Evening star., 1926-06-19
PreIates Visit Nearby Cities
After Formal Welcome by
Civil Officials.
CARDINAL DAUGHERTY
ARRIVES IN LAY ATTIRE
Throngs Visit Cathedral to Get
First Glimpse Of Preparations
for Formal Opening.
Rv the ssociated Press.

BY the Associated Press
CHICAGO, June 19.-With the
soothing note of tolerance sounded
at last nights official reception still
ringing in their ears, the thousands
upon thousands OF clergy and laity
of the Roman Catholic Church, here
for the opening of the greatest of
all international Eucharistic con-
crosses, for the most part rested to-
day. The only formal event was
luncheon to Cardinal BonZano, papal
legate, given at noon in a downtown
hotel by the permanent committee
of the congress.
Meanwhile, trails that led from
two hemispheres were converging in
Chicago Every train. lake steamer
and highway leading into the city
disgorged a steady flow of delegates,
clergy and laity, to swell a total eX-
pected to approach the million mark
by the time the congress, opening to-
morrow, is under way.
Cardinal Daugherty Arrives.
Among the dignitaries arriving to-
day were Denis Cardinal Daugherty
of PHILADELPHIA, last but one of the IL
princes of the church to join the host
of visitors, and Archbishop Mannix of
Australia. Cardinal O'Connell and 500
pilgrims from New England are ex-
pected by lake boat from Buffalo. In
every Catholic church in Chicago and
suburbs confessions were heard today
to a million communions
tomorrow. Cardinal Mundelein has
planned for the administration of this
on a greater scale than ever
before known in history.
To catch a glimpse beforehand of
the opening splendors of the congress
an unendinG stream of people filed in
and out of Holy Name Cathedral.
The dlmly-lighted interior disclosed
the sanctuary where the eucharist
is to be exposed for alteration through
out the congress. Overhead family
discerned were the waving banners
and the garlands symbolic of the
eucharist.
Sisters of Charity in gray y-blue habits
and white headdress mingled with hun
dreds of nuns of other orders, and
with priests and lay pilgrims just ar
rived in the city.
Nearby Cities Visited.
Many of the clergy made short trips
to nearby cities today to visit Catholic
educational institutions. The others
spent the day resting. A number of
the cardinals planned to receive news.
paper men in the late afternoon.
Cardinal Dubois Of Paris spent the
day at Notre Dame University. South
Bend. Ind. Cardinal Czernoch of
Hungary went to East Chicago, where
large numbers of his countrymen have
settled. Cardinal Piffi of Vienna spent
the day at Techy. ILL.,, at st. Mary's
mission, with Cardinal Reig Y Cas-
anova Of Spain.
The first mass of the congress. pre-.
liminary to the formal opening at II
am. Sunday, will be celebrated at mid
night tonight by Cardinal Charost of
Rennes, France.
Wears Civilian Attire.
Cardinal Dougherty was greeted
by crowds lined up 20 deep on either
side throughout the long concourse
of the biggest railway station in
Chicago. Eagerness of the awaiting
throngs to get close to him was re-
strained by a continuous array of
police as he passed from the Penn
Railroad train and was
"
The cardinal smiled and bowed to
the crowds which had been half ex-
pecting to see him costumed In
scarlet. as were other cardinals on
the day Of the arrival of the papal
legate. Instead he wore civilian
attire, showing no trace of his rank
except a bit of cardinal red visible
his white collar.
Delegations from the Ukraine,
from Alaska and from Canada and
Mexico swelled the arriving throngs.
Attitude of U. S. Voiced.
The attitude of the United States
toward religious freedom and toler-
ance has been voiced in the presence
of high churchmen and prelates Of the
Catholic hierarchy.
1t came from the lips of Secretary
of Labor James J. Davis, here as the
of President Coolidge
for Chicagos civic reception last
night to congress delegates.
The reception, planned purely as
a formal affair, developed into a
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