, 1884-03-18
PATRON SAINT.
How st. Patrick's Day Was Oh.
served in Cheyenne--Grand
Ball and a Banner
Presentation.

Ireland S greatest OF all great lays was
duly observed and commemorated in
Cheyenne, and more especially by the
Irish Benevolent association yesterday.
No event of a public nature occurred un-
til evening, when the banner presentation
took place at Library hall, followed by one
of the finest and most numerously attend
ed balls which has been given in Cheyenne
for many a month. The hall had been
during the day profusely decorated and
adorned with flags, devices and pictures
and in the early part of the evening the
crowd began to assemble until the hall
was filed and crowded to OVERLOOKING.
When all was in readiness, the mem
bers of the society formed at the east end
of the hall and marched down the centre
of the same, headed by Mr.. Harrington,
late cadet at West Point, to seats that had
been provided at the lower or west end.
Opposite the seats assigned to the society
sat many of the ladies that united in pre-
senting the society with the banner,
among whom we noticed: Mrs. Murrin,
Mrs. Falton, Mrs. t. Cahill, Mrs. Pr j.
Nolan, Mrs. j. w. Griffin, Mrs. Besna-
han, Miss Lizzie Maran, the Misses Joyce,
Mrs. G. McGarvy, Mrs. Mckay. Mrs.
Crawley, Mrs. Stubbs, Mrs. c. W.
Wright, Mrs. NJ. P. Hannifan, Miss
Morely, Mrs. Morely and many others
unknown to our reporter. When all had
been seated and order restored, Mr.. John
A. Martin arose and stated that, as per
previous announcement, Captain j. j.
O'Brien, of the 9th infantry, would then
with appropriate remarks present on be
half of the ladies the banner to the asso-
citation. He then introduced Captain
O'Brien, who arose and said:
Ladies and Gentlemen:-I am present
here this evening, by invitation, to deliv-
er a brief address-the occasion being
the dedication and presentation offs beau
tiful banner, to the Irish Benevolent So
cicty of Cheyenne.
The society was organized in September
1882 with a membership of thirty-fve;
to-day it has upwards of fifty; within the
e year the officers feel hopeful and CON
fident that they will have one hundred
working men.
The officers are as follows:
President JAMES B. WALSH.
Vice President-JoHN O'BRIEN.
Treasurer-DAvID FITZGERALD.
Financial and Recording Secretary
PETER WINToRs.
Secretary-J. F. CROWLEY.
The aim object and end in view, ladies
and gentlemen, of the Irish Benevolent
Society of Cheyenne, is purely benevo-
lent; the assisting the distressed, nursing
and attending in time of pain and sickness
Gods little ones here below, and minis
tering the last rites when the soul leaves
forever, its earthly %habitation, for the I'M
known realms of eternity.
The society is a grand and noble organi-
calling forth, as it does, the high
est and hottest aspirations of the mind,
with the richest and rarest treasures of
the human heart, by the bed side of the
weary and afflicted, caused by sorrow,
pain and sickness, found within the habi-
tations Of the poor and lowly.
Such are the deeds, good wishes and
acts of tender mercy, the Irish Benevo-
lent Society through its members, per-
in the homes of the afflicted, CON-
forting and consoling the sufferers,
the parched lips, and changing to comfor-
table positions the tired and weary, and
more too-their presence as human be-
ings, watching and caring for poor suffer
ing mortals during the tedious hours of
trials and tribulations. Acts and
deeds, ladies and gentlemen, that must
call down from the realms Of eternal light
choicest blessings both here and
hereafter-on the true and earnest
members of the society here tonight.
The society returns its earnest thanks
for your liberal patronage. Your presence
here this evening fully demonstrates, your
kindly wishes for the welfare and success
of its institutions, and l feel confident,
that if ever needed, substantial aid will be
freely and generously offered by a COM
munity that a few years past, with its city
was styled or named a something or thing
on wheels, but the indomitable will, en-
ergy, courage, perseverance and self-conti-
dence of its inhabitants, surmounted all
obstacles, building up a prosperous,
fourishing and permanent city where we
now stand, a city to any, ladies and gen
tlemen, no mean rival to her beautiful
neighbor, the Queen City of the Plains,
Denver.
This dedication and presentation of this
beautiful banner, emblematio in every
sense of the word, of the true workings
of the organization it represents, must be
double dear TO each and every one of its
members, and the Irish residents of Chey-
enne, calling forth as it does tonight the
fondest, tenderest and most affectionate
feelings within u breasts-feelings ma
tured and fostered from infancy to boy
hood and never to be forgotten.
Never never, to be forgotten; the an
niversary of dear old Ireland's most loved
teacher and aportle, st. Patrick true,
holy and spotless man-one that gave and
devoted his whole life and labors in the
service of his Redeemer, whose memory
will ever form rich cases of love in the
breasts of the rons and daughters of Erin,
when this day repeats itself, and hear
this, let each one that feels the warm
blood of the Emerald Isle c%oursing