Evening star., 1938-09-09
THR0NCS HONOR
CARDINAL HAYES
Jam Cathedral and Street
Outside to Pay Final
Tribute to PreIate.
J? the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, Sept 9.-In a scene
OF solemn splendor seldom. If ever, sur
passed In Americas ecclesiastical his.
tory. mourning thousands assembled
today for the last rites for Patrick
Cardinal Hayes, Archbishop of New
York.
Fifth avenue, symbol OF everything
modern, was thronged. around St. Pat
rick's Cathedral. where the funeral
mass was celebrated with a ritual
centuries old.
In magnitude and dignity the fu-
neral Of the gentle prelate who rose
form an humble life as an East Side
boy to become spiritual leader of more
than 100000 Roman Catholics was
tribute such as has been paid 70
few Americans
Men and women of many faiths,
government and city officials mingled
in the Cathedral with representatives
Of Catholic orders and institutions and
tremendous gathering of mourning
Aymen.
Mourners Jam Street.
The greatest array of Catholic &C.
elesiastics ever to attend the funeral
Of New York churchman prayed for
the repose of the cardinals soul
Besides the crowd inside the CATH
edAl the street without was jammed
with mourners who heard the pontif1-
cal requiem mass over a public ad-
dress system.
Three cardinals-George Cardinal
Mundelein of Chicago, Denis Cardinal
Dougherty of Philadelphia and Rod
erick Cardinal Villeneuve of Quebec
"a archbishops, SO bishops and more
than 1000 priests took part
The great procession into the cathe-
oral was a scene such as New York
has not witnessed in two decades
since the funeral of Cardinal Hayes
predecessor, Cardinal farley.
Habits of Orders in Evidence
Everywhere the ancient habits Of
various orders of the church were in
evidence. the brown robes and cowls
and white knotted cinctures Of the
sonsured Franciscans, the black and
white of the Dominican fathers and
nuns, the light blue tunics of the Sis
ters Of Mary, the flaming red crosses
Ct the Sisters of Divine Compassion.
Cardinal Hayes final rest will be
IN q crypt under the altar of ST. Pat
rick's Cathedral
The mass, in essence the same for
beggar and prince. is begun at the
foot Of the altar by Cardinal Mum
delein with the introit:
Eternal rest be given to them, oh
Lord;
And let perpetual light shine upon
them"
The first prayer for the late cardi-
nal Is chanted by Cardinal Mundelein:
oh God. who didst raise Thy servant
Patrick to the dignity of cardinal
priest in the apostolic priesthood,
-rant, We beseech Thee, that he may
{" Joined in the fellowship with Thine
apostles for evermore"
The organ is hushed near the end
and the choir chants "Libera me,
domino as each bishop intones an
antiphon and a prayer:
Il am the resurrection and the life.
He that believeth in Me, although
he be dead. shall live
And every one that liveth and be-
keveth in Me shall not die forever"
Great Procession Of Clergy.
The services which were to end
'lours later with the burial of Cardinal
Hayes in crypt in the cathedral and
with the raising Of his red hat-insig-
mia Of his membership in the Sacred
Coileg-above the high altar, began
with the great procession of clergy.
Reverent thousands who had no
rope OF getting in to see Cardinal Mum
oelein, Cardinal Hayes schoolmate Of
SO years ago, celebrate the mass
arrived hours before the procession
formed and stood in pale sunlight.
The first ranks of the l 900 police
men assigned to the vicinity of the
cathedral arrived at am.
The band of the 10th United States
Infantry led the procession, playing a
funeral march.
Then, paying tribute to Cardinal
Hayes, who was bishop ordinary of
Roman Catholic chaplains of the
~ihCSo AIHy dAU NAVY, CdIlC
attachments of soldiers, marines and
sailors.
Then came a detachment from the
!65th Infantry, the famous old 69th
New York regiment
While the procession was forming,
Postmaster Gen. James A. Farley, Gov.
Herbert H. Lehman and Mrs. Lehman
and Harry Hopkins, w. p A. admin
Htrator, arrived at the cathedral
The cathedral altar boys wearing
black cassocks and white surplices
and students from Catholic schools
followed the soldiers.
Then came the religious brothers, in
black cassocks and white bibs-Chris-
han brothers. Franciscans and Jesuits.
More Jesuits followed: Augustinians,
Redemptorists and Carmelites, all in
black; FranciScans in brown, and
Fathers Of the Blessed Sacrament in
black cassocks and black hoods with
narrow white trimming.
The secular clergy-2,OOO priests
from all over the United States, in
black cassocks, white surplices and
black birettas-were next.
Chaplains in Dress Uniforms.
There were chaplains of the Army
And Navy, in dress uniforms; provin-
eials Of religious orders, in their hab-
It's: the faculty Of st. Joseph's Semi
nary, and priests of the chancellor's
ONCE.
Twenty-Five thousand men and
women, waiting on the streets, saw
the procession move, in order of rank.
Navy Represented.
The Navy Department was repre-
sented at the funeral of Cardinal
Hayes by Capt. Robert D. Workman,
chief Of chaplains, and Its. Francis
A. Burke and Thomas Ferris, Chaplain
Corps. Rear Admiral Clark Wood