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Show GAELIC LEAGUE FORMED Pour Great Organizations to Be Launched in United States. CHICAGO. Jan. 15. As a result of tho present tour of Dr. Douglas Hyde, leader of tho Gaelic league of Ireland, four great alTlllatcd organizations are to be formed In tho United States. The first of theso will be launched In Chicago, announcement announce-ment of the preliminary steps having been made today. Now York, Boston and San Francisco will be the headquarters of the other throe. The Chicago organization, final steps for the formation of which will bo taken next week, will be the center of systematic sys-tematic work throughout the middles West. The New York branch will control local leagues In the Atlantic States. Boston Bos-ton those In New Englnnd and San Francisco Fran-cisco thoso on lho Pacific slope. Local leagues arc projected for all cities and towns of any considerable size. Tho objects of the organizations will bo tho sending of money annually to tho Gaelic league of Ireland and the fostering foster-ing In America of nn Irish spirit among men of Irish birth and ancestry. Following Fol-lowing tho establishing of the central organizations or-ganizations tho Ilrsi of tho local bodies will be formed In Milwaukee, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Indianapolis and other cities of the middle West. Plans havo already been made for the formation In Boston nnd Now York of the central organization. organiza-tion. " Dr. Hyde will bo In San Francisco early In February and the Pacific coast cenlrnl league will be arranged. |