OCR Text |
Show , THE IRISH VOLKFEST. In a little cafe on William street. New York, says the Tribune of that city, a sign has been posted for the last week inviting patrons to buy tickets tick-ets for an Irish Volksfest. The combination is so peculiar as to attract the attention of every one entering en-tering the place, and the comments have been many and varied. "Well, wouldn't that make you angry?" an-gry?" said one big Irishman, after ha had studied the Irish Volksfest sign from several' angles. "It will be 'Sprakenze Irish,' nxt." "I suppose the sign means that it is an Irish picnic with a German band," offered another. "Well, there was a time in New York when a sign' like that would have caused a riot. Any cafe showing one of them would have been mobbed. Indeed., it would have bee.i mobbed twice. The Germans would have been just as indignant as th? Irish." j The proprietor of the. cafe offered this explanation: "This picnic is given by a concern which employs only Irish and German help. They get along in perfect harmony.- and the picnic will jgo off . without the first sign of racial conflict. The pretty biack-l.aited Irish 'girls will dance with the. red-faced German youths, and the flaxen-haired German maidens will jig with the Irish boys. The two races have been growing closer together as time goes on. They have been crowded into the j same quarters by the Italian and Jewish Jew-ish immigrants, and there has coma ' about just such a union as makes an j 'Irish Volksfest' possible." |