
we'll known railroad official, and was met
Frey, assistant general passenger agent
w. J. Black, assistant general freight
agent c. r. Hudson, and Director Chas
S. Gleed. Each of these gentlemen Mr.
! W hite presented to his guests, and
4 during the stop of five minutes made by
the train, they stood in groups of twos
and threes chatting on the depot plat
form.
The JOURNAL reporter entered the OBJ
servation room of the car in which the
majority of the clergy including Cardinal
Gibbons we're seated, and was introduced
to his eminence, Cardinal Gibbons.
-'Ah, a reporter is ne," said the cardi-
nal with a smile, warmly shaking the
reporters hand; 'well, now you know l
try to keep away from the reporters as
much as possible; just he seated"
Cardinal Gibbons is slender of form
and slightly stopped but carries his six
ty-one years we'll His features are clear
cut and almost sharply defined; large
gray eyes, capable of expressing varied
and deepest feeling, light up face
smooth and but slightly wrinkled
The mouth is rather large but firm,
and his smile is irresistible.
A broad high forehead surmounted bv
scant iron grey hair, speaks of intellect
ual powers, and no one carefully study
sing the cardinals features can fail to be
impressed with a striking and distin
guished personality apparent in his coun-
tenance
The cardinal was dressed in a suit of
black broadcloth, wearing long Prince
Albert coat His scarlet stock and can
or zucchettO of the same color. worn on
the crown OF his head are significant of
his rank,as Is also the large square emer-
aid ring set with twelve diamonds worn
on the third finger of his right hand. A
heavy double chain of gold encircles his
collar and falls to the lower right vest
pocket. On the car the cardinal wears
easy slippers Of soft velvet
His voice is soft and musical, of a kind
which could be heard in distinctness at
distance with but little apparent effort
on the part of the speaker, and he en-
,phssizes his remarks from time to time
by graceful gestures.
suppose you would like to know
our mission in going to Santa Fe," said
Cardinal Gibbons, seating himself com.
fortably in the cushioned chair: "we are
on our way there for the purpose of con-
ferring the pallium on Archbishop
Chapelle, as sign of archi-episconal
authority; bond between the holv see
and the individual This custom has
come down to US from the earliest Il avs
of the church. We find in historical
records of Pope Gregory the Great. CON
ferring the pallium on the British ec.
Clesiastic5''
The reporter asked Cardinal Gibbons
about his late trip to Rome.
well, I have been so extensively
quoted on that that almost every one
Knows something about it l visited the
Holy father while there a number of
times and can say that the reports CON
cerning the pope's falling health are nm
founded, He has no physical ailment
aside from extreme old age, and his in
tellect is as bright and his reason as
sound as they were thirty years ago.
How are the people of this state IN
\ the Sunday observance" asked the car
Ainal.
= The reporter replied that the Sunday
law was well Kept in Kansas, and men-
toned the question of prohibition.
"Ah, you have prohibition in this state
haTe youT Is that possible. Well. does