presents were displayed at the home of the bride,
Divver was not in a pleasant mood and he charged his jeweler with
treachery. It may be added that Foley won at the primaries.

One of the fixed duties of a Tammany district leader is to give two
outings every summer, one for the men of his district and the other for
the women and children, and a beefsteak dinner and a ball every winter.
The scene of the outings is, usually, one of the groves along the Sound.

The ambition of the district leader on these occasions is to demonstrate
that his men have broken all records in the matter of eating and
drinking. He gives out the exact number of pounds of beef, poultry,
butter, etc., that they have consumed and professes to know how many
potatoes and ears of corn have been served.

According to his figures, the average eating record of each man at the
outing is about ten pounds of beef, two or three chickens, a pound
of butter, a half peck of potatoes, and two dozen ears of corn. The
drinking records, as given out, are still more phenomenal. For
some reason, not yet explained, the district leader thinks that his
popularity will be greatly increased if he can show that his followers
can eat and drink more than the followers of any other district leader.

The same idea governs the beefsteak dinners in the winter. It matters
not what sort of steak is served or how it is cooked; the district
leader considers only the question of quantity, and when he excels all
others in this particular, he feels, somehow, that he is a bigger man
and deserves more patronage than his associates in the Tammany Executive
Committee.

As to the balls, they are the events of the winter in the extreme East
Side and West Side society. Mamie and Maggie and Jennie prepare for them
months in advance, and their young men save up for the occasion just as
they save for the summer trips to Coney Island.

The district leader is in his glory at the opening of the ball He leads
the cotillion with the prettiest woman present--his wife, if he has one,
permitting--and spends almost the whole night shaking hands with his
constituents. The ball costs him a pretty penny, but he has found that
the investment pays.

By these means the Tammany district leader reaches out into the homes of
his district, keeps watch not only on the men, but also on the women and
children; knows their needs, their likes and dislikes, their troubles
and their hopes, and places himself in a