Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-02
TO HAVE BIGGEST
SHIP THAT FLOATS
AMBURG-AMERlCAN LINE T0I
oUT-D0 THE CUNARDS
Irish Firm Said to Have Booked Order
for Huge Liner-Gaelic League
to Try to introduce Irish
Goods In America
BY TIMoTHY J. o,CoNNoR


Special Gable to The Herald
DUBLIN, Sept. lit is currently re-
ported in Belfast that the Hamburg
American line, after long considera-
ton, has decided to build a vessel de-
signed to eclipse the new Cunarders
both in size and speed. No details of
her construction have as yet been decid-
ed upon, and it is not determined
whether she is to be driven by tur-
bine or reciprocating engines.
Messrs. Harland and Wolfe, it 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 report. The belief is prevalent in
shipping circles, however, that just as
the Dreadnaught has eclipsed all other
battleShips and naval circles in many
nations are straining every nerve in
an attempt to improve on the Dread
naught, so the tremendous rivalry ex-
isting 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 in this country with her
husband, is a granddaughter Of
Thomas Adds Emmett, the elder broth
er of Robert Emmet, and the illustrious
leader of the '9S movement, who, hav-
ing suffered threats and imprisonment
and exile for the Irish national cause,
became a leader at the United States
bar, will render it of interest to recall
the conduct of Lord Plunkett in
prosecuting Robert Emmett to the death
although he had been the bosom friend
of Thomas Adds Emmett.
Only His Duty
Plunkett's appearance as crown
prosecutor in the trial for high treason
of Robert Emmett, which was i'm
mediately followed by his appointment
to the POSITION of Solicitor General, has
often been defended as the mere dis
charge of professional duty, for which
his relations, which are also alleged
to have been those of mere acquaint-
anceship with Thomas Emmet, did not
diSqualify him. A letter written by
Thomas Adds Emmett to Peter Bor-
rowes, congratulating him on profess
sional preferment written in New York
in November, 1906, contains an allusion
to Lord Plunkett, which can leave no
doubt of Thomas Adds Emmet's esti-
mate of him. There are" he writes
lin the list of promotions men of whom
/ never wish to think, because 1 cannot
think of them without the strongest
emotions of aversion and disgust
strong and warm as was my former
friendship"
Rev. Father j. K. Fielding and ex-
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 represent the Gaelic
league of the central states Of Amer
lea.
Father Fielding when interviewed
said ex-Chief O'Neill, himself, and
those who accompanied them
came as a delegation to the
Oireachtas from America, and also
to study the position of Irish in
dustry generally. When Dr. Douglas
Hyde was in America he suggested that
American and Irish-American capital
lists ought to come over and see if it
was worth their while to invest in Irish
Industries.
Irish Goods in America
1--WE have been sent" said Father
Fielding, "to see if that investment of
capital can be brought about, and gen.
orally to investigate what prospects
there are for introducing Irish manu-
factured goods into America. Irish
manufacturers have hitherto failed to
lead to important results. There are
Irish linens, laces, embroideries, which
we Irish in America consider of a very
superior kind. They could easily win
market. Then there are ecclesiasti-
cal goods which could be made in Ire
land and find a ready market in Amer
lea.
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.
lone of our strongest supporters is
President Roosevelt, who has expressed
the opinion that If the American uni
versities were to keep in touch with
European education they must institute
chairs of Gaelic, and the time will come
and perhaps shortly, when we will need
ten or twelve Gaelic scholars from Ire
land to fill these chairs. President
Roosevelt is an ardent supporter Of the
movement, and DR.. Hyde was rather
surprised at his knowledge of Irish his
fCtsx and Iifaratttra