The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 28, 1901, Page 7

THE SUNDAY CALL f that body nowaday st to the past. f of the Cardinals are now A a, German ATe 1 to the fore Arn ical Democracy. but essen- when the olas Brake- pe under the name of as according to Na- soldier carries a 1 in his knapsack, in the every faith son of the ng the priesthood may be r the red Lat of a Cardinal in Is owe their appolntment s to the Pope, who nominates them s know consistories, ne Chapel at Rome. be divided Into two d the public. tory the Sacred Col- the creation of y may e secret a at the right s stand out of earshot air the Dean he S first takes his sqat. w Pope mentions the he 1 upon whom the car- te is to be conferred, and asks (*“How seems this one the Cardinals f the chair and the same nd query are put to each. of answering, or *“Non not please me™). It is however, that any or even a consid- erable minority answer “Non place.” The e by cen in this manner, an announcement, still which may be transiated thus: “Thanks be to God, we have, In regard thic "sons to be created, the agree- all the brethren,” or “of almost the majo as the case maz be He t proclaims the names of the new dienitaries, ma the sign of the saying each time *“In the ather and of the Son and and with that the at an end. proclaimed do not re- ntil the public session sistory, which may be months later. If they Ppe in or ar Rome the Pope anwhile invests them at private audi- chet il first with the z or cz with the rlet biretta, , which differs oniy in color frem those worn by other ecclesiasti The Papal Messengers. 1f, however, the new Cardinal is sta- or resident abroad, a member of > Pepe's household, usually a monsig- 2 member of the Noble Guard be famous Papal troop, are sent to bear the zucchetta, the biretta, and the ts authorizing the invi tur i candidate with tk minor insignia of his new rank. The monsignor in this capacity is known as the ablegate. In the case of i. who was raised to the cardinalate in 1885, only a member of the Noble Gu the Marquis S: panti—was dispatched from Rome wi the credent dent in W nated by s, Mgr. ashington the . then res been desig. ablegate on Pope to ac that oned that the new prince called upon all to s of the journey, as weil M to the ablegate and of $1000 Noble Guard diately on t e arrival of the mes- sengers at the residence of the new Car- the Noble Guard, at a private audi- informally summoned, presents him chetta. Then the ablegate Speeches are made by the and the ablegate, and the Cardi- al is asked to fix a date for the bestowal of the biretta In the case of Satolli the inves the zucchetta took pls 18985, at Washington, d that of the biret- ta at St. Patrick hedral in Baltimore on January 5 following. dir iture of ce on December 19, Cat Mer. Cesare Roucetti was the ablegate and Count Marefosc the member of the Papal Guard who came-to this coun at the elevation of the late Cardina! Mc- Closkey. The biretta imposed by Archbishop Bayley, then Archbishop of Baltimore. The ceremo was performed in old S8t. Patrick’s Cathedral in Mott street, on April 22, 1575, being preceded by a solemn pontifical mass, celebrated by Bishop Loughlin of Brooklyn. Although Cardinal McCloskey was made a member of the College of Cardinals by Pcpe Pius IX, he received the red hat from Leo XIII. He was summoned to Rome at the death of Pius IX, but did not reach there until after the election of Leo, from whom he received his hat| ané his title of Santa Maria Sopra :mn-i erva. In the case of Cardinal Gibbons, I\Igrv! Stranlero and Count Mucciola were the | messengers from Rome. Archbishop Pe- | ter R. Kendrick of St. Louis, Mo., imposed the biretta in the cathedral in Baltimore on June 30, 1886, after a mass celebrated | by Archbishop Willlams of Boston. The Cardinal went to Rome and was vested with the red hat and the title of Santa | Maria in Trastavere. St. Patrick’s Cathedral, as the mother | church of Catholicity in this country and | the seat of Cardinal Archbishop Gibbons, | @ IX HUNDRED dollars’ worth of ") eggs would seem to be a rather & he breakfast for ome man to t, observed a well-known scien- a Star reporter, “but I can cert . man ate that amount of eggs and told me after he got away with they had not fully satisfied Ten minutes after he had 1 he complaired that the t seem to sit well in his stom- appened in this way. Several s since 1 was out in the Rocky Moun- do, hunting eggs for the titution. I was instructed ecial attention to pheasant one variety in particular, the , popularly called, which now, very scarce. The trip whole rather successful, not find many of the par- eggs referred to. One myself on one of the ns which surround the city own, Colo. I had had my own n the town and rode up the e search sant eggs. About 1 o'clock I ran across a mine prospector, who was just finishing up his breakfast. After spending some time in conversation with him, and as I was about leaving him, I noticed some pieces of egg shell on the ground. To my surprise and de- light they were the shells of the pheasant + | eggs that I was so anxious to find. Not | supposing that he was interested in my | branch of science, I mentioned in a cas- ua] way that the shells were of the egg of a certain species of yellow pheasant that I was exceedingly anxious to find or secure. Then he told me that in his