m t 5? Crowded tenements of Hester Street about 1890 on Lower East Side, photograph by Jacob Riis. museum of the city of new yobk. indisputably was effective. Kelly created an image of respectability for the Society. He chose prominent citizens as sachems—the wealthy Augustus Schell, for example, succeeded Tweed. With such men as Horatio Seymour, Sanford E. Church, Abram S. Hewitt, August Belmont, and even Tweed's chief prosecutor, Samuel J. Tilden, closely associated with the organization at one time or another during the Kelly years, a restoration to public grace was almost inevitable.4 By the 1880s, Tammany like the legendary phoenix had risen again. Kelly had a newspaper, The Star, to use for Tammany's purposes, and he kept this organ alive by a system of subscriptions forced from 4Morris R. Werner, Tammany Hall (New York: 1928), 279.