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San Francisco Chronicle from San Francisco, California • Page 37

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tiertfefal iftft IMPOUNDED 18CS pmcn i fOAY CELEBRATED tBY HUEE THRONG Parade rviKTbvfvir tts yfi 744J A KAQEg37td HAN FRANCISCO CAL SUNDAY MARCH 18 1017 VOL OX NO GLIMPSES OF THE BIG ST PATRICKS bAY PARADE Auditorium pet Inn iff 11 i pj qeie rarucipaieu in jfe by Thousands fLEA FOR REPUBLIC MADE United Ireland the Nation Is i vuimur meme tngiana Hotly Scored fSr RELAND tlf republic waa th keynot of yesterdays celebration iK Patrick day In which thousand took part Tb addressee In th Aadltorlura la th afternoon ran with th thought that Ireland always a tro Nation vas given outward national form last Easter and might ooa become an Independent land i Flare of the new republic were rywhere so that for the nret time San Francisco aaw a St Patrick day rade with almost aa much orange aa STeen In It Here end there wae a Creen flag marked with a gold harp batall the newtflaga were the striped reen white and orange banner typl frlng United Ireland And when the long parade disbanded before St Marys Cathedral at 1010 oclock yesterday morning It was the great silk nar nt the Irish republic that was taken within to be placed opposite the American liar one at either aide of the altar RESOLUTION READ A demand that America arrange to have Ireland represented at the peace conference of the natlona was made In resolutions feed by Major 8 tOToole at the great gathering of the lay at the Auditorium where 7000 people were assembled The resolution stated We pledge our support to the Irish republic founded In Easter Week 1910 We reprobate the horrible and cowardly murders committed by England during the revocation and we trust that they will deliver her into the power of her enemies The resolutions also approve the Sropagatlon of the Irish language i teaching of Irish history In the btuyils and announce that Ireland 1 nation among niiiuni uu such Is free to make any alliance with any sower for the purpose of gain Ing complete Independence or for any tner reason Father Tork eld In hi oration ir FOR THB PAOT have come to glorify St I Tpatrlckv for wit her baa Vn few ka la the past Aye even more than that fpr the rod dawn that shone Jam Easter week We tend In stupefaction before the greatest troubling of the waters of humanity that the world has ever seen whose great waves are breaking in muddy folds even at our own feet The news from Europe tells US that the foundations of the deep have been broken up Tet I believe that lust as then the troubling of the water was for the healing of humanity so now It is for the helping of the nations We have no delusion about the empire We would not give a tinkers imprecation for the whole ntpire together We believe that Ireland Is a nation the same a ranee 1 a nation the same as America la a nation the same as Germany la a nation When John Redmond disillusioned came back like Judas Lloyd Oeorge eald to hlra What Is It to csT Keep thou the silver REVIEWS HUTORr Ae closed with a prayer that Ireland ahould stand forth as a nation again Judge Bernard Flood chairman ef the day In his brief opening remarks asked American cltlsea to LM dniand the liberation of Ireland and tend a message of good cheer from the American Itepubllc of 177to the young Jrish republic of 110 Juf Vrank Murask recited a rlng ode to St Patrick written far the celebration by Daniel Easter Doran of this city Irish wiuslc danclnr and recitations ompleted the long varied programme Doxen of little girls In green velvet Jerkins executed some pleasing dancing steps and two four hand reels aad a double hornpipe by adult proved highly popular Vocal numbere Included The ttvwSnanc lad Banner and Tha iCoulln by Mrs Me Glada Astnore by Miss Agnes Graham Smith Mother Machree by frank Kramer two songs by Mrs Maud iiayaen Ireland a uiory by Vf Barry and a tenor solo by Wil li Nelson Alfred Roncovlerl played trombone solo Warren Shannon recited Why I Celebrate th Day Miss Jeanette McDevit The Shamrock and Sennas Morlarlty rave a recitation In Gaelic FATUIOTIO PARADE Celebration began yesterday morning with a parade of members of Irish military and patriotic societies which left Valencia and Sixteenth streets at oclock and proceeded along Valencia and Market streets and Van Ness venue to tbe cathedral Led by a broad line of mounted fKL afa BxTaTaxaV fLHI tHrn it 7MffMv WMW1M HlHenBBlKHfiiB lHTI BB HIIKtiAV JaUIIIIIIK IA ikwVA wMs alllllWallIIIIIIIIIIIIHcVfVflIIIIB aHI aiallllE 1KSaDp i 1 iVafaHHaSkIIIIIIIIIHBs7lllwIIIIH iHiihlHsflilllm VtsK 2 2993 irZlMKKmbj IHBIHiflilllamPIVPHrnlsl iMiEfV mKWmMWPM KHHhLC HeMBHlBOiVH9W