Arizona republican., 1914-04-05
Well Known Reclamation Service Engineer is Un- official, But Unanimous, Choice of the New Com missiOners
COOPER CHOSEN
 FOR AUDITOR
Members of Commission Hold Conference and Bring Out Their Candi- dates for the Two High est Offices

w. A. Parish, United States recla- nation service construction engineer, will be the first city manager of Phoenix. His appointment will be made at the first meeting of the new commission on Tuesday c. F. Cooper, bookkeeper for the Dorris- Heyman Company will be the first auditor under the commission form of government. A well known demo- cratic attorney will be city magis- trate. There are persistent rumorS as to the filling of the various man. agerial appointive offices but none of these had assumed sufficiently tangible form last evening to war rant forecast.
 r. The selection of Parish for the highest office within the gift of the commission and of Cooper for the head of the citys accounting depart 'ment, was bmofficially made by the yesterday afternoon at which all were in attendance Parish was the final choice out of four possibilities and the unanimous choice upon the final advisory vote. His name will be the only one presented at the first regu- lar meeting of the commission and he will probably receive unanimous support upon the first ballot
 For several days the name of Far ish has been frequently mentioned in sidewalk conferences and long before the conference of yesterday after noon it was known that Commis- elect Cope and Foley would urge his appointment. The attitude of Mayor-elsct Young. while not pub. licly announced, was supposed to be for H. M. Lewis as first choice, A. i ish for third choice. Commissioner elect Corpstein was also credited with being of the same frame of mind as Young. Commissioner elect Woods was an uncertain quantity but | 1t is stated that when it came to | the advisory vote yesterday after noon he presented the name of Rob- ert A. Craig, former superintendent of the city water department, and at
 
 | of control, and supported him con- sistently until the final ballotting rn- | til. no hope remaining of bringing about his choice he swung into the l Parish ranks. At the same time that 1 Woods is said to have thrown his
 vote from Craig to Parish, Young | and Corpstein are also said to have I n1 1lora dor tI,1;,
 choice with the result that upon the
 final ballot the commission stood
 unanimously in favor of Parish. 1 Of course there is nothing official
 in the action of the commission at
 Saturdays conference, but there is
 little reason to believe that anything
 can arise between now and Tuesday
 to change the choice w. A. Parish is probably one of the
 best known engineers in the south
 west and one of the most prominent
 citizens of Phoenix He has resided
 in the Salt River Valley for over a quarter of a century Over twenty
 years ago he made the survey of the | Horseshoe dam site for the Rio l
 Roosevelt road, one of the engineer
 ing feats of recent years in this sec- l tion. He was a member of the street paving commission and one of it's
 most active members. He is at pres-
 ent construction engineer of the
 reclamation service and the senior l engineer of the project. In addition
 he is the local reclamation member of
 the board of survey.
 Cooper is perhaps not nearly so
 widely known, but in his particular | line he enjoys no less an enviable re- putation. As a member of the book keeping department of the Dorris-
 Heymah Furniture Company, he has
 demonstrated his ability as an ac-
 countant and his particular fitness
 for the position of auditor.
 It is generally understood that
 there are to be some other changes 1 in the heads of the various depart
 ments of the city. There will be a
 new chief of police, a new street
 commissioner. perhaps new city
 engineer. There are rumors that no
 changes will be made in the water department, and the fire depart
 ment at present Of course this will
 be strictly up to the new city man.
 ager, although there have been ru-
 mors for sometime that there would
 be several important changes in the | city hall