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Newsgravure Section, THE JEFFERSONIAN, Towson, Mid., May 24, 1924. tHjM^K;»»;t^ %» v I Shoes of Comfort and Style For Men, Women and Children THE TOWSON SHOE STORE York and Joppa Roads TOWSON, MD. Repairing Done Equal To N™ The Paul Company 510 Penna. Ave. BALTIMORE. MD Manufacturing Stationers, Lithographers, Printers Bank Supplies A Specialty '' SILENT CHARLIE " THE MAYOR MAKER, STARTED IN POLITICS AS GAS HOUSE DISTRICT LEADER. l*9**44*«««+++««44*«+4*A+« (Continued from Page 3) clearly his political potentialities to Edward Hagan, whose political ambitions were further matured than young Murphy's. Murphy and Hagan were bosom friends, stood together in many bitter political district fights, and Hagan on his deathbed bequeathed the district leadership to Murphy without a hand going up in protest. But that's ahead of the story of Murphy's political debut. Francis B. Spinola was Tammany leader of the Eighteenth in the days of the Harlem boat race, si After You Buy Your New Spring Shoes Leave Your Old Shoes With Us To Be Repaired. We Can Do The Work While You Wait or Send Them To You By Parcel Post. Vaughan Shoe Repairing Co. 204 N. Liberty St. or 803 W. 36th St. Baltimore, Maryland • .- \ \ 1 CHRONOMETERS FINE WATCHES CHIME CLOCKS COMPLICATED WORK A SPECIALTY TELEPHONE,:VERNON 2620 W. E. WORTHINGTON Patrij 3§ato, l«nt*l*r CHARLES ST. and LAFAYETTE AVE. 2 W. Lafayette Ave., The Walbert Apmts., Baltimore, Md. ClockCases Designed'or Made To Your Order Clocks Called For and Delivered City or Country «*:~>*.2n£~w.*a.:^^^ «» «« <» «? « > :: «? «> « > < > • > « > " I > < » < > :: «? :: «» < ? • ? < > <, . > <» <. < > < > « > : > » > » > > > - The Right Start and Fixed Purpose "In him woke with his babe's first cry the noble wish—to save all earnings to the uttermost and give his child a better bringing up." —Tennyson's ''Enoch Arden" This should be your wish-start today with an account in THE BALTIMORE COUNTY BANK YORK ROAD TOWSON, MD. and Ed Hagan was one of his lieutenants. As Hagan grew more, active, Murphy turned the Sylvan Social Club over to the district Tammany organization. Hagan won a hard fight for the Assembly, was reelected, and then asked Spinola for a third term. Spinola refused, and Hagan went to Murphy's saloon for advice. It was not the same' saloon as "Charlie's" humble hole-in-the wall in Nineteenth Street. By this time the leader of the Syl-vans prospered marvelously, and the place Hagan entered was at Twenty-third Street and Avenue A, and moreover was the most dazzlingly splendid drinking establishment in all that neighborhood. "Charlie," said Hagan, "Spinola says I can't run again. What would you do about it?" Murphy by this time had developed that tight-lipped tacti-turnity which has characterized him as "Charlie the Silent" ever since. "I dunno,'' said Murphy. Come back in half an hour." In half an hour Hagan was back and asked: "What do you say, Charlie?" Murphy uttered these words: "Run independent, Ed." Ed did run "independent," Spinola and Maurice Power, leader of the County Democracy in the district, combined against him. Murphy managed the strategy of Hagan's campaign and furnished the money. Hagan did the talking and spent the money. Hagan was elected. The next year Spinola ran for the State Senate from the district made up of the Eighteenth, Twentieth and Twenty-second, Assembly Districts. The independents who had supported Murphy and Hagan to Spinola's defeat the year before came to Murphy for advice. He replied that he had voted against Tammany for the las,t time and now indorsed Spinola, who was elected. Murphy never did vote against Tammany again, but he has run Tammany nearly ever since. Those were rough times in New York politics, and critical situations demanded drastic treatment. In 1886 Spinola was the Tammany nominee for Congress. His Republican opponent was Allen Thorndike Rice, from the silk-stocking neighborhood of Fifth Avenue. Rice had the indorsement of the Henry George party. The labir vote appeared to have swung to the Henry George party and the fight centered in the Eighteenth. Murphy, always silent and in the background, did not seem to exert himself much, and the night before election it looked like a clean sweep for Rice.