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Show "PADDY" DIVVER IS DEAD. Was One of the Most Noted Characters Charac-ters of New York. Patrick Dlvvcr, formerly a pollco justlco of Now York, and for years a Tammany Hall district leader, died at his homo In that city last week of pneumonia. , Tho passing of "Paddy" Dlvvcr takes from Now York politics, especially espe-cially that branch of politics which centers about Tammany Hall, another of Its most prominent and plcturesquo figures. Ho ruled tho second assembly assem-bly district with n rod of Iron, reducing re-ducing to political submission ono of tho most cosmopolitan and reckless districts of tho city. Ready to fight nt tho drop of n hot or even hoforo tho hat had tlmo to drop, Dlvvcr held tho leadership of tho moro brutal elements of his constituency con-stituency by sheer physical forco. Always Al-ways at tho beck and call of any of his followers, oven tho humblest, on an errand of mercy, Dlvvcr ruled tho women of his district by tho sheer forco of kindness, generosity nnd the word is not misused love Above all, ho believed with tho Intentness of n slnglo-thoughtcd mind, a creed In which ono of tho principal articles wns "Stand by your district and your district will stand by you." But tho later reform wavo, of which tho election of Mayor Scth Low in 1901 wns tho npex, was too much for Dlvvcr. Tho Now York of Scth Low, though not ns greatly changed as had boon prophesied, was still n city somo-what somo-what out of rapport with tho second assombly boss, and the continued ab- r f senco of Dick Croker. his faithful I friend and lendor, also disgruntled him with politics. |