New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-06-14
FRIDAY,
JUNE IA, 1895.
POLICE BENCH COMPLETE.
THOMAS F. WENTWORTH APPOINTED a
MAGISTRATE

HE TAKES THE PLACE DECLINED BY MR. FAM
NING-F b. THURBER AND RICHARD
pEEyEs APPOINTED COMMISSIONERS
OF THE NEW EAST RIVER BRIDGE
Mayor Strong made his last appointment to the
City Magistrates bench yesterday, nliing the p'@eo
which william j. Tanning, independent Demo-
crat declined by commissioning Thomas F. WENT
worth an active and popular Republican OF tho
XXIst Assembly District. and lawyer OF ao"S
and standing. Mr.. Wentworths candidacy was
Endorsed by most Of the Anti-Machine hep"o"
cans OF the city. He is an Antl-Platt MEMBER VI
the Republican County Committee from his dis-
trct and In the bitter struggle for the PRESIDENCY
OF the committee last winter between Comm's-
sioner Brookfe,d and Mr.. Lauterbach. Magistrate
Wentworth one Of Mr.. Brookhe.os s'a"e"-
o.. supporters His term OF office is for four years
from July !, and the salary $1,000 year. Inc oa'n
OF office was administered to Mr. wentworth W
the Mayor The addition OF the last appo'n'''en'
makes the City Magistrates bench SIX hepuo-
,,oars and three Democrats. The Board OF Spe-
c,ai Sessions is composed OF two Republicans ana
five Democrats $500, l.,
MAGISTRATE Wentworth was born in Maine IN
1s,5 lust across the line from Portsmouth. ~ H.
and he passed his boyhood In the last rnen'ioheo
State He began his education at the Philips Acao-
amy of Exeter: was graduated from Yale In losSs
and two wears afterward from the Columbia COLI
lepa Law School He began the practice OF Ia"
Immediately in this city and has been pro"inehs
In Republican politics for many years III iso,."
ne was president of the Republican Ciuo' III 1870
he ran on the Republican ticket for the stats
Senate but was defeated by Joseph I. "oHh'
Tammany Democrat Mr.. Wentworth's acceptance
Of this Office will. make 1t necessary for MIN 20
sever his connection with the Repubhcan County
Committee. He lives at No 40 West F'fty-nintn-
ST. in the new XXIXth Assembly District .
The news OF TIE appointment was heard WIN
,i-Dla of RpDuDcan8
yesterday who declared It one OF the fn Nos yVeni
factory which the Mayor has yet mace; M IN the
worth candidate for aRpDatmepH His sum.
mer home is at Tarrytown. ,,o,s u rnurber
The Mayor also appointed FRANCIS els b; ew'York
commissioners OF the new East flv ., ~, VI N
yesteTay The third sss ON wan are
authority YESTERDAY o ,haf be the eoeas%e Of
ported to be at place at
~ L. r yeae Root IS his sonnaw. The salary OF
these Commissioners Is 5000 each ana ,ne ~ the
viii consist sysr in ans ast RIVER
ST. New-York. and Broadway Brooklyn ne '0''
is estimated at $4,000; = & Thurber came into polt.
teal promnence in NewYork as one OF the fou1
aers of the have BEEN % wing
the Democratic party His SrGsnsp and earnest
roection Republican F. B. Thurber was .r an
original partner in the wsknGwnr S SnSera Go
sssy no%ss the he rm Of Thurber whyland Coz
and nTssSsn, M TEufbsr pSs:
commissioner Deeves is builder ana con'r,e uo
ga o. rye owner of real estate. he was nieis
her Of the Committee of Seventy whicn p1 ~
~ w. raform ticket last fall He Is RepuonSan IN
noItics and is prominent in St Andrew Ne ~
t,st En,scopai Church. in Seventy ~
Cniumbus-ave Mr. Deeves when you"s, r rxn.
@ ~ noliceman attached to the Union MarKss
police station in the Eleventh Mast MI ee''0
Msyor Strong said yesterday that tnere S %a
truth in the statement published on msIne Tsr.
that he had offered or promised 70 appoint a. To-
sen Rhoades Henry C. R onnsohn 10 The Wayor
senh + O'Donohue as City Chamberlain: M ~
sfpn , ~ ths publication deliberate fasenooo'
He said 49,, .rv attention to ms-
,,snsnts of the opposition newspapers out ms
one does me and the two gentlemen
great injustice Both Of them are my cSam.
friends have not offered the place OF lily IN
berlan to any one Mr.. ODonohue me plessn after
cumhent OF the office. came to me TWO weens 49,
became Mayor and informed me tnat ne, ne "Ai
readv 70 tender his resignation al any vsne' :
have not asked for his resignation, ana ~ he has re-
cen, I, in He Is still Chamberlain, ana ne M
ceived no intimaton from me thar ne ~9ap NV
disturbed therefore / couu not nave o '
''' The general understanding in muncipai clIs,es
T. that the Mayor time ago onerel tns o,s
~ cha mbarlan TO General Arson u McCoon' "uS
has the ofrer under Amusement