Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-03
TOURING THE EMERALD ISLE.
Waterbury Man Tells of His Trip Through Ireland Found the Country Alive and the :Jar-
 vies'' Up to Their Old Tricks.

is better to engage the "Jarvey" by the day, or better still to compel him to show you the ordinance regulating such traffic If he refuses, pretend to take his number, issued him by the city or corporation, as the municipal government is called, and he suc- cumbs at once. Then you will find that he would have charged you one shilling an hour more than his legaI fare. But, then no tourist will go to that extreme with an Irish jaryey for he would regret 1t as long as he stay ed in Cork. Assuming, however, that the tourist and the jarvey had no such alteration over the fare, away he goes and he sees department stores that surprises him by their size, many factories of different kinds, such as shoes, down, leather, clothing, tweeds and cloths, starch, laces, matches, caskets, great grain yards, huge coal stores and the most beautiful women in the British king dom, If not in the whole empire, dressed in the finest style.
 After being a week or two in the country the tourist is liable to come to the conclusion that the dampness of the climate is the only obstacle. To the women of the south of Ireland being the most stylish in the world, they have been already credited with being the handsomest.
 Fortunately for this country, the ways of the east are not the ways Of the west And if the tourist feels bothered by what seems to him the easy going disposition of the Irish . q American day Night begins at 6 and vanishes at 6, while the Irish day be- gins at and closes at 10, though grow dark about g. Therefore the cause of the Irishman's easy going ways is apparent. He has plenty of tin,e in which to do his business with out electric light and the success that has attended his political fight for po- litical and industrial liberty is the most emphatic contradiction of the islanders that have been piled upon him by forgetful Irishmen and unob- serving or indifferent tourists.
 Tn almost every city and large coast town in Ireland industrial associations have been organized and factories have sprung up in every direction. This summer there was said to be a scarcity of agricultural laborers. Last summer this country suffered in the same way because of the rush of the rural population to embrace the at fractions and Embellishments of city life. Tn this respect the Irishman is not whit different from the men of any other country.
 People unacquainted with the his tory of Ireland express surprise when they see a few tumbled down houses, and they immediately set up the cry that the country is done for, never again to rise. This alarm is justified in only one respect and that regards the manufacture of flour. American wheat has siIenced almost every flour mill in Ireland, but it has had sim liar effect upon the agricultural indus tries of other countries besides. Some have wfthered and decayed under it altogether, but not so Ireland. Indus tries of other kinds have been estab- lished in the old flour mills. Shoes, cloth, starch, leather are produced by the hundred tons every day, and yet the supply is below the demand and America has to be called upon to meet 1t.
 A very well known American shoe company has a large store in St Pat
 
 they prefer to buy homemade shoes to the American product. A glance at the prices of the shoes in the win dows of the stores will tell anyone the reason why. The industrial con ditions that prevail in the capital of the south extend to other parts, show ing to the most unobservant visitor who has any knowledge at all of Ire lands history that the country is 1 prosperous.
 l The deserted houses, the half ruined villages that one is apt to see are not the effects of modern condi- tions. They are but the book marks in the pages of its history of long ago, reminders of what the country has suffered and bravely survived, evil dence of the patience and patriotism of the most wonderful peasantry in the world.