The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1906-03-23
PRONOUNCED The BEST YET
st. Patrick's Banquet Given by the People
of Sacred Heart Parish Was Certainly
Grand Affair.

of Sacred Heart Parish Was Certainly
Grand Affair.
On entering Central Hall Thursday
evening last to attend the st. Patrick s
banquet given by the people of Sacred
Heart Parish one soon became lost to
their surroundings Three hundred
and twelve people were admitted, two
hundred and thirty three of these being
seated at the tables, the others having
to occupy the gallery or wherever they
could find chair or room to stand. To
be seated in this crowd i'm Central Hall
with tables bountifully filled and beau
tifully and artistically decorated, to
view the rich and costly arranged dec
Grafton above and on every side and all
to be enlivened by the excellent music
of the ten piece orchestra, would make
any one forget their surroundings. But
some one has made the remark that we
were not in the village of BrOckway
Centre but in the City of Yale. FIR.
Cullinane has taken the initiative under
our city government of giving some
thing of big standard both socially
and intellectually. Let us keep the
pace.
To seat and serve such large crowd
in Central Hall and to produce the pro-
gramme that was given in the space of
time that il took is certainly a tribute
to the ladies and gentlemen of Sacred
Heart Parish who had it in charge
| There was nothing lacking but the
tooth pick and that was not needed as
all was SO tender and delicious that
everything stayed on the main line
While enjoying the excellent menu
which Fr. Cullinane promised us, par
taking of the jovial spirit that filled the
heart OF every guest, bringing smile
to every countenance and a unity of
| good cheer, we were unconscious of the
wealth of wit and elOquence, the cul-
ture of mind and voice as well the
artistic in the instrumental that await
ed us-but Fr. Mcqueen, of Smiths
Creek, had scarcely showed himself
above the footlights than we knew
there was something in store and his
kindly face assured us that the best he
had was to be ours. The toast master
himself mingled and SO artistically en-
twined, wit, humor, eloquence, profound
learning, now being the real comedian
and at once becoming dramatic, that
we would feign to remember all he
spoke. After shortly but brilliantly
reasoning why the celebration of st.
Patricks day should take its place
among numerous other celebrations, he
paid glowing tribute to those who
are blessed with the gift of a fine voice
and graced with the talent of execution
and introduced to the audience Mrs.
Norman Kelb of Port Huron who
rendered the Irish Melody ''Come back
to Erin" in a manner well beGtting the
words of the toastmaster,
Fr Mcqueen next introduced FT
Dwan, of Gagetowp in the toast "The
Day We Celebrate" and whom he said
was well able to do justice to the theme
being a native of the Emerald Isle, an
American by adoption, gifted with the
eloquence of the Celt and the force and
ingenuity of the Yankee.
Mr.. Jason Moore next rendered "The
Wearing of the Green" not only in a
manner to touch the chords of the Irish
heart but to bring forth an echo of
praise from all who can appreciate a
good song.
Miss Frances Marx, one of the orches.
ira players, was introduced in q violin
solo which as FIR. Mcqueen casually re-
marked might tempt the old and
young alike, with the devil in their toe,
to trip the light fantastic"
Miss 0'Brian did not appear In the
Highland Fling as FIR. Command after
explained, because she knew (Fr. Nc
Queen being toastmaster) he would
give all the filings himself.
The toastmaster was not backward
in presenting a few of his filings to the
lawyer editor of Port Huron Mr., J, 9,
Lehr, who in response to the toast
"The Irish American" showed that he
was not bad at the fling himself.
Miss Mary Fitzgerald did honor to
our city in her mastery rendition of
Lisat Rhapsody No. 2, and although FIR.
Command was assigned the last toast
"Patriotism" he was not least i'm giving
our people as good talk as we have
ever listened to.
FIR. Connors has voice to be proud
of and i'm the words of the toastmaster
though the stage and the platform
has suffered a loss both in oratory and
music, the pulpit has prohted. by Fr.
COnnors entering the ministry"
At the conclusion FIR. Cullinane was
called uIpn by the toastmaster aud
after singing "The Handful of Earth"
paid a tribute not only to the Irish
people but to the people of every
nationality and every denomination of
Yale and vicinity who he said, by join
ing together and lending their aid to
given TO the city of Yale the banquet
that we attended and which he was
sure we could not help but pronounce
the best treat in Central Hail.
The receipts of the banquet were
S272.45 and FIR. Cullinane says the ex-
pense win leave net profit of S2OO.501