New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-25
HEAT OVERCOMES Is
DURING FIELD MASS
Sun Is Too Much for Four
Women and Eleven Men
at Open Air Service.

While three venerable priests, with the
sun beating down on their barred heads
celebrated the prolonged ritual OF the an
nua memorial field mass on the pafaue
ground at the Brooklyn Navy YARD yes
terday three army doctors, with a corps
of assistants, nurses and stretchef car
rers, were kept busy gathering up ana
caring for four women and eleven men
who dropped unconscious TO the srouno'
overcome with the heat.
Although the temperature did not go
above so degrees. the rays Of the sun
seemed to be focused and intensified as
they shot down into the campus in front
of the marine barracks on the heads OF the
three thousand people who gathered 10
witness the ceremonies. The priests
themselves were vsibly oppressed by the
sun. but they went through their arduous
duties without faiterinS, although one OF
the choir boys was driven from his post by
the heat.
The heat victims were given immedi-
ate relief at the field tents and then taken
10 the cots IN the barracks directly De-
hind the altar. Most of the patients were
able to leave for home at once. although
several OF them remained for several
hours under the doctors care
Dr. George Wickes was at the head OF
the work. while DR. William Wickersham
and DR.. r. T. Orvis were in charge OF the
tents. DR.. Orvs explained that most OF
the prostrations We're not due so much 10
the intensity of the heat, but To the fact
that many the members OF the uniformed
organizations which took part in the pa
-ade preceding the mass had not taken
time TO have breakfast beforehand.
The mass was held under the auspices
of Gloucester Naval Camp No. ,. assist
ed by Long Island Chapter, knights oil
Columbus. being the twelfth annual field
military mass held at the navy yard since
the service was revived by Gloucester
Camp. after being dropped soon after the
Spanish War.
The celebrant was Monsignor James y.
Connolly. Of Manhattan, chaplain OF the
18th Regiment and a member OF the
United Spanish War Veterans. The Rev.
John T. Chadwick, director Of st. Joseph :
Seminary, Dunwoode, y. y, was the dea-
con. He was chaplain of the Maine, be-
ing aboard her the night she was sunk in
Havana Harbor. The subdeacon was the
Rev. John J. Brady. the last Catholic
chaplain appointed in the navy, and the
sermon was delivered by the Rev. Francis
J. sullivan. Catholic chaplain OF the Po-
lice Department in Manhattan and The
Bronx. \ choir OF $50 voices. under the
direction of Arthur :. Somers, member
OF the Board OF Education, sang, while
che master OF ceremonies was the Rev. w.
J. Cleary, Of 81. Patrck's Church, Brook
Ign.
In the parade preceding the mass were
attachments from n number Of national
guard regiments United states Spanish
War Veteran camps, the United states
Volunteer Lifesaving Corps the 1.ifesav-
ing Service. city of New York; lst Tor
pedo Battalion. Port of New York United
States Customs Employees Benevolent AS
ISOLATION. detachments of police and fire.
men and delegations of letter carriers.
Knights OF Columbus, Catholic Benevolent
Legion and the Ancient order of Hiberni-
ans. The general marshal was Robert y.
Mackin.