The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-03-17
IRELAND'S PATRON SAINT,
ST. PATRICK'S DAY IN CINCIN-
NATI.

This, the 18th of March, was ushered
in with a stern northeast wind that PEN
etrated the thickest clothing. The
ground was frozen hard, rendering the
march more agreeable than it generally
is on this day, and the sun shone out
from behind fleeting clouds.
At few minutes past the time ap
pointed most OF the organizations had
reported in the neighborhood of the
Cathedral, where the men stood shiver-
ing with cold, and stamping their feet
while impatiently waiting the arrival of
the Newport delegation, tnat did not
put in an appearance until quarter past
O'Clock; when all being In readiness,
Grand Marshal Mulvihill gave the word
OF command, and the procession moved
off lively to the inspiriting tune of"Rory
O'More," in the following order:
Grand Marshal - Thomas j. Mulvi-
hill, Jr.
Assistants-WilIiam Curran, Edward
Nealis, James McDermott and 2. r.
Costello.
FIRST DIVISION.
Platoon of Police, i'll full dress, under
command Of Sergeant Louis Beddinger,
Of the Hammond-street District.
Cincinnati Drum Corps-Leader, Geo.
T. Suter; Fifer, X. W. Green.
Irish American Centennial Guards
Captain, Mike Welsh, 40 men, and
Scotch bag-piper named Donaldson.
SECOND DIVISION.
Washington Band.
Holy Family Sodality, 200 men.
St. Aloysius P. M, 10 youths, under
command OF Frank zimmerman.
St. Aloysius A. M, 100 youths, under
command oil Jerry Crowley.
Soldiers and Sailors Veteran Field
Band.
Members of sodality in carriages,
| THIRD DIVISION.
| NeWport Hibernians, 200 men in full
regalia; Marshal, j. j. Stretcn.
FOURTH DIVISION.
Brandts First Regiment Band.
| Cincinnati Ancient Order Hibernians
Barney Mulligan, Marshal.
The line oil march was strictly ad-
hered to and was as follows:
| On Eighth street west to Cen
tral avenue, north to Clark, west to
Gutter, south to Sixth, west to Stone.
south to Third, east to Plum, north 10
the Cathedral.
AT IL O'clock the procession was
marched back to the Cathedral where
ranks were broken and the participants
entered the church to listen to an ad-
dress from Father VIM. Haley, who
chose for his subject the "Lte and Ser
wees OF st. Patrick"
Az the conclusion of these exercises s
the line was again formed and the march
finished, as follows:
On Eighth street east to Sycamore,
south to Fourth, east to Pike, south to
Pearl, east to Newport Bridge, where
they proceeded to Newport and took up
the following line Of march: West on
Byzantine street to Monmouth, south to
Taylor, west to York, south to Jefferson. j
east TO Washington avenue, south TO
Harris, west to Columbia, north to
Rlnggold, west to Brighton, north to
Chestnut, east to Central avenue, north
10 Madison. east to Columbia, north TO
Bellevue, east to York, north to Taylor,
east to Monmouth, east to Byzantine,
east to bridge, ard return to Cincinnati,
proceeding west on Pearl to Broadway,
north to Fourth, west to Vine, north 10
seventh, west to Plum, north TO Eighth,
where the Societies were disbanded.
The procession, Notwithstanding the
recent trouble existing among the vari.
Gus orders and societies, was grand and
imposing, re flecting credit upon all par.
ticipating in The parade in honor OF Ire.
lands patron saint.
The following extract from a letter
written by Hon. j. W. Fitzgerald to Mr..
John O'COnnor, President OF the Hi.
bernian Benevolent Society of the Day
ton Soldiers Home, expressing regrets
at not being able to address the Society
to-day at their annual banquet in Day.
ton, is Of interest in this connections:
1t is worthy the Irish soldiers Of the
American Republic to celebrate ST. Pat.
ricks Day in way to perpetuate the
National memories of the past. The
leebled health and crippled limbs oI
many ofyour members attest your un
alterable devotion to the cause of Unior
aud Liberty in your adopted country
, and, oh, how cheerlully you would MAKE
the same noble sacrifices for that deal
old land across the sea, whose people
are now enslaved by the robber rule o
the foreign taskmaster. Who Is " thai