Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-24

| cradle fishing at Cleggan. a nelshooi,nss
village, which has been encouraged o.
assisted by the government. Large nitr
| ments of fish are made there to Duoil,
every day. Early in the morning seee ,
ancient fishwives appear in trid.s ~
space between the rows Of houses III .ue
center of the village with baskets OF nsi,,
and from our windows in the com1ortaoie
Railway Hotel we can see the inhapt-
ants strolling along in an indolent ana m
different manner to buy their Drea h." 80
They have the choice of a variety OF ISL
and the prices are remarkably low y
fine fat mackerel costs a penny. a coulisi
sixpence and for a shilling one can set d
paddock big enough to last a large-slzeu
family for week.
Fine Church for Poor People.
Upon the hillside overlooking the town
is an imposing church which has an air
of magnificence in comparison with the
rest of the town. 1t is ten times as large
and ten times as glorious for Clifden as
ST. Peters is for Rome. 1t was built
only few years ago from the contri-
buttons of the peasants. the same peo-
pie that the government is trying to
make comfortable and aid in earning a
| living. 1t will seat 900 people and is
filed twice Sunday with devout wor
shippers. Father Lynch. the curate. told
me that 1t was necessary to have two
masses and sometimes three Sunday
to accommodate them all, and some of
them come eleven and even twelve miles,
most of them on foot, to attend worship.
Here. as everywhere in Ireland, religion
is the first and most important thing in
life. and the church is the gateway to
happiness and heaven. There Is also
Protestant church. much smaller, but
not insignificant. which stands upon an
opposite hill surrounded by a graveyard
in which there are some venerable tombs.
Clifden is the seat of several important
families. including the Martins. who
formerly lived at Ba1lynahinch Castle. a
plain, large. stern-looking embattled
building. which was the scene Of Charles
Levers novel, 1.-THE Martins of Gro Mar
tin
The Original Godfrey o'Mallsy."
1t was the home of Col Richard Mar
tin. MP. the inventor and organizer of
the first Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals In the world. and
the author of Martins Acts" punish
ing those who are guilty of that offense.
He spent large sums of money in the en-
forcement of this law and in organizing
societies and establishing hospitals for
diseased and wounded animals through
out the kingdom He was otherwise ex-
travagant and went through his fortune.
Col. Martin was the original of God
frey O'Malley,' the hero of Levers
novel, and the sketch is said to be very
accurate. He was a reckless, extrava-
CANT. but generous, warm-hearted man,
and died a sacrifice to his efforts to re-
lieve the suffering OF his tenants at the
time of the famine.
Princess of Connemara.
His only child. Mary Martin. married
an American, Col. Bell of New York, and
1.-Two in hot oft
though she was known as the Princess
Of Connemara and inherited an empire in
area she was never able to maintain
the state that her father was SO proud
of, and 1920 acres of her vast domain
were sold by the courts to settle his debts,
being purchased by the Law Life Assur-
ance Company. Mr.. Richard Berridge, a
London brewer, bought another tract of
10000 acres and the young woman
scarcely missed it. so extensive were her
lands. But they were of little value, be-
ing mostly mountain peaks and barren
moorS.
Col. Martin once silenced The prince
regent, who during the early part Of
Queen Victoria's reign was boasting Of
the famous Long Walk of Windsor, by
scornfully declaring that the avenue
which led from his front gate to his hall
door was thirty miles long, and that was
very nearly the truth.
Clifden Castle is the seat of the de Arcy
family. who built and owned the town
of Clifden and were formerly very rich.
But very little is seen of them at present
Mr.. Lyden. the proprietor of one of the
hotels, has son in the bureau of engrav-
ing and printing at Washington and his
daughter Is married to a merchant on
7th street.
Marconi's Wireless Station.
Marconi's wireless telegraph station &C.
cupies a bleak rocky promontory extend
ing out into the sea- about three miles
from the village. 1t Is surrounded by a
large tract of barren moor and is in
closed with barbed wire fence, which no
one is allowed to pass without a permit.
There are several corrugated iron build
lngs. comfortable. but temporary. used
for generating furnaces. Offices and dormi-
tories for Mr.. Marden, the superintendent.
and seven assistants. There Is a minia-
ture railway connecting them with the
harbor to bring up coal and other SUD-
plies from the bay, for 1t requires a lot
of fuel to generate the tremendous volt
age necessary to throw a message across
the Atlantic ocean. When the operators
are sending Marconigram the sound
can De heard for half a mile-a deafening
whirr and buzz like that Of sawmill in
terspersed with sharp detonations long
ana Snort according to the dots and
dashes of the Morse code An ordinary
operator could read the message a long
oiSsdhce away, out would not be able to
understand it. because every word is sent
In cypher. This is the reason people are
Kept out of the grounds and why so large
an area Is necessary for protection.
The station is a profitable thing for the
town, because about fifteen hundred dol
lars month is spent for supplies and
TABOR and employment is given to a large
gang of men.
After several romantic engagements to
American girls. Signor Marcom finally
married local beauty. Miss ,OBrien.
daughter of The O'Brien." the repre-,
sentative of the family that were kings
over this country in the early DAYS