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Show oo HRi HBUCIL IIUK HE tHT MOLESTED urany points of historical interest and civic beauty wore threatened with destruction or damage during the armed violence which began in Dublin Ireland's capital, on Easter Monday Today's war geography bulletin, is sued by the National Geographic So cicty from its headquarters in Wash ington, gives, the following interesting resume of these buildings and public grounds: "Dublin, the center of the latest oi many uprisings in Ireland, besides be ing richer in historic association than any other city in the country, if also the largest, having enjoyed a 3; per cent increase in population since 1901, thus passing Belfast with its l per cent increase. With more thai . 400,000 population, the capital city i: about the size of Newark, N. J. "The principal thoroughfaro of Ire land's metropolis is Sackville street 120 feet wide, three-fourths the widtl of Pennsylvania avenue, Washing ton. On both sides of this main arter: of traffic aro situated tho princlpa government buildings. Of course, th most familial- architectural features oi the city aro the groat rambling Dublir castle and the famous Dublin unlver sity, or Trinity college, the latter con talning a magnificent library of mon than 300,000 volumes and two of the most noted statues of the United King dom, Foley's memorials to the litorarj genius of Ollvor--Goldsmith and the oratorical eminence and statesman ship of the city's native son, Edmund Burke. "Of course, less interest than these two buildings is St. Patrick's cathed ral, which stands on the site of the church said to have been built by St. Patrick himself when ho camo to christianize the island in 453. The original church stood until 890, while the present structure dates back to 1190, having been almost destroyed by fire in 1362. It has been restored recently at a cost of three-quarters of a million dollars, through the munificence munifi-cence of Dublin's wealthy brewer, Guinness. It was over this cathedral that Jonathan Swift, the great satirist, author of the 'Tale of a Tub' and "Gulliver's "Gul-liver's Travels,' presided as dean during dur-ing the last years of his checkered career. He was buried here, in the same coffin with his beloved 'Stella,' thus completing the final chapter in one of the great romances of the lit-erarv lit-erarv world, a romance less idyllic, perhaps, than that of Petrarch and Laura, of Dante and Beatrice, or of Shakespeare and the Dark Lady of the Sonnets, but none the less engrossing in its interest for the lover-loving world. "Near this cathedral Is a shrine dear to the hearts of all lovers of poetry of sentiment No. 12 Aungier street, the house in which Tom Moore was born. ' And to a different type of reader a modest house in Merrion Row has an equally strong appeal as the birthplace of Oscar Wilde. In tho same Row is the house in which the famous patriot, O'Connell, lived ' many years. "While Dublin is adorned with many beautiful squares and terraces, especially in the southeast and northeast north-east sections, tho great recreation .ground, one of the finest in the world, is Phoenix park, which is more than twice as large as Central Park, New York. In this reservation are zoologi-cal zoologi-cal gardens, two barracks, tho Hibernian Military school, and a na-tural na-tural amphitheater covering fifteen acres, which is used as a reviewing field and as a racecourse. It was in this park, in.l8S2, that the newly ap-polted ap-polted Secretary for Ireland, Lord Cav endlsh, and the permanent undersecretary, under-secretary, Thomas Henry Burke, were murdered at daylight, the assassins using amputating knivs. "Glasnevin, a residential suburb to the north, was the favorite place of residence of the literary giants, Steele, Swift, and Sheridan, all of whom were born in Dublin. South ot the city is Donnybrook, once famous for its annual fairs, held under license granted by King John in 1204. Event aully the fairs became so notorious on account of the frequent disorders that they were discontinued. "The slum section of the city Is known as 'Liberties,' at one time the center of the silk industry introduced into the island by the Huguenots, who fled to Ireland to escape persecution H in France after the revocation of the H Edict of Nantes." jH oo jH The auto had broken down. A pair of legs protruding from underneath It M seemed to indicate the presence of H some one attempting repairs. H "Break down?" inquired a passerby- H "Oh, no, only playing- hide-and- H seek with the works," came in muf- fled sarcasm from the voice belong- H ing to the legs. H But the questioner was not easily H daunted. H "What powencar Is it?" , H v ony-norse, came tne reply. H "What seems to be the matter?" "Well, as far as I can judge," an- H swered the car's owner, crawling from H under the wreckage, "thirty-nine of the M horses have bolted, and the remaining H one's too upset to answer questions." H New York Times. VM oo H "And is your wife a good house- H keeper?" JH "Oh, wonderful, mother! She can H heat coffee perfectly with an electric H curling iron," Kansas City Journal. IH u IH |
