Tammany and Vice
Gustavus Myers writes in Independent on Tammany Hall's historic ties to vice and corruption. From 1838 through the Lexow era, figures like Wood, Tiemann, Gunther, and Hall faced extortion, bribery, and blackmail in city governance. The piece surveys grand juries, reform efforts, and enduring Tammany influence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gustavus Myers
Tammany Hall
Grand Jury
Common Co Cll
Myers
Wood
Daniel F. Tiemann
Tiemann
Gunther
Hoffman
Hall
Tammany
Fassett Committee
Tabor
Lexow Committee
Federal and State Arrests Over Film Trade Case
A West Thirtieth Street patrol wagon seized ten thousand films and negatives from the American Electroscope Company on the seventeenth floor of the St James Building at Twenty sixth Street and Broadway. Proprietor John J Alexandra of Brooklyn was arrested by Federal authorities on a charge of sending improper material through the mails and held on one thousand dollar bail after waiving examination. Police allege young women posed for the pictures the rooms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Benning
Anthony Comstock
Alexandra
Commissioner Shields
Patrolman Powers Fined After Central Park Riot Allegations
Patrolman W E Powers known as Terror of the Kids was fined fifteen days pay after a disorderly conduct case tied to a riot in August near Eighth avenue. Chief Devery had sought removal but the intoxication charge was dismissed. Powers allegedly described police actions against colored protesters. Patrolman Wick also faced a twenty days pay fine for misconduct in September on Houston Street.
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W. E. Powers
Central Park
Eighth-ave
Devery
Powers
Police Board
Wick
Houston St
Louis Franklyn Bassford
Frank L. Bassford
Edward A. Phil
Agnes Hemphill
Julia A. Hemphill
Albert J. Hemphill
Carter Eage
Grace A. Callender
William H
Callender
Henry ©. Packard
Hattie Elizabeth Packard
Spencer C. Packard
Wallace E Bassford
Elizabeth C. Bassford
Alice B. Callender
Iran
Samuel A. Bassford
Sammuel W. Bassford
New York
Seth Sprague Tfrry
Broadway
Borough of Manhattan
New Yorks City
Mary E. Bassford
Abram L. Bassford
Charlotte Bassford
Henry E. Bassford
Helena Bassford
Ellinor Carter Bemp-hill
Grace A. Ender
William H.S. Callender
Henry O. Packard
John J. Clancy
Samuela Basefor
Semuel W. Gassford
Mary Bassford
Mary
Legel
Lemuel A. Bassford
Samuel W Bassford
James Fit- 2
Supreme Court of
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County Court House
Mashattse
City of
County of New York
Bronx
East 179Th Street
Central Avenue
Grant Avenue
Webster Avenue
New Park
Seth Sprague Terry
Plaintiff's
New York City
Excise Law Enforced as NYC Liquor Certificate Revoked
State Commissioner of Excise announced that Frank Herman proprietor of the Harlem Pleasure Palace had his liquor tax certificate revoked by Justice Freedman for exposing interiors during Prohibited hours and selling on Sundays. The action highlights enforcement of the exterior exposure rule and the ease of applying the law. A new Civic Association to Fight Vice and Purify Municipal Government was also announced, planning public meetings, literature, and committees to combat vice in tenements.
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State Commissioner of Excise
Frank Herman
Harlem Pleasure Palace
East
Association For
W. D. P. Bliss
Central Federated Union
Tenenses
Brooklyn Sees Influx as Vice Crusade Spreads
An influx of disreputable women to Brooklyn follows the Manhattan vice drive led by Dr. Parkhurst. Women crossed the bridge in large numbers during the crusade and, though still relocating, the Parkhurst movement takes months to reach full force here.
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Brooklyn
Manhattan
Perkhurst
Parkhurst
Old bronchitis and Scott’s emulsion claim relief
An old bronchitis is rarely cured and affects people unable to change climate. The text suggests relief through Scott’s emulsion of cod liver oil, promoting it as the best remedy for chronic bronchitis.
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Scott
Committee of Fifteen weighs enlarged leadership moves amid delays
The Committee of Fifteen debates naming Charles Stewart Smith as permanent chairman and expanding membership while awaiting James C Carter. Other members Like James B Reynolds and Felix Adler discuss the plan as disorderly resort keepers flee Captain Titus precincts and Isaac Feinberg faces six months under the Vagrancy law.
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James C. Carter
Boston
Charles Stewart Smith
Smith
Carter
Alexander E. Orr
Committee of Fifteen
Citizens
J. Smith
James B. Reynolds
Paddock
Felix Adler
Mr. Smith
University
Captain Titus
Mott, Pell and
Dovers Sts
Titus
Cornell
Essex Market Court
Isaac Feinberg
Feinberg
Wakefield and
Burke
Suffolk St
Civic Righteousness Debate Opens New York Brotherhood Meeting
The New York local assembly of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew met at the Pro-Cathedral Stanton St with a public men’s session. Bishop Potter presided as Dr. Tiffany introduced him. speakers urged civic righteousness, faith in God, and individual virtue, including a call for a neighborhood settlement.
