Cañon City record., 1900-11-01
"GREAT IS TAMMANY AND
CROKER is ITS PROPHET"

on the East Side, any higher? Are
homes for the unfortunate and fallen,
the absolute weary of this world, over
crowded?
All these are proper questions, espe-
cially as Tammany Hall has become
supreme In state as well as local pol
itics, and because its leaders are am
bilious. The questions demand fair
and truthful answers. Let these an
swers be set forth here.
East Side Death Rate Increasing.
Take the death rate first. Ever since
the beginning of Mayor Strong's ad-
ministration the New York city death
rate has been going down, swiftly in
the days of the Strong regime, very
slowly in the days of resumed Tam
many rule. Good pavements and fair
street-cleaning have done it But that
is the condition for the entire city, or
rather the boroughs of Manhattan and
the Bronx, the .'old city," But how
about the East Side? How about the
Seventh, Tenth and Seventeenth wards,
where the great tenement-house popu-
lation lives? Here are some figures
from the Health Board records, records
now under the complete control of
Tammany Hall. The total tenement-
house population in the Seventh ward,
according to the census of the sanitary
squad of police in 1898, the first year
of the Van Wyck administration, was
3d. ,256. The number of deaths In that
ward during the year was 1883. The
death rate on the basis of the tene-
ment-house population was 1857 In a
thousand
! What do we see here? An increase
In the death rate of the Seventh ward,
on the only available figures under
public control, of 2.21 per cent; IAN in
crease in the Tenth ward of 2.3o per
cent; an increase in the Seventeenth
ward of 1.39 per cent. Is Tammany
rule costing flesh and blood? The
death rate has gone down In the entire
city in the last five years, and these
Health Board figures based on esti-
mates from the police census estab-
lish 1t: 1895, 23.11; 1896, 21.52; 1897,
1858; 1898. 1873; 1899. 1885. The ac-
tual death rate in these years, as
based upon the recent federal census
returns. wasi 1895, 23.19; 1896, 21.S4;
1897, 20.O3; 1898, 20.46; 1899, 1881.
Nearly one per cent. difference exists
between the Tammany estimates for
1899 and the actual result. A difference
of one per cent. In the death-rate In n
population of 100000 means 1000
deaths. In population of 100000,
that of Manhattan and the Bronx, 1t
;means 1900 deaths. Such is the Jug
glery with the city's health returns,
and such is the record of Tammany
rule-namely, very small reduction in
the death rate OF the city as a whole,
compared with the Strong administra-
tion, and very decided increase in the
death rate In the thickly crowded dis
tricts of the East Side. Notice, II you
will, that the population Of the three
wards on the East Side, according to
these official figures. is falling of. Is
1t because, as Mayor Gilroy, who is no
longer power in Tammany Hall, COM
planned, the city administration is max
ing New York city, particularly the
East Side, the home of the poor, a
most expensive place In which to live?
Increase In Juvenile Crime.
Take another phase of Tnmmany
rule. There has been an increase in
Juvenile crime. This can be proved.
Statistics on this subject are difficult
to obtain, but they can be reached.
When the new city charter went into
effect provision was made for bureau
of statistics to cover all such data as
would be suggested by death-rate in
quiries, by speculations as to the in
crease or decrease of crime, or the in
crease or decrease in burdens OF any
kind for the municipality. Never has
Mayor Van Wyck consented to equip
the bureau properly Schedules OF In
quirfes into city affairs must be ap-
.rr.fI 4. II.
preached about 1t he has put the mat
ter off. The consequence is that the
bureau has to publish statistics of port
commerce and the like. 1t can get no
money to make thorough study of
the city's affairs, such as Is done in
many Of the cities Of the Old World.
Now. 1t Is matter of common gossip
that there are more trials for embezzle-
ment and robbery in the courts than
ever before. Accurate statistics regard
ing the matter. in the present crude
conditions of city record keeping. would
require a tremendous amount Of
searching. Still, know of a private
record that will show that the number
of arrests of youths in this city for
robbery has increased enormously.
Would you see the effect of Tam
many upon the children OF the East
'ihts w BhSt stoitS VI tnt ClueT ST.
looms" and see the inmates, wretched
creatures, swarming to the doors on a
warm night to solicit trade or to get a
breath of fresh air, and then watch the
children stare at them In sullen won
der. know of public school within
150 feet of which there were four Of
these places recently. Do you want
your children exposed , to such in
fuences? Does even the average Tam
many man want his children exposed
to these influences? No. Why, then, do
they exist? Some one Is making money
out of it. Tammany dare not shut
down on this kind of tribute and al
low other kinds to exist. Well do I re-
member going into cider saloon" Just
of the upper end of the Bowery In
gathering material for this article. Its
name was THE Maine" A dozen
mattresses" were there. A relntive OF
the proprietor OF the place brought In
three-year-old little girl, gorgeousIy