The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-10-30
THE SEVENTH OF THE KIND
AN UNUSUAL DEMONSTRATION
IS SUCCESSFULLY HELD.
Monster Procession Headed by
Mounted Men and the Memorial
Car Guarded by Foresters In
Picturesque Costumes.
BY j. j. CLANCY.
Special Correspondence of The Call.

DUBLIN. Oct. 15.-The celebration of
! the Parnell anniversary has been the
principal event of the week. When it is
! remembered that it was the seventh of
the kind, it was undoubtedly remark
! able demonstration. The Parnellites. of
| course outside Dublin, the other large
cities and towns, and some counties are
in minority; yet every October for the
last seven years $4,000 or 80 900 people have
come up from the provinces to join in the
procession through the streets of Dub
! lin to Parnell's grave in GlasneVin, and
do not believe that anything of the kind
has ever taken place in honor of any
other Irishman, living or dead. This year
learn that the exact number who trav-
| eled by railway alone to Dublin was %, 400.
! To this throng Dublin city and county
| added its usual multitude. 1t would be
! difficult to say how many people alto
! gether were in the streets, but probably
l should not exaggerate If 1 put it at over
100000. The procession was headed by a
contingent of men on horses, after whom
came the memorial car drawn by four
| horses and guarded on each side by
| mounted Foresters, who wore their pic
turesQue costumes-hat with white
Plumes, green coats trimmed with gold
braid, white buckskin breeches and long
top boots. The car was constructed for
the first anniversary demonstration, and
every year, on the eve of the procession,
1t is deliberately decorated with flowers
by a committee of ladies' This time
Infinite pains must have been bestowed
monument. Behind the car there came
on foot the members and ex-members of
Parliament who stood by Parnell at the
time of the split in 1890, or who have since
been elected on Parnellite principles.
Then followed, in a long array reaching
| over a mile, corporate representatives OF
! Dublin and other cities in their munich
! pal robes, the Dublin Fire Brigade, fully
! accoutered and equipped for action, or
canned populations from various places
/ with bands and banners, and finally an
/ apparently interminable line of outside
! cars, carrying women as we'll as men,
/ The procession took over an hour IN pass
| ing a given point.
When the memorial car was within
! quarter of mile of the historic ceme-
! terry of GlasneVin the bands which had
! hitherto played joyous or martial airs
broke out into mournful music, to the
strains of which the processionists nled
into the beautifully laid out grounds of
the City OF the Dead and walked around
the mound where the remains of the
great Irish leader lie. This plat is in the
Immediate neighborhood of the O'Connell
Round Tower and the Cemetery Church.
1t is q spacious circular mound, which
was unused for forty years, but in the
famine times many We're buried in 1t who
died of starvation and cholera. 1t is now
covered all over with floral wreaths, the
grass rs kept carefully cut, the passages
through it graveled; right in the center
is an iron cross, which marks the head OF
the coffin; and around it is handsome
| iron railing erected at a cost of &4U0 and
! painted dark green. Certainly no grave
! in Glasnevin is so beautifully kept.
may add that it is 50 kept not by the
cemetery authorities, but committee of
| ladies, one or two of whom attend to it
personally every Saturday throughout
! the year, in the depth of winter as well
/ as in the height of summer, and have
! done so ever since October, 1891, circum-
| stance which is only one of many which
/ show the intensity of the personal deVo-
| ton which Parnell inspired and which
/ seems destined to outlive him for many
! a day to come. may remark, too, that
| those who do not feel that devotion seem
! to be more attracted to the grave of Par
! nell than TO any other spot in Glasnevin
! 1t is constantly the resort OF visitors
! from all parts, and it is a common sight
/ to see persons attending funerals make 1t
! a point to visit it before leaving, al
! though those who do so must have per-
| formed the same pilgrimage a hundred
! times before To return to the process
| sion, it only remains to add that 1t
/ passed through the cemetery In perfect
order returned to the city and then broke
up. the greater portion of the visitors
from the provinces leaving for their
homes by the evening trains. on the
whole. repeat, it was wonderful dem
onstration considering that it was the
seventh of a series, that large proper
ton of those who attended Travelled from
remote places, and that it is only two
months since many of them Travelled the
same distances to take part IN the great
demonstration in honor Of Wolfe Tone
For several years past 1T has been the
custom of the Parnellite leaders to hold
convention of their supporters on the day
following the procession to Glasnevin
and on this occasion the custom was duly
observed. The meeting was held in the
public halls of the city, under the presi-
dency as usual, of John Redmond, M. F.,
who was accompanied to the platform by
several of his parliamentary colleagues.
by the Lord Mayor of Dublin. the Mayors
of Cork and Kilkenny, and other men
prominent in public life in various parts
of Ireland. Considerable interest at
tached to the proceedings, because it was
understood that at least two subjects
which are, much, in peoples minds Just
now would be dealt with-namely, the
question of national reunion and the atti-
tude that should be adopted by National
lists in the coming elections under the new
local government system. The conven- |
ton did deal with both. On the latter |
subject the unanimous view was that Ma
tionalists ought everywhere to make sure
Of a majority, but that subject to secur-
ing a majority the 'Loyalist'' minority |
should everywhere be accorded fair and |
even liberal representation in the new
elective bodies. In other words, 1t was I
deemed advisable to make the new
councils as far as possible, stepping
stones to home rule, but at the same
time, by not boycotting capable men be-
longing to the anti-Nationalists minor
ity to secure the successful working of