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OWNS FAeAN
G. Q. ?. Bosses Compel the
Mayor TO Knuckle Down
to Their Demands.
LINDSAY GETS IT IN THE NECK
Bacon Will Succeed Him AS
Tax Commissioner and Ed 7
Fry VIII Be Appoint
ed Collector. y
LINDSAY GETS IT IN THE NECK

Mayor Pagan said this afternoon that
lie will announce his appointments tomor-
row morning. The list is practically COM
| pleted, although it is still open to revis-
| ion.
The machine has won victory over
the Mayor as to the appointment, CT an
Organization man in the place Of Tax
Commissioner James C. Lindsay. Mr..
/ Lindsay, who had been assured of a re-
appointment for full term of three
years. will be aurned down and Finance
| Commissioner Edgar Bacon win get his
place.
Bacon is a machine man and the G. o.
| r. bosses say his appointment will suit
them
A friend of the Mayor said this morn
ing said this morning that Pagan doesn't
feel happy over the position in which he
i has been placed He wanted to keep
faith with Lindsay but felt that he
wouldn't be sacrificing a principle by let
ting the organization have its own way
about his successor. The Mayor, his
man said, @feels that Mr.. Bacon. will
continue what he calls his equal TAXA
tion fight" in the Tax Board Pagan
and Bacon enjoy each other $. confidence
| and the Mayor expects that the Tax
Commissioner to stick by Commissioners
Degnan in carrying out the jacking-up
/ valuation pfans of next year.
A
Edward Fry. chairman of the RepubIi-
can Committee, will probably be appoint-
] ed City Collector to succeed Robert Dav-
is. This Is another sop to the machine.
1t is said that General William b.
Mason will get goed job in the City
Collectors office. He. wants to Keep
busy after Fagan's Excise Board goes
out of business. The Mayor will have
something to say about some of the
clerks whom the new City Collector will
appoint. He has places reserved for sew
seral of his personal friends
Uncle" John McNulty will probably
succeed DR.. John D. McGill as the
Democratic member of the Police Board.
Commissioner John Mitchell will succeed
Commissioner Tilden as president of the
Board.
The Mayor wilFappoint three members
0 fthe Finance Board The terms Of
President Ringle, Republican, and Henry
/ Lembeck,, Democrat, will expire and
Commissioner BaconswilI resign to be-
come Fiddler
Mr.. Ringle has been very uneasy Of
! late. He has had reason to believe that
the Mayor intended to turn him adrift
He dropped in to see His Honor yester-
day and made another call this after
noon. 1t is said that ne wanted to know
exactly where he was at It was gener-
ally believed in the City Hall today that
Mr.. Ringle would probably succeed him
self.
/ Among the "sure thirg,' the reappoint-
lnent Of Corporation Counsel George T..
Record, the naming. of Assistant Corpora
/ tion Attorney Robert Carey to succeed
Corporation Attorney John Wahl Queen,
! and the appointment Of Isaac Il. Golden
hornto succeed Mr.. Carey.
1t was learned cn good authority that
/ Mr.. Lindsay has been promised some
thing good in the near future to repay
him for being fired out Of the Tax Board.
/ The Mayor has succeeded in keeping
i quiet his intentions as to several Of his
appointments. He said this morning that
he had not taken any newspaper man in
to his confidence. Some of his personal
| advisers, who were supposed to keep the
/ Mayors secrets have leaked, greatly to