houseguests of
on hunting trip with Elliott
inheritance of
leisure time disliked by, 13.1, 15.1, 20.1
made president
North Dakota purchases of
self-confidence of
silver standard opposed by
in Spanish-American War
views on prostitution
war memoirs of
Roosevelt, Theodore, as police commissioner, prl.1, 4.1
accused of aiding Sullivan, 22.1, 22.2, 22.3
Ahlwardt’s anti-Semitic speech and, 13.1, 13.2
in Badlands, 20.1, 20.2, 21.1
Bertillon system and, 23.1, 23.2
boxing defended by
Byrnes and, 6.1, 6.2
Byrnes criticized by
Byrnes’s attempts to placate
in campaign against beggars
at Catholic Total Abstinence meeting
challenged to duel
Chapman raid and
Chapman’s trial and, 22.1, 22.2
charges brought against Parker by
civil service reform and
Cockran’s gold standard speech and
Conlin’s insubordination charges and
Conlin’s leave of absence opposed by
contingency funds requested by
Devery investigated by, 21.1, epl.1
Devery’s return to police force opposed by
dislike of job
drinking laws enforced by, 8.1, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 16.1
Eakins trial and, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 12.1
election of 1895 and
fair election ensured by, 21.1, 21.2
first solo trial day of
first week as
first women hired by
and German-American parade
on Good Government clubs
heat wave relief overseen by
insulted at Waldorf dinner
job loss feared by
letter bombs sent to, 10.1, 16.1
in meeting with Platt
merit system of promotions of, 6.1, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 14.4, 16.1, 16.2, 22.1
midnight tours of New York by, 7.1, 8.1, 10.1, 14.1, 14.2, 17.1, 23.1
new recruits hired by, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 21.1
nude belly dance rumor of, 22.1, 22.2
office of
at police parade
parade cancelled by
at Parker hearing, 19.1, 19.2, 19.3, 19.4, 19.5, 19.6, 19.7, 19.8
Parker’s bribery scandal investigated by, 16.1, 17.1, 22.1
Parker’s feud with, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 14.4, 14.5, 15.1, 16.1, 16.2, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3, 17.4, 19.1, 19.2, 20.1, 20.2, 20.3, 20.4, 22.1, 22.2, nts.1
Parker’s statement on detectives opposed by
Parkhurst’s secret dinner with
Platt’s voter registration fraud discovered by
Police Board trials and
police discipline and, 5.1, 7.1
and police election abuses
police lectures of, 6.1, 10.1, 13.1, 14.1, 14.2, 17.1, 20.1, 22.1
police promotions and, 5.1, 6.1, 16.1, 19.1, 20.1, 20.2, 20.3, 22.1
and police reform bill
politics banished from police by
and private club drinking
proposed ouster of, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 14.4, 20.1, 23.1, 23.2
prostitution investigation scandal and, 17.1, 17.2
on recruit quality
reintroduction of nightstick by
renominated as board president
Republican Convention banning of, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3
salary of
sanitation commissioner job offered to
spike in arrests by
as stickler for laws, 16.1, 17.1
stool-pigeon system opposed by, 13.1, 14.1
Strong’s tirade against
vice suppression supported by, 20.1, 20.2, 22.1
Williams investigated by
Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr.
Roosevelt, Theodore, Sr., 2.1, 9.1, 9.2
Root, Elihu, 11.1, 19.1, epl.1
as Parker’s prosecutor, 19.1, 19.2, 19.3, 19.4
Rosenberg, David “Hymie”
Rosenthal, Solomon
Ross, Minnie
Rothschild, Edward
Rough Riders
roundsmen, 5.1, 7.1, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3
Rules and Discipline Committee, 5.1, 22.1, 22.2, 23.1
Ruppert, Jacob, 8.1, epl.1
Russell, Lillian
Ruth, Babe
rye whiskey
Sagamore Hill, 8.1, 9.1, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1, 19.1, 19.2, 20.1, 20.2, 20.3, 22.1, 22.2, 22.3, 23.1
Saint-Gaudens, Augustus, prl.1, 6.1
St. James Hotel
Salammbô (Flaubert)
saloon boardinghouses
saloons, prl.1, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 11.1, 12.1, epl.1
closed on Sundays, 4.1, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 10.1, 10.2, 13.1, 14.1, 14.2, 16.1, 16.2, 17.1, 19.1, 20.1, 21.1, 23.1, epl.1
election day Excise Law and
of 11th Precinct
free lunches offered by, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4
side entrances of
Sunday alcohol sales in, 1.1, 4.1, 4.2
as turned into hotels, 16.1, 16.2, 19.1, 20.1, 21.1, 22.1, 23.1, 23.2, epl.1
as unofficial political clubhouses
Salvation Army
Sanderson’s Mountain Dew
Sanford, Josephine
Sanford, Rhoda, 3.1, 8.1, 18.1
Sanitation Department, N.Y., 17.1, 20.1
Santfman (fixer)
Saubel, Officer
Saul, Joseph
Savannah, Ga.
