New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-02-27
A CHANCE TO BREATHE NOW.
HUNGRY OFFICE-SEEKERS LET UP A LIT
TIE ON MAYOR STRONG.
THE CROWD DIDN'T co OVER 200 OR 300 MEN
YESTERDAY AT ANY ONE TIME-LKELIHooD
THAT THE FIRE COMMISSIONERS WILL
BE CHOSEN THIS WEEK-LEAD-
se,sa IL baek
ING CANDIDATES.

ING CANDIDATES.
There was a sharp decline yesterday In the
number Of anxious applicants for interviews with
Mayor Strong The falling off at the City Hal
did not however affect the rush at the Public
Works Department, as Commissioner Brook1eid
seemed to have secured a LARGE part OF the cahdi-
dates who concluded that it was discreet TO give
the Mayor a rest.
Colonel Strong reached his office later than usua
Yesterday and it is no violation of his confidence
to say that he did seriously regret the absence
of a part of the crowd which overwhelmed him on
Monday with appeals for Endorsements on their
applications At times yesterday as many as ZO'
or 200 men congregated in the corridors, waiting
perhaps. for some news from spokesInen VINO hau
gone inside to the Mayors Office
The Mayors mail has grown to such proportions
that he spends an hour on it in the morning and
another hour and sometimes more in the after
noon In advising with Secretary Hedges about re-
plies Mr.. Hedges in Albany yesterday. and
Confidential Clerk Burrows took the place OF sec
rotary. Anonymous letters never noticed by
the Mayor. They go straight to the wastebasket
and their senders might as well know that Mayor
Strong pays no attention to them Some days one
fourth OF the Mayors mail IS made up OF anony-
nous communications
When asked Yesterday afternoon when he would
make further appointments. the Mayor smiled good
naturedly and said: wait until the clouds roll by.
There Indications. however that before the
mssoners. The names most frequently mentioned
for these places are those Il Thomas l.. Hamilton.
OF the NIIIth Assembly District who the
Republican candidate for Sheriff in 1888; James X.
Sheffield. VINO represented tho Nth District in the
Assembly last year and made fine record. DR.
W. H. Burns. Of the XNG,h District. once supern-
tendent OF The Fire Department stables. and Austen
T.. Ford. the weknown Irish Nationalist who ran
for Congress last year on the Republican ticket
in the With District against Franklin Bartlett.
\ delegation Of Anti-Machine Republicans made
up Of General o. II. La Grange. Henry G. Percy.
William f. DAILY. Theodore f. Ruhie, Major Chester
H. Southworth. and others. visited the Mayor yes
terday to ask the appointment Of John +. Milhol-
land as Dock Commissioner. They saw the Mayor
in his private Office and seemed well pleased when
they retired. although refusing to say what the
result OF the application
Mr.. Milholland said last evening that he was not
candidate for the appointment of Dock Commits
siOner any other. and that II the delegation re-
ferred TO had presented his name TO the Mayor for
any office 1t was not by his desire or With his con-
sent.
\ delegation from the PAYERS Union. headed by
Patrick West. called on Mayor Strong yesterday
been introduced at Albany to resclnd the Tobin
bill. which. since II has become "A law they declare.
hurt the paving trade seriously The law pro-
viies that all granite must be dressed within the
municipality In which 10 Is TO be used for public
works. The Mayor told the men that IT stood fair
\ communication was sent to Mayor Strong yes
Election District Of the NXIXth Assembly District
which passed r"sOut Ons declaring that IL cordially
inlorses the appointment as Commissioner Of Pub
lie Works Of william Brcokheld under whose gen
era,ship We're led TO victory that this district
approves the choice OF General Coils as Deputy
Commissioner and Il trusts the Vaccinations OF
Mr. Plat will have no influence with the Mayor"
The Mayor declined yesterday 10 say anything
rsgardlng he spreG9r OF eNSneTn obren AZ the
Committee at the Murray I'm Lyceum on Monday
evening.