Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1910-08-25
GREEN MT. HIBERNIANS
Mass and Business Sessions Mark
Second Day of Convention.
Speakers at banquet Urge the irish III
Vermont to Help the People OF the
Emerald Isle In Their struggle
for Home Rule.

The open,ng meeting Of the convention
OF the Ancient order of llibcrnians IN inc
state Of Vermont was held Monday
with NJ. attendance Of about 800 members
aud delegates The burlington Division OF
the Hibernians and the Ladies Auxiliary
of this city both worked the degrees on
candidates and at the close of the meet
ines a reception was held for both bodies
In the Hibernian rooms, luncheon be-
ing provided for tho visitors by the
Iadiea Auxiliary. All of the State officers
were present.
The delegates arrived during the day
and evening. and were met by
Iibernians Of this city, who escorted them
to their different lodging places. There
are 70 divisions in the State and all were
represented The divisions are located at
Rutland West Rutland. Poultney. Pitts
ford. Montpelier. Granitevile. Barre,
Richmond, Proctor, Ludlow. White
River Junction and this city.
! The Ladies Auxiliary used the c. y.
NJ. L. rooms for their initiation and the
Hihernians used their own rooms. The
reception which followed was an informa!
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an opportunity of meeting each other.
| TIE SECOND DAY.
TIE second day Of the convention Of the
Jurisdiction of Vermont, Ancient order
Of Hibernians. and the Ladies' Auxiliary
was marked by tho celebration OF solemn
| high mass IN presence Of the bishop of the
diocese at st. Mary's Cathedral a bust
ness session taking up part of the fore
noon and all of the afternoon, and n
I banquet In ST Marys hall in the even
| ing.
shermans Military band opened the
| day with a concert in City Hall Park be-
tween the hours Of $50 and $50 Mean
while the local and visiting Hibernians
assembled at the headquarters in the
| HAYWARD block and at $50 formed in line
to march 70 the Cathedral, where solemn
high mass was soemniyed in the presence
Of the RI. Rev. j. J. Rice.
The procession was headed by Sher-
mans band and a platoon OF police. All
| u divisions followed, including the En-
nett knights of West Rutland and Lud-
low drtll team. Both of these were in uni
form and presented a fine appearance.
| The Cathedral drum corps was also pres
ent and added to the spectacle. Each
man in line wore the attractive
badge, supplied for the convention. and
also green ribbons. remnants and other
decorations were also in evidence.
At the Cathedral the Hibernians were
met by the Ladies' Auxiliary and with
the visitors present filled the edfice for
the ceremony which followed The Rev. j.
w. Dwyer was tho celebrant of the mass
and Bishop Rice occupied the throne
The sermon was preached by the Rev.
W. j. OSullvan OF Montpelier. The Rev
J. p Rand Of Winooski was deacon and
the Rev. W. p. Crosby OF the Cathedral
officiated as sub-deacon. The Reys. w
j. O'Sullvan and ]. F. G'1lis were honor
airy deacons.
| The music was extraordinarily fine
| Lessons orchestra and an augmented
choir rendered NJ. Lousch's mass in +.
The mass opened with Kyrie Eleison by
the choir and following that a male
quartette sang Christus Eleison. with a
soprano obligato by Miss Loretta Null
queen. After the choir had finished Gloria
In Excelsis. DR. Coutu sang n bass solo
and {. {. Beaupre a tenor solo For the
onertory Miss Mulqueen sang the Ave
| Maria, with violin obligato. Miss Lena
Cronin. contralto of the choir, sang the
Sanctus and also the Benedictus The
choir sang Pleni Stunt Coeli and mixed
Quartette consisting of the Misses Corlev
and Cronin. Dr. Coutu and Mr.. Beaupre,
rendered Agnus Del. The choir sang the
closing selection.
The sermon by Father O'Sullivan was
listened to with the closest attention by
the congregation. His text was taken
from ST. John. This Is the Victory.
which Overcometh the World our Faith. -
He congratulated the Hibernians in
preparing the way for the business Of the
convention by worshippinG God and spoke
of the loyalty and fidelity which the Irish
had always shown for their faith. He
thanked God for the many blessings. pas,
and present and said that the privleae
Of worshippng God was blessed
inheritance which had descended TO the
present generation through many con
turtles of suffering and trials. The
Hibcrnians had special mission to fulfil
in keeping pure and clean the faith
which had brought the blessings OF III,
present.
The speaker traced the progress Of The
race to its present position as one Of III,
leaders Of the world and said that to-da,
1.-THE victory was theirs because of the!l
loyalty and devotion
a short business meeting followed tn,
services at the Cathedral but was ad
journed for lunch before anything of i'm
portance was done The afternoon ses
sions Of both the Auxiliary and Hiber
mans was called at two O'Clock and botl
were marked by a disposal of a larr,
amount OF routine business. III,
Hibernians held their meeting in thei
own hall and the Auxiliary held theirs il
, the c. \. NJ. L. rooms. The latter electe,
officers but the former only found time I,
; hear the reports OF officers, etc. The re-
ports brought out the fact that the orde
was more than holding It's own, both in ;
financial way and as regards numbers
Following are the officers, elected by th
State organization Of the Ladies'
! Auxiliary:
President, Mrs, Rose r. Granger O
Barre; vice-presldcnt, Mrs Marguerlt,
: White or White River Junction; secre
tary. Mrs, Mary II. Connors OF Rutland
treasurer. Miss Katherine McCaffrey o
burlington; bylaw committee, count,
presidents. Mrs j. ID. Hannah, Mrs
Katherine Pell, Mrs. Florence Murph,
and Miss Marie McCabe; finance commit
tee, Miss Florence Emmons, Mrs Eliza
beth Brown and Miss Katherine McCaf
I. fr"y press committee. Miss Nellie M
Nally. Mrs. Matte Terrier ana Mrs
Mary Kelley; grievance committee, Mis-
4 katherine Kennedy, Miss Celia Ryde
l and Miss Anna Mccormick
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