, 1876-02-13

said. .tWell, boss. l have got rid OF these fel-
lows, aud now want to get rid OF you.
LET Us GO AND GET DRlSK."
So 1s went over to HAuleys, and while In there
/ asked his Honor what was going 70 get He
said I was going to be 4 Collector Collector Of
Wa1er-Taxss-at 500 a mouth. asked when
it would come. He said in afaw days waited
for few days. He sent letter On to PrlEdl,
not have that position. I asked him why. He
said there was no place. I went back and re-
ported the fact. He (Colyin) said that he would
soc.
R.-Ne1t thing?
Mr. NJ got to be upon the water police. I
went down to his express Office on Washington
street, and remonst1s:ed against it. for got but
$50 month, and that was quito fall from S6a
dav,-indeed, quite as big drop IS when fell
u feet, from tie Grand Opera-House. yearago
last August.
R.-What did he nayto you?
A1r. N.-He told me to keep on in month
or SO would geta better job-only to show
my willingness to work.
R.-Dld ho keep his promise2
. THE RAT-cATCHER.
NIr. N.-Yes [lauehiug]; they set me in the
sewers to catch rats! demonstrated against
that, also, and would not go.
K.-That was the "6etter thing" he was
going to give you. Did yon stay upon the water
police?
1r. NJ got bounced for while. A friend
had informed me that there VAS about 1.G00 feet
Of water-pipe lying around Louis Wah1s fac-
tory,-that lH, put IN the ground for the protec-
tlon Of his place, at public e1pense,-and that
he had only paid $500 assessments. This in
formation gave to McDermott the reporter Of
the Courier 1.-THE same who carries the honor Of
Deecher in his veht-pocket1. and McDermott
.'gaye it away" to the Board. and tho Board
turned me off, On the 18th OF December the
l,rf ff,o <r1,o rnraa}f
cluded, and then the next day some Of them
wera taken on,-Ald. Clark's brother was one,-
and then they Kept putting them al On until
they got them all back about the last Of the
month, and ail that got on before the 1st OF jan
nary gor full months pay. Some did not
work more than from seventeen to twenty days,
but they all got $50, and the books are to show
for it. I was sacked the second time in conse-
quence OF telling about the waterpipes. Prin-
divllie told me he would not have put mo on
this Last time II he had known about it. ..>
coLvIN AS BoUSCER.
RI understand you to say that Colvin, on
ona or two occasions, stated, that he would
bounce the Board OF Public Works unless
they made certain appointments at his dicta-
tion7
Mr. N.-On the night Of Larry O'Brien's open-
ing On the corner OF Blue Island avenue and
Twelfth street, Colvin was present. He made
the assertion there, that I should get superin-
tendent Of Bridges, Or he would bounce the
had left. came up to me and want
ed me to bust a bottle of wine for
my position, and I said that would bust q bas-
ke. it got it. Colvin said the same thing to
several other "boys."
ONCE MORE TO THE FRONT.
Ron the night Of the adoption (?) OF the
charter, at the time that you we're at tile Mayors
room in the Palmer House, did anything else
occur that son can now recall 49,.
Mr. NJ showed the Mayor letter from
xAu$ 4%4A +S>
get as carpenter in the Courthouse. and he
said that WAS al right; it wouldn't be necessary
for me to put myself out on that account.
R.-Were these frauds which had been perpe-
trated at the polls explained 10 him
hfr. NJ explained, and 4e said that he
would take care OF us all.
R.-Did you tell him that you had seen this
man Long stuf the ballotbox2
A1r. Nj told him all about that.
R.-Dld be make any rema1k7
Mr. N.-He laughed, and said that it YVES
good thing.
MrLDooS, THE SOLID MAN.
R.-We11, did any Of the others have anything
to say about it?
bir. N.-Long vas sitting over On the other
side OF tho room, having jolly time. Long, he
no boy Ike that,"-that is, Was q son Of hull
doom.
R.-Was there any drinking going On there?
MF. N.-Yes; they had bottle Of whisky ana
cigars.
K.-Did you drink any?
b1r. Nj did I took little whisky and water
when left.
ONLY TEE GANG.
R-While you we're there, did anybody else
come up?
Mr. Mo; We were the only boys from the
Eighth and Ninth. ~.
N,-You did not hear anything Of frauds in the
First
Mr.. Mo. didn't hear anything; but 7
knew that just as big frauds we're perpetrated in
the First as there were in the Eighth and Ninth.
came to this conclusion from conversations
heard there. You know Hildreth is great man
to chin in the presence Of the Mayor.
BIOGRAPHICAL.
R.-Haye you lived in the ward long7
Mr. N.-Yes, thirteen years. I am al old
ward politician. I have peddied tickets so id !
long It has made me poor.
R.-Did Mike Bailey say to you that unless |
Cclyin appointed him Building Inspector he |
would aqueal as to his knowledge OF the frauds |
IN the Eighth and Ninth Wards. OF |
which he Was cognizant?
Mr. N.-Yes; he said that he would squeal |
unless he got the place. He got 1t.
M1. Nea1a desired, at the conclusion Of the in |
:eryieW, to hare it known that Fitzgerald had |
1ad no hand in the frauds: that be had worked |
III election-day against the charter and that he
8as called into the room to give an outside i'm |
PRESTON that the ''boys " were not having it |
Ill their own way. Nlr. Neale believed there vas
10 more honest man living than Fitzgerald.