The sun., 1909-01-02
CUOWELL ANDCOGGEY RETIRE
NEW YEAR SEES FEW CHANGES
IN CITY OFFICES.

TO Help Him--Barry Gets COggey' i
Place-To Make Harts Island Better
New Years Day in the City Hall was
ouet and formal. MayNT Mcclellan ran
in from Princeton for lhe purpose OF
swearing in the new heals of the Street
Cleaning and Correction departments
the two new members of the Municipal
Art Commission and thu reappointed
members of the Board OF Elections and
left again after stay of less than al
hour. He had very few callers.
Outside of the publicly announced
changes in the administration the Mayor
left things as they were. The gossip in
the City Hall for the last two weeks has
leen that Fire Commissioner Hayes and
Dock Commissioner Spooner were doomed
and that unless their designations reached
The Mayor before the end of the year they
would be removed. They did not resign
nor were they removed. It is understood
that they have assured the Mayor that
they will economize in the expenditures
of their departments and that with this
promise the Mayor is satisfied.
City Hall gossip has been that the
Mayor was to make changes because of
POLITICS The Mayor himself insists that
10 asking for the designations of Street
Cleaning Commissioner Crowel and
Commissioner of Correction Coggey he
was moved only by the fact that they
showed no disposition to help him in his
efforts to keep down expenses
William II. Edwards was formally sworn
n yesterday ss the new Commissioner
of the Street Cleaning Department, The
Mayor announced week ago that he
would be named as the successor to Com
missioner Crowell, Immediately after
he took Office Commissioner Edwards
stated that he would appoint as his deputy
commissioner for Manhattan James j
Hogan. who was captain of the Yale foot
hall team in 1904, Until his promotion
Yesterday Edwards was the deputy for
Manhattan and in that capacity he had
Charge of all the stables and division
stations of the Street Cleaning Depart
ment in this borough. Mayor Mcclellan
has frequently said that Edwards had
been wonderfully successful in the amount
of work he got out of the employees of
the department and he has always given
some Of the credit for that success to the
size Of Big Bill Perhaps he had similar
idea in mind when he agreed yesterday
10 the suggestion that Hogan should be
appointed the deputy for Manhattan.
Hogan is not as heavy ~ Edwards, hut
he is almost as massive in build. After
leaving Yale Hogan studied at the Column
l., L. Na,h hn yuG
ated last June
II Is the intention of Commissi oner
Edwards thoroughly 10 reorganze the
Street Cleaning Department. The Com
nissioners of Accounts in report they
made recently TO the Mayor after an
investigation Of the office stated that
with proper economy 1t would be pos
slhe to save several hundred thousand
dollars wear in the administration of
the departments affairs Mr. Edwards
agrees with this opinion. He said yea
terday; 81 have in mind many economies
which will he put into effect at once
This department will undergo a reor-
ganization, not only as to its personnel
but as to the plan under which Il IL ad-
ministered These changes will be
gradual perhaps, but they will com"
John Barry. a. had been anticipated
was chosen IS the sucCesso. Of John '.
Coggey as Commissioner of Correction
Mr. Barry wa" born ~ Ireland about
sixty years ago. He llNcs IN The Bronx
and is IN the real estate business He
ls president Of the North side Savings
Bank, treasurer Of the Jnitcd states
Guaranty and Indemnity Company and
treasurer Of the 81 Vincent de Paul
Society, he Is a trustee OF Bellevue
and Allied Hospitals and was al one time
a.member Of the Board Of Education
Ne Of those who lndorsed him for the
appointment was Archbishop Farley
Mayor Mcclellan became dissatisfied
with Nommlsstou"r Coggey herause he
was convinced that the criticisms made
by the Prison Board Of New York State
concerning the conditions Of the re-
tormatorv on Hart Island were justified
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