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Kentucky Irish American., 1914-03-14
LoUIsvmLE's FINE POSITION.


Under the above heading DR.. John
Hornsby, the most noted hospital
authority in this country and editor
in-chief of the Modern Hospital, in
the February number took notice of
our City Hospital and its manage
ment in the following pleasing
words
There are not very many scien-
tifically trained hospital Superin-
tendents in this country-that is,
men and women who are capable of
administering the scientific as well
as the physical departments of a
modern hospital, especially one of
large capacity and which has a spe-
cially delicate relationship to the
great mass of the people, such as o
municipal hospital. We are in
creasing the number each year, but
there are too few to go round. The
modern hospital is place whore
vast sums of money can be wasted
by ignorance and incompetence, so
that it is necessary to have Super
intendent who is a good business
manager; but the modern hospital
is also a most complex affair, whose
sole function after all is the care
and cure of the sick. Medical sci
ence has progressed so far that the
administration OF the modern hos
pital requires of the administrator
a broad and intimate knowledge of
scientific processes, apparatus, tech
mic and operations. These thoughts
are just now prompted by the nows-
paper announcement that the newly
elected Mayor of Louisville, Hon.
John II. Buschemeyer. has reap
pointed for a term OF four years DR..
j. w. Fowler as Superintendent.
Louisville is just completing one OF
the finest hospitals in the country,
an interesting illustrated story of
which is now in type for publication
in the Modern Hospital. DR.. Fow-
Ter visited a great many OF the
finest hospitals in the land prelim-
mary to the completion of the
plans, studied hospital architecture
and equipment down to the last
modern minute, and gathered a vast
fund to add to his already great
knowledge of hospital administra-
ton. Those of us who knew OF the
masterful way in which Louisville
was approaching her problem felt
that she was one OF the few cities
that evinced sense enough to know,
and still further educate
a competent hospital administrator.
The best hospital thinkers in the
country value DR.. Fowler as one OF
the ablest men in the profession,
and the Modern Hospital wishes TO
Mayor Busehemeyer on
the wisdom OF his choice, and we
beg leave to predict that Louisville
is to be one OF the most fortunate
hospital cities in the land.
Kentucky Irish American., 1914-03-14
HARPS.

A year or two ago a Chicago West
Side Democrat, an Irishman, was
running for the Legislature in a dis.
trict with large Italian constituent
cy. He spoke one night at a mixed
meeting, his audience being COM
posed Of Irish and Italian voters, and
his speech was given circulation lat
Springfield as the classic OF that cam
paign. The candidate said:
"I've only a few words to say.
Us Irish and you Italians ought to be
together in this campaign We've
got many issues in common. Take
the harp. The harp is the emblem
of Old Erin, but 1t takes you guineas
to play it, You Italians have the
votes, but it takes us Turks to run
the government. So we ought to
stick together in this campaign. We
gave you the harp; now give us the
votes"
The voters recognized the logic OF
this argument by sending the candi-
date to Springfield by a tremendous
vote More than six centuries before
this reeiprocation, Dante acknowl-
edged the gift OF the harp TO Italy
and the rest OF Europe by the Irish,
saying This most ancient instru-
ment was brought to us from Ireland.
where they are excellently made and
in great numbers. The inhabitants
OF that island have practiced 1t for
many years; aye, they place II in the
arms OF the kingdom, paint ID on
their public buildings and stamp Il
on their coinage. giving as a reason
their being descendants of the royal
prophet David"
Kentucky Irish American., 1914-03-14

lian, apostle of Franconia; st. Cat
aldus; Bishop of Tarento in South
Italy; st. Rumbold, apostle of Bra
bant; st. Fiacre, apostle of Paris
and its neighborhood; st. Virgilius
the Latinized version of Fergal--
Bishop of Saltzburg, in the far-away
North Tyrol; not to mention st.
Aidan, apostle of Northumbria; st.
Columbkill, apostle of the Picts; st.
Adamnan, Abbot of Iona, in North
and South Britain; while an army OF
holy women-St. Brigid, st. Sani-
than, st, Dymphna, st. Syra, st. Mon
lea, st. Ita-at home and abroad,
with the zeal and the love of God
in their hearts, went out from their
native land to teach and preach the
gospel, found converts and monas-
teries and seats Of learning, and
give their lives to the service of their
religion and their God.
Kentucky Irish American., 1914-03-14
HOW O'CONNELL WON.