Savoy
Schauer, Amelia Elizabeth “Lizzie”, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3
Schauer, Casper
Schauer, Elizabeth (stepmother), 12.1, 12.2
Schauwacker (roundsman)
Scheuler, Louisa
Schick, Officer, 10.1, 10.2
Schindler (detective), 4.1, 4.2
Schmittberger, Max, 4.1, 6.1, 6.2, 18.1, 18.2, epl.1
School of Instruction, 22.1, 22.2
Schubert, Katie, 3.1, 4.1, 8.1
Schurz, Carl, 5.1, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3
Schwab, Gustav H., 10.1, 11.1, 13.1
“Scotch Ann”
Scott, Francis M., 8.1, 16.1, 16.2, 17.1, 17.2, 23.1
Seabury investigation
Seagrist, Francis W., bribery by, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4, 15.5
Seeley, Clinton Barnum
Seeley, Herbert Barnum, 22.1, 22.2, 22.3, 22.4, 22.5, 22.6, 22.7, 22.8, 22.9, 22.10, 22.11, 23.1
Seligman, Joseph
Seligman, Theodore
Senate Committee on Cities, 16.1, 16.2
Serpico, Frank
Sewall, Arthur
shakedowns, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
Shakespeare, William, 9.1, 17.1, 19.1
Shalvey, Edward
Shaw, Eliza
Sheehan, Officer, 14.1, 16.1
Sheehey, Commissioner, 2.1, 4.1
Sheridan (detective)
Sherry, Louis
Sherry’s, 22.1, 22.2, 22.3, 22.4, 22.5, epl.1
Sierstorff, Count
Silly’s Dinner, 22.1, 22.2
Silverman, Louis
silver standard, 20.1, 20.2, 21.1
Simmons, Commissioner
Simms, Magistrate Charles, 12.1, 12.2
Sing Sing, 13.1, 13.2, 23.1
Sisters of Mercy
slaughterhouses
slavery
Slimy Back boys’ gang
Smith, Charles Stewart
Smith, Silver Dollar, 3.1, 16.1
Smith, William F.
Smith’s
smuggling
Smyth, Frederick, 4.1, 4.2, 10.1, 11.1, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4, 23.1, 23.2
Social Purity League
Social Reform Club, 23.1, 23.2
Society for the Prevention of Crime, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 3.1, 6.1, 6.2, 14.1
&
nbsp; attempts to discredit agents of
Devery investigated by, 5.1, 6.1, 15.1, 15.2, 21.1, 22.1, 23.1
drinking laws enforced by
Eakins trial and, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3
and Lexow hearings
prostitution investigated by, 5.1, 15.1, 22.1
warrants executed by
soda water sales, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3
sodomy
Solomon, Charles, see Smith, Silver Dollar
Soubrettes’ Row
“Sound Money” luncheon
South Dakota
Spahr, Charles B.
Spanish-American War, 15.1, 21.1, epl.1, epl.2
spoils system
“sporting men”
Sporting World
Spring-Rice, Cecil
Staats-Zeitung
“stale beer” dive
Star & Garter
Starr, Sylvia
State Democratic Party, 11.1, 11.2
Staten Island, N.Y., 10.1, 14.1
steam launches, 10.1, 17.1
steamship lines
Steen’s concert hall
steerage
Steffens, Lincoln, 2.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 8.1, 10.1, 11.1, 22.1, epl.1, epl.2
Stephenson, John Thomas, 4.1, 4.2
Stern’s department store
Stoll, Herman
stool-pigeon networks:
dismantling of, 13.1, 14.1
TR’s opposition to, 13.1, 14.1
Storer, Bellamy, 20.1, 21.1, 21.2, 21.3, 21.4, 22.1, 22.2, 22.3, 23.1
Storer, Maria Longworth, 20.1, 21.1, 21.2, 21.3, 22.1, 22.2, 23.1
Stranahan, Nevada N.
