Then a local political character, a councilman friend of his--they were both Catholics--saw a new point in the whole thing.
Butler could be made official garbage-collector.

The council could vote an annual appropriation for this service.

Butler could employ more wagons than he did now--dozens of them, scores.

Not only that, but no other garbage-collector would be allowed.

There were others, but the official contract awarded him would also, officially, be the end of the life of any and every disturbing rival.