Waterbury Democrat., 1901-12-19
NAMING MEN FOR BOARDS
Mayor Kilduff Is a Very Busy
 Man These Days.

missioner Scully Says He is Not Candidate for disappointment.
 People who take an interest in pub lie affairs are doing considerable talk.
 ing about Mayor Kilduff's probable ap-
 pOintments to the several boards, the
 board of public safety in particular,
 but for some reason or other less inter-
 est appears to be centered in the make
 up of the board of charities than in
 any other board to be named, and yet
 it is one of the most important bodies
 of the new government, supplanting
 as it does in everything with the eX-
 ception of making electors, the board
 of 'selectmen. Here are the names of men mentioned to a Democrat reporter
 to-day by a very prominent citizen as
 excellent men for the positions: Pat
 rick Holohan, R. N Blakeslee, Will
 liam c. Moore. J. H. Filling alder
 man), James DWyer. The board will elect a superintendent of the poor and clerk, but just who the lucky ones will be seems to be as much of mys- tery as the choice of the mayor for the board. 1t was said to-day that ex-Selectman Perry c. Morris is in the race for the appointment of superin- tendent of poor and in all probability
 Selectman Doran, who will be practi-
 cally out of a job after the first of the new year, will try to get hold of that position. Both have a wide experi-
 ence in the line of work that will come to whoever gets there and it is not un-
 reasonable that other desirable candi- l dates will crop up from now on, if fhQU have cn al 6xr
 The names most prominently heard
 of i'll connection with the new board l of public safety are D. J. Lahey, B.
 Collins, NJ. keefe (alderman), E. B. Hardie and Charles Weinberg.
 l There does not seem to be much of q scramble for places on the board of public works, though it is not at all l likely. that the positions will go beg ging. There seems to be a we'll de- 1 fined rumor to the effect that the may l or will have whole new board of public works, still many lean to the l opinion that some of the old ones will | be retained, though no one appears to be able to say who they will be. It wouldn't surprise the public, however, 1 if Commissioners Mahaney, Whiting and Chesson should be retained. It l is understood that Mir Blakeslee will l be honored by an appointment on the 1 board of charities, and then, again, it 1 is said that it is quite likely that he l will be elected chairman of the board l of aldermen, and if this be the case he will have all he can attend to there l and on the board of finance, a position 1 that goes with the chairmanship of the l aldermanic board. The other mem 1 Der, Commissioner Scully, is said to l have informed Mayor Kilduff at no re- ] cent date that after he had served out 1 his present term on the board he would 1 have had all he desired of public of l flee and would hencefOrth confine his l operations to more congenial fields. the
 newspaper business and a spare hour or two the seldom time it comes to a man engaged in that line Of work in l the enjoyment of domestic pleasures l so that if this can be relied upon l Scully is out of the race.
 There is q vast amount of work con-
 nected with these offices, and those
 who accept them with any other un- derstanding make a grievous mistake. They occupy q good deal of ones time, l that is, provided he wants, to keep i'll | touch with what is going on and ren-
 der his service as useful as it ought l to be, and anyone who does not intend
 to do this is not doing the right thing l by accepting a place on the boards. | In addition to this, it makes no diff l ference how well one does his work | he is bound to come in for consider able fault finding. Some people will 1 tell you that if q public official per forms his duty honestly and well no one will say aught against him. This 1 is not so. How is a member of the l board of public safety going to please I half a dozen men and their friends over an appointment which but one can receive? He may vote for as good | a candidate as there is in the lot, but
 no matter who this man happens to be 1 it is safe to say that he hasn't as
 many friends as all the others put to- gether and as it is natural for the disappointed to kick, there is sure to be dissatisfaction, even though the successful candidate is the very best l that could have been chosen. 1t is one of the penalties that invariably l pursues fame, and the public man who aims at proper discharge of his duties shouldn't worry too much about what is said of him in this re- spect, for while some may rail at him
 and impute small motives to his con- duct, he can always. rest assured that in the end those whose opinions are worth anything will gsve him due 1 credit for his efforts.
 Who'll be appointed to the board of l assessors? That's a question every
 man i'll the community would like to
 see answered. It is a big job and should be filled by a man fully equip ped to grapple with it, and no doubt l it will be. According to a charter pro- vision he must be q republican in poIi- tics. Some say the plum will go to Major Geddes, and others have an inkling that it may be captured by F. E. Cross. Both have served in that capacity, but inasmuch as there is talk of compelling the assessors to devote their entire time to the duties of the office from now on, it is a. question if either of the gentlemen named could afford to accept it under such condi- tiOns.
 TRANSPORTS WILL SAIL. San Francisco Dec -19.-The officials