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Left to Mayor Kenny was a city fairly free of crime and vice (Hague always boasted of his kingdom's purity), and a city with a first-class medical center and maternity hospital. Left to Mayor Kenny also was a city with one of the highest tax rates in the nation, rigged assessments, discouraged businesses, factories deserted by fleeing industry, a city turned into a huge patchwork of slums by political graft. Left to historians was the problem of discovering, if they could, the exact details of how Frank Hague, on a salary never bigger than the mayor's $8,500 a year, became several times a millionaire. Left to Frank Hague were his declining years—to spend in his suite at Manhattan's Plaza Hotel, in his $7,000-a-year apartment in one of Jersey City's few good residential sections, in his $125,000 Deal (N.J.) summer home, or in his $100,000 winter home on Biscayne Bay. Doubtless old Frank Hague also had some pleasant memories.