Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-04

dead. Johnnie" Carroll. Cookers familiar
who has all along been mentioned as Shee-
mans successor, IT is now said. cannot &C
cept the craftsmanship of the finance COM
mittee of Tammany Hall because of ...s du-
ties as clerk of the court of general ses-
sions. 1t is asserted that the judges of that
court would be unwilling to have Carroll
accept any political office; in fact. he had
to resign his district leadership when he
was elected clerk of the court.
Tammnny Begins to Grab.
The grab system is beginning. Following
the granting Of 4 trolley franchise through
forty miles of streets in Brooklyn, which
has been held UP by two injunctions, comes
another Tammany grab. 1t is the grant to
the Pelham Park Railroad Company of val
liable privileges without compensation, so
far as the city is concerned. 1t, however,
will be vetoed by Mayor Strong and dis
approved by the park board so that it may
have to hang fire until Tammany rules in
all departments after January 1. There
have been no street franchise scandals in
the New York board since Cookers Hue
kleberry' steal. There have .een none in
Brooklyn since the Willoughby street ring
piled the cumulating vilainy of the last
Nassau job on the back of Mayor Body
democratic administration and broke it.
Rumor has 1t that George Gould and
Richard Croker have had conferences at
Lakewood regarding the Manhattan Ele-
waited railroad 1t is not seen, however.
where Croker could aid Mr.. Gould in this
respect, except by the use of his influence
to procure an adverse decision on the
Rapid Transit plans from the appellate
division of the supreme court, or If this
was impossible the procurement of one
adverse minority finding which might af-
matter to the court Of appeals, and so af-
fecting delay in the new subway which
the people have voted for and which is
planned to pierce Manhattan Island from
Ia nrfh ord To he II orla
rivera fifty million dollar improvement
which would prove a source of great op-
position to the Manhattan Elevated road. =
Cause of Row With Sheehan.
1t has been suggested that the raoid
transit project is the real cause of the row
between Richard Croker and John c.
Sheehan-Sheehan has been an open and
dvowed advocate of the new subway. He
has argued over and over again that the
people have voted for the improvement and
that it is the duty of Tammany Hall lead
crs TO listen to the voice of the people so
emphatioally expressed at the polls. This
is the remote cause of the position as
sumed by Sheehan. The near cause is be-
lieved to be the desire of the contracting
firm of which Sheehan is q partner to Sc
cure the lions share of the work of con-
structins the subway. 1t is true, that
Tammany Hall, Richard Croker. the Great
er New York convention, Mayor Van
Nyck are all pledged to the municipal
ownership CT street railroads, rapid
transit and all that it implies, but what
cares Croker for that? If the courts de-
eide that the city On account of running
perilously near the constitutional debt limit
cannot build the underground road Croker
van Nyck ct al. viii set up a plea that
the democratic administration was willing
TO proceed in accordance with the pledges
incorporated into the party platforms, but
the courts have interviewed to prevent the
carrying out of these promises. That is all
the Manhattan Elevated railroad will ask
OF Croker and Tammany Hall, and in re-
turn 1t may be expected that they will add
10 the Sinews of war in the Tammany
treasury to aid the forward movement of
Tammany.