The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-06-12
REV. WILLIAM MURPHY. OF DUR.
LIN, THINKS AMERICA FREE
FROM THEM.
HASN'T BEEN ASKED FOR AIMS
ALTHOUGH HII HAS VISITED NAVY
CITIES IN THE UNITED
STATES.
VISITED HOME FOR THE AGED.
His Presence Was Like a. Ray of
Sunshine - Personal Gossip
Caught In the Hotels

IAN Irishman always feels at home
in America" remarked Rev William
Murphy, of Duluth, at the Ryan last
evening.
Yesterday afternoon / went out to
the Home of the Aged, conducted by
the Sisters of the Poor L had no soon
er entered the building than l felt at
home. There were many old men and
women there and / knew most of them
were from Ireland AS soon as L was
en- the inside, 1 asked if there We're any
Murphys in the crowd. You NAV be
sure there were plenty of them When
they found that l was a Murphy too,
and was fresh from the old sod, the
old people laughed and cried for joy.
Wherever the sun rises you will find
Irishmen.
Il am greatly impressed with Amer
lea" said Father Murphy enthusiast
tcally. Il have been here only a little
While. [ landed in New York and went
straight South to Savannah, New Or
leans and other Southern cities. l am
on special mission and while in the
South visited many converts and hos
pitfalls and other charitable institutions.
L was at home everywhere went, for
in the hospitals and similar institu-
tions, over half the inmates were
Irish"
How did you find the poor people
of the South" was asked.
Poor people" repeated the priest in
establishment, why L did not see any.
I do not believe you have any poor
people i'm America. 1t is fact that in
all Of the American cities I have WIS.,
tied, I have not been asked for aims
cnce. [ could not have walked a block
In Dublin without meeting beggars.
who live on the gifts Of the public. It
is one of the first things you notice in
the United States, the absence of beg
gars. Your agricultural classes appear
we'll to do. If 1 were to look for your
poor peasantry, 1 would not know
where to seek
Representative NJ A Goar. of Ken
nedy, Mimi, who represented the Fifty
second district, which, under the re-
apportionment bill passed at the last
legislature, has become the Sixty third
district, was in st. Paul yesterday, and
is stopping at the Merchants Mr. GOar
IS the man who made the fight for the
organization of Nelson county out of
thirteen townships belonging to Polk
county.
Mr.. Goar is up here for the purpose
OF attending the meeting of the grand
lodge of Odd Fellows, which was held
in Minneapolis Under the reappOrtiOn-
ment bill, which was put through at
the recent session, the Fifty-second
district was given an additional rep
resentatiVe, and Mr.. Goar naturally
feels as if he had done nearly his whole
duty in the matter. He left for home
last evening.
Alex Fiddes, of Jackson, who has been
in the city for the past day or two at
tending to matters connected with the
Republican league, said at the Windsor
yesterday: 1T has been years since
the taxes in Jackson county were paid
up so promptly or so fully as they have
been this year 1t shows that the farm
ers are feeling prosperous at any rate.
The fact is that we have no hard times
at all in Southern Minnesota"
Capt. E. B. Shanks, of Fairmont, was
in the city yesterday He is a candi-
date for the postoff1ce at FairmOnt,
and came to St.-Paul partly in the hope
OF meeting Congressman McCleary. The
congressman, however, was called down
the river to his old home in Wisconsin
Immediately upon his arrival in st.
Paul Monday morning, and from there
will probably go home to Mankato.
James ]. Horne, Gracevire, is at the Clar-
endon.
o. C. Purcell, Dubuque, is at the MetropoII-
tan.
T. E. Braineld, of Neilsville. Wis, is stop
ping at the Clarendon.
Mrs. S. Arnold, Fargo, is at the Aberdeen.
P. P. Shelby is at the Aberdeen.
E. A. Demeter and wife, Macon registered
at the Metropolitan.
D. l. Russell, St. Cloud, is a guest at the
Windsor.
A. P. Blanchard is Little Falls arrival at
the Windsor.
G. w. Kellogg, of Rochester. N Y, is stop
ping at the Windsor.
]. B. Griffin and wife. of GAINESVILLE. Wis,
are on the list of Windsor arrivals
]. A. Bowditch. of Wabasha, is at the Mer-
chants.
E. H. Johnson is Miles City arrival at the
Merchants.
A Crookston guest at the Merchants is NJ.
R. Brown.
T. E. Adams. of Melrosc is registered at
the Merchants.
John Lind of New Ulm. was in the city
yesterday and was at the Merchants.
c. c. Graham, of Chicago, is at the Ryan.
E. H. Holmes, of Detroit. is registered at
the Ryan.
S. B. Hayden is Buffalo arrival at the
Ryan.
James Tryon, of Baltimore, was at the Ryan
yesterday.