Charles LeRoy Lewis - Special Collections - University of Baltimore

for the city, or what?
LEWIS:099 II:2:58
Lewis: Only watchdog - she wasn't elected to nothing, but
she had so much on them politicians that they all. were
scared to death cf her; they didn't want Marie on their back.
Harvey: When was she around, now - about what year?
Lewis: Oh, about - the first I knew anything of her was
around '24. 1 think she died; I don't know if she died after
World War I1 or not, You take that, you know Union Memorial
Hospital over there on the east end; that whole block there,
She built that in memory of her husband. Furnished it and
everything else, four stories high, That was the Bernschmidt's
section; you still got the plaque over in that old building.
: M r. Lewis, not exactly politics but maybe part of
politics . . .who were the people in Hampden the last fifty
years since the twenties stay?
Lewis: In these Last years Jack Pollack control this district.
He controlled it. Mike Triplett worked for him. And George
Bailey worked for Mike . . . or, Jack Pollack. W i l l i e
Curran, when Pollack comes down, Willie Curran (former Mayor)
he had Dr. Morrissey he was the coroner out here. The
Powers Boys drugstore. They were a11 Willie Curran's. Now
Willie Curran, he was a Catholic - staunch Catholic. So
was Dr. ~orrissey and Dr. Powers. And they were with
Willie Curran and Pollack come out and started to build up.
In the meantime Robey started to build up and then,
of course, Keller - Leonard Keller - was his lieutenant.
And Leonard Keller up until Robey died. You wanted anything