Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-05-11
THOUSANDS PAY
HONOR To NOTED
CHURCH PRINCE
Cardinal Gibbons Is Presented
With Coat of Arms at
Golden Jubilee.

NEW YORK, May 11.-Cardinal Glib
bins was last night given a reception of
pomp and splendor that would be ten
dered a prince of the church on a like
occasion in the Eternal City.
Six pages with lighted torches accom-
panied His Eminence from the street to
the ball room of the Catholic club
house. while a throng tina filled the
building was present to meet and greet
the cardinal.
The occasion was the golden jubilee
OF the prelate's ordination to the
priesthood and the twenty-hfth ami
versary of his elevation to the cardin-
alate. Supreme Court Justice Victor
]. Bowling and Frank S. Cannon. PRES
ident of the club. delivered addresses.
Cardinal Gibbons reached the club
house at 8 o'clock, and was greeted
with applause by the crowds that stood
on the asphalt beneath the red, white
and blue electric lights which blazed
from the facade of the building. He
had dined at the home of John d.
Crimmins, and then was driven to the
reception in Mr.. crimmlns's car.
Met by Torchbearers.
His eminence was met at the curb
by four members of the club bearing
torches that consisted of four long
wax candle bound together with scar
let silk ribbons for each of the four
young men. The cardinal in his scar
let robes walked into the clubhouse,
with the four young men leading the
way.
John d. Crimmins. wearing the scar
let decoration and gold cross of the
Order of st. Gregory, walked to one
Side n a step behind the cardinal.
Archbishop Farley, with two acolytes
In lace SUPPLIES and white broadcloth
cassocks, entered the building a min
ute or less after the cardinals i'm
Mediate party had gone up the steps.
The first and second floors Of the house
had been banked with daisies, apple
blossoms, palms n Easter lilies, The
walls above the banks of flowers and
greenery were draped with great
American flags. n among the Stars
and Stripes hung countless smaller
flags and p%ennants in the papal colors,
yellow and white.
Ballroom Crowded.
The cardinal and his party imme-
diately proceeded up the stairs to the
ballroom of the clubhouse. where the
cardinal and Archbishop Farley took
seats on a low dlas. Into the room,
which at its northern end was deco
rated by an oil portrait of the cardinal,
crowded the guests who had come to
hear the addresses md be presented to
his eminence and Archbishop Farley.
1T was a sermon by Farther Heck
err" said he cardinal. which | heard
more than half a century ago. that
first turned my thoughts towards
studying for the priesthood"
Father Hecker founded the Paulist
congregation.
The reception to the cardinal was one
OF the most important church events of
recent years. The cardinal is an Amer
lean born n truly American in his
ideas and principles. but he is also a
prince of the church and has his coat
of-arms. The priests of the Paulist
community presented the coat-of-arms
to the cardinal. Interest centres In tho
shield, as 1t is said to be the first of its
kind attempted by an American, and
the design was only recently adopted
by the cardinal.
The gift is a piece % carved bass
wood 5x6 feet and is set in a gold
frame. Over the top of this shield the
artist has set the red hat of a car
dinal and the emblems of the episcopal
office, such as cross, crosier ard mitre.
The motto reads, "Emitte spiritL.l
tuum," and the draperies are made
up of the fifteen red tassels which go
with the red hat.
On one side of the shield. is a Roman
cross of red and white and a star of
liberty with blue background, thus in
dicating that the cardinal is an Ameri-
car. On the other side are the heads
of two lions, n in a lower corner
the head of one lion In silver. Between
is the scallop shell of st. James the
Great.