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MINUTES IN
MANHATTAN
(By Gotham Knickerbocker.)
New York These Fnitod Slates often
complain of being ruled by Wall street.
But there 1 is sometimes just as much
'reason for • comptain-t of the control off
the whole nation by the Manhattan low
er East Side. The Bowery district time*
out of memory has had the say at 'Tam
many Hall, the halt usually dominate is
the state and at times, the city of New
York. The New York delegation is tile
single greatest force at the Democratic
National Conventions and even in times
of a hostile administration like the pres
ent one, Tammany Hall wields a subtle
power in Washington.
To the Bowery is an dshould be of 'fn
terest to ev*Ty American citizen. '•/he I
lower East Side with its 600,000 popijla-j
tion in a square mile is more thaia a
curiosity to tourists from the West. .Los
Angeles and Portland may feel the
weight of its hand any day.
Today I wandered down to Fourteenth
street for rumors had tvached me of a
most distressing fight Inside the Tiger
camp, and quarrel which is troubling
the spirits of the master minds in “/ho
organization” as much or more than the
ivial of Police Unetenant Becker and
its attendant revelations. And the bat
tle-ground Is the old East Side Aftaln,
with genial old Sheriff Tom Ftoley,
<they still call him that) in trie centre
of the mix-up and Charley Murphy
working his not hv any means tie apt ca
ble brain power overtime in an effort
to decide whether to “mix it up'* him
self or “let the boys light it out.’
Altogether it is a most alarming sit
u ition, I learned from a Wlgman friend,
and Mr. Murphy may have to follow
Dick Croker back to Ireland as a. se
quel.
Foley Is leader of the Bowery atnd he
wields much more power than ever did
Little and Big Tim Sullivan and ♦Meh*
cla n.
It was In 1901 that the sheriff with
the help of Police Chief William S. De
very and Big Tim Sullivan, knocked
down Paddy Divver and dragged him
out of the leadership chair of the Sec
ond District.
For thirteen years thfc sheriff has
reigned and his power has waxed. But
in the last twelve months there have
been serious clouds on the big tender's
horizon. He was surprised in the spring
of 1913 to find himself attacked at both
ends of his bailiwick. in tli© north
Michael Hofra.no, a clever ItaHan-Am
eriran set up his standard. In the south,
just underneath the Brooklyn bridge,
the brothers, Driscoll, Clem and Gene,
proclaimed their independence.
“These men are what they are
through me,” said Tom. “I befriedned
them and pushed them forward and
now they are ridiculing me,” ’Twas a !
good deal for a taciturn Tammany lead
er to say.
Foley was so Aggravated that he call
ed Rofrano “an inflated little emi
grant.’ and referred to Clem Driscoll as
a discredited little pinhead.”
The latter was an allusion to Clem’s
career as First Deputy Commissioner of
Police. The late Mayor Gay in ft* had
Clem clean up the dishonest trtdesmen's
scales, called him his “steam engine in
boots” and finally gave him next to Hie
best Job in the force of guardians of
tlie law' here. Then Clem had a sud
den heavy fall.
But Ole moot of office turned his ac
tivities toward politics. The result en
raged Foley though his leadership was
not seriously endangered. Then tlui
“rebels” tried to send some Foley men
to prison on allegations of election
frauds.
The Driscolls and Uofra.no were pret
ty small game for the sheriff's gun,
but he learned Slate* Senator James
Frawiey was letting the three use his
office as a headquarters. *Twas then
the present storm broke.
FYawlev is no me u foe himself. He
has a solid upper East Side district in
which lie was born 11 years ago behind j
him. lie has been senate leader and ]
ehliirman of the finance no-mmktte© '
since the death of Senator Thomas F. j
Grady, and lie can claim Charley Mur
phy’s gratitude as recent head of the *
legislative committee which prepared
the evidence against iiovernoY William
Sulzer. Jle is said to be a million
lire.
It is around Murphy that the storm
tli.it Murphy discipline Foley, that he
rages. Foley has demanded flatly
that ChaYley has demanded flatly that
Murphy discipline Foley, that he j
declare for one aide or the other. Char-j
lev is gravely perplexed. If lie tries to
overthrow Fra wh y he lias the legisla
tor to reckon with, hut if lie fails to
satisfy tlu* sheriff he braves the ancient
seat of power, the* Bowery district, and
that's worse. It would surprise no one'
if Foley grabbl'd Charley hv the coat
collav and booted him right into the
Fourteenth street gutter.
Folev is out for blood. He believes
Frawiey had Uofrano appointed lo the
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to
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Music Gives You
. If Your Piano is a
THE AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSTA, GA.
first deputyship of the Street Cleaning
Department in order to humiliate the
Bowery leader. He has canvassed the
executive committee of Tammany Hall
thoroughly and '..e result has made
him smile. He is assumed of a ma
jority of the committee, those who know
say.
Tlie war will come to a critical stage
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when Frawiey gets back from Europe.
Frawiey is a member of the State Pan
ama-Pacific committee, a side line of
Tammany Hall this year, and is now in
Germany studying expositions in order
to learn horv to run this one. He pro
fesses himself not troubled by Foley s
indignation and as "ready to retire for
the good of the organization if neces
nients represent the highest type of piano building
that the industry can show.
The beautiful 50th Anniversary Kranich &
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sary to preserve eace. The old-timeis
declare this is a dangerous pass. its
-i onl.i Tammany trick to intimate
disarmament and lull the enemy into
cver-conf ilcr.co just before delivering a
Lody blow.
But Tie sheriff won't be caught nan
ping—litat's Gotham Knickerbocker s
guess.
“AUGUSTA IN,
Personally w e do not dU
much about art, but we x ■
from the connoiseurs not t ■
anything with clothes on H ■
Our information is that I
t0 Ti S^,b ght ‘ n , g mad
called themselves militants ■
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