The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-09-25

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CAPTAIN GREER, q Distine
report which has just been published
by the head inspector Of national
schools in Connaught. This gentle
man, MIR. Sullivan, remarks that the
attendance in most schools is, compar-
attvely speaking, good in winter; but
only when the winter is mild, and that
for an obvious reason. "A very large
proportion of the children of this prov
ince (ConnaughD," says Mr.. Sullivan,
lis poorly fed and very poorly clad. 1t
is painful TO seas an inspector can
not fail to see-little groups of bare
footed boys and girls, miserably clad,
trying to make their way on a winters
morning to the neighboring school. In
such cases we hope that the school
room, when reached, may make these
poor children warm and comfortable.
Unfortunately, this is not the case.
My experience, and it is extensive, is
that the schoolroom which awaits most
children after their walk over bleak
roads or paths, is a cold, cherries
apartment" And the Inspector goes
on to speak of the spectacle presented
by the few sods of turf placed on the
hearth and lighted, but giving no heat,
or, rather, little heat and mass of
smoke, and of the miserable children
who had just come in and who sat
quiet, melancholy looking and shiver-
ing opposite their respective desks. On
inquiry the inspector was told that it
was "a bad year for turf; but the fact
is that it is always "a bad year for
turf"-and for everything else-in some
parts of Connaught. The consequences,
so far as the spread of education is
concerned, are disastrous Among
them is an insufficient and unpunctual
attendance at school in those very
places where sufficient and punctual
attendance would be of the greatest
Importance Parents and children
feel" says the inspector, that on a
winters morning their own cabins,
miserable as they are, are warmer
than the schoolroom, and consequent
ly the children either remain at home
altogether in cold weather or postpone
their departure for school until as late
an hour as possible" After all the
years of Turkish rule, we could not
find such state of things in Bulga-
ria. In Ireland, after three centuries
of effective British control of Irish af-
fairs, it is unfortunately a common
sight. 1t would be we'll If Mr.. Cham
berlain explained why it is SO before
he leaves the United States.
l suppose l need hardly say even to
Doncaster st. Leger" is one of the
greatest events of the racing year in
England. 1t is the greatest, indeed,
after the Derby" and the winner of
the Derby" generally speaking, wins
the st. Leger, too. This year Jed
dab, who won the Derby in June, was
considered "a dead certainty" for the
other race. He has, however, been
beaten in "a canter" by Wildfowler an
Irish horse. This incident is natural
~ matter of pride to Irishmen, most
Of whom take delight in racing, and it
is all the more remarkable coming, as
1t does. after the victories of that other
Irish horse. Galtee More. last year in
not only the Derby and the ''St Lee
GER but also in the two thousand
guineas," and. in fact, in all classic
contests on the English turf in 1897
WildfoWler was bred and reared in Ire
land by an Irish gentleman. Captain
Greer, the owner of several other first
class Irish horses. including that great
horse, Kilcock, probably the greatest
on the English turf at the present day.
Those repeated Irish successes at FIG.
lish race mee ings are, of course, i'm
portant to Ireland in a very material
sense. They have raised the reputa-
ton of Irish bred horses to high pitch
in England, and the consequence is
that Irish horses in that country now
English owners of race horses are set
ting up racing establishments in Ire
land In the belief that the soil and the
climate of the country are specially
favorable to the production of first
class animals AS for Captain Greer.
the owAer of Wildfowler, he is highly
respected for his straightforward ac-
ton on the turf where, according to
the prevalent belief honesty and
straightforwardness are not prominent
virtues prominently or steadily prac-
ticed.
Those who have read the account re.
Gently published in The Call of the ca
reer of Ernest Terah Hooley will be
interested and. PERHAPS. SURPRISED TO
learn that of the money which he sue.
ceeded in raking in from the public, a
very large proportion came from the
city of Dublin. IT is very doubtful If
any city or town in the United King
dom has-ever gone in so extensively for
speculation as Dublin did over the cycle
boom 1t came about in this way. In
the first place. Dunlop. the inventor of
the pneumatic tire which bears his
name, is q Dublin man: and In the
next place. the persons first to make
money out of the Dunlop cycle tire
were group of Dublin men who
bought up Dunlop shares by the
thousand when London would not look
al them anu thereby made huge for
tunes in very brief time The cir
cumstance set Dublin on fire. Every
man. rich and poor. thought he. too,
could become rich beyond the dreams
of avarice. if he only gambled enough.
and l am sorry to say that only too
many persons who could not afford It
translated their thoughts into acts.
Every new cycle company that came
out and asked for subscriptions to its
shares found Dublin men only too
ready to respond to their dearest
wishes. The result can be easily
guessed. Thousands have been heay-
lily hit; some hundreds at least have
been ruined. Dublin is now suffering
from exhaustion and very little is do
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