The broad ax., 1926-08-21
THE REMARKABLE RISE OF HON. P.
]. CARR, TREASURER OF COOK
COUNTY, IN THE POLITICAL AND
BUSINESS WORLD THE NEXT
SHERIFF OF COOK COUNTY.

housed in a beautiful Dream City on
the South Shore was in progress. Mrs.
Potter Palmer was social arbiter. ?.
D. Armour, Marshall Field and George
M. Pullman were rulers Of finance and
industry. John R. Walsh, the banker,
controlled the Herald and operated
Washington Park race track, now
numbered with fat buildings. Charles
T. Yerkes dominated the North and
West Side Traction lines and Cap An
son was in the height of his fame.
In those piping times a husky red
checked lad Of thirteen was selling
newspapers at the corner of Thirty
Fifth and Halsted streets in the heart
Of Hamburg" He made deliveries to
the neighborhood in wabbly dish
wheeled cart drawn by an understood
cayuse bought in the yards" hardly
He had two energetic helpers aged
seven and ten respectively. Ascend
ency over the Corner" was main
tanned by the vigorous use of fists.
Competition never flourished long.
Ready for a fight at the drop of
hat, the youthful boss of the Hamburg
newstands, nevertheless, had an in
gratiating way with him and more
than one busting housekeeper took
time to give him and his lieutenants
plate of cookies or a wedge of cake
One Of his customers was a kindly
Jewish "hausmutter' who, regularly as
baking day came round, had a big
apple pie on the back porch ready for
the militant news vender and his lieu
tenants. The hospitable haus frau was
Mrs. Pauline Blumenthal. That was
more than thirty years ago and today,
hale and hearty at 90, she is as staunch
friend Of the Hamburg news mer-
chant as she was in the days of the
apple tarts.
The newsboy was Paddy Carr and
his helpers were Tommy Doyle and
Joe McDonough. AS County Treas
urer Paddy is head Of an institution
whose transactions amount to $780,
0OO,OOOO0 annually. Moreover he has
turned back to the people $6,500,00000
in interest, a record breaking sum.
Tommy Doyle is Congressman from
the Back O the Yards" district, one
of the most important in the country,
and Joe McDonough, as member of
the City Council is chairman Of the
Committee on Local Transportation.
which this fall viii undertake a solu-
ton Of the vexatious traction problem.
Well leave it to the reader to decide
whether or not Paddy is good tutor
Some time ago Horace Wade, then
known as the worlds youngest re-
porter, interviewed Carr.
Tell me Of your boyhood life"
commanded the youthful genius
There, Horace was the reply, is
question that is question"
"As boy l sold papers at the cor
ner Of Thirty Fifth and Halsted
streets. In those days / had to fight
for my corner-well, in fact, every boy
had to fight for his. If you couldn't
take care of yourself with your fists,
you might just as we'll have dropped
out Of the game. That's how it is now
we have to fight all the way through
life for what we get Tommy Doyle
used to work under me. Now look at
the heights he has attained. Take AL
derman Joe McDonough. Now he is
leader in civic affairs Both Of them
were good battlers."
For time Carr worked as water
boy on the docks where his father was
longshoreman. Then he became a
lumber shower along side Of his parent
and it wasn't SO long before Carr
Junior became Carr seniors boss. Carr
still carries card in the Vessel I'm
leaders Union and one of his COM
rades of those days, Chris Westfall,
President Of the Vessel Unloaders
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