The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-05-31

PIER would pc good thing for the
babies ii those big Tenth ward tene-
ments, however It Is obtained
The next day while Tom AfcAlannis.
leated n a little Room back 81 his bar.
was talking over the details Of the
coming campaign with few of his
favored henchmena bartender entered
and In the confidential whisper as
sumed BY al practical politicians and
their followers announced that Harry
Wendell would like to speak to the
ward leader AlcAIannls nodded 20 his
Eetainers. who filed out Of the room.
When Harry entered. Mel fannis looked
at him with complacent hostility.
Il was at the meeting Of the City
Reform club yesterday, Z began Harry.
Il heard there was to be one.r muir
INJURED McAIannis, 'but i couldn't get
the time to go"
McAIannis and Wendell, while polIt.
ical opponents. were personally friend
" enough, The young lawyer laughed.
Il have been thinking Of what you
said yesterday afternoon about rec
reation pier. Itwould be a godsend to
the babies this hot weather. Now.
can't we combine on this point even II
we fight each other ON other matters ~
The leader Of the Tenth ward leaned
back In his chair. his hands In his
pockets, and looked hard at Wendell.
For reformers in general McAfannis
had a deep rooted dislike. But the
recreation pier for his ward had been
one Of McAfanniss heartfelt desires for
the last two years.
What you say is right replied Nc
Mnnnis after a moments thought. Il
certainly do want Che pier. and. what
IS more important. so do my people,
but | didn't expect help from the City
Is4Sorm club
1T isn't necessarily a political mat
ter" answered Harry, and perhaps II
both crowds combined we could force
the board Of aldermen 10 appropriate
the money"
we eould.S assented McMannis.
"and mighty glati would be TO see
the pier here whether che reformers or
the devil himself helped me to get it
I've been after Dorsey about it, but he
says the city needs the money for
something else. It makes me angry to
think, = added AIcAannls naively, that
Just because I've got the Tenth ward
so that 1t Is safe they insist all the
money ought to be spent in other
wards. It's coming election time,
though, and Dorsey won't want to-
make any enemies
Its worth trying anyhow" answer
ed Harry. "1'll hustle around and
bring all the pressure on the part of
the people know to bear on him."
If the other reformers were like that
boy" declared Mcsfannis impressiyely
to one Of his licutenants, 'lt's more
they would do in this world"
A week later Richard Dorsey, the
head Of the organization, the recog-
nized ruler OF city politics, was sitting
in his private Office, frown on his
face. For days the Express, the re-
form mouthpiece, had been printing
stories about the sufferings of the
children on the crowded east side dur
ing the hot weather and insisting that
a recreation pier was more needed
than the new payements In the outside
districts. But Dorsey and several OF
his political adherents were financially
interested in the paving contracts.
Stirring up all this trouble about
lot Of babies aud women who don't
vote" thought the bass angrily why
can't people mind their own busfness?r
And just then Tom McNIannis was an
McAiannis had called to talk over the
political situation in the Tenth ward.
As usual, this ward, the largest in the
city in point Of population. was solidly
for the machine. DoTsey's face bright
cned up at the first part Of his lieuten-
ants discourse. Then 1t clouded when
McAIannis said positively:
But 1t seems to me that we ought
to have that recreation pier anyway.
This hot weather is mighty hard on
the people,
What can do?" replied Dorsey Inn
patiently. III the city appropriates
money for the pier 1t win run over the
debt limit. You know the people at
Albany, and the reformers are just
looking to catch us up on that very
point"
You might let some OF those new
pavements go or have them put in for
half what 1t is going to cost answer
ed McMannis bluntly.
Dorsey looked disguised.
whats the use Of talking that
way?r he grumbled. "You know
where the money for that deal is go
ing. a man has to live, and so must
his friends Seems to me that didn't
hear any howl from you when we put
down the east side sewer. And you
know what that cost and who got the
money. Most Of 1t went right over to
the Tenth ward"
This unyarnished statement of city
finances was somewhat Of facer for
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