Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-02
BIGGEST LINER
TO Be BUILT
Hamburg-American Line Plan
ming Great vesseEMay Use
Turbine Engines.
Special cablegram to The Star.

Special Cabegram to The Star.
DUBLIN. September lit is currently
reported in Belfast that the Hamburg
, American line after long consideration, has
decided to build vessel designed to eclipse
the new Cunarders both in size and speed.
No details of her construction have as yet
been decided upon, and it is not determined
whether she is to be driven by turbines or
reciprocating engines. Messrs. Harland
Woln, 1t is understood, have booked
the order for the construction of the vessel.
but the firm declines to give any informa-
ton as to the truth or otherwise Of the re-
port The belief is prevalent in shipping
circles. however, that just as the Dread
naught has eclipsed all other battleships.
and naval circles in many nations are
straining every nerve in an attmpet to i'm
prove on the Dreadnaught, so the tremen-
dous rivalry existing among the men who
control transatlantic liners will force many
great and important improvements in the
near future
The fact that Mrs Keogh, the wife of Mr.
Justice Martin J. keogh of the supreme
court of New York, who is now visiting this
country with her husband, is a grand
daughter of Thomas Adds Emmett, the
elder brother of Robert Emmett, and the IL
lustrious leader Of the '9S movement, who,
having suffered threats and Imprisonment
and exile for the Irish national cause be-
came leader at the United States bar,
will render it of interest to recall the con-
duct of Lord Plunkett in prosecuting Rob-
ert Emmett to the DEATH although he had
been the bosom friend of Thomas Adds
Emmett. Plunketts appearance as crown
prosecutor in the trial for high treason of
Robert Emmett, which was Immediately fol-
lowed by his appointment to the position
of solicitor general, has often been defended
as the mere discharge Of a professional
duty, for which his relations. which are
simultaneously, with Thomas Emmett did
not disqualify him. A letter written by
Thomas Adds Emmet/to Peter Borrowes,
congratula ting him on professional prefer
1906, contains an allusion to Lord Plunkett
which can leave no doubt of Thomas Adds
Emmet's estimate of him. There are"
he writes, 'in the list OF promotions men
of whom never wish to think, because 1
cannot think of them without the strongest
emotions of aversion and dsgust-strone
and warm as was my former friendship
~
The Rev. Father ]. K Fielding and Chief
of Police O'Neill of Chicago, both members
Of the executive committee of the Gaelic
League of America. are in Dublin attending
the session of the Oireachtas. They repre-
sent the Gaelic League of the Central
States of America.
Father Fielding when interviewed said
Chief O'Neill. himself and those who &C.
companied them came as delegation to the
Oireachtas from America, and also to study
the position of Irish industry generally.
When DR.. Douglas Hyde was in America
he suggested that American and Irish
American capitalists ought to come over
and see If it was worth their while to invest
in Irish industries
I'VE have been sent" said Father Field
ing, r"to see IL that investment of capital
can be brought about, and generally to in
vestigate what prospects there are for in
Producing Irish manufactured goods into
America. Irish manufacturers have hith-
erto failed to send out their goods. and the
to lead to important results. There are
Irish. linens. laces, embroideries, which we
Irish IN America consider Of a very supe-
rior kind. They could easily win mar
ket Then there are ecclesiastical goods
which could be made in Ireland and find
a ready market in America.
I'VE will find out the things that ought
to. be exported to US, and we will try to
get at the manufacturers of them and put
them in touch with those on the other side.
Zone of our strongest supporters is Pres
ident Roosevelt, who has expressed the
opinion that II the American universities
were to keep in touch with European edu-
cation they must institute chairs OF Gaelic.
ly, when we will need ten or twelve Gaelic
scholars from Ireland to fill these chairs
President Roosevelt is an ardent supporter
of the movement, and DR.. Hyde was rather
surprised at his knowledge Of Irish history
and literature"