[148] Proceedings of the [New York City] Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, 1844-1865:734.
[149] Ibid:865.
[150] Proceedings of the [New York City] Sinking Fund Commission, 1882:2020-2023.
[151] Documents of the [New York City] Board of Aldermen, 1877, Part II. No. 8.
[152] New York Senate Journal, 1871:482-83.
[153] See Exhibits Doc. No. 8, Documents of the [New York City] Board of Aldermen, 1877.
[154] For a full account of the operations of the Tweed régime see the author's "History of Tammany Hall."
[155] Report of the Metropolitan Board of Health for 1866, Appendix A:38.
[156] "America's Successful Men of Affairs":36.
[157] "No church disdained his gifts." The morals and methods of the church, as exemplified by Trinity Church, were, judged by standards, much worse than those of Astor or of his fellow-landlords or capitalists. These latter did not make a profession of hypocrisy, at any rate. The condition of the tenements owned by Trinity Church was as shocking as could be found anywhere in New York City. We subjoin the testimony given by George C. Booth of the Society for the Improvement of the Condition of the Poor before a Senate Investigating Committee in 1885: