New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-12-30
NO DECISION AS YET.
SUCCESSOR TO GEORGE w. ALDRIDGE
STILL UNKNOWN.
COLONEL ROOSEVELT CONFERs WITH SENATOR
PLATT. AND MESSRS oDELL. WooDRUFF
AND OTHERS-COLONEL J. y. PART
RIDGE SAID TO BE RECON-
MENDED BY SETH Low.

RIDGE SAID TO BE RECON-
MENDED BY SETH LOW
The selection Of a successor to George w.
Aldrdge as State Superintendent Of Public
Works had not been decided upon last night,
although Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, the Gov
ernor-elect. spent nearly all day in this city
consulting with Republican leaders and other
men in the effort to reach decision Colonel
Roosevelt left his home In oyster Bay early IN
the morning. and when he arrived in the city
he went to the Fifth Avenue Hotel, where he
spent a few hours talking with persons over the
telephone. making appointments for confer
ences and attending to correspondence. He said
he expected his family 10 follow him to the city
and meet him in the evening at the home OF his
sister. in Madison-ave.
When Colonel Roosevelt left the hotel in the
forenoon he said he going to consult several
persons about men who had been mentioned as
suitable for appointment to the Office Of State
Superintendent Of Public Works. but he might
not reach any decision on the subject before
going to Albany. and he did not wish to tell who
were 10 be his advisers. 1t understood that
he talked with Seth Low. Elihu Root, Joseph ii.
Choate and several prominent engineers in the
city in the afternoon.
About . D. m. Colonel Roosevelt returned to
Of Senator Platt. who received him there in
company with b. r Odell jr, and Lieutenant
Governor Timothy L. Woodruff. Mr.. Ode, who
was suffering from a sprained ankle and walked
with the aid Of a stout cane. came to the city
from his home in Newburg early in the after
noon to attend the conference Mr.. Woodruff,
it was understood, had been called into con-
sutation on account of recommendation Of
Tobr of
office Of State Superintendent of Public Works.
Seth Low it was said had recommended Colonel
Partridge as a suitable man for the place. The
conference in the rooms Of Senator Patt lasted
until $50 p. m, when Colonel Roosevelt went
to the home Of his sister, at No. 6S9 Madison
ave AS he was leaving the hotel Colonel Roose-
welt said to newspaper men that there had been
no decision as to Mr.. Adridges successor. There
had not been any decision, either as to the ap-
pontment Of a Commissioner of Labor Statis-
tics He had decided not to appoint both the
Superintendent of Public Works and the Com
missioner Of Labor Statistics from New-York
City and IL a New-York City man was made
Superintendent the Commissioner would be
taken from up the State.
Colonel Roosevelt was with his family In the
home Of his sister in Madison-ave. last night
He said he would start for Albany at l p m.
to-day. There had been no change in the poti-
cal situation. he said and probably would not
be any change before he went 10 Albany Sena-
tor Platt, Mr. Odell and Mr.. Woodruff talked
together at the Fifth Avenue Hotel last night,
but they declared there was no new develop
ment as 70 appointments
l. Coonc Partridge declined 10 say at his home
in Brooklyn ? he would accept decline the
office Of State Superintendent Of Public Works
II it were offered to him. H said 1t had not
been offered to him, and he doubted If Colonel
Roosevelt thought Of asking him to take the
place Alfred T. White. Of Brooklyn, the former
Commissioner Of City Works, declined the Of
fee some time ago 1t was said at the Firth
Avenue Hotel last evening that Francis Hen
bricks Of Syracuse, who had the recommenda-
ton OF the Republican organization for the Of
fee was no longer considered a candidate for
it, He had allowed the use Of his name. it was
said, although he did not desire any once, Dut
when opposition to him was shown he withdrew
the use OF his name