\ TIEMAJSTN" GETS A. JOB. After his election Tiemann is pictured cleaning up City Hall. From The Picayune, December 12,1857. THE ACQUISITIVE BOY, u Fernando Wood is the "Acquisitive Boy" in cartoon from Vanity Fair, January 14, i860. the city heads of departments, the great Central Park job, the City Hall erection!'27 Tammany Hall made its own calculations. Prior to 1857, it had warily watched Wood construct a personal machine by appropriating the City Hall patronage. The party's fears mounted after the passage of a new city charter in 1857 that consolidated a number of the executive departments and increased the mayor's appointive power. Although traditionally emphasizing state and national contests because of the resultant spoils, Tammany gradually realized that municipal patronage could influence the outcome of these campaigns. Isaac Fowler voiced Tammany's changed attitude: "It is hardly necessary... to tell you that the city patronage is greater than the Custom House!' Then he significantly added: "My greatest desire was to harmonize the two and thus control this State and cordially sustain Mr. Buchan- 27 Tribune, December 2,1857; Times, December 2,1857; Evening Post, December 2, 1857; Courier and Enquirer, December 10,1857 quoting Daily News. f