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Show MAPJY PAY TRIBUTE " TOJOliSOLffl Long Line of Men, Women and Children View the Fighter's Remains. By International News Service. BOSTON, Feb. 4. Until late into the night an almost unbroken line of men, women and children filed past tho bier of John L. Sullivan at his Bister's home in Roxbury tonight. Among them were many of the foremost sporting men of the nation. A steady flow of letters and telegrams of condolence came in from every section of the United States and Canada. Jake Kllrain, who lives at Reading, Mass., and with whom the veteran Sullivan Sul-livan fought the hardest battle of his life, has been at the bier constantly since his death. He paid tribute to the man who bested him and the. man who from that time had been his best friend. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt wired that he could not attend tho funeral, which will be held Wednesday morning. He said that he bad the highest regard for bis old friend, hut that he could not possib y take port In the. final tribute to be paid the great gladiator. Tho request of New-York New-York sporting men to have the body sent i there for a day before burial was refused. re-fused. Sullivan's body lies tonight In a magnificent mag-nificent mahogany coffin, which was sent from New York because of the Inability of Boston undertakers to furnish one large enough tor the fighter. On a plain silver plate, In simple script Is engraved, "John L. Sullivan." |