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political influence in one way or another. I suppose being a big contractor he could give jobs to an awful lot of friends, relatives and hangers-on of the people who were in politics. At any rate, he had great influence and used it to get himself contracts. When he got the contract, however, he did it properly. He laid aside a fortune and had been in politics at one time. I think the old man went to the Assembly or the Senate for one term. I'm not sure about that, but I seem to remember some such talk.

At any rate, Jimmy was the apple of his eye and inherited his money. That was a considerable amount. He was regarded as having been perfectly honest. Whether he was or not, I don't know, but at that time it was one of the things that Wagner, Smith and some of the others said as a reason for having Walker. He had been honest, had nothing bad in his record. He was clever, intelligent and lazy as the old Harry, but if he would brace up, he was brighter than ninetenths of the people in the City of New York, and certainly one of the brightest people they had. He would be able to do a good job if he would put his mind on it and try to. Money had made him lazy, but it hadn't made him dishonest. It protected him from any temptations to be dishonest.

They had been through a good deal with Hylan and with Hylan's hangers-on. The great problem while Hylan was in was