The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-07-15
folks gave UP trying to do business With

/ him.
. Cassidy's men were all with their ch,ei
N his decision. and a week ago when the
news that dresser was to be- indict ed
leaked out they held Jubilee N Mlll"r's
! Hotel aud the horseshoe bar took on 4
joyous ASPECT u used 10 have ~hen Cas-
sidy was In power and the gang kathered
about three ranks deep 20 drink TO the man
who made ready money easy To come by
Cassidy Was twice President Of the
Borough, serving two year terms. The
| job paid him IS 900 a year and he was not
reputed % be- wealthy when he got Il.
but u was harvest time IN the borough
The building Of the Queensboro Bridge
and the PsnnAylvan,a tunnel and the
/ "lectrlfcatIon OF the Long Island Rail
! rad sent real estate values klting
Owners ot property IN the outskirts ot
Long Island City wanted sewers and water
mains and cUrbed street 10 make their
lots attractive. during tho early part
OF the buOm sewers were run through the
woods with such hasts. and lack Of en-
gtneering that they say over IN Queens
that thena Rro now miles ~ Cassidy built
sewers that cannot be traced through
the woods
This was only one at many avenues Of
proht and presently Cassidy began a.
buy real estate and a. loan money on
mortgages. lie was also a patron 10 the
racetracks and kept fast driving HORSES
and Yacht HIS activity IA rial t.stat"
attracted general attention and TuE
SITS IN 1875 compiled "A list ~ his hold
ngs which showed that Cassidy as Bor-
ough President On S.OO year had
managed e. be economical enough To-
pUrChas, real estate whose pric. ne
stated IN tn" official records aggregated
sag 500
Oh yes. they investigated Cassidy
In the first year uf his first term four
taxpayers made forty seven cha ges
against him o. Mavor Low. The Com
mIssioners 81 Accounts investigated the
charges and sustained twenty-fouT ~
them and specified fifty five cases II the
employment IT Cas-Idy's friends ia city
Jobs with winch they had no connection.
In some CIs.'s the jobs didn't exist
Mayor Low referred the charges Ia Gov
Ot'll The Isoplc IN Queens waited
hopefully. but nothing happened. except
that they got another term IT Cassidy
when isernel s.IIleu away cassidy
started ia at once o. get hack the old
Job which made s. .tpO "A year do such
wonders. Gr'sser. with Sheriff Harvey's
hacking. opposed him. and when the
showdown came On the Aluerman's Vut"
dresser won II was said that IN order
u insure two IT the Gr,-ser Aide ruen
voting right they wer,' locked up away
from the Cassidy influence and only taken
Dut IN time 10 vote.
Cassidy didn't quit. however. hut AZ
the primaries in 1919 managed 10 get
away with the dresser organization and
TO win in three ~ the four districts Court
proceedings proved that there had hs'en
some queer things don" AT thns" pri-
maries. hut the fac" of IN" returns wasn I
altered enough To take away from cassidy
hts control ~ the delegates and mem'ers
Il the county committee.
Cassidy was promptly nominated Tor
Borough President, b'It the dresser dele
gates b1lted and dresser ran lndeIsnd-
emily with Hearst Enforcement. The
hattie cry was, Vote for Honest larry.
and Gr~ss~r won
Now tn. Cassidy followers say that
cassidy ~ just a. good as Bermel or
Gre--sr. and that anyway he's no -pik"r.
meaning that h. didn't deal in job lots
Il graft and tia, he was never caught
with the goods Hts following has ieen
greatly str-ngt hansd 10y the renewed hope
that he may again hold tn" strings ~ the
borpugh's purSr and the isSSidyiteS are
already charming majority ot tn" five
Aldermen m who's" hands the decision
will lie Il tiesssrr goes out.
The five Aldermen are Darrell Entholt
- Long Island city. who received his
nomination from TN. Republicans and was
indor-cd hy Gr"sser and the lrd"pen-
d-nC.' ! eague. August Dujat 10 Corona,
who - put down az a rNlght cassidy man,
Frederick IN. u ~ Bay Side. elected On the
GrcS-"r ticket, \. ". Shlpley of Jamaica.
elected on the regular Republican ticket
and with no dresser Ut cassidy allegiance,
and Edward Brady of Far RockawGy.
elected or the Gres-sr ticket. just which
the two besides Dulat arr upon whom Oas-
-idy's men count isn't known. but several
Of the AID" rrn,n are DESERVED politically
a. doubtful
Queens J. getting Rwak" 10 IN" danger
81 another Cassidy administration. ard
every EFFORT will - made u get the Alder
IN, n II the tim. comes 20 act 90 vote for
some one outside - the regular political
rirgs IL ha, been saId that the salary
~ s. O'p a wear mad" u impossible Ia get
the kind ~ man for the job that the peopl"
really want. but II was said yesterday that
Kut-srt Thomas of Flushing. "A memt-r Il
the Central Beard Of Education. had an.
nounC.d has willingness to try for th" nom.
nation N case dresser II disposed of Mr.
Thomas - a wealthy man To whom the
small salary would he neither a hAr not a
TEN ptation. He - a D-moCrat. but IL not
allied with any u the factions