The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-12-31
MAYOR DORIAN GOING TO APPOINT
y. H.. wOLTERsTORTF TO THE
WATER BOARD
TO PLEASE THE FIRST WARD
MESSRS. BEMENT AND LINDEIxE
WHOSE TERMS EXPIRE TODAY,
PASSED UP,
PREPARING ron THE FUTURE
The Mayor Says He WIFI Reapp0int
Kenneth Clark to the Fire
Board Today.

Mayor Doran will today exercise the
appointive power given him under the
charter, in that he will name a member
of the board Of fire commissioners and
two members Of the board of water
commissioners. Kenneth Clark is the
retiring member Of the board of fire
commissioners, and r. B. C. Bement
and A. HI. Lindel1e the retiring mem
bers of the board of water commission
erS. 80 ~
AS announced in the Clio some
weeks ago, the mayor decided to re-
appoint Kenneth Clark as a member
Of the fire board. 1t was expected
that there would be no change in the
personnel of the water board, but sew
eral weeks ago it developed that the
mayor was thinking seriously Of ring
ing in politics and putting in two new
members in place of Mr. Bement and
Mr.. Lindelxe. AS, soon as this became
known members of the chamber Of
commerce, jobbers' union and other
bodies interested in city affairs request
ed the mayor that no change be made
in the water board. The delegations
were somewhat surprised to learn that
charges had been made to the mayor
against Mr. Bement by the plumbers,
who claimed that Mr.. Bement had dis
eliminated against them during his
term on the board. What. also sur
pr1sed the gentlemen who called on
the mayor about the matter was that
his honor was giving the complaints
serious consideration and intimated
that Mr.. Bement might not be reap
pointed.
Several gentlemen. have called on the
mayor in the past week and urged him
to ~reappoint Mr.. -Bement, not on any
political grounds, but because he was
pre-eminently fitted for the position by
experience and training. The mayor
has listened patiently to the reasons
advanced for the reappointment of Mr..
Bement but has given no. sign as to
what he intends doing in the matter.
He did inform one of the gentlemen
who called on him that he understood
that Mr.. Lindeke would not care to ac--
cept a reappointment, but this was all
the satisfaction he Vouchsafed.
Seen yesterday by a reporter for the
U e, Mayor Doran said he had
not given the matter of appointments
any attention. He supposed he would
nave to take the matter up today. but
really had not made up his mind. Be-
ing pressed as to what he intended to
do in the matter of the fire board an
PcIntment, the mayor said he should
reappoint Kenneth Clark, whom he OBJ
served, had made an excellent member
of that board. so-7. 5.-
AS to the water commissioners. he
hardly was in a position to say. Mr..
L1ndeke had asked to be relieved from
serving on the board owing to his bust
ness affairs requiring so much Of his
time, and the mayor said he would
probably take this matter into consider
alton in making the appointments. AS
to Mr.. Bement, he had nothing to say.
There were several matters the mayor
said which he would have to consider
and, although he would have to make
up his mind sometime today as to
the two members of the water board.
he intimated that he was still undecided
as to who the appointees would be.
From other sources, information
which must have originated close to
the MAYORS. office, is furnished, that
neither Mr.. Bement nor Mr. Lindeke
will be appointed. John H. Wolter-
StCTH, it is understood, will be one of
the Apprentices and gentleman from
the Seventh ward, the other. Mr.,
Wolterstorff served two years in the
assembly during the Wright admin
strat1on and for year was president
Of that branch of the council HIS
appointment as a member of the water
board, will, it is hoped by the admin
stration, tend to stop the howl made
by the First ward Republicans that no
plums were being given to residents
Of that stronghold. The strongest claim
made for the feappointment Of Mr.
Bement was that in the past the board
had been kept out of politics, but the
fence-building for the second term is
considered by the mayor and his adj
visers to be second to nothing in the
way of Importance, and an active and
influential Republican will be chosen for
Mr.. Dement'S place. The members to
be appointed to the water board will.
serve four years each. The salaries are
$ie0 per year except that the president
of the board, whichs-offfce is now held
by Mr.. Bement, receives a salary Of
$1,000 per year. Commissioner IF.