Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-20
CHANGES IN CITY Hall JOBS
Mayor MOOres t. Reticent COncerninG
Appointments at His
Hands.

City hall ozone is heavily charged with
the job-seeking baccili, and most OF the
talk heard concerns the appointments TO be
made in the course OF the next week. Sc
far as the major Offices are concerned little
definite is being said, but a number OF minor
places have been as good as filled and
some interesting changes will be made.
Mayor Moores is exceedingly close
mouthed regarding his appointments, which
will go TO the council next Tuesday
night and which concern the city engineer,
health commissioner, plumbing inspector.
boiler inspector, city electrician and city
prosecutor. His honor declares that he has
not decided upon any OF them and Will not,
probably. until the last possible moment.
The report that he has made up his mind
to replace B. f. Thomas with Tom Lee as
city prosecutor he denies, although he ad-
mits that complaints have been made that
Thomas has been too lenient with some OF
the more vicious element of the Third
ward. Lee, according to the mayor, has
not yet asked for the ofhce.
1t is rumored City Electrician Schurig
is not to be re-appolnted and that Tom
Myers. electrician at the Boston store, will
get his place. This report cannot be con-
frmed Schurig, It is understood, after a
long lncumbency of the ofice, would not
grieve much over Its loss.
f. W. Bandhauer, for three years deputy
city clerk, is slated to go, and Sam Simon
son, the senior attache of the ONCE, will
get the deputyship. The change means the
cutting OF of one employe in this Office
where something OF an economical streak
has set in.
Tax Commissioner Fleming confirmed the
report that Albert sjoberg, president of
the Swedish Tribune company, will be
named as his chief assistant, vice S. Arion
Lewis. This appointment is one
that has excited considerable unfavorable
comment in democratic circles.
So far as the assistant attorney and his
helper are concerned Attorney-elect C. C.
Wright has said nothing definite. The re-
port that w. II. Herdman will be assistant
city attorney and A. @. Ellick a deputy
is persistent, but not confirmed. Wright is
still at Spirit Lake.
Considerable discussion was on yesterday
morning relating to the appointees in the
building department. Aside from the build
ing Inspector whose Office is elective, there
have been two other men in this Office for
several years-an assistant building in
spector and a clerk, both appointed by the
mayor under a council resolution.
The democratic building inspector-elect,
Withnell, said Monday that II he were not
permitted to name his own men he
wouldn't use any and would run the ONCE
single-handed, which is obviously an i'm
possibility. The present building inspector,
r. b. Carter, has been listed for the as
sistants place. A compromise of some
kind may grow out of this tangle.
Comptroller Lobeck will retain two
men of the present staff-Otto Wolfe, the
bookkeeper, and 8. r. Crickmore, an all
around clerk, who has been in the office
for years. Fred II. Cosgrove will be the
deputy comptroller and Frank Planck will
get a place in the Office
Treasurer Hennings has by inference
made it known that he will make few II
any changes in the personnel of his as
sistants.