New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-06-16
DUBLIN TO SEE ASQU|TH
Premier Will Address a Great
Meeting on July Is.
TOM MOORE'S TREE SAVED
Memorial with Railing TO Protect
II from Tourists Will
Be Erected.
IFrom The Tribune Correspondent. ]

Dublin. June 6.-Prime Minister Asquith
has ixed July Is as the date FOR his visit
20 Dublin. The Irish people are preparing
to give tn" British Premier a magnificent
welcome.
on tho day following his arrival here,
Mr.. Asquith will address meeting In the
Theatre Royal the largest auditorium
available. Already almost every seat has
been allotted and many PERSONS win be- dis
appointed owing 70 the impossibllity OF
giving tickets TO all applicants. John
Redmond will preside at the Dublin demon
stration. at which John Dillon and Joseph
DcvIin. among other irish members OF
Parliament. VIII testify 70 'he fealtv Of the
Liberal leader 10 the cause OF Irish Home
Rule Mr. Asduth will spend only three
DAYS In ireland, and viii not speak IN bel
fast a he had first intended
Ills visit recalls Gladstones greatest dis
arpoinircut Nfler tho Tying ~ III" "a
nous .ittwaid-n kit IN 1855. when inc
Grand Old Man riskcd splitting his party on
Home Rule. Gladstone promised ParnH'l
that n a majority we're obtained lac "ould
20 TO Dublin 10 solIdify tho friendship be
tween tho people Of both countries lie
never realized his ambition. When tn"
Commons passed hI- second bill In IN" II
Wa evident 20 everybody that tho Lords
would throw g. ont. as they did. So III
bc,,,b and announcement prevented him
from fulnlliug his pledge
rtina memorial ls to boo erected al
rho Meeting 81 tho Naters.' Nvoca. ccl"-
bra,!rg tho memory 81 on" Of the greatest
nj irish uoet-. Tom Moore. Tho memorial
will lc huili around ''Tom Moore's Tree
WHITTIER come thousands 81 visitors from
all parts OF the world every year 10 pluck
a leaf OF q bit ~ bark To- carry away a.
souvenirs.
So much bark has been removed by th"s'
pilgrims 10 Avoca that the old tree dropped
and fell last August II has since been
restored and treated by experts 10 pre-
serve n and q concrete base with rail-
ing placed around Il 10 guard It from tho
tourist Miss IlttIedalc. owner OF the es-
tate whercon the tree spreads its branches.
has given the plot TO IN" Wicklow County
Council
4 curious incident marked the efforts to
save this nature relic Of Moore. The irish
Fcard ~ TRADE was asked by Miss Little
dale TO take charge Of the plot, so as 10
place il under the care ~ puohc au-
thorltv The secretary Of tho board replied
regrcttlng inability To do this. as the tree
ia ouostion f. not An ancient monument
within the meaning Of the Ancient honu-
repts Protection Acts OF lSS and nv
Moore wrote many 81 his best poems under
the shelter Of this tree.
An interesting discovery. reiatin6' II y
believed. to the Stone Age, has just beeh
made at Hollywood, County Down "here
about twenty different types OF arrow heaoS
m flint, hammers chisels' scrapers useu
for cutting ice and boring, and MASSIVE
spear heads. have been found. the rock
out Of which the implements are forfneu
"a NJ the Palolthic type. which was for-
merly thought not to exist In Ireland. fa't
Of the collection has been presented 10
HOLLYWOOD Urban Council.