New-York tribune., 1906-05-13
WARE PADDEN'S TUG.
SEEKS WATER MAIN THUG
'1fike Is on the job. Begad- Best
Register E'Uer Had"

70 hoi for a life the briny deep.
Within plain sight OF the land;
In city tug with a Sullivan pull
And a crew to beat the hand
Then it's help yourself 70 the salt sea brine
But mt 10 the croton MAINS
For Captain Padden Is the job
An he's goin pinch every graftn' slob;
Then 70 Padden. Irish gent.
The Of McClellan's government.
Prom Little Tim" SulIivans Waterfront Ballads
Colonel Michael Clarence Padden is out after the
banner inscribed The best Water Register New
York ever had and It looks SIS II he would get H.
If any one thinks Colonel Padden, vice-chancellor
in the Sullivan hierarchy. does not mean business
he'd better watch him.
He's after the tugboat water grafters who
have successfully defed the city government for
years and he's after them in a strictly original
way. Not content with making his bureau produce
more revenue for the city treasury by S12io00 for
the first quarter Of this year than il produced be-
fore he started out last week after the tugboat
owners. who have habit of helping themselves to
city water from the hydrants along the waterfront
without so much as saying by your leave
Colonel Padden asked the Commissioner Of Water
Supply for swift tug with which to capture the
water pirates
II you any kicking around my ONCE help
only another way Of telling Colonel Padden that he
couldn't have tug. tugs cost money.
'I'H get one said Mike.
Let's see you. and good luck to you" said Eli
son. who knows what it is to want things and not
get them.
Down went Padden 10 the Dock Department, and
there he found tug somewhat deliberate in its
gait and somewhat Wheezy the water track
I guess it'l do" said the colonel
IN Few days he had supply OF coal on board
a. number of husky sailors from the BOWery ana
himself the Quarterback
Results speak for themselves Between May i
ana 10 he has personally collected 5000 90 from
tugboat captains who had licenses to take wa
ter from city hydrants. Moreover, he has discoV-
cred that many tugbOats which have been paying
only $40 and $50 year for licenses really ought 70
pay $500 year, and these he has put in the $500
class. More than that Colonel Padden mas Gls-
covered that there three hundred boats IN New
York HarbOr without any water licenses whatever.
and in the last ten days he has caught nifty OF
these and made them stand and deliver.
what they DONE" said Of Colonel Padden s as
sistants yesterday to a Tribune reporter They
said he shine water register, and that hurt
his feelings. and that's why he's started in to
break all records in the Water Department. You
see, continued The TTibUne's informant, Mike
used to be sailor himself, and you can't fool him
about waterfront matters. When the boatmen see
Colonel Mikes tug comm now they know there's
somethn doin', and they try to skin out Of reach
Mike knows the tricks of the trade. however, and
he's picking UP all the grafters and making them
take licenses
Mayor Mcclellan and Commissioner Ellison are
greatly pleased at the results Mr.. Padden is obtain
ing. The receipts Of the Water Registers bureau
have broken ali records, and Colonel Padden saws
that he's only just got well started