New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-30
500 Gather at Amsterdam
Opera House for Beef
steak Dinner
HARRIGAN AND HART
DAYS ARE RECALLED
Old Songs Heard as Men,
with White BUSHES,
Enter the Hall

We'd gather in the evening. all honest working
And y o. Paddy Duny', c'r-uo one m'u.d our
All seated IN tn. moonlight. laughing mid It, rays.
| love 10 talk Of old New York and my boyish
Prom the Hsrrissn and B,r Lyrics.
Paddy Duffy's cart would never have
held them-those honest working
boys"-when they went last night,
more than 500 strong, to the Amster-
dam Opera House. $40 West Forty
fourth Street. for a beef steak dinner
of the MulligaD Gusrds Of Greenwich
Village.
II was back in the days when gentle
men of fashion walked in their tooth
pick" boots and their glove-like trous-
ers from Washington Square to their
Offices that the brain of Ned Harrigsn
conceived the Mulligan Guards.
Harrigan and Tony Hart and Dave
Braham (who wrote many of the
famous lyrics "never used no sword
or gun when they met them face TO
face" They made those audiences OF
long ago hold their sides with NC
Allister's Legacy" And they made
them reach furtively for their hand
kerchiefs when they played "Old
Lavender"
Harrigan Gone
Harrigan is gone. But the Mulligan
Guards and the memory OF the original
"Dan Mulligan" grow stronger with the
passing years, Jimmy Engleton's
Eight Avenue "armory" was too small
this time to contain "the kellys and
Reillys. and O'Shaunnessys, the Caseys,
the Maguires and the elegant, bold
McIntyres." Especially since those
noble sons Of Erin brought their wives.
Tadies. We Greet You" read the
canton above the foreword in the book
marking the occasion. Welcome they
were though ladies are an innovation
in the annals of the Mulligan Guards.
With true Hbernian tact the preface
declared: This gathering the ladies
will long remember, though we know
that they are all too young TO nave any
recollection Of the origin OF the songs
we sing"
Sing they did. They knew the words,
too. They romped through PADDY
Dufry's Cart" THE Buck Billy uoal'
MAJOR GllteatncT, ihe nv -
Saturday Night" and score or more
of others. To be sure, there were pro-
fessional entertainers dancers, sing
ers and that sort Of thing but their
notes we're drowned in Conversations
food, ,.,;.,, -
Be sure there was no formahty In
the verbal waves that broke over those
who occupied the stage at the tar end
Of the great hall. Never was 1t "Shure'
Missus Mccarthy. how elegint ye look
his avenin'." and "Mishter Reilly, Vi
hone the twins is we'll" Far from It,
First names go in that part OF Green.
witch Village. which can tell without
HESITATION the difference between a
shillalah and a mslacca cane.
viii Be Remembered
Indeed. that is why-take II from as
oond a son of the "auld sod" as ever
aJrsnk from a pitcher Of beer'-the
Mulligan Guards and the beloved lrlsh
Characters Harrigsn and Hart por,,
traved will be remembered and ioVeo
vben 10th Street is away down town;
The PARTY started late and ended
carly. The hands of the clock STOOD az
S.4o when the Guards themselves car
wing their battle axes over their
shoulders and wearing their top-neaSy
ubite bushes. marched into the room
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