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Show LAST OF THE IRISH. The Jews Had Crowded Others From Orchard Street, But Aged Mary McGinley Stayed Till She Died. ToMary McGinley's deathbed came in a long line last Saturday the young and the old people of Orchard street, says a New York paper. She had lived here for so many years that they had always known, her. Their faces, dark under brilliant colored col-ored shawls worn asjioods, silk hats rusty as leaves ot trees in the autumn, caps oddly peaked, long beards and frt .!k coats, were not in harmony with her two dark rooms. These wer? decked with colored lithographs lith-ographs of the Madonna liolla Sedia. the Descent from the Cross, the liast Hughes. Mrs. McGinley was grieved to death because these images of her faith were there only of all the rooms in the tenements from -Division street to East Houston. In her time, Orchard street was Irish. In the first years of the Yiddish invasion inva-sion she captivated its affection by the tenderness with which she talked to the young people. She would say tc them, when they came to her complaining complain-ing of persecution by street Arabs: "You must suffer a little, you know, because be-cause Christ was crucified." But she scolded the street Arabs. Every one said that she was lovable. When the invasion had repulsed the Irish from Canal street to Grand, she said: "I'll stay. ' I'll be the last of the Mohicans." s Her husband is a paper handler fot Harper & Brothers, a hard-working, honest old man. He would say to her: "You are right, Mary. We are the new Indians. Let's go to the Bronx or' tc Brooklyn." -But she would not move. Two months ago she found hersell the only Irish woman on Orchard street. She. was as friendly as ever tc her neighbors, they laughed as much as ever at her criticism of their faith, made in constant, ingenuous good humor. hu-mor. But she was discouraged al heart. W hen McGmley came to dinner oj late there was no food. The stove was ! cold. "How can you eat?" she asked "How can you think .of eating, when you know that we are the only Christians Chris-tians on Orchard street?" He replied: "Let's move." But she would not consent con-sent to that. .. She died at midnight, fifteen minutes after she had said: "There will be nc more Irish on Orchard street." Her husband, John McGinley, said yesterday: yester-day: "She was right.:, I will not stay here." Orchard street is sincerelj sorry for him. i ' |