wan- dering up on the mountain that morn- ing he had found a nest containing the | eggs, and finding that they were fresh he had eaten them, six in all. Then it was my turn to talk, and when I had told him that the eggs were v rare and that 1 would willingly pay $100 apiece for them he looked disgusted and actually turned pale. He had been having rather a ha.d run of luck and felt very sorry, of course, that he had unawares partaken of such a high-priced breakfast. He thought hes might be able to find another nest there- abouts and offered to furnish me six eges of the same species for a sum consider- ably less than $600, which offer I accepted. ‘We hunted together all that day and every day for a week, but to no purpose. Three months later I made a similar find myself, but at a place 300 miles distant from there. The eggs I found are in the Smithsonian yet, and as far as I know are about the only eggs of that particular species in any collection in this country. A year ago I got a letter from the pros- pector. He Is still in Colorado, but says | safe on her w | to her identity he has never been able to eat an egg of any kind since.”—Washington Star. FUiL DRESS - CARDINAL VANNUTELLI will again be the secne of the investiture nal with the biretta—the fourth occurred in the United States. An Imposing Ceremony. ceremony will take place at high the Sunday designated by Car- dinal Martinelli. ~Cardinal Gibbons, the Bishops and other primates hol ch and representa- its v religious orders will all be presen of these dignitaries will march from Cardi- nal Gibbons' residence around the street to the main door of the cathedral. When all have been seated within the sanctuary Mer. Martinelli will make his appearance frox he sanctuary, in company with the ablegate, the Papal Guard and two papal chamber from civil lifé. He will take on a throne prepared for him the cathe pled by Cardinal Gibbons. On a table on the gospel side rests the biretta and the accompanying documents. The noble guard takas up one of the docu- ments and harnds it to the ablegate to read. It contal the papal authority for the proceedings and is in Latin. An ad- dress, also in Latin, is made by the able gate to the new Cardinal. Cardinal Gib- bons follows with a few words in Latin and a speech in Engiish. He then places’ the searlet cap upon the head of the new prince of the church, who expresses his thanks in Latin. Thée latter then retires The mass on Archbishop: of the tives o chu ins seat opposite his NTLTMAN-IN-WAITING SRR to the sanctuar: the robes of his new rank, the scarlet cassocis, lace rochet and scarlet cappa magna, in which he cei- ebrates a solemn po: with a large number of ecclesiastical dignitaries as his associates. A part of the cereraony is the taking of an oath by the new Cardinal that within {3 CHAMBERLAIN' TO A CARDINAL a year he will vislt the tombs of the Apostles in Reme. & It is while on this visit that the Car- dinal receives the final insignia of his rank—the red hat—at the hands of the Supreme Pontiff himself. This takes place at a public meeting of the consistory in the Sala Regia, one of . Mysteries and Crimes of Netsfoun Iand {recks. HE rugged coast Newfoundland eems to po vysterious in- | fluence upon the shipping that fre- quents these waters. Its rock-ribbed eastern seaboard is lined with the ruins of hundreds of fine vessels and the bones of thousands of seamen and passengers lie in the deep waters about it. There is a mystery, too, about many of the wrec! One day hip is seen sailing The next day, perhaps, re to tell of her fate, fragments come as | but the manner of her loss may never be Ate Six Hundred Dollars Worth of Eqggs known. The recent mysterious loss of the steamer Lucerne is a case in point. About the same time as the Lucerne, and a few miles nearer St. Johns, a schooner or square-rigged sailing craft, met her doom under equally mysterious circumstances. No clew has been obtained All that is known is that | her wreckage in splintered form strews the shore of Blackhead, three miles from St. Johns. Another mystery identified with Baca- lieu, where the Lucerne went down, was the loss of the steamer Lion, fifteen years ago. She left St. Johns for Trinity, a seven hours’ run. On a brizht, clear winter’s night she disappeared and the body of a woman passenger, floating on the tide the next day, was the sole evidence from then until now of her taking off. A few years later the same locality chronicled another mysterious disappear- | ance, that of the schooner Emmeline. She ‘was bound from St. Johns to Twillingate, carrying a lot of fisher folk. She was seen by another vessel, going the con- trary way, as she made for the entrance to Bacalieu tickle, or strait, which sepa- i rates the islet from the mainland. That was about 10 p. m. and the next morning { some raffle of deck gear was washed ashore, that being the sole proof that death had come to all on board. It was six vears ago that the British cargo-boat Caletro, from Liverpool, for Baltimore, missed her reckoning in the fog and crashed into the promontory that mafks the extent of Bacalleu peninsula. She became a total loss and three of her men met a watery grave: but the rema der of her people, including the captain's wife, made their way ashore. They were well received and kindly treated, but their belongings and those of the ship