The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-05-22
ITS WORST CITIZEN.
Billy McGIory Has That Reputation in
the City of New York

In
the City OF New York
New York has lost Billy McGlory.
The wave of reform washed him under
completely, but now he has been wash
ed UP again on the hospitable shores
of Syracuse, where the "A Kelly" and
one j. A. Toole. he is going to conduct
pleasure resort upon a scale of splen-
dor and elbow room that will make
old Armory hall seem poor and cramp-
ed, says the New York Journal
In McGlory, If he goes to Syracuse
TO run tie business himself, New York
will have lost perhaps its very worst
citizen. Hard featured. tall. lean.
1.-THE. but with an unctious stoop to his
shoulders. and a furtive gait. Black
proved and with sloe-like eyes;
smooth-voiced in the Jolly" %It iron
toned in the brawl, with a ham, smooth
and welcoming to the money-laden
Jay" but with a fist and a back
heel hard, swift and relentless. Heavy
black hair, little gray from many
years of $50 days each. Black raj
ment of smooth broadcrooh. which cased
his CONSCIOUSNESS person with ecclesias-
teal lines.
1t was sleeps clothing beyond a
question. In the old days, when New
York was the wickedest hole on the
continent, they called Billy McGlory
and no one has yet arisen to claim the
title from him.
Driven from pillar to post by the hue
and cry, chased by the police from one
dive to another, growing 'wickeder"
and richer as he journeyed, he
dragged in his train" the toughest,
most disreputable gang that New York
could muster.
Until at last New York became tired
of him. He could run no more dives
here. get no more licenses. McGlory
has been quiet since he got out of the
penitentiary. But here is McGlory
redivivus. He is a ghost of old time,
Simon pure wickedness that will not
down. There is no more hope no more
chance for him in New York.
This same McGlory has now. the re-
port comes, bought the estate of Elm
wood. on the outskirts of the fast
growing city of Syracuse. There, on
the mar gin of a tiny lake, which up to
10 years ago was a private trout pond,
fed by a brook which babbled down a
hillside, McGlory is about to rear his
buildings-his dance and music halls,
with stage and plenteous bars; his no.
tells and pavilions.
Elmwood was an old family property,
which conservatism had held intact
against the encrOachments of the city,
The turf is still fresh and green; wild
MOWERS Sllll DlOOm III llS NOOueu VAL
leys, the partridge still drums on its
uplands in September and the trout
still dart in it's cool waters.
1t outlines one of the richest and
most fashionable districts of the town.
The car will take you from the quiet
Christian homes of eX-united States
Senator Hiscock and ex-Collector Fran
els Hendricks to Elmwood in seven
minutes.
So when 1t was bruhed in Syracuse
that McGlory was going to set up his
lares and penates there and run the
pleasure machinery Gin his own way"
Syracuse people took up arm against it.
And McGlory has money. He owns
big double-decker, and the fine prop
erty at Baldwin's, as well as some other
bits. One who knows him, hand and
glove, in the old days, said:
II suppose McGluck-the old-timers
call him McGluck and McGlink-is
worth one-half a million dollars