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New-York
The
Brotherhood of St. Andrew
Stantonst
New York
Edward W. Kiernan
Alexander M. Hadden
John P. Faure
John W. Wood
Episcopal Missionary Society
E. N. Potter
Charles C. Tiffany
Potter
William R. Huntington
Brotherhood
New Ear Drums for Miss Rockefeller Revealed
Cleveland reports that European specialists are growing new ear drums for Miss Alta Rockefeller daughter of John D. Rockefeller. A Vienna letter from a medical student says the case is astonishing and that surgeons have achieved a phonon ear drum growth in a few cases.
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Cleveland
Europe
Alta Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller
Vienna
Rockefeller
Miss Rockefeller
New Private Patients Building Opens at New York Hospital
A ten story addition to New York Hospital opened with a reception hosted by the Board of Governors. Superintendent Ludlam, Assistant Superintendent Robertson and Secretary Crane attended along with hundreds of guests. The first floor houses executive offices, the second holds doctors, and the upper floors are allocated for private patients with modern elevators.
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New York Hospital
Board of Governors
Dovernees
Ludlam
Robertson
Crane
Election canvass across New York State compiles results
Oneida Greene Tompkins and Kings delay official canvass with the Secretary of State. Democratic gains in Nassau and Kings contrast with smaller or negative margins in Greene. McKinley leads in most counties with Odell trailing, while New York Elmira Niagara Falls Dunkirk Oswego show varied party returns.
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Albany
Oneida
Greene
Tompkins
Kings
Hts
Repupioen County
Chautauqua
Bobaiie County
Harlem
McKinley
Odell
Vernor
Hamilton County
Adirondack Forest
Greene County
Ehe
New York
Elmira
Niagara Falls
Dunkirk
Oswego
Mayoralty Ballot Return Tops Long List of Candidacy Letters
The Tribune reports nearly twelve thousand ballots in the mayoral canvass with Seth Low leading as first and second choices. William Brookfield and Bird S Coler trail, while Isaac A Hop per Frank Moss and Charles A Schieren gain in first choices. names omitted below 5 ballots but kept for record. Letters from voters praise candidates including George Henry Sargent and Frank Moss with endorsements for reform and city governance.
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Tribune
Seth Low
William Brookfield
Bird S. Coler
Charles A. Schieren
Coler
Isaac A. Hopper
Frank Moss
George Henry Sargent
Man sues for damages over Sousa Band agreement breach
The plaintiff claims one third of receipts due him and that Sousa's Band was booked for four weeks at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo for $20 000. He seeks $10 000 damages for profits lost plus $4 933 already spent and an accounting of all profits.
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Sousa
Buffalo
Lenox Library Sale Talks Stir New York Public Library Plans
The New-York Historical Society seeks terms to obtain the Lenox Library Building for a new home. The New-York Public Library trustees, meeting at the Astor Library, weigh a sale or lease after committee talks led by Morgan Fish and Tucker. The Lenox block bounds Fifth Madison avenues and Seventieth to Seventy-first streets, with strict interior-use limits. The property could fetch well over a million dollars, library building appraised near 750000.
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the Tribune
New-York Historical Society
Lenox Library
New-York Public Library
Astor, Lenox and Tilden
Astor Library
Historical Society Committee
J. Pierpont Morgan
Nicholas Fish
John J. Tucker
New York Puble Library
Historical Society
Rives
King
Husband and Wife Admit Arson Guilty in Fire Case
Adolph Hoffman and his wife Florence pleaded guilty before Recorder Goff to first degree arson in a Nov 2 blaze at 687 Fast 146th Street. A cousin, Mary Hoffmayer, 17, confessed she started a bed fire for a new dress and insurance payout. she was allowed to go home. Policeman Maher was injured arresting them. Remanded for sentence.
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Adolph Hoffman
Florence
Goff
Mary C. Hoffmayer
Hoffman
Baltimore
Hoffmans
Walsh
Germania Fire
Maher
Mary Hoffmayer
Coal dealer killed by fall at city basement steps
Daniel J. Kelly aged 52, a coal dealer of 44 West Fortieth Street, fell while delivering coal at 413 West Forty-eighth Street. He plunged down basement steps and died instantly from a fractured skull.
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Daniel J. Kelly
West Fortieth-st
West Forty-eighth-st
Manager's Suit Against Sousa Returns for More Definite Pleading
Justice Fitzgerald in the Supreme Court directed the Reynolds action against John Philip Sousa to be made more definite and certain. Everett R Reynolds, Sousa's manager, alleges details of the dispute and seeks relief in the suit.
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John Philip Sousa
Fitzgerald
Supreme Court
Sousa
Everett R Reynolds
Reynolds
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