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The Metropolitan Street Railway System (New York)
Page entitled : Whitney secures Jacob Sharp's
Broadway franchise
Content of this page is about :
How William C. Whitney and Thomas F. Ryan wrung the Broadway franchise
from Jacob Sharp and constituted the Street Railway Syndicate with P.A.B.
Widener and W. Elkins
Extract :
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“boodle aldermen”, many
had fled to Canada, Mexico and Spain, but those still present in New York,
including Fullgraff and McQuade, were sentenced to prison terms of variable
length. Jacob Sharp was himself sentenced to four-years of hard labor, but
being too weak, he was incarcerated at Ludlow Street Jail, where he died in
1888, before a technical victory in the Court of Appeals would have released
him. The latter may well have been the reward for his selling-out to the New
York Cable Railway interests, which now combined the Ryan faction with the
Elkins-Widener Group of Philadelphia and obviously also included William
Collins Whitney.
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