were re- garded as legitimate spoil by the coas folk, who look on a wreck as a merciful intervention of providence in their behalf. Promptly was the ship looted, from keel- son to truck, and everything portable was conveyed to some secure hiding places, while what could not be easily moved was hacked into convenient pieces for transport, or smashed into fragments for some trifling gain. When a magistrate was dispatched to the scene with a posse of police to compel restitution and punish ‘the offenders, the mother of the ringleader waited upon the Judge with an ingenious plea for mercy: “Oh, Judge, don't be too hard on the poor boys!” she said. *“'Tis not often they get a chance at anything. Why did them steamer people keep so close to the shore, putting temptation In the way of poor people?” The Judge was callous, and a sentence of six months in the penitentiary gave the wreckers ample opportunity to cogl- tate on the unwisdom of giving way to such temptations in future. A few miles distant a large Norweglan bark in ballast was driven ashore in a fierce gale. The crew promptly scrambled ashore and left her to Her fate, glad to escape with their lives. When the storm abated the fishermen from the neighbor- hood assembled in force and stripped her. Again was the magistrate dispatched with his minions, and again was swift and sure justice administered to the offend- ers. On this occasion it was the elderly father of one of the strapping young fishermen who pleaded for his erring- off- spring. “I don’t know what the Almighty can be thinking of at all,” he commented. “First he sends us a bad fishery and’ now he sends us a damned Norwegian full of rocks.” Obviously, from this view of it, - castaway. the looting was of no account. It is a strange morzl code these fisher folk have. There is no danger too great for them to brave to rescue the unfortu on a wreck. The best in a fisher- house is none too good for the Yet the very men will then board a derelict and loot her with a thor- oughness begotten of long practice. At the same time they will respect the sail- or's kitbag as religiously as a sacred em- blem. At another point a large French bark, buffeted by adverse winds, drifted near the shore. The crew, being without food, launched their boat and rowed shoreward, seeing which six of the settlers put off and boarded her. Overjoyed with their prize they drank generously of a jar of brandy which they found in the cabin. Sleep succeeded, from which they awoke to find their boat broken adrift and them- selves confined on a ship which had not a crust. Incredible misery was their por- tion for six long days, when they at last succeeded in beating into a harbor. When the big North German steamship Herder was lost near Cape Race a few years ago the natives actually burned whalebone worth $15,000 a ton to obtain light to save leather valued at 20 cents a pound. When the Arbela’s cargo was be- ing salvaged they ruthlessly smashed In pleces crates of the daintiest of glassware for table use to get out two cases of French prayer-books, worth about 25 cents each. Three men in a nearby harbor once got ashore a piano, and having no idea of its value or how to dispose of it tried to solve the difficulty by the Solomon-like expedient of sawing it into three pieces. The Grasbrook wreck enabled the musical talent of a long stretch of coast to be cultivated through the medium of a del- uge of German concertinas, and the loss of the Hanoverian in 1890 provided the shore with such a stock of Chicago can- ned meat that it is said it is still a staple article of diet there.—New York Sun. the most magnificent apartments of the Vatican. The Pontiff makes his entry seated In the gestatorial chair, borne shoulder high, and wears for the occasion, not the familiar triple crown, but usually a miter of white satin, richly adorned with gold, the bifurcation of which is lined with crimson damask. Consistorial Etiquette. The conspicuous portion of his vestment is a cape—oae mass of gold em- broidery. As he alights and takes his seat on the throme the celebrated S Chape! choir bu forth into a mote of triumphant welcome. Long rows of benches are on ez de of him. Here sit the members of the Sacred College, ir their full Cardinal On the steps before their Eminences sit their chaplains, whose du s to hold the scariet biret- tas on their knees and to gather up the Cardinals’ train The ceremon - most open with the “‘Obedi- ence.” This consists of the Cardinals go- ing up one by one to kiss the ring of the Fisherman. After the professed Cardinals come the newly elect, who ha first taken, In the Sistine Chapel, the oath of allegiance prescribed by the Apostolic constitution, in presence of the Pope, the Cardinals and the superiors of various re- ligious orders. They enter the consistorial hall in procession and kiss the hands and feet of his Holiness, after which they ex- change the accolade, or ecclesiastical em- brace, with their colleagues, beginning with the senicr member of the Sacred Col- lege and ending with the last promoted. During these proceedings one of the con- sistorial advocates pleads the cause of the beatification or canonization of some person eminent for sanctity. The new car- @inals then return to the pontifical throne and the Pope places the red hat on the head of each one, saying as he does so, in | Latin, “Receive, for the glory of Almighty God and adornment of the Holy Apostolic See, this red hat, the sign of unequaled dignity of the cardinalate, by which it is declared that even to death by the shed- CUSHION AN BAG HANGING IN ANTEROOM, OF EVERY CARDINALS HOUSE ding of thy blood thou shouldst show thyself Intrepld for the exaltation of the blessed faith, for the peace and tranquil- ity of the Christian people, for the in- crease and prosperity of the Holy Roman Church. In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. Amen. The same hat serves for the crowning of all the cardinals. The real hat belonging to each s sent subsequently. Hat Never Worn. A word, In passing, concerning the red hat. It is a pecullar feature of the ward- robe of a cardinal. It is oddly shaped, the brim being six feet across. The material is cardinal beaver. It is round in shaoe, and In contrast to the immense flat brim is a small, conical shaped crown, quite too small, apparently, to fit anybody's head. The sole use to which it is put. other than symbolizing the distinction of its recipient at the time it is bestowed, is to be hung In the cardinal’s church after his death. Cardinal McCloskey's red hat is conspicuously suspended near the high altar in St. Patrick’s Cathedral, New York. But to return. After the Pope has suc- cessively placed the hat for a moment up- on the heads of the initiates, all the car- dinals, including the new ones, are em- braced one by one by the Pope. The papal benediction of the assembled multitude follows, the Pope once more takes his place in the sedia gestatoria and is borne out of the Sala Regla, and the public consistory is over. Although this has been described first, the secret consistory usually comes next at an interval of about an hour. This begins with the ancient ceremony of shut- ting and opening the mouths of the new cardinals. Formerly the closed mouth probation lasted for six months, during which the newly created cardinal was not allowed to speak In consistories or in other eccesiastical functions until ther- oughly initiated in the policy of the Sa- cred College. Nowadays the mouths of their Eminences are sacred'y @sed be- fore they are opened again with the words spoken by the Pontiff. “WWe open your mouths, both in confer- ence and councils, and in the election of the Sovereign Pontiff, and in all acts which both in and out of the consistory pertain to cardinals.” As the crowning ceremony the ring Is now given and the title assigned to each new cardinal. -+ s First Man to Cross N the museum at Buffalo; N. Y., there H is an iron basket which always arouses the curiosity of the visitor. The bas- ket is about five feet long and four feet broad and is made of iron strips, in- terlaced after the fashion of a common splint basket. No one would ever guess | its purpose were it not labeled after the manner of museum curios. This basket was used a half-century ago, when the then marvelous enginering feat of bridging the Niagara River just below the falls was undertaken. The bas- ket was made for the purpose of carrying the workmen across the river after the cable was secured, but the first person ‘actually to cross was Colonel Eugene Childs, now a resident of Minneapolis, then a boy of 17, who had been born and reared within sight of the falls. Colonel Childs was one of four to make this first trip, and the distinction was awarded him on account of the part which he took in successfully carrying out the plans of the engineer. With the aid of ofie or two companions he flew a kite across the 1100 feet between shore and shore, successfully landing it upon the further shore. To the string of the kite was attached a heavier cord, and still a heavier one, until, after the usual manner, a sufficlently strong rope was pulled across to draw after it the one- inch cable of thirty-six wire strands, the ends of which were then firmly embedded Niagara in a Basket in the solld rock. So well did he succeed with his kite-flving that when the strong cable was firmly implanted and the fron basket made ready for the workmen who were to cross to the opposite shore, he, with his companions, was singled out as deserving of making the first trip. ‘With boyish enthusiasm they accepted the offer. To each end of the basket was attached a strong rope, which ran over a windlass on each side of the iver. Every- thing was made safe and the boys started on their novel journey.- They were only a hundred feet below the plunging cataract and directly over the whirling rapids, at an elevation of more than 160 feet. Colonel Childs confesses that there were blanched faces in that iron basket before it reached the opposite shore and was drawn back again. But the trip was one of the expe- riences of his life which he would net willingly forget, although the hair-raising sensations which he underwent while sus- pended in midair over Niagara are as dis- tinctly recalled as are any of the more tangible events of the day, and the odd- looking iron basket in the museum has a very special significance for him. Colonel Childs served during the eivil war as captain cf Company A. Fifth Iowa Infantry, until 1863, and in 1865 as colonel of the Forty-seventh Veteran Volunteers of Towa. He has now retired from active business life, and his nome is in one of the lake suburbs of Minneapolis.—Pittsburg Dis- patch.