The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-08-31
WOLFE TONE
CELEBRATION
A BIC AFFAIR
Monster Demonstra-
ton in Dublin.
MANY VISITORS FROM ABROAD
GATHERED TO HONOR A HERo'S
MEMORY.
Great Procession Through the Streets,
=. Followed by a Magnificent
Rally at the Site of the
Monument.
MANY VISITORS FROM ABROAD
GATHERED TO HONOR A HERo'S
MEMORY.
BY j. j. CLANCY.
n Correspondence of The Call.

DUBLIN, Aug. 1.-THE Wore rome
ce1ebra ton which took place on MOI
dsv was unquestionably one Oh tle
greatest demonstrations which mas peeh
held in Dublin md, consequently III
Ireland for many years Inc only ohe
which can be at all compared IN size
with it was that which occurred on
the occasion of the first anniversary Oh
the death Of Parnell. This latter was,
I think. bigger, and there was Inuch
more excitement about it; but with this
exception Mondays display was the
greatest which I recollect since the I'M
yelling of the O'ConneH monument IN
1879. while it had one feature which all
other demonstrations have been With
o,lt-namely, the participation OF for
eign visitors in the proceedings. AS 10
these visitors a few words first. TO the
agreeable surprise of US at home a good
many rish-Americans found their way
to Dublin for the ceremonial and,
moreover, a good many of them came
over expressly for the function. one
bishop and several Catholic priests
were present from the New England
States. This, after all, was only what
was to be expected; what was not SO
natural was the presence OF seWera1
.Frenchmen and Italians, who arrived
in a body on Saturday and were &C
corded a public welcome on the ARRIVAL
of the mail steamer at klngStoWn. One
of these foreigners excited particular
amount of Interest," mean Signor Ci-
priani, an Italian, who has been in no
less than forty pitched battles from the
time of the rising against Austrian RUE
in Italy down to the last Greek war, in
which of course, he was on the side OF
the Greeks against the Turks. and in
the course of which he received a
dangerous wound in the leg. ALI
Americans, French and Italians-were
surprised at the magnitude of Monday
demonstration. The comment of the
Frenchmen, 1 believe, was that, though
they had seen more picturesque and
better organized displays in Paris, they
had not seen larger one in the course
of their lives or one with which there
seemed to be more general sympathy
among the general population.
The proceedings of Monday COM
menced early by the assembling in
OConnen street of the various con-
tingents from the city and the pro-
vinces which were to make UP the pro-
cession. All the railway lines poured
thousands into the city and each con-
tingent carried a banner showing where
it came from and was accompanied by
Dd0O. livery man Oh IldIly OK IDe
contingents carried a pike or a battle
ak, and some of those odd old-fashioned
implements were actually used in the
instruction of '9S l myself handled
one of them and 1 can well imagine how
effective they must have been in those
days when hand to hand encounters
were still the rule in many combats
Among those contingents north, south,
east and west were represented, but
particularly the north and still more
particularly, strange to say, the capital
of the north, Orange Belfast. The
Mayor of Cork and other provincial
dignitaries were in attendance in their
robes and chains of office, and so were
many representative politicians who do
not occupy any elective positions. The
city Of Dublin, of course, turned out in
great force. The Lord Mayor and the
other members Of the corporation were,
to use Well-worn expression, I'm full
regalfa-" The members of the various
city trades marched after their respect
i've banners, which seemed to have
been, in many cases, specially reno
waited for the occasion. The same may
be said of such organizations as the
Foresters and kindred societies. A
prominent place in the procession was
allotted to the Irish members of Par
Lament, and they went on foot irnne-
d1ately after the vehicle which con-
veyed the French and Italian visitors.
Comparatively few Of them, however.
ATTENDED. The Parnellites, who are the
snalest section, were pretty fully rep
resented; but Of the Dillonites onlv Mr.
Dillon himself and nine or ten of his
followers were in the procession. T. M
Healy was not in the procession. but
1t must be added that he was in the
crowd and that he sent a subscription
OF 8lO to the. fund for the statue to
Wolfe Tone.
The rOl1te of tho yrooo.~fo..
usual, for 1t went through the old
quarter OF Dublin, which is now given
up TO the poorer classes. But the rea-
son for this departure from precedent
was plain enough. The streets through
which the procession marched were
those in which many of the most mem
orable events and incidents of 1898 oc-
CURED. Wolfe Tone himself for in
stance, was born in a street which
though leading quarter of the citv
1O0 years ago, is now a back street
Emmett was executed in Thomas street
which, still a leading business street, is
not one or the show streets. The same
may be said of the street in which the
home is situated of the yeonlen who
took in Tones body after his alleged
suicide. But there was one ADVANTAGE
gained by resorting to this unaccus- |
toned route 1t showed much more
than could otherwise have been done
how the mass of the population svn-
pathized with the demonstration and
its effect. The working class and mid
die shopkeeping classes of all the
streets to which have referred crowd |
ed the windows all along the route |
waved their handkerchiefs and cheered |
so that the welkin rang When the |
procession emerged into Dame street |
and Grafton street. supposed to be
loyalist quarters, the windows and |
balconies were crowded, too, but a
good many who filed them were, of |
course, only spectators. The thou
sands, however. which lined even those
streets were Nationalist, and they
made the fact known by the cheers !
with which they greeted every portion |
of the procession.
IT was pretty late in the evening
when all were assembled at the. site of |
the Wolfe Tone monument, butt was
q really magnificent spectacle when the |
vast concourse had gathered together
to listen to the speeches which were
delivered from the platform erected on |
the spot. On that platform many |
representative men of all sections of |