New-York tribune., 1901-10-13

The indictments

nected in Westchester was known as Little
Monte Carlo" 1t fourished at a time when ihe
reform movement made New-4ork uncomiorta-
BILE for the criminal classes. Gamblers, SWIM
dlers, confidence men. poolroom proprietors anu
sharpers fled before the arm of the law, anu
much of this riffraff settled in Westchester
County. and places like Little Monte Carlo
dourished. They became the meeting places OF
New-York crooks and thieves. and the resi-
dents saw with alarm the danger to which the
youth of the places was exposed Little Monte
Carlo was finally wiped out but was Well re-
membered and much spoken of when Nagle ap-
peared in the new part of Commissioner OF
Street Cleaning under the Croker government
He is the kind of man whom Croker would
naturally select as a district leader. and he was
not slow to make good use of his influence His
brother Jack" was made warden of the City
District Prison at salary of $500; his b. 1other
Garry got fat job commissioner to-adjudi-
cate real estate claims. and another relative
was appointed superintendent of the city's
house for homeless men. The Nagle family was
under obligations TO the chief. and it could
be relied upon to do the work laid out for it
by the boss in England. The Street Cleaning
Department, according to Nagle, had two OBJ
jects-to clean the streets and TO promote the
interests of Tammany Hall. and. while Captain
Gibson. who was Colonel Warnings assistant and
who managed the department when Mccartney
at its head. took of the street cleaning,
Nasle used the depar tment in the interest of
Tammany Hall
His methods were illustrated recently by his
treatment of James Wilson. a clerk in his de-
partment- Wilson a Diver man and op-
posed Foley in his fight for the leadership of
his district Nage with Sullivan and Foley
and "agin" any who worked or spoke in the
interest of Diver. Wilson held his place under
\ the Civil Service heIiey-iuo- hin1Self
| to act he pleased that account took sides
with the whom Nagle opposed The big
street cleaner Will not stand for independence
on the part of men who work under him. and
in order TO bring that fact home 10 them the
clerk was deprived of his place, and a further
punishment detailed to drive ashcart
although he was receiving pay at the rate of
$3.50 year. The clerk had to wear a hat
piece like the ordinary ashcart men. and this
plate. bearing the number 500" he showed at
meeting while friend gave history OF his
case This dirty trick done at the sus-
gestion of Foley" said the speaker. When ne
found he could not throw Wilson out he got
Nagie to take him out of his regular work and
put him ashcart."
| This action characteristic of NagIe who
from the place of an ordinary cheap sport"
10 that of district ruler in short time He
content at time to exercise his pull with
the men who patroed the district in which
favOrite gambling resorts were situated while
he rules the police and is the power behind
the police captain in his part of the city. More
than year ago his influence with Tammany
great that merchants and business men
in the northern part of the city were afraid 70
demand their plain rights if they found that
their claims cIashed with Percy NagIe
The fact that Nagle's department is organized
in the interest of Tammany Hall shown last
month. when it became known that the shake
down system had been introduced in the street
cleaning service and that poor IabOrers Who
received pay at the of $500 a year were
compelled TO pay 80 cents a week into the Tam
many pool One of the foremen also declared .
that in addition To this Tammany tax the sweep
ers had To pay $50 year to one of Nagles uni
formed employees. There about thirty-three
hundred names the payroll of the Street
Cleaning Department and assessments such as
were mentioned by the men who complained
about the "shakedown" system instituted by the
Nagie administration give Tammany Hall a
neat little working capital.
Under orders from the District Attorney in
vestigations have been made as TO the manage
ment of the Street Cleaning Department and il
has been found that large of money have
been squandered since Nagle's administration
began. Under Colonel Waring scOws We're towed
to the sea at an average cost of about SIS while