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Title: Thrity years of New York politics up-to-date ..
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Breen, Matthew P. (Matthew Patrick)
Subjects: New York (N.Y.) -- Politics and government New York (State) -- Politics and government. (from old catalog)
Publisher: New York, The author
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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uld have been festooned withblack, and every military and civil organization in the Citywould have followed him to Greenwood. At the entranceto the cemetery, the cortege was met by a delegation ofFree Masons, to which Order Tweed had belonged. Afterthe coffin had been lowered into the grave, the funeralservice was read by the Rev. Dr. Price, the minister whohad married him. That done. Past Master E. O. Penfield,of Palestine Lodge, F. and A. M., stepped to the head ofthe grave, book in hand and in full Masonic regalia. ^ Re-questing his brother Masons to form a circle round it, heread the Masonic ritual for the burial of the dead, in aloud, clear voice, broken only by the sobs of Mrs. Maginnis,Tweeds youngest daughter. AVith these simple ceremoni-als, in the presence only of his kinsfolk and a few old 5^0 THIRTY YEARS OF NEW YORK POLITICS. friends, was laid in his last resting-place a man who, a fewyears before, had more than a monarchs power in themetropolis of the Western Hemisphere.
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(l<, hy Harper i\: Brothers.) William M. Evakts, LETTPm XLV. How William M. Evakts Kept His Word—A ReminiscenceOF THK Civil War—Graphic Description of the Attack OF THE KaM MeRRIMAC ON THE UNION ShIP CUMBERLAND— Making Good a Promise of Seventeen Years Standing—A Characteristic Letter to Postmaster James—Favor Which the Republican Secretary of State Ex-tended TO an Humble Democrat. My dear Dean : The mention of William M. Evarts name in my last let-ter recalls an incident which deserves recording. You inEngland know Mr. Evarts as our representative in the Ala-bama Claims arbitration, and afterwards as Secretary of Statein the Cabinet of President Hayes. Mr. Evarts is a scholar, awit, a great lawyer—the lawyer, in fact, who succeededCharles OConor as leader of the New York Bar. LikeHorace Greeley, he finds relaxation on his farm amongthe Vermont hills, and is an enthusiastic fancier of Jerseycattle. As a pr

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