The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-10-19
THE COST OF TANMArNY HALL
INHRSH AND BLOOD &c :.
WRITTEN BY MIR. FRANKLIN MATTHEWS.

ward. In 1893 the Health Board
records placed the tenement-house
population at 111,477, and the
deaths at 223S, the death-rate on
that basis being 2o.17. In 1899
the tenement-house population is
returned as 1o7,So4, the deaths at
2213, and the rate is 2I.46.
When the returns for 1900 are
in and the deaths in these East
Side wards can be studied, espec-
Tally the deaths of infants, perhaps
some strong light can be thrown
on the extortion of the Ice Trust
of Tammany Hall. If there is the
slightest increase out of the nor
mai proportion it will call to mind
the warning of an eminent physi-
clan of New York, DR.. Henry
Dwight Chaplin, who in a paper
which he read before the Medical
Society of the County of New
York on May 2S, 1900, said:
cit is estimated that there are
146, 600 children under the age of
three years in the boroughs Of
Manhattan and the Bronx, or 6.72
per cent of the whole population.
Recent studies show that if cows
milk can be properly cooled it will
keep considerable time, and is
much better than relying too large
ly upon superheating. Any diff
Guilty in the free procuring of ice
by the poor during the heated
months, whether from a scarcity Of
this article or from a cornering of
this staple by commercial greed,
is public calamity"
1t the Ice Trust shall have rails
ed the death-rate of the children
of the East Side the chambers of
Tammany Hall should surely be
haunted by childlike spectres for
many day to come.
The only possible excuse the
Tammany men can make about
this East Side death-rate is that the
sanitary police didn't make accr-
rate census returns. Well, the
census was taken by Tammany
men. The Strong administration
men were turned out, and if Tam
many chooses to declare her own
men are insufficient she brings an
other Indictment against herself.
She may take either horn Of the
dilemma. These records are the
only ones the Health Department
has, and there you are.
INCREASE IN JUVENILE CRIME.
Take another phase of Tammany
rule. There has been an increase
in Juvenile crime. This can be
proved. Let no Tammany man
dare to challenge the accuracy of
what declare. | warn him that
he will be overwhelmed if he does.
Tammany Hall, two years ago, it
may be remembered, through the
notorious Devery challenged me to
prove that the town was "wide
open" 1t may be recalled that
offered to prove what | said in
Harper's Weekly, to Devery or
any other man, and Devery sneak
ed away like the moral coward he
is.
This increase in crime is mo st
on the East Side and it exists not
withstanding the pull of polite
lans to keep it down. Let me
give an illustration or two. 1
know of one case on the East Side
where boy stole an overcoat.
Twice was complaint made to Po-
lice-Captain Herlihy about it, and
twice was he told where he could
get the boy. Nothing was done.
The owner got his coat back, but
not until money was paid for it.
know of a boy on the East Side
arrested six times in eight months
for stealing. In each case SEN
tence was suspended through Tam
many Hall influence. | know of a
block where man has started
sort Of settlement house, out of
motives of pure philanthropy. He
had his place crowded; he had a
wonderful influence with the boys.
ammany came along and, under
protest, allowed a pool room to
flourish directly opposite that
mans house, with sign "Steaks
and Chops" over the front door,
and a dozen boys whom that man
had under his influence slipped
aWay from him. and some of them