The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-11
BIDwELE'S NEW H
JEREMIAH M. WooD NAMED FOR
THE $4,000 PLACE.

ne IL . Graduate OF the New York Post once,
where Ne served In Confidential Places for
MANY Henrs-some Candidates for Other
Posts TO Ne FILLED in the Custom House.
Collector Bidwell sent yesterday to Secretary
Gage tho nomination OF Jeremiah NJ. Wood to
be cashier OF the New York Custom House. to
succeed Walter +. Northrup, resigned. Mr..
Northrup was appointed from Oneida, Madison
county. at the request OF Charles s. Fairchild,
who is one OF his bondsmen. He IL q Democrat.
The place OF cashier is the only important bit of
patronage at the disposal of the Collector. ana
oven that was put in the classified civil service
by President Cleveland's famous order. 1t IL q
question IL tho recent order OF President Nc
Klnley does not require a non-competitive civil
service examination of the appointed.
The cashier Of the Custom House sometimes
handles, or Is responsible for. 81, 200. 900 Ia q
day. The cashier has always been considered
as more the personal appointee OF tho Collector
than a partisan selection, although It has. Of
course. always been the custom to appoint q
nominal party man to the post.
Mr.. Wood is o Republican. but has not been
an active working partisan. because almost ever
since he cast his first vote until q few years ago
he held q Federal place Of one sort or another.
and these were always places which precluded
his active participation in organization affairs.
He entered the New York Post Office in 1879 un-
der Postmaster James as aclerk. Two years later
Postmaster Pearson made him appointment
clerk. Later he became chief clerk in the au-
ditor's Office, and. in 1890, Postmaster Van Colt
appointed him superintendent OF the registry
Pearson and Van Colt he held his post as APP
pointment clerk. For twelve years he made tho
qqe uSrsss{t sG'Pos timoa,stt eGeE Van Cot t" When mp POST se
master Dayton made his final accounting before
turning the office over to bis successor. Mr..
Wood left the postal service In 1893, when Post
master Dayton wanted his place as superinten-
dent of the registry division for ANOTHER.
two or three years, but expects to resume his
residence in this city should his nomination be
with the Brooklyn party organization. Wood
is a brotherin-law Of Jacob N. Patterson, who.
it is said, did not back him for the place. Tho
CURED to give a bond for $50. Ooo.
Collector Bidwell said that he did not care to
discuss the appointment further than TO say that
Mr.. Wood was selected because OF his peculiar
fitness for the place, owing to his experience in
similar important public places which he had
Frank Raymond. the Republican leader in the
Thirty-third Assembly district, is a candidate
for appointment rs Deputy Collector to succeed
Wilson Bergman, should the latter be appointed
Special Deputy Surveyor, a post for which he
Raymond was q Deputy Collector. under the
Harrison ,Administration. The degutyships
were put in the classified service by President
Cleveland, but being n war veteran. Raymond
is eligible for reinstatement without examina-
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The effort Of President Quigg OF the County
Committee. so far as the dispensing of patronage
is concerned, is to strengthen, the organization
by caring for the Assembly district leaders in
the first instance and making them responsible
for the distribution OF other places in their dis
tricts. Leader William Henkel has been slated
for United States Marshal. Leader Silns c. Croft
for Surveyor. Leader Frank J. Drummond for
Assistant Appraiser, and Fred Gross. who Is
deputy leader to Charles \. Hess in the Twenty
fifth district, is also backed for an Assistant
Appraisership. These in addition to leaders
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Ferdinand Eidman. George W. Wanmaker, and
others already provided for.