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6 REDPATWS ILLUSTRATED WEEKLY.
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SPR \ rp nN was to be in the first week in October; but In the recent excavations at Troy have been
M I 8 8 K A N NY I A R N E L L * Miss Parnell was too ill to attend, and it was found the ancient lyres over whose seven
‘ot held until October 15, at the New York strings, drawn on frames decorated with gold,
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BY MRS, MARGARET F, SULLIVAN. Hotel, forty Indies being present. ivory and precious stones, swept the hot fin-
“The constitution I had drawn up Was ac- gers of Trojan women while the men were in
(For Redpath’s Ilustrated Weekly.) cepted. We elected an executive, nominated the battle. ‘The historian finds the lyre of
NT EARLY two years azo I received a letter my mother for president, and took up a col- Ireland vibrant through all the centuries of
i torent Miss Fanny Yarnell, askivg me lection of $100, which was sent to Patrick the seige not yet raixed, albeit there are no
to form a Ladies’ Land Leagne in Chicago, Egan the next day.” .
Tconld not comply with the request; but I After that, many Ladies Leagues were or- kept the enemy intrenched 1
was deeply impressed by the writer's fervor ganized, one in San Frances being among horse has been left before the gates; and if
id earnesiness, Subsequent correspondence the earliest. ; tl 2 01
revealed these qualities to me still more inti- “I was overwhelmed with applications for have proved too rotten for good pikehandles,
mately ; and, alike from her prose and verse, copies of our constitution, for letters ti The men of Ireland have fought, even when
I came to look upon Miss Parnell as ono read ont at meetings, for advice how to or- discretion should have held them back; and
whose strength of purpose, persistence and ganize, ete. For two montbs I wrote letters the singers have sung, although they could
enerey Were of the highest practical value in incessantly, day and night,”
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the canse in which she was engaged. Miss Anua Parnell was at this time in Tre thirst when
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very great on idea of organizing Ladies’ Leagues in Ireland, have been sung in Ireland which would have
rnell, six months ago, during Where the real work would soon lie, she wag moved even Englard’s soul to pity were not
a brief visit at “Irousides,” in Bordentown. disinclined to co-operate. that fatty organism less susceptible than the
I found a deticate and languid young Jady, in ““A good many farmers’ wives had, how. stones which gave rhythmic response to the
the early flower of womanhood, apparently ever, written to me, from various parts of Ire.’ 800 of Apollo,
incapable of protracted toil, mental or physi- Jand, asking for information about forming | But Fanny Parnell never wrote for Eng-
cal; ber voice 6o weak ax to bealuoxt without Ladies’ Land Leagues. I gave them as me. land's sympathy. More ‘appropriately might
sonority or color; her eyes feeble, dreamy nute instructions as I could, but not having the tender Adelaide Proctor entreat her coun-
i t and womanly any loader, they remained feeble aud obscure, try—
invali ill it became evident that the Coercion Act “Spare her, O cruel England !
f Thy sister lieth low.”
in ~ Fanny Parnell sang only to her own people
In order that the 24 only to teach them how to hate and Low
to resist. How could she sing of love ina
canse in which the conquerer has never shown
y¥? She wrote only to ins ire; and in all
her versification there is not one line of timor-
ousness, of indecision, of courtliness or com.
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organize a
Volcanic effect, for there ix no other verse in Ladies’ Land League, similar to the eo that
onr tongue in which the flame of patriotic had been already in existence, with such ex-
ardor burns wilh such tremendous intensity cellent results, in America for six months,”
i i Miss Aona Parnell reluctantly complied,
terrible invective, such tremendous anger. “‘first, because she donbted her own execu-
T could not fail to recali the description Sir tive ability, and secondly, because she thought
Charles Gavan Duffy gives ‘Young Ireland” Irish women would be afraid to join. In both
of Thomas Duffy in his youth—“the was shy, oF ee ears however, she has been disap.
iri yin
she knew too well by bitter tears that England
never did England use in Ireland that sacred
symbol of conciliation between nations ex-
cept for treachery and massacre.
‘Too young, too early, as true a martyr to
her conutry as ever sanctified its holy scaffolds,
reland may well weep her loss; and hor
countrymen, in every latitude where Irish
hearts beat and Irich tears ran, will place her
beside “* Speranza” and Thomas D.vis,—thi
Miriam who was not permitted to chant the
canticle of her people's freedom.
