erience in Tammany politics and both understood every move of the
game.

Every morning their agents went to their respective headquarters before
seven o'clock and read through the death notices in all the morning
papers. If they found that anybody in the district had died, they rushed
to the homes of their principals with the information and then there was
a race to the house of the deceased to offer condolences, and, if the
family were poor, something more substantial.

On the day of the funeral there was another contest. Each faction tried
to surpass the other in the number and appearance of the carriages it
sent to the funeral, and more than once they almost came to blows at the
church or in the cemetery.

On one occasion the Goodwinites played a trick on their adversaries
which has since been imitated in other districts. A well-known liquor
dealer who had a considerable following died, and both Sheehan and
Goodwin were eager to become his political heir by making a big showing
at the funeral.

Goodwin managed to catch the enemy napping. He went to all the livery
stables in the district, hired all the carriages for the day, and gave
orders to two hundred of his men to be on hand as mourners.

Sheehan had never had any trouble about getting all the carriages that
he wanted, so he let the matter go until the night before the funeral.
Then he found that he could not hire a carriage in the district.

He called his district committee together in a hurry and explained
the situation to them. He could get all the vehicles he needed in the
adjoining district, he said, but if he did that, Goodwin would rouse
the voters of the Ninth by declaring that he (Sheehan) had patronized
foreign industries.

Finally, it was decided that there was nothing to do but to go over to
Sixth Avenue and Broadway for carriages. Sheehan made a fine turnout
at the funeral, but the deceased was hardly in his grave before Goodwin
raised the cry of "Protection to home industries," and denounced his
rival for patronizing livery-stable keepers outside of his district. The
err' had its effect in the primary campaign. At all events, Goodwin was
elected leader.

A recent contest for the leadership of the Second District illustrated
further the strenuous work of the Tammany district leaders. The
contestants were Patrick Divver, who had managed the district for years,
and Thomas F. Foley.

Both were particularly anxious to secure the large Italian