Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: The Golden Jubilee. Written by Anne Elizabeth O'Hare. IN THE splendid observance at St. Patrick's Church on Wednesday a parochial golden jubilee was celebrated for the second time in the history of Cleveland. Not that the observance was in any sense parochial. It was particularly the anniversary of organized Catholicity on the west side of the river, and generally, by various ties of interest and association, a jubilee for all the Catholics of Cleveland, as was manifest to any observer of the diversely constituted crowd, armed with passports of admission, that blackened the street early in the morning and poured into the church the moment the doors were opened. Ordinarily St. Patrick's seems spacious. Compared with the multitude that surged in to occupy it Wednesday morning, however, its space contracted into relative insignificance. There was considerable compression while the aisles and entrances were kept free for the entrance of the clergy. Then the unseated throngs breathed more easily, spreading good-naturedly into the aisles or comfortably ensconcing themselves on the sanctuary steps. The church had been effectively but not elaborately adorned for its jubilee. Spreading branches of foliage reached out from the capitals of the pillars and half spanned the aisles with trellises of greenery, so twined among the lights that when the Sanctus gave the signal for the church's illumination, they seemed suddenly hung with hundreds of radiant globules of amber. On the altar only tiers of tall vases filled with yellow and white chrysanthemums supplemented the golden glow from the candles and the shining robes of the officiating priests. There were about ninety clergymen, besides sixty vested acolytes, in the procession that filed out from the pastoral residence shortly ... --This text refers to the Paperback edition.