When the great tribune. Daniel
IO'COnneell, was quite a young man
and starting on his Parliamentary
career he stood for a small western
constituency. He was opposed by an
English lawyer, one OF those trim,
well-set-up gentlemen so well put to-
gether; we would now consider him
almost a piece of machinery. When
the polling day came and both can
didates we're standing on a platform
at the place where the voting was
taken, the English gentleman stood
forward to address the voters, and
he told them that he had visited the
estate OF Dan O'ConnelPs father, and
he described in a graphic way the
cottages of the working people in
which, he said, there were few panes
of glass in the windows and cottages
not up to the mark. Young O'Con-
nell replied. He said this gentleman.
from the slums of an English town.
does not know the blessings we de-
rive from the breezes of the Atlantic
ocean; there is health in them and
sickness is all driven away, "and
tell you one thing, my friends, that
before I'm done with him he'll have
more pains in his stomach than he
says are wanting in my fatheq -
tages. Now, boys, see him, keep an
eye on him, how he will quail be-
fore the question I'll ask him, how
he'll evads an answer" Then Dan
turned to the Englishman and said:
::Who killed the washerwoman?"
Looking confused, the Englishman
asked what washerwoman. Now"
said Dan, che can not answer this
question, he hesitates and can not
reply" The crowd yelled: who
killed the washerwoman?" The Eng
looked more confused as he
heard from all sides the cry, who
killed the washerwoman?" What
he said. "You see,
boys, he can't answer" GO home,
sir" said Dan to the candidate and
explain to that woman's husband
and family who killed the washer
BY this time there was
such an uproar among the crowd
that not a word could be heard. The
got into the background
and vanished from the platform,
and every time he appeared in the
town afterward he was hailed with
The cry-Who killed the washer
he vanished from the
own. Thus in old times an Irish
election was won. Needless to say
here was no washerwoman.
Kentucky Irish American., 1914-03-14
INDEPENDENCE DECLARATION.

Here is a matter of information for
school children as well as the grown
up people: Do you know how many
signatures there were to the Declar-
alton OF independence? There were
ffty-six. OF these, twenty-six were
lawyers. eight merchants, six phys
icians, one planter. six farmers, one
printer, one soldier, one surveyor.
two statesmen, one general, one min
lister and one shoemaker The old
est OF the signers, at the time OF sign
ing, was Benjamin Franklin, the
printer. He was seventy years OF
age. The youngest were Thomas
Lynch, Jr. and Edward Rutledge.
both OF whom were lawyers and
each OF them was twenty-seyen years
OF age. Three OF the signers were
born I'M Ireland, one in England, ono
Wales and two in Scotland. All OF
the others we're born in America
The last surviving member OF those
who signed the Declaration OF Inde-
pendence was Charles Carroll, OF Car
rollton, who died November IA, 1892.
aged ninety-two years. Two OF the
signers, John Adams and Thomas
Jefferson, died on the same day,
July A. 1926, exactly fifty years from
the day they signed the Declaration
of Independence.
Kentucky Irish American., 1914-03-14
CATHOLIC TAUGHT LINCOLN.

President Abraham Lincoln re-
ceived his first instructions from a
Catholic, which influenced his whole
life. During his boyhood days in
Kentucky he attended at different
times at least two schools, OF which
he always retained clear and grate-
full recollections. One of these was
kept by Zacharlal Riney, whose In
fuence was never wholly effaced
from Lincoln's memory. Though his
teacher was himself an ardent Cath
Ollie. he made no proselyting efforts
In his school, and when any little
religious ceremonies. or perhaps
mere catechizlng and the like were
to be gone through with, all Prot
estant children were accustomed TO
retire. by permission or command.
Riney was a man OF excellent char
acter. deep plety and fairly educated
Kentucky Irish American., 1914-03-14
THESE WERE IRISH.

