The New York herald., 1876-11-28
A JOURNALISTS oBsEoUyEs
FUNERAL OF DANIEL JOSEPH KIRwAN-rHD
SERVICES AT ST. JosEPHs


FUNERAL OF DANIEL JOSEPH KrRwAS-THg
SERVICES AT ST. JosEPH's
The life OF the journalist,he worker on the daily
prcss-is passed in the full bIaze OF public events with
the glare but rarely falling upon his entity. He h
part OF everything which arrests public attention but
Is OF the world only by deputy-hrough the lines
he writes Few who read the thrilling stories, the
humorous or pathetic incidents OF the times the
rough campaign, the political feud tho great
the great good deed pause picture the patient man
with pen pencil sittng down 10 body them forth.
He Is hidden, with few exceptions, behind his
work. and aims to hide himself But he moves
upon his mission through tho world with
brisk subs 'aniiality; he touches nngers with the
highes. and lowest OF humanity, and somewhere or
other he has anchorage in society where
he is known not tho writer but
the man. He is to tho world at large
an influence sound, the vibration or string, over
which wind OF time passes drawing many delicate
shades OF tone. When sucn worker passes away the
brief obituary notice tells tho story of snapped
string. Its music has ceased but In the unbrokcn
tumult OF the harps that fact noted. Around
the journalists bier the oftcn few. Tho
little home circle loved in and sprnkling or
the craft say farewell and he Is forgotten. Stat nom
mis- unabra II TO the loing Of his passing bell could
gather all whom he has seen faco face, shaken by
ing he would have 1t is special delight to picture
the poet tho dramatist the novelist surrounded by
the weird the beautiful and the odd OF his
Imagination; but tho muster OF real AMI women
whom the journalist has made famous in telling their
stories would form an interesting spectacle.
In the unprotcnd!ng church OF St Joseph in this
city, there gathered yesterday congregation Of
mourncrs at the mortuary services the body OF
young reporter. Daniel Joseph Krwan, which almost
realized this idea His brilliant rcportoria pen had
oitcner been dipped in the milk of human Kindness
than in gall. AS "Dan" beloved In tho profession
SO ''Kirwan" widely esteemed out OF IL There
was something OF native kndlincss in the man which
fixed his pleasant face in mems minds Those whom
he professionally met the heights OF society and
down through s faclle dcscens to the very val
eys OF sin and shame TO have felt as II they hal
known him for years and that they would be glad
to know him again. Hence, when the high priest
in his sombre robes OF black and silver, turned from
the altar ,he catafalquc whereon the flower
laden coffin rested breathe prayer, he
looked down the black drapcd church upon .
full congregation, which quiet, sedats and
sad but composed OF strangely heterogeneous. elc-
mcn,s The intoned; tho ceebrant priest
paid eoqucn; tribute to the man that was the last
prayers were chanted and while the curling fumes Of
incense loated gently the air the mourners passed
slowly up the aisle TO look their last upon tho dead
There tears real tears for dead reporter shed
by OF hard natures and hard professions and
sghs and plying monosyllables from men Of higher
gentler natures and cultured pursuits. IL was only
the coffin of young reporter OF thrty-three years.
who had started iifc poor boy, with limited
stock Of learning who by sheer study and force Of
character always excrtcd to the full that the men
many dispositions and ca,ngs passed BY with lin
gerpg step dmmcd eyes, There fully hundred
0f in nrof fesg n
no chronicle here, but tue other hundreds
whom no one knew cared 10 know. but who came
thank the dead with plying glance for some SER
which had passed for months or years perhaps out
of tho memory Of him who rendcredit Wcll known
recognized The OF The reporters
typfed In them. They by, as his lie went
in every variety OF social standing Among them were
s. L. NJ Barlow, telling Of legal battles and great rail-
road schemes, p 5. Gilmore, telling Of the bare OF
orchestral marches; ex-Congressman William r. Rob-
erts. telling of the statesman's wordy battles with an
echo OF Fonan rads Tooker recalling pictures Of
AssyrIan ballcts stage cect Justice Kasmrs and
Police Clerk Finley, bringing manifold visions Of tb5
little dramas OF the courts Harry Hill and Billy El.
wards, with "reminiscences Of the sfancy stripped and
painting the hstic ring; Captain Kennedy. with the
visible tcrrors Of the law TO evil-doers; Major
Haggerty with tho last apt campaign anecdote fallen
dead upon his lips; Edward Stokes, with the shadow
OF three prisons, fearful tragedy and lovely woman
behind him. now weeping for "Dan" As ne never
wept for himself; Eugene Durnln, recalling old Tam
many and the merry Amerlcus c ab days; Ed. Don
nelly, pcrsoniHcaton OF new Tammany and reform;
Mayors Marshal, John Tyler Kelly, representing tho
potential official; Philip Mcdowell, cx-Cily Hall clock
winder; Alderman John Reilly, the incarnation Of
ward politics; Denis 0'Donohue, the young man OF
social city life; ex-Assemblyman Peter Trainor, Of
hard political strvings up at Albany; Commissioner
Brennan with shadowy train OF the poor and trans
gressing; Thomas Pittman, Denis spellisscy and Jo
scph stncr three young lawyers OF different father
lands, and so ON through almost every walk Of life
that is known and many that are unknown. II was
touching and suggestive tribute
The colnn was borne down the aisle preceded by the
pabearor with the tall aud stalwart forms Of Colonel
Roberts and Joseph Elliott the one brown and the
other snowy bearded their head and with the lorn
relatives following those who bore the dead There
was scarcely dry eye within the sacred educe The
funeral procession moved away headed by hfty OF
the dead journalists fellow craftsmen marching two
and two waverIey place, where the ranks were d.
vided the last salute OF uncovered heads given
to him who had gone 10 I'LL his last 'uetail"
The remains were inferred in Calvary Cemetery. The
following were tho pallbearers William X, Roberts,
Joseph Elliott, John A. Green, William H. St.ner,
Thomas Robinson, F. +. Men, J. B. Fisher and
Harry MacDona