the committee. A new Committee of Seventy was formed, again largely consisting of upper-class reformers, and in the mayoral election of 1894, Republican William L. Strong won. The Players Committee Clarence Lexow Chairman Daniel Bradley Member Jacob A. Cantor Member Edmund O'Connor Member George W. Robertson Member John W. Goff, Chief Counsel William Travers Jerome, Associate Counsel Frank Moss (lawyer), Associate Counsel William A. Sutherland, Associate Counsel Police William "Big Bill" Devery last superintendent of the New York City Police Department police commission and the first police chief in 1898. Alexander S. "Clubber" Williams, New York City Police Department Inspector, popularly known as the "Czar of the Tenderloin". Thomas F. Byrnes, head of the New York City Police Department detective department from 1880 until 1895 Max F. Schmittberger, New York City Police Department precinct captain in the Tenderloin district, star witness Social reformer Charles Henry Parkhurst Policy dealers Al Adams "Al has the most ... sheets, and he is the biggest man, and has the most money, and has the biggest pile." "He is called the king of the policy dealers." "Al Adams has from Fourteenth street up on the west side mostly." Jake Shipsey Cornelius P. Parker Charles Frederick Lindauer (1836-1921), a.k.a. Charlie Lindauer William Meyers a.k.a. Billy Meyers "Billy Meyers is a backer on the east side, around the Hebrew district, and up about as far as Sixth street" Edward Hogan a.k.a. Ed Hogan Richard Gammon, a.k.a. Dick Gammon William Morton a.k.a. Billy Morton "he has mostly down about South and Broad streets." References Further reading Berman, Jay S. "The Taming of the Tiger: The Lexow Committee Investigation of Tammany Hall and the Police Department of the City of New York." Police Studies: The International Review of Police Development 3 (1980): 55+. excerpt Czitrom, Daniel J. New York Exposed: The Gilded Age Police Scandal that Launched the Progressive Era (Oxford University Press, 2016) Fogelson, Robert. Big-City Police (Harvard University Press, 1977) pp. 1–5 Gilfoyle, Timothy J. "The Moral Origins of Political Surveillance: The Preventive Society in New York City, 1867-1918." American Quarterly 38.4 (1986): 637–652. online Kennedy, Robert C. "On This Day" "On September 6, 1902, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about William Devery, the corrupt police chief of New York City" New York Times Sept 6. 2001 Savell, Isabelle K. Politics in the Gilded Age in New York State and Rockland County; A Biography of Senator Clarence