- About the middle of the afternoon of Election Day Rice's headquarters learned that the district was flooded with ballots headed by Spinola but carrying the rest of the Republican ticket. Spinola won by 174 votes. Murphy never admitted, so far as known, that he was aware how those .ballots got into circulation, but his prestige was enormously increased by the coup, and Mike Cregan, the Republican leader of the Eighteenth, was read out of his party. Hagan became district leader in 1887, by which time Murphy had increased the number of his saloons to four, the principal one being at Twentieth Street and Second Avenue, the upper stories of which housed the Anawan-da Club, then and now the official headquarters of the Tammany district organization. Hagan remained leader to his death in 1892. Murphy and all Hagan's political lieutenants were at his bedside, and in almost his last breath he said: X~X~XKK~X~X~X~X~X~XK~X~X~XK~X~X^~^^ BRING YOUR REAL, ESTATE PROBLEMS TO THE MONAGHAN MORTGAGE AND REALTY COMPANY Charles at Lexington Street, Baltimore, Md. Central Savings Bank Building. PLaza 6753 Summer Drinks- cooling as an ocean dip CATON GINGER ALE Made of the finest Jamaica Ginger blended with g-enuine Caton Water. There is a store in your neighborhood which supplies Caton. Caton Spring Water Co. CATONSVILLE, MD. Ask about our Extra Pale & Dry Ginger Ale On the Old Pimlico Road at Smith Avenue NOW .X^XKK^X^KKK«XK-X^X^XK-X«X^XK-X^X-X-X-X-XK^XK^X^XK-X^> ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? !^KW>K«XK«:-x^-xKK-x-xK-:«x*»xt*;-xK«x-x^x-x«xK-x«i«x«>x Baltimore's Most Fashionable Palace DINE DANCE Joe Young's Society Serenaders direct from Miami, Florida. "Boys, when I'm gone, see that nobody gets the leadership but Charlie." Murphy got more political jobs for his followers than any other leader in the Tammany organization, but cared nothing for offices for himself until Van Wyck was elected Mayor. Then Croker thought so well of Murphy that Van Wyck offered him the Dock Commissionership, and he took it. In that office two things of tremendous importance came into Murphy's life. He created the system of dock leasing which subsequently was to prove a bonanza to Tammany politicians, and he made the friendship of J. Sergeant Cram, a fellow Commissioner. The imagination of Cram and the energy and power of Murphy made the Dock Department a marvel as a parent of sudden and money - making business enterprises.- Moreover, Cram came from a wealthy and aristocratic family and was a graduate of Harvard, and gave Murphy an insight into a side of life completely foreign to his East Side environment. Murphy was all his life reserved and dignified, and his contact with Cram served to accentuate and devlop this characteristic. Murphy was reputed worth about $40,000 when he became Dock Commissioner. He was said to have increased that fortune to the neighborhood of $1,000,000 through his salary, perquisites and shrewd speculations while in that office. The next stage in Charles F. Murphy's life, we are told by this paper, was the maneuvering that led up to his control of Tammany Hall. In 1902 Croker retired, to be succeeded by Lewis Nixon, and then by a triumvirate composed, of Murphy, McMahon and Haffen. Four months later Murphy's formal appointment, which was to last for twenty-two years, was contained in this little resolution passed by the Executive Committee: "Resolved that the powers and duties heretofore exercised and performed by the Committee of Three be