Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-04
ne. de Genlin. a great famous beauty

Nine. de Genln. great famous beauty
| of the French court.
While he was in Paris Lord Edward
met Wolfe Tone. the leader OF the revo-
luton of '9S: Arthur O'Connor, Thomas
Adds Emmett, an elder brother OF Rob-
ert Emmett and other fellow countrymen,
who were conspiring with the French
| directoire for an attack upon ireland. He
Joined the movement with great earnest
| ness and enthusiasm and finally arranged
| with the French government to send a
| fleet of forty-three vessels, with 1o0Oo
| troops under Gen. HOche. Wolfe Tone
being attached to the commanders staff.
to attack the Irish coast simultaneously
| with an uprising of the people. Ireland
| was taken by surprise and thrown into a
panic. but Providence interviewed A vio-
| lent gale arose. the landing was post
! poned, the French fleet became separated
| and each vessel found its own way back
| to the continent
Lord Edward remained in France until
! March, 179S, when he returned to Dublin.
was betrayed by man named Mangan
| and a guard of soldiers was sent to arrest
| him in No 151 Thomas street, just below
the Bank of Ireland. A tablet, with an
| inscription. now marks the house. There
was a desperate struggle. in which the
captain of the guards was killed by Lord
| Edward. and the latter received a bullet
| in the shoulder from which he died in
prison a few days later at the age Of
thirty-two years. AS everybody knows.
the rebellion was a failure. and nearly all
the other leaders were captured and exc
cuted. Wolfe Tone was betrayed by an
old school friend and sentenced to be shot
| He tried to kill himself in prison. The
wound, though fatal. was not Immediately
| SO. and he lay i'll for several months be-
| fore death rescued him.
Poor Pamela lived in poverty and dis
| tress for several years before she was
| able to return to her friends in France
'Frascati." her home, now belongs to
prosperous Dublin tradesman.
Where Transport Rochdale Sank.
A little farther down on the shore of
the bay is monument marking the spot
where the transport Rochdale. carrying
the entire 9th Regiment of Foot, went
ashore a hundred years ago, and the
names of an entire regiment of officers
and men were instantly erased from the
British army list Since then an arti-
fetal harbor has been inclosed by long
breakwaters of masonry. giving place
of refuge for ships In distress.
The tram line terminates in a pretty
and picturesque village called Oakley.
which was a medieval stronghold and
the scene of many fierce fghts-frst, be-
tween the earls of the Pale of Dublin and
invading Danes. and after that with the
pirates who haunted this coast for a CEN
fury. 1t was Danish settlement for sew
eral centuries and afterward the most i'm
portant outpost in Dublin, defended by
seven great castles. three Of which still
remain In partial ruins One of them is
now remodeled for use a town hall.
They are imposing piles of masonry and
thick mats Of ivy conceal their ancient
wounds.
We took an Outside car at the end Of
the tram line at Oakley to drive around
the shore of the bay. which the driver
assured us was the most beautiful in the
world. and even surpassed the bay Of
Naples. which 1t Is said to resemble. And
for that reason many of the names are
the same. The resemblance might pos
sibly be detected by a person with Wig
ever, is a lovely sheet of water sur
| rounded by high bluffs that are clad at
this time of the year with glowing gar
ments of gorse and hawthorne. The first
flower and the hawthorne trees are as
white banks of snow. The land is
divided into meadows and pastures on the
slopes by hedges of hawthorne and the
turf is concealed by millions of butter
cups as yellow as goIu 1t is a rocky coast
Rugged crags break out here and there
and give stern expression to the picture
and sometimes rise a hundred feet or
more in frowning precipices of black
granite.
Handsome Scenery.
Here and there the towers of a castle
or the chimneys Of villa arise from
banks of foliage, and perched along the
| bluff above the seashore. like the chalets
of Switzerland. are comfortable cottages
| and.mansions, in which rich people from
Dublin dwell. Clinging to the side of
the bluff and protected by a stone wall
is splendid roadway encircling the en-
ttire bay. quite as beautiful. although on
smaller scale. than the Corniche road
from Nice to Monte Carlo. The deep
blue Of the water. the vivid green of the
| foliage. which seems more pronounced
| been. the great white banks of hawthorne.
| the yellow of the buttercups and the gorse
| give a brilliancy to the landscape that
| does not appear anywhere on the Riviera
| or anywhere else l know.
The winding road. with this wonderful
| panorama alawsy before you, leads finally
through glen into park named after
| the late Queen Victoria, wild stretch
| of rocky woodland and pasture, which in
ancient days was one of the principal
meeting places of the Druids. and 1t was
we'll chosen. The land was purchased by
| subscription to commemorate the Queen's
| jubilee in 1897, and has been thrown
| open to the public ever since From the
number of people who were present that
| Sunday afternoon one would think the
| money was well invested.
A winding path leads to the summit
| which is cleared of trees, and in the CEN
l
| feet, which, the inscription tells us In
quaint and laconic manner. was erected
by Jim Mapas, esq.,. June, 1742, in or
| der to give employment to his less for
| tunate neighbors, last year being hard
with the poor" A hundred yards distant
| is a round, conical tower marked Mont
Mapas." Nobody seems to know who
erected it. or what it is for. And there
! is pyramid of seven tiers Of stone. thirty
| feet square at the base and eighteen feet
high. with a fiat stone at the top.
asked gentleman who was sitting on
| the turf about 1t. and he replied
Il was born here and have seen these
| they were for or who built them. and l
| many people come here to guess at them.
| have been written about them. but am
| sorry to say l have never read a line
| of any Of them. and am quite sure 1 never
will. They say that pyramid Is wish
| ing stone: You go up to the top and sit
| down and wish what you will. and 1t is
sure to come to pass: but 1 am sorry to
say have never tried it. and can't give
testimony one way or another"
There is monument to mark the spot
| where the Duke of Dorset was killed by
| being thrown from his horse in 1915 and.
| what is more interesting four Druid
judgment seats. formed of rough granite
| blocks about twelve feet long. two feet
| high and three and a half feet wide at
| the top. They are situated in pairs some
distance from each other and tradition
says that the Druid chiefs in prehistoric