The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-01-19

O'Clock that all the electric lights were
on. as for an evening service. There
mad been rain, there had been hail, and
there had been Snow. All the elements
OF despair had seemed to join the peo-
Die in making it time of gloom and
tribulation.
The mass of requiem was begun by
! bishop Grace of Sacramento. while
A4rchbiShop Riordan sat, fearful par
se+Yant, with all his priests and thou
SANDS OF his people about him, A great
cIoir and the great organ took up the
music. and through the organ the rev.
eEent sound of Mozart gave expression
td ell the sorrow and all the hope and
aW the faith and all the triumph felt
py the woIshipers in the great cathe-
dral
The dark forenoon glowered at the
beginning of the service. and the large
electric chandeliers did not dispel the
slM1m Then, as if ordered in the beau
titHl ceremony, the clouds broke away
and just at the moment of the conse-
Grafton the warm. bright sunlight
Streamed in through the colored-art
windows and filled the cathedral with
lis optimistic glow. Through all the
remainder Of the service the sunshine
remained part of the scene.
Bishop Conaty of Los Angeles, a
man of scholarly and religious mien,
preached the sermon, spoke the me-
mortal tribute. He made no attempt to
move the listeners to tears, but his
picturing of the dead archbishop was so
true to the life of the beloved prelate
that there was weeping in every pew.
And when the mass was ended then
there was scene such as had never be-
fore been witnessed in San Francisco.
Policemen, acting with all the delicacy
of ushers, held the vast congregation
in place while the casket of purple
and gold was borne down the broad
aisla and out into the view of the
thousands waiting outside. down the
broad stone steps of the cathedral and
10 the hearse.
The Knights of Cilumbus had
formed large square on the street in
front of the cathedral, and the League
of the Cross stood as guard of honor.
The League band began the funeral
march as the casket was carried
through the cathedral doorway.
Theti the clerical procession moved
down along the great stone steps of
the cathedral. The casket was placed
in the hearse. and slowly the process
sion, the greatest ever known in Cali
fornia. moved away toward Holy Cross
Cometery-out to Holy Cross Gene
tery-where Archbishop Riordan, his
heart overflowing with sorrow, said the
last ritual for the dead. faltering his
way through the pathetic parting at
the doors of the tomb,
The highest dignitaries of the church
on the Pacific coast, priests from every
parish within a scope of 100 miles,
monks from the monasteries, teachers
from the institutions of learning,
brothers of the educa tionaf orders. sis
tp1-e
| iums. all these represented the love
which the religious world bore the de-
| parted shepherd.
Catholic societies attending in a
| body. and host Of communicates not
affiliated with any order or society
| filling the spacious edifce from sane
| tuary to vestibule, from transept to
transept, bore eloquent testimony OF
| the deep-seated veneration they felt
fir their departed leader.
The seating capacity of the eathe-
dral was not sufficient to accommodate
| half of those who wished to attend. BY
! . o'clock the great galleries on either
side of the church began to fill The
pews on the ground floor were locked
| A continual stream of humanity
surgedF through the doors until $3.50
o'clock when the police had TO refuse
admittanoe TO any not having inyi-
tation tickets.
At a quarter to 10 the great bell in
| the steeple began TO toll, ringing out
with a regular and mournful cadence.
The crowd on the outside of the edi-
| flee grew nlomentarily. The housetops
in the vicinity began to show hundreds
of spectators, who gazed down on the
remarkable scene which was being en-
acted below them, while the rain
poured and a chill wind swept down
Within the cathedral all was hushed
| From the lips of the thousands already
seated not a whisper was heard. Priests
moved silently about the altar making
ready all the preparations for the cele-
| bration of the pontifical mass; aeoiytes
carrying long tapers lighted the can
dies on the high altar silently and
reyerently.
There was no entrance of the body
For three days it had rested on q
catafalque within the holy precincts
of the sanctuary. The customary funer-
al march was therefore omitted. The
mourners took their places near the
! body without ceremony.
Promptly at 10 o'clock however. &
hushed murmur rang through the Ell
| tire building, and many in the congre-
! cation rose from their pews to watch
the throng of archbishops, bishops
monseignors, priests, brothers and AGO.
lytes that filed from the rear of the
great marble altar. Then the silence
was broken, and Robert ]. Harrison
presiding at the great organ, threw
open the flood-gates of harmony, ant
the tremendous doleful strains of Rach'
i manioff's Prelude set the huge edif1ct
quivering with sound,
The aeolytes led the procession from
the sacristies. They We're garrnentet
In purple, but the bright red sleeve
trimmings were hidden by black
Thirty Of these lads advanced, and
genuhecting in the center of the altar
proceeded to the altar rail.
/ The secular priests followed. They
were all robed alike in eassock ant
surplice. Such a gathering OF priests
had never been seen in the west. AL
though the sanctuary is large, ther'
was not room for the greater part o
them,
On passing to the rail the priests
paid their last respects to the deat
archbishop and glanced for the las
time at his beloved face through tn
oasket, that still lay open. No flower
lay upon the rich purple plush OF tn
casket. A crosier of gold immortelle
stood erect at the bier, and the crosie
the archbishop had carried in tn
ministration if his pontifieal dutie
rested diagonaily on the oaslSet. Tn
miter stood opened and upright a
the head of the crosieF,
Bishop Conaty of Los Angeles, VIII
succeeded Archbishop Montgomery II