New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-10-11
THE COST OF TAMMANY.
1T is NOT MEASURED IN MONEY. BUT
IN FLESH AND BLOOD.
IF BRYAN is ELECTED ITS CORRUPT LEAD
ERs MUST HAVE VOICE IN DIRECT
ING NATIONAL AFFAIRS

In the current number of "Harper's Weekly
dated October 49, Franklin Matthews prints the
most scathing arraignment that has appeared in
| some time Of the ''Tammany idea in politics. name
| ~ make money anyhow and anywhere you can. so
long as you up your tracks and he backs
up his statements with array Of facts and fig
ures which the Tammany leaders themselves will
not dare to deny. The Cost of Tammany Hall in
| Flesh and Blood" is the title OF Mr. Matthews's
articie. He points out that Tammany Hall has be-
| come supreme in the Democratic party Of New
YORK State. because it had the money" and that
now its leaders looking toward Washington
| Ihen he proceeds to show what Tammany misrlIe
mas done FOR New-York City. has made this citv
| wide open town." for the wide open town as
! Iammany Halls visible means of support This
means that New-York City has been made most
expensive place for poor people live in that the
poor man is paying for the wide open town in ex-
| oroitant rents that the sick suffer because ice
DIS are doubled that this policy is costing the lives
OF the young and old. that the system Of filth and
corruption visible at every hand is eating up flesh
! ana blood, that young men and women are being
! ruined IN greater numbers than before Tamuauy
came back into power, that crime Is increasing
'iiat ourlals IN the Potter's Field growing
Oh proper proportion. that the crimes against chill
en are on the increase, that human life Is not so
sale as before. that the death rate esnecia1lv On
/ the East Side in the crowded tenement districts is
! higher. and that homes for the unfortunate and
laHen are overcroWded. Some of the facts and
! figures adduced to prove these things are the fol-
! lowing:
EAST SIDE DEATH RATE INCREASING.
Ever since the beginning of Mayor strong's ad-
! Ininistrauon the New-York City death rate has
regime very sowy ~ In h IN 5 R days + the
many rule Good pavements and fair street clean
- nays zone II. But that is the condition for
LLhe entire city, or rather the bo-oughs of Man
| haitian and The Bronx, the "oId city But how
! ABOUT the East Side? How about the Seventh
! lenth and Seventeenth wards where the great
guTes from the eaR Board records are fee sos
The t TaG[ Ie complete control OF Iampapy Hall
squad of police in 1895. the frst year Of the Van
! WICK administration, was S,256 The number Of
deaths in that ward during the year 1855 The
1eat4 rate on the basis OF the tenement house
| POPULATION was 1851 in a thousand In 1899 the
was 70 s3 and the 5eat6s numbsrsd 34s Tbe
death rate in a thousand was 1908, Look at the
uon was S21lo. The deaths numbered Lon the
qeaLA rate being 1903 In the next year the popu-
teenth Ward In 1875 the Health Board records
placed the tenement house population at n1iT
3na the deaths at 1893 the death rae , on that
!ation is returned as 1e78A the deaths at 23l8 and
What do We see here? An increase in the death
rate OF the Seventh Ward. on the only available
increase u n the Tent6 Ward Of rs per cent an
increase in the Seventeenth Ward Of L39 per cent
if will that the population Of the three wards
ures, is falling OF. Is it because. rs Mayor Groy,
who is no longer power in Tammany Hall COM
york CITY particuary the East Side. the home Of
the poor, most expensive place in which to live?
ExTORTIoN OF THE ICE TRUST.
When the returns for 1900 IN and the deaths
in these East Side wards can be studied especially
the deaths of infants, perhaps some strong light
may be thrown the extortion Of the Ice Trust
OF Tammany Hall If there is the slightest in
crease out of the normal proportion it Will call
mind the warning of eminent physician OF New
York DR. Henry Dwight Chaplin. who in paper
which he read before the Medical Society Of the
County of New-York May Is 1900 said.
is tS estimated ID b that there CHILDREN
Manhattan and The Bronx. or 672 per cent Of the
whole population Recent studies show thar if
9gs Bos e ad is q99 better ey q
the free procuring of ice by the poor during the
heated months. whether from a scarcity. Of this
meycial greed. is 3 public calamity
INCREASE IN JUVENILE CRIME.
There has been an increase in juvenile crime.
This can be proved. Statistics on this subject are
difficult To obtain. but they can De reached
know Of private record that will show that the
number Of arrests Of youths in this city for rob
rninstraton it was rare to ind more than four or
five boys-that is to say. youths-under TWENTY
6ns in the IomoS At one T9e ayattRg trial for
thirds OF the boys awaiting trial in the city prison
record of which have spoken and found thar not
long ago the ratio of boys in that prison charged
five. I was allowed to take the entry for one week
haphazard from TINS record. II Eas the record for
touched In that week there were in the Tombs
thirty-six boys awaiting trial Twenty-Five of them
We're charged with burglary, seven with grand
larceny and only five with msdemeanoTs. Ex-
animation showed that the week I selected not
exceptional The rate of increase in thievery among
juveniles since. the Tammany Hall regime was re-
sumed is simply appalling
PoTTER's FIELD INTERN1ENTs
It may be a far CRY SAYS Mr.. Matthews, from
moral depravity in great city aided and abetted
by politicians and police TO buriaIs in Potter's
Field but there IS a remarkable increase in this
city in the interments OF the unfortunates whose
last resting place is one about which no human |
affection centres The keeper of the City Morgue, |
at the foot Of East Twenty-sIxth-st-. gave me |
these figures of the burias Of adults in Potter's
Field for the last three years 1897 Gast OF the
Strong administration lob, 1895 2039 1899. 1880
Practically the Potters Field interments have |
nd this in times of great business prosperity. |
What does IL meana There can be no DOUBT that |
Victims fresh supply of raw material constantly. !
IS IL not possible that Wnen me oid Supply y worn
ay their heads for the long sleep that knows no
waking in this world? II II worthy OF note that
marked change. the figures being 1897. 500;
'SS 3oS5 1899. 5l54 In the parlance OF the day 1t
IS up TO Tsmmany Hall 10 explain these hgures
POLICE COURTS REVEAL TANIMANY'S GUILT.
Come now to the police courts for proof Of the
deseneracy of the town and what II costs Here
are definite igures-hgures that Devery, York. Van I
Nyck any other man cannot dispute or pretend |
20 controvert The report or the city Magistrates
for 1899 published recently. is eloquent with facts
that show Tammany's alliance with crime and the
easy conscience with which crime Is aHowed 70 |
exist The arrests for the year 1889 were 2.29i |
fewer than the year 1898 the total for 1893 being
S9'Slt The number OF males arrested was it,1-t.
and the number of females was I 80. Compared
with the previous year there was decrease in the
number OF males of 1922 and an increase-here's
what tells the story-in the number OF females Of
; OPS. Devery's friend Nelson and the other pro-
fessional bondsmen can probably explain why there
Increase