The sun., 1902-01-10
Van WICK WAKE AT THE CLUB
CARVEN TEAK CASkET PRE-
SENTED TO EX.NAYOR
Containing His Unique Record-First Time
Tammany Was Ever Known TO whocp
II Up for q Candidate Who Led
Rush Down steep Place Into the Sea.

II Up for q Candidate Who Led q
Rush Down steep Place Into the Sea.
Bad luck to yer wis. dye think I'm deadi
| -Finneodn's Wake.
II 1t wasn't a wake for cx-Mayor Van
Wyck at the Democratic Club last evening
he had at least grounds for suspicion that
1t was. All the Tammany men who were
able to be there attended to eat and drink
the good things that were set up by the
Squire. They all said that they had never
heard before Of such celebration Of a
political defunction and that they thought
that 1t must be an English idea, one that
the Squire had imported from the Moat
House in Vantage, Berks, England, where
his home is now. Never in the history OF
the Hall so far as they could remember
had the organization done anything like
IL before. But then there never was a
Tammany Mayor before, who, on going
out OF office, ran for vindcation and ran
20 900 votes behind the rest Of the ticket.
1T is a right good idea to wake him.
said one Tammany man, as he turned into
Fifth avenue from Fiftieth street on the
way TO the Democratic Club. "and I'm
glad that the old man thought OF IL. He
certainly was good 10 us, was the little
Mayor"
Then he turned up the steps, humming
as he mounted them:
They rowled him up in a nice clean sheet
And laid him daoently on his bed.
Wild fourteen candles at his feet
And a barrel OF whiskey at his head.
The Squire had arranged the-well, cere-
mony-in his best style and the honour"
Of the presence Of those bid to the func-
ton was requested in the invitations in
the good Ems glish fashion Of spelling: The
faithful who had known the Mayor before
he was beaten worse than any other Tam
many man who ever ran for Office In New
York county all turned out TO do him honor.
as well as they could.
The BEST Chief Of Police that New York
Ever Had William s. Devery, could not
be present. His double wasn't there.
either. Edward NJ Shepard was in
Maine telling the Democrats there how
he addressed 600 poolroom employees
in John b. Sections district last October
on the undying principles of Democracy.
John Whalen was down in Carolina shooting
ducks All the other friends Of the po-
litically departed were at the house early
and saw the whole show through, and they
said that never in their lives had they seen
-ceremony-better conducted, or the
friends more resigned.
All the friends gathe red In the big red
parlor. They stood around on the deep
red carpet and waited until James Shevln,
who was once accused Of having sold
gold brick TO the Squire. and George +.
Spinney. led the object-or subject-of
the function 20 the centre Of the room.
where overy one could see him. Then
MIR Spinney waved his hand and an at
tendant walked in with a great cas- ket Of
teakwood, carved deep and elabOrHtely.
In the teakwood box there was volume
containing the political record Of Robert
A Van Wyck from the time that he was
elected Mayor on the platform OF Silence IN
1897
The record was in the form OF an elah-
orate series Of resolutions and preaTnbles
In which IL was recited that few men ia the
history OF the world had faced such task
as that that Law before Mayor Van Wyck
when he took office ia isas The rssolu-
ton also said that he had done great things
for the Democratic Club, which was here
after to be regarded ss the home OF true
Democracy and u lsuded him AZ the great
est legal light and the greatest political
manipulation that had ever occupied the
Mayors chair
Mr Van Wyck said that h@ wanted 20
thank everybody fuf tho great honor that
had besn done him, SID that le appreciated
deeply the friendship and regard which
had brought HE frlends toge'he upon this
occasion
After the pressntation Of the osske, the
StIssts al the wake went upstAirs 90 the
biS dining rOom ~ the cub, where an
elaborate collation. had bssn prepared
Precedent John foI uf the Democratic
tluh was not able GO attend. add Lewis
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