| Show A MODEL CITY NEW YORK city is 1 distinguished among am the metropolitan communities of the earth for being honeycombed with fraud dishonesty and corruption I 1 if it has a successful rival riv althe the name of it lias has not yet been reduced to record mayor hewitt has been and is doing as much as any man can against great odds to clear the augean stable but the ahe task is super herculean Her edlean and as things goat go at present he will nod flad at the end of his two years term that he be has only scotched scorched scot ched the snake not killed it the disease its is too deeply seated and well entrenched to be dislodged in a short time or a long one either one nest is no sooner broken up than another is found fouad with traces of plenty more anouna in the immediate vicinity that cannot be reached because the task in hand band is as much as can get proper attention take for instance the boodle trials which have been under way I 1 for or nearly a year and may now tie oe considered as fairly start ed no one can guess how much money nas been spent in them nor how much more is likely to be but after enough good money has been sent after the bad g ad to secure the conviction of a few ringleaders ring leaders the months and years spent in reaching such a consummation will not be lost by the borrup wil I 1 not be ado blow w to recognize that the city has bad its bands full and this is their golden opportunity so that new york will emerge from one cleansing job to find perhaps a dozen more upon which to op operate 1 erate this is not a very pleasing state of things to contemplate but if anything it is understated der stated the particular individual on tria just now is the notorious jake sharp the millionaire he it was who engineered engineer edthe the elevated railway franchise chise through the common council of the city and by a system of special pleading which has always been an irresistible argument in that community and several others othera the liberal disbursement of money something like a dozen of the virtuous and patriotic statesmen who make ordinances din ances for the great metropolis were bought like so many cattle at the shambles the price paid being from up according to the states mans prominence influence and backbone he got his road through in good style but such wholesale jobs like burger murder will out sooner or later and this particular one might haye have been ferreted out much earlier as well as later if the requisite amount of ability had been enlisted in the work soon enough and when the prosecutions began they were strangely arranged sharps guilt must have been about the first thing developed because it could not well be shown that a dozen men had corruptly coi raptly received large sums of money from a certain source for a certain object without bringing to light what and where the source was and instead of beginning at the fountain head and going down the stream they started at the otner end and worked with very indifferent success toward the top A few of the hirelings have been prosecuted and convicted and are now BOW serving out their sentences now the master asin is in the dock this is the eleventh day since the proceedings began and they have no jury at this writing this is not especially significant or surprising for the reason arekson that sharp did not spend all his money on the purchase of a charter for his grand scheme and if he did do so BO it has all re returned with a million more to keep it company by this time herein he has a decided advantage one that his tools were denied the possession of because they make enough out of the transaction and have mainly been trying to te live on what they did make since the chief of the bood lers has six of the ablest lawyers in a city which contains very fw fow that are not able to defend him among them is the famous fullerton of beether beecher trial notoriety the shrewdest cross examiner in the world this array must have cost him at least as much as two of the cheaper of the aldermen came to te and it is only a part of the expense he is incurring two weeks spent in obtaining a jury is a pretty good return for the first statement that is heard from the investment and it is now a question whether or not sufficient coin can be found to quash the indictment tie up the joiy or paralyze the court anyway bets are freely offered that sharp will never involuntarily see the inside workings of the sing sing receptacle for elastic officials |
