, 1925-01-19
THOUSANDS PAY
. FINAL TRIBUTE

Continued from Pag> One.
with tears shamelessly running
down their cheeks. prayed for tho
soul of big Tom Foley. Hoboes
and miIlionaires sat ~reverently. in.
Unfortunately by each other. while
tho last services for the great Tam
many leader who died Thursday OF
nneumonia, were being held.
Tom Foley's own East Side turned
out 10 go with him as far as they
could 60 on his last journey. Rich
men. poor men. beggar men, thieves
and all the rest of the types that
v, into humanity, were there to pay
tribute to big Tom.' the former
sheriff. who won his sobriquet thru
| the largeness of his personality.
/ heart and body as well as n
ysght of influence.
. Men and women ignored the ira
dition that grown people must not
weep and wiped away frank tears
when the Rev. Patrick DAILY sang
the requiem. assisted by the Kew.
Antonio Janucci.
They had not come to pay their
last respects TO Big Tom" Foley
because he had been n great Tam
many I'VE Big politicians have
died before, but few have had such
feryid tributes. They came be-
cause each n had lost a friend
MANY OF those who came had once
onnosed him-and been won to
friendship.
Governor Smith. of New York.
George W. Olvaney. Tax Commits
sioner John F. Gilchrist. with the
others Of the "a close friends who
escorted the body to Calvary GENE
. terry, saw in the eyes of the thon-
sands who watched them moving
with their burden down the aisle OF
the church, nothing but love ana
svmpathy and the unspoken wish
that the privilege of doing that last
honor had been theirs.
One hundred police officers bat
tIed with the crowds In Oliver street,
who. many thousands strong. fought
for n chance to walk close to the
hearse which carried the big lead
er's body on a long line OF march to
the cemetery. They were poor. they
ware rich. those who had not been
able to find places in the hurch and
had to walt outside. They were the
close friends, the admirers from
MAR. the people he had helped. who
wanted to toss a last rose on the
coffin as it passed. They had n
NScommon purpose.
fwo hundred other policemen
guarded the streets along which the
funeral cortege passed. Traffic
policemen along the route had been
ordered to cooperate and at times
nany on the way from OIL
yer street past the downtown Tam
many club, to Catherine street, to
Henry and back to oliver and on
across the Manhattan bridge to Cal
ynry. traffic of the day was held up
while the long procession passed.
Besides the hundreds Of prominent
officials and friends for whom trans.
~portation to the cemetery had been
provided, there were pedestrians
numbering into the thousands who
followed mistakenly after. that they
might catch a last look at h cor
fin of their old friend as It was low
cred into the grave.
One eighty year old Tamrnany vet
eran. Patrick Whalen, leader OF the
Cherry Hill district. who had left his
bed at st. vincent's Hospital. where
he was allowing a pair of broken
legs to mend to say a prayer for
Friday beside the body of his old
fSk6d. came out a second time on
rcrutches to go on that last journey.
In the throng that followed after
was the newsboy. Jacob Zalkowtz.
whom Tom Foley had sent to Mount
Sinai Hospital a month ago when
he was Ill, and visited him there
time and again.
Tammany Hall is draped in black
today and will be for a month. and
flags on the city hall. the municipal
building and other public buildings
have been at halfmast in Difference
to the man VINO seems to have been
one of New York's favorite IONS
certainly was the chosen of the
whole East side.