The evening world., 1894-02-12
Park Board Mixes Patronage with
Help for the Unemployed
Two Hundred Men Given Employ
ment This Morning,
But Nearly All Had Tickets from
Tammany District Leaders.

pointed. Next the Elevated Railroad
Company IS up in arms and threatens
to seriously Interfere with the progress
OF the work.
The Central Labor Union, II the opin-
ions expressed at the meeting held in
Clarendon Hall yesterday count for my
thing, seems to think that politics Is the
great factor In the situation. Some OF
the members ascertained that no man
would be put to work unless he had II
ticket from some ward leader or poll
teal worker.
At the meeting a committee was APP
pointed to confer with the Park Com
%missioners and ind out what eht tickets
meant.
While politics do not run everything
20 far as the employment OF laborers
are concerned, one thing IL certain, that
they count for n considerable. Although
tickets have been given TO most OF the
charitable organizations for distribution.
II Is also certain that the district lead
ers OF Tammany Hall have received
n plentiful supply, and 1t Is equally GER
tain that no one bearing a card from
II district leader will be turned away
when he applies at the Arsenal for work.
All told about 200 men were put to
work to-day, and that figure represents
about one-tenth part OF the number who
actually applied for work. Men of all
classes. ages and conditions were around
the Arsenal all morning. The turned
AWAY ones had no tickets of any kind.
They were foolish enough TO believe that
a-ycnr salary. would pick them out and
put them 10 work.
Mr.. fcnton. however. had nothing
whatever to say about the matter. 1t
may hnve been the intention when giving
him that snug position that he should
select the men II so, that Bolicy has
missloners themselves make the appoint
ments. that IL. they sign appointment
tickets In blank and send them to the
various charitable organizations and the
cants being afterwards filled In.
There IL or Course a string attached
also required to go before Superinten-
dent Parsons. or the General Superin-
tcndent at the Arsenal. II all questions
are answered satisfactorily. he Is put 10
work.
When an Evening World'' reporter
climbed up TO the third floor OF the
arsenal this morning about POO men were
ranged In files. The head OF the first
file reached to u little office window, be-
hind which sat Supt. Parsons, the gem
"ral inspector and II dozen or so clerks.
man after man To the window to be
questioned.
The reporter questioned several OF the
sp6'icants, ana In every case the man
Where did you get that?' was the
first question.
Where DC, you think" was the reply.
From the district leader. OF course; who
else could give 1t to me-"
From the Tnmmany' leader"
'Of course. Who else?'
Not n single man spoken to had ever
been to the Park commissioners office.
Each had gone to his district leader and
procured the ticket, It was part OF the
distress had little to say 10 the appoint.
ments Those who had no tickets were
not long N finding out that they had no
business there. and they left with melan-
choly faces.
II cannot say how many men have
been appointed or how man Will be-,
said Supt. Parsons, They are appointed
down in the Chambers street office. and
cannot put n man 10 work unless he
brings me IA ticket. | have nothing
whatever to say as to the appointments,
nor has Mr., F-ntun. He Is out now IN
charge OF n gang OF men on catl"iraI
Parkway"
Mr.. Parsons was interrupted n, thi,
point 10y the General Inspector. who, Gu
rtous to state, refused to give his same
81 am tn" General Inspector he said
and that IL enough, can b" found her
newspapers should not pound us for In,
manner In which the men are selected
We think 1t Ia orr duty to take care o
or OWL mean the poor OF New Ior'
' from New Jersey, Massachusetts. con
nerticut. sent here by III" authorities .
those places: II is not true that polite
y enters Into this thing ut all"
How. then" asked the reporter. "Car
-, YOU reconcile the statements Of thu mrI
, whom ' have Just spoken t.. They go
thnIr. tickets from tie ward l"aders"'
som" Respects. Many of The leaders hay,
"a 'puir with III" Commissioners and &c
Il small percentage, however, af the nun
A Der actually given ont 10 charitable In
Mr.. Parsons stated that the men pu
10 work lhis mornlrg Mere dit,rlbu,r
!, over the cathedral Parkway. which ha
: - b" wlirnsl thirty feet: Nurn'ncstl
e Park; one Hundred nm! SECOND stree
AT Ninety ninth street and hlith avrnu,
They are no; ready to hrgn OIL River
Side Park Yet,
great Michael Fentun" Afl"r iii gen
search the reporter found him n CharE
OF a sanR OF about sixty men ~ Mint
Id street. Ruttoued IN 10 the chin, he stoo
In the centre OF the roadway direCtin
the men IL clear away the hill OF rub
nish on the southwest corner Of the ~,
II No one, to look At him. would ever In
A. aglne he was draMinS &.UO II year ar
labor rNu"ri" lldif u dp%ru other fore
v mon seemed to he around him,
. Immediately ~ putting his gang
~ men u work this morning h" direct,
It that thu Diyht-ioot f.n," on the suutl
east corner ~ the avenue at that pia,
lee torn down The inCluSad spaC"
"lHinl"l hN IT." Elevated Railroad Con
~ ppnS,
"a, TIE pillars oC the railroad ere bui
there, aud the pilot IN nearly forty fr'
D" hollow the street lrN"l. Hlr. Fruton
ne Instructions from thr i'tr5 Dvpurtmrl
we've 10 throw Ia rubbish iu,p IN,
hoe, AMI that was Why le h"d order,
th" fence torn LuWH.
ShwI, ul" hdndrrd barrow loads
II, rubbish had l. en- Ctrtrl there. lAtr.l
~ gene ~ what was Going GA reached 1,
,d Cuwuany's office, INSTANTLY ~ Iegs'i
-, ger was gent UD ordering thH' the woI
." mast cease. M. FrHton said he wou
not stop. and the m"SsrnS-r Rushed o.
presumably to hook COR an in'"Hctiou
\ f." minutes lHter Park Commission
V'alD'n drove M IN a buggy ard Wa /
- formed OF ~" situation.
'"s "Gu ahead with tie WORK. he reptile
.-n Don't mind the Elevated Road psopI
"a Keep m mtil YOU receive orders fro
AN US 10 the contrary
' AIR Fcuton hnshGully admitted to I
reporter that he had nothing 10 say
as to the appointment Of wCa,
Union mvde ~ kick abou, II AT It's mel
ing yesterday, AMI that Joseph Baronde
HI was appointed IN the to =
about It. All | want 20 say is IN
Barondess is chock fun Of Socialism a.
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