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captain, one of the open supporters of graft and vice, as chief of police and he accelerated the speed through which the police collections from the underworld were made. Devery, as a captain, had refused to take notice of complaints against the lawlessness and finally was removed as police chief by the Republican legislature which abolished the position. But Croker cabled Van Wyck from abroad to appoint him police commissioner and Devery again resumed his rule.

In his closing years Croker found the rising of "Big Tim" Sullivan an obstruction in his path but he did not come out in the open with his dislike for the powerful Bowery leader who ruled his district through the use of repeaters when necessary to deliver the vote.

Croker, now an old man, lived at a club while in this country and still tried to retain his control of Tammany,. many of whose leaders were silently opposing him because he had adopted an attitude of culture and residence abroad.

In 1898 Croker fought Theodore Roosevelt but the man who later was to be president was elected governor of the State. Then came the Mazet investigation and again Tammany was in disgrace and again Croker returned from Europe to lead his cohorts in their attempt to keep their claws on the city. Again Tammany was ousted by a reform administration

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