The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-27
HUNTING MR.. KENNEFICK.
A Reporters Search for n Man Who
Is n Candidate for Alderman.
New York Sun.

Is n Candidate for Alderman.
New York Sun.
Yesterday a Sun reporter set out to find
the Tammany candidate for alderman in
the First Assembly district. Years ago the
gentleman who now aspires to become a
city father lived in Charlotte, N. c., and
was known as Jerry Kenefc, but since he
has arrived in politics he has put an extern
sion On his front name and wears a K at
each end of his last name. appearing now
on the billboards as the Hon. jeremiah
Kennelck. Rumors have come up from
the Tar Heel country to the effect that
there is a great stir down there over the
prominence achieved by the former inhab-
liant of Charlotte, and the reporters OBJ
ject was to get from the Hon. Jeremiah
Kennefck statements regarding the North
Carolina career Of Jerry Kenneic, cotton
classer for B. d. Heath & Co. and chief
ornament in the statuesque galaxy that
used to hold up Shaw's old corner in Char
lotte.
Regarding the whereabouts Of the Hon.
jeremiah Kennefck the reporters informa-
ton was that he was to he found between
Spring street and the Battery west of
Broadway. This wasn't derived from the
directory. That volume doesn't contain the
name of the statesman from the First. Get
ting into the candidates district by the
nearest route the reporter tackled a police
man on the question.
"Kennefck?" said the policeman. Ken
nefick? Seems to me I've heard that name.
Better go down to the station house and
ask the sergeant. He may know something
about him. But the se~rgeant's Informal
ton on the subject was not exhaustive, be-
ing included in a knowledge that a man
of that name was running for alderman in
the district. The sergeant knew a man,
however, who knew all about ii. He pro-
duced that man.
Sure" said the man who knew all about
1t. He lives around here on Dey street,
No. 81. in that fiat that was burned out.
Likely you won't find him there now. If
you don't you might drop around to the
Astor House; sometimes he hangs out
e9ef If h or i s1 Mf fSeres P to cai Ha saasr or s'G Csr,
rolls, or round to the Hickory Club up on
hudson street; or you might try the 81:
street, and then he's liable to be at Tommy
Hickey's, or over at p
The reporter broke away and went to the
candidates apartments, where he got some
valuable information at the door.
that's as IT too jerry psS you're %a m. afte out o Sure here nD DU;;
five minutes gone. But I'll tell you, now.
He generally goes to the Aston House or
Meyers place, or Carrolfs. just around the
| SOiHCip VI 10 0lOpS IL " q Siidl 1T Sdlid-
hans up the street. or likely he's seeing
the boys at the Hickory Club, and If you
don't find him there, you'd better try"
The Astor House was the next place to
be visited. On the way thither the reporter
saw standing on a corner a crowd of young
men, who looked as if they probably knew
the prospective alderman. They did. They
| also knew three dozen places where he was
likely to be. One of these places was just
around the corner on Broadway in front of
Hes apt to be hangin' out there givin'
the sun a chanst to warm itself agin' his
mug" said one of the crowd. Look fer
a middle-aged Teller with red hair an blue
eyes, that walks kinder straight. Ye can't
miss him"
No such person was .ornamenting Broad
way in the specified place, so the reporter
proceeded to the Astor House. where he
gwen WSs 0t over to 20 poi hHDm NATTER m { siaf The % msn
who furnishes refreshments in this room
ne ID z Sap his is ASSISTANT di e name OF Aen-
Why, Of course" said he, everybody
knows Jerry Kennefck. He was in here
friend Of his. You know him, Charley, only
you don't know his name. That stocky-
eyes and yeIiowish hair. Walks Kind Of
s.oop-shouidered. Youngish,looking man.
tOw; nr yOupE man. m IN # S,m you sro hurry y,s up: you
on Greenwich street. He lives on Dey
street, and you might drop In there, but Il
CAROLS, or maybe he's gone TO the Hick-
DRY Club. Like as not he's at the head
quarters or over on Liberty street, No.
The reporter had heard enough. Com
bininS the information he had received, he
now knew that he was looking for a middle
aged man who looked youngish, one Of whose
eyes was blue and the other black. whose
hair ran In stripes of yellow and red. and
who. Notwithstanding the fact that he was
stoop-shouldered. stood very straight when
he walked. It seemed as If it would not be
several thousand. Moreover, there was a
list Of any number Of places where he
might be found. This list was considerably
increased by a short conversation with the
policeman on the next beat, who vas a per-
feet mine OF local geographical information
as applied to the possible locatica ef Ken
nefck. The reporter, after go!us to Mey-
Carroll's, and Tommy Hickey's, and any
number OF places. only TO find most Of them
| closed. boarded a street car that ran near
the headquarters on Hudson street. The
way was beguiled by reading hundreds Of
large posters announcing that the Hon.
jeremiah Kenneick was the Tamnany can
didate for alderman In that district, but
giving no hint as TO where be could be
found. At the Democratic headquarters the
reporter found a large crowd who were
more than willing TO theorize on the ques-
asked questions of the reporter.
Been to Meyer's? Did you try Gala
hans? Tackle the Astor House,? Go to
his house? Didn't go to p Liberty, l sup
Nor Tommy Hickey's? Nor
This sort of thing went on until the re-
Then his informants started in telling him
where Mr.. Kennefick might be, having pre-
viously remarked that he had been right
there ten minutes previous. From what
that there isn't a place in the First As
sembly district, which is one of the biggest
in town, that Mr.. kennefck doesn't drop
into at least three times a day; that the
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