The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-30
NAMED
JERSEY CITY
COLLECTOR
%Schnmann, Treasurer.
GOrmley, Comptroller.
Hague Gets Fat Job.
Especial to the Evening start

1891
JERSEY CITY, Dec. 3O.-Mayor-elect
II. otto Wittpenn ended the suspense
OF ofice-seeker today by announcing
MS appointments, to take effect Jan
nay l. Some of the men named are
happy because their title to Office will
not be questioned, as they were named
to succeed officials whose terms expire
on January l, but the fate of the others
will be in suspense until the consti-
t~utionality of the ripper act is set
tied by the courts.
Robert Davis was made city collector
to succeed Edward Fry, who will test
the ripper act" as he has a year more
to serve by appointment of Mayor Mark
NJ. Pagan, a year ago.
Former Assemblyman Carl A. Schu-
mann won his fight for city treasurer.
Francis Gormley was selected as city
comptroller, to succeed William George
Nelson.
Frank Hague, sergeant-at-arms Of
the last House of Assembly, was sue
eessful in his fight to be made president
of the City Hall Commission. His col
leagues will be city Comptroller CORN
~ anu tilS ITGdSuIeI oCIutiidnll. AIliS
commission appoints the employees of
the city hall.
There was no change made in the new
law department.. 1t will be Warren Dixon,
corporation counsel, $4,000 a year; former
Police Judge James J. Murphy. corporation
attorney. $500, and john Milton, assistant
attorney, 1880.
The board of finance will be composed of
John J. voorhees,, who will be elected
president; John Mehl, George F, Perkins
and John p. Landrine, appointed by Mayor
elect Wittpenn, and President-elect Eu-
gene L. Kinkead, of the Board of Alder
men, ex-offieio. This board will elect Rich
ard Vreeland. of the Sixth Ward, Its clerk,
nj $1,000 a year on Wednesday, and name
DANES Kavanagh, Of the Tentr Ward, as
sistdnt clerk, at $1,200 a year.
A. Harry Moore, of the Sixth Ward,
viii be private secretary to the Mayor, at
d salary of 81, 800 a year.
Lawyers Joseph Farmer and John Wahl
Queen will be the police judges, at 50, 800
u year, with former Alderman William A.
Kelley, of the Sixth Ward, and Justice
of the Peace Edward Markley, of the
First Ward, as their respective clerks, at
81 .S30 a year each.
In the Tax Board will be James e. Hen
nessey, of the Fourth Ward, chairman of
the Democratic County Committee; julius
l. Nlttpenn, OF the sixth WARD, an uncle
of the Mayor, and Thomas ]. Carroll, of
the Ninth Ward. All three are Democrats.
and each will be paid $500 a year.
William C. Farmer, of the First Ward,
and Mortimer ]. Gleason, Of the Eighth
Ward, both Democrats, were appointed
Police Commissioners, at salaries Of $1,000
a year each. Robert Thompson, Of the
Fifth Ward, and James p. Meehan. of the
First Ward, both Democrats, and William
H. Jones, of the Sixth Ward, are the
members of the Fire Board.
The three Assessment Commissioners
will be Thomas j.. Corydon, Second Ward;
RssI, 6 SSEs5snifsh, Eighth Ward, ard
; ohn 9f0dt, Seventh Ward.
The Excise Board is made up Of Jof. II.
Iippincott. Eighth Ward, and Frank A..
Jaeger, Third Ward, Democrats, and j.
Albert Hinners, Eleventh Ward, and
Joseph F. McGurr, First Ward, Republi.
cans.
James G. Haskings, of the Union Trust
Company, goes back to the Sinking Fund
Commission His colleagues will be Gus
tav Klingenstein, Of the Eleventh Ward.
and MarcusN Bollhardt. a contractor. ALI
three are Democrats.