The sun., 1919-06-21
'EX-POLICE CHIEF
VS.. DEVERY DEAD
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Byrnes IN much Of the work Of that ceie-
DRAFTED criminal hunter.
| ana besides his undoubted aptitude
lot thiet catcning Big BIZ Devery had
knack Tor making money. He used to
say that everything he touched turned to
goio. and that no matter how much
money ne spent-there was one occa-
sion, Tor instance. when he spent iuany
thousands on free picnic, when the
iesst item was 10000 quarts OF
ice cream-ne never had any trouble
making as much more as he need
eo. AS soon as he had been
iesislated OUT OF ofhce ~ Albany Dew
cry went into real estate. Probably no
w 80 1870. INV hoeh
=. ~. a.. ne eareeI,
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""0" "e u'eu'
0vr.s NJ W u...n.u o,.S
But II Ia very well known that he had
o comfortable fortune, and It has been
estimated at all the way from 100000
to several millions. He was rich enough
at one time to own the New York basc-
ball club, in the old one league days,
and didn't try very hard to make any
money out OF u. but merely had 1t for
hoooy. He purchased many fine estates
ana city houses, some OF them costing
close to 100000. He was extremely
prodigal with his money. He never
seemed to care how much anything cost
him, and no matter what It did cost he
always had plenty left to 20 ahead with
another Of his amazing stunts He took
q flier In politics after he had been
ousted as Chief of Police and spent
many thousands in 1908 trying 10 get
himself elected Mayor and in gaining
political control of the old Ninth Assem-
bly, district. one NJ tho Tammanv Hail
backgrounds. He spent close to $50 900
svn ~ ,sa, 'esos ,,, Q. inc N'n n ana mn
$1,000 a week.
II he b.a .,.c,,or..r.s ,o- >r,vor -,
tbs sama .caia tha, y. NV, &C., ,ba
leadershin IN ths d,stric, a. ,ron,d hav
cost him more than ~ 600 oooDand
snent that r,,,ch ~ h nc " .nnu hsv :.
nsces.arv A. tha t,r. ~, NJ. dn,,h
Deyerv owr.d a Vs., aro,,,. :, -,
estate scattered thro,,x,art ths Sr.a.sr
CITY. aithourh most ~ his hn,d,ngs 80
s,,nnosed 20 ~ ~ III
Manhattan Th.ra 80. .a ~
he was more than a millionaire.
Ono Of Dev.rv.. ,,o., nrn,..s
cbsracterist,cs uas hi, u,,sr tn.h,i,,'' ~
stay angry for anv consIderahI. ,.nrtS
OF time. Durinr the time that he Mia
such offices In the dana rtment az Co.
tain. InsDector and (yhieS h,s 49, 80.
decidedly tumultuous He was Arrested
indicted for various offenses ana tried
he was dismissed from the force and
reInstated, he was forever being called
before the Departments trial authoritie.
for violating some police rule. ana he
was ridiculed and lampooned from ooe
end Of the country to another by his
enemies and by people who thought he
was not a good policeman,
En1eyed Lampoons of Self.
But ALI NJ Mi. ro,,.,, "a, r.,.
back. He worried oy.r nn,,in
was always joyiaI and care frsa
matter Of fact. he always seemed e.,
Joy the roasting he got from wr,,sr.
and artists He fairly reyeiled in ths
articles and pictures that were n,,hS
hshed and printed about him ana n.
carefully preserved ALI OF them and
pa sted them In 'thirty-six bi9 .cran
books--and during late wears be al
ways showed them to his visitors at hi.
home In Far Rockaway.
Illustrative AZ .Rix pur..
In this respect In The .,nr, - are
ouaintance with an ar,,.t
a series Of new.na ~ ..r.. rnaue
cry that were copied ALI nvsr ,h. ~
try. Never had the ch,.S 80
lamnooned a h. MN. ~, ..Io
man. Bur Deverv NO ,n,roa',ss us
artist one day. ana ,n.tsad ~ ,,nhoIn e
"Bix mir" conrrs,ria,.d RI. Win hiih'
Those pictures are all right. SPORT"
ne SAID. They're lies. Of course. but
.neyre well done. and just to show there
AIN no hard feelin's, here's my hand"
AFTER that the artist used to send
Devery the originals Of his cartoons, and
these always have been among big
bnrs most valued treasures.
Devery had all his scrap books care
iuiiy inoexed. numbered and cataloHued.
30 tnat ne could turn in an instant to
anything In them he wanted. He used
10 say that some OF his happiest hours
were spent IN MS attic reading what had
zen ssia OF MN and looking at the car
ICONS that were based on his police
activities He had clippings from al
most every American newspaper. and
besides that there were clippings and
pictures from German. English. French
and Russian periodicals. and one from a
Chinese paper published In 1908 in Pc
KIN. This IL the way Devery used to
taik ABOUT MS scrap book:
When get TO Dc an old man these
nero scrap DOCKS are going to DO all the
nrehds III heed' ! can go up to my
library now and get more solid laughs
out OF them than can out OF any show |
that ever came 10 Eighth avenue.
"esterners the Worst.
~ wonder II any other man has ever