Norwich bulletin., 1911-02-27
MISS HOLLOWAY TELLS OF IRISH IN. AMERisAN HISTORY. Hoard by Large Audience in St.
 Mary's T. A. B Hall

There was d AdI8e ana dppTeclaLlVe audience in the T. A. B. hall Sunday evening, when Charlotte M. Holloway gave pleasure lecture on the Irish in American Hsitcry. She made many surprising but satisfactory statements and her lecture was highly pleasing, as was evinced by frequent and appre- ciative bursts of applause.
 Preceding the lecture Miss Miiner of Baltic rendered fine plano solo and James F. Browns fine bass voice was heard with pleasure in the old favor ite Come Back to Erin" Both receiv- ed hearty applause.
 w. H. McGuinness tRlen introduced the speaker, Charlotte M. Holloway, who began her talk in humorous vein, butsoon drifted onto the subject descent. She gave q highly inspiring talk on the Irish, and said that when any son of Erin notices the steady up- ward climb of the Irish there is a great swelling of the heart. but not of the head.
 The speaker said that the Irish have ever taken up the sword in defense Of the weak, and good examples are found in Patrick Henry, J. c. Calhoun, Daniel Webster, Robert Emmett, Francis Scott Key and others The speaker showed how the Irish were among the first in arr, scaence, MteTaaure, InVeAlon anu players.
 sPictures were then flashed on the screen and kept pace with the lecture from the time of Columbus until the days of William Mckinley.
 Miss Holloway spoke on Columbus, Cabot, Jonce de Leon. Balboa. Cortez, etc. comoing on to Joliet and Mar quette. Then Raleigh and his colonies were mentioned. Hendrick Hudson and his entrance of the river was dis cussed and South Carolina and the settlement of Georgia, in which the Irish were prominent, was explained by the speaker. The Inlitan fights. the Salem witchcraft and taxation were affairs in which the Irish took promf- nent part-especially the last in the Boston tea party. John Langd0n, an Irishman, was one of the first to obey Paul Revere's call and among the first to fall in the revolution were the Harringtons. Richard Montgomery. an Irishman, was the first commissioned officer in the army. The Notifications of Dorchester compelled the British to evacuate Boston and they marched on their boats to the tune of St. Patrick s Day in the Morning. John Hancock. Reade, Lynch, Taylor, Smith and Car roll were ak Irishmen and signers. of the Declaration of Independence. George Washington had Irish blood in him. and Molly Pitcher was thorough ly Irish. Generals Stark, Morgan, Knox, Sullivan, and Mad Anthony Wayne, were all Irish. And it was John Barry, the first commissioned naval officer, who captured two Eng fish provision boats and sent their contents to Washington at Valley Forge. The Irish made Franklin's mission to France easy and many with SCeltic blood witnessed the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown.
 Here the Misses Milner favored the audience with a song and Herbert H. Smith rendered a solo on the violin in fine style
 Miss Holloway took up her lecture again at this point with the state ment that James Madison was Irish and that Alexander Hamilton, Robert Fulton, inventor of the steamboat, Ari- drew Jackson Davy Crockett, Dewitt Clinton, who caused the building of the Erie canal, Father Mathew, Gen eral Sheriden and Outer, the great Indian fighter, were all Irish. Her talk was educational to a great de- gree and Miss Holloway showed her unusual knowledge and grasp of Am- erican history. She closed her lecture with clever little poem entitled, Kelly and Burke and Shea"