The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-02
FAGAN'S RETIREMENT
HANDS REINS TO JERSEY
CITY'S NEW MAYOR.
Notice of Quo Warranto Proceedings
Served in wittpenn Appointees.
How Boards Organized.

JERSEY CITY, Jan. 2.-Mayor Mark
NJ. Pagan at noon yesterday stepped
out of the City Hall and out of public
life, for the present at least. A few
minutes before that he had greeted his
successor, II. Otto Wittpenn, and
turned over to him the city's seal. He
expressed the hope that Mayor Witt
penis administration would be success
full.
County Clerk John Rotterdam was
at the head of a group of his followers
who shook the Mayors hand, and Post
master p. Farmer Wanser was the pilot
for a dozen or more member of the
Union League Club who paid their re-
spects.
Robert Davis. after he had assumed
the office of city collector, called
on the Mayor. and later in the
day the Mayor visited The Davis
clubhouse. and the two big men of
Jersey City's Democracy again shook
hands and extended to each other the
compliments of the season.
1t is estimated that at least 5000 per-
sons, many of whom were women and
children, passed through the Mayors
office and into other parts of the build
ms. IltiC WElG indiy hOIdl lflOuttc.
One of the pieces sent to Mayor Witt
penn was a miniature trolley car, the
gift of the Trolleymen's Association.
One of the first branches of the
municipal government to organize was
the Board of Finance. Commissioner
John J.. Voorhees, was elected president;
Richard Vreeland. clerk, and Edward
Cavanaugh, assistant clerk. City Col
l Ioafnr Ia Wis eanf IN fhe haoTd for ron.
firmation the appointment of Charles J.
Powers as deputy collector. The APP
pointment was promptly confirmed, and
the salary fixed as 1900 a year.
The Board of Aldermen, of which Eu-
gene Kinkead, Alderman-at-Large is
president by virtue of his office, re-
elected City Clerk Michael T. Fagen.
City Marshal Edgar T. Vreeland and
the other Democratic officers whose
terms had expired.
Job H. Lippincott was elected presi-
dent of the Board of Excise, Albert
Lindop, of the Tenth Ward, clerk, and
Ernest Settles, of the First Ward, and
Albert Holman, of the Eleventh Ward,
excise inspectors. The Assessment Com
mission organized with Thomas G. Len
nox rs president and Commissioner
Thomas Corydon, secretary.
The Board of Education elected Di-
rector George T. Tennant president, but
did not disturb Clerk Fred Eye.
Commissioner Mortimer C. Cason was
elected president of the Police Board;
Commissioner James Meehan, presi-
dent of the Fire Board; Commissioner
Thomas Carroll, president of the Tax
Board, and John j. Heavey, president
of the Board of Street and Water
Commissioners. The clerical forces in
these departments were not disturbed.
Clerk Charles E~sterbrook, OF the Fire
Board. and Clerk Frank Van Wrinkle,
Of the Police Board, hold over under
the tenure of office act.
1t was expected that there would be
q big shakeup in the Police Depart
ment. There was some d%isappoint-
ment among the Democrats, who at
tended the meeting when the board adj
jcurned without taking any action Of
this kind. There will be another meet
ing Friday night, and it is probable
there will be a number of transfers and
suspensions.
The Fire Board. by abolishing the
position of driver to the battalion
chiefs and resembling a resolution
passed at a recent meeting of the out
going board, establishing a new en-
CINE company, which is without house
or apparatus, cut off the heads of
sixteen Pagan Republicans.
There was no clash between any of
the outgoing n new appointees. The
custed officials, whose terms were cut
short by the enactment of the rip
per- law, contented themselves with
serving notices on their SUCCESSORS h q
quo warranto proceedings would be
instituted. the contention being made
that the law Is unconstitutional.