Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-11-12
.GAYNOR'S PLAN NOT
TO FIRE OFFICIALS
It is Believed He Will Reappoint
William Baker, Head of Police,
and Others-Vanderbilt Takes
Office-Grand Opera Opens.
From the New York Globe.

| From the New YORK Slope'
NEW YORK. Nov. s.-It is believed to
be the intention of Mayor-elect Gaynor
to re-appoint as police commissioner the
present head of the department, William
Baker. The authority for this rumor is
/ John II. McCooey, the defeated Democrat
ic candidate for president of the borough
of Brooklyn, Mr.. McCooey having impart-
ed the interesting information to some
Wall street friends the day after cleo
ton.
Gaynors friends say he will try to give
an administration which shall become so
popular that Tammany will be forced to
accept him as it's choice for the presidency
in 1913 Instead Of making wholesale and
sweeping changes in the Mcclellan ad-
ministration either for the purpose 'of
building up a brandnew machine or for
] the purpose of putting Tammany out OF
business, he will probably retain In office
those heads Of departments who have
made good under the Mcclellan admins
tration and confine the swinging OF his
axe to the departments whose heads have
either not made good or else have not
got credit for doing so.
Among the men who the Gaynor cohorts
say have made good are Commission of
Charities Robert W. Hebberd Lawson
Purdy, president Of the tax board; DR..
Thomas Darlington, health commissioner,
and r. ]. Butler, tenement-house commits
sioner, and Park Commissioners Smith.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ROW.
Further complications regarding the
Christian Science dissension came to
light when 1t became known that II is
now charged that Mrs. Augusta E.
Stetson received a black eye in the
reading room of the First Church Of
81 Enfa Hat In Ia Cff a
disagreement with her associate. Henry
Pennington Toler. This charge is made
by Mrs. Laura A. Skeels, Of 131 West
101 street, who has brought suit to
recover money shA/ asserts she lost
through entrusting her affairs to Mrs.
stetson and Toler in real estate deals.
CONTRACTS SIGNED.
The Tidewater Building company and
Thomas y. Bryaon have signed their
contract with the city at the office
of the public service commission for
the construction Of the fifth section
Of the Fourth avenue subway, in
Brooklyn, and work will be begun i'm
madiately. This section runs under
North avenue from Tenth street to
Twenty-seventh. There remain to be
signed contracts for three more sec
tions. The sections are so small that
the whole road should be in operation
within IS months.
VANDERBILT LEASES OFFICE.
Reginald C. Vanderbilt has leased a
suite of rooms in the Silo building, at
546 Fifth avenue, to be used as a business
office. His secretary will be there from
8 a. m. until p. m. Mrs. K. H. Harrt-
man recently leased an office at ATS Fifth
avenue for the use Of the Harlem estate.
SEARCH FOR sHIPWRECKED.
Somewhere off the Jersey coast below
Sandy Hook the derelict destroyer Sem
eca and the sea-going tug Dalzelline, are
searching for the 3O-foot sloop Commo-
dore, which, with her owner. Washing
ton Hull and two seamen, disappeared
on Wednesday last. Hull, an architect of
Brooklyn, and two sailors were aboard
when sail was. set from Lawrence Beach,
I. l. for a five-hour trip to Bayonne.
No word has come from them in the six
days.
GRAND OPERA OPENS.
The regular grand opera season opened
last night at the Manhattan with a re-
vtval of Massenet's ''Heriodiade." The
Metropolitan company appeared at the
Academy of Music Brooklyn, in MA
nom" The first regular performance at
the new theatre also took place last
night, Anthony and Cleopatra" being
given. There is considerable criticism of
the acoustic properties OF this magnih-
Gently endowed playhouse. Most of the
actors cannot be heard.
LID PUT ON SPEEDERS.
Because of the great number of auto
bile accidents causing death or serious
injury to pedestrians and others, there
is a big shalSeup coming to the bicycles
and motor cycles of the police depart
ment It is alleged that the cycle men
not only failed to prevent infractien of
the speed laws, but that the big garages
were tipped off when Commissioner Ba-
ker ordered a general lid on speeders.
Sergeant Mallan heard that In an up
town garage, this notice had been writ
ten on the bulletin board: Lookout, Ser
geant Mallans policemen are out; be
careful"
Sergeant Mallan walked into the gar
age and took look at the bulletin board
and then faced about to meet the rather
sheepish glances of the employees
The men about the garage were candid
enough to say that they knew about the
trnpendinR raid but they would not tell