Evening star., 1924-09-10
HOLY NAME PLANS
GIVEN TO CARDINAL
Director of Society Apprizes
PreIate of Details for D. C.
Convention.

Very Rev. NJ. J. Ripple, O. p, P. G.,
national director of the Holy Name
Society by appointment of the papal
see, is in Boston today comforting
with Cardinal OConnell, who has been
appointed by the Vatican as papal
legate at the Holy Name convention
here September IS to %. Cardinal
oConnell is to deliver message
from Pope Plus XI to the more than
100000 members of the Holy Name
Society who will parade here. Mgr.
Ripple is comforting with the Cardinal
regarding plans for the convention
and especially regarding the part that
the American hierarchy will take in
the public exercises
While in Boston Mgr Ripple will
address mass meeting of representa-
tives from several hundred Holy
Name branches throughout New Eng
land.
Plans are being pushed for an in
teresting and impressive ceremony
in Arlington National Cemetery dur
ing the convention. Very Rev. Ig-
natius Smith O. p, a noted orator,
who is in charge of the Dominican
House of Studies. will deliver
stirring address a the tomb of the
Unknown Soldier. a roster is being
prepared by episcopal doceses of the
War. The roll of dioceses will be
called, when the number will be an
nounced of those who served IN the
World War and those who made the
supreme sacrifice.
Police Meeting Called.
Maj. Daniel Sullivan, superintend-
ent of the Metropolitan Police, has
called an important conference in his
office this afternoon to discuss the
plans for the big Holy Name parade,
for the protection of several hundred
thousand visitors and to see gener-
ally how the Washington police force
can best serve all interests during
the convention. Attending the con-
ference will be Capt. Harry Walsh
grand marshal of the parade, with
Maj. Harry Coope, his chief aide;
+. j. Haltigan, president of the Arch
diocesan Union; representative OF
the street railway companies. repre-
sentatives from the office of public
buildings and grounds and Joseph T.
Fitzgerald, chairman of the trans
portation committee.
AT this conference there will be
a showdown on the number of visit
ors to be expected in the Capital
and the number that will participate
in the parade, a survey will be made
of the route of the parade, the street
railway requirements and what police
service is needed along the line OF
march, at the stands and in Union
Station.
Mafshals Instructed.
AT an important meeting in the
convention headquarters last night
more than so marshals of the Wash
ington section in the parade, repre-
Senting almost as many Catholic
parishes, received instructions as to
the lineup they will have in the
parade. Maj. Eugene Edwards was
in charge.
While the official program is held
up temporarily pending the return Of
Mgr. Ripple from Boston, it is pretty
we'll agreed upon now that Arch
bishop Curley, the official host of the
convention, will administer the bene-
diction service on the Washington
Monument Grounds, after the parade
on Sunday evening, September 21.
Advices received today from West
ern Maryland leaders show that three
special trains will bring the visitors
from that section, all centering in
Cumberland. One of these, which will
bring the delegation from West Vir-
ginia including Wheeling and the
mountain towns, will leave Cumber-
land at am. on Sunday, September
21. The two others will leave at 8:15
and $50, so as to get the crowd here
in time for the parade.
Rt Rev. Constantine Bohacevsky,
D. D., superior of the Ruthenian Greek
Catholic Church in the United States,
which recognizes the sovereign pom
tiff and is affiliated with the papal
see, was at the Holy Name headquar-
ters today, making arrangements for
organizing Holy Name societies in
the 800 Greek Catholic churches in
this country.