Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-03-17
TRIBUTES PAID
TO IRISH RACE At
DINNER IN ORANGE
Prominent Speakers Have EN-
erald Isle Themes at An
nual Banquet.

FORMALLY inaugurating the several
affairs which Orange folk have planned
TO honor the memory of St. Patrick,
ember of Branch No. /, District No.
8, st. Patrick's Alliance of America,
mad an Irish supper last night in their
rooms in Alliance Hall, Orange. I'm
ported Irish bacon, bounteous portions
of green's n big mealy potatoes were
the principal items of a toothsome
menu, and during the evening the
stories dear to hearts of Irishmen were
told by eloquent orators. Melodies of
old Ireland and some modern selections
were sung and the evening was one of
the best affairs planned by John p. Lee,
the moving spirit of the popular Irish
society.
There was a list of excellent speak
ers headed by Judge Thomas A. Davis,
who reused his auditors to enthusiasm
by his declaration that after a week
of speeches for reformatories and other
correctional institutions he welcomed
an opportunity to tell the Irish folk of
Essex county that there were few Irish
in the sentence day line ups of Offend
ers and little need for reformatories for
the people of that race. County Tax
commissioners bduIeHtt l. ell pre-
sided at the speakers table; Council
man John c.. Fineran, who was selected
as POSTMASTER, having been unable to
officiate owing to a bereavement in his
family.
The Irish are not found in the line
ups on sentence day in Essex county,"
said Judge Davis. "and they are not
filling our jails, in Essex county, at
least. One of the biggest pleasures of
my life came when in going over the
our statistics in Newark I found that
Irish names are scarce or the court
records. The Irish and Irishmen's sons
are here to uphold the arms of our gov
eminent, not to break the laws, and it
is no wonder that March II is being
celebrated throughout the land, and is
10Y observed throughout this great
country more widely than n day.
save our American holidays. Chicago
sets the pace by designating tomorrow
as q legal holiday in that great city,
and 1t shows in what high regard the
Irish and Irish-Americans are held
when that city ear go before the world
and say that March II, 1910, we set as
an American holiday"
Judge Davis told of Irish traditions
indicating the appearance in this coun-
try Of st. Brands, years before Column
bus came as a ~discoverer, and he told
Of the early Irish and their activities in
the War Of the Revolution. He recited
the names Of the famous Irishmen
whose signatures are attached to the
Declaration Of Independence. a sub
stantial proof that the Irsih love Amer
lea and that Americans should love the
Irish.
Ireland's act In sending supplies to
the starving pilgrims in New England,
he mentioned, and discussing the Irish
In the Oranges, he declared that while
the older people were fading away, the
old Irish residents had been as instru-
mental as any others in making the
Oranges the attractive localities they
are today. TIe urged their descendants
to mako the last days Of these good
people as happy and comfortable as
possible, and that the action and sp1en-
did lives of the rugged people be taken
as models.