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The Redwood gazette., 1910-03-16
THE SHAMROCK SO GREEN.
BY JOHN M'MAHON
THOUSANDS of shamrocks are sent


to this country from Ireland
for st. Patrick's day. They are
not sent as commercial proposition,
but as messages of love from those on
'the old sod to their dear ones here.
The shamrocks that are sold in the
United States are almost universally
American clovers, which are larger
than the Irish plant and can be told
at glance by any true son of Erin.
The real shamrocks are not for sale.
They are priced too dearly by their
recipients to profane them by barter.
They symbolic a sentiment. and sen
timents cannot be bOught-that is, un-
less they are the imitation kind 1t is
just so with shamrocks. Only the
counterfeits are on the market
So common has become the custom
of sending shamrocks to America that
there is now what is known as the
shamrock ship" This is the last pos
sible mail steamer to get them here in
time for st. Patrick's day. the senders
to have the plants fresh. Most Of the
shamrocks are sent in letters and are
moistened so as to keep. Wlen the
postal authorities handle fat moist
envelope bearing an Irish pOstmark
they know ii is a shamrock letter
This wetting of the plants often plays
havoc with the letters, rendering the
superscription illegible in many cases
or even causing the envelope to come
to pieces in few instances. 1t is
also probable that the little plants are
sent in newspapers and other pack
ages. The postal authorities are not
very strict at such times and do not
inspect the Irish mail too vigorously
! When the shamrock ship comes in
the postofice people are too busy to be
unduiy curious.
Tradition has it that st. Patrick ac-
tually brought the shamrock to Ire
land. As the old song has it:
There's dear little plant that grows in
our isle.
Twas st. Patrick himself, sure, who set
it.
And the sun on his labor with pleasure
did smile,
And the tear from his eye ofttimes wet
1t grows through the bog through the
| brake. through the mire land.
| And they call it the dear little shamrock
of ireland.
The fact of the matter seems to be
! that st. Patrick used the three leayed
shamrock as an illustration of the doc
trine of the Trinity-three in one. As
to just what plant the saint employed
there is question. Some maintain
that it was the wood sorreI The cura-
| tor of the Dublin botanical gardens
says it was the black nonesuch. The
general view, however. is that the
word shamrock is Erse. from seamrog.
meaning little clover. and that means
that the Trifolium repens or Tri-
folium minus is the real shamrock. 1t
is questionable, however, whether
white clover is a native of Ireland.
The use Of the word seamsoge by the
oldest writer's would seem to uphold
the wood sorrel view, as seamsoge
means wood sorrel.
I
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table arrayed in glory of red, white
and blue ribbons, tiny American flags
and miniature figures of Uncle Sam
and the Goddess of Liberty, all salvage
from her recent Washington's birth
day party.
There was buzz OF conversation,
and she knew that there was hurt
look in her fathers eyes-that father
who had worked so hard, who denied
her nothing and who so enjoyed his
annual celebration of ST. Patrick's day..
And there was Larry Grady-oh, hor-
rible namei OF course he would guess
that she had been the one to change
the decorations, and she could fancy
the scOrn on his handsome face
Something that Larry had once said
returned to her with startling distinct
ness:
isn't the country big enough for all
men and all nations she will adopt?
What's in name after all?"
Suddenly Margaret seemed to see
herself in different light. She sprang
to her feet and rushed to her dresser.
Now, she could never cease to appre-
ciate the love of the two men whom
she cared for most in the world.
She dug ont green satin sash which
she had wCrn on gala days before she
attended Miss Henny's fashionable
school and been finished beyond recog-
milton of her old Irish friends.
Joke and song and merry quip We're
flying about the round table under the
stars and stripes when Margaret opened
the door and entered the room.
They rose from the table as she
came forward in her white gown, with
The Redwood gazette., 1910-03-16
GUN COTTON.
A Peculiar Characteristic of This Ter
rible Explosive.

