Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-10-22
Cardinal MercierA Arrives
TOMORROW to be Received
byLargcC rOtUd ir1 Moline

Cardinal MERCER, the saint Of
Belgium" will be welcomed in Mo-
line tomorrow afternoon by high
dignitaries of the Catholic church,
city officials of the quad-cities, and
thousands of residents of Rock Is
land, Moline, East Moline and Dav-
export.
Representing the Catholic church
will be Bishop E NJ. Dunno of the
Peoria diocese, while the mayors
of Moline. East Moline and Daven-
port, and the city commissioners Of
Rock Island will represent the re-
spective cities. Leading American
Belgians of the four cities will be
or the welcoming committee. while
the Belgian bands of Moline, East
Moline and Rock Island will play
the Belgian national hymn at the
station. The reception at the sta
ton will be brief. and at its con-
clusion the Red Cross and Knights
of Columbus of the tri-cities will
form a~guard of honor N the pro-
cession which will move from the
Rock Island lines depot to the site
of the new Sacred Heart Belgian
church. Seventeenth avenue AMI
Thirteenth street, Moline where
Cardinal MERCER will take part "
the ceremonies incident to laying
the cornerstone.
Here the famous primate, whose
unfaltering spirit and fearless
in defense of Belgium against the
thousands upon thousands of in
vading Germans, stirred the world,
will make an address. His emin-
epce will first be welcomed by
Mayor Skinner of Moline. while the
mayors of the other of the quad
cities will say few words Of well
come.
DR.. ". E. Taylor will speak for
the people Of Moline, while Mrs.
George Huntoon will speak for the
Red Cross. Bishop Dunno will in
troduce Cardinal MERCER TO the as
semblagc. Belgian school chil1ren,
attired in native Belgian costume.
will sing and scatter flowers.
A short trip through Rock Is
land arsenal will be made and per-
haps a visit to Davenport for a
few minutes. His eminence will
leave the tri-cities at 4:40 o'clock
Rock Island lines
Latest advices from Chicago are
that the strain of speaking and
travelling on the aged prelate is
telling. Therefore ceremonies in
Moline will be shorter and simpler
than at first planned to spare him
all undue fatigue. The reception
committee in charge met at the
mayors Office yesterday to make
The mayors recep-
ton committee, together with the
mayors of Davenport Rock Island
and East Moline, as well as Colonel
Harry B. Jordan and his staff, will
welcome the cardinal at the station.
Moline and East Moline Belgian
bands will greet him with the Bel
gian National Anthem, La Bra
banconne.
The save time no other organize
ton except the Red Cross and The
Knights of Columbus will follow
the cardinal and his party to the
ton of school children will pre-
sent the cardinal with a bouquet
OF flowers in token of appreciation
of his unceasing efforts for the
starving people Of Belgium. Bust
ness will be suspended during the
cardinals stay in the city.
A delegation of Belgians will be
in Moline on special train Thurs
day to attend the ceremonies of
welcoming Cardinal MERCER, &C
cording to a report from the presi-
dent of the elgian-American Ma
tional alliance, CASTOR Veys. The
delegation will be composed of IS
representatives from the Atkinson
parish, so from Annawan, and 40