New-York tribune., 1921-03-18
nti English
Feeling Rules
Irish Parade
March of 10000 Up Fifth
Avenue Biggest Demon
stration Against Britain
Ever Known in New York
pro.Cermans i'm Stand
Won Mach and viereck Help
J Review Procession, Along
With Nofables of the City
One Of the largest Irish republican

one of the largest Irish republican
and anti British demonstrations ever
ho,d in the City OF New York took place
s .rsssardsy. when fully twenty thousand
scn women and children marched in
~. st. Patrick's Day parade up Fifth
Ayenue, Among those in the reviewing
.sand we're Or. Edmund Won Mach. of
sgorror on the Rhine" fame; George
S,lvsster \ .ereck and others of Ger
I man sympathies.
The parade was five miles in length
and was viewed by tens of thousands
~ local and out of-town citizens who
sacked the sidewalks and windows
ssionv Fifth Avenue from Forty-third
Ssr..et In l2Gth Street, IN Harlem.
poderick J. Kennedy, WHO managed
.he demonstration, and others who CO.
& anerated s. with him aid the various
lr;sh societies in arranging the details,
agreed that the 1920 parade was a
rreat success.
Mavor Hylan. who occupied central
rosition in the front row of seats of
the reviewing stand, lifted his silk hat
and smiled affably as each of the thir-
ty.two battalions of civil and military
paraders marched past
1 The reviewing stand also provided
the only incident rot stipulated in the
{ arrangements. That was discussion
s which arose between Father Francis
P. Duffy, chaplain of the 69th Infantry,
priety of several of the placards so
prominently displayed by some of the
/ paradinS groups. To two Of these
+ Father Duffy, who came to be known as
*the lighting chaplain of the Sixty
ninth" while serving with his regiment
on the battletields OF France, took i'm
mediate exception.
Women's Banner Offends
!. He was seated in the front row of
|, the stand, along with the Mayor. form
er Governor Smith, William B. Nc
Greal, Supreme Court Justice Cohalan,
Peter A. Shiel, former Congre ssman
Thomas F. Smith, Edward f. Mccall,
.sJ.S. Sinnott, the Mayors secretary, and
. seyerai others, when banner, carried
by women of the clan Cumann ma
!. Mban, confronted the chaplain's gaze.
1 "As much religion as you like from
Kome, but no politics" it read.
/ The char'air looksi log and hard
4 then signalled to Chairman Kennedy
! Of the committee of arrangements, VINO
!! was standing in front of the stand. The
| conversation in effect was as follows:
Kennedy, who is responsible for
/ that?'
u don't know. Father Duffy. That
banner was in the parade without the
committees permissi on"
"Well" (heatedly), ~"I want to pro-
/! test
"Now, now, Father Duffy, keep quiet.
promise you | shall take up the mat
hot L
was not passed upon by our censorship
committee. If the committee had seen
|. it it would not be in the parade"
1 The attention of the front row of the
reviewing stand was for the moment
!. diverted to Father Duffy and Mr.. Ken
nedy. The Mayor and Justice Cohalan
became curious. The Mayor told JUS
tice Cohalan, who was sitting on the
other end of the row from Father
Duffy, what the discussion was about.
When the justice had heard the reason
Tor Father Duffy's resentment, he re-
marked to the Mayor:
what about it? That was what
Daniel 0Donnell said referring to the
wording OF the placardl. That is all
right"
Chaplain Not Appeased
But to Father Duffy it was not call
rigLtD and he was visibly indignant
at~what seemed to him to constitute a
thrust at the Vatican. Assurances that
the presence of the placard in the
parade would be investigated on TIE
morrow did not Immediately placate
the chaplain, who was in his uniform
Of major Of the United States Army,
and the buzz of conversation in the
stand occasioned by the incident lasted
:. Tor several minutes.
!, The other banner that failed to meet
!; with the chaplain's approval carried the
|, words, "England's Civilization in the
|. twentieth Century-The Torch, The
!. Bullet, The Scaffold."
!. Still others of the cards read: eng
{ land murders our leaders, but the Re-
!. public lives"; "Thank God, / never
/ made peace with England ohm
1 Mitchell; Irish prisoners Of war mur-
1ered by England-Six shot in Cork
I February 26-Six hanged in Mountjoy
& }aii March 14-Numerous others brutal
tiy tortured and kiiled-New Yort
Il Times says: Bravo, Englandl What
Z 90 genuine Americans say?"
i Another p!acarh dem nded: "Boycott
Lngllsh-made goods-English insurance
I companies support American manu-
!; !; iactures-Why pay s25o,ooO,oo0 an