The Washington herald., 1914-06-22
LOVED in LIFE,
LAUDED in DEATH
Big Tim" Sullivan $ Memory
Is Honored at Solemn
Service in Capitol.
EUL0GIZED BY FRIENDS
Late Gar of New Yorks East Side
Praised as Noble Leader
by Lawmakers.
EULOGIZED BY FRIENDS

Not within the memory OF the oldest
employe of the United States Capitol has
such a throng gathered in the hall of
the House OF Representatives to pay the
last tribute to the memory of a dead
Congressman as yesterday did homage
to the memory of Big Tim Sullivan.
Least known to Washington of all the
Representatives who have come and gone
since big Tins" first election to Con.
gress nearly fourteen years ago. the late
car OF the East Side in death, attracted
an attention in the National Capital
which living had been denied him even
as he had denied Washington his pres
ence in the flesh and as a member of the
National Legislature; for big Tim" held
a record as an absentee which found
but one other parallel.
Many Relatives Present.
On the floor OF the House there gath
cred, in addition to the colleagues Of
the late member, Representatives from
other States who had known big Tim"
and loved him. IN the galleries were
scores of the relatives and former asso-
ciates from New York. Patrick Sulli-
van, brother of Timothy, was there with
his family. Mr.. and Mrs. Larry Multi
gan also attended. Larry Mulligan is
Big Tins" half brother. The Summers
children, nephews and nieces OF Mr. Sui
livan's sister. completed the family
group.
In another part of the gallery sat
delegations of members of the Timothy
D. Sullivan Association and the Down
town Tammany Club, of New York.
Tammany tiles, the shiniest kind, dis
tinguished the delegates, and despite
the warmth of the afternoon they
kept their hands snugly encased in the
most lugubrious of black gloves.
Oficially. the Tammany Democracy
of the Empire City was represented by
Thomas F. Foley, Thomas F. Smith,
Senator Christopher D. Sullivan, Frank
Farrell, Alderman John J. White, As
semblyman John G. Golden. Daniel E.
Finn, Antonio yucca, and Joseph Mo-
rome.
Representative Daniel ]. Riordan
presided over the House in the alb
sence of Speaker Champ Clark. The
ceremonies opened with a prayer by
Chaplain Henry n. Couden. and then
Mr.. Riordan recognized Representative
John ]. Fitzgerald, of Brooklyn.
Mr.. Fitzgerald reviewed the career Of
Big Tim from the time when as a news
boy he got his first start up to and in
Guiding the development of his great
power and consequent and incidental for
tune.
Representative Michael F. Conry, of
Manhattan followed Mr. Fitzgerald. He
described Tim Sullivan thus:
a pioneer, a toiler, a leader in that
great field Of humanitarian endeavor that
relieved the great East Side of twenty
years ago of many Of its hardships, its
sorrows, and its woes.
As a leader among men he ruled not
with an iron hand, but with a sympa-
thetic and disinterested spirit of kindly
consideration that impressed the recipi-
grandeur of his ingenious nature
The name of this noble soul is a
household word in the great throbbing
East Side He battled for the hopes of
men. His hear, was with the unfortu-
nate. He stood against the onslaughts
of greed that preyed upon the hfe-blood
Of the poor. In his beneficient labors for
the outcast he did not fear to stand
alone. He was brave, generous, loyal and
true, and he will long live in the affec-
tionate regard of the legions of the lowly
who always looked up to him as their
protector and friend"
Other speakers were Representatives
Goldfogle Goulden. Ten Eyck. Gittins.
and Griffin. Of New York; Hamlin, of
New Jersey. and Kahn. of California.
Representative Dale. OF New York, was
unable TO attend and his eulogy was read
by Mr.. Goulden. The tribute of Repre-
sentative Calder, of New York, who also
was unavoidably absent, will be printed
in the Congressional Record