Thomas L. Conroy introduced Charles H. Bertrand with a humorous apology for the speaker's French descent. Mr. Bertrand delivered an address eulogistic of the Irish and their national traits. The address was replete with pathos and humor. In this manner St. Patrick's Day has been celebrated in San Antonio from one generation to another as far back as the oldest inhabitant can remember. It seems that when Mother Nature puts on her green dress as the blackberry, mulberry and huisache take on foliage to transform them from the somber gray of the drab winter, she lends on inspiration to the renewal of life, so that everybody, Irish or not, is given to the wearing of the green about the time St. Patrick's Day comes around.
Men become partial to green neckties and the ladies to green dresses.
It is the color scheme of spring.