hereafter exercised and performed by Charles Francis Murphy." With six weeks of sharp fighting and maneuvering against John F. Carroll, the leader of opposition on the committee, and "Big Bill" Devery, the leader of opposition outside, Murphy emerged triumphant to rule Tammany with comparatively few rebelliohs since. Other papers point out that this was perhaps due to the alliance which he formed with the famous Sullivan clan (Big Tim, Little Tim, etc.) and partly due to his policy of picking men of as big a caliber as possible for important political office. The rest of the Murphy story is too closely bound up with present-day politics to need repetition here. CURRIED EGGS. Remove a hot curry foundation from the direct heat and place in it hard-boiled eggs shelled and cut in quarters. Allow them to heat through and serve on a bed of rice garnished with parsley or watercress. This makes an excellent luncheon-dish. MARYLAND. It is not often that a concert pianist and a prima donna are heard together. An artistic temperament usualy keeps artists of this high calibre apart. But vaudeville seems to be able to accomplish everything and so far vaudeville has succeeded in bringing Olga Cook, the eminent prima donna, and Eric Zardo, the concert pianist, together for a concert tour. It wasn't so many years ago that Olga Cook was one of Gus Edwards' promising kiddies. Today she is one of the best known and best-liked primma donnas in musical comedy. She, like many another contemporaneous star, was an Edwards protege and still appears under his management. For the past two seasons Miss Cook has been singing the prima donna role in "Blossom Time," in which she scored an emphatic hit. This engagement kept her away from vaudeville for a season, but she has come back for a short tour in better voice than ever. Miss Cook is a glorious blonde with glorious voice. Her range is exceptional. But she climbs the scale until she reaches the heights obtained by new lyric sopranos, and her top notes are sweet and clear as a bell. Her enunciation is perfect and her personality is one of the reasons she has been such a success. It is of the irresistible sort. The coterie of musicaal geniuses is so small that those who compose it are known to music-lovers everywhere. It is, however, unnecessary in announcing certain musicians to comment upon their worth. Even the layman knows the eminent musician just as he knows the eminent inventors and statesmen. Eric Zardo is a concert pianist of this order. He is one of the younger of contemporary musicians and although his ability is great his name has not yet permeated the highways and the byways. His fame is spreading fast and it will only be a matter of time before he is as well known as his contemporaries. Mr. Zardo will play a limited vaudeville engagement, after which he goes abroad. SISSLE & BLAKE "IN BAMVILLE" AT FORD'S. B. C. Whitney's new stars, Sissle and Blake, (former stars and composers of "Shuffle Along"), whose great success for two years on Broadway, where they became the fad of New York's "400" electrified Europeans to such an extent that foreign managements immediately vied with each other for their appearance in every civilized part of the globe, a distinction more broadly important than was ever accorded American Colored Artists of recent prominence will be seen in thei* brand new musical dancing comedy production, "In Bamville" at this theatre beginning next Monday, coming direct to Baltimore from a six-weeks sell-out engagement at Chicago's leading theatre, the Illinois, enroute to Broadway. The rollicking book was written by Noble Sissle and Lew Payton. The music was written by Sissle and Blake, and the entire production staged by Julian Mitchell. Among the twenty tuneful song hits that Baltimore will dine and dance to this summer are "Jassamine Lane," "A Million Little Cupids in the Sky," "Dixie Moon," Old Black Joe," "Manda,' Dancing Pickaninnies." cast and chorus of 125 European and American colored artists, includes Lottie Bee, Lew Payton, Johnny Hudgins, The Pour Harmony Kings, Valada Snow, Josephine Baker, Wm. "Sons of "Land of The big MA SERVICE OF UNSURPASSED EXCELLENCE STEWART & MOWEN COMPANY (W. F. WOODEN. Succe»or) Funeral Directors 108 WEST NORTH AVENUE BALTIMORE. MD TELEPHONE,, VERNON 1342 ESPECIALLY EQUIPPED TO RENDER IMMEDIATE ATTENTION" f'^== TO SUBURBAN AND COUNTRY CALLS " F.'