The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-12-27
BUYING BRASS
BUTTONS
Mayor Elects Board Of
Managers Hits on Way
to Please Disappoint-
ed Lifterinos.
WANTED SOME MISSIONARIES
DR.. McGilrs Determination to
Keep Off Appointments
Helps the Scheme.
MITCHELL IT AT LAST
Colonel "sam" After Three
Hard Tries Gets Him
the Much Coveted
Berth.
MITCHELL IT AT LAST

Berth.
Mayor-elect Fagan yesterday afternoon
paid Mayor Hoos another visit. He was
accompanied by Counsellor Robert Carey
The principal object of the call was %
learn how to make out the legal forms
of the notifications of the appointments
which the new Mayor will have at his
disposal The fact that on such an er-
rand Mr.. Fagan was accompanied by Mr.
Carey caused the political wiseacres to
predict that Bob was surely to land
somewhere in the city's law department
The Board of Police Commissioners will
hold the last meeting of the year tonight
in the First Criminal Court Room at Po-
lice Headquarters. 1t was the original in
tention Of John D. McGill, president, to
call the meeting for last night, but for
some unexplained reason this was not
DONE
The Board, as now constituted, is Demo-
cratic All OF its members were appointed
by Mayor Edward Hoos in that period OIL.
his career when he was a Democratic
Democrat. 1t is composed OF pr. Jonn
p. McGill and Adolph Walter, Democrats
and Thomas Tilden, Republican Mr..
Walters term expires on January l. and
Mayor-elect Pagan will appoint his sue
cessor. This is to be John Mitchell, presi-
dent of the Samuel D. Dickinson Associa-
tion, according to the programme OF Mr.
/ Faganss Board Of Managers who are In
sistent that the old gangc be placed M
all the appointive offices. SO Mr.. Mitchell
will be the newest thing in the way OF
a Police Commissioner.
Mr.. Mitchell, it is acknowledged, knows
nothing about police matters save ana
except the knowledge common to all citl-
zens. This is not from any lack OF de-
sire to acquaint himself with the details
in the past Mr.. Mitchell was constant
applicant for place on those Boards in
which Colonel Abernethy and Peter West
sat. and his friend Sam Dickinson went
to the front for him on each occasion with
a demand that he be named. And sam
went to the front last year with request
i to Mayor Hoos that he be named, but
the Mayor failed to see the point when
SAM offered him such a good Repub-
lican'' Thus, after three disappointments
and many years weary waiting, John
Mitchell is to land the much sought BERTH
Thus with Commissioner Tilden and
Commissioner Mitchell on the Board, It
will be Republican, with DIR. John D. Nc
Gill as the only opponent of partisan
measures in the minority. DR.. McGill has
announced that if partisan measures are
ATTEMPTED he will raise his voice against
/ them. One voice and one vote is not
/ calculated to do much good against two
/ voices and two votes, with Sam" in the
| rear giving cues. But DR.. McGill is hope
! full. In speaking of the outlook when he
! will become the minority, the President
has said
| ..There will be no partisanship in the
! Board of Police Commissioners. shall
| oppose any move that savors of politics
and / am sure that Commissioner Tilden
is ready to back me up He is not q
man the party machine can handle. He.
like myself, is solicitous about the well
4 fare Of the department, with no regard
! for politics. 1t makes no difference who
1 succeeds Commissioner Walter. There
/ will be no politics in the Police Depart
ment.'
The reporter then asked DR.. McGill:--
..Wiil the present Board fill the vacan-
cies that now exist in the Department. =
mo. There is no money to pay for
| any more service just now Then we have
| all the superior officers that are needed.
J; + have set good example for future
Boards to follow and as long as have
a voice in matters the department will
be conducted as it is now"
.Do you think the next Board will fail
/. to take advantage of the opportunities
/ that this Board refuses to accept?'
1 ssI am cure it will not carry out any
political schemes. shall raise my voice
against anything of the kind ard am
sure Commissioner Tilden will be on my
sida''
ssThen you think Commissioner Tilden
will listen to you instead of to his party r.
Yes
.sWhy viii not the present Board fill
the vacancies that now exist
because the good of the department
does not demand 1t and we will do nothing
( that can be considered partisan, at least
| so far as I am concerned. do not know
what my colleagues may do, and the
doctor smiled intelligently-
The Doctors remark that there would
! be no action Has far asI am concerned, 3
simply means that he will oppose any
! resolution that may possibly be offered at
I tonight s meeting to fill the vacancies now
existing. There are two in the rank of
sergeant. which II filled would result in
causing vacancies to the number Of two in
4 the rank Of roundman and two in the
rank of phtrolman, which added to the
| two vacancies caused in the last named
rank BY the dismissal of Peter Larkins