Evening star., 1903-10-03
Tammany leader. and the pool room maa
nodded and went his way.
Back to the Plumbing Shop.


| back to his plumbing shop at about 1880
am.
1t took something less than fifteen min
utes for him to dispose of them all and
send them away with cheerful counte-
| nances. white wings who had been
fired from his job for drunkenness ex-
hibited the pledge he had taken before
the priest and asked Barney to help him
get his job back. bent. prematurely
white-haired woman asked him to use his
influence to have her sons probationary
term at the Elmra reformatory shortened.
A Chinaman. proprietor of a laundry. asked
him to exert his influence to keep the
hoodlums from shying bricks through his
laundry windows. An Italian woman
whose husbands leg had been crushed in a
subway accident wanted a note from him
to one OF the free dspensaries. SO that
she could get necessary medicines without
awaiting her turn in the line for hours
gfn-mill keeper whose license had been
taken away from him for violations of the
excise law. wanted his Endorsement to
application for new license. 4 cop whose
shield had been taken away from him for
clubbing an inoffensive citizen wanted
Barney "t' stan fr him at his trial before
EbStein. A reformed woman. who had
been unjustly arrested for alleged soliciting
wanted him TO pass the word around among
the plain-ciethes men engaged in rounding
up street walkers that she was now 'on
the level and trying to live down her past.
The treasurer OF the Ladies' Suit Makers
Association wanted him to promise to at
priest who was collecting funds to give
decent burial to bum who had once
been decent man in the district went
away with one of the Tammany leaders $40
bills. \ woman whose son had been sent
to the reform school by a trUnnt officer for
truancy wanted the son released. And SO
on. None of them was sent away cheeriess.
The Tammany man jOtted their woes down
on his blotting pad with plumbers pencil,
and by the time he had sent away the last
of them his telephone bell rang. and he was
ence.
He spent three-quarters of an hour there.
and then. with three other Tamu1 any lead
ers, he went to luncheon--to Delmonicos.
of course. You couldn't shy tomato in any
direction in Delmoncos at the luncheon
hour. these days, without hitting a Tam
many leader
The luncheon required an hour, and then
the Tammany leaders all fell II glancing at
their watches at once. They dispersed in Il
canter. all of them taking cabs. and The
leader of the ty-flrst was driven to new
fiat building for the plumbing work of
which he had the contract. He hurriedly
inspected the job. gave his men number OF
practical suggestions, chucked the Janltor
newest baby under the chin, and then was
driven to his home, where he reclined on the
sitting room lounge for an hour and con-
versed with his wife. The wives of the
Tammany leaders declare that this hour in
the afternoon, which all of them take.
offers them the only opportunity they have
of getting in a word edgewiSe with Their
husbands.
Visits Home and His CLUB.
This home siesta of an hour over, he put
his head under the cold-water spigot to
get himself. thoroughly awake and to con-
quer his growing sleepiness. and went to
his clubhouse with the Indian name around
which. as the afternoon wears on. the politi-
cal workers of the district begin to gather
every day with reports and to receive sug-
| pl,tl 10
| four-story brownstone building handsomely
| furnished throughout. with bar, billiard
| room and all of the attachments of a regu-
| lar club. Every year. out OF his own
pocket, the Tammany leader pays the big
| deficiency in the running expenses of this,
his own club and political Headquarters.
| Thirty or forty men. mostly sharp-look-
| ing. youngish fellows, were loungiEg
| around the club rooms when their CHIEF
| got there. They all saluted him as Barney.
but there no familiarity in their man
ner of ADDRESSING him. nevertheless.
The man who had contested the leader
| ship of the district with him and fought
him tooth and nail at the primaries was
| there. waiting for his arrival. They We're
Barney and Jim to each other, and nobody
would have dreamed that only a few weeks
before they had been bitterly asssiIing each
| others personal characters when the fight
for the leadership was on. That's little
way they have in Tammany- The man who
| essays to down the leader of district, and
| gets beat in his attempt. comes around. 10
| following his licking. renews his oath of
| allegiance and at the election fights for the
| man who has beaten him.
The sore-head who sulks after a THRASH
| ing administered a. the primaries never
| gets ahead in Tammany. They'll have none
of him within the charmed circle. He has
| got to make good at the election and
| await his turn, for many years it may BE.
| for the leadership.
| After greeting the bunch assembled
! around the club and receiving their reports
| as to what is doing in all corners of the
| district the Tammany leader retired to his
private Office with his political secretary
and stenographer, and for couple of
| hours they went over a heavy mail. The
| Tammany leader didn't do any debating.
| He told the secretary what he wanted said.
! and the secretary-an educated man ard
| clerk of court-did the debating to the
| Stenographer.
| Takes Dinner at the Restaurant.
| At O'Clock the Tammany leader quit
| this task, went to his dressing room in the
| club, put on a well-fitting dinner coat-the
| old time Tammany leader has passed. and
| all of the modern Tammany bosses wear
dress suits" or at least dinner clothes
| after dark-and went TO one of the garsh
| Broadway restaurants for an elaborate
| feed. The dinner is really the meal of
| the day that is enjoyed by the relaxed
Tammany leader. for his luncheon is marred
| it must be consumed owing to the uncom-
pleted stunts which await him. His COM
panionS at the dinner were "A famous He
| brew bookmaker who lives in his district,
| monologist of the vaudeville houses who
gets $500 a week for his work. and is a
| figure of some Importance in the councils
| of Tammany besides, and two or three
! other Tammany leaders.
At O'Clock the Tammany man aroused
| himself jumped into automobile and
| went to a silver wedding anniversary in
| his district, stopping at his club to get the
| handsome present which he had provided
| for the occasion. He made a rollicking
| speech, bussed the motherly-looking wo-
| man whose anniversary was being cele-
| brated, with the enthusiastic approval OF
! her delighted husband: danced with half
| a dozen of the girls, and then took his de-
! parture. amid the cheers of the crowd
sembled on the steps. From then on until
! nearly 3 o'clock in the morning he attended
| a ball of the Greeks of his district. a
! dance of the Children's Suit Cutters, the
| festivities attending the Jewish New Year
/ in the hall over a big restaurant, looked in
to see the finish of prize fight between a
| couple of bantams i'll a loft a stable.
| sloughed off a stack of yellows at faro
| bank being run on the dead quiet the
| edge of his district and then went home in
| a calOOSh doing all the way