New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-08
mitchell NEAR PORT.
JOB HUNTERS AT SEA.
"Aspirants" Hope He'll Say
Something at Public Din
ners Awaiting Him.
MUST WAIT TILL
JANUARY, IT'S SAID
Rumor of Strife in Probable Line
Up of Estimate Board
Looms Up Again.

From q stan correspondent OF The Tribune
on Board Steamer Tenadores. Dec. t.
John Purroy Mitchell is due to arrive in
New Yori. tomorrow noon. The Mayor
elect IS we'll lie has received no sug-
gestions regarding appointments. and
none has been considered No announce
ment Of his cabinet will be made until
December 81.
Woods is still a police possibility.
Bingham and Fosdick are eliminated. Mr..
Mitchell wants Robert Adamson for sec
rotary. He said to-day that although in
sympathy with the reorganization of New
York Democrats, that sympathy will in
fuence no appointments. Efficiency will
be solely his standard Of appointments.
The slate makers and hopeful aspirants
for city jobs under the Mitchell admins
tration are in for disappointment as TO
time. according TO an announcement yes
terday from a close friend OF the Mayor
elect. Both slate makers and hopeful
aspirants" had been counting upon the
fact that Mr.. Mitchell was scheduled Tor
three big public dinners this week as soon
as he returns from his Panama voyage.
and had expected at least some of his APP
pointments would be thrown 10 the
breeze either in his speeches or In the
table talk induced by the dinners.
Tomorrow, which is the night of the
or-elect's return, he will be the chief
speaker at the dinner of the Honest Bal
lot Association; Wednesday he is sChed-
uled 10 attend the dinner of the Southern
Society in the same capacity. and on
Thursday he is down for the same promi-
nent position on the speakers list Of the
dinner 10 Joseph NJ. Price, the organizer
Of the Committee of l0l.
Next Monday night he will be the chief
speaker at the dinner TO Robert Adamson.
the fusion campaign manager. 1t is even
on record that at discussion of pro-
sramme INDUCED in by the Adamson din
ner committee. when the suggestion was
made that all speakers be limited 10 ten
minute orations, one of the committee
men, himself in the hopeful aspirant'
clan, said:
That's all right except for Mr.. Mitchell
If he'll only announce his appointments
he can speak for hours"
MtcheTs friend. however. said yester-
day that al luncheon with the Mayor
elect the day before he sailed Mr.. Mitchell
had said positively that he had decided
upon only one thing, and that was that
he would not announce any Of his ap-
y
uary J.
The return Of the Mayor-elect to-inor-
row has also brought TO the front the old
discussion Of the probable lineup OF the
new Board Of Estimate. Rumors have
been current ever since election, and par
ticularly within the last few days. with
M!tcheps return in sight, that President
McAneny Of the Board Of Aldermen. Con-
troller Prendergast and Borough Presl-
dents Marks and Pounds had come to a
pretty good understanding as to their line
Of action in the Board Of Estimate.
While there has been no direct sugges-
ton Of anything but harmony. the story
has been circulated that the new Mayor
would be called upon TO accede TO the
particular kind of harmony that his older
associates had decided upon, particularly
with reference TO subway matters.
Honest differences Of opinion with the
new Mayor. when he was President OF
the Board Of Aldermen are cited as the
underlying reason for the alliance, al
though even the men named therein insist
that there is not a scintilla Of opposition
N IL.
Men who are credited with being in the
confidence Of the four men named, how
ever, say that the opposition, by what
ever name H. is called, is shaped up SO
that It can be called into immediate &C
ton if it is decided that the necessity for
il arises at any time.