The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-08-27
HAS UNDERTAKEN
A BIG CONTRACT
Young Harvard Graduate Will
Tackle big Tim" Sullivan
on East Side, New York.
B0WERY LAUGHS AT HIM
GLOOM FOLLOWS SCARCITY or
LOBSTERS.
Especial to The Herald.)

/
fresh from the classic shades of Old Cam
J bridge supplant Big Tim Sullivan, the
! Tammany potentate. as car of the East
Side? These are, questions that are being
seriously considered in that turbulent
| Rinehart, a young Harvard man who has
| taken up his residence on the East Side,
! thinks they can be answered on the al
! firmative and he is making the first
move toward the decapitaton Of Big
Tim by going after the Republican lead
Big Tins bailiwick. The present Repub-
! lican leader Is Jimmy March. March
was christened Giacomo Maggie, and up
to year or so ago was one of Big Tins
Tim decided that as the district was his
| property he must control the Republican
/ leadership as weH as that of his own
| party. SO Maggie changed his name and
! his politics and soon captured the Repup-
! lican post. That is the way politics are
run on the Bowery, and besides the big
Republican bosses were complacent The
| district was admitted to be Big Tim
| property. But now Rinehart is giving the
| Sullivan dummy hard fight. He is what
! the Bowery calls good mixer ana a
sport" The fact that he knows several
! languages helps him to make friends with
| the heterogeneous population. At first the
/ Bowery laughed at him. then it began
| to admire him, and now it is betting on
him. James B., REYNOLDS. co-author OF
| the Neill-Reynold's Packingtown report
is working with hi n and Mr.. Parsons, the
reform president OF the Republican coun-
! " committee, stands by him All the re-
] sources of the Sullivan clan and the ma
/ chine element in the Republican orSaniSa-
! ton are pitted against him.
Harvard on the East Side.
! Since Mr.. Rinehart opened his head
! quarters at the Capitol hotel in the heart
| OF the Bowery. he has discovered that the
! East Side is fairly swarming with gen
| tlemen who are willing to admit without
/ coaxing that they also are Harvard men.
! They are scarcely of the accepted Har-
ward type; for. tattered beer-stained
/ clothes and rubicund noses are their
| prominent characteristics. Also they are
! without exception in need of pecuniary
aid. At first they usually solicit Mr.
lies. and later express a Willingness TO
! compromise on cents for a schooner OF
beer. Among the prominent Bowery gen
/ tlemen' who have confided to Mr.. Kline
! hart Rat Harvard is their alma mater
| are Mr.. Trailing Arbutus Biggie Dono-
/ van, 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 Conan,> class of rs. The
votes of the Four Ply club: the East Side
/ Coffee Coolers, the Half-Mile Republican
| association, and similar organizations,
| have been offered to MI Rinehart by
! Harvard men" of this type. Mr. Rine-
| hart however simply gives his impor-
| tunate callers the glad HAND and a
! pleasant smile And that smile is win
! ming the Bowery, Mr.. Rinehart, by the
way. has good precedent for success:
Not many years ago a young Harvard
man entered politics in a crowded district
/ in New York and soon had the Tammany
! bosses on the run. His name was Theo-
! dore Roosevelt and he is now taking great
( interest in Mr.. Rineharts fight.
Big Price for Coal Hole.
The Broad Exchange building. one of
/ New Yorks tallest skyscrapers in the
! Wall street district. has just paid the
highest price ever given oo for a coal hole
| This was no less than $4,000. When the
/ big skyscraper was constructed a 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 had only
| through a narrow driveway running
through the property of F. 3; Jennings.
! carts that had to deliver fifty tons day
| to the big skyscraper were blocking up
his property, and he forbade the building
| to use it for that purpose any longer. The
courts upheld his contention, and the man.
! ayers of the Broad Exchange building
! then found themselves with boiler room
] to which IL was impossible TO get coal
In such a contingency the elevators would
/ be unable to run, and skyscraper with
out elevators is a more hopeless PROPOSE
| owners of the building, with visions Of
what the tenants of the upper floors
would say some not summer morning
when they found that they must walk
/ up twenty or more flights of stairs to
! their offices, decided to act in hurry.
! Accordingly. after some quick time negO-
! tiations, they solved the problem by pur-
! chasing for $4,000 another big building
AUDITING on the Broad Exchange.
! Through this they will run a coal tunnel
/ TO their own boiler rooms.
Official Huntsman.
There is good shooting for game in the
heart of the metropolis these days. The
sport is obtained in the broad acres of
! Central park. but only one. man is al
lowed To enjoy il. This favored indi-
vidual is Arthur Hassler, the official
huntsman OF the park department, whose
duty il is to scout about Central park
with his rifle and a pocketful of car
tridges and Kill the small animals that
! prey on the squirrels, birds and rabbits.
| Stray dogs that worry the ducks that
waddle ashore from the ponds to beg
| food from visitors; predatory cats that
! climb trees TO rob the nests. or hunt the
/ squirrels which are tame and lazy; rats
that live about the ponds and kill the
young fowl-these are all fair game for
| the official huntSman's skill In the
/ first week of this month he killed twenty
| eight cats seven dogs and ten rats. Since
! the open season for dogs, cats and rats
began this spring, about $50 of them have
! fallen victims to his rifle.
Municipal Ownership.
The persistence with which William R.
! Hearst maintains himself in the limelight
as a candidate for office makes the uues-
ton of municipal ownership-the leading
| Hearst issue-of special interest to New
! Workers. and every fresh deyelOpment I'm
country is promptly taken up and dis
cussed by the metropolitan press. During
! the past week the difficulties which
Omaha is encountering i'm attempting to
secure the control of the water works
system which supplies her citizens has
come in for special attention. According
to the press dispatches published here
the city first forced the local water com
pany into an agreement for an appraisal
| Of its property, then attempted to de-
! preciate the value of the property by re-
/ ducing water rates and holding up the
companys bills. and finally is trying to
evade its contract because the appraisal
| Is larger than the amount appropriated
/ for the purchase of the property The
New York Times, in a leading editorial
asserts that the confiscatory spirit ac-
centuates most attempts at municipal
/ ownership and number Of persons have
! been moved TO write to the paper point
/ ing out that this and similar develop
ments is hurting the credit OF American
/ municipalities and making the investing
public wary of the bonds of cities that
show disposition to disregard their obli-
| cations. All OF which tends TO indicate
that the municipal ownership question is
| still very much alive in spite Of the de-
! feat of Hearst at the last election