St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-09-01
RUNDLETT ROUTED.
The City Engineer Una BILE to
Stand the Pressure of the
Reform Gang.
A New Slate in the Matter Of
Commissioners Evidently
Dictated.
Stanley and Three Other
Commissioners Walk
the Plank.
SualwartS on Both Sides Dis
satisfied With the Pres
ent and Future.


the reform administration have re-
peatedly asserted that grand shaking
up would take place i'll the city engi-
neer's department, and the first intall-
ment was dished up yesterday. During
the sessions of the committee on re-
duction of salaries the explanation was
made that the corps of street commits
sioners had been forced on the city
engineer by politicians, and for this
reason the men were necessarily incom-
petent. The appointments made yester-
day may not have been forced on the city
engineer. but as the reform members
of the common council have prophesied
their appointment for several weeks, 1t
would indicate slight pressure. Yes
terday morning City Engineer Rundlett
sent the following letter to the board of
public works:
Aug. 81. 1870 the Board of Public
Works-Gentlemen: l have made the fol-
lowing changes in the street commissioners.
subject 10 your approval: have appoint
ed +. w. Mccoy i'll place OF Charles b. Shan
ley; Albert Tomasek in place OF John SAT
ranek Jacob B. Wilson in place of John
Maher, and Patrick n olan in place of Michael
Lux. L would recommend that Messrs.
Tomasek. Wilson and Nolan receive 500 per
month, the same as the others were recelv-
ing, and that Mccoy be allowed Sl23 per
month. AS there is Il large surplus in the
engineering department fund, and as the
street sewer and bridge fund is very low, l
would suggest that +. W. Mccoy still be re-
tanned Oh the engineering force and detailed
for this work. l.. w. RUNDLETT.
The changes made by the engineer
are under a provision of the Bell char
ter, which reads as follows:
IN ticfo Nv
perform the duties and work created and i'm
posed by this section. is authorized to APP
point, subject to the approval or Salo board,
noteXceeding six persons, who. under ms
direction. shall perform such duties as sald
engineer shall from time to time prescribe.
And said persons so appointed shall at all
times be under the supervision OF said en-
gineer of said board. The persons SO ap-
pointed shall receive such compensation as
the board of public works. with the consent
of the council, expressed by resolution, may
determine; and in fixing such compensa-
ton. said resolution shall specify the period
for which said compensation shall last.
which period shall i'll no case exceed at any
one time six months.
As this gives the engineer full powers
in the selection of his street commits
Sioners, and as the board of public
works has only to approve OF the APP
p0intmentS, this necessary action was
taken yesterday afternoon, and the APP
pointmentS were confirmed. Friends of
some of the depoSed commissioners
complained yesterday of the prompt
action of the boOrd in confirming the
appointments. The kickerS were in
formed that the board had every conf
dence in the engineer, and as he had
requested the changes, unless there was
some good reason advanced, il would be
only courtesy to confirm his. appoint
nothing to say about the changes, ex-
cept they had been made because he
thought it best tor the department.
His idea in placing Mccoy. one of his
assistants, in charge, was to have the
work of the commissioners more closely
allied with the engineering department..
The changes leave 2. j. Gleason in
charge of the work in the Tenth and
Eleventh wards, Nicholas Smith in
charge of the street sweeping, and
Frank Mcclure in charge OF the sewer
work.
G. e. Stanley has been street COM
missioner and in general charge of the
other commissioners for the past nine
years. ia,J
John Maher has been employed as
commissioner in the First, Second and
Third wards for the past four years.
John Safranek has had charge of the
Fifth, Sixth and part of the Seventh
ward street work for two years.
Michael Lux was appointed three
months ago and has been in the Eighth,
Ninth and part of the Seventh wards.
OF the new appointees +. w. Mccoy
and Patrick Nolan are the ones who
have had practical experience. Mccoy
has been an assistant in the engineers
office and, as Mr.. Rundlett says, is
valuable and competent man. Nolan
was formerly street commissioner and
was thrown out, so his friends claim.
two years ago to make room for Sa-
franek. Jacob V. Wilson has been
deputy oil inspector. and, as the direc-
tory states, is now employed in the
state dairy department. His appoint
ment was the result of fight for the
place, he being put in as compromise
candidate owing to the reformers not
being able to unite on John Maher.
The ouStlng of Maher has caused a
deal of feeling among the reform fol-
lowers in the Sixth ward, and, as one of
the men on the inside expressed it, the
West Side gang are tearing their hair
over Makers decapitltien. Albert
Tomosek is a Bohemian from the Fifth
ward and is given the place probably as
a reward for his pulp during the last
election.
The four changes are but the prellm-
mary steps to general Overhauling in
the engineers department. According
to one of the fiXerS Mccoy is only to be
kept in his position until Jan. l, and the
other commissioners who are allowed
to remain will be disposed of one by
Office.