The Washington times., 1915-12-17
MULLIGAN GUARDS
SING THE OLD SONGS
Recall Jokes and Antics OF Ned
Harrigan Who Played With
Tony Hart.

NEW YORK. Dec. 17.--Ned HarrlEan
is dead and gone but IL will be many
year before tho kids of old downtown
New York (most Of whom have grown
UP to be important persons) forget MS
kindly personality. his genius for trans"
ferring "a the stage the fun ana foolery
Of the Irish race in America ana the
songs he and Tony Hart used to sing.
More than 800 boys. still boys though
some of them have frosted hair ana
boards, got together in the back room
OF Eagleton's cafe at % Eighth avenue
Greenwich Village, clapped green tur-
bans upon their heads, tied big white
aprons decorated with pictures of Dan
Mulligan in the full reglmentals OF the
Mulligan Guard around their waists and
MpITirSS Mss1Ti Msd cIsrds my 9 pSSs pinnsr
Pail. Down in GosrlP, Row." "Maggis
Murphy'S Home; Little thae, Ol9 nsrn Dndesn
scarcely one Of the once famous songs.
famous in the days when New York
laughed with HaETigsn; R ,;,I,I In his cs; ,McsSr;
leys ,o inflaflSn 2 Sn MII1ssn MIa r,,erd Ts RnI1
'The Mulligan Guards Chowder," that
the Ned Harrigan Club, whose official
title is the Mulligan Guards OF Green
wich Village, forgot to sing at last
Four Mates Present.
The party began about 3 p. M. when
Joe B'Gee Humphreys. so earnestly q
Mulligan that he consented even to de-
sert the plano movers the dansant at
the Manhattan Opera House, announced
that four Of Ned HarriEan's
old company were present And while
the members stood up and cheered and
beat upon the tables with stems war.
ranted to stand any amount Of table
tamping Joe BGee introduced Johnny
Carroll, John Sparks, Harry Fisher and
Ned Harrigan in many Of his most hi
iartous farces. They all tried to make
q speech, but somehow none Of them
to get much further than:
sure, and this would be a grand day
fGE e. HArFis'n If he were alive to hear
"And now" announced Mr Hum
phreys in his best roar, the next event
Of the evening-I mean the next thing
GiT iRa5h the pESEraHIs Ig song fngs The MpI5
When 800 persons really go to a song
they like and know to the last sound
and syllable they make considerable
The chromos on EaEleton's
whooped:
When we get home at night, boys,
The devi. a bite we'd ate.
We'd all set UP and drink a sup
OF whisky strong and nate.
Then we'd all march home together,
As slippery as lard.
The solid min would all fall in,
And march with the Mulligan Guard.
Well-KnOwn Visitors.
Pretty soon many well-known peraons
began TO drop in-District Attorney-elect
F.. Swami. sherin-elect Albert
e. Smith. Magistrates Nolan and
Freschi. Charles w. Culkin. leader of
the Fifth assembly district: Richard |
Fitzpatrick. Richard J. Delaney. As |
Maurice Mcdonald, Alder |
man James ]. Harmon. Senator James |
]. Walker. Inspector George r. Titus, |
F. Fitzpatrick. John r. EaRleton. and
many more. and all Of them got a first |
hand welcome from Jim Geagan, cap
tain Of the Mulligan Guards. of Green |
wich village. But again one was aware |
Of the roaring insistence OF Joe B'Gee |
that one of the best of the old HarriRan |
songs was waiting to be sunR-"The |
Buck Billy Goat" and this time Al |
Smith led the chorus:
"oh' I'm I. lone widder' meself and me
/ live in a house where there's well |
come galore.
Me husband he formerly carried I'D |
mortar
fourth floor.
When he died he willed over his land |
and his shanty.
His pipe and his stick and his frieze
Overcoat
The pigs and the goslins and the chick
ems so banty.
And his favorite pet. his buck billy |
goat.
oh. oh. oh-oh. oh. oh.
Come back to me bosom. me own
darling Willie
Oh, oh, oh-oh. oh. oh.
Sure my favorite pet was my
buck billy goat"
And thereafter until long after mid |
night. with occasional speeches from
Judge Swami and Al Smith and Leader |
Culkin, they sang THE Regular Army |
D." Paddy Duffy's Cart" MARY Kei- |
y's Beau" "Are You There. Moriarty?' |
Never Take the Horseshoe From the |
Door" and Miss Brady's Pianny-For- |
tay."