New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-11
NAGLE TO CLEAN STREETS.
MAYOR NAMES HIM TO SUCCEED CON-
MISSIONER M-CARTNEY-SAYS HE
WILL KEEP GIBSON.

Percival T. Maggie. Tammany leader in that
part Of the XXXTvth Assembly District south
% the Harlem River. was appointed by Mayor
Van wyck yesterday the Office OF Commits
eioner OF Street Cleaning. TO I'll the vacancy
created by the death Of James McCartney The
appointment was not a surprise to Tammany
politicians because II had been announced on
Friday that Magic was the choice OF John F.
Carroll who is dispensing Tammany patronag e
inst now in the absence of Richard Croker.
To many New Workers who have known Maggie.
however the appointment was surprise be
csuse they did not think the Tammany admin
is,rztiou would go to the length OF placing the
street. Cleaning Department in the control Of q
nolirfcian OF such a low type.
Until now Nagle never has been intrusted
With an important Office. His associates have
been sporting men. gamblers on the racetracks
and Tar1rrany ''heelers" Of the lowest grade.
He has been reputed TO have IN interest in race
track gambling as q bookmaker. and 10 have an
Interest in a poolroom in Harlem Citizens who
remember what the Street Cleaning Department
vss in the administration Of the late Colonel
waring were saying yesterday that Nagle's
appointment Commissioner Of Street Clean
ing vas piece OF Tammany eTrontery that
should be resented by the public.
At 10 & m Magic appeared al the Mayors
once, received his appointment and took the
cath q Office he went Immediately 10 the
Offices OF the Street Cleaning Department to
take charge. Some Of his Tammany friends
had got into the Commissioners Office ahead Of
him and had placed flowers on his desk. Several
officials Of the department who had been re-
tanned from Colonel Warnings time seemed 70
think that their official heads were going 10 be
CIT or n short order Tammany politicians
who went 70 gratulate the new Commissioner
seemed 70 think the same way. II predict
Cd by some that Captain Gibson. the Deputy
Commissioner. would be displaced soon. Com
missioner Nagle, when he talked to newspaper
men in his Office. however. said:
think the Department is now being well con-
Quoted The streets are clean. and intend 70 keep
he I5epartT1elt and don't and he is Democrat
believe there VIII be any departure from the present
methods.
Commissioner Magic is nearly six feet four
inches high and weighs nearly three hundred
pounds He IL not quite forty years old He
Is TIE biggest man physically in the Tammany
administration next 10 Thomas s. Brennan who
REs Commissioner Of Street Cleaning years ago
and e now Deputy Commissioner OF CHARITIES
Magic born in Ireland but was brought
% this city by his parents when he was eight
years Old He had part Of his education in the
public schools Of the city When he was
yCUng man ne a clerk n the Merchants
TRANSFORMATION Company. He was something Of
a. amateur oarsman and rowed with the old
Metropolitan eight James PiIkington. the oars
Oar Third-ave. and Observation-Disclosures zty-
ni1th-sU- and Wallace Ross. the famous oars
man was MS partner al the same liquor place
e. another time Magic said yesterday that he
had been interested in the contracting business
with PiIkington in recent years. He lives al No
& East Cre-hur irec- thirtieth-st. and is in
the directory as in the real estate business at
10 I'D East Observation-Disclosures fftl-st
he is 2 lieutenant in the 69th Regiment