The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-09-11

fine basso; Miss Omerod, Ro,ert Gun
bingham, a tenor, and Miss Nellie Ste
wart who plays the Salvation Army
lass in the Belle of New York" Let
me add that Ireland itself is well in
in this matter. The young Dublin star.
William Dever, who is singing here
just now and made a decided hit in
"Lohengrin" a few nights ago, prom
iseS to turn out firSt-claSS artist, and
Ludwig Cor Ledwich, as they call the
name in Dublin), Barton McGuckin
(another Dublin MANI and Joseph
OMeara of Limerick have long since
brought renown in 1.-The old country"
1 am glad to say that not only Dub
lin but Ireland also is full of visitors
and tourists. They are swarming over
the 1000 lakes amid the hills of Come
mara; they are crowdlng the southern
hotels recently erected in the most pic
turesQue regions of Kerry; they are
thronging the Shannon steamers which
traverse what is known as the Duke
of Yorks route" In fact, we are hav-
ing a tourist boom" in Ireland at last,
and from all l can hear the foreigners
who have come to Ireland this summer
for the first time are so pleased with
what they have seen and with the trav-
cling and hotel accommodations they
have met with that a still larger influx
of visitors may be expected next year.
We have had some notable "intruders"
among US. On the Strand at Grey
stones about twelve miles from Dub
lin, for instance, within the past few
days we have had the unwonted spec
tacle Of the Lord Chancellor of Eng
land and the Lord Chancellor of Ire
land pacing up and down side by side,
and no doubt discussing not only the
Irish question but the affairs Of the en-
pire, for they are both Cabinet Minis
ters. The English Lord Chancellor. by
the way, Is of Irish extraction, and, in
deed, but for the accident of birth
would be just as much an Irishman as
the Irish Lord Chancellor, Lord Ash
bourne. Hardinge Clifford. as the Earl
of Halsbury was known before he was
ennobled was the name of a Dublin
citizen who was very prominent in pol
itics on the English side in the last CEN
fury, and Lord Halsbury is his direct
descendant Indeed, l believe there are
several members of the family still res
ident in Ireland. some of them in Dub
lin The two Chancellors are pretty
fortunate men. The English one has
ten thousand pounds sterling year, a
peerage of the United Kingdom, and a
seat in the Cabinet, with a pension of
four thousand pounds year at any
time he goes out of office; the Irish has
all this, too. with the exception that his
salary is eight thousand pounds a year
instead of ten. Considering that both
rose from the ranks" l think that
they may both be considered rather
fortunate. l may add that the Irish
Chancellor's brothers and some other
relatives have also been fortunate One
of his brothers is a Judge: another is
paid magistrate in a country district:
another is an officer under the local
Government Board. and a brother-in-
law occupies a valuable post in the
lunacy department of the Court of
Chancery. Some criticism is OCCASION
ally passed-mostly in private-on the
manner in which the Gibsons" have
been quartered in the country: but 1
must confess that l do not altogether
sympathize with 1t. Doubtless the
Lord Chancellor was the making of the
fortunes of the other members of his
family; but he himself got his post
through his own ability In the House
Of Commons, and why should he not
promote or help In the promotion of his
relatives If they were fit for the posts
they have got. as they are? On the
other hand, the English Lord Chancel-
lor has got, from the manner in which
he has exercised his very considerable
powers of patronage, the name of 1.-The
Lord High Jobber." How far he de-
serves the somewhat opprobrious ap-
pellation l do not know, though 1 have
heard of some rather queer appoint
ments made by him from time to time
The opening day of the horse show
was chosen by the Irish Daily indie
pendent-the Dublin organ of the Par
nellite party-for an exhibition of en-
terprise which will be of interest to
Irish-Americans. On that day 1t APP
peared in an enlarged size, with some
of its pages printed in two colors by
new printing press. The machine is an
American one-the Goss, from Chicago
and is the first of its kind, not merely
in Ireland or in the United Kingdom,
hut In E1roDe