The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-02-14
GRACE HAS THE PULL
His Man Frank Scott Pro-
noted to Be Corporation
Counsel of New York.
HIS OTHER MAN GREEN, TOO
Mayor Strong Gives Tom Platt
the Lie Blood ON the Face
Of the Moon.

NEW YORK. Feb. IA, 1SS5.-Mayor
Strong this morning appointed Avery
p. Andrews, lawyer, a Police Commits
sioner, in place of John c. Sheehan
Mr. Andrews was born in 1864, in ST.
Lawrence County, and is a graduate OF
West Point. He entered the regular
army and served as second and first
lieutenant, and after few years army
experience resigned in 1892 and studied
law. He was recommended by Lieut.
Gen. Schofeld. Gen. Louis Fitzgerald,
Gen. Anson G. McCook and Frederic r.
Coudert. He is a Democrat
The Mayor thinks Mr. Andrews ex-
perience as an army officer will enable
him to infuse thorough discipline into
the police force.
George Walton Green, a lawyer, has
been appointed an Aqueouct Commits
sioner in place of Francis Y. Scott, who
yesterday resigned to accept the position
of Corporation Counsel. The salary of
the Acueduct Commissioner is s., 900 a
year. Mr.. Green is a Grace Democrat,
and ran for Congress in the Fourteenth
District last election.
In the last campaign Mr. Green was
the Grace candidate for Congress in the
IWelfth District against Col George B.
Mcclellan and Robert A. Cheesebor-
l.
Mcclellan was elected. Cheeseborough,
the defeated Republican candidate, was
one of Green's hackers for the place he
got today.
Green is a native of this city, is 40
years old. and g graduate of Harvard
Ee. played on the Harvard football team.
SWEARING THEM IN.
Mayor Strong this morning Administered
the oath of office to the new Park Com
They entered the Mayors ofice at Il
O'Clock, and While the doors We're closed
to callers they wrote their names in
They are James A. Roosevelt, Angus
tus d. Juilliard and George Griswold.
After taking the oath. the new Com
partment on Chambers street and took
charge. Ex-Commissioner Edward Bell
received them, and formally turned the
to Secretary Burns, who will faniliarize
the new Commissioners with their duties.
The three Commissioners will agree upon
be the only one to receive a salary. The
salary is $500. The Mayor stipulated
that the man ma! that they agree on must
their endorsement he will be appointed.
GIVES PLATT THE LIE.
"A Mayor S strong today ,Sh Created sensa-
The Republican leader said Iasat night
that the Mayor had broken faith in ap-
pointing William Brookield as the Com
MISSIONER 1uDllc WOrAS.
Today the Mayor said he had not given
Mr. Piett or anybody else any promises
as to whom he would appoint or who he
would not. When asked regarding Mr.
Platt's positive statement that he has
witnesses to prove that the Mayor gave
his assurance that Col. Fred Grant would
probably get the place, and that Mr..
Brookfeld. his opponent would not, the
Mayor said emphatically:-'I made no
promises nor gave assurances Of 2p-
pointment to anyone. The only promises
I made were in my letter of acceptance
to the Committee of Seventy, in which
said that my appointments would be OF
a non-partisan Character"
'Then there was no ad faith on your
part, as Mr.. Platt churges?''
The Mayors answer left no room for
doubt. He Nonsense
That there is now war on between the
Mayor and Mr.. Platt seems a certainty.
There have been reports of differences OF
opinion before. but the appointment of
Mr.. Brookfield to a position that wieIds
such vast patronage has caused a breach
that many say is irreparable.