The sun., 1894-12-27
OFFERED TAMSEN $25,OOO.
soMBBoDY ANXIOUS TO BE sHBR-
IRIS AUCTIONEER.

Ths Sherry Elect HinssIf Teiis the Story-
ssieetea Mes Not IN the Hustness He-
cause ne Nes.s 60 Try New Methods.
sheriff-elect Tamsen said yesterday that he
thought he had been unjustly criticised because
Of his selection Of four green hands TO act as
sherifrs auctioneers and intimated his belief
that there exists an auctioneers' trust In the
city, which belief led him 20 appoint four prom
inent members Of the German-American Union
10 do the work. He suggested that IL might be
possible for an auctoneer TO divide his fees with
the Sheriff. and declared IL as his opinion that
under the present system sufficient means TO at
tract public attention TO the Sherihs sales nave
not been taken, the consequence being that
parties defendant suffer unnecessarily.
II determined therefore" said he, that there
should be a reform in that respect at least. MY
going outside of gentlemen already established In
the auctioneer's business in this city was for the
express purpose of inaugurating new methods.
IL would have been easy and profitable for me TO
select gentlemen now in the business, for was
offered as high as $4,000 bonus for the priv
ileee. The gentlemen I have. selected are re-
Kleinau, q manufacturer; Mr.. luertler. an ex-
President of the German Stenographers' Asso-
cation. They have ample capital of their own
for carrying on the business, have no pecunl-
airy Interest whatever in their pronts or busi-
ness s,.
Iney nave Iormed copartnerenlp, anu nave
hired . large and commodious building In Great
Jones street, and they will have competent
professional auetioneer In their employ. They
have given bonds In the sum of 100000, their
bondsmen qualifying In 100000. The firm
which acts as auctioneer for Sheriff Sexton
gives bonds In only $500
II have notified my auctioneers that they
must advertise all sales In the daily papers, and
that their only emoluments must be their legal
FIVE per cent commission on the proceeds, BY
Advertising the sales freely the attendance
active, and the results to the judgment debtors
will be far more advantageous, am confident
than has been the case In the past. The goods
are also 70 be properly 'lotted' and catalogued,
20 as TO display adequately their qualities.
- will add that do not take charge OF tho
Sheriff's ofice with any bigoted notions of
change for the sake of change. desire to have
an economical and efficient administration Of
the ofice-economical and efficient for those
city and county. When make mistakes shall
try and correct them; and IL my disposition of
the auctioneers business shall turn ont not to
be for the public advantage, then IL will be put
an end TO and something better devised"
Mr.. Tamsen said that some of the men who
have been selected by him for deputies are ex-
periencing difficulties in getting sureties for the
bond Of $780, 100 required OF them and that he
does not care TO- publish the names Of his ap.
that one Of the men who finds Il difficult to
qualify Is John McGtbney, Police Commissioner
Murray's follower in the Third, and another,
John A. Henneberry, the Grace leader in the
Twenty-fifth district The latter. It was said.
has given up trying TO furnish bonds and has
notified Mr.. Tamsen that he Is at liberty to give
the place to some one else.