New-York tribune., 1901-12-17
FEW POLITICIANS AMONG THE CHIEFS NAMED BY MAYoR
ELECT LOW.
ELECT LOW.
CABINET NEARLY FULL.
BRIDGE, HEALTH, STREET CLEANING,
CHARITIES AND WATER COA1N1IS-
SIONERS ANNOUNCED.

Bridge Commissfoner-Gustav Lindentha1
Recommendations Reform Union).
Health Commissioner-Dr. Ernst j. Lederfe
CReDuhlicanD.
street Cleaning Commi.sioner-Dr. John
McGaw Woodbury. Undependent DemocratD
Commissioned of Charihes-Homer Folks
tRepublican).
Commissioned of Water supply, Gas and
EIectricity-J. Hampden DouGherty Unde-
pendent Democracy
Civil Service eCommissioners-WilIis L. 0G-
den (chsirman). Alexander t. Mason. W. A.
Pcrrine and Cornelius Vanderbilt CRepubli-
cnns). and y. Dykman, Theodore NJ
Bnnta and Nelson 5. Spencer Democrnts).
Mayor-elect Low made the announcement yes
terday of these twelve additional appointments
The Tribune foretold yesterday that the first five
appointments here printed would be made to-
day.
Mr.. Low also announced yesterday that the
appointments for Commissioners of Parks. Fire.
Docks and Taxes to be given to Republi-
cans. and that for Commissioner of Corrections
was to go to a Democrat. He said that he ex-
pected to make public these appointments in the
next two three days. Mr. Low also said that
he was making some advancement in selecting
the two Commissioners of Accounts. but had
given little consideration thus far to the ap-
pointment of members of the Board of Educa-
ton or the managers of Bellevue and its allied
hospitals.
CHOICE FOR BRIDGE COMMISSIONER
In speaking of the appointment of Mr.. Lin
denthal Mr.. Low said:
I well aware of BrookIyns vital interest in
6t nnniftsd from tbat borongh But fSe conSitions
he There
bridges in course of construction. and the Of
tinguisRed from it's Operating SIDE is c6ndenned bs
Eond @ a 6y 5s o[ @ 5
a man of great force of character. of vgor and of
afraid TO take responsbiIity In the mean while the
problem of better traffic facilities for the old bridge
hs pFoposed that it sRaI be acceptabTe ''t to- both
bor6ughs Otherwise every plan proposed from
Brooklyn may be defeated, as heretofore. by OBJ
jections from Manhattan I believe Mr.. LindenthaI
to be man with the necessary qualifications of
and and tbs f6 & Th15 he is b % pn
consider the interest of the city only As to all
MayoF Himself rs IS reSponsbe NE LII hndent6s ] as be
came citizen of the United States in 1879. and
has lived in NewYork since 1891.
The appointment of Mr. LindenthaI it Is un-
derstood. urged especially by the German
American Reform Union. of which Herman Rid
office for which this organization put forward
candidate.
Mr.. Low had this to say in regard TO DIR. |
Lederle. who is to be the Health Commissioner:
The Health Commissioner will be Ernst J. Lederle
Phi. D., chief chemist to the department |
Mr.. Lederle is Republican, and lives in the |
XXIIId Assembly District He educated at |
the New-York University and at Columbia Univer- |
sty graduating from the School of Mines in the |
course of chemistry In 1856. The charter makes |
great change in the organiZat alton of the Health De-
partment At the present time it consists of the |
president and medical commissioners The |
Charter reduces this board OF three members to a |
single commissioner. and makes the Board Of |
Health consist of this commissioner president,
of the Health officer of the Port and of the Police
IL has been to a matter of no |
little study TO decide whether under these circum
stances the Health Commissioner had better be a |
Iavrnan or q physician After careful reflection / |
have determined that even under these conditions
II is best that the Health Commissioner should be
O Iayman. On the other hand, the disappearance OF
the medical members from the board as now con-
stituted makes it highly important, as l conceive
denartmer1t on it's medical side / have, therefore,
ranged with DR.. lederle that DIR. Herman j.
Tiprs now at the head of the meteorological lab
IRA tories of Health Department. shall be placed
In practical charge of all the medical side OF the
iepartment with the title of medical officer. The
axart duties of Dr. Biggs medical ofncer of the
ieDartment remain. of course 10 be determined in
ne light of the law and OF the Judgment OF the
Board OF Health 1t will be constituted after
January / In the mean while II Is sufficient 10
point out that in the presence OF a very radical
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