The sun., 1902-01-01
CITY HALL REVOLUTION, NOON
TO SPREAD OVER THECTTyAFTER
30 MINUTES SHAKE-HANDS.
Devery Ought TO he I'm Retirement by
e'Cock jerome May Not swear
In To-day-Further Additions 60 the
List OF New OficiaIs just Announced.

Deyery Ought to He In Retirement by
o'Ciock jerome May Not swear
In To-day-Further Additions 60 the
List Of New Oniciais just Announced.
The Official Observance OF New Years
Day will be a simple one As the day is
a legal holiday. all the banks, exchanges,
courts and many Of the retail and whole
sale shops will be closed Mayor-elect
low will become Mayor Low at noon by
the operation of the Charter. He has al
ready taken the oath Of Office. He will
receive visitors at his Office in City Hall
from noon till 1890. and then he
will swear in his aides In Office. There
viii be no particular ceremony about this.
All OF those who can will take the oath OF
ofice at the same time. and subscribe To
1t in the oath book Immediately after.
While Mayor Low Is busy in his Office,
President Cantor of the borough of Man
haitian will be busy in the old Council rooms.
and President Fornes or the Board Of Alder
men will receive his friends in his Office
h. the east end Of the City Hall. Most Of
the Gppointees of Mayor Low will be re-
ceived Sv the men whom they relieve in
the Offices that they will occupy.
Col. Partridge will take the oath Of office
before the Mayor and will 60 at once to
Police Headquarters, where he will relieve
Col. Murphy, whose lNrm of Office will end
as the new Commissioner takes the OATH
Deputy Commissioner Dcvery will be re-
moved at once by Commissioner Partridge,
and so will Deputy Commiss 'oner York OF
Brooklyn. Devery will make formal de-
mand on the new Commissioner for recog-
milton as Chief of the Department and
then will go away.
Justice Jerome. the District Attt rney-
elect. will not take the oath of Office until
after Mayor Low has assumed office, end
il was said yesterday that he might not
swear in until Thursday He will call OF
District Attorney Philbin at the Criminal
Courts Building and have little talk with
him.
MAJOR Tow TO RETAIN MAJOR OWEN.
Mayor-elect Low announced yesterday
that he would retain for the present Major
Edward Owen a. the junior Commissioner
Of A, counts. William Hepburn Russell has
already been announced as the senior Com
missioner. Major Owen has been in tho
Department of Accounts for nearly twenty
years, and his retention is regarded as q
peculiar compliment to him because of the
fact that the Commissioners of Accounts
are the confidential representatives OF the
known Mr.. Low said:
Major Owen entered the service OF the
city IN 1854 and ] take this course believing
that he gave satisfaction He would not
have been retained otherwise. Under the
circumstances. think this is the best thing
can do for the public service II will be
time enough to consider change when am
20 bc made Major owen l. n certified ac-
countant. as required by the new Charter.
/ have made this cNplar"''on of my reasons
rat "a
that under the cir, umstances All explanation
is due the people.
Mayor Low will announce the three MEM
bers of the board of Assessors to-day or
tomorrow. Then he will rest from appoint
meInS tor IA while.
Edward Hetiir, :s.. who has so-.-,-,i a.
Mayors messenger under Mayors Grace.
Hewitt. Grant. Gilroy, Strong and Van
wyck. will be retained by Mayor Low. He
brewed the tea for Mayor Strong and always
carries the bonds from the Mayors Office
to the Finance Department
County Clerk-elect Hamilton announced
yesterday that he had selected Henry
Birrell of the Twenty-ffth Assembly dis
trict as his deputy in his office, TO succeed
Geore5 II. FaiiTbach. who ran for the Office
on the Tammany ticket.
Rogister-elect J. Ii j. Ronner has selected
Mathew p. Breen, the Greater New York
l. adcr in the Thirty-ffth Assembly dis
trict for his deputy. The assistant dep
uty, John f.. Fitzgerald, will he retained
in Office. He has been in the office for
seventeen years.
UAFFES's BRONX APPOINTMENTS.
President Ilaffen of the borough of Tho
Bronx announced yesterday that on taking
Office for the second time to-day he would
make the following appointments:
issist1nt Com missioner OF Public Works
Henry BTuCkner
SCcrCfdTU 10 the Superintendent OF BmidiDGs
Henry 4 Gumbleton
MIR. Haffen has not appointed any Com
missioner Of Public Works He saws that
he will perform the duties of this Office HIM
self for the present and save the 5000 a
wear salary to the city Mr.. Hafien made
this statement about his coming term of
Office:
IL shall be my endeavor 20 give an efficient.
economical and progressive adminiStrat ion.
Concerning the ther dopar. ucuts provided
for IN the Charter, they shall b" cstablish"d
demand. ( do not believe in the Crcatio
OF unnecessary depart ments or Of CumboIing
I he public service with unnecessary officials
A. the pub,c interests demand II, | shall
crente the other departments. but only II
they are needed
MIR Bruckner Is native o Z The Bronx
And is in business there. He was elected
to the Assembly by Tammany in 1870. and
that was the first public Office that he ever
held
Mr. Gurnbleton is lawyer. He was
De-utv County Clerk from 1871 10 1875 and
pcputv V Commissioner Of PublcWorks under
Gen FitzJ john Porter Ia 1870 he was elect
ed County Clerk.
OFFICERS or QUEENS BoRDr1H.
Councilman Cassidy, tho Prss.lent-elect