New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-12-22
MERRY CHRISTMAS? "NAW!'
Tigers Chance to Dine on Political
ITtbits Fading.

II looks more and more like a black and bleak
Christmas for Charles f. Murphy ana the ram
many heads of departments under Mayor NC
Clellan. There is an ebb and flow of the tides OF
bona o,d aasnair in Tamnany ranks these days
One day hope rides triumphant, and then the
leaders see Mcclellan filling all the Dig places
with good machine men, The next DAY "eiu
stories of Mcclellan turning reformer ana throw"
ing the Murphy men off the pier circulate ana thea
the Mace holders are filed with nervous despair
Big Chief Murphy at Tammany Han yester-
day gave his lieutenants no hope. he salo 'ii@
he did not know who would be appointed or reap
pointed. His manner was sort OF waFilihs "
all to get ready for a housekeeping on January l.
Mayor Mcclellan wants Lieutenant General A
r. Chaffee for Police Commissioner It Is tlnder-
stood that representative of the Mayor VIII see
General Chaffee in Washington this weeks anu
ask him to take Commissioner McAdoos place.
assuring him that he will have absolutely free
rein for four years, and that he is to run the
department as he sees fit. When General Cnal-
fees friends saw him in Washington on Wednes-
day night he gave them the impression that ne
would not take the police comnlsslonersIlip
One OF the disquieting rumors afioat yesterday
was that Dock Commissioner Featherson would
not be continued in Office. The Mayor from the
Tamrnany point of view. owes his reelection more
to Featherson than to any other agency. It
was Featherson who hufrAsd the work on the
Staten Island ferryboats and slips so that with
a flourish Of trumpets and joyful acclaim the
patient Staten Islanders were enabled TO start the
municipal ferr service Just few days before
election In recognition of the Mayors efforts to
do them a good turn, Staten Island voters gave
the Mcclellan ticket rousing support, Just about
big enough in fact. to defeat Hearst II 1t had
not been for the new ferry issue the Hearst men
would to-day be making up and breaking. slates.
four lean years Featherson's friends in a
panic over the prospect OF his losing his place
The same can be said of John 7. Oakley ana
George b Best. City Chamberlain Keenan, also
may fall by the way Vague rumors OF Glssatls aus
in circulation at the City Hal yes5erdSg a Pae
Another disquieting thing is the r7mor that Louie
Munzinger, the sheehan man placed In charge , OF
Grout, is to remain in his present BERTH Mum
Once on the designation of the Mayor. He col
lects the taxes that the Law Department cannot
the ONCE worth about $1,000 a year Munzinger
lives in the eth District, where Frank j. Goodwin
interests, The sth District very much wants Nun
fingers place. Failure to obtain IT will cost Good
Mayor MoCleiIan Received delegation of Union
veterans yesterday, who asked him to consi fis
Commissioner, and he said he would consider IT;
The name Of Robert H Elder, Assistant Dstr1cC
who may be appointed to succeed the late Jndge
Courtney on the Brooklyn Special sessions peneI-
Mr.. Elder himself, it was said, has made no ap-
plication for the place. -
Mayor Mcclellan asked If there was any
foundation for the insistent ruInor that MAJOR
Woodbury. is to hold his job as Commissioners OF
Street Cleaning. He said he could not tell some s
removal contracts. The Mayor smiled
bright sunny dispostion'" he said what would
life be worth without hope?'
e ne e s tb 49, of annJicanfs for the diff
ferent places to be filled said he was surprised
there were not more.
the supply will be found to equal the demand