The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1905-08-15
PUBLIC FUNERAL IS
DENIED ARCHBISHOP
BY ORDER OF SURGEON OF MA
RiNE HOSPITAL SERVICE.
Cathedral Is Near the Deadly Mos.
quito Zone. and the Surgeons
Fear Infection.

Fear Infection.
New Orleans, La, Aug. 10.-The
thousands of Catholics of New Orleans
and surrounding vicinity are grieved
over the action of Surgeon J. II. White
OF the Marine Hospital Service, in is
suing an order directing that the fu-
neral of the late Archbishop p. l..
ChapDelle, who died yesterday of yell
low fever, be held in private. The or
der also changes the day of the burial,
as the body Of the distinguished pre-
late will be inferred in a crypt in the
historical st. Louis Cathedral tomor-
row morning at 8 o'clock, instead of on
Saturday morning, as planned
1t was officially announced today that
while the remains of the archbishop
will lie in state no persons will be
permitted to visit the cathedral. Mr..
White explained that this is not be-
cause 1t is believed there is the slight
est danger of infection, but merely be-
cause 1t is not desired to have persons
visit a district in the city where yellow
fever prevails and where mosquitoes of
the stegomyia variety are known to
exist. This plan was promulgated by
the Catholic clergy at the suggestion of
DR.. White and with the idea of avoid
ing every possibility of additional in
fection,
If the Marine Hospital Service had
not have interfered with the plans,
the funeral obsequies of the dead pre-
late would have been the most impos-
ing ever accorded churchman in the
History of New Orleans.
1t was originally intended to have
the remains laid out in state with files
OF Catholics passing in and out of the
cathedral for parting look at the
body. The cathedral is located within
two blocks of the heart of the Italian
district, which is the original area of
yellow fever infection. One square
away is the fishmarket in the vicinity
Of which 80 per cent of the fever cases
Eave been discovered. II was figured
that at least two-thirds of the people
OF New orleans would have visited the
cathedral while the archbishop's re-
mains lay in state, therefore, and to
have had public funeral where there
Is so much fever would no doubt carry
tie disease to many localities.
The Catholic churches here mourn
the loss of their dead chieftain. The
churches are in mourning and an air
OF disconsolateness peryades the Cath
olic community. .... .. ....
The majority of the priests will at
tend the funeral, with several leading
citizens and a few of the other clergy,
get closer than block of two to the
cathedral while the funeral services
are going on. The marine hospital
service will also prevent the formation
OF crowds. AS a precaution against
infection the body will be placed in a
crypt where several of Archbishop
Chapelle's predecessors have been in
TERED The funeral ceremonies of the
archbishop will commence, with the
Office of the dead, including mathis and
lauds. The solemn requiem mass will
follow and at the conclusion abso-
luton will be pronounced by the most
prominent archbishop or bishop pres
ent.
A solemn requiem mass in honor of
the archbishop was held in the cathed-
dal this afternoon, the services last
ing two hours. Hundreds of Catho-
les attended.
The bells tolled the hour of one
and shortly afterward Rev. Father
J. M. Lavel, and many other priests
from the various churches of the city
filed into the altar from the distant
sacristy. More than thirty priests
assisted at the mass.
The church was covered from pit
to dome with the black and white
mourning decorations set off with pur-
ple,, the morning of the higher prelates
of the catholic church. Every piller
was draped. There was not a flower
in the large house of worship, and
everything wore an air of desolation
and sorrow.
Just in front of the altar in the main
aisle rested the body of the distin-
guished archbishop. 1t reposed in a
cssket of ebony, the face of which was
covered with glass. Though the trans
parent covering thousands of Catholics
and persons of all colors and creeds,
viewed the remains of the beloved
archbishop for the last time.