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Show ABE UNEARTHING GRAFT . AMONG THE WHITE WINGS - t '- NEW YORK. March 6.-That a system of organized, graft -which haa yielded hundreds of thousands of dollars to its operators has existed for years in the department of street cleaning In indicated by information in the possession of the Aldermanic committee nppointed to inves-titfiita inves-titfiita Commissioner Woodbury's department. depart-ment. - Excelling In perfection of detail any system unearthed In the. city In yeans, it ha, according , to tho information, pervaded-every branch of the department, and has fattened the incomes of scores of cmployccii, and provided fortunes for the three or four men who managed lt i Hints-that men made regular, tours of the city, collecting tribute from foremen who had previously made collections from various sources,-were given to the committee com-mittee wmf tlm'HKO. |