PecuIiar characteristic or MS er.
ribIe Explosive.
Many and odd are the materials en-
tering into the manufacture of modern
explosives, but perhaps the most inter
esting of all these elements of destruc
ton as well as the simplest is gun cot
ton. The gun cotton manufacturing in
dustry is large, as enormous quantities
are used in the charging of torpedoes
and for similar purposes.
The base of gun cotton is pure raw
cotton or even cotton waste, such as is
used to clean machinery. This is steep.
ed in solution of one part of nitric
and three parts of sulphuric acid. 1t is
the former ingredient that renders the
mass explosive. the sulphuric acid be-
ing used merely to absorb all moisture.
thus permitting the nitric acid to com
bine more readily with the cellulose OF
the cotton.
After being soaked for several hours
in the solution described the cotton
is passed between rollers to expel
all nonabsorbed acid. process carried
to completion by washing the cotton in
clear water. This washing process is a
long one. requiring machinery which
reduces the cotton TO mass reSem-
bling paper pulp. Should any nonab-
sorbed acid be allowed to remain ii
would decompose the cotton.
If the explosive is to be used after
the manner Of powder it is still fur
ther pulverized and then thoroughly
dried. but if intended for torpedoes it
is pressed into cakes of various shapes
and sizes-disk shaped. cylindrical. fiat
squares and cubes. When not com
pressed gun cotton is very light. as
light as ordinary batting.
A peculiar characteristic of this ter
rible explosive is that brick of ii
when wet may be placed on bed of
hot Goals, and as the moisture dries out
the cotton will fake and burn quietly.
If dry originally. however, the gun cot
ton will explode, with terrible force at
about 800 degrees Of heat.
In general it is the custom to ex-
plode gun cotton by detonation or an
intense shock instead of by heat. In a
torpedo the explosive charge is wet.
this wet cotton being exploded by
means of dry cotton in a tube, this
having been fired by cap of fulmi-
nate of mercury, the cap itself having
been fired by the impact of the torpedo
against the target.-Harper's Weekly.
The Redwood gazette., 1910-03-16

sTD RATHER You SPELLED 1T GRADY"
harp on the old subject of changing
the spelling of our name! Now,
FI-i-n-n-e is so much more
I'D rather you spelled it Grady"
interrupted Michael with twitching
lips
ut will never be that flashed Mar
garet.
'Why not?" demanded Flynn brusque-
ly.
Because
Because why. Peg? Is that too
too Irish, like the rest of the things?'
"Yes."
"And you've told the boy?'
She nodded.
Michael took swift turn up and
down the room and came to a stand
still before his daughter. With hands
deep in his pockets and heavy jaw
thrust out he looked at her out of
sharp gray eyes from which all humor
had fed.
Just because his name is Grady.
Go away. Peggy. Sometimes after I've
been talking seriouslike with a wo-
man-I-want to be alone for awhile"
Margaret WINGED, but with head
flung high she left the room. In the
hall she paused at the dining room
door and pushed it open.
The handsome chandelier had been
equipped with delicate green globes,
and from it's center wide green satin
ribbons were looped and fastened to
the cloth of the great circular table.
On the board silver and cut glass
shone and sparkled about a magnifi-
cent pot of shamrocks, while at every
cover were. favors appropriate to the
day.
Margaret eyed the table and its dec
orations with infinite scorn. How she
detested the annual dinner of the
Shamrock club. of which her father
was the president!
Now a clock in the hall chimed g.
and a strange light came into Mar
garet's eyes. If she only dared. 1t
would take five minutes before the
dinner hour at z. and 1t would be q
The Redwood gazette., 1910-03-16
The SHAMROCK
CLUBS annual.
By BERNARD QUINN
copyright. 1910. by American Press Assoc
ciation.l


Copyright 1870 by American Press Assoc
ciation.l
"HERE were three generations
between the turf cottage in
County Galway and the brown
stone house in quiet uptown
street.
Margaret Flynn, slender and black
haired, whose eyes were deep pools
of blue fringed with thick black
lashes, closed her book and gazed dis
consolately into the peat fire on the
hearth.
$50 ridiculous of father to burn turf
in the library" she fretted.
The door opened, and Michael Flynn
blew gustily in, big and bluff. with
sandy gray hair and freckled hands.
"Well, Peggy, girl, how goes itg' he
said, crossing to the fire and dropping
a light caress on her dusky head.
"Same as ever. dad,' returned the
girl absentedly.
whats troubling you? Out with it,
Peg! know you like book. Is it
the usual crouch over the st. Patrick
dinner or the special green livery
ordered for Timmy?'
Margaret flushed hotly. "You may
laugh, dad," she said defiantly; s'you
may think me small and mean to
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just rebuke to these men who vaunted
their love and loyalty to Ireland before
the eyes of true Americans.
Because / am an Americana
breathed Margaret an hour later as
she sat in her own room with a hud-
die of green satin ribbon in her lap
and basket of green favors beside
her.
she heard the tramp OF feet as the
men went into the dining room, and
she almost felt the little shock of sur
prise with which they greeted the
The Redwood gazette., 1910-03-16
Legend Of St. Patrick.

