Philo-Celts.
Now that the elections are over and
the excitement generated by them has
subsided, Philo-Celts will go to work
in earnest to pull up for the lost time
caused by the occupation of the hall
by the campaign Committee.
The first business on hand now is
an effort to clear off the balance of the
indebtedness caused by the purchase
of the piano, To accomplish which
the Society has undertaken to get up
a bazaar or the drawing of prizes, at ten
Cents a chance, to meet it. There are
two prizes offered. The first prize will
be a regular series of Gaelic Books,
from the a b c to the lexicon, consist¬
ing of, O'Reillys Irish-English Dict¬
ionary, Bourke's College Irish Gram¬
mar, Bourke's Easy Lessons, The Pur¬
suit of Dermot & Graine, and Moore's
Melodies translated into Irish by the
late Archbishop McHale. The second
prize will be a handsome copy of Fa¬
ther Nolan's St. Patrick's Prayer-book
in Irish and English, and The Way of
The Cross, rendered into Irish, from
the "Stabat Mater," by Dr. McHale.
Miss Guiren will present a handsome
copy of Father Nolan's Prayerbook to
the member who disposes of the larg¬
est number of tickets; and a handsome
copy of Dr. Gallagher's (the renowned,
and persecuted, Bishop of Raphoe),
Irish Sermons, with a nearly literal,
translation on the opposite page by
that prince of Irishmen, The Very Rev.
Ulick J., Canon Bourke, will be pres¬
ented to the next higest seller of tick¬
ets.
Now, any friend in the country who
wishes to take a chance for these
prizes can do so by sending us eleven
penny postage stamps, or in proportion
to the number of chances he wishes to
take. We pay three per cent to get
stamps changed. Those in the coun¬
try taking chances will have the num¬
ber of chances with their names pub¬
lished in the GAEL, also, the ticket
number allotted to them. So that
our Alaska friends will have the same
chance as those in this city.
The object of this is a laudable one.
It is to lend a greater eclat to the songs
and music of our country, and to ind¬
uce a greater number of our people, by
free entertaining reunions, to take an
interest in, and assist to further place
before the public, the beauties of our
ancient music and the antiquity and
respectability of our language, and the
moral rectitude of our people, and be
thus enabled, without the necessity of
having recourse to personalities, to
give the lie direct to the assassins of
our character — those hirelings of the
British press, who cannot point bey¬
ond a half dozen centuries to either
language or literature, and who have
now the audacity to characterize us as
the element of ignorance and crime."
We understand that the Boston Philo-Celtic So¬
ciety are about to start a Journal partly in Irish
and English — We wish them every success, and we
shall do all in our power to publish the fact. We
won't be like the "Dog in the Manger." We have
no interest in the Gael apart from the cultivation
of the language. Our Boston friends did not com¬
municate their intention to us, perhaps for the
reason that we might not wish to see a journal in
opposition to the Gael — If that be the cause, our
Boston friends mistook their man. We would like
to see such journals in every town and city, and
would advertise them too, and that gratuitously.
Perhaps they took us to be like the proprietors of
other Irish-American journals who never mention
the Gael unless in dispraise lest it should take a
cent out of their pockets. No, no, friends, we
shall take as much pride in your success in Boston
as if you were a part and parcel of the Gael in
Brooklyn. We saw the notice in the Irish World,
with the election of a board of officers as follows —
Prest. P. J. Conlan, re-elected vice-Prests., M.
T. Gallivan, Mary A. Mahoney: Rec, Sec. T. M.
O'Sullivan, re-elected: Fin. Sec. W. M. Murphy,
re-elected. Cor. Sec. P. J. Daly re-elected, Treas
P. J. Sullivan, re-elected. Trustees, J. O'Neill, D.
S. Hart and Mary Garvey, re-elected.
The N. Y. S. P. I. L. are going to have a great
"let out" on Thanksgiving night, The efforts of
this society should be generously and patriotical¬
ly recognized.
Our Philadelphia friends are having their en¬
tertainment on the Twenty Seventh,
If the signs of the times be not deceptive, May¬
or Low will be the next governor of New York
State and the Protectionist Candidate for Presid¬
ent, four years hence.
