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CRITIC aR—Fifty years ago? — Guacious wm hasn't got a fob anit locket and tight be What a beastly mistake for a modern artist to make? many Senator, Thomas F. Grady, that Thompsor has found that th s for him in Albany, an nt to remain In New York. The fat jobs which Jd Jacobs was to handle for Thomp pped in the bud, and the Demoe Thompson is t as received a shock fro which it may n The complacer jaw-hammer coats and opera hata, who met in the elegant at No, 19 West Twenty-fourth street, last fall, and who proudly ach other and then at Thompson or the waddling John E. Deve- lin, had no doubt that the County Democracy, of which they were all leaders, would ‘finish John Kelly and Tammany Hall” in the November election, Whil asquerading in the costume of Delmonico’s waiters, that the men they hoped to doing. W and his I is no busi it is Jn hay been of which ¢ exponent ver recover. men in part rel at hus , on the day after ele enants met to take account outlook, th termined to tear down upon thelr ** hi they derisively spoke of latare fi r18 of the State, and start how! a Bat the ives of Tammany, cared proper recos present- after a determined struggle, s ition. When Thompson is in the of the Department of Pablic Works at noon each day in a ¢ The en- trance ted by a ¢ the same hungry and tired statesmen who in other Fs stood in front of Tweel’s office. They make ‘obeisance to Thompson as they did to Tweed, and the corpalent Commissioner ¢' them throt gold-bowed spectacles, and strides loftily by The doors an are thrown wide open by jen employed noth and the Boss in the building 1s ornan gates to do bis sanctum and everyth James J. M else, reaches Th private secretary, atte and ontinate officers, who surveys th from Gabe Case's road-house, and the streets from the window of Thomy kes his regular call, Just as he used to call on Tweed, and whiapers soft nothings into Thomp just as he used to whis- per into Tweed's ear. While Mooney “ ethin: N's office, m urging Thomp- ” those wall-flow- © Justice Maurice J. ice Fowler, Justice Power, Major G Richard A. Ci | nish th ection of | that orton, E hn Cox, ohn Moore, Alderman Patrick Kee x-Senatora Jacob S¢ fatty” Walsh, Presiden Ex-Al . John Keenan, pacher and Edwant Hogan, William P. Mitchell, of the Excise Board, Colonel Emanuel B. Hart, Colonel John R. Fellows, Ex-Senator Thomas J. Creamer, and many others, flock in and greet their youthful leader, William C, Whitney, the Corpora 000 a y I dress, feeling san immediate and private au- empson, and the two disappear about Mayor ( and William If. Vander- he Joun It may have to do ar, in ng, enters and 8 nce with T! private room, where much is sai Justice D , Jay Gould, bilt. The confab ends with ai Kelly. What Gould and Vande with this interesting faction of the Democracy transpire too soon to suit the comfort or convenience of Thompson or Whitney. Of course, every political party must be well supplied with the ‘*sinews of war,” as money is pleasantly ten ular of politicians, but why Gould or Vanderbilt should far is a matter yet to be explal The 943 persons on the pay-roll of the Department of Public vorks, Jraw salaries from $1.76 per day to .000 a year. The Deputy Commissioner, Froterick IL. Hamlin, is paid $5,000 a year for talking to t “amall fry” politicians with whom Thompson will not The chief clerk, Robert H. Cl ar for «1 frowning upon rers. He e of clerks t jaous duties. to a as upon ed an the ve be bothered. $4 y ious inqi in his Their salaries range from $1,200 to $ Who takes down Thor 400 a year, pson’s ra partment. | stice John Cox, who Assemblyma: sted by Ex-Police Ji $3.50 a day, E: who 18 paid $3 a day, and fourteen othe nd Donoho were better “fixed” when Tweed was power, John H. Chambers, the Water Regi 700 a year, and has thirteen the Chief Ex ah $3. aday up to $ Consta incer, has a salary of $7,000 a 23 assistants, with salaries ran 000 a year. Stevenson Towle, in charge of sewers, bas $4, cht agsistants, with from the a year, and has sixty-ei alaries fro! day up to ¢ J e A. Jeremii intendent of Street Improvements, year, and has twenty-two mick, Superintendent of Lamy year for talking applicants for positions tc ts. James J. Mooney, the Superin ent of Streets and Roads before mentioned, has el assistants. Thomas H. McAvoy the Burean of Repairs and Suppl 0 a year, and has twenty-four living ornaments in his bu immaculate Joseph Blamenthal scot year as s and How well th duties must be obvious to th strecta. Then there isa axemen, chainmen, blacksmith laborers, masons, w: the patra Works may well leader, a8 all True, some live enginee $2.50 h, Supers receives $2,750 a en MeCor- and Gas, gets & tant has six ase the Superin has $2, aperin as three assistants, y perform their wal observer in our siment of aasistant forem carpenters, ¢l Thus it will be seen Department of Public Jen the heart of a political employees