The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-11-22
EMMET WAS GREAT GENERAL, SAYS
 MISS HOLLOWAY
NOt the HeadslrOng Youth Some Would
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Audience Far leo Small Gree.s Noted HtmaH LecurTr at Memorial Concert and Address Under AnSp ces of Diyi. sion, No. 2, 4. 0. Il.

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 The audience that greeted Miss Char lOtte EIolyneux Holloway at Poli's Theatre last evening was much smaller than the merit of the lecture and con cert provided by Division No. ?, A. O. H.. warranted. Miss Holloway spoke on Robert Emmet and His Times" and Peter F. Radican baritone soloist at st. Joseph's Cathedral. Hartford. and John Hughes and James Mahoney well known and accomplished vocal | ists of this city. took part In the mus l icai program While through good ! mans cement the Second Division is not a loser through the undertaking. | thc returns were so small as to. dis ! courage further efforts of the sort. The event was in commemoraion of the Anniversary of the ManchestNy Mar tyrdQm.
 Miss Holloway. who is we'll known though former appearances here as ! a lecturer on Irish topics. was intro duced by Frederick C. Mullins. Her appearance was the signal for an en- thusisatic welcome. She outlined the | order of the concert and lecture and
 retired during the first portion of the program, several appropriate vocal sc
 iections. Mss Holloway. as usual. us- cd large number of slides on the picture screen to give force to her re-
 marks. Included in the collection were reproductions of many rare old plates lsiVingNnew interest to subjects with
 which her auditors were already fam
 iiiar.
 Miss Holloway devoted the first DOT
 ton of her lecture to an exposition of
 Ireland. its history and progress. to
 show what Robert Emmet had intend
 cd 10 place among the nations of the earth Before she entered into the subject Of Emmet and his work q
 short iaternisslon occurred. in which Mir. Radican sang "O'Donnen Aboo" with his ecc'istOmed enthusiasm, apd she Nrecited "rhe Culd Plaid Shawl
 Taking up -Emmet and his history.
 Miss Holloway declared he was not the ,headstrOng youth some of his con temporaries sought 10 represent him.
 but a slIilful general. He had laid his plans well in Paris and under them ? Ireland was to be the basis of France g uttack upon England. In return for co-cpera ton with the French. Ireland was to have her independence. Three ? Interviews Emmet had with Napoleon The ,Iittle corporal had his ieyes set upon Egypt when the first was neId. ! but when the third was concIuded he had abandoned his Egyptian plans and
 conSented to E.n1mef's project.
 Fl Emmet found during his efforts to
 enlist French support that the Elm , press Josephine. with her innate love
 was due not only to her leaning to-
 wards freedom. but to a dream she ' regarded as Q portent that should Ma ! poleon go to Egypt, his fortune would : he shattered Returning to Ireland. . i-Emmet took up his work in obscure lodgings It was planned t6- seize
 Dublin castle with its vast store ot lammunitions on the night of July
 23 ls0s. Three weeks before. an ex-
 plosicn disclosed the whereabouts of
 a revolutionary storehouse, but the , English took no apparent action Lat , CT itfdevel0ped it that the English spies ! were working diligently all this time . mot content with knowing that Emmei
 the people who were identified with him. Emmet had gone so far as tC khave framed the regulations for lthe
 provisional government.
 When the time came for the rendez-
 vous. Emmet's followers were mislec by government spies. and he found himself alone Miss Holloway spoke ol Enmet's flight. later his return to bic
 farewell to beautiful Sarah Curran. hi. sweet heart. and Of his apprehension . The Imprisonment. the anxiety of thu ( brautiful girl who had fOrsaken famils ! land friends for him. and the thriiiin1 ? story of his execution. were detailed } at length by Miss Holloway. h clos l ing she expressed the hope that a. l Emmct's epitaph is eraven in tn, Q hearts of the suns and daughters o 2 Erin so the emblem of Erin may sooT n become another symbol of freedom e such as our own stars and stripes TheR R2.-cert closed with the singi1s F by thS Audience Of the star Spal:glsf !, !. Banner. What the audience lacked 1T W proportion it amply supplied in en : thusi1sm for the gathering was on' q or Che most .ardclt that has been seel ' here on such an occasion
 The committee in charge corpriset !. James H- Rooney. Captain John I K Mccarthy, John Ouinlan, John Aa- a lone and Col. IT. J. Murphy.