The sun., 1903-03-08
PASSING WARD LEADERS.
A Remarkable nortd.ity Among r.y
Politicians This Year.

The early months Of 1908 have been
marked by larger number Of funerals OF
ward polii icians in New York than any
previous like period in half a oe atury.
within the last few weeks the following
ward or district leaders have died: Ex-
Justice Patrics Diver. former Register
John Reilly, x-Police Commissioner Michael
c. Murphy, ex -Congr, ssmal John Quinn.
former Alderman Mcaael Duffy, at one
time called the Mayor Of Harlem; Sylvester
L. Nolan and ex-Sneriff Peter Bowe.
Nor is this list a complete one, but It
includes some of the best-knowL ward
| aders-men of q type now rapidly passing
u ,der the changed conditions Of life in
New York which have pretty nearly done
away with the sort Of constituency that
made ward leaders possible.
The ward leaders dated their rise to
prominence In every case 10 the period o!
city history Immediately succeeding the
Civil War Prior to the war period the
o!i firemen were the ward leaders in the
direct line Of political promotion. Fol-
lowing the war came the return OF the
troops, and Colonels and Captains Of forty
vars ago are the veteran leaders whose
Biographies recall more elections than
engagements and more fighting in eau
cuses and conventions than on the firing
line.
Former Judge Patrick Diver became
prominent in the politics OF the Fourth
ward, where he lived and died, when its
voters were almost exclusively Of Irish
birth or descent. and before. as Is the case
now Italians aud Greeks were so numerous.
The Fourth and Sixth wards. which for
political purposes have been joined to-
get hcr for half "A century. contained. at the
time Of Judge DIVERS early rise into prom
inence, definite lines Of Irish county di-
visions.
There was a weil-established Kerry col'ny
in the Fourth ward. There was pt
of the Sixth ward the population = which
was made up largely of men from County
Longford and In another par ~ the sixth
ward, Ia and about Leonard street. Cork
men were most numerous.
IL was a neighborhood Of old residences
and old resiiertt. several generations
oi one family, Jeriar,, lived IN the same
hOus4. II not the same ayar, ments. Re-
moVals wer" few aud political lines were
strongly fixed, 40 that q leader, running Ia
one year for an Office, might. many y.aIs
sferwafd, paricplt" ~ III" contest oi his
sln. nephew or ron-in-law for the same
ofoe.
Mh.n MiclArl G. Murphy b.carne prom
inrUt Ia IA" pIliiiCr of ~. fiI.i di.trici
which hs Was -l',T"d ~ iso6 Ia represent
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fairs of which lts vac "bntin ,iO,siy a prom
ih.u' hgure for ihir'y seven yssTs suc-
o.,d,ng, thr lower par II the district ~as
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