st. Patrick was holy man
And minstrel, too, of old
And bore on all his wanderings
A harp with strings of gold.
When Erin's heroes went to war
With sword and lance and shield
In early times they lacked flag
To follow on the field.
So good st. Patrick took the leaves
Upon the willow tree
And stitched the emerald strips to make
banner broad and free.
But ere his task was done he heard
The trumpet's wild refrain
And nailed It to his golden harp
And joined the march again.
The banner Of the willow leaves
Grew dry and fell to dust:
The strings that rang to battle songs
Were soon devoured by rust.
But still on Erin's ancient flag
The willows tint is seen,
And still the legendary harp
Adorns its folds of green.
The Redwood gazette., 1910-03-16
QUARTER BILLION IN ORANGES.
Tremendous Amount of Money Repre-
sented by California Fruit Groves.

In a recent report on the fruit indus
try in California it was stated that the
business today represents an outlay of
$3.50, 900. A large share of this be-
longs to members of the California
Fruit Growers Exchange, cultivators
of the famous "Sunkist" brand and hav-
ing 5000 groves.
Great care was taken by California
fruit growers in this seasons crop and
a large expenditure was made in pro-
ducing what is designated as the high
est grade Of oranges ever placed on sale
under the name of "Sunkist." U5l
The Redwood gazette., 1910-03-16
How Tommy Escaped.

At breakfast restless little Tommy
began to play with the cruet stand.
His father told him not to do so. He
persisted and at last upset it and
spilled the pepper on the tablecloth.
His father said:
'.Now, Tommy, you were disobedient
and upset the pepper castor. and !
really ought to make the punishment
fit the crime by putting some Of the
pepper on your tongue"
Tommy looked up like a flash and
asked:
would / be punished the samG, dad,
If upset the sugar bowlf''
The Redwood gazette., 1910-03-16
USE MANY ORANGES THIS YEAR.
Evidence That Many Families lR This
vicinity Are Taking Advantage of
Splendid Fruit Crop.

That residents of this vicinity ara
taking advantage of the splendid crop
of California Oranges this year is shown
by the large general consumption of
"Sunkist" oranges during the past few
weeks.
Reasons for thfs are pointed out by
local merchants who handle this brand.
1t is declared that "Sunkist oranges.
cultivated by members of the California
Fruit Growers Exchange. have exceed
ed even their previous record for ex-
quisfte lusciousness and full and ma
tured flavor. l19l
The Redwood gazette., 1910-03-16
The CHIEF End.

'What," inquired the student, 'do
you regard as the chief end Of man?"
"Well," answered the professor, "it
depends upon what you want the man
it's his head, and IL you want him to
it's his head. and if you want him to
run errands it's his feet
The Redwood gazette., 1910-03-16
So. Patrick.

st. Patrick cleaned the auld sod up.
The divil had to give in.
He made grand old Hibernia
A bully place to lire In.
So let us pluck a shamrock green
In honor of his sway
And plant the prathies for good luck
Upon st. Patrick's day.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-04-27
CLUB WOMAN SEEKS
ARREST OF HUSBAND,
Mrs. Irene Boesch Alleges That
Daughter Was Struck by Man.

Mrs. Irene L.. Bosch, a prominent
clubwoman, who lives at S96 South Six
teenth street, visited the Fourth Pre-
cinct Court today and asked that her
husband, Basil w. Boesch, a chemist,
employed at 1873 McWhorter street. be
arrested on the charge of attacking
their i-year-old daughter, Olga Alice
Boesch. Mrs. Boesch claims that on
February 4 Mr.. Boesch struck the child,
knocking her down, and then kicked
her. rendering her unconscious.
One week ago Mary Manoffsky. a
maid in the Boesch household, and two
months ago Mary Fisher. also a maid.
applied for warrants for Boesch on
charges of assault and battery, but
for various reasons these We're refused.
Today Judge. Herr said that he had
heard a great deal about the case, re-
ferred to the other complaints, n adj
yised Mrs. Bosch to go to the grand
jury or the Chancery Court.
Mrs. Boesch' claims that for ten years,
ever since she married. she has been
suffering from the incompatability
caused by trying to make Russian and
American ideas mix. and after study
ing conditions here and in Russia wrote
Count Leo Tolstoy. Her letter was
answered by the count, who advised
her in the matter.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-04-27
3I|CH Man KILLED
AS FOLDING BED
CLOSES ON COUPLE
Girl Climbs Into Window and
Releases Aged Wife. Also
Badly Hurt.

