The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-12-31


of has beens." but the Mayor insisted
on rewarding him for sticking to the ad-
ministration during the last half Of the
year. For the first six months Ringle
manifested a more or less independent
spirit. Then he became an out-.lnd-out
Pagan man and voted in favor of the
Mayors pet schemes which came upon
the Finance Board
The naming of John T.. McNulty, Dem
ocrat, to succeed DIR. John d. McGiIl in
the Police Board, is another personal ap-
pointment- He is the Mayors uncle.
The elevation of Assessment Commits
sioner Richard +. Connolly to the Fire
Board comes in the same category.
The concessions to the machine indi-
cate that Mr.. Pagan wants to have a
chance to run again next fall and hopes
to secure the support of the organiza-
tion. Rumor says that Colonel Dickin-
son made it very plain that he would
never get denomination if lie didn't let
the machine in on the ground floor in
the matter of the distribution of patron
age
The Mayor, it is said. wanted to be
Independent, but he didn't dare to for
fear of the consequences.
MANY SOREHEADS.
There We're many soreheads in the
City Hall when the appointments became
known. Several who had expected places
had harsh things to say because their
names did not appear on the list.
The Mayor avoided unpleasant things
by staying away until the storm had
lessened in It's violence.
Edward Fry has named General VIM.
Mason to be his deputy. The General
spent the morning in his cage III the Col
lcctor's office receiving Instructions in
his new duties from Deputy Collector
lector.
Chief Clerk William H. Tuthill, who
has been in the Collectors office for
twenty years and is considered one of
the most valnab clerks in the City Hall
sent his resignation to Mr.. Davis today.
He has accepted a position as teller in
the West Hudson Trust Company. Mr..
Tuthill has served under ex-Collector
James H. Love, Patrick III. O'Niell.
Simeon Smith and Robert Davis. He
will be greatly missed by the new col
lector. His position viii be difficult to
fill
The new Tax Board will consist of
Thomas Degnan and Edgar B. Bacon,
Republicans, and Robert j. Hoos, Demo-
crat.
THE POLICE BOARD.
The Police Board Will be composed of
Thomas W. Tilden and John Mitchell,
Republican holdovers, and John f. Nc
Nulty, Democrat. Mitchell will be
elected president of the Beard
The new Board of Finance will be
made up of Jacob Ringle. o. H. Perry
and PiIiiip j Daudt, Republicans. and
2. Anthony Brock and W. H. Quinn,
Democrats.
Forrest Heath is to be elected clerk
of the new Finance Board to succeed
Michael L. Kaiaher. Hallman Dick
Flanagan will be chosen assistant clerk
to succeed Mr.. Heath.
EDWARD FRY.
Edward Fry, who succeeds Robert
Davis as City Collector, is an out-and7
out machine man, holding the office of
Chairman of the Republican County Com
mittee by grace Of Colonel Samuel d.
Dickinson. Mr.. Fry will resign his po-
sition as chief salesman for the Lelligh
Manufacturing Company, curtain manu-
facturers, of No. 800 Broadway, to
accept che relationship. He also ex-
poets to give up his job as Assistant Col
lector of the Port, to which President
Roosevelt appointed him last spring. He
resigned as member Of Mayor Fagan's
sition. Mr.. Fry was elected Alderman
in the Seventh ward in the spring of
1851.
EDGAR B. BACON.
Edgar B. Bacon, who takes the place
Of James c. Lindsay in the Tax Board,
is superintendent of the Hudson Steam
Laundry. He first became known po-
litically year ago when Mayor Pagan
appointed him an Excise Commissioner.
Tho Mayor liked him so well that he
made him Finance Commissioner, to
succeed the late General H. H. Aber-
nethy. When Colonel Dickinson recently
told the Mayor that the Republican ma
chine demanded the turning down of Tax
Commissioner Lindsay for reappointment
and the substitution of an organization
man in his place, an opportunity was
ahordedsto further advance Bacon. As
a Finance Commissioner he received
$500 year. He will get $500 as j
Tax Commissioners. The Mayer looks
upon Mr.. Bacon as one of the star
officials of his administration He says
that the new Tax Commissioners will
stand by Commissioner Thomas Degnan
| In an effcrt to keep up the assessed yalu-
ations on corpora ton hold ngs next year
GEORGE T.. RECORD.
George J.. Record. who was reappoint-
ed Corporation Counsel for term Of
two years at salary of $1,000 a year.
was once Il Democrat. He assisted in
drafting the rules governing the open
primary system. He never Jared well
in his struggle for Office in the Demo-
cratic party, so became Republicans.
| He ran for Congress against Allan +.
| McDermott in the fail of 1901 and was
/ badly defeated. He convinced Mayor