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Show C'1 1 AKIUNAL MF.RCIER, vencrab'.e Keloan church'.mui, who reached j! Now York yesterday on visit to 1 1 United states. 1 L ! r i- 1 "" ! i , ' ) I ... - M i ilMPrelI ; mm o. s. Cardinal Mercier Is Wel-j Wel-j corned on Reaching j New York. I NEW YORK. 07'. Cardinal M'rc-r, 1 Belgium's pilar.; churc hti-.:m, arrived here I today, brinin.c to Amer.' a the tVumUs the little country In wh-"? tragic h:;ory he has p!; c 1 so heroic a part. When tae venerable prolate sie; ped for t:ie first j time on Amor: -an soil lie was asked for i a rr.essapo to the A trier: can people. "I can only say 'Thar.k you.' " he re-j re-j piled. hi& voi e quivering with emotion. I "What e'so is there for me to eav?" j Cardinal V e Trier spraks ex .:!. nt Kn-' Kn-' pllfh. with a soft, muphnl n'ent. Titere J is little in the outward fm of the man j who has played so s ; r : k : r : c a tart on the j world's s;ai?e to tell of t.:e unvoted erit-st Jwho defie i the German invader in the most in...;..-iit moment of his brut.il triumph tri-umph and sternly i'.ade him heed the law of God. if ho cared nothing for the laws of men. Thin almost to the point of I emaciation, ins tail form bent und r the tremeaduus burden he horo.for four terrible terri-ble year?, truj feature.; o: his h-avily-lir.ed fare s-'m to reveai nothing but irntle-ness irntle-ness and kindliness. Hut the 'h-p-set brown eyes look out from under the Ft rongly-marked eyebrows with a clear, calm and penetratincr i,raze which tells mu?h of the unconquerable spirit ot the man. Da y 1 i ph t was fad I nj when th o 1 " n ! t d Stated army transport Northern Paeific steamed slowly to its pier !n Hobnken. I.on; before it docked t he watehers on the whan" had caught sdht of the tall, black fiL'ure standing on the bride-, pazing at the shores of the country which had meant .-o rmidi to his native land In her hour of deepest need. A prnut cheer went up and th.- cardinal doifed his trhornerel beaver hat and bowed again and at;ain in answer. As the transport was warned to its moorinps the cardinal left his post on the bridge and moved down to the lower deek, where hundreds of returning soldiers wpre I roaring their jov over their home eonilng. ! The soldiers fell ba'k quickly and left a space at Uk- rail, where the cardinal stood until the ship had docked. As pnoii as the pane way had been run up. Mavor Hvian and the official welcoming welcom-ing committee. Archbishop Hayes and a number of other church dignitaries I boarded the transport and officially welcomed wel-comed the puest of the city and nation. The cardinal was th-n taken across the river and thence bv automobile to Archbishop Arch-bishop Hayes's residence. The transrort had he en welcomed to her dock bv tiie band of the embarkation de-parment de-parment playinp. "Hail, Hail, the Ganp's All Here," and kindred tunes. As the cardinal stepped onto the docks. (Continued on Page 15, Column 4.) BELGIAN PRELATE HUES 1H II. S. (Continued from Pag One.) however, there wa a pause and then the hand swung into the stlrrlnc strains of " I 1 :ra ha ncunne," the nat lon.il a nt hem of Heicium. As the first strains fell on t he ears of t lie aged pre In te he fallerd and tool: ;i Kfp backward, appaentir ovt-rwhelno-el w:ti surprise, lie reeovred Iiiimm-;:' .un! a radiant smile crosned hin f.o e. 'i;h a sweeping bow, he drew himself him-self up to hi full, imposing height and re-'ti a iri' d s 'ii riding tuns until t tie playing hud finished. i'.. f.re ,e could rea'-h the pntro, the m-w.-paper pi.otorajihers had done their unr-'l lo him, and very patiently and L'i" oMoij ilv the cardinal submitted to the n:ibal. I'ut 'he whole warmth and man-j man-j iirr of l;is wel -oiiie e-med a conmiete surprise sur-prise to )ilm. tin l.Is wnv rt'To.s.-t the Hud-! Hud-! son lie t i;i ne 1 to Archbishop Have nd j e wesser his a s to n i s ' , :n en t that his ar r: il in A rnrrir. a should be heralded in such a niaiin-r. j "iih." cnwiiented the archl'ishnp, "all I America loves Caidlnal Merrier. You will ! find that out." 'ar-lina! .M-r -ier v. il' t:o to Haiti more 1 tomo: ro .v t'i visit Cardinal (Jibbons, with I v. h..in iie will stay some days. Afierward !:e will return to NVw York and later will visit Ah any and iioston. A western tour, end in g on No-.-eru . -t fi. will bring his Amerie-an v'slt to an end. |