Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-01-06
NEW BOARD At SEA
OVER APPOINTMENTS

although tt has been spending a
large part of the spare time OF lis
members in caucus, the new Board ap,
pears to be still most woefully at sea
regarding its plans. Not even the
important question of appointments,
which has been thrashed out in the
daily press and on the street corners
for several weeks, appeared to have
been settled, and nothing was sure
hut that the appointments will not
be made until tomorrow. night, when
the first business meeting of the
board will be held. ~ ~ .. -.
= From inside sources OF information
The Star.Bulletin Is able to state that
there is now every Indication that
the following plan Will be followed.
although the members Of the new
board have changed their minds SO
often and so materially during the
last few days that even this plan may
go glimmerfng before the time comes
to put II into effect.
To Retain Thurston.
Charlie Thurston, fire chief, Is to
be retained. This is regarded as
practically certain. 1t is also certain
that Mayor Fern will not re-appoint
Thurstcn until he has to do SO, but
there are four members. of the new
board at least who have heard the
call Of the city and will stand by the
old fireman to the last ditch. There
may be five. The names Of the four
as given the Star-Bulletin this morn
ing ar e Cox. Markham, Mcclellan
and Petrie. The possible fifth. lis said
TO be Hardesty.
Mayor Fern proposes to appoint
either Martin Scully, De Freis or
Wright, the last a member of the de-
partment. II is reported that Wright
will not accept the appointment, and
the names of Scully and De Fries are
both said TO be unsatisfactory to the
majority of the board.
. Lew Whitehouse, the city and
county engineer, will also be retain
ed. Some of the better class lead.
ers of the Democracy have taken the
stand that Whittemore, of Hilo, is
an excellent nan for the engineers
place, but II is said that the board is
committed to him and that he viii
hold his office for time at any rate,
His road Supervisor, Caldwell. as al
ready announced in these columns is
slated to 60, and already has accept
ed better position with private
concern in this city. Building ana
Plumbing Inspector Miehlstein is TO
be retained, as we'll as his deputy,
Murasky, and the city electrician
Frazee Il
Cut OF Salaries.
tS tor,nerly . annount.ad nv This
paper the new. board proposes to cut
salaries as much as possible, and the
first to feel the shock will be the Of
flee of the city and county attorney.
Mr.. Cathcart's first deputy, Fred Mil
verton, will go back to his old scale
Of pay, Brown will follow suit and
every member of the attorneys staff
will also. suffer from a reduced pay
check.
In the county auditors office one
man has been let GO. Tony Marcal-
limo. The pay of the rest is to be
cut to the bone. and the work on
them doubled. The same is also true
of the office staff of the city en-.
ginecr, as has already been told by
the Star.Bulletin.
There is no attempt 10 conceal the
fact that the county committee is
bringing tremendous pressure to
bear on the new board in its effort
to force the creation Of a Bourbon
political machine that will enable il
10 carry things with a high hanG.
This is seen in the proposed ar
rangement of committees in the