The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1890-06-14


to return Brother Sol his twenty-five thous-
and dollars which was forfeited when the
Alderman skipped to Canada four years
ago. But whatever the surprise of the
at the return of Sayles, 1t was
nothing compared with the return Of Billy |
Molony, who had the dividing of the half
million with which the Board of Aldermen |
was bought. 1t was not the first time that
he was the divider of Illicit spoil, and the
complaint of the thieves was that he kept
most of the plumber himself, For the past
two or three years several of the fugitives
have known to be in very straitened cir
cumstances; not so, however, with this
rascal Billy Molony; he has lived on the
fat of the land, aud has been clad in purple
and fine linen, so has his friend and COM
patriot John keenan,, while Alderman
Dempsey, another of the expatriated rogues
returns TO us shabby and rusty and con-
siderably the worse for wear. But there
ia trouble ahead for somebody. Alderman
Mike Duffy. Of Duffyvile, who saved his
bacon by turning informer, swears that he
did not tell all he knows upon the trial,
but that he will make IL warm for Billy
Molony and John keenan, when the proper
time comes. There is fun ahead for some
body.
The Fassett Committee, now engaged In
investigating the several departments Of
the city government, have succeeded in
making matters quite, uncomfortable for
number of our tried and trusted officials.
Last week the subject of DiYes, licensed
and unlicensed, came up for Investigation,
and assure you that there was tremend-
ous rattling among the dry bones. Places
of the most scandalous and unsaYory re-
putation resorted to by thieves and all
sorts of vile characters, have been reported
to the Excise Commissioners are moral and
high toned, and license has been issued to
| them on the recommendation of the police
captain of the precinct against the indig-
nant protest of the nelghbors and the we'll
known character of the place. Two of
Inspector Burns smart detectives testified
that in six years they had never seen more
than two or three crooks on the Bowery.
OF all parts of New ork there is no other
public thoroughfare where bad characters
so swarm, night and day, as the Bowery.
ANY hour in the twenty-four you can meet
them by dozens on every block between
Chatham Square and the Cooper Institute,
AT no time is a countryman's watch or
pocketbook entirely safe. The police
know them as well as they know the lamp
posts, and the only reasonable ISOLATION of
their immunity from punishment is that
they pay for il, A saloon keeper on
Sixth Avenue told me that every month a
man came to his saloon and he handed him
thirty dollars, and all the saloons that he
knew did the same; there were no questions
asked, no receipts given, the man took the
money and walked off. Inow have perfect
peace. he said, and If am open little
after hours that's all right, or if / let some
Of my INTIMATE friends have little nip
on Sunday the copper never knows any
thing about it, See? Well, L thought ]
did see, tried to kick once, he said, and
refused to pony up. That night my saloon
was pulled; got clubbed. | spent all
night in the cells with my broken head
and in the morning was fined fifty dollars,
and the Judge told me that 1t eyer came
up before him again he'd send me to the
Island. Do you think Pm goin' TO foo
with the coppers after that No, stree, moi
| L nd oh
pea soup like a little man. That's me
that's shoutin', see? ? While l suppose
that there is no human institution with
out its drawbacks and shortcomings, and
our police are not exempt, there is nc
denying that they are our safeguard and
security in trying times of danger and
deadly peril. Time and again we have
tried them when the evil elements which
swarm in this city were al ahame, but
they have never been found wanting. Two
thousand of them them had grand parade
on Saturday, and no finer body of meI
could be found in the world.
Memorial Day was one of the loveliest Of
the Spring and everything served to make
1t one Of the most enjoyable. Early In tht
morning our citizen soldiers might be seer
hurrylng TO the different armories, and the
veterans of the G. A. R. were so numerous
that one might have imagined that the wal
, passed through without an accident; fol
after lapse of twenty-five years, they still
represent an army of between hundred
and 6ftv and tmo hundrad tbopaa.vd stro,c,
The great point of interest for Grand Army
Veterans, next to Grants tomb at River
side Park, is Greenwood Cemetery. Herr
repOse several thousand of the brave boys
who went out to battle for the Stars anC
Stripes. Some returned home 10 die ant
many hundreds we're brought back from
the distant battle fields of the South thai
loying hands might deck their graves will
flowers on each Memorial Day, Near then
lie in peaceful sleep hundreds of the soldier.
who stood before them in battle, and who
died in northern prisons far away from
their southland, where mothers and sisters
wives and sgeethearts have been watchine
through all these years for the sound of re
turning footsteps, which. alas, shall greet
their ears neVermoFe. But on Memoria
Day their graves were strewn with flowers
by the same loving hands that decked the
last resting place of the Boys in Blue
Oyer the sacred dust that reposes so peace
fully in this beautiful city of the dead
floats The hag of an undiseYered union il
deadly peril twentY-nlne years ago. Il
comes from the tremendous trial better ant
stronger, richer and freer than ever. th,
best example of seli-goYernment, amons
men. May II so continue tin time shall bI
no more.
BROADBRIM.
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