Muss Fanny Parnell, taking advantage of
an improvement in her health, set out on an
vrganizing tour through New York, Massa-
chusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey and Cana-
da; and, with the funds thus secured, the
to a common conntry fellow, playing old Dublin Ladies’ Lea: ue was able to resist the Rican ay we
ing, the ld, old sory tllrts of the lavetaker in reieed ere | LANDLORDISM IN NEW YORK.
lish compulsory starvation, —
Miss Parnell afterward conveyed to me in In one month from the organization of the (Continued from Page 2.)
writing a concise account of her organization first league in New York the funds rose from “The comments of the pbysician in the
of the Ladies’ Land Leeguo; and as this is five lundred to three thousand dollars a case of Hannah Krause, ave three months,
now part of the essential history of one of week. There are about one hundred and who died of cholera infantum st No, 260
the most important sociul movements of our fifty Ladies Land League in the United Stanton street, rear, on Saturday last, show
day. vill give most of its substance, ag States. It is Proper to add here the report of a revolting condition of affairs, They are:
nearly as possible in her own words, Miss Anna Parnell, showing the work of the ‘The family live back of a dirty yard, in the
Vhat views she held upon the political Ladies Leagues in’ Ireland’ trom their incep- basement, with the closet in front of the win
aspects of the Land League agitation are set tionto June, of the present year. That it dows.’ :
forth in her poems; but the practical work was purely charitable is manifest:
the women of Irelaud and Anierica within -d tenants todate. . . £20,319 19 4 Julia Stanton, ago two, ied No. 421
the agitation was not, in her understanding rex of coercion prisoners.“ 5.733 2) West ‘Thirty-fifth street, of malignant dipb-
of its nature and scope, political it wae pamuilies of ordinary Kaw pasenets + P48 1011 theria on Saturday last, are r the house
purely humane, charital au. Tt was providing for coercion prisoners and 7” is ba to have the rooms puritied.’”
“*parely womanly.” ‘ anctions of the ordinary haw prisoners from Dec, 25 2 How long is this annnal slaughter of the
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law-maker were seea in bay- git 0 Prisoners. catering trom 4 Innocents to be permitted ?
onet, the rd; the sn In December 2 to date, 6 "2 ons 12 4
taking from his clutches the aged bed-ridden, Leyal costs by Ladies Le L. + 10817 7 LANDLORD TYRANNY WOKSE THAN SLAVERY !
i Miecellancous grants, 17 7 0 Howard Potter, of Brown Brothers & Co,
Grant nde by Land League since Its bankers, No. 5:Wall-st., is the president of
Bom jp the New-York Association for Improving the
‘ota, : £59,872 10. Condition of the Poor. He was
toward the law-maker in Ireland was simply Fa ya reporter of the Tribune, andin response
to cheat him out of bis victims, has afforded of her personal toil in connection to inquiries as to the work of the organization
“As nobody could possibly give you as with the land league, scarcely a glimpse ig of which he is the head, he said:
correct an account of the growth of the had of the extent, the variety, the weariness, “The Tribune caunot do the public & great.
Ladies’ i Leagues in America and Ireland the fatigue of her self-imposed toil. That it er service than to il attention to the condi-
as myself,” Miss Parnell writes, ‘an ed, if it was not proximately the cause tion of. the people who live in tenement
ve seen many garbled and untrue accounts of, her early death, is indisputable, Physi- ‘ houses. In great many instances they are
published, I hasten to supply you with as cally unlitted for even the slightest labor, the victims of a white slavery more oppressive
not appealed to the mercy of the evictor; in
providing shelter, clothing and food for help.
lens age and puny infancy. Woman's duty
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brief a sketch as possible.” Iwas then en- she worked, day and night, like the strongest and more degrading than was that of the ne-
gaged in writing “Ireland of To-day” and of giants ; and her frail being has fallen under groes in the South.” .
this sketch was intended for use in it; not its enormons load. Her letters to me, and “Is it true,” asked the’ reporter, “that the
verbatim, necessarily; but I was unable to her conversation, disclosed the ecstasy—I tenants in these buildings are in such a state
ake room for any part of it. might say frenzy—of hope and fear with of terrorism that they dare not make com.
The idea first occurred to Miss Parnell, which her noble and gentle spirit abandoned plaints against their landlords, no matter how
she continues, in July, 1880. ‘*The funds of itself wholly to the rescue of her wretched bad may be the condition of the houses in
the ue, which had ine: @ knew, without taking which they live?” .
rapidly while Mr. Dillon and my brother were the word from Mr. Gladstoue’s lips, that “a. “Tt is @ fact,” replied Mr. Potter, “and the
here in this country, had fallen off to almost sentence of eviction is alnost equivalent toa worst of it is that it is extremely bard for us to
nothing, a few hundred dollars a week;.and sentonce of starvation.” She knew—for the tind out who the owners of these buildings
it occurred to me that by setting the women beautiful face of Ireland, was the first upon teally are, a difliculty we share‘with the Board
i ich her eyes opened,—that those fertile of Health.’ ‘There is a law on the subject—
i . I mentioned the idea to plains could feed twice the population : is it but at present it is a dead letter. If it'could
Mr, Davitt a few days afterward and he was marvellous that she could not contemplate be enforced, it would relieve us of much em-
delighted with it and said it would bea cap. with calmness her women and children dying barrassment and greatly facilitate the work
ital plan, if it could be carried ont.” o [ , b
After several weeks’ thought, Miss Parnell hands have tilled? ‘The tragedy of Ireland was the law to which I refer requires that the name
resolved to issue an appeal to the Irishwomen absorbed intg her life and blighted it, From , f nM
of America to belp the League “‘on the score dry detail of organization ; from piles of int conspicuously displayed in the hell, or in some
of its being a great social philanthropic considerate and often unreasonable and some- part of the building. Its rigid enforcement
movement, destined to save from pauperism times silly correspondence; from several would entail great annoyance to the pi
and st i compulsory emigration meetings on the same evening, she could tors,but the general result would be eminently
thousands of women and children.” ‘I'he ap. turn with marvellous versatility toherpen, and beneficial. Of course there are @ great many
it will be remembered, wasa long and in lines hot and glowing arouse the sluggish,
denounce the traitor, confirm the vacillatin, at
“TI need not say that I put my whole sonl poetry is superior in power and in- it by inheritance, by the foreclosure of wort.
