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Show HUNDREDS PASS CARDINAL'S BIER IN CATHEDRAL Funeral Services to be Held Tomorrow General Gener-al Tribute Ordered. BALTIMORE. March 30. Members of the Catholic lalety filled the a-thedral a-thedral to overflowing this morning at the last of the special requiem masses preceding the final funeral services tomorrow for Cardinal Glb-, Glb-, hons. whoso death occurred last Thursday. Bishop O. B. Corrlgan. I vicar general of the diocese was the celebrant, assisted by members of the local priesthood The mustc was sung by the cathedral choir. At the end of the mass the congregation congre-gation filed slowly past the bier for a last look at the features of tho car-! car-! dinal. and the long line of men. WO-i WO-i men and children who had gathered in tho street meanwhile. streamed j Into the edifice In a procession which bids fair to continue all day It 1? I estimated that between 15,000 and I 30,000 persons viewed the body of the I prelate yesterday during the twelve hours it wn.i exposed to public view. I The office for the dead will be I sung at the cathedral tonight by the I Seminarians of St. Mary's college here j and the diocesan clergy, Bishop Cor-I Cor-I rigan presiding Governor Ritchie gave the flnnl touch to the plan for a general trib ute to the cardinal when he Issued an official proclamation yesterday calling call-ing on the people of Maryland to suspend sus-pend all activities at 10 o'clock to-tnoirow to-tnoirow morning, the hour of the funeral fu-neral and offer a prayer of gratitude for the example of Cardinal Gibbons' life, in Baltimore the mayor and cit council have proclaimed a five minute min-ute period of suspension. |