Among the sigDers Of the Declara-
tlon OF independence who were
known to be of Irish descent, be-
sides John Hancock, we're the fol-
lowing; Matthew Thornton, New
Hampshire, whose father came from
Ireland John Hart, New Jersey.
whose ancestor from Ireland settled
In New Jersey; James Smith, Penn
sylvania, born in Ireland, came to
America in 1929; George Taylor.
Pennsylvania, born in Ireland, came
to America as redemptioner,
George Reed, Delaware, son of John
Reed, who was born in Dublin,
Thomas Mexican, Delaware, father
and mother born in Ireland; Charles
Carroll, grandson OF Charles Car
roll, an Irish Catholic who emf
grated to America in 1889; Edward
Rutledge, South Carolina, son of
DR.. John Rutledge, who came from
Ireland to America in 1896: Thomas
Lynch, South Carolina, grandson of
Thomas Lynch, native of Galway,
who went to Austria after the Irish
revolution of 1851; Robert Treat
Paine, Massachusetts, descendant of
Robert O'Neill, who changed his
name to Paine and emigrated to
America. John Hancock, President
OF the Congress, was the de-
scendant of an immigrant from
Ulster, Ireland. Charles Thompson,
Secretary of Congress, who made the
nrst finished copy of the Declare
ton, was born in Maghera, County
Derry, Ireland, and John Dunlap,
who nrst printed the document, was
born in Strabane, County Tyrone,
Ireland.
Kentucky Irish American., 1914-03-14
CROSS ANCIENT RELIC.

In a small cemetery near the an
Client abbey and round tower Of Mon
asterboice, not far from Drogheda.
is cross about eighteen feet high.
OF stone, and said TO have been sent
from Rome and erected ages ago by
order OF the Pope. II is called st.
Boyne's Cross and is considered the
most ancient religious relic now IN
Ireland. Numerous devices are
carved on It, and an inscription In
old Irish characters refers to Muir
dach, the King OF Ireland, who died
In 534. The round tower near It Is
1i0 feet high. with circumference
OF fifty-0ne feet. The walls are
nearly four feet thick,
Kentucky Irish American., 1914-03-14
RELAND's APOSTLES.

The exodus OF Irish priests TO
preach the gospel on the Continent
OF Europe in the seventh, eighth and
ninth centuries was most remark
able movement, and If any instance
we're wanted, or any evidence re-
quired as TO the capability OF Irish
zeal 10 spread the gospel were need
ed, the long list OF Irish saints, who
found their way 10 the capitals OF
every country in Europe at that early
age. should carry conviction 10 the
most unbelieying. Only TO mention
a few OF the most famous OF those
learned missionaries, what do we
ind?
ST. Gall, the apostle OF switzer-
land; ST. columbanus, apostle OF
Burgundy and Lombardy; ST. Kill
Kentucky Irish American., 1914-03-14
PUT THEM OFF.

Always put on until tomorrow the
unpleasant things that you feel you
ought 70 say today.
Kentucky Irish American., 1914-03-14

Minnesota has forested area OF
2S, 900 900 acres, the largest OF any
State east OF the Rocky Mountains.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-10
TOLL Of LIFE IN
STORM IS HEAVY
125 Fishermen May Be Dead in
Canadian GaIes-Reports
Conflict.

CHATHAM, n. B., June 10.-Con-
ficting reports made it impossible to-
day to determine definitely how many
fishing smacks and lives had been
lost in the storm which swept the
gulf of st. Lawrence, Chaleur bay
and the Straits of northumberland
Friday.
One report erecived this forenoon
placed the number of dead at 125.
Advices from Caraquet said that
nineteen lives were known to have
been lost, one vessel was missing and
nothing was known of the fate of the
crews ftwo vessels reported ashore
on Pokesudie Island.
Captain Samuel. Breau, of the
schooner Warren P, which arrived
here last night, said that when he
left Shlppegan on Sunday he heard
that more than 100 persons had
persisted, but he believed this was a
great eXaggeration.
Caraquet Shippegan, and Lamequet,
the headquarters of the Baleehur fish
ing fleet, are remote points and be-
cause of broken wire communication
it has been impossible to get accurate
accounts of the storm damage.
The vessels that suffered from the
gale were small schooners. Nearly
every craft was manned only by
members of a single family, with the
father in comamnd and three or four
sons or other relatives composing the
crew
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-10

