The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1908-03-21

go Ciiize, Three great publishers Of
Irish brit, have been Matthew Carey
of Philadelphia, the friend of Lafay-
cite; Robert Bonner, founder OF the
New York Ledger, and Patrick Dona-
hoe, founder of the Boston Pilot and
Donahoes Magazine The name of
William, Desmond O'Brien, too, de-
serves TO be included in this paragraph.
Mr.. OBlien was a wealthy contractor
of New York, who devoted eighteen
years OF his life to the preparation of
an "Ency clopedia Hibernica," and who
died. broken-hearted, in 1898, with his
great project unfinished. Among the
1rish-Alnerican publishers now living,
the most notable is P. F, Collier, the
founder of Golfers Weekly.
This oower of expression, which is
typical of the Irish race, rises fire.
queHtly to the heights of art. The
Goddess 81 Liberty, on the dome of the
Capitol at Washington, was chiseled
by the hands Of Thomas Crawford. who
was o. Irish parentage, and whose son
Is the Wc!l-known novelist, F. Marion
Crawford. Many an American city Las
been enriched by the genius Of Angus
tus st. Gaudens, one Of the best be-
loved and most eminent of American
sculptors. One of his most notable
statues is a heroic figure of Parnell for
the city Of Dublin, st. Gaudens' BIRTH
place. Among the landscape painters
Edword Gay Of New York, has held
place for forty years: and another vet
eran artist of Irish birth is William
MagrAtii, who painted "On the Ould
SODA clever study Of Irish character
that hangs in the Metropolitan Mu-
scum in New York.
1t is to Dublin, also, that we are in
debted for Victor Herbert, our popular
conductor and composer, and for Pat
rick Sarsfield Gilmore, the famous
bandnaster of Civil War times. There
have not been so many Irish singers of
SP>'''s'S A"iIn, oINuOuSH IIC lrlSE0laH
who cannot sing at all is as rare as a
white biacHbird. Probably the most
notable was Catherine Hayes, who ar
rived in this country in 1851, married
an American husband, and settled in
California. Among the best known
drama tic stars of Irish birth, now upon
the stage, are Ada Rehan and James
O'Neil' and the elder John Drew was
son Of Erin. Andrew Mack and
Chauncey Olcott are the most popular
of those who portray Irish life.
That the. Celt has been in politics
goes without saying. In most States
they nave furnished more than their
share, both of bosses and reformers.
Richard Croker, the Tammany Hall
leader. ard Charles O'Connor, who
overthrow the Tweed ring, fairly repre-
sent the two contending forces in the
American political life. So much has
been written indiscriminately of Ilish
bosssn: that 1t is nothing but fair to
state that some of the present leaders
oil the "anti-graft" movement are May
or Dune Of Chicago, Mayor Pagan of
Jersey City. District Attorney Moran
of Boston and Hugh Mccartney, a MEM
Der Of Mayor weavers cabinet in
Philadelphia. The late Patrick A. COL
Inns, Congressman, consul general in
London, and mayor Of this city, was
for years thief oremost Irishn,an in
New England. ..
In the present Congress there are
dozens Of members of Irish descent,
but Only three Of Irish birth-Senator
Thomas n. Patterson of Denver, who
has teen for thirty years a natioral
figure; Representative Bourke Cochran
who is urequaJled in the Celtic flow of
his e!oquence, and the Hon. Joseph F.
o'Connell of the South District. SEN
ator Thomas Kearns, one of the solid
pillars Of the State of Utah, was torn
in Canada Of Irish parents; and James
D. Phelan, the we'll known Californian,