ten o'clock
As his power grew and his relations with more respectable elements of society extended he shifted to a saloon and beer garden kept by a reputable German and frequented by all kinds of people -- a place where his friends of the avowedly criminal class and his newer friends of the class that does nothing legally criminal , except in emergencies , would feel equally at ease . He retained ownership of the doggery , but took his name down and put up that of his barkeeper . When he won his first big political fight and took charge of the public affairs of Remsen City and made an arrangement with Joe House where -- under Remsen City , whenever it wearied or sickened of Kelly , could take instead Kelly disguised as Joe House -- when he thus became a full blown boss he established a secondary headquarters in addition to that at Herrmann 's Garden . Every morning at ten o'clock he took his stand in the main corridor of the City Hall , really a thoroughfare and short cut for the busiest part of town . With a cigar in his mouth he stood there for an hour or so , holding court , making appointments , attending to all sorts of political business . Presently his importance and his ideas of etiquette expanded to such an extent that he had to establish the Blaine Club . Joe House 's Tilden Club was established two years later , in imitation of Kelly .