NEW YORK, April 27.-To save the
life Of an aged woman imprisoned in
a heavy folding-bed, Miss Emily Smith.
a young woman living at 464 West
Twenty-third street, early today
climbed up on the railing of the front
porch at 426 West Twenty-third street,
stepped from there to he back Of a
top of a lowered window into the dark
of "a strange room. She then drew
back the bolt on the fastened door and
let in other
They lifted the couple from the bed
only to find that the man William
Smith s. years old a wealthy paper
manufacturer of Waterbury Conn, was
dead, and his Wife, Anna, go, uncon-
scious. q
Mr.. and Mrs. Smith have been in the
habit of coming to the city regularly
three or four times a year and being
friends of Mrs. Benjamin Ralph. who
runs a fashionable clearinghouse 1t
426 West Tw~enty-third street, they
were accustomed to stop there. They
came here Yesterday on one of their
visits and were given the front parlor
on the first floor. In this room is an
old fashioned mahogany folding-bed.
Both Mr.. Smith and his wife are
portly, and their combined weight was
too much for the bed. The erect por-
ton of the bed weighs between $50 to
20C pounds. When the legs of the bed
gave way Beneath the couple this
heavy head of the bed was pulled over
upon them. Apparently they at
tempted to rise as the bed sank.
The falling bed caught Mr.. Smith on
the back of the head, killing him i'm
stantly The head of the bed was upheld
slightly 50 that Mrs. Smith was able to
breathe. She screamed for help as the
top fell here. cries growing fainter and
ainter. and then consciousness ned.
Mrs. Ralph happened to be passing In
the hall soon after the accident and
heard the cries. She tried to enter.
but found the door fastened from the
inside. Then she ran into the street to
summon aid. Misses Anna Smallwood
and Emily Smith of asa West Twenty
third street We're passing at the time.
They undertook, with Mrs. Ralph, to
rescue the couple.
Mrs. Smiths condition is still re-
garded as serious, but it is thought that
she will recover.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-04-27
NAMES OF ORANGE MEN WHO
GAVE Sz0,GC2 MADE KNOWN.

The names of the four men in Orange
who contributed $4,000 each a few
weeks ago towards the proposed public
playground for that city were given out
at a meeting. of the executive and
nance committees of the playground
movement. held last night In the Or
ange Savings Bank. They are Austen
Colgate, Sidney M. Colgate, Manton B.
Metcalf and william Rumble. Former
Judge Charles b. Storrs presided at the
meeting. .
The purchase of three tracts in the
Third Ward was considered by the
committee. The tracts comprise about
six acres. The committee plan to have
a playground similar to the one In
East Orange at the Orange Oval. and
as fully equipped. To date $4,000 has
been contributed towards the move
ment and SIS. 900 more is needed. This
amount the committees hope to raise
by personal appeals. Il the plans OF
the committees are realized they hope
to have the playground in readiness
late this year.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-04-27
KOSHER BUTCHERS
ASSN CHARGED
WITH BULLYING
Meat Dealer, Not Member OF
Organization, Declares Men
Were Hired to Beat Him.

"H ra ...H
Alleged inside information on the
kosher strike situation was volunteered
In the Fourth Precinct Court today by
Nathan Cohen a hntcher Of % Hillside
nlaoa u,bo so,,oh. e. maL oon,n,oint
-, u,',rs I... 80
~ WIN " u Vi ~
iii'isiue piace'
Cohen declared that when he returned
from Jersey City, whittier he had gone
to purcha sc meat, AT . a.. m. Sunday.
Yerwitz with a band of retainers, who
had been waiting for him. set upon him
and beat him numerically. They de-
cIared. he said. that the meat he had
purchased liz Jersey City was not
kosher meat. Cohen said his wife came
out and begged his assailants to come
in the shop and INSPECT the meat, and
that two of them seized her and had
handled her roughly.
Cohen maintained that the real griev-
ance his enemies had against him lay
in the fact that he had not joined the
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-04-27
FREED OF MURDER
CHARGE, IS SENT
AWAY FROM TOWN
Schwartz Threatened by Citi-
zens of Village Where He
Was Accused of Crime.

