The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-09-25
ONEOF HISPOOR
LINGERS T0LAST'
WITHCARDINAL
Funeral Most Impressive
Religious Ceremony Ever
Held in US.
THOUSANDS IN TRIBUTE
Clergy and Laity, Army and
Navy, in Procession and
at Cathedral.
THOUSANDS IN TRIBUTE

A humble woman, who seemed very
old and very poor. was the last person
to leave St Patrick's Cathedral yester-
day, following the final services over tho
body OF Cardinal Farley: ceremonies
which for religious impressiveness and
beauty never have been exceeded, never
perhaps equalled. in America
"a long time ago." said the little old
woman to the reporter who found her
lingering near the Fiftieth street exit
Of the nave and questioned her. when
the Cardinal. Lord have mercy on him,
was Just ordained and came to us as
assistant rector at st. Peters, down
where I live at New Brighton. I asked
him to come to our house when my hus-
band was dying. And had no money to
pay for funeral expenses. But Father
Farley got a man named Roach. who
was an undertaken down on Staten
Island then-he's dead now-and the
Cardinal lying dead there paid the cost
Of the burial Of my man.
Last to See Cardinal,
Sand so wanted to be the last in the
Police Inspector Frank Morris had
told her she must leave her dark corner
at me southern end Of the nave because.
after a death mask had been taken
Of the late Cardinal. the canons of the
church prescribed that no one except
officiating clergymen be permitted to re-
main In the edihce during the final cere-
monies Of entombment beneath the high
altar. And so the aged woman went out.
him" having been satisfied.
Which doubtless was the way Car
dinal Farley himself-who did not ar
rive at his great clerical estate because
OF political acumen. exceptional orator.
ical gifts or aggressiveness-woul have
wished the ceremonies of yesterday to
end. He had become a Cardinal Prince
Of the church paradoxically for the rea-
son that no had always been lust a
good priest" who was successful with
the humble and poor because 1t was that
class, almost altogether. which interested
him. And therefore II he had had his
way II would have been humble being.
very old and very poor whom he would
have chosen to be the last of the laity
to look upon him.
Funeral Makes History.
But the great also honored the dead
Cardinal. and thereby honored them
selves. during the funeral services.
which lasted many hours yesterday.
From the layman's standpoint the funer-
ais Of Lincoln and Mckinley and espe-
cially OF Grant doubtless exceeded in a
material sense the great final obsequies
In Fifth avenue yesterday. But no
funeral in the history OF the western
continent approached the obseouies OF
Cardinal Farley in spiritual ceremony
and fervent intent.
In the funeral ceremonies OF the Cath
ole Church--the church militant
any one who even slightly knows the
rubrics OF the ancient religion also
knows that threaded through all the
sosnbreness and solemnity of the fu-
neral services Is the fibre of exultaut
victory; for even at the approach OF
the most solemn moment OF the funeral
mass the clang of bells and the rising
note Of the hrst -Sanctus" from the choir
Ia the militant, almost military. cry
Of triumph. because a soul has lived and
died in the life which the funeral orator
at the cathedral yesterday selected from
81. Paul as his text: Il have fought the