aifiW wtii iHHlBHHiiaSillllIHIw4 faIIIIB HffmtJMtM2KElli 9 iBxrit3Ci VPkY4L1bbbbbbbbW KaaaaaBBBBBBBrMIs MllKnJliilPw IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHiRll KHKBEFBKmB iblk i i rrt 1 a JaW easaBaiHuBBBlsBBBBBBBBBVfjBBBBm mmMmmxtimw mmiwm ujm WRA mi Fmnlim MnightsofSt Patrick Hold Annual Dinner 100 Members and Guests Revere Erin at St Francis Hotel For th forty second time In Sen Francisco the Knights oft Patrick closed lest night the celebration of Irelands fe th el with a banquet and words of loyalty to Krln and the United States A hundred knlghte end their guests In the ballroom of the St Francis heard Archbishop Edward Ilanna unfold Irelands deetlny to be the example by which the world shall learn to save Itself by practicing the principle bequeathed by Erin patron Mint II said While all the world I en fir around us our peculiar position of Isolation In peace has made us examine our own ability to fare the danger If the conflagration should reach us We found that we had departed far from the waye of the men who made this Nstlon great They reverenced God They were ready to ahed the last drop of their blood thst the principles that made this Nation might live The tradition Ireland gets from St Patrick Is reverence for Ood reverence for womanhood love of home and country and love of liberty jr the revolution that Is rocking the world Is to stop If we are to go back to the ways of democracy we must follow Patricks way We must give up everything else that men may be free Th Archbishop closed with a eulogy of the spirit of the leaders of the Irish revolt men who trussed not to things of this world Foolishly or wisely they were willing to give their lives for what they believed and with a prayer for the fulfillment of their dream President Robert Troy presided at the banquet Among those who responded to toasts were Benjamin Ide Wheeler William II Crocker Oenerat John Wlsser A Captain Edward II Durell and James Macdonald chief of the Caledonian Club FOOD II 11 ABE BED ill STMRBAIE Police Say Prisoners Were Selling Stolen Tickets When Caught 250 TAKEN BY THIEF Four of the youthful supporters of the Stan and Stripes and the flag of the Iriih Republic From left to right they are Gwendolyn Peters Norma Abbott Thelma Railton Loreen Harbridge Below are tome of the marcher in the Irish Volunteensection of the parade Dublin Is Quiet on St Patricks Day DUBLIN March 17 St Patricks day passed quietly In Dublin Many country people cam Into town but there were no processions The church services were largely attended Ronald Slattery Al Hanna Thomas Kiley and Albert i Field in Custody Four young men were arrested last night at the 8t Patrick celebration of the United Irish Societies at the Auditorium on charges of receiving stolen property Th arrests followed th discovery yesterday afternoon of the theft of ISO tickets for rtie grand ball the closing feature of the Rt Patricks day celebration The youths were arrested according to the police In the act of disposing of part of the stolen tlcksts While Sergeant Pengelly was listening to tbe stories of the young men almost 100 persons who had purchased stolen tickets were clamoring for admission The committee of arrangements held a hurried conference and decided to honor the tickets which were at first rejected The young men arrested aeserted they purchased the tickets at IS eenta apiece from a man etandlng In front of the main box office without a bat Each Invested they said but tl At the box oflloe th tickets were sold for SO rents each The tickets were kept by the committee in a hatroom In the lobby and when In the afternoon 2S0 were found to be missing a quarter seo tlon was clipped from each of the remaining ticket When the whole ticket were presented they were at first refused and a posse of police officers mingled with the crowd and arrested the men engaged In selling them The fourpossessed but twelve tickets between them when searched Judge Flood who with hi wife led the grand march at th hall fixed the ball of the four youth at 11000 The prisoners gave the names of Ronald Slattery Al Hanna Thomas Klley and Albert Field Slattery Is said to have eold programmes In the Auditorium during the afternoon exercise Troubetzkby 5 SculptureWins Crowds at Park Memorial Museum Exhibit Is Feature De Young Bust Shown Oolden Oat Park Memorial Max urn look for another record crowd today drawn by th wonderful collection of sculpture by th famoua Russian artist Prlnc Paulo Trou betskoy which Is the chief prnt feature of the exhibit In th lntl tutlon Sine th openlnr of th axhlbl tlon of th Russian sculptors worst th Memorial Museum ha bai thronged dally with ovarflowtaa crowds on th two Sunday before