The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-04-01
REORGANIZATION OF
CITY GOVERNMENT
This Will Be an Important Day at the CITY Hall
Forecast of Appointments of Recorder Moir.

Of the Muehlbronlcr act providing for
"A department or public charities and
correction. SO the recorder claims. and
not as a matter of choice. hut one ct
duty. 1t is required that Scranton shall
proceed TO take unto herself the aov-
ernmen, of her poor affairs according
to the directions OF the Muehlbronner
act.
Board Of Assessors.
II is as good as certain that the pres
Philip Rinsland and John A. Ne,ls. will
he rc-,ppointed. and to complete the
board of five called for By the new
charter. ex-Aldeman L. N. Roberts. of
North Scranton. and j. A. Seamans, Of
Green Ridge. will be the selections.
Another cause OF the recorders dis
favor towards the reorganization ordi-
nance is its failure to provide salaries
for the police magistrates whose ap-
pointment is called for by the new
charter. When the trainers OF the new
ordinance get down to work they will
he called upon In make provision for
these officials The following alder
men, it is said. are slated for the posi-
tions: John Y. Howe. Seventeenth
ward: w. S. Millar. Eighth ward; Il.
Davies. Fifth ward Edward FidIcr.
First ward: Christian Storr. Nineteruth
ward. \ separate ordinance was intro
duced in councils creating these offices
prescribing their districts and fixing
their salaries. hut II was allowed to die
in committee. Here are some other
possibilities:
Chief Of Police Frank Robing. ir., to
be superintendent Of the bureau OF
police.
Park Superintendent Thomas Phil
lips to be superintendent of the bureau
of parks.
Chief Of the Fire Department Fred
Iizelmann to be superintendent Of the
bureau of fires.
City Engineer Joseph p. Phillips to
he chief engineer OF the bureau of en-
Sineering.
Street Commissioner Roland Thomas
to be superintendent OF the bureau of
highways and sewers.
Plumbing Inspector A. G. Monies.
Food Inspector Fred j. Widnayer and
Building Inspector Y. B. jackson to be
continued.
Health Officer W. Il. .\llen. Nj. D., to
be superintendent Of the bureau Of
health.
EN- Mayor W. l.. c0nnell and eX-
Select Councilman George Sanderson
as two of the five members of the sink
ing fund commission.
City Solicitor y. y. Nosburg and As
Sistant City Solicitor ID. j. Davis to
continue in their present positions.
And. incidentally. Recorder Moir de-
MED last night the story to the effect
tha, ten police officers were to be de-
posed.
Reason for Veto.
II is understood that the recorders
reasons for V"loing the reorganizat ton
ordinance are. as indicated above. be-
cause ii fails to comply with the re-
qulrcments of the charter in that IL
makes no provision for police mags-
trateS or director of public charities.
ana attempts to combine the appoin-
tive Office of delinquent tax collector
with the elective one Of city treas
urer The appropriation to a fire com,
pany not Il. member of the department
is another irregularity he could not ac-
uuicSce in.
1t will be necessary for the new
councils TO take the old reorganiza.
ton ordinance and amend il at once
to meet the requirements as indicated
by the recorder. There will be no diff
Guilty about fixing salaries after the
officials have been appointed. as they
can resign, to make an interim in
which their salaries can be fixed and
then be appointed over again.
There Is no end Of confusion attend
ing the preliminaries to the reorsaniz-
alton of the councils. Select council
Republicans have nominated G.. II.
Chittenden for chairman, and claim to
have their eleven votes solidly lined
mp for him. The Democrats nominated
j. ]. Costello, of the Third ward, with
the understanding that he had a Re-