Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-18
.ERIN'S SONS HONOR
ST.PATRICK'S MEMORY
An IMMENSE PARADE DURING THE Morning AND INTEREST
ING EXERCISES WERE RENDERED DURING THE AFTERNOON.

| If an Eskimo, whose home is in the
| region of the glaciers on Greenland $
/ icy mountains, or Braham from far
! thest India could have donned a pair of
| seven leagued boots this morning and.
! with a few strides, have planted him.
| self on the sidewalk at the corner of
Main and Broadway streets, city of
! Butte county of Silver Bow. state of
Montana. he would naturally have in
! qui,ed who all the parading and music
! were in honor of.
When he was told that Butte Irish
! men We're celebrating St. Patrick's day,
his involuntary expression, perhaps,
would have been. first, that st. Patrick
/ must have cut large figure at some
time or other. and. secondly, that Butte
Irishmen are up to the standard when
it comes to celebrating.
The patron saint OF the Emerald isle
must have felt proud at the honor ac-
| corded his memory in the first mining
city of the country today. He had rea-
son to bet was an occasion when men
who hadn't thrown out their chests and
stiffened their spinal columns for a year
did SO with a proud sense of duty being
we'll performed. State President Dan
Hennessy. of the A. Q. H.. rode in a
carriage. but he sat so straight that a
two-foot rule could have been thrust
down his back without causing any ma
terial discomfort. and as for Major
Deeney-well. when his name is men,
toned that is enough for the major
Anybody could guess the rest.
Promptly at $50 o'clock this morning
the Meagher guards assembled at the
arn1ory. and headed by the Boston &
Montana band. proceeded to Hibernia
hall. Centerville. where the line of pa
rade was formed. They came back in
the following order:
Marshal and Aids.
Boston & Montana Band
Meagher Guards. in command of Capt.
Jeans. First Lieut.. Moore. Sec
ond Lieut. Mclaughlin.
Members of Blakes Irish Brigade of
South African Boer Army
Division No. l, A. o. H.
Division No. ?. A. o. H.
Catholic Order of Foresters and
Affiliated Organizations
State and County Officers in Carriages.
Clergy in Carriages.
John Dean officiated as grand mar
shall and Con G. Maher and Fitzhugh
Butler as aids. Dean rode in the center
ana the trio formed dashing advance.
with their mettlesome steeds prancing
and the gaudy uniforms and plumes
showing TO good advantage from their
equine perches.
win the Hibernians marched their
ofncers who took care to see that ey-
erything in marching was conducted ac-
cordlng to Hoyle. The officers We're as
follows. Division No. 1-President, ]. +.
Lynch; vice president, j. T. O'Brien:
recording secretary, D. Shea: financial
secretary, John OLeary: treasurer. P.
>. sullivan. Division No. 2-President.
). ). Grogan; vice president, Edward
- Mally; financial secretary, Walter
seWell; recording secretary, Patrick
Madden; treasurer. Patrick Riordan.
IN the first carriage rode Rev. Fathers
DeSlere, Barry and Vanderbroek: in
the second, d. j. Hennessy. state pre-i
cent OF the A. o. H.: John Ferns. county
president, James Maher and others.
The procession left Hibernia hall at Q
CLOCK and proceeded south on Main
street to Broadway, east on Broadway
TO Covert, south ON Covert to Park an !
west on Park to the Parochal school,
where there was a halt for exer.isss
then south on Washington to Silver e,st
on Silver to the st. James hospital north
on Idaho to Broadway, east on Broad.
way to Main, and north on Main to Hi
bernla hail. where the procession di.-
banded.
The exercises at st. Patrick's school
We're opened with a serenade by t ie
Boston Montana band "Killarnev ,,
followed by a chorus, 'All Praise to St.
Patrick. by the school,
The front of the school was gayly de.-
GRATED by flags, bunting and streamers
and to the right of the entrance. ar t,e
mead OF the steps, stood Miss KittIe
cleary, dressed in representation of the
Maid of Erin, at the left Miss Rose
SchWanekamp, attired as the Goddess o..
Liberty. Extending down the steps on
the right was. a row of little girls hol1-
ing American flags; on the left a row O.
little boys, performing similar office.
In binding snowstorm stood an i'm
mense concourse of people, which COM
pletely blocked the intersection of The.
two streets, many being perched on
coigns of visual vantage on the roofs If
small buildings in the vicinity on fences
and any other place where the vision
would be unobstructed who listened to
and applauded the. address of Master
John Dugan, aged IA years, a member of
the junior or sub graduating class.
The young fellow proved an apt dis
! ciple of Demosthenes, and held the IN
interrupted attention of his hea -er.
while he dwelt in glowing terms on I, e
history of the Catholic church. He To-
ferred to the time when the Catholic re-
| ligion was looked upon as a crime. and
price was put on the heads of TIC
priests who endeaVored to teach the an
Gent tenets of the founders or the faith.
| Eulogies We're paid Emmett, O'Connell