New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-01-10
1900 Welcome
Lord Mayor of
Cork to City:
OCallaghan, Accompanied
y Peter MacSwiney, Gets
Warm Reception Upon
Arrival for a Weeks Stay
win Plead Cor Relief
N Peace Until Irish Are
Destroyed or Granted In
dependence, He Declares

pariel O'Callaghan, Lord Mayor
~ Cork, was welcomed unanimously
hv sooo Irish sympathizers when he
,e.ehed New York yesterday for stay
81 one week before testifying at Wash
;neton on conditions in Ireland.
Az the train drew into the Pennsyl-
v,nia Station the crowd crushed back
the protecting line of fifty police and
thirty ex-service men. and it was
sfteen minutes before Mayor O'Calla-
han could be squeezed through it and
into taxicab, which was almost over
turned in the general struggle of the
eroxd to shake his hand.
The feeter ones Of the throng then
ran alongside to the Wolcott Hotel,
where cheering and flag-waving con-
tinued for an hour, while Mayor O'Cal-
!ahan himself was on the roof being
filmed at making an imaginary speech
over the parapet. His only response
to the demonstrations, except thirty
minutes of handshaking, was brief
expression Of thanks from third floor
balcony. This was seconded by word
from Peter MacSwiney, his constant
companion, brother of the late Lord
Mayor Terence MasSwiney.
Wearied by Receptions
Among others arriving with Mayor
O'Callahan were Harry Boland, secre-
tary to cannon de Valera, president
Of the Irish republic; J. L. Fawcitt,
"Irish Consul General; Judge NJ. Law
less, of Norfolk, Va, and acting Mayor
Cannon and Deputy Mayor Malone of
Jersey City. Major Michael J.. Kelly.
Of the 165th Infantry. met the visitors
with group of enlisted men at Jersey
City, where Mayor Gillen of Newark
also greeted him.
The committee of welcome here in
Guided Frank P. Walsh, John w. Golf.
Major Eugene Kinkaid Brandon lyman.
Judge Alfred j. Talley, Alderman Will
liam j. Collins, Maurice Burke, John ].
OLeary, Owen W. Bohan, Robert E.
mcdonnell and representatives of the
Irish Counties Association, American
Association for the Recognition of the
Irish Republic and Ladies' Societies of
the American Order of Hibernians.
Wearied by exciting receptions at
cities along the way. attempts Of women
to KISS him and the strain of three
weeks as stowaway at sea, Mayor
0'Callaghan nevertheless ignored the
toast and tea set before him at the
hotel to answer with ready wit a fire
OF questions from newspaper men.
ne had been led to expect a warm
welcome, he said, but had not been
prepared to catch Irish flags con the
ify OF be forced to walk within ,ol-
low square OF police and be thumped
o. the back. Informed that it was prob
ably the biggest demonstration accord
ed an Irish leader, he attributed the
fact largely to 'ths martyrdom of poor
ference, as he referred to Terence
;AacSwney, whose death followed his
Long refusal to accept food.
Mayer O'Callaghan said he was the
tslrd lord Mayor of Cork within wear.
that Lord MacCurta:n was shot in his
PED and that Lord Iavor N-cc,~i 80.
dled in prison. The visitor displayed
'se civic cham of the t..y
Haleh MacSwiney woro ~ his neck
Until ne died, when, Through the un-
aeFground system" it was sent to the
present Lord Mayor in token that Lord
!. MaaSor MacSwiney wished him to have
sae once. O'Callaghan was then
".PPfuS agent.
Besides being Mayor, by unanimous
w Of the Aldermen and Councillors.
Mayor O'Callaghan said he was chair
iaah Of the Cork County Council and
espscted TO be reelected rn.s .noax,.
"hile In America. lie added that he
Would remain in the United States for
we or three months, but not longer.
Will be sorry to leave, but the
sooner get back to Cork the better"
ne ne sad. my place is in Cork with
ny people. Since my arrival I have
.ssslsea nothing but kindness, and |
Wsspeciaiiy regret that l must leave
.,e* FORK so soon, but ! must get
n ,s.ough with my mission as soon as
The Mayor said his mission pri-
msliIy was to testify before the com
II'sslon investigating conditions in
...sand, and for that purpose would go
Washington Tuesday. He also
snsneo, he said, to plead for American
.s1iet Tor the destitute in Ireland.
r caom ne estimated at 5000 persons in
VIZ alone, and also to help convince
that it was their duty as a
'' &c people TO support the Irish cause.
8. men are you going back to Ireland !
sns same way you came ?" he was |
81. That III: isn't fair question" he re-
Ias1. with smile. "but the English |
y. not have let me come here in any
ne would not discuss the movem emit
: nave him excluded from the United