The evening world., 1905-10-28
"CHUCK'S" ANGEL
LAID IN GRAVE
Nellie Connor's Funeral Ends
Pathetic Tragedy OF
Chinatown.
gap" STIFLED TALENTS,
"A Stuff TO Tie Up with Me-" Is
the Homely Tribute of
Husband.
gap" STIFLED TALENTS,

was puried from 81. Andrews Roman
C&thuNe Church at Duane street and
c1y Han place, Just a little guard Of
Chuck's intimates helped him carry out
the brown casket from his tenement
Soms at Ne, Q Dover street, under the
roaming arches OF the Brooklyn bridge
and Franklin square.
None Of Chuck's fair weather
friends, tho ones with the money, had
responded to his appeal for funds to
help him bury his wife. A little In
surancs money was all, HIS friends
who volunteered to-day were as poo-
a. himself. Fifteen or twenty gath,
cred at the house, A bare dozen fol-
lowed the hearss TO the church, where
Father o'Connor celebrated solemn -high
moss before the body was taken TO Cal
vary.
Copnors was gloomily Silent with, MS
loss and the failure Of his friends 10
help. While the casket was being
phced into the hearse he stood mood
fy chewing an unlighted cigar, h.s 1T
de dtcky black derby cooked over his
syss and his hands ~nervously tucking
a black four-inJ hand into the opening
d, his blue flannel shirt
Bowery P~sIl-Bearers,
Inn ~paiipearers were ell Chinatown
ma Bowery habitueS Az described by
ons of them they were; Jack McCort,
champion accordion player; Paddy Fla
herty, Mayor OF the Bowery; Donnie
Darby and Eddie Moran, Champion
dnnoerf'
Chuck ned -four carriages beside the
hsasse - Que WITH flowers, a ioral
clock from Mrs. McDonough and
wreaths from Sister Bessie and Foley
the florist one for the ~pallbearers and
the other two for himself and Mrs.
counors's relatives Humphrey, Daniel
and jeremiah Murphy,
Nellls connors was a fran little
woman OF romantic mind, a gentle,
shranldns little woman who was born,
rssssd. lived'and died among the hardest
kind.
Her history IN q simple and tragic
s5sy Of the lcvver east side, She was
born on Sachson street OF very poor but
honest and Woodworking parentA She
Vas their only child and their pride
cpsmahe time she was nrst able 20 tod
dSesto- school,
emothered Her Talent
ehs had a quick, briTht mind and
Dstsf ruphfCprogress IN her studies. Her
g~nsdnstson from the public school on
yedloson street was an event among her
nm. Then she was pretty and OF a
snntd. almost shrinking, disposition. She
was utterly difident Whatever latent
talent there was In her she ~sulotheTed
IN her self-consciousness, So she grew
torwomanhood. and met Chuck Ccnnors
he was then at the zenith Of his
mail fame. His Bowery spiel" had
~actracted ~vtde attention. He had had
Numerous theatrical engagements,
gcfnE on the road with a woman h.
caalod tho 'Rummage," These oppor
tunities had run out their course and
herdrifted back TO the life Of Chinatown
ard Cherry Hill. the hero OF those
Districts.
He met N~dlie-Nellie Noonan, Their
-etianN east side ball, She was a grace.
fui'dancer and Chuck WIS quite famous
then for HIS spiel" He devoted hs
entire attention to her. Though II
intelligence ihe was many spheres abovt
him, she was fiattersd by his atten,
lions.
As far as he could feel any genutn,
; sentiment. she was the first to awaken
Il, and they were married nine years
ago. Tho story Of their married ~,
and OF the woman's character Is elo.
qusutly epitomized in what "Chuck'
bad to say, with a peculiar depth o.
feeling, at the wake hast night
sho Never Fitted Chinatown
Nellie" he began, was a stun (
i'd up with me. She was the brightest
hid on jackson street She could rea(
an write, an spell long words tina
amt talked In Chinatown nor Cherr,
Hill She never could get wise TO tht
Bowery talk, always speaking proper
and ntca / couldn't read nor write moi
spell when We was married.
She hSan,t SHHsh!sT, got hitchsd u
Tas Ter doGAghts, c~ockhghts. a Tous
with ther chinks. /. went Their who'll
limit o'Chinatown an Cherry Hill. Blu
she neyer could grow In, those places
There There y sss s ss%e .OnR an m s eSnr ext fPdR sS.
she was always readln' In books an
papcre, but she'd cook an. keep Tn,
knIse no you could eat of the floor
Ana was dead stuck on me. Door gal =.
~"From the start OUT sns wanted I,
"a az In three days. Then she Learned
M. now 10 spell and make letters. 1
va. most a year before | could read
n5mer and me then over thirty year
oid. hut she plugged at me, and sh'
driiled al me, till finally she got mi
wise 10 the readin' an writln', In u poo
sort O. way, Before | met her couIuh
have read A hanging down from, Oh,
pyookIyn Bridge TO the river. I'd a beel
a stuffed nut but fer her, God ples
her. an now she's gone
Marie cahlli's Tribute.
Nellie Connors's wake wal he'll
throughout last night. She lay. resplen
dent in white satin, In q fine ebon'
casket that took up the greater part o
one OF the two tiny Dom she ha
lived in for years, at No. Q Dover street
Banked all about her were wreaths o
fowers. towering above them q grea
foral clock sent by Marie Cahlll,
At the head OF the. coffin was
branching oandelabra, tho centre can
ale reaching almost to the ceiling. TIL
Svslls of the narrow little room wer
hung With lavender crepe and whit
lace.
There was not a blotoh Of garlsh o
darlne color in this room OF death, Tn
frugal simplicity OF It all was soleml
impressive. The ethereal face OF III
dead oma had a sublimity about
nat touched the hardest heart an
saos, soddan nature OF those that con