Evening star., 1902-01-13
PASSING OF CROKER
The Tammany Boss Succeeded by
Lewis Nixon.
FORCED TO RESIGN BY HIS ENEMIES
About to Go to England for Per-
manent Residence.
] 10 RESIGN BY HIS ENEMIES
GOSSIP FROM GOTHAM
Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.

ana MS name is Lewis Nixon. fScnard
Croker has stepped out of Tammany Hall.
Before the month has passed he will be on
his way to his home in England, where it
is known he will remain. His visits to the
United States will be few, and the stormy
politics of New York city and state will not
again know him as factor. The iron man
of Tammany resigned Office in the or
ganization the other day. His going was
dramatic His staying would have meant
a fight against him from Flushing to the
Bronx, and perhaps his complete defeat
He faced the whole executive committee,
comprising the thirty-six district leaders
and the members ex-officio, the whole num-
bering fifty-one. In this meeting he had
earnest friends and bitter enemies. In the
meeting, also, as he knew, were half
dozen factions, not all opposed to him, but
deep with enmity each for the other. The
man whose word had been supreme law,
whose will never was crossed, had un-
bended enough in a few weeks gone by to
ask the dissenting leaders for peace in his
outgoing
Boss Pride Must Have Been Hurt.
They had made the terms. These terms,
too, were a compromise that must have
hurt the pride of Croker. The compromise
awakened him to the proof of his fieeting
power. The Carroll Sexton-Sulivan crowd
had asked as terms of peace the scalp of
John Whalen. The Keating-H -Hoiohan-Dal
ton-Plunkitt faction demanded that Carroll
should be set aside. The clean leaders
that is. clean for Tammany-Haffen, Oakley,
Hamburger, Scully and Fitzpatrick, told him
he could not have Maurice Featherson
as a successor; that he must take Victor
DOwling. Hugh J. Grant or Lewis Nixon.
And Croker, to have peace and to go out
seemingly unconquered, agreed to the GUST
ing of Carroll and Whalen. to the dropping
of Featherson and the selection of Nixon.
The contract was carried out to the letter.
In seeming harmony, Carroll was dropped
from the finance committee in favor of
John Fox Whalen was booted out by the
law committee, and Charles H. Knox got
his place Then Croker. the chief of all,
bowed himself out as chairman. There was
To request for him to remain. There was
no word spoken of his past work. There
was nothing said of the change except by
him. The tears were all his, the harmony
OF his conception and the knives are out in
the great struggle for control of the organi-
zatiOn between the corrupt and the pro-
sressive dement's
Clergyman Defines the Smart Set.
The Rev. DIR. Charles Wilbur de Lyon
Nichols of Connecticut has undertaken to
define the Smart Set of the United
States and in doing he makes money
his gauge. 1t is probable that Dr. Nichols
has stirred up a larger wasps' nest than
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the 400. Dr. Nichols, for the purpose of
convenience, has divided the United States
into sections. represented by New York,
Boston. Philadelphia, Washington, Balti-
more. Chicago, San Francisco, the state of
Virginia, the Carolinas and the city of
Providence. r. L. In New York he names
sixty-two families, in Philadelphia four, in
Boston three, in Baltimore four, in San
Francisco three. in Chicago two, in Vir-
ginia one. in the Carolnas two. in Provi-
dence four, and in Washington four, as fol-
lows: Mrs. Van Rensselaer, Cruger. Mr..
Richard Gambrill, Mr.. and Mrs. Reginald
Grant
Says DR. Nichols: II have included in
this list only those who are, so to speak
actively in society. Some persons character
ize is as the very Smart Set There are
other families in New York and the other
cities of the country, who are equally as
well entitled to be considered in society as
any / have mentioned, but who, on account
of their tastes or lack of large means, can
not be included in the very smart set. AS 1
said in the beginning. only persons of great
wealth can be considered to be properly in
the smart set of American society"
Who is the real leader of New York So
ciety' DIR. Nichols was asked.
Mrs. William Astor; and there is no
other
Boys Mob Autos with SnowbalIs.
Two hundred magnates of the railroad
and electrical world had an experience
Thursday afternoon that was not on the
program arranged by the Manhattan Rail
way Company, whose guests they were.
They were mobbed by hundred East Side
schoolboys armed with snowballs. The
party was returning in the Fifth avenue
auto stages from the new 10Th street power
house to the special electric train on I'd
avenue just as the boys got out of school
The power house is near the East river, and
the sight of so many silk hats in that
iSyr hAT too rnb fnr 4 L,a h.,xrc
to stand. Whit" went a hard-pac acked
SNOWFALL 1t struck Edwin Gould in the
middle of his back, but he ciung to the
auto-stage and took IL good naturedly Il
was boy myself once" chuckled John Ar
buckle, the millionaire sugar refiner as he
sat in safety IL side. The one SNOWFALL and
Mr. Gould's laugh was the signal for the
rest of the boys to begin a fusiIlade All
the clean snow in the neighborhood was
used up quickly, and the dirty muddy
slush of the street was the next ammuni-
ton The air was full of flying snow At
nrst three or four on the outside of the
autos entered into the battle with snirit
throwing back the snowbals as hard and
fast as they could. Then the battle got
too hot and too one-sided. With a raiIying
cry every boy for blocks around ran to the
scene. From the river TO I'd avenue the
autos ran the gauntlet OF hard packed snow
balls. Hats flew off and chauffeurs We're
urged to hurry One auto stuck at 10th
street and LIST avenue. john d. Rockefeller
Jr-, was in it. Not content with firing at
the men outside, the gamins opened the
door OF the auto and hurled big wads of
dirty snow inside. Young Mr.. Rockefeller S
hat and eyeglasses fell. He said nothing,
but his facial expression was not one for
9TH avenue Not policeman was in sight
The battle ragged all the way to the IL
station, where the train waited, snowballs
flying even as II. III. Yreeland the Goulds
Mr. Rockefeller, Vice President Skitt and a
half dozen bank presidents scurried up the
stairways- The millionaires gave the Eas,
Side boys more fun than a barrel of mon
keys.
Mouse Bloekades Broadway.
The Brahmin carefully brushes each sea,
before he sits down for fear he may crusf
an aninialcuie. But here in the fierce New
York juggle of commerce a tiny crippl,
mouse stopped traffic in Broadway Il
was Just below Daly's Theatre that it han
pened- The mouse was about an inch long
Two of it's legs had been broken and h
was trying to get to the curb A dirty.
faced boy saw it and was about to kick h
into the middle of the street when a well
dressed man cried.
Don't hurt it.