The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-01-30
CALEDON|ANs. PAY
HONOR To ROBERT
BURNS'S BIRTHDAY
Bonnie ScOtland's Loyal Sons
and Daughters Gather on Ma
tiOnal Poets Natal Day.
SONGS AND SENTIMENT
MARK THE EVENING
Musical and Vaudeville Program
Greatly Enjoyed--New York
Scots Unav0idably Detained.

Bonnie Scotland's lads and lassies
gathered in the New Auditorium last
night to celebrate the 150th anniversary
of the birth of. Robert Burns. The
members of the Caledonian Club acted
as hosts, but that means that there
were few guests, as nearly every New
ark son of Scotland is a member of the
organization. Additional interest was
taken in the celebration owing to the
fact that it was the semi-centennial an
niversary of the club and the entertain
ment furnished surpassed anything
ever before given in the city along
similar lines.
Song and sentiment comprised the
program during the early part of the
evening, and as the sweet singers from
not only this country but Canada rem
dered the national airs of Scotland
with much depth of feeling, round after
round of applause greeted their efforts
and they were compelled to respond to
encores time and again. There was
only one departure from the program
which had been mapped out, and that
was the failure of the New York Cal
Oii SlaD W oPpSol WILL I ooif0
of "kilties." The inclement weather
was responsible for this, as wa1 ascer-
%tained through a telephone message re-
ceived from the leader of the Manhat-
tan organization.
Out-of-TOwn Guests.
Delegations were present from Harri-
son, Jersey City, the Oranges and other
nearby points, and all united in their
commentator of the efforts of the To-
cal Scots to provide them with enter
tainment. After a selection by Sweets
Orchestra, a Scotch reel was danced
by the Lyons Troupe, with Pipe Major
Hunter as accompanist, n then Miss
Edith v. Bryson, of New York, sang
90 A. the Airts," a folk-song that i'm
mensely pleased the audience. H.
Ruthven Macdonald, of Canada, began
by singing Scotland Yet" but was
forced to respond to three encores and
finally retired amid a whirlwind of
applause.
Miss Elsie Dixon Craig, in recita-
tons, and Eddie" Piggott, Canada's
greatest comedian, made an instant hit
with the audience. After u brief inter
mission the Rev. John Hutchinson, of
Arlington, was introduced as the speak
er of the evening, and before beginning
his address was presented by Robert
Maitland, chief of the C~aledonian Club,
with a gold badge of honor and was
made an honorary member of the or
ganization for life. During his address
the Clergyman said, regarding Burns:
'.This is a year of c~entennials. n
hundred years ago the first daily paper,
as large as a mans hand and hard to
fill up was printed. Today our NAM
moth papers give us biographies and
criticisms of the men born in the year
of the daily papers birth. Poe, the poet.
and MeEdelssohn and Chopin, music
ians; Richard Monckton Mines, the
statesman; Fitzgerald, Of Omar Khay-
yam fame; Kinglake, the historian;
Oliver Wendell Holmes. poet and essay
list; Alfred Tennyson, William Ewart
Gladstone and Charles Darwin, a trio
of England's greatest, and. last, mot
least, Abraham Lincoln, our own
revered and beloved Father Abraham.
But we tonight celebrate the birth
day of that respondent genius who
preceded this bright galaxy of stars by
exactly half a century, the man in
whom the spirit of the modern man
first burst into a blaze; that spirit at
once generous and rebellious, rising, it
may be. from Ignorance and poverty,