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whole, and the convention adjourned.
The Tammany ticket is as given at the
head of this article.
NATHAN STRAUS.
Nathan Straus is not a member of
Tammany Hall nor Of any other DO
htical organization. He has been
Park Commissioner since Dec. Is, 1882
when Mayor Grant appointed him in re-
spouse to the general demand for
business man rather than a party man.
He is one of the partners in the famous
firm of X. IL. Macy & Co, Sixth avenue
and Fourteenth street, and Of l.. Straus
Sons, importers OF china at A. to As
Warren street He Is wealthy. He is
educated, refined and sterling business
man.
But he is known best to thousands of
the number people of New York as the
man who has done so much in the past
Few years, spent so much money and ex-
ercised so much ingenuity in schemes for
me reiiet of suffering in the varying
forms In which 1t afiliCts the very poor
Mr.. strauss charities have been of the
most practical character. During last
year he maintained four lodging houses
IN the poorer section of the city, three
coal depots, where the poor could pur-
chase fuel in the smallest quantities at
prices lower than any wholesale dealer
could supply 1t at; depot for general
like: soup houses for the penniless. He
housed and fed l,2OO to l,4OO people night
ly through all the winter months.
During the distressing hard times
Straus sold at cost $500 tons of coal,
400, 900 pounds of sugar, 4lO, 900 pounds Of
bread, 10000 pounds of flour, 900
pounds of coffee and $1,000 pounds of tea,
his Idea being that charity should not
take the form of pauperism. He simply
paid the expense of handling these com
modities out Of his own, poCket-an ex-
pense not at all inconsiderable.
Mr.: Strauss latest charity was the
sterilized milk stands located in various
parts of the city.
Nathan Straus is a member OF DIS
ton In politics, diplomacy and business
Oscar Straus brother of Nathan, was
the American Minister to Turkey during
PRESIDENT Cleveland's first ,admimstra-
ton, ana lsidor StrauS, another brother
is a member of Congress, having been
elected at special election last spring.
Mr. Straus Is man of medium height
with the. slight stoop common to men
who think much. He wears n full beard
and has most kindly genial face. He
lives with his family at No. 3i6 West
mansion on West Seventy-sccond street.
He has always been u consistent Demo-
crat.
He was born in Georgia and is forty
SIN years old. He Is a very busy man,
for besides his personal charities, he is
president, director or trustee in a score
OF charitable organizations. He Is a
member OF the Manhattan Club, Young
Mems Hebrew Association, the Gentle
mems Driving Club, and was a member
or the Worlds Fair Committee and did
his best to secure the fair for New York
FREDERICK SMYTH.
Recorder Frederick Smyth was ap-
pointed to his present position by the
Board of Supervisors of this county on
Dec. 20, 1879 to fill the vacancy created
by the death Of Recorder Hackett. Be
fore the expiration of this term he was
elected. in November, 1885, for a new term
of fourteen years.
The idea became prevalent that Re
corder Smyth's election was invalidated
by some technicality, and in 1889 the late
James NJ. Lyddy, believing that If he
could get himself voted for by even a
single citizen he would be Recorder,
name for Recorder on them.
The matter was kept so 'secret that