The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-13
ALDERMEN At 5000 A YEAR.
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ir,ina Tho municipality N ihH ownership
o. 1li 'husr ewfa tho,tua nlsg
ltu' rcicfa and he asaoclstaa. ~ wa 90.
ported ~ tho time. wete willing to ascfl.
r." their rerapual feriiasa In tbs matter Tor
tho s,he ~ The larger soo,la Ia the whoIe
fri
uui vns'efdsy there was M DOUBT Every
ronrcr knew tbs, he was getting twius as
D Hch md all s,rove ~ ba worthy. The
fHotpric'' mrtnbers al talked twice "a
much and hose WIN didn't ha W. n cha nca ta
mn h" speeches aid aye. aye" twice an
every roll call
President McUowan, whose sal,ry vi .n',
effected by tho recent lrEial,tlon. didn't
attend ~ all, and Alderman Ooudtnan won
h.. extra money eiaily Ivy preshiins and
counting a quorum when Aldprnan Bowling
san hat thara was no quorum there.
Money IL not thing to VA" siid Bowling
after Tho session. but The chairman seemcd
to 'hlnk no could count every man twice on
IN" g. no basis.
Thor" we're those present who didn't
tn NIX that all tho members beha vcd ! " ice ~
well ns usual, The Democrats Missed the
Ret uhlic'ns and the Republicans Kissed
the Democrats. Then the petersss Kissed
tho Democrats and Republicans. Bowling
cid th't the chairman waS guilty Of IA
small trick" and W r ,pnblici M voted with
Tlmm1ny bsc iu$e they too thought that
the majority hid done tho minority dirt"
a. little Tin put II, in q most untwot ho,i-
slrd dollars like m,nusr.
Alderman Andrew j. Doyle from the
Battery alone was happy. He wouldn't
have cared yesterday il his wages from the
city had been cut down to $500 a year. for
he appeared as the most popular Alderman
in New York city, and wore to the City Hall
for the first time the diamond Alderman mic
badge which he had won in a coupon con-
test.
He had won on his merits alone. for he
had never made a speech in the Board. and
none Of the other members seemed to know
him until he introduced himself yesterday
and flashed the badge from the port strap
Of his gallnses.
Altogether Alderman Doyle was the most
gayly caparisoned statesman who ever
entered the City Hall. In addition TO the
$1,000 badge he wore the Doyle collection
OF detached gems on his fingers and in the
three holes Of his blue heglige. The man
from ParNla In Ill H., n-:~-a
was a dull drab prince in comparison Nth
the new Gaekwar Of the Battery.
II 1t had been his custom to make a speech
Alderman Doyle could rave settled the dis
pute as 10 whether there was a quorum
or not, because he had shown his badge to
every member there and kept count so he'd
know at the next session who hadn't seen
It. The rim Of the badge was crowded
with diamonds and rubies. and as there
wasn't room enough for a thousand dollars
worth another diamond had been fed to the
gold elgle in the middle for gravel.
Those sispenders amt as new as they
ought to he to pin a badge like that to-"
said Alderman Doyle, apologetically, a. he
showed his thumb under the strap Of his
brace 5 and shook it 10 make the gems glisten
when Little Tim was looking. I'm going
to get some new ones before the newt seS-
sion"
For the first time in his life Alderman
Doyle wished that he was a Republican,
50 that he could sit on the north side Of the
cham ar, where the windows are. and where
the direct rays of the light could play upon
his jewels as he displayed them from time
to time when he threw back his coat to
search his pockets for important docu-
merits that were not there.
Private citizens who do not have the
freedom of the Aldermanic floor may zee
the badge any time, except between / and
/ q cloo IL the morning, by calling at Alder
man Doyle's ~dispensary, down near the
Battery.
" 1t was the baseball procession by the
City Hall early in the afternoon that tempted
so many OF the members away from. duty
and their first opportunity to show that
they were worth 5000 a-ie oe. AS o o
as the last OF the ball chamri ons had Passed
the Mayor there was a stampede of negligent
Aldermen ron the City Hall steps to fol-
low the band and the Giants. President
MCGOWAN himself, who helped review the
players, was not seen after the Parade.
Alderman Reginald Doull didn't look
any more prosperous yesterday on 81. 900
a YER because that was impossible, for he
had always been neat and dressy on his
$40 a week. But he seemed surer Of him
self. He was quicker to note when Little
Tim had stepped out of the room, so that
be could pace back and forth on Little II MS
special beat in front of the chair.
Alderman Downing earned his increase
OF salary by bitterly opposing a resolu-
ton to appropriate $4,000 to make up
defoienCi,s in the salaries Of some clerks
up in The Bronx. He wept some Tuesday
afternoon tears for the taxpayers, and when
Alderman Meyers, the Republican leader,
expressed his approval of the $40 900 resolu-
ton Alderman Downing turned and charged
him with the crime of June, 1908, meaning,
Of course, the reapportionment.
The gentleman weeps," said Alderman
Richter from The McManus, "he weeps for
the taxpayers to-day, but a week ago to-
day, Mr.. Chairman, he was tickled to death.
] rereat, Mr.. Chairman, that the gentle
man was tickjed to death a week ago to-
day, because in this very chamber we appro-
rriited the money to increase our own
salaries by 100 per cent. And he wept not,
III Chairman. He voted aye for the dough.
he was joyous after the ~sleepless nights
that he had passed for fear that his friends
in Albany would not give to him the extra
money of the taxpayers for whom to-day
he weepe.
III, MIR. Chairman aid gentlemen, sup
Iose that a week agoTto-day we had voted
no The sobs OF the gentleman from
Brooklyn would have been heard above
the loud huzzahs OF the gentlemen of this
board as they cheered a week later the pro-
cession Of the victors of the diamond, the
true representatives OF all the people all
the summer time. I repeat, Mr.. Chairman,
that the tears Of the gentleman from Brook
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