Strauss, Dan
Street, Millicent, 12.1, 12.2
street slang
street vendors, 10.1, 10.2
strip teases, 17.1, 20.1, 20.2, 22.1, nts.1
Strong, William L., prl.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 17.1, 23.1
anger at TR over feud with Parker
and contingency funds for police, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3
German immigrants’ complaints to
Parker dismissed by
Parker hearing judged by, 19.1, 19.2, 19.3
and Parker’s bribery scandal
Parker’s resignation requested by, 17.1, 19.1
at police parade
Sullivan, “Big Florrie”, 8.1, 16.1
Sullivan, Big Tim, 8.1, 15.1, 16.1, 22.1, 22.2, 22.3
Sullivan, James
Summers, Tom
Sunday saloon crackdown, 4.1, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 11.2, 13.1, 14.1, 14.2, 16.1, 16.2, 17.1, 19.1, 20.1, 21.1, 23.1, epl.1
Supreme Court, New York, 17.1, 17.2, 19.1
Swamp Angels
sweatshops
Synagogue Beth Israel Anshe Poland
Syracuse, N.Y.
Tabernacle
Taft, William H.
Taintor, Charles
Tammany Hall, prl.1, prl.2, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2, 13.1, 14.1, 16.1, 23.1, 23.2
ballots stuffed by
beginning of
cash given to beggars by
Consolidation bill as weapon against
Devery acquittal and
election of 1895 and, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5, 11.6, 11.7
New York City ruled by
saloons as clubhouses for
Van Wyck’s appointment by
Tammany Times, 11.1, 15.1
Tamsen, Edward
telephones
Tenderloin, prl.1, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1, 10.1, 20.1, 20.2, 22.1, 22.2, 22.3, 23.1, epl.1
crime rate in
drinking in, 16.1, 16.2
prostitution in, 17.1, 20.1
tenements, prl.1, 7.1, 7.2, 10.1, 10.2
“Ten Minutes in the Latin Quarter” (striptease)
Tesla, Nikola
Texas
Texas (horse)
Third Avenue
Thirteen Club
13th Precinct
Thompson, Walter L., 16.1, 16.2
Thousand and One Nights
Tierney, Michael, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2, 13.1, 14.1, 16.1
hiring of
promotion of, 14.1, 14.2, 17.1, 19.1, 19.2
suspension of
on TR’s midnight tours
Tiffany, Louis
“tight house”
Tilden, Marmaduke
Tombs prison, 12.1, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3
Tompkins Square
Tompkins Square Park
Town Topics, 7.1, 8.1, 10.1, 11.1, 20.1, 22.1, 23.1
Tracy, Benjamin F., 19.1, 19.2, 19.3, 19.4, 19.5, 19.6, 19.7, 19.8, 19.9, 23.1
Tracy, John, 17.1, 17.2, 22.1
Trilby (Du Maurier)
Trinity Church, 13.1, 15.1
Twain, Mark
Tweed, William M. (“Boss”), 1.1, 11.1, 15.1
Tweed Courthouse
Twelfth Regiment Armory
21st Precinct, 7.1, 11.1
22nd Precinct, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 4.1
27th Precinct
Union League, 2.1, 8.1, 10.1, 10.2
Jews banned from
Sunday liquor laws and
United Societies for Liberal Sundays
Van Cott, Cornelius
Vanderveer, Charlotte
Van Wyck, Robert, epl.1, epl.2
Venette, Nicolas
Venezuela, in border dispute with Great Britain
virginity tests
“Voice, The”
Voorhis, Judge, 3.1, 4.1, 8.1
voter registration
Vreedenburgh, Inspector
Wabe, Ashea (Little Egypt), 22.1, 22.2, 22.3, 22.4, 22.5
Wadsworth, James W.
Waldorf Astoria, 13.1, 22.1, 23.1
Walsh, Grace
Walsh, James
ward men, 2.1, 4.1
banning of, 4.1, 14.1
Waring, George E.
War of 1812
War of 1812 (Roosevelt)
Washington, George
Washington Post, prl.1, 5.1, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 21.1, 22.1, 23.1, epl.1
TR criticized in, 13.1, 14.1
Washington Square, 1.1, 7.1
Watson, John
Wayfarers’ Lodge and Wood Yard, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 14.4
Weeks, Bartow S.
Wells, Howard
Wells, William
West, Sadie
whiskey
White, Helen
White, Henry
White, Roundsman
White, Stanford, prl.1, 6.1
Whitney, Edgar, 3.1, 3.2
Whitney, William C., 14.1, 22.1
Whyo gang
Wigham, May
Willemse, Cornelius, 7.1, 7.2, 11.1
Williams, Alexander “Clubber”, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 6.1, 11.1, 11.2, 15.1, 15.2
background of
complaints against
retirement application of
Windsor
wine, 8.1, 8.2
Wing Lee’s
Winning of the West (Roosevelt)
Wishart, Marcus
Wissig, Phil, 3.1, 4.1
Wolcott, Senator
women, 11.1, 12.1
workhouses, 14.1, 14.2
World’s Fair of 1893
xenophobia
Young, Robert
Young Republicans
Zimmerman, Officer, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3
The Roman goddess Diana, atop Madison Square Garden at 26th Street, dominated the New York skyline; she was perched at 341 feet and towered over the surrounding buildings. (photo credit 1.1)
This thirteen-foot-tall gilded copper figure by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, his only female nude, also served as spinning weathervane. The Edison lights made her seem to hover at night in the sky.
A police raid on gambling. These gamblers were hauled by horse-drawn paddy wagons from a “pool room,” the 1890s term for a place taking “betting pool�
� wagers on horse races. Note the size of the policeman; they often ate free in that era. (photo credit 1.2)
The Bowery, under the shadow of the elevated train tracks, bustled at night with colored lights and caneswirling barkers, in places such as the Lyceum Concert Garden. The joint then featured a minstrel show and cakewalk. (photo credit 1.3)
Anthony Comstock’s Society for the Suppression of Vice aided the police (who often didn’t want their help) by tracking down sellers of obscene photographs. Comstock himself presented this evidence on October 30, 1883, against one Camille Besson. (photo credit 1.4)
Comstock agent J. A. Britton purchased this photo on October 26, 1883, from E. A. Ginter at his shop in the Tenderloin district at 38 West 30th Street. The agent stated Ginter offered for sale “several hundred” indecent and lewd items, including photos of “carnal intercourse.” (photo credit 1.5)
In the 1890s, among the city’s 8,000 saloons, this “blackand-tan” bar on Broome Street catered to all races, including blacks, who then accounted for less than 2 percent of the city’s population. In dive bars, whiskey—or what passed for it—sold for 5 cents a glass. (photo credit 1.6)
Young novelist Stephen Crane visited an opium joint, half a decade after Jacob Riis took this photo in the late 1880s. “The universe is readjusted,” Crane explained. “Wrong departs, injustice vanishes; there is nothing but a quiet harmony of all things—until the next morning.” (photo credit 1.7)
Jacob Riis called this Thompson Street joint “a downtown morgue.” (photo credit 1.8)
Charles Parkhurst (1842–1933) delivered a sermon in February 1892 that sparked a crusade against vice and Tammany Hall. After being accused of knowing little about vice, he took a sin tour to explore brothels, saloons, even a transvestite club. (photo credit 1.9)
Frank Moss (1860–1920), a deeply religious man and legal counsel for the Parkhurst Society, who dedicated himself to fighting corruption in the police department. (photo credit 1.10)
William “Big Bill” Devery (1857–1919) was a bartender and boxer before rising high in the police department. He called reformers “little tin soldiers” and would be suspended several times. (photo credit 1.11)
This larger-than-life lush erotic painting, “Nymphs and Satyr,” by W. A. Bouguereau drew tens of thousands of thirsty men to the elegant Hoffman House bar on 24th Street. The manager called it the world’s greatest hotel advertisement. Women could enter only on certain “art”-viewing afternoons. (photo credit 1.12)
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