The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-03-15
A Parade In Silence On Sun
day, and One with Music
and Flags on Monday.
NO POLICE ESCORT ON SUNDAY.
Two Branches Of the Ancient Order
Of Hibernians That Will Hold
Separate Parades.

st. Patrick's Day viii have a double
celebration this year. The festival falls
regularly upon Sunday, but large num-
Der of the deyotees of the Saint win do
him honor secularly upon Monday.
Some, however, will confine their cele-
bration to Sunday, and these will hold a
silent parade through the streets of the
resting city and through Hoboken to Pa
vonia Rink, where they viii conclude the
obseryances with music and speech maxi
ing. These represent one branch of the
Ancient Order of Hibernians
THE MONDAY PARADE.
Another branch of the Order-both
branches claim to be the regular
order-will hold a parade on Mon
day, with fife and drum, and police
to lead them. They will form on Grand
and Henderson streets at half past ten
O'Clock, and are to be reviewed at the City
Hall at noon. Owen Carroll, the county
delegate, will be grand marshal, with
William Barry as first aide and Thomas
pect to have twenty companies, with
about two thousand men in line.
Mr.. Carol could not say how many the
other branch will have in line
'"Ehey wouldn't have fifty" he said,
''but for the outside organizations ex-
ymU
thought of parading il the day had not
fallen on Sunday
THE POLICE QUESTION.
The question of allowing a police es-
cort to accompany the proposed Sunday
parade kept the Police Board in secret dis
cussion for two hours at Police Head
quarters yesterday afternoon.
When the commissioners made their
appearance it was merely to announce
that it had been decided not to detail an
escort. The police department will be ex-
pected, however, to give the paraders all
necessary protection.
AS far back as Last December one branch
of the Ancient Order have had a street
observance of ST. Patrick's Day on the
Sabbath ON which it falls, in contempla-
ton. In the early part of that month,
Patrick LAWN, the county delegate of the
order, sent request to the Police Board
for permission to parade through the
streets with band of music and police
detail at the head of the column His
communication was referred to. Cor
poration Counsel Blair, who sub
mitted an opinion that the Police
Board declared, was couched in language
they could not understand. In second
communication to the Board Mr.. Blair
made himself pretty thoroughly under
stood by announcing that public parade
with music ON Sunday was against the
law. County Delegate LAWN did not see
fit to press his application further and
it was withdrawn.
The musical feature of the parade
was then abandoned; and at re-
cent meeting of the Police Board
new application was received, over
the signature of Mr.. LAWN. This
time he asked only for police
escort. The consideration of this
application, which took place yesterday
afternoon, led to lively interchange of
views between the Commissioners behind
the locked doors, but the view taken was
that a police escort would be such an
official sanction of a Sunday parade as
could not be extended even to the Ancient
Order, and, as already stated, it was re-
fused.
MUSIC AT PAyoNIA HALL.
AS Chief of Police Murphy understood
them, the later calculations of the man
ayers of the demonstration was to march
from the Pennsylvania Railroad Depot,
where visiting delegations are to be re-
ceived, to the Hoboken city line without
music. At the head of Henderson OF Grove
street, where the line is to be joined by the
Hoboken and North Hudson Divisions,
the bandwas TO strike up and the paraders
were to make detour of that city to the
strains of 1.-THE Wearing of the Green. y
The Council of Hoboken has given its
consent to. the music, but Mayor Grass
man is not so ready to yield, and the
band will not furnish the tune for the
tread of the advancing hosts even in that
city
THEY MAY PARADE-THAT's ALL.
Chief Murphy said last evening that
the Ancient Order will be permitted to
march through the streets without music,
They will have no police escort, of course
but large details of police will be out to
preserve order and to see that the ordin-
ary traffic of the streets is not interfered
with.
County Delegate LAWN was found at
ST. Johns Hall later in the night, and
asked what the necessity of a police escort
was.
"Oh,' he replied, "only because it
would look in better form. We don't
need any escort. We are able to take care
of ourselves. We shall march without
music either here or in Hoboken; but our
band will be with us to furnish us with
music when we reach the Pavonia Rink,
where our national delegate is to de-
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