The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-22
OH, YES, BLACKIE Is E A
EIEs IN AN UNMARKED GRxVE
BUT M'CO0K rs FLOURISHING.


lt YVES Biackie who was the Founder or Gen.
plcCooh's Fortune. Made Out OF. Pubiic
PrintinE - Ferhaps That Accou,' was
Squared when McCoek protecteA Jackie.
Gen. Arson q. McCook, Seth Lows cam.
paign manager, has vouchsafcd no a.. planation
as to his responsibility for tho retention as n
United States weigher in the New York Gus.
tom House Of Charles Blackic, who. when John
Sherman was Secretary OF the Treasury, was
charged by the merchants of New York with
bribe'taking and other offences. THE SUN has
printed extracts from letters of McCook. who
was a Congressman at the time, to Blackie.
McCook in his letters tells of his efforts to sayo
Blackie's head. He tells of his struggles in
that direction, and to Blackie he wrote: Tho
id moneytaking is the worst feature"
McCook in further letters to Blackic tells how
he bulldozed John Sherman:in the matter, and
after the bulldozing process McCook wrote to
Blackie:
Il think 1t wise and prudent TO call your at
tentien to the fact that you will have to be at
tcntlve to business and the 'peruuisitc' business
will have TO be totally done away with"
McCook warned Blackic that tho Surveyor
Of the Port had his eyes open and that Blackie
would have to be careful. McCook, in another
letter to Biackie, goes over the whole ground.
and closes his letter with please burn this and
keep 1t TO yourself"
There are many other letters of McCook's in
existence, which go to prove that no is one of
the most wholly beautiful reformers in Seth
Lows camp.
Gen. McCook, in a typewriter statement
issued the other day, called attention to the
fact that Blackie il dead. Speaking of his let.
tsrs to BlaGikie, which The sun printed, Gen.
The men who for political reasons dragged
his name out of the grave and before the public
must assume the responsibility for this sinirch-
Gen; McCook, in other words. takes refuge
behind the fact that Blackie is dead; Well. 1t
worth in tho neighborhood Of S2Oo. 600, every
dollar OF which was got out OF his connection
BE Mit,h fact pah that C ID NJ s's Bls a Ri.'t @as 81 The nad 1o,Inasr
OF McCook's fortune.
Charles, nlacLie has slept these fifteen years
In the public lot In Greenwood Cemetery.
No headstone marks the spot. 1t is not
wood Cemetery Company Blackie's grave is
1,416.'". Blackie's unmarked grave cost sos.
Blackie's. widow died in the Home for Incura-
GtSs IN W w ssts sofeIy trS s u for b moneS. on Af ais
his death his effects were sold and a subscrip-
ton was raised for the benefit Of Mrs. Blackie.
Gen. McCook, said one of his friends yes
terday, acted very generously on that occa-
sion; He gave 500 to the fund for Mrs.
Charles Blackie in 1873 was tho Republican
AssembiyrmaaS from the old Ihirteenth, which
Is now nc ENlnln ulSlTlCt. ten. MCCOOK laQ
turned up in the district, and was clerk in a
drug store. He had no means. Josh Owens,
JACK afk Fassett, and S,i other machine kepublican
York and settled in the Thirteenth Assembly
district. They Established a law journal
Bryan and Gen. McCook got in with that crowd
and Jim Richmond, who was Jake Sharp's
party. A bill was framed which empowered four
Judges In New York city to designate the Reg
nOnOly of DrlnIinQ official rourt dpruDnents
~Assemblymnn Blackie introduced the bill at
Albany, and worked day and night for its Fas.
The owners Of the Register were Josh ovens wen
Gen. McCook, and John Bryan. each owning
Assemblyman Blackie's bill gave to the Regis
ter an income OF nearly $780, 900 a year. Those
was, the s~oftest snap ever worked on the New
York eonrts, Mcco9k was next sent to Con
s%oftest snap Of tho New York courts" until
1889. when Richard Croker, eT-Police Commits,
and other, Tammany men decided that the
Re0tster had had the good thing long enough.
NJ. Bowers as the great man OF the affair. The
Lnp Journal people decided that their journal
s shSu edu haT dot thS m9nop %SioS of pr printing nth ;, the S Off !
McCook was very wroth. He did not wish to
Cook was compelled to succumb. The Register
VOC 4 W. lc LuI OOuTVut. JOnn VI.
Bowers got one-half of the stock OF the new
concern and the other half was evenly divided
among McCook. the heirs of John l.ryan and
Davin Owens. the son and heir OF Josh. Nc.
Cook since those dayshas been the business
partner +, q the Tammsny men who hold the
Possibly this is one of tho reasons why Nc
Cook. as City Chamberlain appointed by Mayor
Strong, has retained in the office John II. Camp
bell. the old private secretary of Richard Gro
ker. and every Tammany oAiceholder he found
in the office when he was made City Cham
berlain by Mayor Strong.
Assemblymsn Blackic during the sickness
which resulted in his death frequently re.
ferred to McCook and the others in the Register
concern. in these words: Those fellows are
rolling in wealth which l gave them. while |
haven't a dollar" He was buried in the public
lot in Greenwood on April Do, 1888. His grave
cost $50. No hcadstone marks 1t. II Is not
even numbered. Mrs. Blackie died in inc
Home for lncurables in Westchcstcr couniy.
McCook is Seth Lows campaign manager. He
is worth $500, 600, most of which Blackie's bill
gave him.