The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-03-27
THEN 500 SHOUTED
+ "H-A-RR-I-G-A-Nv"
n Was No Place for an Ulster
Man at the Ned Harrigan
Club Blowout.
GREEN HATS l. DHUDEENs
Ned Himself Leads in "Maggic
Murphy's Home" and His
other Favorites.

~'Ts little enough I know about Ire.
lands AFFAIRS" said Sam Harris, who IL
beginning TO talk this way from associa-
lion with his partner. George Michael
Conan, and with Jack WEIGH and Francis
Xavier Hope oc the Conan n Harris
Offices
But" he continued as he peered
through the tobacco smoke In the Teu-
,onla assembly rooms. 15s Third avenue,
last night at 500 green hated persons
gathered TO sing the praises and tn.
songs of Ned Harrigan OF glorious
memory, "-tis my opinion that this would
be a he'll Of a place for an Ulster man
to butt INTO"
They wore green hats with dudeens in
them, the 500 members OF the new Ned
Hsrrigan Club did, when they gathered
for their initial beefstcak and blowout
Tho green hats covered the heads Of
Judges. city commissioners. u District At
torncy, Broadway star actors, Sheriff
ard ex-Sheriffs, court officials by the
dozens and broad shouldered persons who
were, or were beginning to aspire to be,
dandy coppers OF the broadway squad
In the days Ned Harrigan wrote that line.
but now are impressive looking police
inspectors, captains or lieutenants at the
very least
The mere item that Joe Humphreys,
Joe Of the leather lungs. who is president
and lord high everything else Of the new
organization. several times could not
make himself heard from the platform.
shows that the beefsteak was the last
word In tumultuous ecstasy. But by
crowding close to the platform one could
hear, even when the entire 500 were not
only singing but eating celery stimuli
taneousy, Joe breaking into speech.
stop! Stop" Joe Humphreys was
screaming Historically to the fiashlight
operator above the musketry crackle OF
celery. For the love OF Mike. don't light
the fash till the Teutonia's walters get
OF the floor. Beat Il, you Germans, beat
st."
big orchestra had been tearing of
pages Of the swinging music of the
Harrigan and Hart days and the leader
dess'ed only long enough to let the flash
light brigade roll into action. And then
when the first mess OF beefsteak was
fvindlng-eo0 pounds Of steak went
By the board early. to be exact. and more
HAD 70 be PACED promptly-Joe B'Gee
Humphreys ysnlled up upon the stage a
kindly faced, slight little man whose hair
S thinner than once II was.
But his frock coat set of his trim
figure quite as jauntiiy as in the old days
Just rakish as ever he wore II When
Fourteenth street was blosso,ning into q
ralto. And when the big hall had
stopped decorating at least enough to per-
nit OF his BARITONE voice-'.just good
a. !. ever was"-being heard YOU might
no;s that down around the tables the toes
Of The Big Tom Foleys. the Charley
Whites and the rest OF the boys who knew
Ned Harrlgan when he was a national
Institution were tapping time, and they
were smiling reminiscently. Then 500
voices shouted 'H-a-rr-i-g-a-n spells Har-
rigt.
The music had struck up for the first
o. The evenings songs, sung by one Of the
last OF Ned Harrlgsn's stage associates,
Joe Sparks. Joe's face was beaming be-
meath the caves of the sassy high hat
ant his voice rose clear to the swing OF
HsTigan's song.
Then well shoulder guns
Well march, we'll march away.
Prom Jackson street
Way up to Avenue A.
VIII drums and ffes
That sweetly. sweetly play
We'll march, march. march
In the Muligan Guarrrrrdv
'Th- Regular Army o." PADDY
puhys Cart My Dads Dinner Pail
'Mary kellys Beau" The Old Bower,
~ .hlF ibu mere, NeNsi
Take the Horseshoe From the Door.
Miss Brady's Pano-Fortay.' ''Maggi,
Murphy's Home"-song followed song
with the whole hall drowning out thu
Hloist In gay abandon.
They're going to get together once q
year TO keep Ned Harrigan's songs anG
memory green-ex-Sheriff Foley, Charley
white, Mike Cruise, Charles r. Murphy
tmself, Leader Jim Hines. Commissioned
j Walsh Peter &. Gallagher. younger
ADS Ike Val O'Farrel Congressman Dan
Rordan. J. BGee. Victor Moore
George Cohan, Willie Collier. Dick Mad
zen Walter Moore, Jack WEIGH. Barney
bowling and list OF rank outsiders tina
includes District Attorney Each and Cor
oher Vail of Richmond. Justice Moss
Judge La Fetra. sheriff Grifenhagen an,
few hundred more who. as J. B'Gee gen
erous!y said last night, III they ain
Irish they ought to be, for nobody IN I,
De blamed for the mistakes Of his owl
birth