.'-S H. Hann, Ivan Browning, Fred Robertson; Dancing Charlie Davis, the Bamville Mississippi Picaninny Band and Sissle and Blake's Famous Symphony Orchestra. The new musical gem is supplied by B. C. Whitney with a production embodying all that prodigal expenditure, catchy, lilting melodies, rollicking Dixie comedians and a profusion of beautiful singing and dancing colored girls, with frequent settings each more dazzling-and irridescent than its predecessors. B. C. Whitney has produced many - a costly production, but seldom, it is claimed, one more beautiful and effervescent than this new Sissle and Blake, joyous offering "In Bamville." THREE WEEKS AT BOULEVARD. "Three Weeks" Elinor Glynn's famous book, appears at the Boulevard on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of next week with Conrad Nagel and Aileen Pringle having the leading roles. It is this book that caused a sensatidn in both England and America and it was thought for a while that it would be suppressed. On Thursday, Friday and Saturday Mary McLaren Flynn, Jean Tol-ley and Louis Wolheim appear in "The Uninvited Guest," a real masterpiece. MARYLAND Best Amusement Value In Town Playing KEITH Attractions The World's Greatest Week of May 26th. 1924. A Happy Selection of Real Favorites. Special Star Feature. Gus Edwards Presents OLGA COOK The Musical Comedy Prima Donna and ERIC ZARDO The Emientnt Concert Pianist. Added Star Feature. Gordon—Martha DOOLEY & MORTON Famous Babies From Famous Families. BEN MEROFF And His Symphonic Band With Frank and Milt Britton In "The Brown Derby." Special Star Attraction LA BERNICIA & CO. Premier. Danaseuse With OLGA MARCELLA Violin Virtuoso—First Prize Conservatoire National, Paris Extraordinary Star Attraction Amelia Bingham Presents MARGOT KELLY (Last Season with Marshall Players) In "The Entanglement" With Marcus White, John Bowie and Kathleen Belden. A Farce by John "Bowie (Baltimorean) JACK "RUBE" CLIFFORD The International Criminologist In "Camera Eye" Carter. Claude M.—Estelle ROODE & FRANCIS Something- Different on the Slack Wire METRO Celebrated Piano-Accordeonist aesop's film fables— topics of the day ?k«:-x-xk-:-x->x-x-:-k-:-:-x-:-:-> FORD'S Matinees Wed. and Sat. The Most Gorgeous, Most Stupen-uouss Music Production In Years. B. C. Whitney Presents America's Famous Society Entertainers and Former Stars and Composers of "Shuffle Along." SISSLE & BLAKE In their Dixie Musical Gem of Fun Dance and Melody. "IN BAMVILLE" And their All-Around-The-World Company of Singing and Dancing Happy-Go-Lucky Dixie Funsters. World's Greatest Dancing Chorus. Sissle & Blake's Symphony Orchestra. BOULEVARD Monday, iuesday and Wednesday CONRAD NAGLE u AILEEN PRINGLE ' —IN— Elinor Glynn's Immortal Romance "THREE WEEKS" Thursday, Friday and Saturday •MARY McLAREN, .MAURICE FYLYNN, JEAN TOLLEV LOUIS WOLHEIM —IN— 'THE UNINVITED GUEST' UNIQUE IN ITS CLASSIC BEAUTi Druid K4ge£emeTer/ Provides for its patrons' service and equipment of particular excellence. Property is patrolled day and night by duly authorized officers. Superintendent's Office and car stop Reisterstown Road Entrance, Pikesville. Phones, 159—201. Executive Office, 21 W. Saratoga Street, Baltimore, Phone, Plaza 1500. Program Subject To Change. CARLIN'S * NOW OPEN! I X X Greater and Grander i Than Ever ? With Plenty of Fun 1 v And Frolic For All Bring The Family And Spend A Glorious Evening.