The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-05-04
MAUD CONNIE
IN SCRANTON
Irish JOAN OF ARC" Is SPEND
ING THREE DAYS HERE.
Accompanied by Major Mcbride, of
Transvaal Fame, She Is Touring
America in the Interest Of the Irish
Revolutionary Movement - Arms
Instead of Wealth. Is What Miss
Come Advocates--Guests of John
Mitchell Club and Ladies' Auxil-
iary of the A. o. H.

Maud Come. the Irish Joan OF
Arc" and Major John Mcbride, who
| led the Irish brigade against the Brit
| ish in the Transvaal. arrived In Scran-
| ton yesterday on u tour of America III
| the interests of the Irish revolutionary
| movement. They are to lecture In st.
| Thomas College hall Sunday night.
under the auspices of the John Mitchell
club. and in the interim are devoting
themselves to consultations with Irish
! leaders and incidentally to the enjoy
ment of an elaborate entertainment
programme prepared by the Mitchell
club. and the Ladies' auxiliary of the
Ancient Order of Hibernians.
They were met on their arrival by II
delegation of these and other Irish
societies and escorted to the Lacka-
wanna Valley house, where a brief in
formal reception was held. In the early
evening they were escorted through the
steel mills by Miss Catherine OHara.
! president of the Daughters of Erin;
Miss Anna Malta. Miss Kennedy. Miss
Bridget Padden, Miss Mary Shields,
Miss Dougher. james McCiuinncss, NJ.
j. Burns and C.. r. Boland.
At . o'clock a reception was rendered
them by the Ladies' auxiliary in Camp
bells hall. Lackawanna avenue, at
which e. r. Itoland presided. Addresses
of welcome We're made by Prof. A. +.
O'BoNle on behalf of the Mitchell club.
and by Miss O'Iiara, for the Ladies'
auxiliary. Miss Come and Major Me-
Bride responded briefly. Other adj
, dresses were made by Jury Commits
sioner y. j. Campbell. Senator J. &.
Vaughan, John II. Dcvine and J. G.
Gallagher. Miss Mary Boand, Prof
NJ. j. Lovcrn and William Gilroy gave
recitatons, and there We're songs by
John Sheridan and Michael Donnegan.
AUDIENCE WITH BISHOP.
This afternoon, at 8 o'clock. Miss
Come and jor Mcbride will have
an audience with Bishop Hoban. To-
night they will be taken into a mine,
and tomorrow afternoon will enjoy u
drive over the boulevard.
In an interview with a Tribune re-
porter. Miss Come left no doubt of her
being rabid rcvolutionst
NO nation said she. ever won it's
freedom by talk. During the last twcn-
,y-fvc years the parliamentary move
ment, as it is called, has witnessed the
diminishing OF Ireland's population by
more than "a million and the heavy in
crease of her taxes. without accom-
plishing anything substantial for her
benefit.
''lf Ireland is to gain her rights. arms
and not breath must be used in the
fight. The Boer war has shown that
England is not the invinciblc military
power it boasted of being. This means
that she will ere long be embroiled in
war with nations which have only held
back from attacking her because of the
supposition of her being such a mighty
nation in war. Her very next arrogant
move will be repulsed. When that
event transpires, Ireland's opportunity
will be at hand. 1t was at hand even
in the Boer war AT one time there
were only 5000 British soldiers in Ire
land. But we weren't ready. When it
comes again, however. we will be pre-
pared. We are preparing now. Major
Mcbride and ! are in America. to
further those preparations. The details
can not give you, but let me say that
the preparations are we'll advanced,
and by the time the opportunity comes
they will be complete"
AN ATTRACTIVE WOMAN.
Miss Come is woman of extremely
attractive personality. She is more
than six feet tall, but erect and 1.-THE,
and her face, of pretty Irish type.
crowned by a wealth of light hair, is
made the more attractive by a pair of
bright. flashing eyes and IL plea SAINT,
sympathetic smile. which almost con-
tinually lights up her countenance
when talking.
Like many of the most illustrious of
the Irish leaders, like Wolfe Tone, Fitz-
gerald, Robert Emmett, John Mitchell
and Parnell. Miss Goune is Protest
ant, and Il descendant of the property
owning class.
Miss Come is the daughter of an
Irish colonel of the British army, and
all her family connections are loyalists
and of the landlord class. One uncle
is general in the British army. a
cousin Is captain, while her only Sis
ter Is the wife of Colonel Pitcher. who
is serving against the Beers in South
Africa. Her conversion to nationalism
was the result of witnessing a particu-
larly cruel eviction while on a visit to
the house of neighboring landlord. 1t
had such AN effect on her that she re-
solved To devote her life to an effort
to put an end to the system responsible
for such savagery, and that system,
she says, she soon realized could only
be removed by the destruction of Brit
ish rule in Ireland.
From that time on she became the
champion of the most extreme form of
Irish nationality, and devoted particu-
lar attention to the unfortunate politi-
cal prisoners who, up to few years
ago, were in British prisons. She was
for several years the very life and soul
of the amnesty movement in Ireland
and England, making tour of the
three kingdoms" addressing meet
ings, visiting the prisoners, and in
every way possible keeping public at
tention fixed on the question of their
treatment and urging demand for
their release
CHAMPION OF BOER CAUSE.
Since the outbreak of the war in
South Africa she has been sturdy
champion of the Boer cause and has
devoted her energies to the work of
preventing young Irishmen from join
ing the British army. From the OPEN
ing of the war she has been address
ing series of meetings throughout
Ireland and working among the wo-
men for the purpose of making the
British military service odious. and she
has succeeded to remarkable degree,
1t Is claimed that since she began this
movement the number of Irshmen in
the British army has decreased from
5000 to 10000 II is for the purpose Of