Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-05-30
GOSSIP FROM GOTHAM
Shortage of $4,000 in Tam
many Treasury.
MAY BE INVESTIGATION
OFFER OF FREE HOMES TO
POLICEMEN.
Sad Case of Miss McCullom, Trained
Nurse, Who Has Tuber-
culosis.
MAY BE INVESTIGATION
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star

Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.
NEW YORK. May 20 l9r2.
When Lewis Nixon abandoned the leader
ship of Tammany Hall he left behind him an
Indebtedness of 5000. Nixon, when lie first
took hold of Tammany, discovered that there
was much less money In the treasury than
he had expected. There was no shortage Of
$4,000, but the accounts. so far as they
had been carried out showed that at least
5000 had been collected and not accounted
for. To find out where the deficit was
Nixon appointed committee which an
nounced that the money could not be found
either on the books or in the safe. In con-
sequence the wealthy men of the finance
! committee named i'm 1900 are expected 10
make good the deficiency, and John Fox.
Cord Meyer and John b. Mcdonald. who
are not recognized so much as politicians
as they are financiers are the men who
must make up the loss. Under the state
laws men who are responsible as commit
teemen for the expenditures of a political
party are amenable to a statute which re-
CURES them TO answer questions as to the
manner In which they expended moneys
contributed for political purposes
III Is said that the City Club will begin an
investigation with the assistance of District
attorney Jerome to discover how this
money has been spent and also as IN tho
amounts contributed. The penal code
"hlch In sections Al to As cover Violations
va the erection laws, provides for such an
examination at the request of an Interested
ciuzeh- Nixon refused to discuss the s,h-
Ject' saying that he is building ships now.
Free Homes for Policemen.
free homes for any and all policemen
VINO care to move into them are being ex
ci'edly discussed by the bluecoats of the
lehuerloln and neighboring precincts
ihefe are fne brown stone buildings of the
s'Sle OF twenty years ago, fats apartment
houses, detached homes with a patch or
garden, and all styles and conditions OF
,ioiies. NOT only are the buildings rendered
70 them rent free for three months or per
maps more. but Douglas Robinson bro, ber-
ln-law of President Roosevelt will he nlaas
ca III they Will all move in at once 1t is
only Ter the policemen to decide whether
IL is cheaper to move than to keen on ~,
ing rent. Mr.. Robinson is doing this 10
save money. The BOO buildings are on the
si0ullu 10 De used by the PENNSYLVANIA
ralroad for its great tunnel terminal When
MI Robinson, acting for the co,ppapv
purchased all the property embraced In the
-FOUR blocks the tenants or owners under
STOOD they would have to yacate Many
or them departed quicker than Mr. Rnbin,
son desired Soon after the former Occur
pants left the building thieves and yandaI.
a. Natchmen have been employed
70 pdtrol the deserted strip, but the robbers
nave kept busy. Mr. Robinson is nor nar
ucuiarly concerned about the petty thiey-
| cry but in tampering with the plumbing
the whole neighborhood is likely To he
hooded ana there is constant danger of fire
IN buildings that are not occupied and are
Ielt open TO vandalism. Some of the for
ii,er occupants are remaining in the houses
at reduced rents. Mr.. Robinson prefers To
nave policemen in the houses becausa
where uniformed men are seen coming and
going 1t has tendency to restrain bows
anu anu others who might enter the vacant
buildings If the policemen were not known
to be in the vicinity. Already ten nolice-
men have moved into comfortable ouartars
rent free, ard others to follow. II ia
not known when the work of tearing down
the buildings will begin.
Sad Case of Miss McCullom.
Slowly dying of consumption, Miss Isa-
oeila McCullom, refined young Scotch
woman. is held in the immigrants ward ~
the Long Island College Hospital. practi-
cally prisoner of the United States gov
eminent. She is a trained nurse and a mic
sionary, and came here from Naples Italy
on the steamer Aller. May 20 She was The
only first cabin passenger and when The
large shipload of immigrants was landed at
Ellis Island she was taken off with the
others IL was discovered that she had I'm,
berculosis. and under the laws of the United
States that is regarded as a contagious dis
ease. and any person not a citizen of This
country landing in the United States with
a contagious disease must be deported
But MISS McCullom cannot be deported
unless the government takes the responsi-
blllty OF sending her to sea to die The
physicians who have examined her saw thar
she could not survive another sea VOYAGE
Her parents died in New Zealand when she
was child, and during the greater ri of
her life she has been in Syria as a mission
airy and trained nurse. She has two we'll
to-do brothers in this country, one a fruit
grower in the Santa Clara valley. in CALI
fornIa. and the other. 7. NJ. McCullom a
prominent merchant in Streator H. who
is now here doing all he can for her He
hopes to effect some adjustment of the mat
ter with the government and take his sister
to California with her other brother where
il Is hOned that her life may he rrnln,,.-oa