The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1928-09-27

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which worked from the top down ant
then back to the top apain. While
Tammany Hall officials saw to il
that they vot their share ofthel spoil.
which were estimated by Henry N
I'aber, foreman of the grand Jury
in 1894, as amounting to 100000
a year, the system was not so rigic
that it did not allow for human ten
denotes. 1t was not under the care
OF an efficiency manager, he did not
aim to gather in every dollar he
could without waste, but wisely act
ed upon the principle that was ex-
pressed in one of the vaudeville mots
OF the day, is everybody happy?'- y
"By the standards of the men who
engaged in the enterprise it was al
together fitting and PROPER that Tam
many Hall should share in the pro-
ceeds of graft, for Tammany Hall
made the business possible. If Tam
many was out of power, police graft
became dangerous, for there was no
telling what the reformers might do,
and Tammany Halls safe and sane
attitude had been enunciated by the
proclamation of Croker, it's Boss,
that everybody in New York was
working for his pocket all the
time. y
'The Lexow committee came to
the conclusion in its report that
! there was in existence throughout
the city "a system so we'll regulated
and understood that upon the as
signment of new captain no con-
versation as necessary to instruct
the precinct detectives or wardmen
| as to their line of conduct Each
police captain had his wardmen who
had practically no other duties ex-
cept to collect money from the pro-
prietors of houses of prostitution,
and from saloon-keepers, criminals,
business men and other miscellan-
eous citizens in regular monthly
amounts which had been agreed up
on. Each month, soon after rent
day, the wardman appeared at the
house of prostitution and the saloon
and got what he had bargained fol-
and the proprietors Of these estab-
lishments We're accustomed to re
gard the protection money as a part
Of the overhead of theirbusine IS.
"The wardman deducted 20 pei
cent. Of what he collected for his
services, and then HE turned the
rest over to his captain; the captain
then visited the inspector Of his div
ision and paid over his percentage
to him. The inspector, when called
upon, contributed to the fortunes OF
the police commissioners and to the
district leaders of Tammany Hall
General Bingham wrote that wher
he as police commissioner of New
York: TT would have been an easy
matter for me to have made $500,
900 in bride money, and S1,000,00(
would not have been an excessive
figure at all. i | was Offered
$4,000 in cash and $500 a month
) merely be seen shaking hands witt
the proprietor of an Upper Broad
way cafe. Opp. 371-372)
Croker left an estate estimated
at 100000.
Charles Francis Murphy came t.
the throne" in 1902, displacins
Lewis Nixon, who had been Crok
er's choice for sachem. But Nixon
found it impossible to impress hi
will on Tammany's followers, an'
Murphy eased him out
Like many another Tamman.
leader, Murphy came into powe
through the saloon. By the time h
was twenty he had saved $500 AM
with it he opened a bar in 19tl
street, near Avenue A. "The re
sort was known as 'Charleyis Place
, and as patronized by dockyard an
either waterfront workers" TIL
New York Times recorded in bio
' graphical sketch of Murphy. "B
1880 Mr. Murphy, although only 2
: years old, had become politics
: factor in the neighborhood. In 1873
he bought another saloon.-on A,
Y enue A. The same year he opene
e up third saloon at Nineteent
e street and First avenue. Subst