Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-07-23

the stage and by certain unrepre-
sentative immigrants who have come
to our shores. To understand the Irish
as he is, and at his best, one
must visit Ireland and tour the coun-
try, especially the north of Ireland
Here you find them to be large of body
and large of heart, with ruddy cheeks.
q delicious brogue, OF, better. a de-
llghtful accent, and decided business
In Londonderry. for instance. which
map will show you is In the far
northwest of the country, the men and
women are magnificent specimens of
manhood and womanhood. Their
streets r cleaner than the streets of
most American cities, their homes are
picturesque, their roads are perfect ana
their stores are like unto those in a
prosperous small city of our own coun-
try. It Is the same all down the line
to Belfast and Dublin-Belfast the
great Protestant city and Dublin the
great Catholic city. Our train carried
is through magnificent -arming coun-
try, with artistic ~farmhouses. hand
some hedges of hawthorne etwee thu
fields. instead Of stone or wooden
fences, and people of evident strength
of character and good nature. SO far
my impression of ireland has beer
wonderfully delightful and my regard
for the Irish people-always high-has
risen Immensely.
l am told that when | reach the
extreme south of Ireland 1 will find a
difference, as the people of this country
seem to have sprung from different
stock. But | am already sure that the
difference will only be one of greater
simplicity, as the south of Ireland is
less affected by foreign travel than
the north. At any rate, the people of
the Emerald Isle are all right, and
there is a great future before their
country.
Londonderry. my first stopping place,
has a history thai carries us back to
1854 A. D.. when 1t was just Derry, a
name its inhabitants love to call it TO
this day. Indeed, they will not all il
Londonderry, for the word London tells
them of the time the soldiers Of Lon
don came over and subjugated the in
habitants and James l., in 1913, changed
Derry to Londonderry. Here 1t was In
1859 that King James and his army
tried by the horrors of assault, pes
thence and famine to AXE the city
from Its Protestant defenders, but they
displayed an unconquerable grit, and
he had to give up the attempt. Thus
1t was that here in this little city or
$1,000 people Professionalism was saved,
and that is why the north OF ireland
Is largely Protestant, although In Derry
today, owing to the increasing indus
trial character of the city, the Cath
Ollie population Is almost as large as the
Protestant. The combination of the
two elements, and quite an admixture
of Scotch blood, makes Derry probably
the most religious city of Ireland. I
was there on Sunday, and 1t seemed as
II the people spent all the day In going
to and from their churches.
An attempt was made to make a
Church Of Ireland man of me. and quite
a serious one for a time! i was locked
In st. Columba's Cathedral at night
| fall and It looked for a while as IL !
would have to stay there all night. I
had gone in to look at the handsome
memorial windows and the elderly sex
| ton forgot that I was on the inside. ]
| suddenly heard the great doors close
and then heard the great key turn in
the lock. Then all was silence! There
1 was in the cathedral. and with no
way OF exit. l hurried from n door
to the other and found them locked
and barred. I called, but got no an
swer. Then I found a door where
could draw down the bolt from the tor
and draw up the bolt from h bottom
and possibly the lock would yield. Just
as 1 had pulled up the lower bolt this
/ old sexton passed by and. hearing the
unusual noise. thrust in the key ano
let me out. He eyed me with mingled
suspicion, curiosity and amusement
and then we had a laugh, followed by
| quite a long conversation. / told him
that If he wanted to convert me he had
| better take a less uncanny and lest
| compulsory method!
He surprised me very much by tell
| ing me that when I reached the sout
| of Ireland / would not find n sucf
| bitterness between the Protestants ane
| Catholics as exists in h north. II
| Derry and all down the line to Dub
| there is much feeling, but in Killarney
| and Cork and Limerick and similai
| sections the two bodies of Christian:
| get along p~eaceably and helpfully to-
| gether. This is largely because there
| never were such struggles between
| the two wings of Christianity In thu
lower part OF Ireland as there wa.
in the upper.
The Giants Causeway is some hirt,
| miles from Derry o. the shores of tn
| Irish Sea. 1t disappoints one at first
especially If he approaches 1t in a boa
from the ocean, but hen he land
and begins to walk about among tn
| strange-shaped stones and pillars hi
| amazement grows steadily, and h
lconfesses that this is, indeed, n o
| the wonders of the world. A carsewa!
means a road, and so it seems as If
giant in ages gone by had shaped grea
paving blocks of many forms for him
self and other giants to tread upon
| There is a wishing chair. You are toll
! that by sitting in 1t and making tire
wishes one is sure to come u / vii
not tell you what l wished unless !
comes to pass, and then ! assure yol
| will have a more comfortable tim
returning to New York than 1 had il
reaching ireland. l imagine many al
American makes the same wish, hop
ing that in this way he may be pourinl
oil on the troubled waters of the AT
lantiei
We went into two deep caves at tn
| causeway. Kelly-for the Irish boat
nan cartainlv looIted like the lone-los