The Richmond climax. (Richmond, Ky.) 1897-1914, 1910-08-24

IIreland. It's FORMER HOUSE OF LOfuS II
used as directors room and the chair'
and furniture in the room are in the SAINT
position in which they were when Tbs
Parliament was abolished. This is
very interesting building. There arr
other numerous points of interest il
Dublin TO the traveller Trinity College
is just across the street from Parliament
House and is one of the greatest and bes
Universities of the Kingdom, but it wal
only in recent years that the great bod,
of the people OF Ireland were permitted
20 educate their sons at it, In this hal
are hung the portraits of Grafton. Gold
smith, Curran, Burke and other eminent
former students of the institution. ant
in the ante-room travellers are shown
three large chairs, two OF which are SAID
TO have been used by King Edward and
his mother, Queen Victoria, respective
ly, when they visited Ireland, and the
third by Daniel O'Connell, who was
Lord Mayor for many years. At the
Bank of Ireland l met an unusually
handsome, bright young man and he was
telling me of the points Of interest and
told him that the guides had not pointed
out to me the grave Of Robert Emmett
He told me that he himself was lineal
descendant of the family and that they
did not know where his remains were,
that after his execution the government
did not turn over to the family his re-
mains, and it was a matter of specula'
ton as to where he was buried.
In Belfast l had the pleasure of meet
ing Mr.. Gallaher, who is known in the
Kingdom as the Tobacco King" and
whose career has been truly wonderful.
He is a self-made man and he demon
strated that even in Ireland it is possible
to make great fortunes and achieve
great success in a business way. He
is rated as being worth from $4,000, 00C
to e5, 600, 600 or from $40, 000, 900 to S25,
600, 600. He started in a smaller place
and then moved to Belfast. His build
ings are four or five stories high and
are powerfully built. and as he said,
built to last for centuries. Over here il
would be disgraceful to erect an un-
substantial building. He has marble
floors in them and they are well ventilat-
ed and he has besides several thousand
employees working for him. He has all
modern machinery and conyeriences.
He is a man of exceptional ability and
looks 20 years younger than he really is,
as he told me he was past 20. After
luncheon, prepared and served near his
office, he took me through his establish
ment and it was certainly interesting 10
see it. He buys thousands of pounds of
tobacco from Kentucky every year and
transports it to Belfast and manufactur-
es it for sale. This Irishman is doing
great good TO the Kentucky farmers as
be affords some competition to the trust
in buying the tobacco he needs, which
is very great. He also has an establish
ment at Owensboro and Henderson,
Kentucky. He said that what Kentucky
needs most is an organization 10 manu-
facture tobacco, and not so much in
need of a society to assist the farmer in
selling it. urged upon him TO establish
in Kentucky, where the raw material is
grown, some such establishment as he
has in Belfast and to which he had to
transport the tobacco. He stated that
it was a great opportunity and it would
certainly afford him great pleasure to
start an independent plant for the manu-
facture of tobacco in Kentucky, but as
he had passed the allotted time of life
he was not inclined to undertake, in
foreign land, such great responsibility,
but recognized the great opportunity for
men of capital and nerve in such an
He stated that the best
business place for the manufacture of
tobacco was near where it was grown,
just as in the case of cotton and other
raw products. He has another immense
at London and his sales
the United Kingdom are
enormous. The impressions which
travellers hear over here are that
there is an agreement between
I h English to bacco manufac-
turers and the American Tobacco Trust,
but Mr.. Gallaher stated he would not 60
into any such arrangement, that he, like
Ri Irishmen, wanted TO be independent,
and that he would go into no arrange
ment by which other people would deter
mine for him what to do and what not
10 do. In this connection he also said
hat England had made a great failure
in its effort to govern Ireland because
did not understand the Irish
man or his disposition, and what was
worse the Englishman thought he did
when he did not, and he therefore could
not be instructed except by the slow
process of centuries of experience. He
stated that England was attempting to |
govern Ireland as if the Irish were Eng |
ish and thought that the same things
which would influence an Englishman
would influence an Irishman; that an |
Englishman could be counted upon as
acting according TO his interests, but
hat you could not count upon an Irish
nan being controlled by his best material
interest, and often were willing 10 sacri- |
ice this consideration for what they re-
,arded right.
SCOTLAND
have gone through much of Scotland
md the two most important cities which |
visited are Glasgow, which claims a |
population of one million, and Edin-
'urgh, though not so large, is to a
raveller, more interesting. The scenery
n the Scotch Lake District is scarcely |
ess beautiful than in Killarney, in South |
Ireland, except that the climate is cooler.
Cor instance, at Killarney and along the
'oast of Kerry, palm trees grow and also
trees. These would soon die
n Scotland.
GOOD FEELING
lam gratified 20 see the good feeling
which exists among the people in Ireland,
cotland and England, and which think
) sincere and genuine. This | think is
.rgcly the outgrowth of the Boer War.
nd better understanding of each other
y the people. The Irish and Scotch
arried off the honors of the Boer War
nd England admits it. Lord Roberts