The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-09-11
KISSES THE
BLARNEY STONE
Editor Perry Visits Famous
Castle
FIRST IMPRESSIONS.
Of the Tourist on His Arrival in Ire
land, and More Especially Of
the Famous City Of
Cork.

$1,000 $500 kANfA1No w NAAN AcbtSh pun
lished in The Times Monday, but it did
not arrive IN Barre until two days later
than the second letter.
Cork, Ireland, Aug. 20, '07.
Quite q number Of tourists and 'old
homer" land among the former, myself
left the Cunard steamship Iyernia in
beautiful Queenstown harbor yesterday
at noon and were landed on the shores
Of Ireland in short order, ready to turn
whittier fancy directed on previously laid
plans mapped out.
Ones first view Of Ireland from the
sea is one Of bleakness and barrcnness,
and accordingly the stranger Ii scarcely
prepared Nor the splendid panorama
spread out before him as lie goes inland
q little distance. Ireland~-tlIat is, the
south Of Ireland-is an abloom at this
season OF the year, and the yistas are
a constant delight to the eve. In fact,
ones book ideas of the country seem
sadly misapplied until the information
is soon gained that this Ii the posses.
sion Of the rich landowner rather than
the tenant. Abiect poverty can be found
here N Cork as nowhere else perhaps.
Vast numbers of people. deprived Of Land
to til or opportunity to work, are de,
pendent sometimes almost entirely upon
charity, and various, therefore, are the
means taken 70 relieve them OF their
distress.
Cork itself has no large industry to
keep It's thousands Of people at home
and consequently its population is being
rapidly deceased One informant told
me that in the last score OF wears the
number OF inhabitants OF this city had
dropped 10000. Where have they gone
Visit America, and the answer is ready
Few ambitious Irishmen prefer 10 cast
their fortunes in this spawning bed of
industrial sluggishness. and they :. are
hasteing with all despatch to the eoun.
try OF such alluring prospects as Is the
United States And they can't really
BE- blamed, either The leaders Of thought
here are hard put to IL to find some re-
straining influence to check this great
emigration. In todayA Cork Examiner
! notice a depressing article from the
pen Of someone who deplored the proba-
bihy Of a steamship rate war, well
knowing that the lower the rates Of
travel across the Atlantic tie faster
would be the tide Of emigration. Only
the young SO. The old people are left
to fight the battle as best they eau, aid
ed by the money sent back from Ameri-
ca. a priest Of a nearby parish told
me last night that his parish alone re-
eeived several hundred pounds annually
from people in America A pound means.
Of course, S., approximately, and five
dollars goes three and four times as far
here as i does in the United States.
Wages OF a pound a week are consid-
cred very good compensation.
But perhaps that is enough IF dis
tressing side of life here in southern Ire.
land The north of Ireland. particu.
larly about Belfast, Is very much better
industrially,i am informed.
"A brighter side is the beauty Of the
country, as | first mentioned The
weather has been a miserable drizzle for
two days, but that did not prevent orr
sightseeing. One Is at once struck bv
the oddity and quaintness that is a
more generous term than backwarlness
to apply of the south Of ireland. Here
IN the city OF Cork (of 10000 peoplel
there Is not a building over five stories
high, all low. squatty aifairs ard
might add that we have yet TO see a
building Of wood. They tell me there's
not wooden structure in the place
All stone and cement and In most case
covered with slate Consequently the
fire insurance risks are delightfully."- low
or than they are in the United States,
notably our Granite City" in Vermont
Fires are rare here as you may imagine
We were cordially welcomed into one
or two residences Of the average class
IN The outlying district, and found q
building OF q story and a hall, with two
rooms on the iirst floor and Two ON the
upper Everything was clearly and the
housewives further aplogized by saying
that they hadn't bad time that carly
in the day 70 slick up for visitors as
We would say in good Old Yankee fash.
ion. In one Of these residences tho
mother told ms that she had that day
Just said goodbye to her daughter, who
was leaving for America from whence
came the golden stream. Tho daughter
had been in America before, but had been
home three months on visit. Thus
thc story IS in nearly every house
There's scarcely O household that has
not lost one or more members through
emigration, and in the land Of greater
opportunity they are helping in the sup.
port Of the family in the old country.
do you bake your potatoes in thi.
FIRE placeP ] asked the man Of the
house.
"Oh, no, sir; We always boil tho 20
tatoes, because We can't afford To bake
them, on account Of the fuel"
Coal costs, Judging by the statement
OF the man, in the neighborhood of 81
ton which Is very dear compared witt
the price Of other commodities. They
pay eight pence Tor sixten centsl for q
pounds Of potatoes; and potatoes, there
fore, form the chief article OF diet
Meat they seldom eat, so they told ms
as il costs TOO much. Fish they served
on the table quite frequently,
But to get back to ones impression Of
the place. Cork is q lcft-handed city
and it has apparently not reached q
point Of dexterity with that hand. Ev
erything Is left handed, The double
decked Trans" or traincars, which VIZ
made the mistake OF calling electric cars
pass to the left Trains do the same
] Teams do likewise on the roads, and w
bumped into people on the sidewalk
wondering why they blundered to oul
right when they should have passed or
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