The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-23
new HEAD STREET CLEANER.
MACDONOUGH CRAVEN, ENGI-
NEER, SUCCEEDS DIR. WOODBURY..

Has Been In Charge Of City's Interests on
s8arren Island a. sanitary Engineer
Ever since Col. waring Appointed Him
Capt. Gibson Offers His ~Rcsignation.
Macdonough Craven. a sanitary en-
gineer In Tho. employ Of the Department
Of Street Cleaning, was appointed by Mayor
Mcclellan yesterday 70 be Commissions In
place Of Major Woodbury., who resigned
. little over q week ago. Mr.. Craven has
been connected with the department from
Col. Warnings time. Mayor Mcclellan said
that he was appointed entirely on his inertia
and because his work In the depart ment
bad entitled him TO promotion.
.No political iniunce Of any kind was
brought to bear in Mr.. Craven's favor
Mr.. Mcclellan said; .n fact / do not v o
know II he Is a Republican or a Democrat.
Moreover. when I swore Mr.. Craven In
to-day I instructed him to eliminate politics
from the department altogether and to
give II q thorough shaking up
DO you mean q shakeup from q political
POLub VI VIoWI LILO uAAyOI Wd6 1cAO1
NO. no replied; what ! meant was
that 1 had told him TO jack up the force
under him and TO put the department on
a new basis Of efficiency
Deputy COMMISSIONS Gibson will to-day
hand his resignation to Mr.. Craven. !
think IL Is my duty to do that Capt. Glib
son said last night. so hat the new Com
missioner can start "a without any en-
barrassmsnt Of any hind. He may wish 70
have a Deputy Commissioner Of his own
selection. and I intend to resign In order
TO give him an immediate opportunity
Of nlling the deputyship TO his W per
soual satisfaction
Capt. Gibson would not say whether OF
not he would consent to remain in his pres
ent of1ce Il M. Craven should ask him ia
stay. When Capt. Gibson was told OF the
order given by the Mayor for a shaking up
OF the department he said that there was no
need for a shake up as the department had
never been in a more efficient condition,
and that 1t had been left in first class shape
In every way by Major Woodbury..
Mr.. Craven was born in Anna polls In 1885
and was graduatedfro rom the Naval Academy
at Annapolis in 1881. He resigned as q mid
shipman, but when the a with SPAR
broke out he reentered the service as a
Lieutenant. He was executive officer 81
the United States steamship Justin, which
coaled the warships OF Santiago under fire
He was executive officer Of the Braziliar
cruiser Nictheroy in the Mello insurrectior
Of 1898. and he was employed as an engineer
on the new Croton dam. When the late Col
Warning made the first contract with the
Sanitary Utilization Company for the dis
position OF the city's garbage on Barren
Island Mr.. Craven was sent to the island to
look after the city's interests. He has beer
retained there ever since and the new planI
on Barren Island to replace that burned
in the sun mer has been building under hi
supervision.
Mr.. Craven Is a nephew Of Commander
T. A. NJ. Craven, U. s. N, who lost his lf'
at the battle Of Mobile Bay. and a nephew
OF Alfred Wingate Craven. the first Water
Commissioner Of this city. His grand
father, Tingey Craven. was distantly re-
lated to Commodore Maodonough, the here
Of Lake Champlain, for whom he was named
Mr.. Craven il also descended from Com
modore Truxtun, who commanded tn
frigate Constellation in the naval war witt
France in 1899. Mr.. Craven lives at 2sS
Eighty-second street, Brooklyn.