The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-06-25

WANTED-Two ASSISTANT CITY PHYsI-
clans, to fill the vacancies caused by the en-
A. Cohen.
acre will be special meeting Vi TIC
board Of charities and corrections to-mor
row morning at which Commissioners
Moore, Woodward and Rhinehart will be
present. Mayor Ames is in West Baden
and Commissioner Russell is emulating
Isaac Walton some place, but no one
knows where. The board meeting VIII be
left entirely to the anti administration
members and it is no secret that the two
assistant city physicians. Clark and
Cohen, will be forced from the pay rolls
Of the city hospital if plans do not mis-
carry
The commissioners in the city have
chosen well the time to carry into Ell
feet their decapitations, for their plans
cannot be upset by the arrival Of the
other two members of the board. One
Of the members volunteers the infor-
nation, however, that even if DR.. Ames
and Commissioner Russell were at the
meeting whatever protest they might
make would avail nothing, for the ma
jority of the board have made UP their
Clark and Cohen.
The board does not want the services Of
the two physicians in question, mainly be-
cause of their connection with the inspec-
tion of the "red light district. 1t Is
pointed out that by no stretch OF
Imagination could the now notorious in
spection be included in their duties as
assistant city physicians and their evident
cooperation with Mayor Ames in this
work has brought discredit upon the IN
stitution with which they were connected
and stigma upon the board.
why said one Of the members of the
board, angrily, "the employment of
Clark and Cohen in this most despicable
work makes it appear as though the board
of charities and corrections was behind 1t.
| 1t brands each one Of us as being party
social evil. Clark, nor Cohen never
! never spoke to single member. of the
board outside Of Mayor Ames about tax
| ing up this business and it is about time
| we show them how we stand on the ques-
ton. They may stick to their inspec-
! tons and wear a star but their connec-
! ton with the board must cease .'.
| Just how the board will go at the mat
! ter will not be positively known until
tomorrow. It is limited, however, that
condemnatory resolutions will be passed
and the city physician will be called upon
at once to notify Drs. Clark and Cohen
| that their services will not be further
needed. Even if the inspection" has been
| stopped, as reported, this fact will hardly
| operate to save those who conducted it.
| The charter places the appointment OF
assistant city physicians in the hands OF
| the city physician and by implication en-
| powers him alone to relieve them OF duty
City Physician Nelson, it is believed, vii
gladly cooperate with the board, as II
was known at the time of the appointment
of the hospital staff that he had little tc
do with the naming of his assistants ane
men were appointed who in many ways
did not suit him. Besides getting rlc
| Of two ASSISTANTS for whom he had but
! little time, he will have the opportunity
of appointing two of his friends and ply
sicians who will be in sympathy and &C.
cords with the head Of: the institution.
/ DR.. Clark was admitting physician al
the city hospital =. under the Byrnes
1 regime and at the tallation of the
present administration and the organiza'
ton. the board of charities and correc'
lions, he became prominent in hospita
matters and many picked him for cit.
physician. He had been connected will
Mayor Ames In his medical office and i
was known that the doctor" looked Will
great favor upon him. Upon, the, appoint
ment of Nelson, however, he was MADE
first assistant and his salary was in
| creased from SIS a month to s125- -
| DR.. Cohen was almost fresh from I
medical college when he was made assist
ant city physician. His appointment was
undoubt eddy due to his efforts in behalf
of Arnes during the last campaign. He II
| a brother of M. L. Cohen and Joe Cred.
Cohen, both Of whom are deeply indebted
to the Ames regime for prestige an6
| special favors. ~