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Show T . With the death of Recorder Smyth a pillar in Tammany Hall has fallen. He was a noble Irishman, who, though he loved his Erin, loved none the less his America, and he '.''certainly will be missed, not only in, the councils of the wigwam, but by alii who came in contact con-tact with him. i,0 "A Galway Irishman of the name of Smith," he used to' humorously speak of himself, and he' ! often laughed at others when they showed embarrassment embarrass-ment regarding the pronunciation of his name. "It is Smith, plain Smith, with a 'y,' " he once said to a reporter. "That is the way my father and moth-eV moth-eV pronounced it, and that way is good enough for me. If there were a final 'e,' then, the usual pronunciation would be correct." -A. |