The evening world., 1894-10-10

signing politicians and those In league
with them had II In their power to be-
stow the rights of citizenship upon hum
dreds who were not In any way entitled
to receive them. These fraudulent nat
uralization papers We're obtained by
means OF dummies In some instances
turning emigrants in others, the. whole
system being under the control of a
few men. who worked II as a profitable
source of income and to their political
made II SO hot for this organized gang
of corruptionlsts 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,-Another abuse OF long stand
ing, which was thoroughly, shown up
through the efforts of The Evening
World" was the padrone system, which
1t was popularity supposed had gone out
tion, however. 1t was found to be -four;
ishing in almost its original vigor, and
that 1t was in force In the case of CON
tractors not only for private companies
and corporations, but for the depart
ments OF the city government as well.
In the case Of the Department OF Parks,
the STRENGTHENING Department, and the
Department of Public Works, IT was
been in the habit of making up their
payrolls. charging the city so much per
day for their laborers, while they were
actually paying their men much
smaller sum. In many instances where
the contractors charged the. city 81. 90
| a day for the men employed by them
them 10 cents a day. This exposure OF
the iniqutous practices of the padrones
created CONSERVATION among them. The
matter was carried into the courts, sew
eral arrests were made, and fines were
which The Evening World" inaugu.
| rated.
No. THE work OF 1.-The Evening
World Free Food Commission, which
| stood for a month and a day between
| the poor, the helpless, the unemployed
| and starvation, was not the smallest OF
the achievements of great newspaper
backed by confident readers. From Feb
9 to March 10, while the metropolis was
experiencing the most severe weather
1.-THE Evening World" distributed huge
baskets of food. free as the air, to al
who came to the Free Food Commits
tiyes 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 fol
25s. $50 hungry people were fed. The.
came from Brooklyn, Long Island City
Hoboken and Jersey City. as well al
New York; It was a great charity, anc
1.-THE Evening World" were held up b,
| those of a host of great-hearted men
| More than 5000 bushels of potatoes wer,
given away: more than $4,000 cabbages
more than 1900 pounds of meat: NOR,
| than 10 tons of fresh fish, and othe
things in proportion. The cost of al
this to these poor people, had they beef
obliged to buy 1t in the market. would
have been more than $780, 900! The polio
of New York and Brooklyn had, by
systematic census. found $4,000 mel
and women unemployed In the tw,
cities, and THE Evening World" Ere
Food Commission set about relievin,
them till Spring opened and work wa
resumed. That II accomplished its pur
pose, a quarter million grateful peopl
will acclaim.
In concluding this history of the re
markably successful career of 9TH
Evening World" 1t is only fair to sa,
that many other important achieve
ments have been unrecorded, in defer
ence to the rule of seven" No men
ton has been made of the green pape
issued on st. Patrick's Day, the blu
on Memorial Day. and the red, whit
and blue on the Fourth of July. We
they are all original with 1.-THE Evening
World and are well known to it's read
ers. Then there were Sunday extra
on the assassination of President Car
not, of France; the Chicago strike, an
the burning of the Brooklyn Tabernacle
: The release of Joe Militci from tn
posture of poolrooms existing in the cit
and their speedy closure. will 60 dow
into history as examples of the doctrine
adopted at birth and rigidly adhered to-
above all, a newspaper; beyond all, III
peoples friend"