The Cairo bulletin., 1908-02-13
BLOC LING COLLEENS.
AN ENTIRE sHIrI4OAD or THEM
DIRECT From AULD SOD.

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Invoice Number, / t,OO2-There
Were ONeils, McCarthy's, MUIR
phys, Sullivans, With and With
out the 20" and Many Others.
The most interesting cargo that
has entered an American port. reach
ed New York recently. 1t was moth
ing less than shapload OF blooming
colleens direct fro.l thu Aud Sod.
coming to America with the avowed
purpose of going on the matrimonial
market. The invoice or marriage
able merchandise numb red 1902.
ANA the names OF them laad like
San Francisco police rostes. There
were O'Neils, McCarthys. Nnrphys.
lSullivans, with and without the TO-"
Dunleyys. McBrides, Bryans.
O'Briens. Boyles. Eagans. McBr, afs.
O'Rourkes. McClatchys, and le-
lans till you couldn't rest and
every mothers daughter Of them -
pink of cheek. as bland OF temper, h
sweet Of spirit, as good to look az
imagines that there was a lack OF
room and of welcome for them, he
has but to read the New York pa
pers and see the stir their laniip
made. Within an hour after Ii.
steamer dockej, Miss Annie O'Sulli-
van OF County Cork was duly made
over into Mrs. Cornelius D. Me-
Sweeney, and long before sund0wn
Miss Kate Donohue of County Mayo,
was Mrs. Patrick Healey of West
One Hundred and Fosty-eighth
Street, while Miss Nora 0Brien of
Limerick. had been metamorphoset
into Mrs. Dennis Delaney, with her
ticket bought for North Dakota. So
much for the first day: and what
happened the day after AMI the day
following, would tax the space OF
the 'Argonaut" to report The ven
ture was bowling success. and no
doubt by this time the charter rates
for ships at Irish ports have gone
a soaring
This incident is not without pre-
codent, 1t Ii 10 be REALIZED that way
back in early Colonial days consid
erable numbers of young women
were brought in job lots and par
celled out in job lots among the
lonely settlers of Virginia and the
Carolinas. where in due process OF
of time they became the ancestors
of that local aristocracy which loves
to descant upon the blue-blooded
dignities OF IT'S cavalier forbears.
Possibly Ii is with this type Of great
great grandfather In mind that your
average scion of South-of- Mason and
Dixon aristocracy is forever boasting
of his forefathers to the apparent
neglect of his equally meritorious
foremothers.
Nor is the Pacific Coast without
its tradition OF fcminity imported
by Wholesale Our neignboring
State of Oregon in the early six
ties was shy at the point OF mar
riageable youag women: and to meet
an eager and anxious demand one
A. S. Mercer, an early specimen of
the promoter, brought out an in
voice of something like a hundred
young women from New England.
lily of the school marin type.
Now your New England school marin
does not at all points match the
ideals of the wild and woolly wife
seeker; nevertheless, the Mercer
girls as they came to be called, went
off like hot cakes on frosty morn
ing. one of them marrying no legs
parsonage than a district Judge.
who by the next turn In the political
wheel, became the governor of the
State. Indeed, tho movement was
so rapid that Mercer who had ar
ranged for the passage out from
Boston-was unable to enforce
his collections, and SO lost heavily
on the enterprise. He consoied him
self by taking to wife one of his own
imported beauties-the only one
left over at the end of month,
sort OF remnant, so to speak---but
whether or not he considered him
self fairly compensated nobody ever
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