The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-25
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CARDINAL GIBBONS.
How the Eminent Churehman Lives
His Visitors.
From Leslie's Weekly.

From Leslie's Weekly.
Now, we may want to knew what this
prince of the church does. and probably
we shall discover before we get through
that, next to the President of the United
States, he is about the busiest man of high
positions in this country. He is never in
bed after 6 o'clock. He celebrates the
7-o'clock mass every morning. At
he takes his breakfast ana until $3.50
o'clock he is busy with his secretaries, his
mail. and the morning papers. which he
never fails to read. This work almost
always goes over its allotted hours, for his
mail Is heavy and he answers great many
OF his letters personally. Every note or
letter l have ever received from him has
been in his own handwriting, and when
1 suggested that it must be a great deal of
work to write so much, and that the type
writer certainly offered a way out of it, he
replied that he found that he could get
shades of expression and meaning with
the pen that somehow escaped him in die
tation. When to this correspondence we
add the fact that he writes his sermons
and most astonishing of ali, that he has
written all his books-some of them twice
over-with the PEN we have in this very
performance great deal more than the
average man accomplishes.
AT 10 o'clock, or possibly earlier, the
calls begin, and from then to u visitors
take UP his time These are of all kinds
and conditions, for the cardinal is as pop
ular among the poor as he is among the
rich, and those who come in carriages and
those who come afoot fare alike in at
tention. Never was tact better illustrat-
ed than in his disposal of these callers
He goes to the heart of the matter at
once, and when the conversation is over
ho r~se F@1f= hi l.,
of such service as he can, and leads tne
way to the door, making the adieu most
charmingly, but most concluSlvely. A
great many Protestants call, for he is
much liked by them, and it is easy 20
separate the Catholics and the Protest
ants, for the Catholics kiss his ring
Those who are rabid in their religious
prejudices may be surprised to know that
many Of the Protestant ministers and The
cardinal are on terms of cordial personal
friendship, and l have heard one of The
most brilliant of the Protestant preach
ers of Baltimore say that the cardinal
was priest among men and man among
priests, and one of the most deeply spirit
ual men he ever knew.
At noon there are religious duties, .nd
at 1870 o'clock dinner is served-a plain
meal, for the cardinal is a small eater
He rests after this, but it is only for a
short while, for there are more letters
anu matters ~ ne dLteiueu TO- he
work goes on steadily until O'clock
when the afternoon visitors begin to ar
rive, and from then until the parlors
and reception rooms are generally well
filed. After comes the cardinals walk
Then he feels as if he has a little time
to himself. but it is not always that way,
for a dinner engagement-he was to dine
with President Cleveland the day I saw
him-may interrupt his programme, or
he may be down for an address at some
important function. AS a rule, however,
his evenings are spent in his library,
which is a splendid collection of books
of over a centurys growth, where he
reads diligently and outlines his sermons
and his literary work.