New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-12-23
NE WOETON'S APPOINTMENTS.

r,EM,f. ANNpr NCEMENT THAT iIE HNs chosen
ASHLEY COLE ~ PRIVATE ANp sELpEN T.
MAEvIN. JR. As MILITARY SECRETARY.
Albany. Doc - CSpeclaD. -Goycrnor-elect Nor
ton paid 4 visit 10 Albany to-day. FOR the purpose
o. having personal chats with the state officers
and the heads OF state departments and bureaus.
intending - g.. clear undcrstardin of IN" con
diion %, the affairs OF the several branches of
H.. state government before he completes his
,r.f annual message To the Legislature. Mr.
Morton received his visitors In tn" private room
o. tho Secretary 81 State There h" was waited
iiron b.. Controller Roberts. state Treasurer col
yIu Attorney General Hancock. state Engineer
Adams Edward Hannah. superintendent OF Public
Works. Frederick g. Schraub. Commissioner Of
Agriculture. and other state officers Mi Morton
had his private secretary. Ashley w cole. take
notes 90 nearly all the communications made TO
him ana therefor" viii bee we'll equipped at Ehine-
,lin next week to finish his messas"
THO announcements Of much Interest were made
by Mr. Morton. one wa~ that he had se.ected
Ashley w cole. Of Sew iork. a. his private sc'r"-
tnry. and the other that he had named Sehlen t.
Marvin ir. OF Albany. as his military secretary
The unofficial reports OF these appointments were
thus confirmed for the first time.
Ia appointing Nj COTE Mr.. Morton follows the ex-
amr.e 81 s.vefIl recent Governors In choosing
new spaper IS his assistant Governor cornell
had Henry T.. Abel. Governor cleveland had Daniel
j.
rltu,,hy : " iliinmS. All these Journalists In
th, active pursuit OF their calling when appointed
Mr. co.c was born n the Forest * BeIe. Hamp-
shire England. November -. lsn lie lived In
England until he was eight years old. and one % his
memories is that % seeing frequently the Duke ~
Wellington. Ills parents brough, him to the United
States In lsI, and educated him In the public schools
~ fb. CITY OF Nrw-York one Of his aims Nhi,' AT
school 10 be- Journalist, ana he tneIriO,e
studied stcnography and brchme an expert short
hand writer Before he entered journalism how
eyer l,. became "A soldier. lie enlisted III the 10 u
New Irr.-v Volunteers Ia 1866 and served through
out I'M, war Ills service ended In lsG and he then
t,.rf.cted him .-!r I'm Sh Drthand aud secured empoy
inrnt ON THE Nr~-NOrk Herald. lie Was c1hhrS.-
Fl with this n-w spap-r until 1874 acting IN the
In-anw hill city editor when he Joined IN" SIAM
o. .'Th- New York Times" Ills articles In ''rho
I'lm..' against Street Cleaning department
which VAS then controlled by the Police 'Cniiis-
si1n.r. led 10 the Indictment Of oliver Charlie k
and Hugh Gardner. who we're removed from Nhrr
c"nlinlss.onci ship Mr. co.e aftsrwatd brtlne
he ANS appointed Albany correspondent ot Inc
Times" In 1854 he returned to The Herald While
in fs employ he travelled for sixteen months IN
south America writing letters about rs political
frrylrw with Dom Pedro. In 1897 Mr.. cole organized
me STAFF OF THE NewlOrk Press At III" time
OF the New York News Bureau Mr. cole mas a
wil. acquaintance with the leading RrpuDh'ah- ana
IIeIno.rat- 81 the State. lie * nnc stenoSrapher
AND ms an excrll"n: literary style a. well as a
knovrgr OF the states political history for the last
twenty years. He cannot fan To he OF great ait To
Mr. Morton his private secretary.
secretary is "A son OF General Selden T.. Marvin. Of
his cltv VINO was a member Of Governor Morgans
STAN when the latter the War Governor o. the
Stotr General Marvin IL a well-known Republican
az his rlty aud "a prominent member Of the Prot
os I'M Episcopal church. Selden r. Marvin. jr.. was
graduated year ago at Harvard University