The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-06-02
PATRICK EGAN
A Chat With the Paris End OF the Irish
Iand-Lengue.

Chat With the Paris End OF the Irish
Iand-League.
/ have also seen Mr.. Patrick Egan, the
treasurer Of the Land-league, about the
PhBnix park crime. He denounced it as a
piece of atrocious and inhuman folly, and
spoke with kindness of Lord Frederick
Cavendish, with whom he had some years
ago business relations. Full particulars az
to the manner in which the two murders
had taken place had not arrived here when
! saw Mr.. Egan. He hazarded many con.
lectures, but none of them proved 10 have
been right. The idea Of generalization was
too horrible for him 10 entertain. Mr.
Egan inspires me both with sympathy and
confidence. He is notably intelligent, and
the most prominent feature of his
character is gentleness. He looks
about forty.six, approaches the
middle height, has a broad chest
and shoulders, but does not impress one
as being athletic. The face is pale, and the
complexion that of a sandy-haired man.
He has very fine forehead, but its breadth
and good development fail to strike one
forcibly.. On the occasion of my first inter-
view with him did not notice these points.
The eyebrows are thick, rough and Of a
very light tinge: and the eyes are exactly
the color of the forget-me-not. | never saw
In a mans head a pair of softer blue eyes.
The nose is very retrousse, and appears in
some extent. to owe its shape to blow.
Egan speaks In very low, soft voice. He
never hesitates in answering question.
His dction is simple and elegant. One
discovers, when one knows him well, that
he is humorist. His humor and irony
are very delicate. Shrule near Bally-
mahon, In the county of Lonford, is where
he was born and reared Nobody of the
name OF Egan ever belonged to the rural
gentry of Ireland. l dare say the treasurer
of the land-league comes of an obscure but
decent Catholic stock. Although no blue
blood runs in his veins, he has exauisitely
shaped and delicate hands. They are hands
to execute the ideas Of an artistic brain.
Mr.. Egan is, | should say, man of taste.
The apartment in which he sits Is half q
drawing.room and half study. A desk
between the fireplace and the window is
loaded with neatly arranged and nicely
bound books. Order is shown in the ar.
rangement of the pamphlets, manuscripts
and newspapers. The furniture would not
bring much at an auction. Some of it was
no doubt brought over from Ireland, Its
general effect, however, ischarming. There
are some small porcelain and other orna-
| ments on the cottage piano and chimney
piece, and very well chosen prints of an in.
| expensive kind are hung upon the walls.
Mr.. Egan lives on the first floor of rather
plain house in the Avenue de Vilers.
When the visitor rings the bell at the outer
door of his flat, the pattering of pair lit
tie feet are audible, and then the sound of a
more steady step. The Egan household is
now without servant. A help comes in
for part of the day and she and Miss
Egan, beautiful, black-eyed rosy checked
girl OF II, who is home for holiday from
school, get through the work of the estab-
lishment. The owner of the pattering feet
Is not the youngest child There is baby.
and there are eleven children who are its
seniors. But the greater part of them are
at school In Belgium. have not made the
acquaintance of Mrs. Egan, but am told
that notwithstanding the heavy family care
which twelve young people impose on her,
she is still charmingly pretty and woman
OF cheerful temper and lively manners.
When ,Egan heard Of the Phoenix park
murder, he was greatly afraid that it would
have the effect of upsetting the Gladstone
ministry and throwing power into the hands
of the torie. This, in his opinion, would
have lee to fearful cataclysm. Ireland, he
felt convinced, would in the end triumph.
But meanwhile her population would have
to pass again through the fire of the most
cruel adversely. | asked why he thought
she was certain to triumph. because, 4" he
replied, there are so many younger Ire
lands The one in America has a numeri-
cal strength of 100000. A large number
of these were born in the United States.
But that does not prevent them from being
as Irish in feeling as if they had drawn the
first breath upon the old soil. They are
not fanatical or priest-ridden, and the
greater part of them are in thriving cir.
cumstances. The lrelands in Australia and
Canada are less important, but still would
be great force on our side. During the
1.-THE war and 179S there was only one Ire
land, and the Catholics and the Protestants
there detested each other. One of the best
triumphs Of the League has been to fuse
the orange and the green.-[Paris letter to
New York Tribune.