The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-01-15

ly those of Irish birth or descent the
aims and objects of the new move
ment. Mr.. O'Connor made a great
success of his mission. Indeed, MS
style of oratory took with his audi
ences from the start, and his extend
ed tour through this country and Can
ada was marked by the greatest enthu-
siasm and success. With the exeep-
ton of John Redmond, he is the ablest
Irish representative, from an orator1-
| cal standpoint, that has been heard
in America for great many years.
| In 1885, the passage Of the electoral
reform bill led to a re-casting of the
| system of parliamentary representa-
ton in Great Britain and Ireland.
| Among other changes, the city Of Liv-
erpool, which up to that time had but
two members of parliament elected by
the city at large, was divided into nine
| districts or divisions, each being given
a member. 1t happens that one of
those divisions (called Scotland Road
division, named after the principal
thoroughfare of the district is over
whelmingly Irish in the complexion Of
| its population, and when this was dis
| covered, Mr. ParnelI decided to in
crease his party (now numbering So
members) by adding another from the
city of Liverpool. r. P. O'Connor was
his choice for the seat, and he was
elected by a large majority. He then
resigned his seat for Galway, and has
sat as one of the members from Liver
pool ever since.
The return of an Irish nationalist
representative from an English city
caused no end of amusement on both
sides of St Georges channel, and
jokes bearing on the phenomenon were
rich and frequent. The day Mr.. O'Con-
nor took his seat, Lord Randolph
Churchill, In the course of his speech,
referred to "the pleasure it gave him
and his colleagues to listen to the
speech Of the honorable gentleman. the
Irish member for the Scotch division
of an English constituency"
His present paper, M A. p" is the
third publication Mr.. OConnor has
started in London. He founded the St7r
half-penny evening paper, in 1890
and after building it up to a great cir
culation, he sold out to a syndicate of
which Coleman. the mustard million
aire, was chief supporter. Soon after
wards he started the Sunday Sun,
which he conducted successfully till six
months ago, when he gave up the edi-
torial control, and turned his attention
to the organization of Mainly About
People.
He has written much for the Ameri-
can press, prime pally cable letters from
London on European affairs. His news
paper style is extremely graphic and
picturesque, as all who have read his
articles will readily agree. His book
style is likewise virile and captivating
Mr. O'Connors work as a writer of
books includes Lord Beaconsfeld: a
biography" "The Parnell movement, !"
"Gladstone's house of commons;"
Some old love stories.' and "Napo-
leon"
An automatic savings bank is short
ly to be launched in London. You put
a penny in the slot AMI receive in re-
turn ticket When you have accu-
mulated a number of those bits of
pasteboard, you pay them into the bank
of which the machines are branches
When you have $40 pasteboards to
your credit, they begin to draw inter
est. These penny-in-t he-slot banks
may go all right, and then again they
are liable to go all wrong. The test
Will come when some fellow with more
temper than patience puts in his money
and the ticket fails to come out. Some
lively smashing will happen to that
bank just then, unless a vigilant
bobby puts in an appearance in time
TO arrange matters more peacefully.
Among the applications to be made
TO parliament during the coming ses-
sion. is one for leave to build a railroad
between Manchester and Liverpool
upon which trains can be run at the
speed of $50 miles an hour.
If permission is granted, and the line
constructed, it may be possible for a
Manchester man to travel to Liverpool
IN twelve minutes, distance that now
takes from forty to forty-five minutes
The scheme is the idea of an engineer
named Behr, who believes $50 miles an
hour can be attained by the Lartiuue
single rail system. Behr is confident of
the success of his PLAN but most peo-
pie VIII wait q long time before con-
senting to be hurled through space at
the rate of 1850 miles an hour on anvI
kind of rail, single or duplex.
Parliament will shortly assembleNan6
the great liberal party is still without
leader. Not so the Irish party. which
has four LEADERSHIP. Dillon. Mr.. Red
mond, Mr. Healy and Mr.. Harring-
ton. Well might Mr. Balfour chuckle
as he surveys the spectacle from his
seat on the ministerial benches
e. OCONNELL CALVIN.