 In 1894, Reverend Charles Parkhurst's City Vigilant League precipitated NY State to appoint State Senator Clarence Lexow to hold extensive hearings at what is now called the Lexow Committee, about corruption in the Police Department. This eventually led to the downfall of Tammany Hall. 

 A bird's-eye-view map of New York and Brooklyn, (The boss of Tammany Hall in New York, Richard Croker, and the boss of the Brooklyn political machine, Hugh McLaughlin, reach across the East River to shake hands in cooperation).  

 The image of a tiger was often used to represent the Tammany Hall political movement.  

The Age of Bosses Ends at Tammany Hall