Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1906-08-25
President Roosevelt Backing
Young Graduates PIucky
Fight to OethrOne Big Tim
Sullivan Boss of Tammany.
SKYSCRAPER PAYS HALF
MILLION FOR COAL HOLE
Good Hunting Found in Heart
of Metropolis New YORK
Sees Menace in Example Of
Western City.
Correspondence Morning Journal

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correspondence Morning Journal
New York, Aug. 2l.-Can the Bow
cry be Harvardized, and can a young
gentleman fresh from the classic
shades of old Cambridge supplant Big
Tim Sullivan, the Tammany poten-
tate, as czar of the east side? These
are questions that are being seriously
considered in that turbulent quarter
these days ]. Brice Gordon Rine-
mart, young Harvard man who has
taken un his residence on the east
side, thinks they can be answered in
the affirmative and he is making the
first move toward the decapitation of
Big Tim by going after the republi-
can leadership In de thoid" assembly
district, Big Tins" baliwick. The
present republican leader is Jimmy"
March March was Chrstened Gia-
como Maggie, and up to year ago
was one of Big Tins chief demo-
cratic lieutenants. But Big Tim de-
eided that as the district was his
property he must control the republl-
an leadership as well as that of his
own party. So Maggie changed his
name and his politics and soon can
| tured the republican post That Is
the way politics are run on the Bow
cry, and besides the big republican
bosses were complacent. The district
was admitted to be Big Tins prop
| erty. But now Rinehart Is giving
the Sullivan dummy a hard fight. lie
! is what the Bowery calls good
| mixer and "a sport" The fact that
he knows several languages helps
/ him to make friends with the hetern-
geneous population. At first the Bow
/ np 10 at I.Gs
| gan TO admire him, and now II is bet
! ting on him. James g. Reynolds. CO
J author of the Neill- Reynolds pack
/ ingtown report is working hard for
| him, and Mr.. Parsons, the reform
| president of the republican county
J committee, stands by him. All the
resources of the Sullivan clan and
! the machine element in the republi-
! can oganizaton are pitted against
| him.
Since Mr. Rinehart opened his
! headquarters at the Capitol hotel. in
the heart of the Bowery, he has dis
| covered that the east side is fairly
/ sWarming with gentlemen who are
willing to admit without coaxing that
they also are Harvard men. They
are scarcely of the accepted Harvard
/ type, for tattered, beer stained clothes
and rubicond noses are their promin-
/ ent characteristics. Also they arc,
/ without exception, In need of pecuni-
airy aid, AT first they usually solicit
! Mr.. Rinehart for $40 for their starv-
| ing families, and later express a wilt
ingness to comprise for 8 cents for
a schooner Of beer Among the
! prominent Bowery gentlemen who
have confided to Mr.. Rinehart that
! Harvard is their alma mater are Mf.
y No.
class Of "a, Mr.. Mike the Bite class
of '9S; Mr.. Dash Me Shoes McCarty.
of President Roosevelts class, and Mr..
The Dog Is Dead Conlan, class of rs
The votes. of the Four Ply club, the
East Side Coffee Coolers, the Half
Mile republican association, and simi-
lar organizations have been offered w
Mr.. Rinehart by Harvard men of this
type. Mr.. Rlnehart. however simply
gives his lmportunate callers the glad
hand" and pleasant smile. And the
smile is winning on the Bowery. Mr..
| Rinehart, by the way has a good pre-
cedent for success. Not many years
ago Il young Harvard man entered
politics In a crowded district In New
York and soon had the Tammany
hoses on the run. His name was
Theodore Roosevelt and he is now
taking great interest In Mr.. Rinehart's
fight.
The Broad Exchange building. one
of New York's talest skyscrapers la
the Wall street district, has Just patti
the highest price ever given for a
coal hole. This was no less than
$325,O0O. When the big skyscraper
was constructed few years ago. the
boilers to furnish power for the great
elevators, electric lights steam heat.
etc, were located in an extension In
the rear, access TO which was only
through a narrow driveway running
, through the property of r. Il. Jen-
nings Recently Mr.. Jennings de-
cided that the carts that had to de-
liver fifty tons a day to the big sky
scraper were blocking his property
: and he forbade the building to use Il
for that purpose any longer. The
courts upheld his contention. and thp
7 managers of the Broad Exchange
building then found themselves witt
! n boiler room TO which II was Inn
! possible to get coal. In such n con.
= tingeney the elevators would be un-
! able to run, and a skyscraper with.
! out elevators Is a more helpless prop.
osltiOn than a ship without a rudder
The owners OF the building, with Wis
, ions of what the tenants OF the uppel
! floors would say some hot summer
! morning when they found that the,
must walk up twenty or more flight,
of stairs to their Offices decided e
act In a hurry Accordingly aftel
! some quick time negotiations, the,
solved the problem by purchasing fol
s32b,OOO another big building abuttImi
: ON the Broad Exchange. Through
: this they will run coal tunnel I,
their own boiler room.
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There Ii good shooting for gam
III the heart of the metropolis thes