Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1899-10-21
pGRAID JURY and THE SHARKS.
I The September Grand Jury Makes a
Ringing Report on the Awful
Blood Suckers.
Not Content with Robbins the Living
and the Dead, Sharks
Indict Them.
"A Poor Widow Who Sewed for q Liv.
ing and Had Paid Her
Note
Was Showed Out on the Street with No
Shelter for Herself or
Children.
No Wonder Tom Hoods "song Of the Shirt
Is Appreciated
Here,
For High City and County officials Sell the
Blood of the Poor for
CAIN
For High City and County Officials Sell the
Blood of the Poor for
Gain.

With the sky above my head,
And the grass beneath my feet;
For only one short hour,
TO feel as I used to feel.
Before knew the woes of want,
And the walk that costs meal!
"Oh but for one short hour!
A respite however brief!
No blessed leisure for love or hope,
Hut only time for grief!
A little weeping would ease my heart,
But In their tiny bed
My tears must stop, for every drop
flinders needle and thread!
with fingers weary and worn,
With eyellds heavy and red.
A woman sat, In unwomanly rags,
Plying her needle and thread.
Stitch! stitch! Stitch!
In poverty, hunger and dirt;
And still with voice Of dolorous pitch,
Would that its tone could reach the
rich!
She sang this Song Of the Shirt"
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The sharks Of Chicago claim to have
a combination which divides up $500.
600 year with city and county OIL.
Gals.
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Editor of The Eagle--Is John A.
Montgomery. Superintendent Of Mails,
son of Il. Montgomery, at "a In Sale
street, who loans mone.s 70 postofilcc
employees and school teachers at IN eX.
orbltant rate of interest?
The Jury boz In Cook County must
be above repcoach. ....,.,.a.
How much does sammy" Heyman
loan In a year to the City Hall EN-.
ployes, from police to street sweepers!
How much do Card and Eacutt loan
to policemen, fremen, school teachers
letter cariers and postoffice clerks?
Does Card, the fine clubman,, ever
charge more than 20 per cent? We
will learn.
In fact, there are many facts to be
looked up.
Does Sammy" Heyman ever charge
more than 20 per cent. interest?
We win learn.
Does q. Richardson ever charge mort
than 20 per cent?
The facts can be ascertained.
Card 4 Ecutt, who are directly
across from the City Hall, make spe
elalty Of school teachers, railroad men
city and county employees and salariet
people generally.
But of them more hereafter.
Does the Chicago Athletic Associa
ton make feature Of admitting 10
Is and 20 per centers to membership
BY the way, did you ever notice thu
amount of personal property taxes tha
any Of these gentlemen pay?
The notorious Sammy" Heyman !
one of the most talked Of men In cit,
and county circles. He is a peach, an
will prove fine subject for an invest
CATION. We will be pleased to hear frOr
all who have done business with him.
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j. R0senthal, alias "Cinch," of 80
Blue Island avenue, loans to the men
the city repair shops ut Ashland ave
nue. and 22d street, with the assistanc
Of man named Siegel.
"Clnch" Rosenthal. upon being intel
viewed by an Eagle reporter. acknOw
edged that he loaned to city emplOye
and got assignments from them Il
their pay. He showed his form of a,
signment of the salaries of City Ha
employees to himself, as follows:
Chicago, ILL.,, -, 1900.
City -.
Please pay to s., til
amount due - from the city Of Oh
cagO. for - hereby authorize -
to sign and receipt In - name II
| the same.
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