Show PADDY DIVVER IS DEAD was one of the most noted charac of new york patrick divver formerly a police justice of new york and for years a tammany hall district leader died at his home in that city last week of pneumonia the passing of paddy divver takes from new york politics espe daily that branch of politics which centers about tammany hall another of its mot prominent and picturesque figures he ruled the second assem bly district with a rod of iron reducing to political submission one of the most cosmopolitan and reckless districts of the city ready to fight at the drop of a hat or even before the hat had time to drop divver held the leadership of the more brutal elements 0 of his con by sheer physical force al ways at the beck and call of any of his followers even the humblest on an errand of mercy divver ruled the women of his district by the sheer force of kindness generosity and the word is not misused love above all he believed with the intentness of a single mind a creed in which one of the principal articles was stand by your district and your district will stand by you but the later reform wave of which the election of mayor seth low in 1901 was the apex was too much for f divver the new york ot of seth low lo 10 though not as greatly changed as had hi been prophesied was hlll still a city som some what out of rapport with the second seeli assembly boss and the continued ab a ri t th r f V sence of dick croker his faitha il friend and leader also d bim him with politics |