The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-05-11
THEO. AYERS
IS NOW MAYOR
Elected to Succeed the Late
Thomas w. Cauldwell
on Friday Evening.
WILL SERVE UNTIL JANUARY

first WARD, was elccUeu mayor W ouS
ceed the late Thomas w. Cauldwell
by the board Of aldermen on Friday
evening, Mr.. Ayers term is to Janu-
ary /, 1910, and his successor Will pc
elected at the regular November elec-
tion.
Previously to the aldermen meeting
Friday evening the republican mem
bers Of the board held a caucus in the
souad room. Clerk Nathaniel q. Toms
called the board meeting together al
ter the caucus and Alderman Ira
Mowery was elected as presiding OIL
Ger. The democrats named Augustus
Il. Revere for the honor, but ne was
defeated by a party vote. After as
suming the chair Alderman Mowery
asked Alderman Kinsley Twining to
preside and placed in nomination Mr.
Ayers as mayor. Alderman John NJ.
Conkling nominated former Mayor
Charlton A. Reed. Mr.. Ayers re-
ceiyed four votes and Mr.. Reed three
Upon the motion of Alderman Lewis
f. Sturgis the election of Mr.. Ayers
was made unanimous.
Mr.. Ayers, in accepting the otiice,
after thanking the aldermen for the
honor conferred upon him, said that
he had not sought the position but
that atime had come when he thought
he should accept the nomination OF
alderman. Since his election, he said,
he had been in close contact with the
late Mayor Cauldwell and had become
acquainted with his plans and ideas in
regard to the towns improvement,
especially in regard to the street de-
partment, and he thought he should
accept the mayoralty in order that he
might do what he could to advance
the policies Of his predecessor in office
Mr.. Ayers was elected to the board
.of aldermen from the First ward at
the November election. Upon taking
Office January 1st he was made chair
man of the street committee and since
that time has done much to put the
streets of the town in better shape.
A ripple in the usual placid sessions
of the board was caused by Alderman
,Conkling. when, after the reading OF
the police department. bills, objected
to the bill of DR.. Francis H. Glaze
brook, the police surgeon. Mr. Conk-
ling said II object to that bill, DIR.
Glazebrook does not attend to his
business. Mr.. Conkling appealed to-
Chief of Police j. Frank Holloway TO-
bear him out in his statement and the
chief acquiesed. Alderman Twining
ventured the statement that the ply
clan was entitled to his salary and the
matter was finally closed by Alderman
Reveres motion that the police COM
mittee be instructed to find out and
report at the next meeting what DR..
GlazebroOk had done to earn his salary.
In a statement to the press DIR.
Glazebrook characterized Alderman
Conkling's statement as politics,
and said he had faithfully performed
his duties and had many times gone
out of his way to care for policemen
who were i'll and without charge to
them. "There are times, of course,
when | am not in when | am called
for, but that is as likely to happen to
my private practice as to my duties OF
police surgeon" IF / am in | go
when ever get a call to police head
quarters" said the doctor. The office
of police surgeon pays 800 per year.
Two applications for licenses for
moving picture shows were before the
board of aldermen Friday evening.
William FL. Linder and Mr.. Esporito,
the proprietors Of the shows now run
ming in town, filed a remonstrance
against the granting of the licenses,
that they we're just begin
ming to make little money on their
and that the town was
not large enough to support more than
two moving picture shows The ap-
plication of Messrs. Hulshizer and
Hamilton, for a building on Washing I
ton street, the board decided to grant
after the building was properly pro-
vided with fire escapes and other safe
ty appliances and approved by the fire
chief. The application of w. Fl. De-
Witt was ruled out of order by Mayor
Ayers on the ground that it did not
specify where the show was to be To-
Gated
After a lengthy discussion in which
United States District Attorney John
B. Vreeland appeared for Robert A.
Elliott, the latter's application for per-
mission to remove his greenhouses
from their present location to lot at
the corner of Pine and Wilmot, streets
was granted, with the understGa ding
uhat any new building erected by Mr.
Elliott must conform to the fire laws.
Edward CRANKY was granted "a re-
newal of his billiard room license, de-
spite the fact that remonstrance
had been filed against the place, alleg-
ing that there was considerable disor-
der about the place. The clerk was
instructed to notify CRANKY, however,
that unless he maintained better or
Ter In and about his place the license I
would be revoked.
The board authorized the usual 40.