politicians. ort, Washing- Kensico, Williams- and another at hmen, ete. of the these at Mount Vernon, ton, Yonkers, Brooklyn, Croton Quaker Carmel, White bridge—one lives at Reading, Pa, Camden, N. Jc at Searboro, Sing Sing, Kings- bridge, Mahopac Falls, Tarrytown and Fordham, but they are compelled to serve Thompson's interests wherever they live. E. $. Chesbrough, the consulting who gets $6,000 a year, looms up as boarder at the Fifth Avenne Hotel, and Gilbert H. White, a clerk, who is paid $1,000 a year, finds the Gramerey Park Hotel good enough for him. In looking over the pay-roll we find many of the names which grace the pay-rolls in the reign of Tweed. How large a number of these persons perform any work for the pay they receive Is a question that will soon be answered. How 1 titions, and really represent politicians who would scorn to be recognized as meniala, will, perhaps, also are F Dar Bridge, Plains, others yy of the names are be known, Included among the list is one who receives | $1,000 cenger, who is merely the ** press of the department, and who performs the same work exacted of the press azent of a circus or a theater. This youngster is expected to constantly say to editors and reporters, * Thon is a good fellow,” and to ‘or to have the Department of Public Works presented in a fa reading public. Whoever dares to assert that even Tweed would never have hail th nod to conduct the Department of ¢ Works as Thompson manages it, is met by the Jent Thompsou with the brazen assurance th mo one is trying to “throw mad” upon him. Me lare until he becomes black in the face that duct of the de mies, and seeks to inju him without good cause. To put it mildly, Thompson is mistaken when he uses such language. Tur Je is not only not in leagne with his political enemies, but has no political aff It simply that the people shali know that which they ha axious to learn who Hube Thompson is, and how this model Reformer, who prates s0 much of honesty, and who is ¢o ready to ery thief,” manages the Department of Public Works, and this in n Tue Jepor expects to furnish to t it isdone with the subject. It beliew rotten” in that department, and inte bottom facta. Over $400,000 in contracts of less than $1,000 cach has been el, itis said, by Thompson daring the last year, and nt has been in contracts of we law does not compel Thompson for bids where the contract is leas than Hero inviting opportunity for ws. It is sald that where $1,000, it 18 pieced titious names, and the that these con- A legal invest We do not say that his ding an duct was an attempt to obtain money to be used in the S party and to further his own selfish Thompson was engaed last year in construct the upper waters of the Bronx and estehester County, at an estimate ler an ed in 1879, which tha agent” ‘orale light before the newspaper 8 his ¢ © with his political artment is am ations whatever, stop srmati Is to get a is a most his frie the job may be worth many time: ctor under fh wi tractors “divvy” with Thompson tion may the facts, attempt to secure from the Le he ostensible parpo: out to the cont hes him. don ing a conduit fro} By pended expend of the Board of Estima Edward Mitchell intr are by being required to obtain the approval fe and Apportionment. Wh luce a bill in the Legislature, in 1880, for a new aqueduct Ci mer Allan Camp bell, Thompson's preceptor, said that a new aqueduct would not be oO sary for several years. later Commissioner Thompson thought a and asked the Legislature to vote him li millions in order that he might construct When this scheme was knocked in the head by Ge ernor Cornell the water famine scare was started ani it is safe to predict, if Thompson is Commissioner of Pablic Works this summer, that the scare will be re- A million of dollars is a good round sum of money, and that amount, as we have before stated Thompson is privileged to use each year under t rovival of a Tweed act, for W the water supply of this city, upon the Controller and ge necessary peated. purpose of increasing s simply to draw ey without being pat by members of pment. bt to gladden the nd th harassed by vexations questi the Board of Estimate and Apport Here is another plum that ox heart of any reasonable leader, It is a rather extra- ontinary fact that Thompson expended in 181, $620,000 more than was required by the department in 1880, and the enormons sum of $1,312,757 more. than Commissioner Campbell disbursed in'l879. Is it not high time that the people kn thing of Thomp: som and the Department of Pablic Works? With the characterized Tweed when almost ch prison bars it, the garb of a convict Thompson shouts, like him, *I co Itis to be hoped that the Senate Committee on Cities will gratify his wish, and that the Inquiry will at no time be retarded simply because this new Boss is con- strained to remark that an attempt is being made to delage him with mud. 2 m boldness wh peeping throt comicbooks.com