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Show PAY LAST TRIBUTE TO "BIG TIM." Statesmen and Bowery Bums Join in Mourning for Former Congressman. New York. "Big Tim" Sullivan passed through the streets of the east side for the last time Monday. His body was taken to the old Cathedra) of St. Patrick, a quarter of a mile from the rooms of the association . bearing his name, where it had lain in state since Saturday afternoon. A delegation of congressmen, headed head-ed by. Representative Kinkead . ' of New Jersey, led the mourners. Behind Be-hind this delegation marched the longest long-est funeral train the east side ever has seen. Seldom has the east side mourned more eloquently. In the army that passed by his bier as the 'body lay in state, men in silk hats rubbed' elbows with Bowery tramps and women in silks and furs mingled with their poorly-clad sisters from the tenements. |