The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-11-30
BOSS OF NEW YORK.
Thomas Z. 6ilroy, the Mayor
Elect. in Zion.
The One Nan Who Has Full Charge Of tie
Easerwerks, street Paying, Sewers,
sprinkling and Gas of New York.

No men ever elected TO public Office wai
entrusted with such great power in the ex
penditure of money rs Thomas f. Gilroy
who was elected mayor Of New York city
and is perhaps more widely known by be.
ing the grand sachsm OF Tammany hall.
Mr.. Gilroy is simply the board of public
works Of New York city. He is not en-
cum bered by any associates; he in his OWL
person is the department. The board il
made up of one man and that man il
Thomas Fl. Gilroy. The department fol
which Mr.. Gilroy stands good for, distrib
utes six Sc, OO0.0 600 year for public i'm
proFements and for time had the contro
Of the $l4, 900, coo acqueduct as q side issue
In the matter Of street paving Mr.. Glroy
I ite block pavement during the las
three years. lie also has charge
Of the water works. which in that city Of 1
million and half people Is quite LITTLE
item. The opening of new streets, thu
sprinkling OF the streets, the construction
and maintenance of sewers are all under
the control OF his department..
To an average member OF the Salt Lake
city council Mr.. Gilroy would naturally be
great curiosity.
Mr.. Gilroy, like all great men, is disap
pointing. He does not show mp well, Rnc
there are dozen ward politicians in this
city who could give the grand sachem
points 10 the matter OF putting or
airs. He looks like an old race horse who
had followed the circuits. Perhaps the
picture in the back end of Webster's die
tionary illustrating the muscles of the
human body looks more like Thomas G.
Gilroy than any picture that can be sug-
gested. There Is the seriousness TO hi!
face that was peculiar TO the old army vet
Grams and that wrote the lines in w. T.
Sherman's face. Gilroy is study.
When asked for an interview for TIL
| HERALD, he said: 1.-THE newspaper mer
are my friends; they all treat me well.
appreciate their efforts and ind then
bright, Industrious and IN the main trust
worthy"
"You do not include Colonel Shepherda'
| the reporter suggested, knowing this would
bring out hot reply.
mo, do not. 1t would be charitable Il
cay that he is insane. 1t was his fine braiI
that fRthomed q rupture between Mr
Cleveland and Tammsny."
"You are satisfied with tie results Of thi
recent electionan
Mr.. Gilroy, with his big majority to hi
credit and the stalwaTt vote cast for tht
next president, mad so much satisfaction
reiguing 10 his bosom that he did not thlni
IL worth while 10 express it. He was proud
of the country, and took occasion TO com
! pliment the Utah Democracy.
"You will soon have here q Democratic
state" he observed, and then inquired
Twill they restore polygamy when they
get itl'
When the big sachem was informed thai
there was as much danger Of restoring
polygamy in Utah as of slavery in Virginia
the colonel assented:
ttTlatiE SOL
"Wll New York and Brooklyn ever be
United under the same city governmental
ut is the manifest destiny of both cities.
There is no longer any geographical divis-
ion. the W6ter barrier being overcome and
two more bridges will soon unite the twin
cities. Local pride, If nothing else. ought
TO bring this about; how soon, do not
know. / do not say that it ought to be
done now: but it is in the natural order OF
things. Taxation will be reduced and the
two cities can be governed more economi-
call.''
Mr. Gilroy's attention was called to the
fact that Chicago polled within 10000 as
many votes as the city of New York.
"That is explained by the 10000 laborers
who are at work on the Worlds fair build
ings, and who are there without their
families, and who will leave the city after
the buildings are completed" he said.
The TammGny society, OF which Mr..
Gtlroy is the grand sachem is charitable
Institution and is often ccnfounded with
the political organization which has no
more TO do with it than that the same men,
as rule belong to both organizations.
The political machinery has three dis
tinct branches, or committees The gen.
eral committee consists Of about 1000
elected in the various election districts Of
which there are |, 100 in the city. At the
head of this committee is Nelson Smith, a
prominent New York attorney
The committee on organization consists
Of twenty men from each assembly district
and has 600 mem bers with MIR. Gilroy as
itH chairman.
The executive committee has thirty
mem bers. one from each assembly district,
and Mr.. Gilroy is also the head of this i'm
portant branch of the organization.
Then there are other divisions Of the
voters into groups of ten, and so arranged
that ali the voters of the city can be
reached in twenty-four hours.
Mr.. Gilroy is accompanied on his trip by
his wife and two daughters and Hon. John
Mccartney, Judge of one of the New
York three days after the election and
went to California by the Southern Pa
cihc, They are on their way home, and
after short stay in Colorado will 60 di
rect to New York. The party left via the
Rio Grande Western at 9 o'clock last eve
ming.
Splendid Duck shooting.
ExMoRE, Va, Nov. 29.-President Cleve-
land and party succeeded in bagging 126
ducks in q little over an hours time. Later,
while on the beach, Cleveland brough
down four additional birds,