Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-03
NOT OF USUAL TYPE
Appointments to City Offices
by Mayor Gaynor.
TAMMANY is NOT FAVORED
Mayor Declares Politics Did Not In
luence Him and Compliments
Leader Murphy.
TAMMANY is NOT FAVORED

NEW YORK. January 3.-Mayor Gay
nor announced yesterday the names of
the men who will fill most of the i'm
portant places in his official family. Tam
many can find little consolation in the
list, although the appointees are all dem
ocrats and one or two are members of
the organization. The mayors selections
are hardly of the usual type of city Of
flee holder 1t is understood that none
of them sought the appointments, and
that many accepted reluctantly
The appointees are:
Corporation counsel, Archibald r.
Watson.
Dock commissioner. Calvin Tomkins.
Commissioner of charities. Michael j..
Drummond.
Commissioner of water supply, gas and
electricity, Henry S. Thompson.
Fire commissioner, Rhinelander Waldo.
Commissioner of bridges, Kingsley
Martin
City chamberlain. Charles H. Hyde.
OF the nine appOintees but one Is a
Tammany man. Herman Rider today
declined to serve as park commissioner.
Drawn From Committee of Nine.
Archibald r. Watson the new corpora
ton counsel. and Michael J. Drummond,
the new commissioner of charities were
members of the committee of nine which
first urged MIR. Gaynor's candidacy for
mayor.
In announcing the appointments the
mayor issued a statement in which he
declared that political influence had moth
ing to do with his selections. and in
which he made interesting reference to
Charles F. Murphy. leader of Tammany
&c 10
Il feel that there is one great act of
justice which l should do. l was NOM
mated without even a suggestion being
made as to what l should do as mayor.
Since election Mr.. Charles F. Murphy has
called on me three times, each time ask
ing me to appoint the best men to be
found.
His suggestions were few: he urged
nothing. and kept saying to me that the
responsibility was solely with me. l can
not say the same of every one else.
II fear there are good many people in
this town who do not know Charles F.
Murphy. Some of them seem to think he
has horns and hoofs. l can only say OF
that a political organization cannot sur
vive and grow broader on patronage
alone, without political ideas and virtue.
but must shrivel up and die of worse
than dry rot.
INDUCES in Sarcasm.
II would advise some good women and
clergymen who are writing to me about
Charles F. Murphy and what they call
the white slave traffic TO go up and see
him and say a kind word to him. They
may be surprised. Thou shalt not bear
false witness. is also one Of the Com
mandments. There are more vices than
one.''
One of the Tammany leaders, comment
Ing on the mayors compliment to Muir
ply. said: I'VE don't want any verbal
boquets: we want Offices
Mayor McClellan'S last corporation
counsel, Francis Key Pendleton, who ran
for the supreme court on the Tammany
ticket at the recent election, resigned to
him a few days ago.
The mayor announces that Allen N.
Spooner, the retiring dock commissioner.
will be retained in the department.. going
back to his old position of engineer. from
which he was promoted by Mayor Nc
Clellan.
Robert ". Hebberd, the retiring chart
ties commissioner, resigned to Mayor Nc
Clellan and declined a reappointment, al
though Mayor GaynOr asked him to re-
main in Office. He has offered the rst dep
utyship of the department to John w.
Keller, who was charities commissioner
during Mayor McClellan's first term. Mr..
Keller has not given his final answer. He
hestates to accept because the work of
the department would take all of his time.