The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1909-06-26
ELORR1E %SULLTqAN'S WORK
LOOMS BIG AMONG HIS FRIENDS
AFTER HIS DEATH.

They Meet and Talk Over Ills osity
and His Accomplishment In Cleaning
Up the District-How He Did 1.-THE
wake To-nlyht--Fmeral TO.mOrr ow.
Tammany workers in the Eighth As
sembly district got out all their black
hangings yesterday and strung them
along the front OF the quarters OF the
Florence ]. Sullivan Association on Grand
street. And in the evening four or five
OF Max Levine's helpers wrote a thousand
postal cards asking the members Of Flor
rte S%uTlivan's club to come to his funeral
tomorrow.
There was a good deal OF solemnity
about it all. Tho boys In the Eighth knew
| that Florrio had been badly OF and for
two years thoy hadn't had much hope that
he would DO ablo to come back and be
loader again. Rut still they called them-
solves tho Florence j. Sullivan Associa-
ton and let Christy Sullivan. Florrie's
brother. be acting loader, playing out the
littlo stage business that Torrie would be
gone only for a little while and would some
day como back to his own. So some OF
the old timers came around to the club
and talked things over.
Phil Wiss!s. who ussd 70 Be al ASSEM-
blyman twenty years ago. long before
Florrle succeeded to Martin Engle 3 job
rs leader. and had a saloon on the corner
OF Forsyth street, a stones throw from
the Eighth's assembly rooms, was there.
and 80 was Tom Boland. who is one Of the
two or three left out OF the old crowd.
Phil has moved up to The Bronx and works
in a hat factory, but Tom is still on the
ground.
went quick, didn't hef' said Phil.
Il guess it's better that way. But I
hadn't looked for it, saw a fellow this
morning. who used to be q policeman
wnen Florrie was. and he said to me. said
he, We're in mourning. Phil, amt weT
'Who3' said I. 'Florrie,' said he. And
hen l came over here"
Florrie died night before last up in Sid
nsy Scharlin's hotel at Mountainside In
Sullivan county. Sidney Scharlin is a
member OF Florrie's club on Grand street
and Tom Boland thought that probably
Sidney was able to keep . watch over
Florrie and see that his wants were at
tended to.
"Florrie was a gentleman said Phil
Wissig. every inch OF him. You can't
say anything against that fellow. You
see how big he was?' and Phil pointed to
the picture Of Florrie which hangs behind
the chairman's desk In the quarters OF the
association. the same which has the cleo
trio lights shining out OF the frame. well
he was big. but his heart was just az big
as he was. He raj the kind Of a fellow
that -of,ld anpnaF no hrpka himaaH than
have you want a dollar. Sure. he was
that kind. wasn't he Tomf'
Tom said he was, n more. n was
the man that cleaned up this district
said he. 'and Il was something TO clean
up. too he added, with q grin.
when Florrie took the leadership over
the head Of Martin Engle. the Eighth was
the centre Of the red lights and all the
things that 60 with them. FiorTte let
the word pass among the policemen that
whom they heard dogs s9uealing they |
was better, to h1 things up himself than
to leave the crusade to police routine.
He did IT with his own fists and laid out
60 many cadets On the sidewalks east Of
Chrystie street that they had to move
up town In very self defence. taking their
people with them. Phil Wissig and Tom
tSs1 said That chat Fiorris wa IN ssnes. and
didn't do Il for the sake OF politics.
Forrie was still q pretty young man.
He was bonn on the East Side in 1888. a
cousin Of Big and Little Tim Sullivan.
HE brother Is Christopher ID. Sullivan.
who represents the Eleventh distriot IN
apprentice and then became . boatman
on the East River. Afterwa.d he WA q
policeman and q saloon keeper and under
Mayor Van Wyok was Superintendent OF
the Bureau Of Membranes. That was
the only political position he ever held.
Richard Croker made him leader Of the
Eighth In 1909,
Florrie's friends say that the trouble
with his mind had it's beginning in 1905.
That was the summer when he went
abroad with Charley Anderson, warden
Of the Tombs. Florrie had to come back
to New York alone, for Anderson died
T. Perry. died soon after he got back to
this country and then his brother
Christy's wife died. There were some
other deaths close to him, and they hurt.
The summer after he went abroad with
Anderson he set out with Robert Pinker-
ton to take about the came trip; Pink
other aide. and coming on top Of his dis
tress it snapped something in Florrie's
brain. They took him to a sanitarium
in Germany. and Judge Herman Joseph
OF the Municipal Court. who CHANGED
to be In the neighborhood. brought him
home. Florrie had to be kept in a state
room all the way back to New FORK and
when he got here he was put into a sani-
tarium on Long Island. He was taken
to Sullivan county four or five months
ago.
Florrie is to be buried on Sunday in
Calvary Cemetery. All the members
Of the Florence j. Sullivan Association.
seven or eight hundred OF them. with three
or four hundred othcrs who knew him.
will 20 up TO the house Of his sister. Mrs.
Lena Maloney. S33 East Sixty-eighth
street, and go from there across to Long
Island. They will have the wake to-
night.