Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-10-26
Tammany Collects Election Fund
Estimated at 81, 100000.
DEMOCRATS In TIE STATE JEALOUS
Some Speculation Concerning the
New Base Ball Association.
DEER SEASON OPENS NOV. i
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.

For Two days Tammany men hold
ing city offices have been receiving
notices to send In their campaign
assessments. These notices are of the
kind that admit of no delay, and the
man who wants to hold his job and his
standing in the organization does not ig-
more them. The result is that money is
pouring into the wgwam in a large and
steady stream. Those who are familiar
with the Tammany method of assessment
estimate that the collections from office
holders this year will net 100000. Mr..
Qugg says that the Tammany revenue
from divekeepers and poolrooms will
amount to $4,000, and favored contractors
usually contribute literally to the campaign
fund. 1t is estimated that the wfgwam' S
revenue from all sources this fall will
amount to 100000. Some of the leaders
and workers who have seen the piles of
checks and cash delivered at the wigwam
by every mail are demanding a share of
the fund of their districts. And news of
the financial situation at Tammany
Hall reached Elliott Danforth in the
solitude and seclusion of democratic
state headquarters in the Hoffman House,
but no check came upon the heels of
report. 1t is current gossip in the
corridors of the Hoffman House that Tam
many has not contributed one cent to the
state campaign.
All the democrats up the state have
heard stories from this city and Albany of
what will happen to the New York city
charter next winter if the republicans re-
tain control of both houses of the legisla-
ture, The know that bills have already
been drawn which, il enacted into law, viii
deprive Tammany of not less than 81, H0,-
900 a year in patronage in this city. They
know that strong influences will be back
of these measures, and that the present
system of government in New York will
be materially changed this winter if there
Is republican assembly. Every democrat
up the state knows that Tammany is max
ing more money out of the city government
than it ever made under any previous ad-
ministration. They have heard that scores
OF Tammany men are getting rich, and they
are surprised that the organization should
appear so Indifferent to the election of a re-
publican assembly while spending enor-
nous sums to defeat one man (MazeO in
this city. The upstate democrats do not
pretend to understand such politics.
To Join ToIstoi's Followers.
So that he may devote his entire life to
following the theories of Count Leo Toistoi
and live among the Russian Dhoukho-
bortsi, the peculiar sect of Spirit Wrest-
lers'' who immigrated TO Canada from the
domains of the car early this year, Ern-
est Howard Crosby, son of the Rev. DR.,
Howard Crosby, has given up his law prac-
tite ana ClCSeu MS ONCE III lElS city.
Mr.. Crosby is now out of the city max
ing preparations for the life he expects to
live hereafter, and the news of his strange
step came through one Of his friends
When this simple, peace-loving sect decided
to leave Russia early last year and come to
a country where military service was not
compulsory, Mr.. Crosby was one of a COM
mittee formed in the United States to aid
them in coming here The other members
of the committee were William Lloyd Gar
rison of Boston, Jane Adams of Chicago,
George Dana BOardman of Philadelphia
W. O. Nelson of st. Louis and William
Dean Howells. Bolton Hal and l. n. Selig
man of this city. Aylmer Maude, a wea!-
thy and charitable Englishman, also de-
voted himself to the cause of aiding the
Universal Brotherhood of Christians" as
the DhoukhObortsi prefer to be called, to
finding a home in a new land
1t was intended at first to find a settle
ment for these people in Oregon or Wash
ington, and options on extensive tracts of
land were obtained from the Northern Pa
cific and Canadian Pacific railroads. But
their coming within the borders of the
United States was protested against by I'm
migration Commissioner Powderly, SO their
colony was founded in Canada. One of the
settlements is in the northeastern part of
AssnibOla, while the other is about twelve
miles further to the northeast, at the juno
ton of Manitoba, ASsinibola and Saskatch-
evan.