Great Ones, Holy Ones

Into Chicago glided a remarkable train, seven cars flaming in cardinal, each bearing a name revered by Roman Catholics--Pius XI, Cardinal Bonzano, Cardinal Hayes, Bishop Quarter (first bishop of Chicago), Pere Marquette (French Jesuit missionary and explorer), St. Mary of the Lake Seminary. . . . It was a special train bearing great ones, holy ones of their Church from Manhattan to Chicago for the XXVIII Eucharistic Congress.

A few days before the most exalted of these, John Cardinal Bonzano, legate of the Pope to this Congress, had been greeted in princely fraternity by Patrick Cardinal Hayes of New York. This was in New York bay, where yachts, sailboats, rowboats, tugs, scows interfered with the decorum of such rencontre. Boats and factories from Jersey City to Brooklyn tied down their whistles. The legate was receiving a Metropolitan welcome.

Ashore, thousands tried to catch the emerald and diamond ring on Cardinal Bonzano's hand--to get grace thereby. The police permitted a few to kiss the ring.