The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1912-01-26
CHEERING HOSTS GREET
NEW AMERICAN CARDINAL
Farley Welcomed in New York with
Imposing Ceremonies-Psrade
FIve-MiIe Triumph.
CCopyriRht. 1927

New York.-The homecoming OF
John Cardinal Farley was the occa-
sion of welcoming demonstration
which was said TO surpass in magni-
tude and enthusiasm any similar cele-
bration in honor of a prelate or the
Roman Church here or abroad. FROM
the time the new Cardinal arrived on
the steamship Berlin of the North Ger
man Lloyd Line in Hoboken until ne
had bestowed his blessing on ten thou
sand persons who crowded st. Pat
ricks Cathedral at the last ceremonies
of the day with a final blessing OF the
cheering thousands in Madison ave
nue., near 50th street, he was in the
hands OF his friends, hundreds of thou
sands of them, who made him an OBJ
ject OF deep veneration as well as un-
limited applause.
1t was day in which there was no
creed in New York. Papal flags were
flung from synagogues and were drap-
ed with national colors on churches
that were alien to that of the Cardinal.
Men in tho financial districts gave TO
their employees an hour in which to
see the Cardinal and joined with them
in the honor paid.
Every bay and river craft saluted
the Berlin as she brought the Cardl-
nal 10 the North German Lloyd pier
where the prelate and his suite trans
fer,2d 10 the steamboat Rosedale and
thence were ferried TO the Battery.
AS the Cardinal landed at the Bat
terry he caught sight of old Castle Gar
den. Through it forty ard more years
ago he had passed a poor student OF
humble parents.
So unbounded was the enthusiasm
that mounted police could scarcely re.
strain the crowds from storming the
Cardinals barouche at the Battery as
ceremonious procession started for
the Cathedral by way of Broadway and
Fifth avenue.
The climax OF impressiveness in
the Homecoming of Cardinal Farley
was reached in services at St. Pat
rick's Cathedral.
Up the main aisle of the cathedral,
the gray stone walls frightened with
holiday green's, futtering ribbons and
electric lights, the white haired, red
clad figure walked through lane
fianked by thousands of persons who
cheered until the Gothic arches trem.
bled with the great volume of sound.
Up in the pulpit Father Kane was
oh nf than
BOYS and girls, but even this great
swell of welcoming song and the deep
tones of the big organ were all but
lost while men and women. great
groups Of Sisters of Charity. hundreds
of white surpliced priests, monks in
white cowls or brown, women and
girls in gay gowns and plumes, small
boys and girls, everybody, told the
Cardinal that they were glad to see
him home.
With the coming of night the cathe-
dral blazed forth its myriad lights. a
spectacle that brought vast crowds
into Fifth Avenue Fully 100000 filed
through the hospitable doors into the
church itself, and when the hail fell
the crush within was so great that
those doors had to be closed.
The cathedral was Illuminated in
the Cardinals honor with 10000 orbs
of light, SO arranged as to reveal in
net work of fire the perfect design of
the cathedral. II was at $50 that the
block upon which the great cathedral
stands was suddenly cut out of the
darkness by some levers beins drop
ped on a switchboard In the basement
of the cathedral.
The needle points supporting the
solid crosses of blazing white $50 feet
above the pavement appeared TO be
detached from the concept of stone
and steel and to be something little
more material than fancy.