The evening world., 1913-05-10
CHUCK CONNORS
SAYS 'S'lONG' TO
DE GANG AND DIES
Famous Bowery Character
Took Last Stroll to Old
Haunts Before Death.
HAD BEEN ILL A YEAR.
Old Cronies Rush to Bedside
IN Last Call and Doctor
| Comes Too Late.

Hospital that Charles Consors OF No. Z
Dover street disd In that institution
early to-day lies the news that New
Yorx hAs Iess 'Chus1t' Comnsrs. The
hospital rspsst states that connors Wa
sixty-ons ysars old. Persons who have
known him most Of HE lifs say his
right name 70 George Connors and that
hs was about nety.six yoaro cd.
For . quarter Of . century Connors.
BY reason Of personality and consider
able common sense Wit was Q New York
character. He was born near the Bow.
cry and lived hts life on the Bowsry
and In Chinatown. He toured the United
states playing himself In ''On the Bow
cry" and plays OF that character.
Through Connon the people Of ne
country became possessed OF the iasa
that the Bowsry 10 populated largely BY
young men wearing blue flannel shirts.
double breasted coats With pearl but.
tons tight trousers and iow-crUwnsd
derby hats.
Billy Nor. . nswspspsr writer. made
Connors famous. Al that time Connors
was . Chinatown 'lo6oysow'' or errand
runner tor Chinamsn. He he'd . quaint
dialect and . humorous view q ME-
The n0toristy that accrued 70 hin In
the writings OF newspa0sr reporters anA
aovsiists enabled him to Doss ~ . CAi-
natOwn authority. He made bdaiheao
Of guidinG swe-struck visitors throusA
Chinat0wn's resorts and for many years
enjoyed . 9ood incoms-which az him
very iktls beneht.
coNNoRs MADE "oPIGl"PAMouo
WITH THE sTNe OUNol9."
Connors exploited the "sptsi'' style q
dancing with partners called TIT
Cricket" THE Rummasss'' aa1 TIT
Bundle" Tho Connors msthe1 q dane
ing was the height OF propristy com
pared with latter dag vassastsns .
tsrps,chorsan Aivsssaoa. ,r .-'
When In oongsnial company Cooaert
was . good entertainer. He ooo0aso Ai1
story telling generally - rsdtAh d
events In his own Mfs. and se0s Of ~
tales were almost classics Of humor. A
story hs told Of his experiences soinl
to Calvary Cemetery and coming bach
- ono Of . funeral party made hh
hearers laugh until they we're weak.
connors's fnst wife. Nellie Noonan
died nearly eight yssrs ago Of tussr'
culosis. Thcn he married . Sri NAMED
Rose Brown. who became addicted q
the opium habit. She died In November
1911, Of an overdose Of morphine taker
to relieve pain caused By Q heroic s6ori
TO free herself from the hold OF the
opium pipe.
Up 70 the time Of the death Of hi
second wife CoMors had confined hi
drinking largely % ''suds." whBch VA
HE name Cor beer. Under stress u
trouble he took To whiskey and II WASH
long until he was In bad physical shaps
Then came the closing Of Chinatown and
the practical wipins out Of Coneo.s''
means OF livelihood.
FOX GAVE HIM LEASE o. FLA1
ron LIFE.
He lived In a three-room apartment II
the Fox fats At Nos. and . Dove
street. under the Brooklyn Bridge ~
prosnh. When these mats we're com
,leted some dozen or hftssn yesrs a.
Richard X. Fox Of the Police 0asstts
tho owner. gave Chuck . free III,
lease on three rooms. There Chuck iivs<
alone. An Cd nssrsss. known - Mrs.
Ching, took care Of the room and 1ookst
ifter him.
Connors was not able to DO abou
much tho past winter. Several time
MS life was dospairsd Of. The recon
warm spsll brAcsd him I'D and yeater
day evening he announced his intsotioi
Of going w to Barney Hymns st Doye
street and the Bowery to So ''th'
gang"
| Painfully he made his way up Par
Row to Chatham Square and to th
TACK room Of Fiynn's. the scene o
many Of his experiences. After tax
ing a few drinks he stood on tho cor
nor for IN hour greeting old acQuaini
ancss. He started homo 1t 10 o'cloci
weak and tired.
OLD cRoNiEs GATHERED At MI
i DEoSioG.
Mrs CHING helped him TO bed. 4
midnight Connors complained OF shsr,
pains In his left Ads. The old negrss
hurried up 70 the Chatham Club An
told the crowd there that 'NChuck" We
dying. Half . dozen Of his old oronis
went to his nat and found him aimos
unconscious and evidently In very bal
way
A policeman was notified and
summoned an ambulance from Hudso
street Hospital. The doctors thsr
were unable TO DO anything for Con
I nors.
, The remnants Of the old crowd tbs
made Chinatown its homo In the day
when everything was wide open too
up . collection to-day for "Chuck's
funeral expenses. He had . sister
Harlem and she will probably loo
, after his funeral
n Psohs DuffaIe stslks