Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-03-16
Church, FraternaI and Social
Functions Tonight, TomOr-
row and Monday.

this club has been concentrating the
II birth of st. Patrick by gathering in a
body each year for the past half CEN
fury, the banquets date back from 1885.
In that year the Celtics began the
special banquet meetings, and have
established an enviable reputation for
the sentiment and wit which prevail
on these occasions. Many prominent
men are scheduled to speak at this
affair, and no pains have been spared
by the committee in charge to MAKE
the banquet a more brilliant success
than the former events An excellent
musical program has been arranged.
The committee In charge consists of
John u. Carroll, chairman; B. N. Shan
ley, jr., Joseph N. Clark, Joseph P. Nc
Fadden, Joseph J. Mullin, James J.
Mcclure, William P. O'Rourke and c..
Wolters, jr. The POSTMASTER will be
Joseph M. Byrne.
Final arrangements were completed
today by the committee in charge of
the forty-second annual banquet Of the
! Society of the Friendly Sons of st.
Patrick, of this city. to be held Monday
night at the Washington. The MEM
bers Of this organization are among
the representative business men of the
city. and their annual banquets In
Is honor of the patron saint of Ireland
have always been the occasion of ex-
Mteptiunal oratorical displays. A num-
Der OF prominent speakers will address
this gathering. The officers are: John
fF. Conroy, who will act as toast
master: Cornelius J. Curtin and Philip
4 RI. Gampbell, vice-presidents; James R.
Mullfgan. secretary, and James l..
Hays. treasurer.
In addition to several addresses by
we1l-known speakers, the annual ban
quet of the Sim Fem Club, to be
held Tonight in the Continental Hotel,
will be featured by the serving of i'm
ported Irish foods, and a program of
Gaelic songs will be sung by a quartet.
1.-TWO hundred members and guests will
Y be present. The POSTMASTER for the
evening will be Edward M. Waldron
Dr. John G. Coyle. of New York, who
la we'll known throughout the country
tor his lectures on Ireland, will talk
ii ssThe Day We Celebrate" Martin
Conboy, of East Orange, will tell of
The Celt's Part in the Upbuilding of
America" John L. O'Toole, Of this
city. will respond to the toast New
Jersey" n Congressman William
Hughes has chosen for his subject
wolfe Tone"
fH On Sunday evening homage will be
raid to st. Patrick's memory by d.
Vision No. 7, Ancient Order of HI
b~ernians, of this city, in the New Au-
{itorium. The Hibernians have ar
hanged an excellent program of Irish
music, but the chief feature of the eve
ming will be a lecture on 1.-THE Life and
Labor of st. Patrick" by Rev. Father
Gilbert, o. s. b, of ST. Benedict's Col
lege. this city. Father Gilbert's ability
as an orator is well known. The COM
mittee in charge of the Hibernians'
celebration is headed by James Durn-
inn. DR.. Frank Devlin will preside at
the meeting.
The principal event of the many st.
eatrick Day celebrations in the Or
anges will be the annual Inner given
q by the Society of the Friendly Sons
BIZ st. Patrick of the Oranges. This
swim be held tonight in English's Hall.
Main and North Walnut street, East
Drange. Special efforts were made by
the committee in charge to arrange
for the excellent musical program TO
be given and a number of well-known
speakers will address the gathering.
Hormer Governor Edward Casper
sStokes will respond to the toast Prog
ress and Character" Dudley Field
Malone, s~on-in-law of United States
Senator O'Gorman. of New York, and
John ]. Caullet. of East Orange, will
Also deliver addresses.
Dodgers Hall. in Morris avenue, will
be the meeting place tonight for all
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n rick's Alliance of America. The hall
has been pict~uresquely decorated for
the Occasion and the celebration will
n be conducted under the auspices OF
Branch No. 4, District No. a, of this
city. National and State officers will
be present.
Two thousand persons are expected
to attend the reception and dance to
be given by the William Harrigan As
Rotation of Essex county Monday
night in celebration of the memory of
"a Treland's saint. This affair will be held
in Kruger Auditorium and arrange
nlents have been made to have pipers
play tunes for the Irish jigs and
dances. Many prominent city and
county officials are among those in
charge Of arrangements for the re-
caption.
IA lecture and musical program will
be held at st. Columba's Hall for the
parishioners of that church, at Penn
sylvania avenue and Thomas street,
\ Monday evening. Miss Gertrude
O,Reilly, a prominent Irish lecturer,
viii talk on ireland Today"
The Essex county board of directors
Of the Ancient Order of Hibernians
viii hold a banquet in Dryers Hail,
lac Market street, on Monday evening.
More than 100 members and guests
will attend. John J.. Gascoyne, presi-