sentences:  As a boy he had several odd jobs.He worked for the pharmaceutical company of McKesson & Robbins in Fulton Street, then he became a grocer's clerk and later a clerk in a tea house.According to an obituary in the New York Sun, Hayes "had a way of getting along pleasantly – a bland, ingratiating way which was to smooth the road for him in politics and soon became a protégé of Tammany Hall boss Richard Croker."