The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-15
THE GOTH AT DINNER.
EntcrtaIns the Ninth Massachusetts At the
Hotel AGtOr.

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The officers Of the S%ixty-ninth Regiment
entertained the officers of the Ninth Massa-
chusetts last night at a banquet in the Hotel
Aston. The banquet ended a busy day Of
festivities and sightseeing. In the morn
ing the two regiments, after breakfasting
in the new armory at Lexington venue
and ~Twenty-fffth street. marched to st.
Patrick's Cathedr al and attended mass
at II o clock.
Mgr. LavelIe, officiating. praised the fine
showing Of the regime tts and expressed
the belief that in care the country should
ever again go to war they would distinguish
THEMSELVES again az in the civil war. Father
Lee of the Ninth prea ched from the text,
Whose Image and Likeness Is This?"
In the afternoon the companies enter
tanned separately and most of the troops
toured the city.
At the banquet Col. Duffy of the Sixty
ninth was chairman. About him were the
guests of honor: Col. W. H. Donovan.
Ninth Massachusetts; Mayor Duggan Of
Worcester, Deputy Commissioner Waldo,
p. r. Collier, Lieut.. Brugere OF the French
Army, Father John Chadwick Of the Maine,
Major Sullivan, Col. James j. Smith, Majors
Casey, Williams and McGgrdy' Judge
Fitzgerald, Mayor Fitzgerald OF Boston,
President McCiowan Of the Board OF Alder
men, Lieut.-C Logan Of the Ninth, Mayor
Casey Of Lowell and Mgr. Lavelle.
Capt. John B. Kane, Mayor of Lawrence
presented tho Sixty-ninth Regiment with
a loving cup. He spoke in praise OF his
home city and Of the Irish soldiers whom
il had furnished for the civil Wa Acting
Mayor Mc(iOwan in speaking said that the
inspiration had stopped just short OF him.
He glanced at the loving cup, which was
hastily passed to him.
Lawrence was q fine city for its size. New
York could lend her a million or so people
and still beat her. Mayor Fitzgerald OF
Boston followed with words of praise OF
his city. MCGOWAN, though a New Yorker,
he said, admitted that he owed no little
TO his fifteen years in Boston, the metropo-
lis Of New England. He e on to speak
Of the loyalty Of the Irish-Americans.
Fifty years ago low. Gardner dis
banded the Columbian Guards. the first
Irish military body in Boston," he said,
Later. when the civil war broke out, there
was a change Of feeling. The same Irish
men who had been jeered some years before
were cheered az they marched TO- the front
under Col. Cass. On the fields of Malvern
Hill, Bull Run and Gettysburg they made
the acquaintance of those other Irishmen
from New York, the SiXty-nipth, who are
our hosts tonight"
Father Chadwick said that not all war
* TO be condemned. For the cause Of
right" said he. nations still have recourse
10 he severe measures ofarms. As formerly
the voice of the Pontif called ChTistendom
10 fight, so duty still calls in our times,
and will again. We do not Weld TO any
in our devotion 10 Ireland. But our first
love is for the red, white and blue Of our
own country"
He spoke Of the importance Of the navy
in the past and its necessity for defence in
the future. Let us have such a strong
army and navy that all the nations may
not only love, respect and revere us but
fear us a. we'll
The loving cup made the round Of the
tables during the speeches. II was a mas
sive silver cup bearing the motto;
Roth great in courage. conduct and in fame
Yet neither enviOus Of the others praise.
Same warden shot By sunday Hunter.
NFwBvRYPoRT. Mass, Oct. I4.-Patrick
Cahill is under arrest charged with shoot
ing Adam Rausch. an Essex county game
warden. in the woods to-day. The officer
received n full charge OF birdshot in the
right breast when only fifteen feet from
Cahill. and the surgeons in tho hospital
here do not think he can ecover. Cahill
says he did not know RAurch was a warden
and that he Shot in self-defence when the
latter waved a revolver at him.