at that time, mayor schmidt, you jean schmidt -- you jean schmidt, -- eugene schmidt, who was a violinist he was the head of the musicians union, and he was the first union party labor union party to control municipality in america. unfortunately, he was controlled himself by abraham roof. he was a young man who was an intellectual prodigy, spoke many languages, but he also, as they said among other corrupt politicians, i saw my opportunities and i took them. well that was sure true of abraham roof because you could not do anything of any consequence in the city unless you hired abraham roof as a consultant. and abraham roof normally wanted $200,000 and this is all evident in the trials that came out of it. and of the $200,000, he and mayor schmidt would keep half and the other half they would divvy it among the 19 board of supervisors. so the whole city was corrupt. the man who had been mayor before schmidt also he became a senator, united states later on. he was a man of great wealth. his father founded the earliest gold reserve bank here in san francisco. and he was a man of great priv