The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-20
the New York Sun.

FTOll lHe NeW IOih oull.
 H LILY MGLORY the "wiekedest N man in New York" has met his 1 Waterloo. Battling to the last, the old fighter of the Tenderloin went down before the legal forces of the Penn sylvania railroad, which drove him fron his last stronghold on the East Side. With his last fight ended one of the last lights of the old Tenderloin passes out.
 No more does the former Beau Brum- mel of the old Bower ywear flashy and expensive clothes. Gone are the diamonds mel of the old Bowery wear nashy and fingers. The high silk hat. the beaver overcoat and the English walking stick that were once familiar around the lower East Side have long been discarded. The white hands are knotted and hardened by his work of the last few years, for Me Glory works now and works hard F hours every day.
 McGlory is the last of the old dive keep CTS who 30 years ago made the Bowery notorious. His dance halls and other dives were famous, infamous, accord 
 Hester street, the Burnt Rag" in Bleech- CT street. the Irving Place hotel and a string of dives from Thirtieth street to Fifty-ninth street made McGlory's name l familiar to all who knew the night life of New York from 1876 to 1900 Many a bitter war McGlory waged with the law. with reformers and with police men who tried to do their duty or who threatened to do their duty. They only really got him onee al- though he was arrested several times. A woman was beaten in his dive one night. There had been stories of robberies and i fleecings in his place and the newspapers got after him. MeGlory was driven out of business and sent to the penitentiary for a year. He served 10 months. That was in 1892 and marked the beginning Of the "wickedest mans downfall. He was bounded from place to place after that and his old prestige gradually faded away.
 McGlory once set himself up as an evangelist He was then conducting a dive in West Fifty-ninth street and be- came unique in the annals of night life in
 
 in the resort. in which McGlory took part.
 McGlorys real fortune and fame were made in Armory hall In six months tn ? dive was known throughout the world. Money poured into MoGlory's hands, but finally the dance hall drew him into his struggle with the law that was destined to drive him from place to place and hn- ally throw him in his old age out of his last stronghold.
 It's site in Hester street is occupied by a business house. It was a three story structure. the upper floors being fitted up with private boxes. It was primarily n dance hall and was the largest in tise East Side at that time There was noth- ling attractive about the place. The in- side glittered with cheap and fashy dec- orations, with gaudy signs, one of which read; NO excuse accepted from gentle men found in possession of other gentle mems hats"
 1 Always on hand were a ndmber Of bouneers to take care of any of the vic tims who seemed inclined to resent being heeced These were of the rough-neck
 
 were essential to the business and Me | Glory had the best that could be had in | the market.
 l McGlory was generally on hand to vel come any customer" that looked partic-
 ularly prosperous. There was warm handshake. Suave and amiable, Mo
 Glory would sit with his guest at one of i the tables. Perhaps he would open a bot 1 tie of wine" The wine" cost McGlory 2s cents a pint. He sold it for sa.50, so | that treat once in a while took little out of the general profit, particularly as
 it was made with a direct object in view | For long time after losing his license at Armory hall McGory was bounded | from place to place. For time he ran his dance hall, the Tivoli, and his Win
 ter Gardens in the Bronx, but he didn t