Show there ing in the of the frauds of till is country tits leeason to be derive 11 frola tile study b the latest bilk how over since I 1 beheim 4 of sit tire lit a mea st uro i till fresly tit lite 4 11 s no trian haa caud greater stir I 1 in awai new circles than ja c ob sharp m ito died a few days ago had been pro lefore the new for ilia last thirty years and during the past thra 3 ears lie ila be corlie known throughout the whole cou try in connection aielt the greatt boodle game of the new york city ailse r 1 moll 01 1 he the the great hurricane of public indignation bisich around his cars until ilia day of ilia lias fix x accald abo storm of his last addys went out only N ith lite life had caused it lie died of a T 1 law hovering over him lie as born seventy one years ago in county N Y did firm woark lit bai youth utter wards turned to rafting an tile em river oud filially elig agod in but alding piers anti bulkheads in new york city at e became moderately hicri it was not until mhd year 11 10 that he became en gag d in and the grett bicad ay was one of ilia earli est efforts many othor smaller projects engaged his attention at alcich homade a great 1 but the great aim of his life seemed t 0 be the completion of the broadway road kt 1 in ma utter a struggle which had lasted aver thirty years tile great road was consummated it proved to a the greatest frea test financial success in tiling that tail ever been known anti brought him in a perfect dut the 11 lie lied selli eted aati ed the people to A onder how it had been done the argas eves of the pres pre s unit afis strong arm of investigation ere turned upon him and simultaneously with his grand lite cims came the discovery of the corruption that lad been need to it the corruption that hail in brought to bear in ob franchise from the acard of Al trinen ww lati bare in an im ellich teil in the of ilia majority maj rity of I 1 he 1 tard 4 A kernien of issa for abrib ry together midi the promoters afi of scheme jacoh sharp was brought to tile bar in alay 64 ilia trial conviction and sentence for giving bribers are fresh in the of lie remained in jill until november A bell hii conviction was set hy I 1 ike coart of appe alsi and lie A as on to bail lie was very ill luring ther I 1 months of bai life but ila received fhy from the public lie aurally were very of life di esse ilia character was as peen liar as ilia physique and it woul I be difficult it find A man to parallel him A novi york exchange gives the following pen picture of him WAS a ignorance jow ct I 1 bining ml logged perseverance will a bluntness blunt neEs of moral some thill in ado his character a atay and tits career a matar of local hl tory 11 hacob sharp is a grand example of the men A whom there appears to ba i in the nation today to day doti lives to tits one end of anoney malang instead sit ul ili their vast powers 10 good and zwolle end iiii life leaches that a wicked means can neer ju tiby a laudable tits lin j et which lie con itrich might have stood P 19 a monument to his inde AgAla energy ever stand as an en sign to his fallen nature it its true that his conviction wigs set aside doubtless by ilia influence of money bill ithe publio still con isted him not altered w th them ad their ver dict ham it w all too much even man 0 I 1 ilia rugg ged temper bani 0 ad its lie was in ilia d bregard for it e public right ila died tin lAmented willi a few tt anding bier in tile of regret bare thou sands have stood to do honor to hia energy find nima for the wark ix hh 1 lie did his end be a warning to tile lioa of bribe gilem and takers ili new york ile was the first to be of title crime in it is verv common among ofil tit icat file we which he met he money chic lie left ten by dishonest tilli elk lie darkened dark ered and stained to such an ex tent that tio amount of pl or time wrela can ever intake vilita or may he a a anding powerful po erful and et warning to evil avers of his I 1 clas 9 whose lesson shall never be for 1 gotten davis recently i aid to a new Orte aiTs alc reporter regarding horace greeley signing his hail bond i greeley Is reported to have done on arcouet of tir mi anast ilia of ny wi leAnd to that boil torl a are untrue anti thit I 1 never cmike to him in my lite until after hs ja tail signed my bond when I 1 went up to him and shook hands aith it tr z C D roul runs a feat tr tri between etc x and omaha 4 Is the tinfoil M tit to be ablo to 94 |