Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-11-28
Theodore Roosevelt isan Expert Cord
Wood Chopper.
GOSSIP REGARDING APPOINTMENTS
Governor-EIect Expected to En-
force Labor Legislation.
DISCORD AMONG DEMOCRATS
pecIal Correspondence of The Evening Star.

Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
NEW YORK, November 81, 1898.
New York s governor-elect is emuating
the grand old man-Gadstone-in his man
ner of combining his mental and phys
ical exercises. He passes his first hour af-
ter breakfast, when at home, cutting up
cord-wood back of his barn. Cutting up
cord-wood is a favorite exercise of Colonel
Roosevelt Office holders with uneasy con-
sciences would shudder to see him WELD the
AK. After sixty minutes of such vigorous
work. the colonel stretches himself, fills his
lungs and empties them with the grateful
exclamation: Il feel better
Regarding appointments it seems settled
that DR.. Alvah p. Doty will be reappointed
health officer of the port. This is one of
the few appointments which it is known
Governor Roosevelt will make. He has
been consulting persons who are in posi-
ton to advise him in regard to the offices
to be filled, and Is gathering all the infor-
nation that he can before making up his
mind. 1t is generally believed that Daniel
OLeary will be appointed factory inspector.
Frederick Easton, it is said, will not be re-
appointed superintendent of public build
ings. According to some of the politicians
at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, another Albany
man will be selected to take his place. John
7. McDonough, the secretary of state-elect,
Is anxious to have John McMackin. the
appointed his successor Whoever is
accepted to fill the office will be man ac-
ceptable to the labor leaders. who expect to
have another conference with the governor
elect some time in December. For super
intendert of public works Colonel ROose
welt is said to think favorably of ex-Col
lector Francis Hendricks of Syracuse. 1t
has been stated that Mr.. l.. F.. Quigg
might get this office. Mr.. Quigg, however,
says that he will not take this or any other
appointive office. Mr.. Quigg, it is said, will
go into business when his term In Congress
expires. What he intends to do he will not
say, but his business will be of such q ma
ture that he will be able to retain his office
as chairman of the county committee.
Place for John Jacob Astor.
Colonel John Jacob Aston, it is said, will
be asked to accept q reappointment as
member of the governors military staff.
and Craig Wadsworth, who was in Colonel
Roosevelt's regiment of Rough Riders, will
be one of the new aids-de-camp.
The governOr-elect. according to the gos-
sip OF politicians. agrees with the Plat
men that something should be done to di
vorce Tammany politics from the police de-
partment in this city, but he is not satisfied
yet as to the best way to go about it.
Colonel Roosevelt has suggested, for pur-
poses of discussion and possibly coun-
ter suggestion to the metropolitan police
idea, a state conStabulary system for cities
of the first and second class in the state,
with the central head located in Albany.
The opinion is prevalent among politicians
now that the governor-elect will not coun-
tenance the metropolitan police scheme-at
least not with the bipartisan board to con-
troll it. 1t is also said that Colonel Roose-
welt will advice a thorough overhauing of
the civil service law and will ask that the
starch which was taken out of ii by Gov
ernor Blacks bill he put back again. This
is subject with which he has had prac-
teal experience. and concerning which he
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in the civil service law in the direction of
| making it more stringent is expected from
the politicians.
In regard to senatorial preference. no
authoritative statement has come from
the gOVernor-elect. The members of the
legislature from New York and Brooklyn
who will sit in the republican majority at
the session beginning next month seem to
be agreed that Chauncey NJ. Depew will be
elected senator to succeed Mr.. Murphy.
| The leaders further say that all details of
the organization of the Legislature have
been amiCably arranged.
The new governor promises to come out
strongly in the interests of the laboring
classes. Henry White. general secretary of
the United Garment Workers of America,
who, with other labor leaders, conferred
with Governor-elect Roosevelt about la Dor
laws, has issued a detailed report on the
conference. He says Colonel Roosevelt ex-
pressed the opinion that many labor stat
utes were not enforced, and added:
Il will have all these laws put to the best
test by enforcing them. Such as are found
to be useless and detrimental to those for
whom they were passed will be repealed"
Favors Factory Inspection.
Mr.. White says the colonel was particu-
laT1y impressed with the bad conditions
prevailing in many factories and work
shops, and promised to have perfected the
state factory inspection department. Mat
tiers would be greatly facilitated the gov
ernor-elect suggested, by placing a first
class man at the head of the state labor
department, who should pass upon all labor
matters of Importance. He said he wanted
this great responsibility placed on the
shoulders OF an intelligent and able man.
Mr. Roosevelt declared that he would see
10 ii that all shops and factories are IL
censed, and that before they are licensed
they shall be thoroughly Inspected The
inspectors VIII, under this plan, be sent for
by manufacturers instead of being COM
PEELED to search for the shops. Another
matter to which Colonel Roosevelt called
attention was the laws the usefulness of
which Is still a matter of doubt He said
he would only consider laws which are ap-
proved by majority of labor men. The
goVernor-elect also came out very strongly
In favor of the laws governing the sale of
prison made goods in this state He was
Informed that large quantities of goods
made in the prisons of other states were be-
ing sold in this state. The labor leaders
are sure that Colonel Roosevelt will do his
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state.
While harmony dinners and harmony
conferences are the order of the day with
republicans discordant notes and general
recrimination are the features of demo-
cratic politics in this state. In the absence
of Croker, who, instead of coming back to
New York, as scheduled, has gone south
the local democratic clans show signs of
disintegraton.
David b. Hill recently sent several let
tiers to friends in this city intimating that
! the democracy of the Greater New York
has had 100 much to say in state politics.
| and that 1t is about time the party real
| lied that majority of democrats who do
| the voting live in that part of the state
| above the Bronx. All the indications point
! to big clash between the Greater New
| York democrats and those up the state
The letters from Hill point out that the
country section. which casts more than
| half the total democratic vote, has practi-
| caliy 10 influence in the management of the
| party, and that, therefore, the party has
| grown weaker in the rural districts each
year and will continue to decline making
/ party success impossible, unless something
| is done. 1t is proposed TO begin by estab-
fishing permanent headquarters in Albany