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"And they tell me that Vanderbilt is starting in to head that Albany proposition off on his own account; because, in the charter of his Harlem Railroad, THE BOOK OF DANIEL DREW 169 there is a clause permitting him to extend his tracks down Broadway, whenever the Mayor and Aldermen of New York City give their consent." Tweed began to prick up his ears. He was a quick fellow to arrive at your meaning. He had a shrewd headpiece. It's true that women could lead him around by the nose. (The same wit...h Richard ConnoUey — "Slippery Dick," we used to call him. That woman of his whom he picked up from the Turkish Bath where she had been an attendant, used to play him all kinds of tricks, and he wasn't any the wiser. If it had been a man, Dick would have seen through him at once.) But in other ways Tweed was very knowing. He now listened close.
I then went on to show how we could work the Common Council in such a way as to squeeze Vander- bilt in his Harlem-Broadway enterprise, and make a neat little sum out of it.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
"And they tell me that Vanderbilt is starting in to head that Albany proposition off on his own account; because, in the charter of his Harlem Railroad, THE BOOK OF DANIEL DREW 169 there is a clause permitting him to extend his tracks down Broadway, whenever the Mayor and Aldermen of New York City give their consent." Tweed began to prick up his ears. He was a quick fellow to arrive at your meaning. He had a shrewd headpiece. It's true that women could lead him around by the nose. (The same wit...h Richard ConnoUey — "Slippery Dick," we used to call him. That woman of his whom he picked up from the Turkish Bath where she had been an attendant, used to play him all kinds of tricks, and he wasn't any the wiser. If it had been a man, Dick would have seen through him at once.) But in other ways Tweed was very knowing. He now listened close.
I then went on to show how we could work the Common Council in such a way as to squeeze Vander- bilt in his Harlem-Broadway enterprise, and make a neat little sum out of it.
What to read after The book of Daniel Drew : a Glimpse of the Fisk-Gould-Tweed Régime From the Inside?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Loewy, Benno, 1854-1919. Fmo to read onlineMoreLess
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