Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-03
Messrs. B. P. Ford and George H0lli-
day Have No Opposition.
STRANGERS IN BOTH BRANCHES.
AIlegheny's Legislators to Start . New
Year on Monday.
POSSIBLE VACANCY IN TIE SELECT

1t Will be the Seventy-siNth council OF tnls
city. II. p Ford, member of Select Coun-
Gil from the Eleventh ward, has no opposi-
tion, and will be reelected 10 his second
term as President of that branch. George
Holiday, from the Thirty-ifth WARD,
will be reelected President of the Common
branch. Both gentlemen have served IN
Councils for long term of years and have
made popular charmen IN their respective
branches. Mr.. Holiday is the second old
est member in service in either branch. He
has served 16 years. and in both sides Of
the hall Mr. Ford has served IL years in
the Select Council. Both are Republicans
and their popularity was ittingly remem-
bered by unanimously adopted resolutions
at the final meeting of the old Councils last
Monday.
The organization of Councils will begin
by the election of the Presidents, who will
be sworn in by the oldest member in each
branch. Then the chairmen in each branch
will administer the iron-clad oath collec-
lively to all the new and the reelected
members, after which lots will be drawn for
seats in the council chambers.
They VIII Talk and Adjourn.
Speeches will be the only thing left to do
before adjournment. The appointments of
committees made by the chairmen are an
nounced at the next succeeding meeting,
when the rules of Councils are generally
adopted.
There will be six new faces in Select
Council, though three of the new members
have figured in Councils in the past. Out Of
the whole Sc members there are seven
Democrats, and three who were elected on
the Citizens ticket
George Baum, of the Twentieth ward, was
among the latter. He is Republican and
was member of Select Council when the
new charter was adopted, but has been out
since, until this year. He is young man,
and well-to-do, being one of the heirs to the
Baum estate in the Twentieth ward.
Henry Epping, of the Sixteenth ward,
another new member, is new only because
he has been out of Councils for four years
He was in Councils when the new charter
was adopted, and opposed it. His politics
are Democratic and his record is opposition
to the majority party at all times in Coun-
ellis.
p J. Donahue, of the First ward, is a
Republican, and served ore term in Com
mon Council after the new charter. Subse-
quently he was made wharfnlaster,' but
resigned to be elected Alderman.
Philip S. Film, another new one, never
served in Councils, though he held the
office of Street Commissioner until he three
years ago resigned and went into the res
taurant business at the Market House. He
is brother of Senator William Finn, and
popular in the Sixth ward, from which
he was elected on the Citizens ticket.
A Democrat From the Thirtieth.
John r. O'Malley, the new member from
the Thirtieth ward, is a Democrat, a mill
worker, and new in politics, this being his
initial effort in that line.
Peter Schertzinger is also new man and
q Democrat, from the Twenty-seventh ward.
He is glass worker, and quite young, this
being his first Office
A new member will come in from the
Thirty-third ward, where there was a tie in
the recent election between Thomas Perry,
Citizen candidate, and John Loughran,
Democrat. When Councils are organized
they will order a new election.
The reelected members of Select Council
include John S. Lambie, the well-known
attorney of the Eleventh ward, who ranks
as the Oldest member now in that branch.
The others are John Paul, Thirty-second
ward, elected to third term Evan Jones'
Thirty-sixth ward, who has served several
terms; Thomas E. Perry, Twelfth ward,
elected to third term Herman Rohrkaete,
Twenty-ffth ward, elected to third term
George S. Wilson, Seventh ward, elected
20 second term.
In Common Council there will be IS faces
which were not visible in the old Council
The first of these is William Bradley,
Twenty-sixth ward, brother of Prothono-
tary John Bradley, and employed in the
County Registers office.
Philip L Dressing, Republican, from the
Eighteenth ward, is mill man aad an ex-
ball player lie is young and this is his
first term in Councils Charles Dugan, a
hotel keeper from the Tenth ward, is an
other OF the new ones and this is his first
offense. John Finnerty, of the Sixth, was
elected on the Citizens ticket. He is new
in politics and in Councils. Henry Franz
Twenty-sixth ward, was in Select Council
four years ago, bat hSs not been in politics
since until this year..
well-Known Man From the Eighth,
John f. Geissenhainer. a new member
from the Eighth ward, is a clerk in the Re-
corder's Office and has never been in Coun-
ellis before. John j. Giltinan, Fifth ward,
is a Democrat and an undertaken and was |
elected on his popularity, this being his |
trial trip. c. H. Hartlep, Twentv-seventh |
ward, is a new man in Councils but well |
known among Southsde business men.
This will be the second term of John Nose |
hell, of the Tweaty-ninth ward. He was a |
member when the new charter was adopted. |
James McHugh, of the First ward, is a new |
member and comparatively new in politics.
James McMorran will represent the /
Seventeenth ward for the first time, with S |
i. Rheam, both Republicans and both we'll \
known young men. William Nolden is |
baker from the Thirtieth ward and this is his |
first political offense. James Piatt is the
new man from the Second ward His face |
will look familiar, for he was in Common
Council for several years before the Brooks
law came in and temporarily shut out liquor
dealers.
Thomas H Thorn, who will represent the |
Twenty-third ward, is Secretary of the Du-
auesne Iube Works Company and has not |
been in Councils before John II. Vas
karnp, of the Eleventh ward, and E. q |
Wainwright, of the Fifteenth, are also first |
termers and both are well and favorably |
known all over the city. Henry Eiler, of
the Twenty-fifth ward, is new in Councils,
but not in politics. he is a contractor and 4
popular among his constituency.
Among the reelected members In Com
mon Council are L. Z. Brown and w. A. |
Magee, of the Fourteenth ward; X. @. |
Bighsm, of the Thirty-second Hugh Fer
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