The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-06-06
Irish of the Entire
 Nation Will Celebrate
 Relief Day, June 10th

New York,June 6.-Madisont Square Garden will open it's doors to admit the largest gathering of Irish people that the world has ever seen under one roof when, on Saturday evening, ] June 10, it will house the mass meet ing which has been arranged by the Irish Relief Fund Committee as part of the nationwide campaign in aid of sufferers in Ireland.
 Police Commissioners Woods today issued a preliminary order detailing 1,500 policemen to handle tho oVer7 flow crowds. which will swarm over Madison Square Park outside the building. Fire Commissioner Adam son has drawn up lans for the seats inside the building, which will com ply with the regulations of his de- pertinent, and which will permit the placing of the maximum number of seats
 John D. Moore, national secretary of the Irish Relief Fund Committee, at its Headquarters in the Hayemeyer building, announced today that Car dina1 Farley of New York, Cardinal O'Conneu of Boston, have written, en- dorsing the work of the committee and consenting to become its honor ary presidents thus far. In addition. Archbishops Edward J. Hanna of San Francisco, Sebastian G. Messmer of G of Philadelphia, and John J. GIennon of St. Louis, have accepted vice presi- dencies.
 Saturday. June 10. brings the first two weeks of the campaign of the committee to it's zenith, hot only in New York but in every city through out the whole United States. It will be celebrated as Irish Relief Day. Sub Committees are arranging to have it authorized as tag day of national magnitude and to celebrate it with mass meetings, similar to that in New York. all. over the country Daily the committee is receiving offers from prominent Irishmen from all parts of the country, volunteering to act as speakers at the mass meetings, to or ganize benefit performances in their home cities, to arrange benefit base ball and athletic games and to hold bazaars. fairs and garden parties Others are sending in shoals of money orders and checks.
 Conditions in Ireland, as disclosed by letters which were smuggled out of that country and which have been received here during the past three days, are depIorab1e. These letters come from families which are in great want as an aftermath of the recent uprising. For the most part, the suf- fering families are those of the thou sands of men who are kept out of work by the continuance of martial law in Dublin and throughout the country. The letters tell of docks idle, mills closed and business houses that are shut down. Others of these families are those of the men who were killed during the fighting, and still others are those of the men who have been arrested and taken to Eng land to await trial, and the many oth- CTS held in Ireland.
 ''The work of relieving these peo- ple.' said MT Moore today, 'is more than the local authorities can cope with. America, which needed the call of Belgium, Poland and Serbia so generously, is now called upon by Ire land. The funds which we are send ing to Ireland will cut down the in creasing number of deaths from pri- vation- It will be taken to Ireland by an American cornmittee,which will supervise it's distribution in co-opera- ton with Archbishop Walsh of Dub lin, who has cabIed that he will gladly eSSre that a