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Show WHERE FAMINE VICTIMS REST. Huge Boulder Marks the Graves Irish Immigrants Who Perished of Ship Fever. Montreal The request of the Orand Trunk Hallway, made to the Hallway Commission of Canada, to condemn to Its use Ihe old cemetery on St. Ktienne street. In this city, which It claim to be necessary to Its Krowlng business, ha aroused to bitter opposition the Irishmen of, Montreal and of all eastern Canada. To Irishmen Ihe old cemetery hi sacred ground In the days of tho i r'4i,-,iyA 1 ;i-42Tj Boulder Marks Victims' Craves. j famine of 1M7 4S In Ireland tens of j thousands of Irishmen fled from their ' native land. Some entered the V nlte. i ! States through ihe port of New York;1 ihoiisands came lo this city, some t enter the promised land, but many j thousands of them to die hern of fthlpj 1 i fever. In the old cemetery the rw j main of 8,000 of these famine victims 1 un burled, f ntll 159 no monument wa erected to mark their restlna; 1 , places. Then a band of Irishmen employed em-ployed In the construction of the Victoria Vic-toria bridge placed a huge boulder In Ihe cemetery bearing this Inscription: "To preserve from desecration the remains re-mains of 6.000 Immigrants, who died", of ship fever. 1S17 4H. this stone tat srected by the workmen of Messrs, IVIo llrassey A Itetta, employed In the construction of the Victoria bridge, 1H59." Irishmen here declarw that the appropriation ap-propriation of tho cemetery by the " railroad would be an act of desecration desecra-tion and their attitude la sustained by members of tho race all over Canada. jwyei have been retained to opwe Ihe railroad before the Railway Commission. Com-mission. ( |