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BROOKLYN DAILY. EAGLE, NEW YORK, SUNDAY, MARCH 15, 1931. 12 A Old Fort Club. The cast will Include Miss Lathrop, Nan Noyes, Ethel Rockwell, Walter G. Peterkin, Homer M.

Rockwell, vice president Clamor Against Vice and Graft Recalls Lexow and Mazet Probes Old Fort Club to Play at Town Hall The Old Fort Club of the Unitarian Church of the Saviour will present Sutton Vane's play, "Outward Bound," at the Town Hall, Manhattan, al the Metropolitan Conference of the Unitarian and other Liberal churches on Wednesday evening, April 29. The proceeds will be devoted to the work of the Bronx Free Fellowship. Miss Jane Lathrop, daughter of the pastor of the Church of the Saviour, Dr. John Howland Lathrop, is president of the Reports on Citywide Investigations in 1891 and 1899 Read as if They Were Drawn to Show Conditions as They Exist in City To-day Tammany Once More the Target By HORACE V. WILKIN'S Is Tammany history about to repeat itself? Today the Bengal Cat of E.

17th Manhattan, is once more being pushed into a Corner by aroused public opinion, even as it was way back in 1871; once more the serenity of and the presents she received from her father's friends were valued at over $700,000. It was estimated that he gave at least $2,000,000 churches alone. The break came when Tweed split with Sheriff James O'Brien over the payment of claims of at the end of O'Brien's term. Tweed refused to pay and O'Brien, through a friend, obtained from the Controller's oftice figures on payments from the city treasury. First Proof of Boodling This was the first actual proof of what was then termed boodling.

These figures were turned over to George Jones, then editor of the New York Times. It is said that Jones was offered $5,000,000 if he woifld not print the statistics. The campaign of exposure eventuated in the formation of a Committee of 70, headed by Samuel J. Til-den, later to become a candidate for the Presidential chair. Then came to light the theft of vouchers in the comptroller's office which would substantiate charges of graft.

When the comptroller confessed it spelled the doom of Tweed and his "Forty Thieves." He was indicted on 120 counts and convicted on 102. He was sentenced to 12 years in prison and to pay a fine of $12,500. A lengthy legal battle followed, and while awaiting the result he escaped from Tombs Prison and fled to Spain. He was later captured, returned and eventually died, practically penniless, in Ludlow Street Jail. St.

Patrick's Dance Planned by K. of C. The Greater New York Council 440, K. of will hold Its annual dance on St. Patrick's night.

March 17, at Trommers Hall, Bushwick Ave. The committees are doing their utmost to make this event surpass all others in the history of the council, financially and socially. It Is expected, that a large crowd will attend with many prominent guests. They have secured entertainment from the leading theaters and radio such as Little Marie Matticjll, well-known child wonder on the children's hour; Andy Buff, and the O'Donnell Sisters team with their songs; Ernst Garry and the Paramount Dancing Studio Revue. On the various committees are: Walter P.

O'Donnell. chairman. Franklin N. Boiler, vice chairman. ARRANGEMENT COMMITTEE HURh J.

McCormtck o. Oliver Dredger Louis N. J. Oberle Henry Anderson JOURNAL COMMITTEE John Prmtlre Joseph Bruno Edward Campo BOOSTER COMMITTER Henrv Monre Thomas Collins Matthew Madigan RECEPTION COMMITTEE Terence J. Connor Henry Feddern Arthur T.

Kemp TICKET COMMITTEE Hugh J. McMahon George Daniels John Moore PUBLICITY COMMITTEE William J. Anderson Edward O'Donnell FLOOR COMMITTEE Edward Campo Thomas Collins Louis N. J. Oberle Walter P.

O'Donnell Matthew Madigan Why? DO CARS LAST We see the powers of government prostituted to protect criminals, to demoralize the police, to debauch the public conscience and turn government functions into channels for private gain. The proof is conclusive, not that the public treasury has been directly robbed, but that great opportunities have been given by manipulations of public officers to enable favored Individuals to work for their own personal benefit. The enormous Increase in the budget of the City of New York, the inefficiency and wastefulness in the public service, the demoralization of many of the departments, are due absolutely to this abdication of power by the officers of the people to an organization, the ruler of which, an autocrat, has testified that he Is working for his own pocket all of the time." The Tweed Expose Sixty years ago the city was seething with the same excitement as now prevades the metropolis over a possible Investigation of the present administration. That was the famous Tweed expose which, while it never resulted in official action from Albany, did result In a complete expose of the' graft-ridden organization at City Hall, the driving from temporary power of Tammany and the indictment and death of Tweed in the old Ludlow Street Jail. During his regime the thefts from city funds were estimated anywhere from $30,000,000 to $200,000,000.

Contractors in the ring which was known as the "Forty Thieves multiplied their bills and split the proceeds; furnishers of supplies did the same. For a period of two years th stationery bill of the city was $2,272,643.39. One contractor collected $2,870,464.06 and once he was paid $133,187 for work done in two days. A Monument to Tweed A monument to Tweedism now stands back of City Hall, an architectural monstrosity, the New York County Courthouse. It cost more than $13,000,000, although the original estimate called for only $250-000.