into it. I sent it for publication to every flamatory quality to that of “Speranza” who gages, and by varions legal processes. Fora
Irish American paper whose address I could was no effective in '48; while it is deficient good many reasons, they do not care to have
get.” in melody compared with the verse of it kn¢ a tors
Weeks passed without a response, ‘Thomas Davis, who, his work | being all buildings, and they shirk responsibility as far
“The first Indy who answered was Miss literary, had the time to polish ossible,”” — .
Jane Byrne of New York.” tu “Shirk responsibility,” Mr. Potter, is net a
‘Then many letters from throughout the fit phrase to describe Violations of the law.
country came. ‘They were almost unanimous . x
im saying that if ‘we in New York would set
eloquent one.
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A PLEA FOR TRINITY CHURCH.
Judging from the Tribune's reporty when
oulll Mr. Potter was interrogated about the condi_
therefore set to work in New York; and with have roached a high place, not _only in the tion of the Trinity Church Property, he was
the help of Miss Byrne and Mrs. Maguire, a story of her native country, which is assured, inclined to do for the corporation what it had
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me wholly to poetry, I believe she woul
League was organized,” The first meeting but in general literature. etter do for its tenement Louses—a job of
pliment. ‘The banuer of ber country never iment houses owned i
paled in her hands into a flag of truce; for poration have been igo
“OF thi k
whitewashing. But, as I shall describe, both
ry may own pen and by Mr. Bellew's sarc
condition of St. Hero 's New Y,
estates, I aubjoin Me. Potters semrayohovog
remarks about that racticall. i
stitution :— p 7 Resthen in.
“Tt bas been stated that a number 0;
f the
x whed by the Trinity Church
8 disgracefully bad condi,
or
‘hurch Corporation, I a:
owns some 600 parcels of improved propsrtt
A great many of these are Tent.
on long leases, and if, from first-class:
the vestrymen could know nothing ot tr
res bad
condition of apy tenement hona= “
the corporation,” houses owned by
“ey
have certeinly shown every desire ey
ire
world 10 leave nothing uunclone which, ane
ler,” .
is it not a fact that complai ti
the Board of Health about nuieances tee ee
inity Church Cor.
‘is I cannot Speak from ‘
knowledge, but I do know that evils towhien
our society ins called attention are bei
remedied, and in a spirit whi
sire of the vestrysnen to do Hep naws the de-
matter.”
XVI.
QUESTIONS POR MR, por
If Mr. Potter desires the pub”
dren by the hundred in News York
be popped, and I shall have ag Tide 9 Bot
philanthropists as for | i
Ph'lanthropi * landlords if they try to
In Heaven's name, what does Mr. Potte:
re do n
ow criminally negligent they are, and
disgrace to American civilization gene ett 8
iB “rine Civilization they are and
Mr. Potter knows or ean kno
vestrymen have not been prompt in rendene®
T have been
VIL.
LIGHT FOR TRE Pious BATs,
These is nothing but a blaze of pay;
ror that will bring these criminal iindioea ts
0 rm 8 lon,
afraid of offending ‘Trinity Church
is rich friends, there will be no go
It will keep up ite Bleeding Heart Yards: it,
ee ,
ich rector, Dr, will a it
Patriot Caseby to the publig’ oa the “okits
+ of his heathen church et all “the
blame—just as poor Mr, Pa, ks did n
Dickens’ novel. Dr. Dix and his vest ‘mon
must be made to feel that they can be rendered
WHAT OUR ARTIST WROTE,
Mr. Bellow has illustrated scenes j
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¢ random and not because they were the
wort Noses in the possession of ‘Trinity,
" r. Bellew sent me this note with the draw.
{send the illustrations of No. 3
Debrosses street. They b ihe ‘Trinity
Chnrch property, 7 P&0%6 tothe Trinity
ot ‘umber 7 fourteen families living in the
me
volt some rooms fifteen people living in one
Half of the building nearly ready to fall
lt of Wood, and in a most dilay
dated condition ; almost crumbling to pieces,
ing of one faucet in the yard—at ov
in the building had t inselves
rom this one faucet Moly themselves
ingly one water-closet, which smelled abom-
inably— in fact the stench around the Dale,
ing ninde me sick, Yours,
gttk the Fenders of this} journal to visit
‘© houses on the first hot day,
Tshall describe them, Y Next wee
st.