New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-29
Prelate Back from Rome
Stands in Glare of
Searchlights.
CHURCHMEN GREET
HIM AT BATTERY
Cardinal, In Good Health, At.
tests Vigor Of Pope--Hard to
Oct Passage Home.

Cardinal Farley arrived last night
from Rome on the SAINT Anna with q
vivid description of his war experiences
and his impressions Of the new Pope.
The big delegation Of 800, who in
tended TO 20 down the hArboF on the
Highlander and take the Cardinal Of
the liner Of Quarantine, decided at the
last moment TO remain ct the Battery.
The Highlander was tied up there, and
the CA4uInsl, who arrived at Quaran-
tine at 9l46, was brought up the bay
on the cutter Manhattan,
During the trip up the haFbog the
flrebOat New Yorker played her search
lights on the deck Of the cutter, and in
the sharp circle of light the aged prelr
ate stood bsreheaded, acknowledging
the salutes of various craft.
Once aboard the Highlander the re-
ception committee filed before the Car
dinal and paid their obeisance. The
boat Immediately started up the river
to 50th st., where the Cardinal was
placed in an automobile and hurried TO
his home, at Madison av. and Doth ST..
The Cardinal said he was in the best
of health, and he hooked we'll. He said
there had been no truth in the report
of his serious illness, although he had
not been we'll when he sailed for Rome.
He said that his stay in Switzerland
did him a great deal Of good, -,
He also denied the steFy that he had
been deprived OF his automobile while
in the Austrian Tyrol. There was some
basis for the rumoF, however, he add
ed, since the gasolene supply of a
friend whose car he used had beer
Communicated for war purposes.
The SAINT Anna, which brought the
Cardinal to port last night, was the
third vessel on which he had sought
passage, he said. He hrst tried the
Antilles, but failed. On the Taormina
he could get nothing better than SECOND
cabin. Later he was offered first class
accommodations but by that time he
had made reservations on the SAINT
Anna.
Cardinal Farley said the new Pope
was most cordial in his attitude toward
America, with whose conditions he was
thoroughly familiar. He said that Bene=
dict was not a tall man-not taller than
the Cardinal himself-sRd that, though
more than sixty years old, his hair was
still as black as jet. He added that
there was striking resemblance be-
tween Pope Benedict and the portraits
Of Plus VII, who defied the first Napo-
Icon, and was for q while captive At
Fontainebleau.
Pope Benedict is a man of wide dips
lomatic experience, the Cardinal said,
and a tremendous worker Audiences
at the Vatican often last nowadays for
eight hours without cessation, and YET
His Holiness never appears fatigued.
The Cardinal said he knew nothing
of the reported denial Of passports 70
Cardinal MercieF, the Belgian prslate,
by the Austrian government. He said
that so far as he knew the cardinals
OF all countries had received nothing
but the utmost courtesy from the ltai'
ian government during theiT entire
sSay in Rome. Cardinal Farley himself
was the recipient Of extraordinary kind
ness from the government officials.
Among those who greeted him on his
return were Monsignors Layelle, Dunn
Fraser, Mooney, Flood and Deneen, and
Messrs. Edward v. Farley, John Farley
and Joseph Farley.