The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-04-21
APPO|NT 7 MENTS.
Mayor Hoos Makes Known
His Selection For
Offices Today.
LIST OF SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATES
Appoints His Son Edward
and J. J. Murphy Police
Justices.
ROBERT ]. HOOS TAX COMMISSIONER
Criticism All Around Unfavor-
able--Other Appointments
to Follow Next Month.


"Come in, gentlemen said Mayor Hoos
this morning to a group of newspaper
men waiting in his office for the much
expected appointments, "the agony is
over and here is the lfst'':-
Police Justices-Edward H. Hoos, J. J.
Murphy; term, three years; salaries, $500
a year.
Finance Commissioners-Henry Lem
beck. Dem, and Jacob Ringle, Rep; sal
ary, $500; term, two years. These were
reappointed.
Tax Commissioner-Robert j. Hoos;
salary, $500; term, three years.
Sinking Fund Commissioner-w. L.
Frankenbach; term, three years; salary,
$500.
City Hall Custodian-Emil E. Datz; sal
ary, $1,000; term, three years. Reap
pointed.
Police commissioner-T. W. Tilden;
salary, $1,000; term, three years.
Fire COMMISSIONER. ]. Nfbbett;
term, three years; salary, $1,000.
Free Library Trustee-Dr. L. j. Gordon;
term, five years; no salary. Reappointed.
Board of Education-Wm. A. Lewis and
]. c. Egbert, reappointed; ]. A. Tracey
to succeed John J. Mulvaney, who was
appointed Director-at-Large to succeed
Mr.. James E. Hulshizer Jr., who re-
signed this morning.
| ]. Collins, Private Secretary, to succeed
L. H. Hoos, made Police Justice.
J The Mayor made no appointment in the
case of the Corporation Counsel and Cor
poration Attorney. These will be done IN
May.
There was plenty of interest displayed
| in the City Hall over the appointments,
and a great deal of criticism naturally
| followed Some few thought that they
were good while others shook their heads
and said something about nepotism. De-
| spite the secrecy hitherto maintained by
| the Mayor respecting his selections it was
pretty well understood yesterday who the
| happy men were to be.
| The Mayor has been, of course, be
| sieged by office-seekers during the past
few weeks, increasing in number and in
insistance as the days grew shorter.
That the Mayor was puzzled was plain
from the fact that even this morning the
slate wasn't complete.
Mr. Robert Davis, the Leader of the
Democratic party, took no part in the
appointments, the Mayor preferring to
'sgang his ain gait and didn't recog-
nize the claims of that party to which
he owed SO much. This was what people
throughout the city said when the news
became public. His son, Edward, the new
Police Justice studied law with Dickin-
son & Thompson, and was a graduate Of
Princeton The Mayors second son, Rob-
! ert J., the new Tax Commissioner, is a
| partner of the firm of Hoos & Stein
/ berger, real estate agents.
Police Justice j. J. Murphy has been in
the Assembly for three years and was
a student of the late Prosecutor Win
fields office. He is a partner of Lawyer
4 Michael I. Fagen.
| T. w. Tilden, the new Police Commis-
| sioner, is Superintendent of the New
| York Bay Cemetery, of which the Mayor
| is trustee. He is Mason of high de-
/ gree.
/ H T. Niblett. the new Fire Commis-
sioner, is a carpenter by trade, from the
Fourth ward.
Mr. Robert Davis had little to say
| about the appointments beyond that they
were satisfactory to him. He didn't
criticize, he said, the Mayors action in
appointing his sons to office, that !. was
perfectly natural under the circum-
stances All the appointees he knew, and
they were good men and he hoped would
fill their relative positions admirably. 1t
was the Mayors privilege and preroga-
tive to appoint whom he pleased and he
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