Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-11-10
ROW OVER IRISH FAIR
Question Whether it Offers Chance to
Advertise Outside Wares.
OBJECTION FROM FACTORIES
Complaint that Ireland is Flooded
with Cheap Foreign Goods.
FAIR REGARDED AS SUCCESS
Shop Keepers and Hotel Men Want
it Repeated.
GIANTS CAUsEwAY TO AMERICA
RumOr Company Has Been Formed
TO Move Famous Attraction tc
COney lslRnd-Irish
Mine.
GIANTS CAUsEwAY TO AMERICA

Ot strife ever since II started and it rs
keeping up its reputation to The close
At the beginning II was denounced by the
Sim Feiners and a large sectlnn of tine
Parliamentarians as antI-national, It be-
ing argued that instead of encouraging
the development OF Irish industries II
only gave foreign firms an opportunity OF
advertising their wares in ireland. Now
that It r. about 10 close. IL has furnished
the subject for a bitter controversy be-
tween the lord mayor of Dublln-Mr.
Nanetti. NJ. P.--and the traders of the
Irish capital There IL no denying that
from the point OF view Of the promoters
the fair has been success. The bost
proof of this is that II is proposed to re-
open II next year. 1t has attracted hun
dreds of thousands of visitors to Dublin
and IN view of this fact the trouble
which has arisen is all the more suc-
Drising.
NRnetti Attacks Fair.
few days ago Mr., Nanetti IN a public
speech. made a bitter attack on the fair,
saying It had wrought nothing but injury
TO Dublin. II he had stopped with this
general statement his position might have
been understood, for there is no doubt
that the fair attracted host of unds-
sirable characters well as of desirable
visitors, but Mr.. Nanetti declared that the
fair had inflicted untold losses on the
shopkeepers and hotel-keopers. This
brought a chorus of denials from the shop
keepers and the hotel men. who declared
with one voice that they have never
known such a prosperous season since
they have been IN business, and that thcy
were unanimously In favor of the con-
tinuance of the fair next year
A real and justidable complaint now
ever. is that made by several Irish manu-
Sacturers against the management of the
fair Many of the exhibitors have taken
advantage of the fair to food the country
with cheap foreign goods and some OF
them even have pslmed Off as Irish mau-
ufactures the cheapest limitations made in
birmingham and In Liermany.
Is the Giants Causeway going 10 Amer
ioa7 This is the question which is at pres
snt 0gitating the whole OF ireland. Every-
ono who has visited the north knows that
wonderful natural formation of basaItlc
pillars which tradition has II was built by
tho giant, Finn Mecouil. from material
which his grandmother carried over from
Scotland In her apron.
Likely TO BE Taken Away.
The story goes that the apron strineS
broke on one Of the trips. and this accounts
for the existence Of a few small islands
half way between Scotland and the Irish
coast. At any rate. the story which is
going the rounds now is that an enterpris-
Ing American syndicate has bought the
causeway, and that AN English firm has
received contract to take up the pillars
and ship them TO America. where the
causeway is 10 be re-erected at Coney
island or some similar amusement resort.
20 far no one has succeeded in finding out
Just what tho truth Is, Lord Antrim. who
= the lord proprietor OF the causeway. de-
elines TO talk. aud the Giants Causeway
company, limited, which controls this great
natural wonder is also silent. II has been
suggested that permission has been granted
10 do limited amount OF quarryinE in
land. where there are a large number ~
columns that could be removed without in
any way affecting the character of the
cSuseway proper. and II is quite possible
that Coney island may have a little Giants
oauseway made from columns which Finn
1IcCoulTs grandmother really carried over
from Scotland.
The Royal Irish coustabulary Is. OF
course, always a fruitful source Of criti-
cisui. but hitherto that criticism has been
directed rather at the use made Of the force
than at the force itself. It has been an
article Of faith almost with Nationailsts
and UniOnists alike that the Royal Irish
constabulaTy was the finest police force
in the world, hut recently several OF the
officers themselves have been complaining
that of recent years It has become more
and more a military force and lees and
less police force,
Recruits WsIi Drilled.
\ typical complaint was that made th- |
other day by a senior district inspector. l
who would correspond in rank 60 an in !
spector Of one OF the American municipal |
forces He declared that during the last |
two or three years the recruits coming TO |
the country districts after a period of |
training at the headquarters In Dublin |
were extraordinarily proficient I'm drill and |
could so through the carbine exercise beau |
tifully, but they knew nothing at all about !
police dutiesr and many OF them had never |
even opened the police manual He de- |
clares that the entire time at headquarters |
Il taken up ia drilling the recruits like |
soldiers and teaching them athletic exer- |
cises. but that the authorities seem 10 !
have lost sight OF tho fact that the man |
who has TO preserve order in bog or |
mountain district and carry out the multi |
faTious duties that fan 20 the lot OF an |
Irish poieenian' has very little uso for |
marching and presenting arms.
Additional point Is given 10 these COM
plants by the announcement that Colonel |
Sir Neville Chamberlain, who has been in |
spector-in-ehiet Of tho Royal Irish constab- !
ulary Is about 10 retire. Sir Neville Is \
british soldier, and Il is his influence that
has been responsible for the military ten !
deney In the training Of the Irish police 1t /
it hoped that he viii be succeeded by q |
policeman and not by soldier
Another valuable mineral discover hss |
been made at Carnagh. near Ready. County |
Armagh. WOrlunen engaged IN building
the new Armagh 4 Ready Railway found /
traces OF lead and further Investigation /
disclosed a veTy rich VeiR OF lead Coal ]
ana traces OF sold have also been dlsoov- |
cred. The railway has secured an the /
mineral rights and will work tho mine
itselL y, A. CULLEN