The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-30
ARCHBISHOP FARLEY
 IS CONGRATULATED Has Received No Official
 Confirmation of Reports
 INTEREST IN ROME
Distinction Conferred Upon America Is Highest in History of the Church-Will Not Go to
 Rome for Consistory

|. New York october 29.--Archbishop John NJ Farley was greeted as His Emlnence e in congratulation and personal Vlslts which he received today from his ad- 2 mirers in and out of the church. The Archbishop did not receive today any official confirmation from the Holy
 See of the news brought to him in As sociated Press dispatches last anight of his elevation to the cardinalate. Semi ofqcial messages which came to him, however, apparently forced upon the arch
 bishop belief that the good news was
 true and he. made no attempt to conceal - his qualification.
 Two of the messages which partcuarly please his grace from Monsignor Kennedy
 of the American College in Rome,- and
 Cardinal Logue, Primate of Ireland, con- graduating the New York prelate on the new honors awaiting him. Notwithstand- ing these and equally trustworthy ad-
 vices, the archbishop declined during the day to add anything to his statement of last night to the effect that he could not accept the good news as a fact until it was officially announced. The archbish- op occupied the throne at the high mass at St. Patricks Cathedral this morning. There was an unusually large attendance at all the services. No reference was made to the news from Rome. N- A large number of prominent laymen and clergymen called at the residence, = However, to congratulate the new mem- Der of the sacred college.
 The fact that America is accorded three new cardinals was cause for eation and the tributes which Archbishop Farley - paid last night to Archbishop O'Conneil of Boston, and Mgr. Falconio the papal delegate, were reflected by other members = Of the church.
 q Plans were even discussed informally .- among church members for the ceremo- 2 nies of investure of the new cardinal with
 the red hat and Mgr Lewis, secretary to e. the archbishop, said that if the action of
 the consstory confirmed the report the ceremonies probably would be held in me = cathedral in, December.
 sS At the time of the golden jubilee of the ,- diocese three years ago and several times since, reports have been current hat Archbishop Farley would receive the Ia. honor now announced. For 16 years Car q. dinal Designate Farley has been Dish- . op and for nine years archbishop of New - York and in the latter capacity has had
 charge of Catholic popula ton of ?, 722,- ' 547 12S0 churches, 2300 priests and 469 gar. '"o ochial schools. He has cleared St. Pat riells Cathedral of large debt and the entire property within the arch diocese is
 reckoned at over $255, 100000 on which there is now debt of only about s2S,- 000,O00 --.4z. l3 ----F Washington, October 29.-The elevation of Apostolic Delegate Diomede Falconio to the cardinalate was followed today by - message from Monsignor Kennedy, rec
 tor of the American college at Rome,
 who cabed:
 Heartfelt congratulations"
 Monsignor Falconio, greatly surprised
 by the news from Rome, expressed to- day his deep appreciation of the confi- dence the vatican had shown in him,
 but said he could not discuss the ap- pointment in the absence of official ad-
 vices. These have not yet arrived. - A Franciscan whose years of service f- for the church stretches through Italy,
 the United States anada and New foundland, Monsgnor Falconio has had - remarkable rise from obscurity. Born in Abruzzi, in the mountainous country
 east of Rome, 70 years ago, he joined the Y. Franciscan order at IS years of age and TOUT years ldtef came to America. Dur
 ing his 40 years of service in this country he has taken especial interest in the tforeigu element, particularly the immi- grant classes.
 @ Boston, october 29.-The Most Rev. Will liam H. O'Connell, D. D. archbishop of the diocese of Boston, who is to be made night, celebrated mass today at the Ca --c ctiaedral of the Holy Cross.
 As to the news from Rome the arch bishop had absolutely nothing to say, de- clining to say even whether he had re- ceived personal messages as to the call Y ing of the consistory for November 27.
 Rome, October 29-The creation of three American cardinals has aroused < intense interest in Rome The fixing of 2 the date for holding the consistory and the naming of IA other cardinals B has been overshadowed by the an- 2 nouncement of the honors which are . to go to the United States.
 Secrecy regarding the appointments was well maintained that the great majority of the people of Rome only learned of the selections this morn- ing. Warmest congratulations have been pouring into the vatican all day, many of them directed personally to Cardinal Merry Del Val, the papal sec retary of state
 The distinction conferred upon Amer lea is the highest in the history of the church, considering that. that couE- try until 1908 was still a missionary country in the eyes of the vatican and under the Jurisdiction of the congre- gation of the propaganda.
 Under similar conditions England IS the only country that has ever had three cardinals al one time, Newman. Manning and Howard. whose entrance into the sacred college was due to their personalities In the present in- stance it is stated the Pope has de- cided to elevate three American pre- lntes to the cardnalate in accordance with his oft repeated assertion that he desired to show the great apprecia- ton he has for the influence of Amer --ica and the enlightenment of the Episcopal church.
 The. Pope today recalled that when he was elected pontim the first pill erimage he received was an American pilgrimage The flags waved in St Peters for election and the first he blessed were Americans On that oc- casion he promised Cardinal Gibbon,,