Should the occasion de mand it, every one of these voters can be reached within a few hours without the aid of newspapers or any publicity whatever. Working under the eye of the omnipotent boss, the thirty-five dis trict leaders, through their thousand and thirteen district captains, direct with unerring certainty every political move ment of all their multifarious consstita-

entH. The secret of the organisation s success is (hat the amount of patronage it dispenses is enormous — thirty-five mil lion dollars annually is a, low estimate of the value of the offices which it con trols. But this alone is not enough to account for its overwhelming predomin ance in every sphere of American public life. Success is also due to the scrupu lously minute personal interest which every district leader and captain is forced to take in the lives and actions of those whom the Boss has commit ted to his charge. A writer who by no means sympathises with its methods lately observed that "Tammany Hall does more for the daily personal comfort, happiness and well-being of the average tenement ■dweller than all the charitable and phil anthropic institutions in New York." The captain is literally the guide, philosopher and friend of every man, woman and child in his district. If a small boy breaks a window and is arrested, the mother goes at once to the captain. If (he head of the house, is "wanted," and is "found" by the police, the captain finds bail, gets witnesses, interviews the complainant. If the law demands that a Tammany voter be temporarily "retired" from public life, the captain looks after the family or pays the doctor's bills. If a girl graduates at the Normal school and her father is "any good," as the phrase goes, to Tammany, it is the captain's duty to see that she gets a good place as a teacher. If a faithful supporter of Tammany leaves a widow, work is found for her and her children. The amount of money spent annually by the Boss and the district leaders in charity is truly surprising. Senator Sullivan, the leader of the famous Sixth District, is said to give away 25,000 dollars a year ; and he has about 200,000 dollars' worth of patronage at his command as well. 