The Prescott daily news., 1916-06-05
IRISH OF NATION WILL
 CELEBRATE RELIEF DAY

i New York, June 5.-Madison 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 10th, it will house the mass meeting which has been ar ranged by the Irish Relief Fund Con- mittee as part of the nationwide cam paign in aid of sufferers in Ireland.
 Police Commissioner Woods today issued a preliminary order detailing 1,500 policemen to handle the over flow crowds, which will swarm over Madison Square Park outside the building. Fire Commissioner Adam son has drawn up plans for the seats inside the building, which will comply with the regulations of his depart ment, and which will permit the plac- ing of the maximum number of seats.
 John D. Moore, National Secretary of the Irish Relief Fund Committee, at it's headquarters in the Havemeyer Building, announced today that Car dinal Farley of New York, Cardinal Gibbons of Baltimore, and Cardinal IO'Connell 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 c. Messmer of Milwaukee, Edward F. Prendergast of Philadelphia, and John J. Glennon of St. Louis, have accepted Vice Presidencies.
 Saturday, June 10th, brings the first two weeks of the campaign of the committee to it's zenith, not 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 a Tag Day of national magnitude, and to celebrate it with mass meetings, similar to that l 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 organize benefit performances in their home cities, to arrange benefit baseball 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 1 by letters which were smuggled out of that country and which have been received here during the past three days, are deplorable. These letters come from families which are in great want as an aftermath of the recent uprising. For the most part, the sui l fering families are those of the thous- ands of men who are kept out of work | by the continuance of martial law in l 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 England to await trial, and the many others 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 ! Ireland. The funds which we are sending to Ireland will cut down the increasing number of deaths from privaton. It will be taken to Ireland by an American committee, which will supervise it's distribution in co-opera-
 tion with Archbishop Walsh of Dub lin, who has cabled that he will glad
 ly give that aid"