today The main art gallery at th back of the building which wil1 cleared to make room for the exhibit and where the bronses and plaster casts have been mounted for th pu lie view ha seen a contlauou atream of visitors Another piece ha Just been added this collection of noteworthy sculpture In th shsp of a bust I Young recently completed by Prince Troubetskoy Thl will seen smong th exhibit today President Wears a Sprig of Shamrock WASHINGTON March IT Ttia President and the Whit House am ployes today wore sprigs of sham rock sent to the White House by Jba Redmond Irish Nationalist leader No Irish Lovers Wed On St Patricks Day On way of observing St Patrick day waa completely overlooked yesterday by the loyal men and women who hold a warm apot In their hearts for the Emerald Isle Not one Irish couple waa among th number that applied to the mar rlage license bureau yesterday for a permit to travel through life to gether a man and wife Twelve couples decided to start th Journey on St Patrick day but oat of all th blushing brides and em barrsssed bridegrooms there waa net one who waa born In Ireland or whose parent war born In Ireland England oerraany Austria Den mark Sweden and Mexico wer rp reseated but th word Ireland ap nra tiAWtir An tTia mlpriarA license records of St Patricks day 117 ST PATRICKS DAY By DICK KILROY Gayly the green in the sunlights dancing Proudly the marshals steed is prancing 1 Blithely they atep to the strains entrancing Who so happy and grand as they Down the street comes the grand procession Every trade and polite profession Keeping step with a nice discretion My but the boys are proud today Hear the notes from the cornet spilling Sweetly the fifer his note is trilling Boldly the drummer the air is filling Telling the world tis St Patricks day Felix and Murty and Eileen and Mary Big Pat Rourke and Timmie OLeary Cork and Kerry and Tipperary Arm in arm on St Patricks day Gra Machree our hearts are close to you Once a year we all play host to you Good ould saint well drink a toast to you Siainthe gal Tis St Patricks day pollc and decorated car In which th panagyrlo at the solemn high mass Were city officials and heads of cele bration commltteea the parade pro ceeded through solid walla of specta tore with a preponderance of little girls with green ribbons In their hair bebadged adults and green bowed baby carriages until at the cathedral It found hundred awaiting it Long line of Irish Volunteer In blue uniforms two score or more grren unlformed Hibernian Rifles the Hibernian Itlfle Drum Corps a band In blue and two blocks or more of members of the Ancient Order of Hi bernians marching four abreast made up the bulk of the parade After these came a delegation from the Fire Department ted by Captain Frank Smith dosens of automobiles with members of the Ladles Auxiliary A It and other Irish socie ties and pupils of the parochial achoola and two floats of green clad little girls ust behind the Fire Department came a quartet of Jaunty marchere who were applauded all down the line These were Mayor Jamea Rolph Jr Judge Edmund Mogan Judge Thomas Oraham and Public Ad mlnlstrator William Hynee Among the vehicles two which at tracted attention were a float on which Miss Peggy ONeil represented Young Ireland and a basket cart drawn by a plump pony In which Master John Joseph Lane Jr wearing a big green hat drove his par ante lUv Francis McElroy delivered at St Marys Cathedral at which Archbishop Edward Hanna presided If the history or Irish people Is a record of mighty things done In the sacred cause of liberty and Justice Rev Father McElroy said In part If Its faith Is the mark of a great people It la all In consequence of that love of truth and the Holy Church which St Patrick Implanted In the minds and hearts of the Irish peo ple The elaborate processional of the mass was led by twenty four red robed cathedral boys and Included the officers of the mass aeversl other members of the clergy of tb city and Archbishop Hanna In his crimson robss and ermine mantle Very Rev John Cantwell celebrated the mass assisted by Rev John Hunt deacon Rev Timothy Moynlhan sub deacon Rev Denis Crowley and Kev Fames i ooie rhaDlaina to the Archbishop Rev Charles A Ramm assistant priest and Rev William Sullivan master of ceremonies With a colorful grand ball In tne Expoeltlon Auditorium which waa be decked with flags of Ireland and America the United Irish Societies of San Francisco last night closed their celebration of St Patrick day The evening entertainment attended by several thousand sons and dauchters of Erin many of whom wore native costumes opened with a grand chorus by the Paclflo Saenger 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