New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-22

the general committee Of Nagle's Tam
many club until a year and hall
ago. II was said that Lloyd's interest
in the organization declined at about
that time because he could not get or
ganization backing for his aldermanic
aspirations.
The saloon. however. is said to have
been an unofficial headquarters for the
Harlem politicians and police officers
off duty. and. according TO Eugene r.
Fox. was common meeting place
where he frequently talked over graft
affairs with Duffy and Robinson.
Sweeney's collectors. and where they
all frequently met and dealt with the
men who were paying protection
money.
Other saloons in Harlem served rs
meeting places for collectors ana
their proprIetors were repaid with both
SPECIAL privileges and cash. The method
on these cash" payments goes far
toward explaining why men like Fox
were allowed per cent Of their coll
lections for expenses. II appears ~ n
result OF the reports made yesterday
10 Whitman that the collectors would
make appointments TO meet graft pay
ers In a saloon.
The collector would be known in the
saloon as the captains man.. or az
.ftl a.
throw a SO or $50 dollar bill over the
bar and carelessly order drinks COR
everybody in the place, taking care
only that the play was made when Tie
proprietor himself was tending bar.
The change. after the price of the
drinks was taken care OF. would be
waved aside by the collector with the
remark that the proprietor might az
well ring It up" An introduction OF
that kind usually made a saloon pro-
prietor anxious to please, even to the
extent OF allowing his place to become
known as the graft clearing house OF
the neighborhOod.
Some Stole" from Sweeney.
Mr. Whitman learned yesterday
new word in the phraseology OF the
underworld. when one of the prospec-
tive witnesses against Sweeney, whom
hes was examining. referred to saloon
keeper in Harlem who had manager 10
do business in forbidden hours and
still eluded the collector.
"Why. that fellow kept on stealing
ever since Sweeney came into the dis
trict." said this witness to the District
Attorney.
Stealing" queried Whitman what
was he stealing
"Oh-why, stealing. Judge, mat
when you keep your ginmill open with
ont coming across 10 the police; that's
what stealing is"
The disclosures Of the close alliance
between Tammany leaders and the po-
lice ring in Harlem led to a casting UP
of district lines yesterday by the Dis
trict Attorneys investigators. They
,o,rd that the 2Sth and Goth Assem-
b,v districts, which have been counted
always as the political property OF
HAYES and Maggie. were both included
in the police district over Which
oueenev presided and general inquiry
developed that police conditions IN that
district we're near to the conditions
,h., nrevailed in the days Of Devery
and Croker.
II was in that section OF the Guy
that NagIe introduced Police Coinihis-
sioner Waldo into politics by running
him for Congress
Rack Of this general Tammany-police
alliance in Harlem. 1t is said Hes the
exclamation Of the tremendous pressure
that has been brought TO bear on
Sweeney.
That pressure. which is forced on the
occused notice captain from two con-
dieting angles, carries with it possible
eruption in the highest circles OF ram
many Hall. The explanation, as IL
oor,es Ia District Attorney Whitman
from the real friends OF Sweeney. who
are urging him TO confess, is mat the
oremies OF Charles Francis Murphy
within the Tammany organization be-
l;eve that sweeney's confession would
discredit so many Of Murphy's closest
political allies that il would discredit
Murphy also.
From the other angle, Of course, the
most powerful political backing In the
Tammany organization is seeking 10
holster I'D Sweeneys confidence and Is