The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-01-03

New York Mayor Gives Out
List of Men Who Are To
Fill City Offices

NEW YORK, Jan. 2.-MayOr Gaynor
gave out tonight his list of appoint
ments so far as he has been able to
make them and on account of his re-
lations with Charles F. Murphy, leader
Of Tammany Hall. The letter follows:
when Mayor Gaynor was seen last
evening he was found in his home
library deep in the perusal of little
book called Wisdom of Benjamin
Franklin When asked if the political
leaders had been consulted in making
appointments, he said:
81 feel thas there is one great act
of justice which 1 should do / was
nominated without even 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 asking 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.
Murphy Neither Horned Nor Hoofed
az fear there are a good many
people in this town who do not know
Charles F. Murphy. Some of them
seem to think he has horns and hoofs.
1 can only say of him what 1 have
seen. He fully realizes that political
organization cannot survive apd grow
broader on patronage alone without
political ideas and virtue but must
shrivel up and die of worse than dry
rot. 1 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 commandments. 1
There are more vices than one
The mayor, in naming his appoin- |
tees, appends also a brief personal |
and political biography of EACH These |
some of them waggiSh, !
some naive, it was later announced, |
were not to be printed as the mayors |
own although he did not say they were |
issued without his sanction. Some are
in formal statement.
bachelor ana Great Catch"
For instance, of Rhinelander Waldo,
appointed fire commissioner, it is not
ed that he is a bachelor and a greas
catch, for he is rich
Of Herman Ridder publisher of the |
Stats Zeitung, who has been offered
the position of park commissioner for
and Richmond, but who !
has not accepted, the statement says
that on account of Mr.. Riders con-
nectiOn with the press, 'he feels deli
cate in this matter as his work as a
public official would have to be COM
mented on by the press, and should
not be under constraint. The spectacle
Of a newspaper proprietor running for
office or in Office. and being pulled up
by his own newspaper is nauseOus to
Mr. Ridder"
Most of the mayors appOinteeS are
dyed in the-WOol democrats, and the
is careful in giving the
not only to mention those
that are married. but also to specify
that they have children. The mayor
himself has seven children.
Among the appointments are:
Corporation counsel, salary $4,000
Archibald r. Watson. 40 years old,
democrat.
City chamberlain, salary $4,000
Charles H. Hyde, 40 years old, married,
democrat
Commissioner of docks. salary $500
Calvin Tomkins, married, democrat.
Commissioner of charities, salary,
81, 500-Michael j. Drummond, married,
politics not given.
Commissioner of water, gas and cleo
.ricity, salary-$7, 5O0-Henry S. Thorn
pson, single democrat.
With him is appointed Professor
Edward Remis as first deputy, salary
$4,000, formerly at the head of the
water department of Cleveland, Ohio,
which, it is conceded, he has made the
model water department. of the coun-
try
Commissioner of bridges. salary
s7.50O-Kingsley Martin, 80 years old.
democrat.
The seven commissioners, the state
nent concludes will be appointed in
4 day or two. The appointees will be
nigh class men who will Danish graft
and favoritism from the department.
THE police, street cleaning and
health departments are to be dealt
with hereafter. 1t is rot believed that
any of the insumbents will be re-
tainad nermanentIv