The San Francisco call., 1896-03-13
BURIED BY HIS FRIENDS,
Eddie Farrell Is Laid to Rest
in Laurel Hill Gene.
terry.
THE MoURNERs WERE MANY.
End of a Clever Practical Joker and a
Man of Good Heart, Nerve
and Wit.

The funeral of Eddie Farrell, the we'll
known rough gh-andready politician who by
his wit, good nature and big heart man
aged tc make friends and keep them dur
ing his fifteen years in public life, took
place Yesterday from the undertaking par
Iors at the corner of Geary anu Stockton
streets.
The political leaders whose rough work
he did when he first came into prominence
as a valuable man at the polls or in the
lobby of the Legislature were not in at
tendance. Bill Higgins, Mike Conroy and
Jim Cannon, who educated Farrell IN the
kindergarten of politics, have long
been dead. Dick Chute, however, the
other member of the quartet, Is still alive.
He did not put IN an appearance to bid his
old-time servant good-by.
Nevertheless the dead man had many
friends, and they crowded the rooms OF
the undertaking establishment to view his
remains Among them were: Ex-senator
Tim Mccarthy, Frederick Clough, James
Carr, Charles Stanton, w. f. Howe, Ben
iamin Jones, DR.. Simpson, Joseph Coch-
ran, James Sullivan, Walter Bernard, J. J.
Fogarty, E. Bell, Robert Barton, John
Cole. Charles Usher, William Titball and
joseph Hoge.
Many friends of the dead man sent
flora n1eces, the two principal ones being
tokens from Miss Lizzie Dwyer and Mrs.
NJ. Schulz.
The funeral cortege wound its way to
Laurel Hill Cemetery, where the remains
were inferred, after the performance OF the
religious ceremony by Rev. Dr.. Case.
The pail bearers were John Cole, Joseph
Cochran, James Sullivan, James Hynes,
Walter Bern ard and J. j. Fogarty.
The mourners represented nearly every
department OF the political government
and of mercantile life. and they were
present to pay their last tribute of respect
TO a man who when alive was without fear
and who drew no line when it was possi-
bic TO do good turn for a friend.
His disregard for the conventional was
proverbial, his aim apparently being to
always d o something out OF the ordinary.
He could keep a straight face at all times
under the most trying circumstances when
the risible faculties of those VINO were
around him and knew what joke he was
perpetrating were uncomfortable. He was
an out and out practical joker and creator
OF bons- mots.
The expression "Colonel Mazuma'' is
from Eddie Farrell. ''Mazuma' is a
Hebrew word meaning money or coin.
During one of the sessions of the Legisla-
ture many years ago. when Eddie was in
the front line, and there was an important
measure before the Senate, Farrell was
looked to by the greedy and grasping for
the signal how to vote. He was not in a
financial position to settle their doubt,
and he kept them off telling them to wait
for the arrival of Colonel Mazuma.h 1t
would be all right when the colonel ar
rived he assured the legislators. Shortly
afterward Joseph Cochran reached Sacra-
mento. Cochran, the lieutenant of Chris
topher Buckley in those days, was intro
duced everywhere by Farrell as Colonel
Mazuma," to the latter's great annoyance,
and the title of colonel has stuck to him
ever since, and the name is still the
synonym of the money dIsburser of the
State Legislature.
One of the practical jokes by which
Farrell is remembered was related yester-
day after the funeral by ]. j. Fogarty, on
whom it was perp7trated.
Fogarty was quite Ill with pneumonia. |
Farrell called on him and then went down
to Bill Mallady's undertaking establish
ment on Mission street. Tom Smith,
or "Smithy," who is the present deputy at
the Morgue, was in charge.
"Who do you suppose is dead 2" asked
Farrell.
"It's Fogarty, and there is foreign un-
dertaker after the job"
Smithy said he believed that his friend
ship of old standing with Fogarty should
entitle him to the job and he accepted
Farrelps advice to hurry up to the house
with all his lugubrious paraphernalia.
Farrell saw that Smithy got a spare
room to make MS display, and then the
undertaken knocked at the supposed dead
mans room to have the people therein de-
liver him the corpse. Fogarty became so
angered that ne jumped out of bed and
chased Smithy out of the house. /
week he was chasing Farrell around the
town.
Poor Eddie Farrell, the merriest of his
set, was buried at their expense yesterday.