Arizona republican., 1921-03-31
MOURNERS GAZE FOR LAST TIME
 IN REMAINS 1T. CARDINAL
Ninety Thousand Persons View Body on Last Day; Funeral Services Today Will Be Private
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B BALTIM or F.. March 30.-The | mighty and the lowly, united in sor- row. tonight trod softly past the bier of James, Cardinal Gibbons, to gaze for the last time on the face of the prelate. For tomorrow is all pomp and ceremony and with the singing of a Gregorian chant the church will bury her dead. The apostolic dele gate at Washington and fellow mem bers in the college of cardinals, arch bishops and bishops, archabots and abhOts secular clergy and clergy be- longing to the orders. all will be massed in the cathedral of the As sumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary for the final mass.
 Diplomatic representatives of the Catholic countries of the world and officials of nation, state and city also will attend the services.
 The public ceremony ended, the body later will be carried to the cathedral crypt, unopened since the
 burial of Archbishop Spalding in 1872. There the body will be laid to rest in the white marble tomb with
 the simplest of ceremonies and in the presence of only closest relatives and 1 friends.
 For three days the body of Cardinal | Gibbons has rested in state under the great gold dome of the cathedral in which for so many years he minis
 tered to mankind. Daily an army of
 mourners, 30.00O strong has filed in
 and out of the edifice, but today, from morning until nearly midnight,
 a great double column. blocks long, | sought entrance. In other parts of 1 the city there was the usual noise l and hustle of an American commu-
 nifty, but around the cathedral all was | quiet. The shuffle of feet was almost the only sound as the mourners pressed slowly forward.
 Tomorrow this silence will spread
 all over the city when in response to
 proclamations by governor and mayor
 all traffic and every activity will be
 stopped for one minute when the mass begins at 10 o'clock.
 Inside the cathedral the mourners |, found even deeper silence.
 Entering by pairs they moved
 down the center aisle. dividing at the
 purple covered bier and passing ou by side doors at right and left. Dressed in his purple robes. hi: archbishop's mitre upon his head ana
 crucifix clasped in his gloved hands lay the American. born of simple , Irish immigrants, who by his own eff
 forts rose to be a prince of th' church.
 | Tonight the silence of the cathedra l was broken by chanting of semi : narians and diocesan clergy as th' office of the dead was sung. Presid l ing was Bishop O. B. Corrigan, vica l general of the diocese, who earlier il
 the day had celebrated the mass fo the laity.
 The ceremony was attended b. n church dignitaries and lay delegate n from all parts of the United State = and Canada, who began arriving to
 day for tomorrow's assemblage. A most impressive demonstratiol C of grief was given tonight when at l = o'clock the doors of the cathedra were closed with a double line O t mourners. half mile long. still seek
 ing admittance.
 n Members of the guard of honor a = the bier said that whereas on prev n ious days they had estimated tn 5 number of mourners at 30,O0O, toda - approximately 90,000 persons ha e viewed the body, making total ( - 1900 who had visited the cathedra