Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-11-22
Mr.. C0NROY'S
IMPRESSIONS
HE SAYS THE AMERICAN Elk
HIBIT AT PARIS Is THE
POOREST AT THE FAIR.
EMBRACED ALL OF
THE POINTS OF INTEREST,
Viewed the Passion Play at Oberam-
2 mergau and Were Granted Audi
ences by the Pope

The American exhibit at the Paris
exposition is not what it really ought
to be-"
Pig In se%ntentious form that is the opin-
ion of Mr.. M. V. Conroy, of the real
estate firm of Conroy & Morley, who,
with his wife, recently returned from IL
tour Of the continent. The realty brok-
er is patriotic, and, therefore, rather
cautious in his utterances about any
thing concerning his own country. but
his conviction in this instance is SO
strong as to remove the paddock of
sentiment from his lips.
1t will be embere that Mr.. Con-
roy was united in marriage to a daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. job II. McQueeney
on July 25 last, the couple starting on
their honey moon abroad on the same
date. From New York they sailed for
Cherbourg, France, and proceeded di-
rectly to Paris.
Il am forced to admit said Mr..
Conroy, that l regard the American
exhibit as the poorest at the exposition.
The only good feature of our exhibit
That is, the only one which seemed to
attract any marked atention-was a
pace where Indian corn was cooked in
various styles and dealt out to visitors.
We spent three weeks in Paris, visit
ing the exposition, museums and other
points of interest. 1t would take two
years to see everything at the exposition
and give this great international fair the
study it's stupendous attractions and
importance deserve. me month might
profitably be employed in studying the
exhibits in any one of several of the
magnificent builds there"
From Paris, Mr.. and Mrs. Conroy went
TO IUcPrna and Munich or1 than 70
Oberamergau. where they saw the fam
bus Passion Play" Nat Goodwin and
his wife known better by her stage
name of Maxine Elliott. were there at
the same time as Mr.. and Mrs. Conroy.
1t is noted as a curious fact by the real
ty broker that while Editor Stead, of the
Review on Reviews, who owes his promi-
nence chiefly to having written eff Christ
Came to Chicago" lauded the pl..y to the
skies, Editor Hart, of the San Francisco
Argonaut, one of the most capable mus
lcal and dramatic critics in the country,
condemned it in unmeasured terms.
After a tour embracing nearly all of
the chief points of interest in Southern
Europe, Mr.. and Mrs. Conrov journeyed
to the old home of the groom t Galway,
in Ireland, celebrated on accoun. Of being
the birthplace of George Lynch, from
whose name vas derived the word
lynch and it's various Compounds.
Three weeks We're spent in Galway, at
the expiration of that time a iaunt was
taken about the island, and then the cou-
pie returned to Butte, arriving in his
city on the 18th inst.
Among the points of interest visited
We're Mount Vesuvius, the Adriatic sea,
Milan, Padua, Pisa, the Tyrolean Alps,
Lake Leman, Rome, Vienna, Venice, Flor
ence, Pompeii, Herculaneum, the Island
of Capri, Turin. Geneva, Marseilles,
Calais, London. Manchester and Dublin.
At Rome Mr.. and Mrs. Conroy went
through the Vatican and were granted
two audiences by the pope at one time
only a dozen persons being granted this
privilege In the Sistrine temple, where
Leo XIII. was endowed with the rank
and honors of his high office. After
ward the couple witnessed the striking
and beautiful ceremony of the beatifca-
ton Of a saint in st. Peters cathedral.