New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-11-18
Former Tammany Leader Sue.
cumbs to Dropsy in Hotel Savoy.
ILL SINCE LAST SUMMER
Was Friend of Mayor Van Wyck
and Chief Aid to Richard Gro
ker When Latter Was Boss.

John Francis Carroll. long prominent In
the old days in Tsmm9ny Hall, OF which
Inc was for time the deputy leader, died
at 1870 o'clock last evening in the Hotel
Savoy. lie became Ill with dropsy while
staying at the Hotel Nassau, Long Beach.
last August. and for weeks ne lowered be
tween life and death. On Thursday night
DR.. Charles Huber, his physician, found
the patient IN a state OF collapse and called
in Drs. lie Faber and Caille, specialists in
stomach troubles.
With Mr. Carroll when he died were his
mother. Mrs. Mary Carroll; his wife, The
resa. and his four children, Edward L..
Cyril A., John T., ir and Catherine; his
sister, Elizabeth and his brothers. Edward
r. and William J. Carroll. Edward and
cyril. who are students IN Georgetown Col
lege had been summoned to the city.
MIR. Carroll was born In New York fifty
eight years ago. After leaving the pub
lie schools he studied in 81. Francis
Xavier College and in Manhattan College.
whence he was graduated. His bent was
for practical politics
Through J. j. ODonohue. leader OF the
18th Assembly District Carroll. In 1879,
was appointed clerk TO the grand jury.
Later he was clerk of the eth District
Municipal Court and subsequently clerk
Of General Sessions, at salary OF 5000.
which he gave up to become deputy boss
OF Tammany.
Mr. Carroll was one OF the biz mon of
Tammany Hall when Croker was in power
aud when Charles w. Morse was in the
height OF his fame and prosperity.
fIObnnV'f CarpcII had nj
to Croker in the management OF the Wig
wan, taking much OF the routine work off
tho leaders hands BY and by Mr.. Croker
went abroad TO look after his racing in
terests John g. Shcchan then was pomi-
nal leader OF Tammany, but John j. Scan
nell, John Reilly and other intimates Of
Croker protested strongly against the
Sheehan leadership, and Mr.. Croker him
self seemed nothing 10th 10 have Shoehan
superseded,
Croker began 10 set aside Sheehan's
plans shortly before the nomination Of
Robert a. Van Wyck for Mayor. Sheehan
had favored Charles w. Dayton or william
Sohmer for Mayor Carroll insisted that
Van Wyck should be nominated. Sheehan.
whether conveniently or not became III.
Carroll soon stepped into sheehan's shoes
After the election OF Van Wyck, and
when Croker made his famous trip to Eng
land, he said: III there is a man OH earth
can trust it is John f. Carroll" The big
boss was sure then that Carroll. unlike
Sheehan, never would attempt to usurp
his place, but Mr.. Carroll. as deputy boss.
soon became an insurgent and conspired
to depose the silent leader Of Tammany
His failure amused Croker. In March. 1902
Carroll resigned as a sachem of Tammany
and the Carroll influence was gradually
eliminated Before that Carroll had given
Up his leadership OF the 18th assembly Dis
trict. Charles f. Murphy always had been
hostile to Carroll, and when he became
leader of Tammany Murphy crushed out
every remaining vestise of Carrollism.
Since then Carroll never took any active
part in Tammany politics
1t was common report then that i'm the
Morse ice pools Carroll had cleared $4,000
in the first pool and had taken 10000 shares
in the second pool. In the autumn of 1906
he asked Morse TO relieve him of some of
the shares. Morse obliged his friend by
buying 10,00o shares at 49,
There was a great stir in 1900 when Car
roll was named by Justice Fitzgerald as
receiver for the Brooklyn Wharf and Ware
house Company. The appointment was re-
garded as a menace and proceedings We're
abandoned so as to leave Carroll without
the receivership.
In July, 1911, Carroll sold his stock i'm the
old Fourteenth Street Bank. Most of this
stock had been acquired by the Fourth Ma
tional Bank. His health had begun TO fail,
and gradually he disposed of his business
interests before going abroad. Before leav-
ing he had been elected vice-president of
the Fourteenth Street Bank, on the under
standing that the place would be only an
honorary one.
Probably no man was more astonished
than Carroll himself when he received word
on September l., 1909 that the Pope had
made him a Knight Of the order of Gregory
the Great. Others. including most Of the
Catholic clergy shared his unfegned sur
prise.
In August last Mr. Carroll became seri-
ously III with dropsy in the Hotel Nassau
Long Beach, Long Island. lie recovered in
a measure, but his illness had Slapped his
vitality, and the sturdy figure of the old
DAYS had become so thin and shrunken
that the few friends who were admitted to
his room hardly knew him.