WHITE PLAINS, N. Y, June TO-
One hundred and sixty acres oe the
choicest land in Westminster county
has been set apart for a free public
cemetery in the will of Daniel e.
Merritt, one of the original settlers of
this town, which was filed for probate
here yesterday. The land, worth more
than 100000, is near the homes of
Mrs. Whitelaw Reid and other well
known New Workers., and a strong
protest against the establishment of
the burying ground is expected from
them.
To make sure that his purpose shall
not be interfered with Mr.. Merritt
provides that his executors, John S.
Lyon, ST., and John S. Lyon, jr., of
Port Chester, shall have an enabling
act passed by the Legislature if the
cemetery cannot legally be located
under present laws upon the farm
where he lived for more than seventy
years.
Back of the unusual will of the aged
farmer lies the story of a man who
early in life fell deeply in love with
a woman who refused his suit. He
then retired from the world and lived
as a hermit for fifty years, allowing
his hair to grow long about his Shout
ders and associating with no human
beings save few farm hands and
his sister, now seventy-two years old
who has been incompetent mentally
since she was twenty.
The identity of the woman who
played such a tragic part in Daniel
Merritt's life is known to only a few
persons alive today, and they are
still bound by the secrecy he imposed
upon them long ago. John S. Lyon
sr., friend of Mr.. Merritt for many
years, has refused to throw light
upon the mystery and said that he
had known little of the refuses way
of living in recent years,
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-10
MADE RECLUSE BY SPURNED LOVE WILLS
$5OO,OOO FARM FOR FREE CEMETERY

When Merritt inherited the farm
from his father, who had 1t from his
father, it was not of great value.
When the tide of development set in
to the north and New Workers began
to lay out great estates, in that ter
ritory 1t became apparent that the
Merritt place was worth a fortune.
The owner, however, refused to sell
and to the last day of his life kept
the farm in the condition in which
he found it.
His will provides that. the farm
shall be kept going as heretofore and
his Incompetent sister, Emma, per-
mitted to live in the big colonial Mer-
rift home under the care of the nurse
who has had charge of her for many
years. The retention of all the farm
hands is provided for, and then comes
the unusual clause establishing the
cemetery upon the death of the sister.
All of the citizens of Port Chester
are to be buried free of charge in
the Merritt Public Cemetery, to he
laid out according to the ideas of the
testator as expressed in his will. The
institution is to be in charge of a
board of trustees made up of the
president of the village and the pas
tors of all the churches in Port
Chester. The details are to be ar
ranged by the trustees. The income
and residue of the property, amount
ing to several hundred thousand dol
lars. will be used for the maintenance
of the cemetery.
Mr.. Merritt died on May % His
sister is now the last of one of tnt
Oldest families in Westminster coun-
ty so no contest of the will is ex-
| pected Besides the provisions fol-
the sister and for the establishment
of the cemetery the only bequest was
an annuity of $500 to Laura Pierce
now married and living in Kine
street, whose married name is un
! known to me-"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-10
Wanamaker Ocean Flight
May Be Made Next Month

HAMMONDSPORT. n. Y, June 10.
If the attempt to cross the Atlantic
from Newfoundland to the Irish coast
in the flying boat which Glenn H.
Curtiss is building for Rodman Wan
amaker is not made next month the
trial will be postponed another year.
The ultimatum has been given to the
Curtiss Aeroplane Company by
Lieutenant John Cyril Porte. r. ",
the Irish aviator who is to pilot the
Wanamaker flyer.
The Wanamaker machine is not as
large as originally intended 1t
strikes one as tiny for a transatlantic
flyer. The length is only thirty feet
over all and the hull Is narrow in pro-
portion to length, The engines will be
balanced one on each side of the
aviator. The American aviator to fly
with Lieutenant Porte still remains
unnamed
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-10
Appraisal May Add Millions
to J. P. MOrgan's Estate

