The New York herald., 1922-05-03
Requiem Mass Tomorrow.

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Requiem Mass Tomorrow.
Mr.. Croker's sons. Richard and How
ard. and one of his daughters. Ethel
have arranged for a requiem mass in
st. Loyola Church. Park avenue and
Eighty-fourth street. tomorrow fore
noon at 10 o'clock. Some of Mr.. Crolker's
old friends will attend. This will be
the only service here in his memory.
Inc interment Is to be in vault on
mis- estate near Dublin tomorrow.
Tammany men still were telling
Croker stories yesterday as they talked
over the old days when he was die
.ator. Thomas F. Smith, secretary of
tne Hall when Croker was there and
who still has the job. recalled the great
delight which the Boss always tool, In
eiuding reporters and reading in the
papers that he was in half a dozen
olIrerent places at the same time.
IN 1901, after Lewis Nixon threw IN
the Tammany leadership the boss bur
ried over from Ireland. Nixon met him
ana they went out on the Nixon house.
boat. where for several days they were
In sight of the city while newspaper men
searched the country for him. The
newspapers finally had him placed in
samuel Untermyer's lodge in the Adj
rondacks. Croker spent most of his
time with field glasses watching for re-
porters whom he expected to see row
out to him every hour.
After a few days he became bold and
decided to visit Senator Edward Murphy
at the latter's summer home in Elberon.
n. j. lie made a roundabout trim:
! walked across lots and arrived at the
! senator's house without being detected.
Most OF the dinner hour Croker laughed
over his success and read the evening
newspapers telling of his being else
where. When he and the Senator walked
out from dinner the newspaper men
walked In and the boss was so upset
that he was detected for hours
Croker never liked heavy gambling.
especially on cards. There is a story of
poker game on a train coming home
from State convention in Buffalo.
Croker looked in on the game several
times. and each time a prominent man
urged him to sit in. The boss declined.
but the repeated urging irritated him.
The man who did the urging was s1,S00
loser when the train reached Syracuse
and another invitation was extended
"All right. I'll sit in," the chief said,
to the astonishment of the politicians.
The dealer showed a $1,000 stack of
chips to him and Croker asked what the
limit was.
Fifty dollarsi" he explained You're
all crazy. The limit is now so cents"
And so cents It was all the way TO
New York while the big loser with the
cordial invitation squirmed without a
chance of getting back his money
When Croker came home in Septem-
hA MCL( tnIo al
gave orders to have all district head
quarters draped in memory of the dead
President and gave as his tribute, 1T is
Gods way, not ours: His will be
done" He ordered that these words be
put above the doorways of all club
houses In white letters He rebuked n
district leader for holding an outing
when the President was dying and di-
rected another leader to postpone an
outing and return 1000 tickets which
had been sold.
Liked Prince Edward Cartoon.
Crokers favorite cartoon showed him
landing with Tom Reed. Speaker and
boss of the House of Representatives, on
English soil where the Prince OF Wales
was greeting him and saying. ''Who is
your fat friend?" That became one of
his pet phrases. When John Redmond
and Lord Mayor Talon of Dublin came
hero for funds to preserve the Parnell
homestead in Ireland. Croker sent out
word to district leaders who raised
s12,0 in one day. He made up the
difference himself and Redmond and
Talon went no further.
Every member of Tammany who is
expelled turns reformer," Croker once re-
arked. and he told newspaper men that
Ranuhtican nominees for President al
ways considered themselves bigger than
the flag.
When he came home in 1901 in the
middle of the Seth Low campaign and
was told things were going badly he was
advised he must disown Devcry. Police
Commissioner He thought It over for a
day and then issued statement that
"Devery Is the best Police Commissioner
New York ever had" The defeat in
that campaign convinced him there was
a disloyal element I'm the Hall cunning
for him and he retired soon after.