DEAR SIR: You are hereby notified that the annual meeting and
banquet of the American-Irish Historical Society will be held at
Sherry’s, Forty-fourth street and Fifth avenue, New York city, on
Thursday evening, Jan. 19, 1899.
The business session will be called to order at 6:30 o’clock. Gen.
James R. O’Beirne, our state vice-president for New York, will
preside. Officers will be chosen for the ensuing year, the annual
reports presented and such other business transacted as may properly
come before the meeting.
The banquet will take place at 8 o’clock. Tickets for the same will
be three dollars each. They are now ready, and may be obtained of
the secretary-general, whose address is given below.
The post-prandial exercises will include addresses by the following
members of the Society:
The Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, governor of New York; the Hon. Morgan
J. O’Brien, a justice of the New York supreme court; the Hon.
William McAdoo, recently assistant secretary of the navy; the Hon.
John C. Linehan, state insurance commissioner of New Hampshire; the
Hon. John D. Crimmins, New York city; the Hon. Thomas J. Gargan,
Boston, Mass.; the Rev. John J. McCoy, Roman Catholic rector,
Chicopee, Mass.; the Rev. Cyrus T. Brady, Protestant Episcopal
archdeacon of Pennsylvania; James Jeffrey Roche, LL. D., editor of
the _Boston Pilot_; Mr. John P. Holland, inventor of the submarine
torpedo boat; Mr. Joseph Smith, secretary of the police commission,
Lowell, Mass., and Thomas Addis Emmet, M. D., LL. D., a grand nephew
of the Irish patriot, Robert Emmet.
The occasion will be of great interest, and it is hoped that at
least five hundred members and friends will be present at the
banquet. Each member is at liberty to bring with him as many
personal guests as he chooses. A large attendance is desired.
It is necessary to know as soon as possible how many will attend the
banquet, in order that proper arrangements can be made with the
hotel people. To this end, therefore, kindly notify the
secretary-general if you intend to be present.
Fraternally,
EDWARD A. MOSELEY,
_President-General_.
THOMAS HAMILTON MURRAY,
_Secretary-General_.
Secretary’s address: 77 Main street, Woonsocket, R. I.
Upon the business session being called to order, the ticket placed in
nomination by the Council of the Society was presented for action.
It was unanimously accepted, adopted and declared the Society’s choice
for the ensuing year. The personnel of the ticket is set forth on pages
9, 10 and 11 of this volume.
Many new members were proposed and elected to the Society.
The annual report of the secretary-general, Thomas Hamilton Murray, was
presented. It was as follows: