The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-03-18
IRELANDS SAINT
LAUDED IN SPEECH,
SONG AND SERMON
Dinners, Dances and Entertain
ments Attended by Thou
sands of Cells.
JUDGE MINTURN STIRS
CELTIC CLUB DINERS
Friendly Sons Listen to Sheriff
SOmmer and Others at
Banquet.

Thousands of sons of ireland and
their guests gathered around festive
boards and at churches, entertain
ments and dances yesterday to honor
the anniversary of the patron saint
of the Emerald Isle. Sermons. songs
and speeches, all fraught with love for
the "ould country thrilled the hearts
of her sons ~transplanted to American
soil. 1t was THE day of the year for
all who have a drop of Irish blood
In their veins.
The st. Patrick's dinner of the Gel
tic Club last night at Achtel-Stetter's,
the twenty-second annual affair. was
attended by about 175 persons. The
principal guests of honor were Assist
ant District Attorney Francis Patrick
Caravan, of New York, and Supreme
Court Judge James r. Minturn.
Toastmaster Joseph M. Byrne intro
duced the speakers. Mr.. Caravan, talk
ing on 1.-THE Day We Celebrate" told
the diners that it was the first real st.
Patrick's dinner he had yer attended.
Then he spoke in glowing terms of the
Irish nation.
Former United States Senator James
Smith, ir.. who is the only living
charter member of the club. spoke on
the ~nationalities that go to make up
America, declaring that there was mot
q man OH earth who loves liberty more
than a n Irishman."
Supreme Court Judge James +. Min
turn spoke for the Judiciary. In a
stirring address that moved the ban
queters he told of Ireland's fertility,
her sorrow. her brave children scat
tered over the earth until they are a
part of every country on the globe, di-
recting affairs II leading in business.
In talking about the judiciary, he said
he would not mention the Irish bar
because it was the supposedly Irish
bar that wrested from the Irish their
liberty, and Irishmen remembered the
judiciary with remorse.
"Die Wacht Am Rhein," sung Justify
In German, was the greeting accorded
to Mayor Jacob Haussling, who an
swering to the toast Greater Newark"
remarked that it was a large subject,
and caused considerable merriment by
declaring that he was sorry he was
becoming SO good an orator, because
the demand for his speeches was get
ting too much for him.
Friendly sons Dine.
Equally brilliant was the thirty |
eighth dinner of the Friendly Sons of
st. Patrick, held at De Jianne's, amid
green decorations. Among the speakers
were George w. Tomkins, vice-presi-
dent of the Board of Education; former
Judge Thomas S. Henry, Congressman
n. Wayne Parker, Mayor Haussling
and Father O'Neill, of the Church of
the Blessed Sacrament, in the Clinton
Hill section.
With the exception of Mr.. Tomkins,
Celtic blood was in the veins of all
present, and he was adopted by the
Friendly Sons, after he had told them
that he went through Ireland last
year. He added that he had got his
clothing in the Emerald Isle, so that
there was something Irish about him.
President John f. Conroy offered a
toast to the President, and James M.
Reilly, secretary of the Board of Trade,
spoke of the history of the Friendly
Sons and said hat they were a force
In this country before and during the
war of independence.
Congressman Parker in speaking of
st. Patrick said:
HE drove the snakes out of Ireland,
and other saints are credited with driy-
ing out other kinds of snakes. and
here''-turning to Sheriff Sommer, who
sat beside him, I'VE have a saint who
Is trying to do it. too
Among the other speakers were
Sheriff Sommer, the Rev. Louis Shreve
Osborne. Samuel Kalisch and George
w. Spottiswoode. of Orange, the oldest
former president of the Friendly Sons.
Appropriate services marked a triple
event at st. Patrick's Cathedral yes