The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-10-10

would have been willing to do the work
at much lower figures. Another subject
Investigated by The Evening World"
was the famous deal in horses for use in
the Department, BY getting at the bot
tom facts in this case 1t was discovered
that the Department had been squander-
Ing many thousands of dollars In pur-
chasing its horses at ridiculously high
figure, and not getting good animals at
that. Many Of them We're old, decrepit,
windbroken and spawned. and yet the
price paid for them was as high as the
finest fancy stock in the market com
No, 5.-"The Evening World" devoted
heroic efforts last Spring to to-, the t eX,
frauds, principally among the Italians
OF the Fourth and Sixth Wards. IT
was shown how citizens papers had
been distributed broadcast among. the
very lowest and most ignorant of the
city's foreign population, and that de-
signing politicians and those In league
with them had 1t In their power to be
dreds who were not in any way entitled
to receive them. These fraudulent nat
uralization papers were obtained by
and by buying up old papers of re-
turning emigrants in others, the whole
system being under the control of a
few men, who worked It as a profitable
advantage. THE Evening World"
made 1t so hot for this organized gang
of corruptionists that their operations
were suspended, and several arrests fol-
| lowed and indictments found against
De Vito. one of the ringleaders in the
| business. These indictments are still
pending against him.
No. 6-Anothcr abuse OF long stand
| ing, which was thoroughly shown up
through the efforts OF Z" The Evening
World was the padrones system Syst nnn which d,
| OF existence years ago. Upon investiga-
ton, however, 1t was found to be flour,
ishing in almost its original vigor and
that 1t was in force in the case of con-
tractors not only for private companies
AMI corporations. but for the depart
ments OF the city government as well
the strcet-cieaning Department, and the
Department of Public Works, IT was
discovered that contractors had Ions
been in the habit Of making r up ,h Nd,
day for their laborers, while they Were
actually paying their men much
smaller sum. In many instances where
the, contractors charged, the, city Sa
a day for the men employed by then
on public works. they were only payint
them 10 cents day. This exposure o
the iniquitous practices of the padrone!
created CONSERVATION among them. Tit
matter was carried into the courts sew
eral arrests We're made, and fines wer,
WERSs The ET rSsht Word as f nassa
rated.
No. THE work of THE Evenns
World" Free Food Commission, which
stood for month and day between
the moor, the helpless, the unemployed
and starvation, was not the smallest o
the achievements of n great newspaper
backed by confident readers. From Feb
. to March 10, while the metropolis Wa
experiencing the most severe weathe
Of the season. and storms of snow ant
THE Evening World" distributed hug,
p baskets OF food. free as the air, to al
who came to the Free Food Commits
sion % Murray street The representa-
lives OF 6i,5l5 poor families came from
. all parts OF the metropolitan distric
with letters from their Clergymen. The,
, went away laden with the material 70
many square, nourishing meals an
2jS,U60 hungry people were fed The
came from Brooklyn, Long Island City
= l!oboken and Jersey city, as well a
| New York. 1t was a great charity, an
it was all charity and the hands q
THE Evening World" were held up b
I those OF a host OF reat-hearted mer
: More than j,CW bushels II potatoes wer
/ given away; moro than 5000 cabbages
: than 10 tons 'of fresh FISH and othe
A things in proportion, The cost of a
g this to these poor people, had they bee
( obliged to buy II In the market. woul
= have been more than $50 900! The polio
Y Of New York and Brooklyn had, by
5 and women unemployed In the tw
i cities. and The Evening World" Ere
n Food Commission set about relievin
- them till Spring opened and work wa
: resumed. That IL accomplished It's pu
II pose, ,quarter-million grateful poop
d In concluding this history Of the r,
IT markedly successful career of "Tf
e Evening World" Il Is only fair to ga
% that many other Important asbiey