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Hearst lost and New York was saved. But, something to do with “staying alive,” caused the entire Salter clan to move to Canada for four years. Although Mike was not charged with the ballot dumping activity, he was nailed by the police for “illegal registration.”
CANADA: A NICE PLACE TO VISIT
Because the family fled New York and moved to Canada, Max’s big sister Glady was born in Canada but never had a birth certificate. Even when the family returned to the States four years later, Glady couldn’t get a certificate. Fifty years went by before Max could pull some strings and Glady Salter got her birth certificate.
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Thomas Nast’s Harper’s Weekly cartoons of Boss Tweed and his “Ring”–– a team Nast himself originated –– so infuriated the Tammany leader that in 1871 he offered the German-born artist half a million dollars to drop the campaign and leave the country. Nast refused and continued to caricature the corrupt boss week after week in a series of drawings that not only helped to bring Tweed down, but forever engraved in the American imagination the image of the big-city boss as a florid, gluttonous and rapacious figure. From New York: An Illustrated History.
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A whimsical ceramic globe depicting New York. Salter collection.