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Excerpt from How New York Is Governed: Frauds of the Tammany Democrats
Andrew J. Garvey, to whom the Court-house and the Armories have proved a perfect mine of Wealth, rose, like his master tweed, from humble beginnings. He was a bunker of the old fire depart. Ment, and' in the intervals of that exciting occupation, he did a little work for a brother 1n the plastering trade. Since he was taken up by the Ring, garvey has waxed rich and prosperous, and almost rivals the Boss himself 111 the palatial splendor of his mansion in Connecticut.
R. J. Hennessy who appears to have aided garvey m his great plastering jobs, defies all attempts at discovery. He 1s utterly unknown to the trade. Mr. J. R. Hennessy wrote on July 25th, to the times, stating that he had been for some time in garvey' 8 employment, and had been for a brief space prominent in ward politics But that he ever received a dollar from the city, either In his own name or garvey's,116 explicitly denied. R. J. Hennessy must, therefore, be set down as a myth, in spite of the very substantial sum of which appears against his name on the County Record.
T. C. Cashman has no existence in the pages of the City Directory or in any known business He may be one of garvey' s workmen, or he may, like hennessy, be merely a double of the Prince of Plasterers. In any case, his name was made a pretext for paying away $64, 090. 49.
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