San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-28
NEW YORK AND
NATION MOURN
MURPHY SL0sS
Metropolis Pays Last Re.
spects to Dead Tammany
Hall Chieftain.
RICH AND POOR ALIKE
Scores Of Thousands Stand
With Heads Barred as
Procession Passes.

New York, April 2S.-City aud ma
ton today mourncd Charles f. Muir
ply and honored him in death as
few have been honored in the metro
POLLS in living memory.
From the tceming East Side, from
the homes of the wealthy, from every
social station, from the manifold
walks of life of the greatest city in
the world, there came TO the bier of
the Tammany chieftain i'm his mod
est East Seventeenth street home and
to great st. Patrick's Cathedral in
Fifth avenue men and women united
in their grief.
Mr.. Murphy had been man of
the people and had remained an East
Slider i'll his heart even into the
pinnacle of his power and it was his
people of the East Side. although, by
the thousands, who expressed their
great grief today.
Crowds TnTong Streets.
Among them were laborers with
whom he had worked. women aud chill
dren to whom he had been friend
in need, and the men whom he had
helped rise TO power in the city and
state. ,r.s.-s..--..-----+, (.
Early this morning. crowds OF
workers hurrying through East Side
streets stopped and turned THEN
| steps to Last Seventeenth street,
| there to pay their last respects to
their friend and leader. The streets
near the unpretentious home soon
| after daybreak were crowded as they
seldom have been with solemn re-
spectful multitude.
Before the house. s. police kept
! the crowd in orderly lines as the
men and women silently filed into the
house and passed the mahogany coffin.
Hundreds of poorly dressed shop
girls, clerks, laborers carrying their
lunches, walked into the darkcned
| room, knclt IN silent prayer and re-
sumed their way. Stuyvesant Square
Park was filled TO capacity and First
| and Second avenues were crowded.
Doors Are Closed.
At 0 80 the doors of the Murphy
home were closed to all but relatives
and intimate friends and an hour lat
er the casket was borne down the
brownstone steps on the shoulders of
the pallbearers.
The police detachment snapped to
minute salute, while the onlookers
barred their heads. Honorary pail
bearers were Governor Smith. New
York, Mayor Hylap, Governor Silzer,
New Jersey, Major Hague. Jersey
City. Senator Copeland and high of
ficials of the state, city. army and
navy.
The crowd parted The silence
was broken only by heavy shuffling
of thousands OF feet and the clicking
of cameras.
At Second avenue and Twenty
third street, the column halted to al
low the mourners TO fall in at the
rear. The sidewalks were lined sew
eral persons deep.
Throughout the length OF the ave-
nue. to Twcnty-third, along that
thoroughfare and up Fifth avenue to
the cathedral traffic had been sus-
pended. Fifth avenue was hushcd.
Scores of thousands stood heads barred
as the procession passed.
NOtables i'm Line.
At Forty-fifth street, Governor
Smith, his staff and the pallbearcrs
left their motor cars and fell in on
foot behind the hearse. At the en-
trance TO cross streets, south of the
cathedral, delegations from political
societies and organizations affiliated
with Tammany Hall, stood in mill
tary array.
In and around the cathedral, pc
lice estimated $4,000 persons had
gathered. 5000 occupying every avail
able inch of space in the majestic
Gothic structure. AS the solemn
requiem mass was held inside. the
crowds outside barred their heads in
prayer.
A thousand policemen lined the
route of the cortege to Calvary Gene
terry in Queensborough.