Tweed ruled with a generous hand. Millions flowed into'his pockets, other millions flowed from them. He gave thousands to charity. When he was in the zenith of his power his daughter was married a few feet beyond the place they occupy, boxmakers, ptovision dealers, wholesale dry goods merchants and builders who are Inclined to use the sidewalk, steamboat and steamship companies, those who give public exhibitions and all persons who are subject to the police all have to contribute In substantial sums to the vast amounts which flow into the station houses and which, after leaving something It the nature of a deposit, then flow on higher." New Courts System Results Out of the Lexow investigation New York City got a new Inferior courts system, a separation of the police department and the election bureau, Theodore Roosevelt as a two-fisted fighting police commissioner, and a confession from Thomas Byrnes, then high in Tammany circles, that a new police system of administration, which at that time was a bi-partisan board of four was needed. Five years later Piatt instigated and supported the Mazet legislative inquiry purely in the hope of breaking Tammany control of New York County.

Tammany Recovers Richard Croker had fled to his Irish estate during the Lexow investigation, but when he learned of the plan for the consolidation of the Ave boroughs into Greater New York he returned to get in on the richer field for graft and was mide to testify before the Mazet Inquiry. He chose Robert Anderson Van Wyck, practically a political unknown, for the nomination for Mayor and Tammany had so far recovered from the blows of the previous Lexow investigation that it was able to elect Van Wyck as the first When You Think of UPHOLSTERING Call, Write for Samples, or Telephone Triangle 3610 fyMtmCb 236 LIVINGSTON ST. Opposite Loeser i SYNCHRO-SILENT FOUR-SPEED TRANSMISSION LOWER ENGINE SPEEDS REDUCED WEAR STURDIER CONSTRUCTION AND 50 OTHER REASONS ASK YOUR NEAREST GRAHAM DEALER TO SHOW YOU Pricei, at the factory, $845 up for th new Sixes; $1155 up for the new Eights. Ox A A A Hear the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, and Edgar A. Guest, America's beloved poet the Graham Radio Honr every Sunday Evening at 9:30 P.M.

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One cold night a large number of women who had been put out of raided houses gathered in front of the home of Dr. Parkhurst and clamored for food and rhelter of which "he had robbed them." The good doctor invited them in and he and his wife did what they could for them at the moment. Later he used the episode for another scathing sermon, which must have given more impetus to aroused public opinion. During the course of the investigation it was proved that police captains had paid as high as $15,000 for the post, that a Tammany ward man admitted that he had collected graft from liquor dealers, pool rooms, houses of ill-repute and policy shops and that he had turned all the proceeds, over 20 percent, to four police captains. Lexow Committee Report The report of the Lexow committee of 36 years ago could easily be taken for an indictment of present racketeering conditions.

It read in part: "But the evidence of blackmail and extortion does not rest alone upon the evidence of criminals. It has been abundantly proved that bootblacks, push cart peddlers and Parlor Suites Made Modern at Correspondingly Low Prices, made ts order for 3-Piece Living Room Sets, in 1 QQ Overstuffed Slip Covers Cretonne or Uamask, with Trench seams The Wigwam is being dls- disturbed as the menacing cloud of a city-wide investigation looms large, black and ominous, even as it did in 1894 and 1899. Tammany history shows that it cannot stand against an aroused public opinion and that, in the end, vice and graft have been too much tor the Hall. Today, with Tammany magistrates under fire, a Tammany District Attorney about to be marched to the political guillotine, a Tammany Mayor the object of bitter editorial sarcasm, with revelations of commercialized vice in a Tammany controlled Manhattan coming daily to view, the clock could be turned back and the same conditions would be found facing the Tammany of yesteryears. As various civic organizations unite and go on record asking for a legislative inquiry or a Governor's investigation of city affairs and the possibility of such an event becoming more and more likely each day.

It brings to mind former occasions when New York City was torn wide open politically and Tammany and its cohorts were routed all along the line, horse, foot and dragoons. These two investigations were the Lexow, in 1894, and the Mazet which came five years later, in 1899. The two probes were the most valuable contributions to the political history of New York City that ever were made by a legislative body. Inspired by the partisan enmity of Thomas C. Piatt, Republican boss of New York Ftate.

and the moral prejudices of Dr. Charles H. Park-hurst, these investigations succeeded by means of their more than 30,000 pages of fascinating testimony In bringing into high relief the entire system of Tammany Hall in most of its ramifications. As M. R.

Werner has pointed out In his famous book, "Tammany Hall," Piatt and Richard Croker were Chinese bandits, leaders of opposite parties but they often worked together since both their interests were predatory. Piatt O. the Lexow probe jecause it was against Tammany, his enemy, but there was a humorous repercussion to this endorsement a Bhort time later. The exhortations and embattled spirit of Dr. Charles H.

Parkhurst, pastor of Madison Square Presbyterian Church, started the Lexow probe and Piatt was a member of Dr. Parkhurst's church. During the course of his puplit tirades, Dr. Parkhurst, aware of the political brigandage of Piatt and his presence in the audience, said in one of his sermons: "One Thomas C. Piatt is far worse than five Richard Crokers." Piatt immediately changed his membership to" another church.

Late in 1892 Dr. Parkhurst TVT 11 Robert S. Dawe, Merton S. Adams and Henry C. Low Jr.

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