Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1911-07-08

County Civil Service Employees De.
tense League. Frank s. Ryan, deputy
comptroller of Cook County, 10 presi.
dent of the new organization and Ed.
ward J. Mccarthy, chief clerk In the
comptroller's Office, Is its secretary
and treasurer. Louis j. Dehan and
Herbert 8. Duncombe have been re.
tanned as general counsel for the
league.
The league Is to be managed by q
board Of four trustees. who Will act
with the president and secretary. The
trustees are Meyer Cossman, Milton
Getzert, H. H. Smith and Mathew
Conrad.
II is expected that the organiza.
ton will have membership equal to
the total number of county civil serv-
ice employees within q short time,
There are 1874 civil service employees
in the various offices and institutions
of Cook county, according to the list
certified yesterday by the civil serv.
| Ice commission. OF these 427 are EN-.
ployed in the county hospital, twenty.
seven in the juvenile detention home,
129 in the Oak Forest institution and
291 at Dunning. OF the total 1864 are
men and TO are women. There are
but sixteen vacancies.
Judge John r. Caverly HAS gained
by his long and clean record as pub.
lie oficer and o citizen we'll earned
popularity throughout Chicago.
No man on the bench stands higher
in the estimation Of the people than
Judge Edward Osgood Brown.
Col. James Hamilton Lewis Is the
first choice of the Democratic rank
and file for United States Senator
next year.
Edward Tilden, the well known
banker and public spirited citizen, II
one of the men who have helped make
Chicago the great city she Is today.
Matt Aller. the popular president
Of the Home Brewery. Is to be con
graduated upon the great success thu
business Is meeting with.
Albert @. Wheeler stands foremos
among Chicago's ablest financiers ant
J business men.
Judge Joseph H. Fitch has proven
by his record to be the right man II
the right place. His reelection Il
assured.
George J. Cooke, head Of the wei
known brewery bearing his name
would make splendid State Treas
urer of Illinois.
James s. Hopkins has earned by hi
splendid record as lawyer and
citizen, a widespread popularity.
William Best is man whom Chi
: cago Is proud at all times to claim a.
one of her most successful business
men and public spirited citizens.
y George McHale, the popular Twenty
Q fourth ward Democrat who worked s.
+ hard for the ticket last spring. an
o also last fall, Is being mentioned TO
good nomination next year.
\eSA
o. Judge Marcus Kavanagh's record o
s. the bench is SO well known that hi
q reelection next fall Is assured.
= The Thirty-fifth ward has In Aide
: man Irwin r. Hazen one of the ables
- and most aggressive members of tn
city council.
- James NJ. Slattery is making III
- best Superintendent Of Public ServiC
~ that Cook County has ever had. II
is an able, Woodworking and cou
teous public official.
Jacob NJ. Horn, the popular We
= Side furniture manufacturer, and 10
mer West Town Assessor, Is beir
talked of for Sanitary Trustee ne
year.
Charges made by the Information
Voting Machine Company cOncerniI
the manner in which its rival. the FL
!" pire, won favor with the board of ele
10 ton commissioners In connection VII
" the contract for the purchase of 1,0'
~ machines at $4,000 were repudiat'
by John j. Coburn, attorney for Il
company. Attorney Coburn, who
%, name figured prominently in come
vi ton with the charges made by A.
ce Hall, treasurer of the company, n
ed only denied fatty the assertions MAJ
of by Treasurer Hall. but even intimate
by that he would be unable to represe
IT. the company further He declared
knew nothing of the efforts OF h
to- clients to force the voting machil
he question into the courts.
ed Attorney COburn ia one of the Dem