RIVERHEAD. y. Y, April 81
Augustus Schwartz, who returned TIC
the home of Mrs. Irving J. Nelson,
widow of the man of whose murder he
was acquitted, has fed under threats
of tar and feathers or worse.
1t is declared that Mrs. Nelson is to
join him and that they are to be mar
ried.
Both he and Mrs. Nelson received
notice from a vigilance committee that
their presence i the quiet Central Islip
village was not desired and would not
be tolerated, certainly not if they tried
to live under the same roof.
Schwartz. who went back to the Mel
son home to board, was very defiant at
FIRST. He was" pleasantly greeted by the
widow and declared that he would stay
in her home as her boarder as long as
she would let him.
- But the sedate residents of the neigh
borhood decreed otherwise. There were
threats of lynching and tar and feath-
ers'' were frequently mentioned as
proper means of rebuke, These omi-
nous mutterings reached the ears of
Schwartz, and he is declared to have
changed from his defiant attitude.
When he was finally notified by a
committee headed by Judge Albert
Schwartz to leave town or take the
consequences he packed up and got
away as quietly as possible.
It is said that he is in hiding in New
York city. Mrs. Nelson would not say
whether she knew anything Of his
whereabouts. but it is believed she does
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-04-27
BOY LATEST PRISONER IN
BLACK HAND" ROUNDUP,

Another arrest was made today :n
the gathering in of a number of Italians
as the result of confessions made by
Mary DeJohn and others under arrest
in the Second precinct. This time it is
a 1~7-year-old bay. Peter DePascall, 10
Garside street, who is held in connec-
ton with charges which include the
sending of BLACK Hand letters. dyna-
mite outrages, robbery, burglary and
white slave" dealings.
Little by little the members of the
ralleged gang under arrest are pouring
tales into the ears of the officers of
the precinct nj one by one those inn
plicated in confessions which are taken
from one n then c~orroborated by
others at the Jail. are being arrested.
~Sergeants Tenore and Cordano and
Plainclothesman Goodwin made the ar,
rest today, and others are expected tc
follow.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-04-27
UNMARKED
GRAVES FOUND IN
P0ITERs FIELD
Work of Building New Roadway
Develops Evidence of Neg
lect by Keeper.

1t developed during the work which
the Carnegie Steel Company is doing
at the City Cemetery in preparing
a new roadway, land for which
they recently purchased from the
city, that there are, 1900 un-
marked graves of infants in the
burial ground. The city authorities re-
Gently sold to the Carnegie Steel Com
pany a section of the cemetery for a
roadway on condition that the steel
people move the bodies which had been
buried in that part of the grounds.
Nine hundred bodies have been re-
moved to other parts of the cemetery.
That section of the potter's field
which was reserved for adults had been
kept in fairly good condition and the
graves are marked, 5000 of them. but
there is no clue to the identity of any
occupants of the tiny graves and rela-
tives attempting to claim any of the
bodies would find the TASK almost i'm
possible.
Joseph w. Robinson, who has been
superintendent at the. City Cemetery
for. the past two years, says he has moi
yet had time to attempt to remedy the
neglect of his predecessor.
There is room for but three hundred
more graves in the burial ground, and,
as there are an average of thirty-fve
burials a month, new ground must be
secured during the course of the next
six months.
Several years ago the city authorities
disposed of a large section of the Gene
terry to the Pennsylvania railroad. AS
u part of the agreement the railroad
company was to fill in a swamp sec
ton of the grounds, which the city
authorities expected to utilize as 3
burying ground.
The railroad fulfilled it's agreement
by filling in the swamp with old ties
telegraph poles, timbers. refuse and
ashes. making the spot worthless foi
burial purposes. The railroad con
pany recently notified the Carnegie
Steel Company that it must cease
using the road which belonged to the
railroad and which was it's only out
let. The Carnegie people were forced
to seek a roadway from the city, ant
were granted a portion of the City
Cemetery.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-04-27
SEVEN FLEE BEDS
AT MIDNIGHT FIRE.
Broome Streets Little Blaze
Causes Big Excitement.

Believing their lives were threatened
by a fire which broke out in the base
ment Of a butcher shop at 202 Broom
street shortly after midnight, Mrs.
Emma Ward and two children and
Benjamin Raskinm. his wife and two
children ran to the street in their night
clothes. The blaze was easily extin-
guished before any damage was done.
The house, a two-story frame build
ing, is owned by Benjamin. Armada,
Mrs. Ward lives on the top fioor and
the R~askinmsg on the second floor. Ar
alarm was sent in from box SO and thu
arrival of the fre-ighters n Their
apparatus caused the greatest excite
ment in the neighborhood.