NEW YORK, June 1O.-Several mil
lions of dollars may be added to
the previously estimated value of the
estate of the late ]. Pierpont Morgan
through an appraisal of the property
about to be made. 1t was learned
after a conference yesterday between
Lewis Cass Ledyard, jr.. represent
ing the Morgan estate, and George j.
Gillespie, representing the State
comptroller, that the late Mr.. Nor
gan was the owner of much real es-
tate of the possession of which the
public generally was not aware.
Through transactions known to only
a few persons, the financier had gain
ed title to thirteen parcels of land
assessed by the city at nearly $780,
600, and he held in all at least forty
eight properties in Manhattan and
Bronx boroughs, it has been learned.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-10
See Danger in Redmond's
Support of Volunteers

LONDON, June 10.-John Red
monds action in giving the official
countenance of his party to the Ma
tionalist volunteer movement is re-
garded as likely to introduce a new
danger in the Ulster situation. Mr..
Redmond proposes that the existing
self-selected committee of the volun-
teers should be strengthened by the
addition of twenty-five representa-
tives of the Irish party.
The volunteers are said to number
100000 at the present time, but they
are not so we'll armed and drilled as
the Ulster volunteers, their organiza-
ton on a military basis having only
begun recently. Further, they are
hampered by lack of money and diff
cultyi finding officers willing to train
them.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-10
Colombian Congress in
Special Session Ratifies
Bryan's Peace Treaty

BOGOTA, Colombia, June 10.-The
Colombian Congress, in special ses-
sion yesterday, ratified the treaty
with the United States, by which Co
lombia is to receive $25,0O0,000 and
certain concessions in the settlement
of the long-standing dispute between
: the two countries over Panama.
IN both the Senate and the House
ratification of the treaty met with
opposition from the small minority of
anti Progressives and those fearful of
new conditions which the treaty
might bring. They proposed an
amendment, providing for an increase
in the money payment and reserving
for arbitration the claims of Colombia
based on her rights in the Panama
railroad and it's contract payments,
which amounted to more than is now
offered by the United States"
The vote in the Senate was three to
one, and in the House five to one for
the treaty. The municipalities and
commercial organizations throughout
the country transmitted resolutions
to Congress in favor of a settlement
with the United States, whose friend
ship they pointed out would be for
the best interests of Colombia and it's
future progress.
Since the signing of the treaty last
April by Francisco Jose Urrutia, min
lister of foreign affairs, and Thaddeus
A. Thomson, the American minister,
the American representatives of large
manufacturing interests report here
that commerce has taken decided
advance in favor of imports from the
United States, and anti-American
sentiment has largely disappeared.
WASHINGTON, June 10.-The state
department received official notice
from Bogota early today that the Co.
lombian Senate had ratified the Co.
lombian treaty with the United States
without amendment.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-10
Mrs. McAdoo's Pet Better

WASHINGTON, June 10.-"Nickey
Ben the White House collie, which
came to grief the day before Miss
Eleanor Wilson's marriage to Secre-
tary McAdoo, is again today enjoy
ing the freedom of the White Hons e
croun6s. having been released from
tha animal hospital. The collie is
Mrs. McAdoo's pet. He was IN che
1ab.t of barking after automobiles
which passed the White House, and
Had his leg broken by falling. under
he wheels of a car The Dig was
hurried to an animol hospital at the
request OF his mistress. His leg was
carefully set, and he now bears no
traces Of the accident.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-10
ChevrOn Society Begins
Work for Enlisted Soldiers

" WASHINGTON, June 10.-Active
work has been begun by the newly
organized "Chevron" Society to help
the enlisted men of the army through
all commissioned officers, &C ord
ing to advices received here Today
from Father Thomas F. Sherman. son
of relate General William Tecunlseh
Sherman. Father Sherman, a former
chaplain in the army, and cow chap
lain of the First Artillery, n. Y.
n. c., through whose efforts Tie new
military society Yves recently formed
here, announces that the organization
has been incorporated. has adopted a
constitution and bylaws ana mas be-
gun to enroll members aud form
squads, companies and regiments.
Already offices have bern opened in
New York, and it is expected tat the
society will soon establish slices in
other cities. All active serseants in
the army are members of the society,
and it is through th9m hat the
"Chevron" intends to get in touch
with the enlisted men in the service.